The Disney Solo Park Hopping Adventure!

I mentioned in my day 3 of runDisney weekend that I found myself in a very unique position on Saturday after the Tangled 5k.

I had a park hopper pass.

I had this magical fast pass which allowed me to get on a ride right when I walked up with very little waiting.

And…

I had no children with me.

It was too tempting.

As a Disney passholder living just over an hour from Disney, we go a lot. But I don’t get to ride the big kid rides. Only the little kid ones.

Space Mountain? Nope. Splash Mountain? Nyet. The Rock N Roller Coaster at Hollywood Studios? Never.

And so I was faced with a decision.

Solo Park Hopping Adventure?

Yes please!

So with the help of my best friend and phone consultant Clairanne, we plotted my magical course through every park to ride every single freaking ride I NEVER GET TO RIDE WITH THE KIDS!

And I made it to all four parks that day.

Here is my journey.

Hi! I'm at Animal Kingdom!

Since we were staying at the Animal Kingdom Lodge and I had never been to Animal Kingdom before, it only made sense that I start out there. I had my iPod, I had my camera and on the agenda: Expedition to Everest and the Dinosaur ride.

I rode the Dinosaur ride first and it was pretty herky jerky but it was fun! Then I headed over toward Everest and I got on almost right away.

Yikes! That's tall!

You go up through a mountain, the home of the scaaaaaary yeti, and thennnn……

(Close your eyes if you’ve never been on Everest and scroll down because I’m about to issue a “spoiler alert.”)

No one told me it went backwards.

That freaked me out a little but that.was.awesome. I love roller coasters though and I LOVED THIS ONE!

So then I had worked up a hunger already and when I walked in I had passed a barbeque place and it smelled like heaven.

Otherwise known as "heaven."

And so I sought it out again and sat down by myself and tore up a rack of ribs at a speed that would make Koboyashi blush.

Heaven on a plate.

Oh.MIGOD. were those good. I’m not a vegetarian, obviously.

The dry rub was amazing and then I poured on some bbq sauce and the meat fell off the bone and well… it was eyes-roll-in-the-back-of-your-head-good.

So I left pretty much with bbq sauce all over my face because you never do feel clean after that, took a few more cool pictures.

The cool tree at the center of Animal Kingdom

I got lost about a hundred times trying to find the exit (even with a map) and then I finally left. I hopped on the bus and headed toward Hollywood Studios for the Rock N Roller Coaster! (Honestly, if I ever go missing, look for me at one of these 4 parks first.)

So there’s really only one seat that rocks a roller coaster and it’s this one:

Front row, baby!

Lucky me! I didn’t even ask for it, it was fate!

So I sat next to some young chap who was screaming along with me as we rocked the ups and downs with Aerosmith. Gosh I can’t WAIT TILL THE KIDS CAN RIDE THESE WITH ME!

I passed by this one. I’ll ride it if I run the Tower of Terror 10 Miler. But that’s pretty much it. Once in my teens was enough on that one.

Bye Hollywood Studios!

I decided that was the only thing I needed to ride here and so I went in, rode the Rock N Roller coaster and then off I went, out toward:

My Favorite Place of All!

Magic Kingdom! For where else but the other roller coaster I can never ride (because we’re waiting for Winnie the Pooh or the People Mover) SPACE MOUNTAIN!

Which is always like an old comfy shoe, I love it every time.

Coolest popcorn bucket ever. (For $12.99)

I grappled with what to ride next that I never get to ride and the one thing that stuck in my mind was Splash Mountain.

Obviously, though, you can get wet on it. And that can be a problem if you’re meeting everyone for dinner at Epcot in a mere few hours…

Ah, the Hell with it! I’m going! It’s now or never! And I LOVE BRER RABBIT!

My dad used to read the book to me when I was a little girl. And really that’s the only reason I ride it.

So I ducked real low when we went down the hill and I didn’t get wet at all, success!

Of course by now my phone was dying again which was a running theme throughout the whole weekend (honestly the batteries need to catch up with the technology here, people, can you all get on that??!!)

And I stopped off and sat on a porch in Frontierland and charged my phone for a while and watched this bird wander around my purse.

Bird.

When I got to where it was one yellow bar on my phone (and not red, red is not good), I had to make my way out toward Epcot to meet our runDisney group (but not before stopping off for some coffee at the bakery! And perhaps a chocolate chip cookie the size of my face.)

I hopped the monorail and before I knew it I hit park #4: Epcot!

And Via Napoli in Italy.

Which was amazing.

I had the caprese (and some wine).

And a risotto ball. I LOVE RISOTTO BALLS! (There is a joke here somewhere…)

And then I had some pasta which I forgot to take a picture of and then my family came and met me at the lodge.

That, my friends, was my solo-park-hopping adventure. I know that the chances are probably miniscule that you will ever have a day completely to yourself with a park hopper pass and even further with a magical fast pass, but if you do find yourself in that situation, I do hope that you will venture out on a solo-park-hopping adventure like I did.

It was truly a magical experience.

And it will very likely never happen again.

The end.

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