Thursday

Whoops I appear to have gone over a week without any news so I better get typing!

Well Thursday began my trio of days off and I woke up early to meet Ariella at DHS as this was her last day before going home. As I was early I went and watched HSM in front of the hat and had a little wander - searching for the Fantasmic soundtrack before she arrived. I went to guest relations as I thought it would be nice to get the I'm celebrating pins. Ariella's had '... last day as a cast member' and mine had '... Ariella's last day :('. This was to be our first meeting as although I had talked to her through the wonders of FB we had never been able to meet (with her being from Canada and the like). Well she is an absolutely gorgeous individual both inside and out. I had a brilliant day with her and was so happy we finally met up.

We decided to get sundaes and watch Beauty and the beast as this is one of our most favourite shows. The Gaston we had was amazing and it was nice having a wee chat as we sat and watched. The next attraction was Rock n rollarcoaster although as the line was so long we decided to get fastpasses and go on ToT instead. Of course this was awesome but we had to wait outside in the garden area which just proves how busy the parks are getting as we've never had to wait like that before. Ariella told me a few good stories like the time she met Celine Dion backstage at Splash and the fact that Johnny Depp supposidly stayed in the Animal Kingdom lodge and went to the Pirates League a couple of weeks ago! Tot was great and when we came off a rather older gentleman CM began talking to us (he said he only talked to the pretty girls hehe) which was nice. We went to Disney Animation and met sorcerror mickey which is what Ariella really wanted to do and did a little shopping at the backlot tour shop (Ariella got a villain monopoly and I got the fantasmic soundtrack!) We then decided to get pizza for lunch.

By this time Nick had finished work and headed to DHS to meet us. We had our lunch and decided to go to the Muppets 3D. I <3 ed this as usual and afterwards we headed to Star Tours. However, the wait time was 50 minutes and none of us thought it was really worth such a long wait. Instead we decided to go and do Tot again as our FP time wasn't quite there and as the tot host saw that we weren't quite willing to wait 40minutes and saw what we were celebrating he gave us fastpasses for nothing. Magical Moment alert!

We then ventured to R+R to try and get Nick in with our FPs. Luckily the host gave us a rider switch after we explained the situation. What he didn't seem to notice that I knew that rider switches are vaild for 3 people therefore we decided we would use the RS first and then Ariella and I would go on again using our FPs. Hehe devious but this was Ariella's last day and her favourite ride so I didn't feel bad at all. The R+r itself was celebrating its 10 year anniversary on this day. There was talk that the band Aereosmith would be arriving in the park but no such luck. Anyway by the time we finished Ariella decided to go home and pack and Nick and I rode Toy Story Mania during which I'm ashamed to say he beat me (not by much though!). After this the heavens opened and the rain was so heavy it was difficult to see where we were walking. We decided to go home as I had my graduation and needed to get ready.

Graduation itself wasn't anything special. Perhalps because it was at night and still raining but it was kind of a let down. We got free graduation ears, food, water bottle and diploma but there was no official ceremony of sorts. We got our picture taken with Minnie but Mickey had gone by the time we got there and Amy and I left after only half an hour. It was nice to see some friends there though. As Ariella had mentioned during the day that she had had lunch with the princesses at norway I was intreged to find our more so I booked a reservation for the next day and that is where my story will begin next time.