Last week, we introduced you to one of our favorite pastimes while we're hanging in either of The Parks.
We won't go over the entire thread again (you can click and read if you haven't already) but to put it short and sweet, we enjoy setting personal "records" while we're at The Park. We like to see how many times we can ride a certain attraction in one day or how many consecutive trips into The Park we can ride the same attraction; things like that.
As of last week, one of our favorites involved Splash Mountain. Up until this point, our high-water mark (punnage!) on this particular attraction was our riding it three times, consecutively, without ever having left our raft. But we were determined to break that mark this past weekend.
In fact, if you'll recall (and read last week's post) we had grand designs of blogging while we were actually on the ride, as well as breaking our own record. We suppose 1 out of 2 isn't bad. The whole blogging thing didn't really work out. Guess a DROID with a dead battery will do that.
But just as we had planned we wandered over into Critter Country around 8:45, around 15 minutes before we knew that Fantasmic! would be starting. Unforeseen, but completely welcome, was the addition of three other friends from Twitter to our party: Julie, Jenna and Destiny. The pressure was palpable. Not only did we have to beat the record for ourselves, and our blog, but we couldn't be seen with egg on our faces in front of our new friends. It was on, Br'er Rabbit.
We'll spare you all the gory details, but it should be sufficient enough to say that five spins around the mountain later our record was completely smashed. By this point (thankfully!) the lines were finally forming again and we had to jettison our boat.
Our record-breaking extravaganza wasn't without peril and consequence, though. Deciding it would be best to man up and protect the women from the impending flood of water, we sat in the front of the boat. We don't think we've ever been so wet in our entire lives. If we had jumped into the Rivers of America fully clothed we couldn't possibly have been that wet. We got off the attraction with our tuckus completely numb, our ears ringing (primarily from Destiny screaming the entire time), and weighing a full 100 lbs. heavier than we were when we got on.
But we all agreed (as we wrung the water out of our hoodies, poured the water out of our shoes, and cinched our belts tighter so our pants wouldn't fall off because they were so weighed down with water) that we had a blast. We would have to think there's not many others who have done what we did. If there are, our hats are off to you. As it stands, though, we think we've done all we can take for right now. The wetness must come to an end, and we are still in the process of drying off.
But like the Splash Mountain shirt says (only $19.95!), "It Was Soaking Awesome!".
3 comments:
5 times! Nutty. I salute you!
It's nice to see that chivalry isn't dead, however, protecting the women and children was your first mistake. You would have gotten less wet had Jenna been in front, Destiny behind her, and then Julie... THEN you guys. Here is my physics lesson for the day: With my Splash Mountain experience I learned very quickly that when you put the biggest people in the front, you displace the most water and cause a bigger splash, therefore getting more wet...
Almost sounds kind of scientific, doesn't it. ;) Water levels also play a big factor in that too, but i'll save that for another day. lol
I'm pretty impressed that you guys stuck it out 5 times around, especially since you didn't exactly pick a warm summer night to bust through your challenge.
Amy:
"There are a lot of long words in there, Miss. We're naught but humble pirates"
;)
Besides, if we had, the story wouldn't have been nearly as interesting. And we're impressed, too. :)
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