Arriving at DHS right at rope drop, we entered the fray to make the dash over to TSM. Luckily there wasn't too much dashing.
The crowd was very well behaved. My friend took our tickets and headed over to the line to get on the ride. I loved the Army men that they have out doing a bit of crowd control at TSM in the morning.
At TSM they will let you enter the outdoor section of the line without one member of your party, but once the line enters the building you have to have your entire party with you. My friend caught up with me while I was still outside so I didn't even have to hang back at the door letting people go in front of me.
I love the queue line at TSM. It's always such a flash back in time for me. I used to play with so many of these toys as a kid.
My friend loved the ride, as I knew she would. She is the most competitive person ever on Buzz so there really wasn't any doubt in my mind she'd be hooked on TSM. After TSM we headed over to my favorite ride in any of the parks. Tower of Terror! Seriously, I could ride this all day. For me it's more about just the ride itself, it's about the complete attraction. I love the theming of the ride. I'm such a geek that I love when there is a line outside the attraction so I can wander through the grounds checking out all the decaying details Disney adds in. I even have the music they play in the lobby and on the grounds on my ipod. Like I said, I'm a complete and utter ToT geek. Of course I had to stop and take some pictures, even though I think I take the exact same pictures every time I go to DHS. It's a sickness.
I love the ceiling in the lobby of ToT.
Some of the lighting fixtures both inside and out -
Every time I see this dead flower arrangement, it makes me think of Miss Havishams rotting wedding cake in Great Expectaions.
I rednecked the picture on the way out.
I'm in the tie dyed Mickey shirt.
After ToT we headed over to RnR when I saw this garbage can. I can't express how much I hate the stupid hat being were it is. I use to love seeing Grauman's theater as you walked into the park. It used to feel so much more wide open through that area, now it just feels crowdeded to me. At least the pretty view lives on the garbage cans at least.
Nevertheless, after RnR we headed over the the hat where we saw Pooh and Eeyore. Being the two big kids that we are we had to stop for pictures. Pooh and Eeyore were great. They played around with us for awhile, since there wasn't a big line to meet them.
Afterwards we took our time wandering back to TSM to use our fastpasses. The park was beginning to get a bit crowded. On the way we stopped to ride the Great Movie Ride for the second time that day. We had ridden it earlier in the day on our way to ToT, but we both really like this ride. My friend had never seen the Cowboy scene so we were hoping it would be running. When we had ridden it earlier in the day only one of the cars had been running while I was on, but when we were entering into the final room where they show the film clips, I could see that the group in front of us had been running all of the cars. I was hopeful we'd luck out. When we got up to get on the ride I could see that all cars were running. (The first two cars get the cowboy scene, the back two cars get the mobster). They directed us to one of the rear cars, but I nicely asked if we could pretty please with sugar on top ride in the cowboy car. The CM's laughed and let us up to one of the front cars.
It's been so long since I saw the cowboy scene I really enjoyed it.
We hit Star Tours as well before heading over to TSM. After the ride the line to meet Buzz and Woody wasn't terribly long so we hopped in line to meet them. Hands down best character interaction of the trip. Buzz kept pretending to hit on my friend, and leave the meet and great area with her as if he was going to go home with her. It was hysterical. The CM's who keep order in the area started getting into it too. At one point he was nearly out the door, and she started yelling at him and pretending to grab on to him and drag him back into the room, complete with bracing her leg on the wall for more leverage. While all the madness was going on, Woody and I just kept shaking our heads together.
Just the perfect reason why adults should have just as much fun as kids meeting characters. It was definitely one of my favorite character meets of all time. Rates up in the top 3 along with the first time I met Donald Duck, and when I got to meet Captain Jack a few years back.
After our meet we headed out of the park to head to a mystery resort to check out some Christmas Decorations and have a bit of lunch. The plan was to hop on the first bus that showed up, that we hadn't already visited or one that we were planning to visit later in the week for a meal. Such a mystery, were would we end up?
That was enough to get us back on track. Especially with a 4 year old in tow.
That comment about the restaurant would have gotten to me, too. I know what you mean about not speaking up about what you want to do just to make everyone else happy. That's SO funny that we do the same thing! For that reason in particular, I wanted to be sure that I get enough time alone in October to do everything I want to do! I seriously can't wait. 
