A day at the other park :']

went to universal for the first time today, and it was such a good day.

We went straight to island of adventure and hulk, where we accidentally got in the single rider queue, but it only took 10 minutes so we had time to do doctor doom before our lockers ran out which was good. We then headed round to the log flume (the name escapes me) but the queue wasn’t moving as it had broken down, so we left that and went on popeye instead which was only a 15 minute queue. I didn’t wear a mac so got absolutely drenched, so glad I took spare clothes with me or I would have been soggy all day :’]
we decided to stick with the water rides before lunch so headed to Jurassic park and again only had a 10 minute or so wait. 
After lunch we made our way to hogsmeade, which is the best thing ever! we queued for the harry potter ride for over an hour, but it was so worth it, half way through the ride it stopped (the bit with the spiders if you’ve been on and know where I mean) it only stopped for like 30 seconds, but because of that they let us go again which was amazing, so we got to ride twice from a 60 minute wait :D
After that we headed down through the shops, and experienced Olivanders as well, before we left hogsmeade we went on dragon challenge. Bit let down that they don’t do them in sync anymore, but it was still okay, and we rode it twice so we could do both the red and blue sides. 
Before leaving Island of adventure we did poseidon, the seuss-osel (or something) and spiderman. By this point it was about 7pm so we decided to head over to studios for a little while.
We headed straight to the mummy, which was pretty much a walk on :) the queue was so short that they let us ride again without going out and coming back in which was good of them, and we got front row the second time :D
After the mummy we went to rip rockit, which was only a 20 minute queue, however when we got to the front of the queue the ride broke down, like full evac and everything. They told us it could take up to 50 minutes to reset so to check back later, so I casually asked that as we had queued all the way for this if there was any chance we could get an express pass to come back later. Instead the woman asked us which ride we wanted to go on next, we told her transformers, so she took us over there and we got free express for that instead which was amazing as we queued for less than 5 minutes for a ride that opened 5 days ago and had a 100 minute queue at least for most of the day :’]
After transformers we decided to get tea and go to try rip rockit again, this time we had a 30 minute wait, but we actually managed to get on the ride :D
By this point it was gone 10pm so the park was officially closed, but on the way out we noticed the queue for Minion Mayhem was still outside the building, and as the show wasn’t full the lady let us join the end to catch the last show of the day, again skipping the need for queuing, we had avoided the queue as it had been 70 minutes long the whole time we were there, and again only ended up queuing 5 minutes at the end of the day :D

Had an amazing day, and a pretty jammy day at that :’] can’t wait to go back to universal next week :D

Off to Magic Kingdom tomorrow before work :) Yay :D

My ears have been earnt :D

I am now a fully fledged cast member, which is a scary prospect as I no longer have someone watching me making sure I'm doing everything right all the time, but it's also rather cool :)
Yesterday I had my first shift in rotation and I pulled buzz rotation, the shift went okay, had a few hiccups along the way, but most of them weren't because of me which was good :)
I got to watch wishes outside buzz as I was on FastPass return and when we were closing COP I saw the ghost :'] or at least we think we saw the ghost. I also got a lift home which was great, as it saved me from having to sit on a cramped bus for 45 minutes and we had a rave on the way home in the car which was fun :D
Successful first proper day if I do say so myself :']

Hollywood Studios Day :)

So today was my first full day in a park as ever since we got our passes I have been working every day :)
We decided to go to Hollywood Studios for the day, we met at 11:10 to get the bus to the boardwalk so we could catch the boat to studios. We arrived at Studios at gone 12, and found that there were still fast passes available for Toy Story Mania, so we picked up some of them, even though they weren’t valid until 8pm.

After we got our fast passes, Rachel came to join us and we decided to go on Backlot tour, the actual tour part wasn’t working though, but we still got to see the special effects show which was good.
On the way out of the tour we saw that there was a lights, camera, action show about to begin so we went there and watched that before lunch.
On the way to find somewhere to eat, we decided to pop into a full service restaurant to try and get a reservation for the evening, which we managed to do, at 8:40pm same time as Toy Story!! but we decided to risk it :’]
After getting lunch at the ABC commisionary, we headed over towards tower of terror to get a fast pass for it for later, and went on Rock n Rollercoaster, we decided to go in the single rider queue, which I’m glad we did as it took 20 mins instead of 70 mins :)
After that we went to watch Beauty and the Beast before our Fast Pass time for tower of terror :)

It was really good, and short enough so that little kids didn’t get bored, they included all the main songs and moments from the film :)

After that we headed on tower of terror with our fast passes, then on Great Movie Ride, Star Tours, American Idol experience and The Little Mermaid before heading to tea.
We finished dinner at 9:30 so got to Toy Story at 9:47, but they still let us in with our fast passes as we were still in the grace period :), toy story was an amazing ride so I can see why it’s always so busy and I will definitely be riding that multiple times. After Toy Story it was 10:10, so the park had closed, however the last fantasmic! was on at 10:30pm so we went to see that before we went home :)

I had a great day today, can’t wait for Animal Kingdom tomorrow :)

Rachel's ICP Adventure Episode 16 - First few days :)