This is our story of our New Years.
Like an older post, again, we are going to give you the ending first! We spent celebrating the New Years in our bed dead asleep at 10:00 p.m....Because Meghann did her internship at Disney World a couple of years back and because she went back to work for them a week last year, they gave her two free day passes. So, we were able to use them when we went to Orlando.
New Years Eve: We started the day at the park at 8:30 in the morning. Our grand plan was to hit up 3 of the 4 parks: starting at Hollywood Studios, then around lunch time heading over to Epcot to eat fish and chips in England, then take the monorail over to Magic Kingdom to end the day watching the New Years Firework Celebration!
Sounds like a well thought out plan huh? Well, let me tell you that we drastically underestimated the foot traffic that was going to be at the park!
So, this is the start of the day with Daniel enjoying his favorite ride! *Fun Fact* the tram is the second fastest ride in Epcot (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow). We entered the park (courtesy of Meghann's old employee card we didn't have to pay for parking the whole day!!!) and headed straight for the Tower of Terror to get our fast passes. We then headed over to the Rockin' Roller coaster and got to see Aerosmith... on the big screen. OK, so they weren't real thing but Daniel sang every Aerosmith song as we waited in line. After we did everything we wanted to we headed over to EPCOT!
As we were driving over to Epcot we were met with a 30 min. line into the park. It was 11:30 and Disney had already closed the Magic Kingdom because they were at capacity. So, because Epcot is on the way to Magic Kingdom, and because Magic Kingdom was closed, everyone shuffled themselves over to the park WE were heading too. It took us another 30 minutes to get into the Epcot after we parked and we took a picture so all you could see and to NEVER plan to go to Disney World over the holidays!!! We ate our fish and chips in England and meandered around all the other countries.
We decided that it was time to head over to the Magic Kingdom to get our spot for the grand finale. As we waded through the thousands of people with their kids, we finally got back to the monorail to head over to Disney HQ, where all the magic happens. Well, the sign apologized to us and after a tear or two, we reluctantly decided that maybe we could try later in the day. We headed over to Animal Kingdom and rode a couple of rides and saw the Holiday parade there.When we were done with the Animal Kingdom we tried one more time to get into the Magic Kingdom but they told us that we were going to have to go to the other parks to enjoy any kind of special fireworks for the New Years. So, we finally decided to just go back home. Yes, we were kinda sad but we also spent over 11 hours walking around in flip flops and our feet were tired and sore.
All in all it was a great time and an even better lesson learned. Never come to Disney over any break, holiday, or in the summer time. The best highlight of the day was when we found Hollywood Hulk Hogan's hand prints in the concrete. Meghann was stoked!!
