Hollywood Studios
Yeah, I did not make it to rope drop the next morning!
I like to do as many things as possible while at Disney, but I'm also very aware of the fact that if I don't get enough sleep I'll be miserable. So I slept in until about 10:30. My roommates had already left, so I texted one of my other friends to see what she was up to - she and her fiance were just getting ready to head over to Hollywood Studios then, so I decided to tag along with them!
We met up with our friends that were already in the park - they had just been on Tower of Terror. Turns out some of them decided not to go to bed the night before and had just stayed up til rope drop - crazy girls!
It was approaching lunch time by this point and we were pretty hungry, so we headed over to ABC Commissary. I got the Asian salad with chicken. I know the ABC Comm isn't a super popular place for food, but I enjoy this salad. I had it two years ago and liked it but was thinking it needed something else, like a protein. Now they have the option to add chicken or salmon which was perfect! Yum.
Some of our friends wanted to watch Mulch Sweat and Shears, which I had never seen so I joined them. It was a really fun little show that I didn't even know Disney did! They are talented and play some fun music.
And because we were so enthusiastic, two of us got "picked" (or dragged up, depending on how you look at it!) to be volunteers. The first was because one of the girls was begging them before the show to pick our friend to be in it. She got to do some scat singing, haha.
And then they spotted my roommate's birthday button, and had to bring her up to sing Happy Birthday!
I'm normally a "go-go-go" rides and attractions person, and this show isn't something I would have normally stopped to see but I'm so glad we did! It was a lot of fun!
From there we headed to Star Tours and rode that. I love the new version, I think it's a lot of fun. After that we decided to do Toy Story. I didn't think I'd have any chance of riding it that day since I missed rope drop and the crowds were so big. However, my friends had gotten fastpasses and not all of them were staying in the park (not surprisingly, some of them needed a nap!), so they gave me a fastpass. I went with three other people and we got on Toy Story!
We were at the end of the ride, on the last screen, when the screen just shut down. Our scores were gone! And the ride stopped moving. They made some announcements to be patient while they tried to fix the ride. Normally you're so focused and spinning around so quickly on that ride that you don't get a chance to look around - everything just kind of whizzes by you. So it was actually kind of cool to see all of the details and stuff in there!
And after about 10 minutes they announced that the ride would be shutting down and we would all be escorted out. It took them awhile to come around and "free" us all, and we were led single file around the ride while they let others out too. So we basically got to walk around most of the track of Toy Story Mania, which was pretty neat too. They gave us fast passes to come back good til the end of the month (though today was my last day so I was hoping I could use them later in the day).
Next we decided to do the drawing class over in the Animation building. I had discovered this on my honeymoon and it's one of my new favorite things. I'm not normally a very good artist but they instruct you so well that I feel pretty proud of the work that I come away with! Our character that day was Dale.
The drawing class takes about 25 minutes, so by the time we were done (and we had to wait awhile for the next one to start), Toy Story was back up! This time we got to finish the ride and get our final scores. My roommate was player 1 and I was player 2... hey, I may have lost, but at least I was more accurate!
Plus I think this might be my personal best score ever on the ride.
Our plan for the evening was to eat at Beaches and Cream, so we left Hollywood Studios to head over there.
I'd never been to Beaches and Cream before but it's a really cute little place - tiny though! Having only had the salad earlier I was pretty hungry by this point, so I got a bacon cheeseburger and fries. Everything was really tasty.
But of course you can't go to an ice cream shop without getting dessert! And at Beaches and Cream with a group of people, well... how can you resist the kitchen sink?? Four of us were willing to tackle it. I probably shouldn't have eaten dinner beforehand and just had ice cream for dinner...
For some perspective on the size of this thing:
There's basically everything you could imagine in this sundae. Every flavor of ice cream, brownies, snickers bars, bananas, pound cake, oreos, and a whole can of whipped cream! Did we finish it?
Yes. Did my tummy hurt? Yes indeed!
At this point my friends wanted to go to Downtown Disney, but I was interested in going back to HS to see Fantasmic. My friend's fiance also wanted to do that so I went back to the park with him! We got to Fantasmic with about 15 minutes left before it started and sat in the front row. A note about that - we had a fantastic view, but we also got really wet. All of the water screens misted on us the entire time. But I think it was worth it to see the show from right there in the front!
HS was still open for another hour or two, so we decided to try and do some more rides. We went back and did Star Tours again, and ended the night with Muppet Vision 3D. By this point it was around 10:00 and I knew I had to get some sleep, because my flight left at 6am the next morning... and Magical Express was coming for me at 3am!
Nice to know that's not true. 
Somebody did some serious planning there, but I suppose anyone who has done a Disney wedding has the planning thing down. 
