Yesterday, we went to Disneyland for the first time in about five years. As soon as we walked in we were swarmed with people. The adventure did not start well with our first ride, Guardians of the Galaxy, having a 70 minutes wait and no FASTPASS. So we left to ride Indian Jones, which had the shortest wait.
To our initial dismay, as we were in line the ride broke down. However, as a result they gave us a free FASTPASS that let us ride any ride whenever we wanted! We went over to Space Mountain and got on right away as compared to the standby 95 minute wait.
We conveniently forgot to give the ride attendants our fast passes, which lead us to ride Big Thunder Mountain and Matterhorn with a FASTPASS.
The final hurdle was to get back to Guardians and avoid the 70 minute line. Confidence is key and so we just went up to the ride attendant and pretended like we had a FASTPASS. Immediately after I scanned my pass, Grant scanned his. This completely messed up their system as there was no way to go back and review the error. The attendant was so frazzled they let us both in!
We left the park to eat and came back and rode the reopened Indiana Jones, Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain. Each of those rides had about a 15 minute wait so we begrudginly waited in those lines. We may not have gone to Disney in a while, but we still know how to work the system!