Originally today we weren't going to make any reservations, but then we thought we might try the Crystal Palace, a conceptually confused restaurant that's themed on the real life 1851 Crystal Palace, but is also a buffet restaurant but is ALSO a character spot for Winny the Pooh for some reason? I don't know. It's nice inside, aside from one squeaking door that sounds exactly like either a yelling little kid or a bird. As for the food, it's okay. Beats Sebastian's, anyway. The selection here isn't as big as I'd like - salad, corn ruined by being encrusted with parm (???), some okay meat I wasn't super interested in, and a make your own tater tot station that seems based around dumping a ton of shredded cheese on it. And mashed potatoes. I guess I got spoiled by the buffet at Hollywood Studios, which is like three times the size. Then again, that place has a DJ who won't stop playing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme (It's the mickey mouse club-house! Come inside, it's fun inside! Repeat 500 times), so I guess it's kind of a trade off. We were so unimpressed we didn't even take pictures of the food.
After that we visited everywhere we didn't do during the party, plus a few repeats. Pirates is the same as always, although we met the REAL Jack Sparrow, which Katie got a picture of:
After that was People Mover, which is still nice and relaxing, then Carousel of Progress where the ride broke and we had to watch the final scene twice. "Those whom the gods destroy they first make proud," I noted sagely as the mother informed the father that the oven was now voice-activated, knowing, Cassandra-like, his joyous shout of "Nine hundred fifty points?!" later in the scene would scorch his Thanksgiving bird beyond the point of eating. Also I sang along really loudly the whole ride.
After that was Buzz Lightyear, where Katie eked out a higher score than me, plus the photopass captured this cute picture:
The upside of the new Lightening Lane system is that you can basically hop on almost all of the rides. Obviously not having to wait in line is wonderful, and it doesn't even have the time gaps of the old Fastpass system where you might have three rides over 4-5 hours. You can really cram a lot of rides into a short time. I think this is mostly a positive change, but I do almost miss the gaps with Fast Pass where you're like "Well, we have 25 minutes, let's just sit down," so we took a nice long break to eat french fries in Cosmic Ray's before going over to the last thing today, the Hall of Presidents, which is, you know, fine. The current president no longer gives a little speech, he just recites the oath of office, which I guess is to avoid the crowd getting too rowdy (I held back from booing Mr. T____, who got a depressingly large amount of clapping and cheering from the, I'm just going to say it, largely honky crowd.)
How about a cute picture of us hugging to close today out? Paste it in here! Go!!
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