There was no virtual queue for Rise of the Resistance today so we got up early to do rope drop.
It was a massive undertaking to deal with the crowd to get into the line. Dumb luck got us in the right place. The wait was 90 minutes. From Thunder Mountain, through Galaxies Edge and all the way to the Hungry Bear restaurant and back!! At least we were constantly moving versus standing.
Left over chocolate chip cookies for breakfast while in the line.
Once inside it gets interesting.
Lined up for inspection and interrogation by the First Order.
Told not to move, face forward hands at your side. It's a bit scary having 1st order army giving orders with storm troopers everywhere. I wasn't sure if we were allowed to take photos and it would have been impossible through the ride part. It's really impressive. Totally worth the effort and wait. Kylo Ren was insisting we tell him where the rebel base was and I was yelling NEVER! Haha. So fun. Spoilers here. Finn rescued us! So that was a cool bit to the story. My children are lacking in story line history. No where near enough Star Wars information and explaining Jessica Rabbit and 'Dip' to a kid that hasn't seen 'Who Framed Rodger Rabbit'. Sigh.
After the new ride we weren't too sure what to do. Everything seemed boring afterwards. We did the Snow White ride because it was refurbished to be less scary. It's still way too scary for little kids. The imagineers need to do the ride with crying/screaming little kids to figure out the scary parts.
We did the castle, made our wishes and wandered around.
Lunch, Star Tours, Space Mountain, Astro Blasters and finally Autotopia. Jia drove and controlled the gas pedal ;)
Frozen lemonade and a circle train tour to rest. I could have napped on the train. Lili texted while we were on the train suggesting I get the Google Pay app and use that for tap pay instead of the defunct card. Brilliant. 3 days too late but brilliant none the less. I set it up but haven't tried it yet. Then checked into our flight and got boarding passes. We were out of things to do and debated leaving the park but figured a bit of time in Toontown would be ok.
Jia did the little roller coaster on her own. Big step for our shy girl. Oh, and yesterday she did the single rider line for Cars and rode with strangers. We talked about travel being a good time to work on real life issues. We set goals. To be by herself in public while I was in the bathroom, picking up food or poking in a store. To talk to strangers, so she had to order food, tell people we were a party of two and answer questions from people I was chatting with. To ride alone, which she did at cars and again today. The other goal was for her to ask a question to a stranger. We haven't met that one yet.
Goodbye Disney. It was fun.
Tomorrow we're off to LAX for covid tests and a flight to Bellingham. If all goes well we should be home tomorrow night.
