So, we woke up feeling refreshed at around 6:30. DH went for his morning walk while I got ready and ate breakfast (a donut and milk again!)
We left at about 8:15 and walked over to MGM. It was a little chilly, but not as bad as yesterday. We could tell it was going to warm up quickly!
Here are some pictures from our walk over. Very peaceful!
As we stood in line for a 1/2 hour, a CM came up to a family near us in line and picked them to be in the show before the opening of the park. They did a pretty good job! I'll have to say that this show was a little too long. I don't mind the opening show at the MK, but this one just dragged on...past 9am too!
They finally dropped the ropes and we were off.
Straight to RRC first, we decided to get a fast pass first, then got in line. Not too long of a wait. The ride was excellent as usual
We then went over to ToT. The board said 45 minute wait...darn! We get in line and were on the ride in about 8 minutes!
I mean I'm not complaining or anything, but where in the world did they get 45 minutes from???
We then decided to grab a fast pass for ToT after getting off, and then we went over to RRC again with our fast passes.
From there we headed over to the Great Movie Ride. We practically walked onto the ride, which was somewhat a bummer because we couldn't watch much of the pre-films in line. I really love this ride, but it was a shame that our tour guide was pretty horrible. His accent was really tough to understand and he reminded me of the teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A very monotone voice!
We then headed over to Animation. I was really looking forward to this, I couldn't wait to try and draw a character!
We sat through the beginning show, which I enjoyed. Then we walked through to the drawing room. When we got there, all the tables were full, but there were additional seats in the very front. We had to use a clip board on our laps to draw. Waiting for our instructor to tell us what we were going to draw, I was hoping he would say Goofy, my favorite! But he didn't choose Goofy, we drew Tigger. Not my favorite, but at least Tigger isn't very detailed or hard to draw. Here is mine!
Now, this is probably the best picture I have ever drawn in my life. I was amazed at how good of a teacher he was! DH did a good job too, but I didn't get a picture of his.
We then headed back over to ToT to use our fast passes, and actually waited longer this time than the first time without fast passes.
We were starting to get hungry, so we decided to walk back to the room to freshen up, then walked down to the ESPN club. DH thought he saw Fred Savage (you know, from that great show called The Wonder Years?) sitting at a table in the bar, but false alarm, I don't think it was him!
It did look like him though!
It was pretty crowded, but we saw some people that were getting up to leave, so we took their table. A man came and bused our table but didn't wipe the table down. It was pretty gross. I figured we would ask the waitress to do it when he came over to greet us, but that never happened either!
I think we waited about 10 minutes before we got up and left, and decided to go over to the Boardwalk Bakery for some sandwiches.
Now, I'm hoping that it was the women's first day on the job working the register at the Boardwalk Bakery, because she had no idea what was going on. It took her an extremely long time to ring up 2 sandwiches and 2 drinks. It was painfully slow.
I don't get it.
And there was nobody there to help her! Anyways, the sandwiches were actually pretty good! I got a tomato, basil, mozzarella and DH got a Tuna sandwich. (Sorry, no pictures!
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It was really starting to become a beautiful day, so we then decided to go to the pool. We went back to the room to change and brought down a couple beers with us to the pool. It was a perfect sunny day!
We stayed for 1 1/2 hours or so and then decided to head over to the Magic Kingdom after freshening up.
Overall an OK day so far. I feel like I complained a lot in this post, but I promise it gets better!
The crowds wern't too bad this morning, again it helps a lot to et to the park for opening! When we were leaving MGM, it was really starting to get crowded.
Up next...MK on a beautiful night!