So I'm back home now. The whole trip wound up only being 35 hours. I still got the motel for 2 nights and while I technically wasted like 18 hours of room time it's worth it to me. At only $42/night I don't feel bad leaving early. It's nice to not have to worry about being out by 12pm (their checkout time) and I was able to take a nap before the drive home.
I did 3 of my 5 favorite WDW rides this trip (along with some others). The whole reason for the trip, the Peoplemover was done by me both yesterday and today. It's as relaxing and enjoyable as I remembered and still proudly holds it's #4 spot on my top 5 list. Like a total dork, the first time I got on it yesterday I found myself saying (to no one but me) "Peoplemover! Peoplemover!". Ha, it was fun.
Rise today was AMAZING!!! As group 3 I was called at about 8:40am. I showed up at 9am with my ticket out, ready to be scanned. What they do is scan your magicband or ticket when you first enter the line to confirm you have a boarding group. I walk into the line, holding my ticket out and walk past the first cast member w/o being stopped for the scan. Then I walk past 3 other cast members who were talking to each other and I say something like, "anyone need to scan this?" and no one replied. I assume they thought I was already scanned by the first cast member. So I walked right on the ride.
Now you are only supposed to be able to ride Rise 1 time per day but since I was never scanned I thought I'd give getting back in line another shot. This time the second cast member area is where they did scan my ticket and let me go right through. So when all was said and done I was able to ride Rise twice in a row this morning! I'm pretty sure that's something the vast majority of guests have never been able to do. Good stuff!
Peoplemover!
Peoplemover!