What do you want to do? I don't know, what do you want to do?
***Hollywood Public Works saves the day!***
or the morning at least
Now our morning had been just about as indecisive as the entire day before from the minute we'd finally arrived. First it was about what to eat.
No one could actually TELL me what they wanted. Vague mentions of pastries were made so off to Starring Rolls we went. Despite all the bad reviews it was the only place I could think of that would have pastries. Really, finding a muffin shouldn't be that hard! Breakfast was over and while they had tons of pastries, none were pleasing DH who was being rather Scrooge like. So we headed over to Anaheim fruit which had...fruit.
Not many other options, I wasn't interested in even looking at the ABC Commisary so we headed back to Starring Rolls where 4 of us got lunch (which was actually AMAZING...the turkey on foccacia was surprisingly fabulous) and the very wonderful CM helped us cobble a full meal together out of extra sides or desserts for the 3 meals (no one needed or wanted a side AND dessert, AND the giant sandwich...which included chips somehow....) plus one snack credit for Wall-E which included a chocolate muffin as big as his head. Seriously. That CM was so cool, I'd have done another full CS and she very nicely said I didn't need to and the 3 meals would cover it plus the one credit. Seriously? So cool.
Scrooge decided to get a Turkey Leg.
Okay....no blueberry scone so you'll sub a Turkey Leg? And then text me b/c you don't trust it's really on "the list" and you are back all the way over at Toluca? Even though I'm trying to get 4 kids through the line at SR?
Good lord that thing was huge. And if memory serves, it was a SNACK credit!
Suffice to say the plan for burning CS credits at bfast AND lunch that day was shot.
No one needed lunch.
After we'd eaten it there was much discussion about what to do, everyone having a different opinion. So we split up, big boys to check out fast cars and we checked out TSM.
NO luck but, another photo op!
Here is Tink looking cool and Wall-E I am sure describing to all exactly where we should go. No clue but he is clearly being very descriptive to the other 2! LOL.
So, TSM out, with the 90 minute wait it became the
what do you want to do?
I don't know
what do you want to do?
I don't know.
Sigh.
So we wandered. Quite a bit actually, the 3 younger ones and I. And found that photpass guy that Scrooge wasn't keen on dealing with. He's since reformed, seeing the errors of his ways now that we are back and how cute the very few photos we had taken turned out.
We'd planned to do Idol later that day with the whole gang and with it being only day 2 of AI we assumed the waits would be hideous. We weren't in a rush to go stand in line and since no one could agree, we headed to the locker to check our bag for the night (EMH and dinner at PTC we expected it to cool off and had no plans to go back to the resort. Walking out I drug them into a couple of shops, searching for the wine glasses my mom had asked for. Spotted them and made a mental note of where to go back later.
HSM was floating by or playing everywhere we went all day so we kept trying to go around it, it was almost comical. DS8 likes HSM, DSD 12 is far too cool (or "over it" lol) and DS7 could care less. But it became a bit annoying....it didn't stop. All day! And we'd seen it before when we'd hopped in the day before. Kind of like the Celebrations Parade at MK, we couldn't escape it.
So the shops were a bit of a hiding spot too. Coming out of one of the shops we were stopped by a crowd.
What could it be?
The Hollywood Public Works!
These guys were HYSTERICAL! And got DS8 right into the mix, he was in heaven. Tink, who I assumed would be bored was rolling with laughter. The kids got sooooo into it and had so much fun, it really set the tone for the rest of the day and made it very "Hollywood" and less "ride" focused which was kind of a cool switch to flip as at this point, we'd really not seen any shows.
You can't really tell from the pics but they were engaging with DS8 most of the show. He still talks about it and has these pictures up in his room. So cute!
Afterward it was getting warm so we decided it was snack time. As with the CS credits, we had snack credits to burn.
I seriously cannot imagine
DDP. We are eaters. Foodies even. We couldn't use the credits we had on the regular DDP to save our soul. Granted some of it was bad flight times but still, it was pathetic!
We headed over to Indiana Jones to see what the wait was and grabbed a snack at a cart near there. Wall-E almost lost it as they did not have mickey bars (only sandwiches) but was consoled with something (though I can't recall what) and the bigger kids got frozen lemonades. I got an espresso! Our timing was off on the Indy show so we figured we'd check out AI. The next show was soon so we assumed they'd already let that group in and would get in line for the next one which would give us plenty of time to finish our snacks. To our huge surprise despite the large outside waiting area, the line MOVED almost immediately and all to soon we were at the "toss your drink" point of no return.
Tink and and Goofy had not made a dent in the lemonades (and weren't loving them).
What to do??????????
Throw food away?
I have a very hard time with waste.
I have a very hard time with kids asking for a treat and then not liking it.
Even it was already paid for and we had more than we could use. It's the principle of the thing!
Hmmmn.........
