I don’t wanna leave!…

(Continuing from part 1…)

I had somehow made it through the crowd into the Magic Kingdom. My everything was tired – my brain, my body. I felt like they should almost have finisher medals for people who made it through the whole day!

I was incredibly single-minded when I walked into the park. Must have funnel cake. Must. have. funnel cake. Somehow I fought through the crowd to Liberty Square. Once I had my food, I just melted into a puddle of a person, hunching over at a table, picking at it.

I didn’t mention this before, but earlier in the day I’d been a contestant in the American Idol thing they do inside the park. You should’ve been there! Let me tell you, I left all my energy out on that stage. I was dancing, running around, crawling around.

I think on a normal night perhaps I would’ve been less tired – on a night where you are fighting for your life/love, it made me all that much more ready for a nap!

…5 minutes later on the ferry going toward the car.

My phone had died hours earlier, so the party trio had made a plan to meet at out locker at 1am. I killed some time riding some long, chill rides (such as Carousel of Progress and Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor). Then I headed over to the locker. Wendy and Marty showed up with Doritos! Mmm, mmm, mmm. They are such sweethearts, aren’t they? (Talk about people who deserve participant medals from this night – the ones who dealt with the 24-hour, refuse-to-sleep, crazy, more-crankypants-than-usual people are the most deserving of all (especially when they come bearing Doritos.))

Marty asked how I was doing toward hitting every ride in the Magic Kingdom. I said I had only done about three. When he asked how that was possible since I had been there for about 4 hours, I realized that a large part of my night had revolved around that funnel cake – time to find it, a crazy humongous line that curved all the way into another store, a long time to wait for it to actually be made, then some time picking at it…

The completely empty line at It’s a Small World since we were on the last boat of the night!

A little after 3am, one of my friends from high school(!) got off of work (at Disney) and we met her at Space Mountain (my favorite ride). We rode it 3 times in a row! (I can’t believe I didn’t even know there were 2 different tracks in it until she told me.) Before we rode it, Marty said he didn’t like roller-coasters. After the ride, he said he actually kind of liked it. (In fact, he liked it enough to ride it twice!)

Tagged: 24 hours at Disney, leap day, no sleep, Walt Disney World