TheLittleKatie
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- Joined
- Jul 4, 2014
Day 5
(September 6th 2014)
Two Worlds, One Family!
Part 5 – Do you wanna build a snowman?
We left Animal Kingdom and got back to the Beach Club at around 5pm.
And it POURED!
We had a 6:30pm ADR at Mama Melrose in Hollywood Studios, so at 5:45pm, we donned our ponchos and headed out into the rain.
Edit: I HATED this cheap, sticky, sweat-inducing poncho, which is why I look so repulsed.
Jamie, on the other hand, seems to think he's Superman or something.
We walked out to the boat dock, but they had stopped running the boats because there was lightning nearby. Instead, they had added Hollywood Studios buses to run from the Beach Club.
We were cutting it a little fine with our ADR now, but thankfully the rain had subsided by the time we reached the park, so we power-walked over to Mama Melrose.
While we were waiting to be seated we noticed a new addition to the wall of fame...
We were seated pretty quickly, and were shown to a quiet table in the corner, which was nice.
We had our priorities in order tonight.
The first thing we did was order a Magical Star cocktail!!
We never want to risk losing our passports, but we always had our driver’s licenses with us.
Unfortunately, the waiter didn’t recognise our UK licenses as a legit form of ID…
He was nice about it though, and he gave us each a piece of paper and a pen to write down the other one’s date of birth while he held our IDs.
Jamie turned to me with a terrified look on his face!
He knew I wouldn’t be very impressed if he got my birthday wrong!
Fortunately, we both passed, and were given our cocktails!
The Magical Star cocktail is described as ‘X-fusion organic mango and passion fruit liqueur, parrot bay coconut rum, pineapple juice, and a souvenir multi-coloured glow cube.”
It was delicious!
It didn’t taste very alcoholic, so it slipped down a little too easily
The changing colours also attracted a lot of attention from the kids nearby!
Sorry parents if your children were asking for cocktails after seeing ours!
We got some tomato garlic mussels as an appetiser to share, which were tasty!
Then for our entrees, I got the chicken parmesan:
And Jamie got the strip steak.
(He said he needed to restore his manliness after asking the waiter for a ‘Magical Star cocktail’)
The chicken parmesan was really good! It was a simple meal, but I’m not normally too adventurous with food anyway so I really enjoyed it. The chicken was cooked really nicely.
Jamie enjoyed his steak too, but after eating at the Yachtsman Steakhouse the night before, it obviously didn’t really compare. He said there was a little too much fat on it, but it was still good. It came with macaroni cheese too, which is always a bonus!
We were really full after all this food, and we wanted to let our stomachs settle before hitting up Tower of Terror.
We had a look in the Muppets store across from Mama Melrose.
Jamie does a REALLY good Beaker face.
I really wanted a photo of him doing it whilst wearing this hat, but I was laughing at him so much he turned it into a normal pouty-sad face before the camera captured it.
It’s definitely on my to-do list for our trip this year!
We left the store to walk over to the animation class, but some Frozen madness had started, and the walkways around Star Tours and Commissary Lane were all closed off, which was weird.
So we walked up the Streets of America to go the back way through Pixar Place.
I just love the name of this stall.
We eventually made it around to Animation Courtyard and to The Magic of Disney Animation building.
I really like the animation class, AND you get a fun, free souvenir out of it!
We had to vote on who we wanted to draw out of Jiminy Cricket, Prince Naveen and Jack Skellington.
Jamie and I both voted for Prince Naveen because the Princess and the Frog is one of my favourites, but Jiminy won, which I was happy with too. He’s a cutie.
Here’s mine:
And here’s Jamie’s:
I think we both did pretty good!
(Although mine is better, right?!?!?!)
At this point we felt like our food had settled nicely, so we walked over to Tower of Terror.
Since I was mildly infuriated when re-living our ride experience from yesterday, I forgot to share a Tower of Terror story from 2012..
As I mentioned, that trip was Jamie’s first time ever visiting Walt Disney World (!) so he really didn’t know much about anything.
On our arrival day we headed straight to Hollywood Studios, and straight down Sunset Boulevard to do Tower of Terror.
At this point, I have no idea what is going on in Jamie’s head, I guess he was just in a Disney-daze, taking in his surroundings..
WELL.
We get on the ride and go through the whole twilight zone ordeal.
But as the elevator starts to shake, Jamie seems a little concerned and is saying, “What’s going on?!?!”
Then when we DROPPED,
HE WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED.
He had NO idea that it was supposed to happen!!!
Of course, he quickly realised it was part of the ride, but when it finished he asked,
“DID YOU KNOW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN???!”
Apparently, right up until we dropped, he thought it was just a Haunted Mansion style ride..!!!
I was laughing so hard.
I have no idea as to how he completely ignored the screams as we walked down Sunset Boulevard!
What a goofball.
Anyway, we got there and it was a walk-on!
AT 8:30PM ON A SATURDAY NIGHT.
Life is so good.
As you can see from the photo, we had a great group of people who all got really into it.
It’s a shame I got a hand in front of my face though!
We left the Tower and headed over to Star Tours.
On the way over, Jamie spotted this Guardians of the Galaxy t-shirt that he just HAD to have!
Cutie!
He paid for his t-shirt and we continued over to Star Tours.
When we got there, there was a HUGE queue…
JOKES.
As always, Jamie REALLY wanted to be the Rebel Spy..
There were only four other people in our ship this time.
Jamie was keeping his head up and facing forward for them to grab a picture of him…
But they chose the guy sat in front of us.
Boooooo.
We came out of Star Tours at around 9:15pm, and the park was closing at 9:30pm.
We wanted to do Tower of Terror one more time before heading home, so we walked around Echo Lake on the Hollywood and Vine side. We came out onto Hollywood Boulevard and the whole place was RAMMED with people watching the Frozen fireworks.
It looked like it was going to be a struggle to get over to Sunset Boulevard so we watched the fireworks for a little bit. It was a really cute show to a bunch of Frozen songs.
We then decided to head back to the friendship boats to avoid the post-firework craziness.
We walked through the Mickey’s of Hollywood store to get to the exit.
A few other people were doing the same thing, so Jamie and I got split up briefly.
No biggie, he was a few people ahead of me but I kept an eye on him so we didn’t get lost.
However Jamie hadn’t realised that I was no longer right behind him.
I saw him start turning his head to look at me, and, not realising I wasn’t right there, he was singing
“Do you wanna build a snowmaaaan!?!”
…until he locked eyes with THE RANDOM WOMAN BEHIND HIM.
I was cracking up so much.
He is SO goofy.
We walked out of Hollywood Studios with the fireworks behind us, and walked to the boat dock singing the duet from Love is an Open Door (!)
We got back to the Beach Club at 9:45pm.
We paid a quick visit to Beach Club Marketplace because we were going to get some sweet treats from Goofy’s Candy Company at Downtown Disney tomorrow night, so more milk was definitely necessary.
I saw this really cute pin, I kinda regret not buying it.
Then we headed back to the room.
Before we fell asleep, we shared our favourite moments of the day.
Mine was Finding Nemo the Musical.
Jamie’s was the cow.
*End of Day 5*
Click for Day 6, Part 1!
(September 6th 2014)
Two Worlds, One Family!
Part 5 – Do you wanna build a snowman?
We left Animal Kingdom and got back to the Beach Club at around 5pm.
And it POURED!
We had a 6:30pm ADR at Mama Melrose in Hollywood Studios, so at 5:45pm, we donned our ponchos and headed out into the rain.
Edit: I HATED this cheap, sticky, sweat-inducing poncho, which is why I look so repulsed.
Jamie, on the other hand, seems to think he's Superman or something.
We walked out to the boat dock, but they had stopped running the boats because there was lightning nearby. Instead, they had added Hollywood Studios buses to run from the Beach Club.
We were cutting it a little fine with our ADR now, but thankfully the rain had subsided by the time we reached the park, so we power-walked over to Mama Melrose.
While we were waiting to be seated we noticed a new addition to the wall of fame...
We were seated pretty quickly, and were shown to a quiet table in the corner, which was nice.
We had our priorities in order tonight.
The first thing we did was order a Magical Star cocktail!!
We never want to risk losing our passports, but we always had our driver’s licenses with us.
Unfortunately, the waiter didn’t recognise our UK licenses as a legit form of ID…
He was nice about it though, and he gave us each a piece of paper and a pen to write down the other one’s date of birth while he held our IDs.
Jamie turned to me with a terrified look on his face!
He knew I wouldn’t be very impressed if he got my birthday wrong!
Fortunately, we both passed, and were given our cocktails!
The Magical Star cocktail is described as ‘X-fusion organic mango and passion fruit liqueur, parrot bay coconut rum, pineapple juice, and a souvenir multi-coloured glow cube.”
It was delicious!
It didn’t taste very alcoholic, so it slipped down a little too easily
The changing colours also attracted a lot of attention from the kids nearby!
Sorry parents if your children were asking for cocktails after seeing ours!
We got some tomato garlic mussels as an appetiser to share, which were tasty!
Then for our entrees, I got the chicken parmesan:
And Jamie got the strip steak.
(He said he needed to restore his manliness after asking the waiter for a ‘Magical Star cocktail’)
The chicken parmesan was really good! It was a simple meal, but I’m not normally too adventurous with food anyway so I really enjoyed it. The chicken was cooked really nicely.
Jamie enjoyed his steak too, but after eating at the Yachtsman Steakhouse the night before, it obviously didn’t really compare. He said there was a little too much fat on it, but it was still good. It came with macaroni cheese too, which is always a bonus!
We were really full after all this food, and we wanted to let our stomachs settle before hitting up Tower of Terror.
We had a look in the Muppets store across from Mama Melrose.
Jamie does a REALLY good Beaker face.
I really wanted a photo of him doing it whilst wearing this hat, but I was laughing at him so much he turned it into a normal pouty-sad face before the camera captured it.
It’s definitely on my to-do list for our trip this year!
We left the store to walk over to the animation class, but some Frozen madness had started, and the walkways around Star Tours and Commissary Lane were all closed off, which was weird.
So we walked up the Streets of America to go the back way through Pixar Place.
I just love the name of this stall.
We eventually made it around to Animation Courtyard and to The Magic of Disney Animation building.
I really like the animation class, AND you get a fun, free souvenir out of it!
We had to vote on who we wanted to draw out of Jiminy Cricket, Prince Naveen and Jack Skellington.
Jamie and I both voted for Prince Naveen because the Princess and the Frog is one of my favourites, but Jiminy won, which I was happy with too. He’s a cutie.
Here’s mine:
And here’s Jamie’s:
I think we both did pretty good!
(Although mine is better, right?!?!?!)
At this point we felt like our food had settled nicely, so we walked over to Tower of Terror.
Since I was mildly infuriated when re-living our ride experience from yesterday, I forgot to share a Tower of Terror story from 2012..
As I mentioned, that trip was Jamie’s first time ever visiting Walt Disney World (!) so he really didn’t know much about anything.
On our arrival day we headed straight to Hollywood Studios, and straight down Sunset Boulevard to do Tower of Terror.
At this point, I have no idea what is going on in Jamie’s head, I guess he was just in a Disney-daze, taking in his surroundings..
WELL.
We get on the ride and go through the whole twilight zone ordeal.
But as the elevator starts to shake, Jamie seems a little concerned and is saying, “What’s going on?!?!”
Then when we DROPPED,
HE WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED.
He had NO idea that it was supposed to happen!!!
Of course, he quickly realised it was part of the ride, but when it finished he asked,
“DID YOU KNOW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN???!”
Apparently, right up until we dropped, he thought it was just a Haunted Mansion style ride..!!!
I was laughing so hard.
I have no idea as to how he completely ignored the screams as we walked down Sunset Boulevard!
What a goofball.
Anyway, we got there and it was a walk-on!
AT 8:30PM ON A SATURDAY NIGHT.
Life is so good.
As you can see from the photo, we had a great group of people who all got really into it.
It’s a shame I got a hand in front of my face though!
We left the Tower and headed over to Star Tours.
On the way over, Jamie spotted this Guardians of the Galaxy t-shirt that he just HAD to have!
Cutie!
He paid for his t-shirt and we continued over to Star Tours.
When we got there, there was a HUGE queue…
JOKES.
As always, Jamie REALLY wanted to be the Rebel Spy..
There were only four other people in our ship this time.
Jamie was keeping his head up and facing forward for them to grab a picture of him…
But they chose the guy sat in front of us.
Boooooo.
We came out of Star Tours at around 9:15pm, and the park was closing at 9:30pm.
We wanted to do Tower of Terror one more time before heading home, so we walked around Echo Lake on the Hollywood and Vine side. We came out onto Hollywood Boulevard and the whole place was RAMMED with people watching the Frozen fireworks.
It looked like it was going to be a struggle to get over to Sunset Boulevard so we watched the fireworks for a little bit. It was a really cute show to a bunch of Frozen songs.
We then decided to head back to the friendship boats to avoid the post-firework craziness.
We walked through the Mickey’s of Hollywood store to get to the exit.
A few other people were doing the same thing, so Jamie and I got split up briefly.
No biggie, he was a few people ahead of me but I kept an eye on him so we didn’t get lost.
However Jamie hadn’t realised that I was no longer right behind him.
I saw him start turning his head to look at me, and, not realising I wasn’t right there, he was singing
“Do you wanna build a snowmaaaan!?!”
…until he locked eyes with THE RANDOM WOMAN BEHIND HIM.
I was cracking up so much.
He is SO goofy.
We walked out of Hollywood Studios with the fireworks behind us, and walked to the boat dock singing the duet from Love is an Open Door (!)
We got back to the Beach Club at 9:45pm.
We paid a quick visit to Beach Club Marketplace because we were going to get some sweet treats from Goofy’s Candy Company at Downtown Disney tomorrow night, so more milk was definitely necessary.
I saw this really cute pin, I kinda regret not buying it.
Then we headed back to the room.
Before we fell asleep, we shared our favourite moments of the day.
Mine was Finding Nemo the Musical.
Jamie’s was the cow.
*End of Day 5*
Click for Day 6, Part 1!
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I'm afraid the bugs are just not your friends! 
Poor guy! I'm glad he likes it now!
Love it! 
Love the humor AND Step Brothers fun! We are staying at Beach Club next January too and can't wait. Your pics and stories helped a bunch. (IMPRESSIVE photography skills!)
