On the ferry ride over ..”mom, that’s treasure island, a boy died when it was a water park. A parasite got into his brain and killed him in the 1980s. Then they turned it into a zoo called discovery island”.
Standing in line for space mountain...”mom, two people died on this ride...the first was a make a wish foundation kid. He died during the ride, came back in the car dead. Another person died from a piece of metal dislodging and hitting them during the ride....came back in the car mutilated bloody and dead.”
Standing in line for it’s a small world ...” mom- people say theyve seen a ghost of a dead kid hanging from the ceiling by a rope on this ride”.
The commentary really added an element to Disney I’ve never experienced on previous trips. This kid could seriously run a Disney dark history tour.
The weather was awesome, the park is a little weird...different than what I’ve experienced in the past. Mind you, I’m not a HUGE Disney fan by any stretch of the imagination. The employees don’t speak to you much except to remind you over and over and over and over to make sure your mask is pulled up above your nose. They don’t smile, say hello, their job is 90% to keep reminding you to pull your mask up over your nose “all the way”...a woman next to me got told hers wasn’t down her chin far enough. Another fella and his family got tossed for not complying enough. I don’t think they make masks big enough to do what they want you to do with them...maybe they just want you to buy theirs? Darby was worried about the safety bar on space mountain...he asked the employee to check it...she reminded him to keep his mask pulled up all the way, ignored his lap bar question and sent him into the outer darkness.
There’s dots everywhere to stand on, everything is spread out. They even spread out the ride cars they fill up, you can see in the pics. The wait times were awesome, I don’t think we waited more than 45 minutes for anything. And that 45 minute wait was only on pirates of the Caribbean ride where we got stuck behind this couple “in love”...the guy mostly in love with his girlfriends but cheeks because we were stuck watching him handle that girls but cheeks the entire time! That wasn’t awkward, lol...I even took a picture of what we had to look at for 45 minutes...I spared you the worst of it. But with most the other lines being much shorter and lacking PDA, we actually got to go in at least 10 “rides”.
There’s plexiglass and hand sanitizer everywhere. Little kids still lick the handrails. Parents all still look miserable schlepping their tired toddlers around. Princesses on floats don’t need to wear masks. Small marching bands don’t need to wear masks ( even the drummers). You can take your mask off to eat and drink. I had a cup in my hands AT ALL TIMES for the moments I needed to breathe...that’s how I survived the day...well that and that I don’t have toddlers to chase around anymore. So if you’re headed here, if you can pull off a decent Snow White, good enough to convince park employees you’re the real deal, or play a tuba...you might be able to get away without a mask. Otherwise, you just suck it up and drink and eat as much as you possibly can throughout the day.
Oh and bonus for the day , a woman sitting next to me on a bench while I was drinking coffee had a duck fly into her head while we were chatting...so that was flipping hilarious. 😂
Taking tomorrow off from the parks.
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