ORLANDO! One word. Fucking waaarrrm! And humidity can go jump. No one...not one person warned us that not only is America hot during summer, but it's freaking humid as hell.
Anyhooo, we got up reasonably early (in Jago time that=10am) and made our way to Disney World. Now just so you know, Katherine and I are NOT ride people. I get scared and motion sickness just from turbulence on an airplane. Woohoo.
So katherine and I had to somewhat build up our tolerance throughout the day...didn't want to do anything CraZaYe too soon. We are pussies.
First up! The star wars simulator. Was cool and moved around a lot while that crazy R2-D2 fucked everything up and kept driving the ship like a mad man. Love that droid.
We were all ready for a real ride now, the boiz went straight for the Aerosmith rockin' roller coaster, kath and I bailed. We were dehydrated, in desperate need of some form of caffeine and were happy to look at all the cheesy gift stores.
While looking through the stores I was overwhelmed with the need to purchase lots of Mickey Mouse memorabilia, but I resisted.
So kath and I got our coffee, and while in line to pay we hear these two 7year old girls talk about their experience on the tower of terror...and we're thinking...shit, we HAVE to do this now.
So as soon as we meet with the boiz we head to the Tower of Terror, and for me that is exactly what it was.
A lift free falling while all you are strapped into is a pissweak wobbly seatbelt? Fuck off. I had my eyes closed the entire time and my screams alternated from prepubescent male to a 12yr old teenage girl.
Afterwards I'm talking to Mike..
"Dude I had to grip those side hand bars so tight the entire ride!"
"Yeah, that was my hand on your right side"
Weeewwpsss haha. Needless to say, Nathan also had a crippled arm from Katherine crushing it to death, his injures were worse than mikes.
Next up, a ridiculous 2hr wait for the toy story 4D shooter game. I had fun...but I wish I never wasted 2hrs of my life waiting for it. We smelt 5 really bad farts during out wait in line.
Magic Kingdom TIIME!!
We B-line for splash mountain...but it's a 2hr wait. Fekk dat. So we do Thunder Mountain instead.
It was actually shocking to me, I've NEVER been on anything resembling a roller coaster, so for me this was great. I wasn't terrified but, yes, I did scream when it was uncalled for. This ride was integral for kath and I's build up to Space mountain.
Alrighty, that done and dusted I now felt I could definitely handle Splash Mountain.
The wait was now only 60min...better...
The wait felt longer than and hour and we all talked about how we wanted to smash everyone with fast passes.
Children have no filter...so one kid actually feels the need to say "those guys are all still in line because they bought slow passes and we bought fast passes"
Shut up you turd, go back to your pony on your 3000acre property. We shoulda got a fast pass.
But alas our time arrives, and already I'm freaking out because I'm at the front.
Have many of you been on Splash mountain? Does anyone tell you that the most horrifying thing about the ride isn't the drop itself but the insanity they subject you to prior to that? A long boat ride of creepy animatronic forest animals singing terrible rhymes.
Ok we'll just when we think we're getting close to "the drop" we all of a sudden look ahead...and..no, you are not serious. We see a grown 37year old man trying to escape from his boat! And he just jumps off into the side ledge. Are you insane man!? Your boat is about to fall down a hole and you chose that moment to pussy out? Not only that but now his partner freaks and she is struggling to get out of her seat. I feel these two were very close to a horrific fall.
As soon as they are both out, a voice from the speakers "would the two persons who have left their boats please stay where they are, do not move!"
They freak out and run down the fire exit.
What the hell did we all just witness.
Now the ride has stopped and the boats keep banking up behind us. And we sit...waiting...For probably 10min, and I nearly went insane from hearing the same fucking creepy woodland d animals sing the same shit over and over.
Eventually the rides starts up...we all think, this is it...this is the drop. So I scream like a fucktard...but it's not the drop. Wooo
The ride still goes on for a good few minutes before we reach the end...so when those pussies escaped from their ride...they would have been wandering around in a maze of crazyness.
Splash mountain was for me, insane. But so so good.
Space mountain time!
All I have to say about this rollercoaster...I never thought I could ever scream. How wrong I was. I nearly lost my voice..then I nearly couldn't breath because I was laughing hysterically for so long.
Mike said he spent most of the ride laughing at my antics.
It was fantastical!
There was other fun adventures had but these were my highlights. I would definitely want to return off peak - the lines can get very tiresome..and so many people just smell bad so yeah.
Good times!!