TR: DLR 9-5-05

[socalMAN123]

Hey everybody!

Today I went to DLR with a couple of my friends to celebrate the day off of school. We had a great day with many fun rides and experiences today. Now for the TR.

 

We arrived at the park, via drop-off area. We got inside and it wasn't too crowded. I could spin around with my hands out and not wack into some couple on a date! So we headed straight for Space Mountain. Now, for us season pass holders, or regulars to DLR, we always head for Space first. Twenty minutes long, let's do it. One of my friends takes our passes and gets Fastpasses for 10:15. She came back and joined us. We got first, second, and third rows, I sat in second with my best friend. I love Space Mountain now. Even though I'm still pretty mad after closing the ride for two years, it is an awesome ride. Next, we headed over to Buzz and waited 15 minutes for it. I got Level 4 which is kind of a low score for me, but that's ok. After Buzz, we still had like 20 minutes to waste, so we headed over to Starcade which I already had four dollars in tokens due to a previous visit (actually, that visit was in May). I played a game of DDR, gave four tokens to some of my friends so they coud play DDR, gave one token to my friend so he could played Galaga, and I went and played Jurrasic Park and Tokyo Wars. It was time for our Fastpasses, so we headed over to the entrance of Space Mountain. We got off Space Mountain, and walked over to Big Thunder. We didn't want to wait that long (25 minutes, I know, we're wusses, but we were REALLY hungry), so we got Fastpasses and headed over to Rancho De Zocalo for lunch. I had two huge tacos, mexican rice, tortilla chips, and refried beans. It filled me up really quick. We still had like 30 minutes till our Fastpasses, so we headed over to Tom Sawyer's Island to play sardines. It is a DLR tradition for my family to play sardines on Tom Sawyer's Island. So we wasted like an hour on Tom Sawyer's, and we only had five minutes left on our Fastpasses. When we got to the Fastpass entrance of Big Thunder, we had thirty seconds left to get in. The lady kindly let us in, so we were relieved. When we were in line, I saw my friend sitting in the back of one of the trains. I said to my group, "Hey guys, isn't that Ally?" as I pointed up. And they all agreed and we caught up to her because her train ended up coming into our station. We told her to wait for us, so we went on Big Thunder, and got off to meet up with them. By now, it was like 90 degrees outside, and the line for Splash Mountain was too long, so we headed over to DCA. We thought that GRR was gonna have a really long line, but when we got there, it was twenty minutes. Our group had now grown to eight people, Aubree, Chelsea, Brandon, Katy, Ally, Alexa, Jesse and me. We could fill up our own raft! Yay! We got off GRR, wet and satisfied, but the line was so tempting, we just walked right back on. We went on it again, not getting as wet as we did before, but still pretty mild. We had 45 minutes left before we had to leave the park, so we ran over to ToT and got one last ride. Sadly, we had to split, so we sadly left three of our friends, and got out of the park.

 

All in all, it was a pretty good day for only being there for like six hours on a Labor Day.

---Brent 8)

[YoshiFan]

Nice TR, I'm not sure if it's the same at DLR but at WDW, they aren't really strict with getting to a ride past your fast pass time. Even if you showed up a few minutes late it probably wouldn't have mattered. I have even went back hours after the fast pass time on a few rides and never had a problem.

[socalMAN123]

^That has happend to me before, but it was on a day that was completly empty. I got a Fastpass for Indy at 9:15 and we ended up using the Fastpass at 9:15 PM.

---Brent 8)