After supper, FIL decided that he was too tired to return to MK. We left D with him and headed back to use our Buzz FP.
If you read my PTR, you know that there was one shirt that I made that I didn't have time to take a picture of before we left. Well, it was now time to deploy that shirt! It is a concept I have never seen before and may be my favorite shirt I have ever made.
We made the walk back to MK and arrived at Buzz around 6:15. We always enjoy this ride. When T was 2, it was the ONLY thing he would ride!
After Buzz, T declared that he really wanted to go back to the resort to play with his Legos. So, MIL took him back. I went to see what we could get for our 5th FP and settled on the Haunted Mansion. Since FIL didn't use his Buzz and MIL and T weren't continuing with us, it took me a few minutes to figure out how to make our next FP on the kiosk. It isn't as intuitive as it could be. While I was working on that, Gabe took the girls to Monster's Inc Laugh Floor.
We had a few minutes before our HM FP opened, so we asked the girls what they wanted to do next. Of course that means we went here:
I kinda hoped that we would get a CM to comment on her shirt and maybe take a picture with her. We often get comments on our custom outfits, but I couldn't event get the CM at CoP to look at me, much less talk to me.
I guess that is a pretty boring job and it would be easy to just go through the motions.
After another Great big beautiful tomorrow, we were off to the Haunted Mansion. Even with our FP, there was about a 10 minute wait to get into the stretching room. We had a good ride, but the power went off just as our ghost hitch-hikers were joining us so we had a small delay and missed out on that effect.
The girls then chose to return to Fantasyland and do the things we missed in the morning - Dumbo and Ariel's ride. Both were a total walk-on. It was nice to finally be getting onto some attractions without a wait!
It was now time for the parade to start. I thought maybe the girls would want to hit another ride or two, watch fireworks from Fantasyland and then head back into Tomorrowland and ride until close. - NOPE! They wanted to go back to the room and watch fireworks from there. We tried to take the train back to the front, but with the parade starting, they had already closed it. We walked as quickly as possible from Dumbo to the entrance. That evening, they had opened the new passage behind the Main Street buildings. When we got the point where we had to choose to stay on Main Street or go back there, I turned to take the new passage and completely confused Gabe. Luckily, he stayed with me and quickly understood - it was empty, NO crowds at all! - and every easy to leave. We made it to our room with two minutes to spare before the projection show started.
Once again, we watched fireworks from our balcony and then we headed to bed. We had another early day the next morning!
In the end, we managed 18 attractions plus 5 character meets. We never made it to Adventureland, but we did everything we wanted in Tomorrowland and Fantasyland. I think that FP+ has had the greatest impact on touring in the MK and that I will need a couple more tries before I am really happy with getting around now. It was a good day, but I left with several ideas about how it could have been better. I'm not a FP+ hater, but I had a rhythm that worked for us under the old system and it will take some practice to find a new way to do what we want under this system. Because we are used to doing everything we wanted, it was easy to feel a little disappointed, but it didn't eliminate the magic or any of the other things we love about WDW.