In Between Days

Thursday.

Another stunning day here in 2025 paradise. 

Pool day before Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party tonight. 

I'm loving this relaxed way of doing the parks, we've only managed two rope drops, and that was because we were wide awake due to jet lag, we find it unnecessary as we pick our rides carefully. Look at the wait times and go with that. We aren't that bothered to be honest, if we ride it we do, if not its not the end of the world. We wander looking at the hidden Mickey's, the little details you miss, the nods to previous rides and landmarks of the years we came regularly. Like I bought a sipper for Kev with the Earful Tower which used to be the main landmark of MGM Studios  ( now Hollywood Studios) before they built and opened Tower of Terror. But you'll find all sorts of hidden extras in a line queue rock paintings on the walls of rides like Pandora:Rite of Passage, to long forgotten movies like Brother Bear or Robin Hood, I even found graffiti saying Vincent P, with a definite hint at the Great Mouse Detective in the queue for Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. My tip look up in a queue line, look at the floor in most of the parks. You'll find little secrets everywhere. Walt and the imagineers of today and yesterday have always left us clues. Like the headstones in the Haunted Mansion graveyard, Master Gracey was the first imagineer to apply the peppers ghost method on the dancing ballroom ghosts, and Mr Toads wild ride, now gone in WDW has a headstone of Toad himself... 

Back to the Party... We got there just after 4pm. It was still hot, too hot for a wig so, I just had shorts and Villains top on. I bought some ears, sparkly cobweb ones, black naturally.

We did this week what we didn't do last week which was the parade including the headless horseman. It was even better live. Then we went straight to the Castle to watch the Hocus Pocus stage show. Kev needed a drink and a sit down we went to The Lunching Pad. We had had food earlier at Cosmic Ray's with Sunny Eclipse.

As we sat there the fireworks started. We had a great view in TomorrowLand. Once that was done we made it out of the Park and on to the bus home. Brilliant night and Im so glad we had two nights worth of tickets as that enabled us to catch it all.