DAY 2 Continued: Saturday August 25th
Once Cars Land started getting more congested, we decided to head out to other parts of the park and come back later. First up, we wanted to get our FP's for World of Color, so we started heading through Condor Flats towards Grizzly River Run.
DH snapped a pic of this when I pointed it has his name in it!
It was weird coming around this corner and seeing just nothing off to the right, since last time we had been there that's where you entered the park with Buena Vista St. being blocked off!
We made it to GRR and picked up our FP for the first WoC show (that's a lot of acronyms in one sentence!
Our next stop was Paradise Pier. We wanted to ride as many of the headliner attractions as we could while the park was still relatively slow. With it being a weekend, we didn't expect it to stay that way for long!
We were going to stop first and get FPs for California Screamin' before heading to Toy Story Mania, but the line for CS was only 5 minutes so we decided to just ride.
Seriously LOVE this roller coaster!!! I love pretty much all Disney attractions except a rare few (I'm looking at you, Country Bears!), but the thrill rides are my favorite, and they definitely got it right with California Screamin'! I had forgotten since last trip about the rocket start, so it was a nice way to really wake me up at 8 in the morning with a blast of cool air in my face as we went hurtling off on the track! We picked up a FP for later, and then I decided I couldn't ignore my grumbling tummy anymore so I started looking up menus on the Lines app to find a place for breakfast.
We decided to check out Pacific Wharf Cafe since it was just right there, thinking I'd probably grab a muffin or croissant to eat. But then we spotted a woman coming out with scrambled eggs in a sourdough bread bowl and it just looked way too good not to get!
Bread on display inside the Cafe
Breakfast!
Since it looked like a lot of food, we decided to get one to split and we also got a water to share. I can't even tell you how delicious this breakfast was! The eggs were fluffy REAL eggs, not the buffet runny powdered eggs we are used to eating in Disney. And the bread bowl was so amazing. I loooooove bread, especially sourdough. DH ate the orange slices and I had the grapes. We ate every last bite of what was on that plate! Literally all that was left was the orange peels and grape stems.
Now that my hungry stomach was satisfied, we headed over to Toy Story Mania to check out the wait. It was only posted at 30 minutes, so we figured why not, it's only going to get worse through the day.
WDW definitely got it right with their TSM queue. DCA not so much. It's just switchback after switchback of chains and people shuffling through with nothing to look at. There were some cute posters at one point in the line for each of the games, but that was about it. After waiting about 25 minutes we got on the ride. It was fun being able to actually really compete against each other since last time we rode this in WDW one of us had a child on their lap each time!
It was fun, but a little frustrating because we stopped after every. single. game. So the ride took longer than usual and we had a lot of time to do some target practice with each game. I pulled ahead at one point in the ride, but DH of course, came back to whup me in the end.
Cute little display as we were exiting the ride
I don't have any pictures of this (probably because I'd like to pretend it never happened!), but next we went on Mickey's Fun Wheel in a swinging gondola. I lamented the fact that there was no kid on my hip to pee on me and save me from it this time! Luckily for me, it never really got into a good rotation because they had to stop it when some idiots stood up in their bucket while it was moving. I was pleased about that, but not DH and the two kids in our bucket with us who wanted it to do a ton of swinging! It was pretty cool being stopped at the top though and seeing out over the park and beyond. And to see how much equipment is in the water where WoC happens!
After riding the Fun Wheel, for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to go get FP's for the second WoC show too without realizing you can't have a FP for both shows. The CM offered to switch our FPs out from the first show for the second, but we decided not to and just kept our original ones. He said if we changed our minds later to come back. (Yes, this will be important later!).
We decided to head over to the Hollywood Studios part of the park to check out some of the attractions there. We saw the Red Car Trolley parked out front at one of the stops!
First up...Monster's Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! I think we waited
maybe 5 minutes for this.
I told DH not to worry about taking pictures in here since he had taken so many last trip, but he insists on trying to get better shots than before so he spent most of the ride looking through the camera.
Just as cute as we remembered it being last time, and Roz was actually working at the end! Last time she just stood there and didn't interact, so I didn't even realize she would talk to the guests in the cars as you pass her.
Continued in next post...
But that's just my opinion, of course. I guess the powers that be at Disney must have some insight on this being a good idea or they wouldn't be pouring so much money into it. I guess what bugs me the most is that I could see them doing so much more with the money that is instead being put into an Avatar attraction/land.
Are you getting excited about your WDW trip? It's just around the corner along with Paxton's birthday. 
Now that's an idea I could get behind!!
Will have to find out for myself in 18 days!
