Time to start on day 4!
Evan and I had made a small promise to try getting up early and heading back to the construction site of Legendary Years. Yeah.. well... apparently we were both exhausted because I didn't wake up until 7 or 7:30 and I didn't hear from Evan until an hour or so after! So...so much for going back and exploring some more. Boooooo! Guess we'll just have to go back again and if they didn't start up construction yet, we'll explore!
Mom and I got ready and headed to the caf for some food. I don't have any pics which means that we ate the same thing we ate before... I'm know mom had waffles again and actually...I think I had waffles too but instead of with strawberry topping I had bacon and sausage.. yummy! Still crappy coffee or this might have been the day I realized that the cappuccino is good? ha!
We jumped on the bus heading to MGM and were off! Walked to the entrance and of course admired the Christmas decorations..
I wanted to go get fastpasses for one of the thrill rides so we turned down that way and headed towards Tower of Terror. Since my mom wasn't going to ride either, I used my pass to get Tower of Terror and her pass to get one for Rock n Roller Coaster.
After getting fast passes we headed back up Sunset Boulevard to the Great Movie Ride. On the way though we saw DROVES of characters just milling around the Sorcers Hat. The first ones we saw were Chip and Dale but their line was a little long so we jumped in line for Stitch. While online, we looked around and there were at least 10 other characters hanging out for pics and autographs...score! hahaha!
We tried getting online for Mickey and Pluto but the line was already closed and they said to come back at 11am. Instead we just went from character to character taking pics.. hehehehe
with Foulfellow.. (i think?)
with Gideon
Geppetto..
Smeeeee!
with Rafiki..
After our picture fest was over we headed into the Great Movie Ride. When I was younger my friends and I were HUGE Mickey Mouse Club fans and used to travel with each others families a few times a year (I would go with my friend Lisa and her fam, and vice versa) and we'd go to tapings of the shows every day when we were down there. In between tapings we used to go on this ride (and backlot tour) all the time trying to pass time away so I have so many memories on this ride (well of MGM in general!). It definitely needs a little updating but it's still nice and relaxing.
We had slight technical difficulties on the ride though and in the Wizard of Oz as well as in Indiana Jones our little tram just didn't want to move. We were only stuck for a few mins and our guide kept making jokes. It was cute.
When we got out of the movie ride we realized it was 11am already or close to it and there were people already waiting online for Mickey and Pluto. So we got online and then they came out!
It was soooooo cute and fun with them! The photopass photographer took a pic with the 4 of us (me, mom, Mickey, pluto) and then he told both of the ladies to get on either side of Mickey and kiss him on each cheek. So we did and all of a sudden Pluto starts waving his hands and stomping his feet and making a fuss that we weren't kissing him and ran away and hid in the bushes. hahahaha! So Mickey went over to Pluto and dragged him out by his tail and then the photopass photographer took a pic of me and my mom kissing Pluto. Those are all on photopass though so I'll post them later (I just ordered the CD today!)
Here's the blurry pic the photopass guy took with my camera..ugh!
We went over to Voyage of the Little Mermaid but the next show wasn't for awhile so we headed down towards One Mans Dream instead. I had heard that if you ask the cast member at the entrance for a quiz, they'll give you a quiz to take throughout the exhibit and then you can get a certificate at the end. Well of course I forgot immediately when we got there and instead just headed in and started looking around...
my favorite pic of all time of Walt and Mickey...
pic of walts desk..
Finally towards the end we found a castmember and asked them about the quiz. She told us to go back to the entrance and they had them there. Of course we went over and? the guy had NO idea what we were talking about!
So we walked back to the end to watch the movie. Sue, the castmember saw us without the quiz and asked what happened. She then ran off on her own and grabbed us a quiz and clipboard and told us to watch the movie and then come back in and take the quiz. She was great!
We handed Sue the quiz and she went into the cast member entrance and came back a minute later with an awesome certificate saying we were Honorary Disney Historians. It was awesome!
After One Mans Dream it was time for Little Mermaid so we jumped in there and saw a great show. I love how it rains in the theatre!
Next up was Star Tours for me so I parked mom on a bench with an ice cream (hahaha she was a little addicted to the Mickey bars!) and I headed into Start Tours with only a 10 minute wait! Afterwards I needed a pic with my speeder bike..
Since this morning I had been texting my friend Sarah who lives in FL and she was driving up to meet us for a few days. She was almost at MGM but we still had a little more time to wander on our own. Mom fell in love with the San Fransisco sky line for some reason..lol...
We headed over to Mama Melrose (where we were having a late lunch at 2:30) to see if we can add Sarah to the reservation. I had tried calling Disney dining and the guy told us no! But when we went to the front desk there wasn't a problem with it at all..yayyy!
There was a Santa sighting as we wandered the back streets of MGM...lol
I'm pretty sure here is where we went and saw Muppet Vision 3-D which is always fun. Afterwards we started wandering a little just waiting for Sarah and saw that a Jedi Training had just started so we went over there to watch for a little bit. These kids were SO ADORABLE! Some of them got soooo freaked out when Darth Vader walked out on stage and they had to fight him. Adorable! lol...
As we were watching, Sarah called to tell us she was just going through the front gate so we agreed to meet at Mama Melrose and get some grub!
I also think I ran out of room for pics so I'll continue in a bit (i hope!)
I love how you took your mother. I'm divorced and my 11yr.old and I are VERY close. I'm surprising her with a quick trip in June when school gets out. Hope someday, she'll return the favor and surprise me!
Definitely made the meal more enjoyable.. 
Glad you're enjoying the trippie! 
But I totally agree on the pizza and bagels... I lived up in CT for college and they're HORRIBLE!
Not sure...But they were creepy looking.
