Sawyer was just so surprised to see Woody, but he really wanted to give him a hug!
It was such a cool character interaction! I loved every minute of it! It was worth the 1/2 hour or so wait.
We checked the Toy Story Mania line on our way out and it was still over an hour wait! It wasn't looking good for us!
Our fastpasses for Tower of Terror were finally good, so mom and Tessa decided to ride while I did the parent swap for Sawyer. Tessa was really looking forward to riding it this time. In 2008 she kind of liked it, but the kid screaming "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" next to her kind of sullied the experience.
Sawyer and I sat on a bench and people-watched for a while. I have never really looked at this side of TOT. It's really pretty!
Sawyer was having a nice time just watching people, too.
As we were sitting there, a little boy, about the same age as Sawyer, came up to me and said "Hi Momma!" and sat right down next to me. When I looked up, I saw his mother rushing over, trying to chase him down. When she got over to us she said "Well, I guess he's found a new family! He does that a lot!" The little guy was so cute! He sat with us for a while before moving on to his next family.
It took longer than I expected for Mom and Tessa to come out of the ride. By the time they came out, it was time to head over to the Sci-Fine Dine-in theater for lupper (lunch/supper). It was just as well because Tessa declared "I HATE that ride and I NEVER want to go on it AGAIN!!!" Mom said she was terrified the whole time. Poor baby!
I planned to ride it after we ate. Since, as every good Diser knows, fastpasses don't expire until the end of the day.
The Sci-Fi Diner is a very unsuspecting looking building. It just looks like it would be some sort of warehouse when you walk in. But, when you round the corner into the dining room, you are transported into the dark of a drive-in movie theater! It is really awesome!!
A weird guy on roller skates showed us to our car and whisked my stroller away to parts unknown. The seating is really cool in this place because each family has their own car. It's set up like a real car, but you have a table in front of you. Mom and Sawyer were in the back seat.
Tessa and I were in the front.
Sawyer absolutely loved the old cartoons and parts of movies they were playing.
This was his kind of place! Here is a video of him dancing to the music. He's so stinkin' cute!
I ordered a hamburger because there was nothing much else on the menu. I also indulged in a shake because Henry always scoffs if I order something like that at a restaurant. We usually just get ice water!
Tessa and I were really enjoying the atmosphere, when they brought my food. Then, she had to use the bathroom. Why does she always have to go as soon as the food comes?? The problem is that there is no bathroom IN the restaurant, really. You have to go out a side door and go to a restroom that is shared with the ABC Comissary. So, you step right out of the drive-in theater, and are smacked with the real world again. I really didn't like that! The bathroom was really crowded and full of CHEERLEADERS!
When we were done eating, the waitress brought out the kid's dessert. I've got to mention that this was after she had a VERY long, 10 minute or so, conversation with the table next to us- AFTER she told the kids she'd be right back with the desserts.
She redeemed herself by offering to take our picture.
Here's Sawyer's ice cream. It has cute little Mickey shaped sprinkles in it. Unfortunately, it would make a return appearance very shortly.
Thankfully for you, I have no pictures of the next part of our journey.
Yes, shortly after the desserts were brought out, Sawyer threw up. It was a MESS! I turned to get the diaper bag so I could get the wipes to clean him up. However, the diaper bag was in the stroller, that was whisked away to parts unknown. So, I had to try and get someone to bring some napkins to the table for us and to get my stroller.
It took me a while to get someone to actually pay attention to me. But, finally I was able to tell a guy that my son just threw up and I needed something to clean him up with. He got a panicked look in his eyes and started apologizing. He said "Don't worry, we'll clean it up, don't worry." Then, he sent a manager over to our table who also apologized and gave me a voucher good for a free kid's t-shirt at any gift shop in the park. I told them that they didn't need to apologize and thanked them for the voucher. Then, I asked again where our stroller was so I could take Sawyer to the bathroom and start cleaning him up. They finally brought it back from parts unknown and I headed to the "other wordly" bathroom.
As we walked into the bathroom, I was stopped by no less than 3 people and told how cute the kid's outfits were. Umm...thanks....I guess they're even cute when covered in puke! To be fair, Sawyer had pretty much missed his shirt. But, his pants were covered in stuff. I wiped him up as best as I could. I hadn't brought any extra pants with us!!
Just so you understand how stupid this was on my part, Sawyer throws up a LOT! He especially throws up when we are eating at restaurants and such. Something in restaurant food does not agree with his little tummy. Either that or he eats too fast when we eat out. We haven't figured it out yet. But, it's really unwise to take him out somewhere without an extra set of clothes.
He acted like he was feeling fine, so we went to a gift shop to look for a new outfit for him with our handy-dandy voucher. However, there were no pants anywhere that were his size. They either had baby pants or big boy pants, no toddler sizes.
While we were looking, I got a call on my cell phone from someone at Sci-Fi asking if I left my camera at the restaurant. I had my camera, but mom checked and hers was missing. So, she had to go back to the restaurant and get it. I still haven't figured out how they had my cell phone number. Maybe I gave it to them when I made reservations??
While we were waiting for mom, Sawyer spotted a Buzz Lightyear bank and he fell in LOVE. It was the first thing he had wanted, besides candy. So, I bought it for him. Of course, I forgot to use my gift card to pay for it.
While I'm at it, here's a picture of Tessa's bank that she got at MK.
When mom returned with her camera, we decided to go back to the hotel to clean Sawyer up and then we'd come back to the park.
While waiting in line for the bus, I spotted a lime green Mickey head! It was being worn by a girl of about 11 or 12 years old. She had a twin sister with her who was also wearing a lime green mickey head (I think she was, at least). I asked her if she was a Diser and she said "No, but my mom is!! She is going to be so excited that we met another Diser! She's been looking for lime green Mickey heads all week and she is really disappointed that she hasn't see any." I looked at the person next to them because I thought that must be her mom. But, she looked decidedly unfriendly, so I figured it wasn't her. Then, the girl said that her mom was back at Pop Century and the two of them had taken the bus over to DHS by themselves! I hope they were older than they looked!! They were really sweet girls and we chatted with them for a while. I don't remember their mom's name. But,
random Diser!
We got back to the room and gave Sawyer a bath and changed his clothes. We talked about it and decided that we really didn't want to go back to DHS since it was SOOO crowded. We thought that maybe MK would be better since it was a green day, according to TourGuide Mike.
Tessa saw other kids posing inside of the "0" at Pop Century, so we stopped to take a picture, too.
When we arrived at MK, we decided that the cheerleaders were making every park crowded, not just DHS. It was at this moment that I decided not to come back again on this week in February!
Tessa still really wanted to meet Tinker Bell, so the first thing we did was head over to Toon Town. We walked in to see the dreaded "60 minutes" sign. We thought the line looked shorter than the last time it had said 60 minutes. This was going to be our last day at MK, so we decided to bite the bullet and get in line. It was the longest 60 minutes of our trip! UGH! That line did NOT move for 30 minutes- at ALL!
Sawyer was bored out of his skull, as were mom and I.
Tessa had found a little girl to play with, so she was pretty happy. There was a tv screen playing something from The Tinker Bell movie, but we couldn't really see it from our location. So, there was really nothing more to do but stand and wait....and wait....
Finally- the line MOVED! We took 4 steps forward...and we stopped. UGH! This was looking like it was going to be a REALLY long wait.
The line moved at fairly regular intervals after that, but always by painfully few steps. I was whining about it more than the kids were, thankfully. So were the other adults in line. Quite a few people gave up and left the area. Unfortunately, they were all BEHIND us in line.
We finally made it to the front of the line and with a big to-do the woman let in a small group of us. We thought we were going to be going right in to see Tinker Bell. However, it was a devious trick!! We were just led into a different waiting area!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!
We waited in this area another TWENTY minutes! At least there was a cool forest theme in this waiting area.
Sawyer and Tessa were having fun trying to "catch" Tinker Bell (a little light that sped around the waiting area). They were playing with this little girl dressed as Aurora. We found out that she was also from Michigan.
FINALLY, after 1 hour and 20 minutes, we made it to the REAL front of the line. A perky CM came out with a wand filled with pixie dust and sprinkled both of the kids with it. She told them they had to flap their wings and fly like a fairy and follow her.
Tessa rather sheepishly flapped her wings and followed this perky CM. We were lead straight to...
,,,this fairy that we had never seen before. Tessa tried walking straight past her to Tinker Bell. But, there was another family with Tinker Bell. This fairy was very nice, and very pretty, anyway. We have since learned that her name is Silvermist. No, we hadn't seen the movie before we came here.
Silvermist talked really fast and she also talked a lot! Tessa had no idea what she was talking about most of the time since she hadn't seen the movie. Poor Silvermist probably thought we were real duds.
The photopass CM spotted Sawyer's Chip and Dale shirt and asked where I got it. I told her that I had made it and she told me I should make them for adults. She said she'd buy one!
Then, came the main event- TINKER BELL!!
She also talked really fast and said things that we didn't understand. She decided that Tessa was a Tinker like her because she had all sorts of "found things".
: Yeah, we get it now, but we sure didn't then!
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and Tessa is just the cutest little doll! They look so happy to be there with you and grandma. .....I told you February trip takers that it is cccooollllddd!!!! We were frezzing last year when we went in Feb!
I really love going in the off-season, though. We used to always go during Christmastime as a kid. I just remember waiting in seemingly endless lines! 
