Day 4-- Sunday 11/2
Cast-- same
Today we were heading to MGM. "The Plan" called for everyone to up and out of the house by 8am. We still had tickets to buy, and I really like being at the parks first thing. My troops did good today-- out the door by 8:05-- not too bad. I found it's always my mother that was the last one ready. Ironically she was always the first one up each morning too
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We headed straight for the TOT. While we went on this I had DH (who was watching Dneice) go get everyone FP's for RnRRC. I will admit I was alittle worried about my father on TOT. He insisted he was gonna do it. My mother claims he's a walking timebomb (for a heart attack). I guess she's said it so much I believe it--- well I keep worrying the whole ride that this was going to be it for him. I truly don't even know what I was doing on TOT-- I hate this ride. I can't stand the repeated drops. I always say I'm not doing it again-- then I find myseld dropping over and over
. Anyway, dad made it through just fine, but announced he'd never do it again! After that ride 1/2 of the group backed out of RnRRC. This was actually a first for me. For some reason it always gets skipped each trip. We collected our FP and made our way to the front of the line. Once I seen the first car "take off" I was looking for the chicken exit. I was very, very intimidated! I was trying to talk sis into leaving w/ me-- then I wouldn't be the only one. Next thing I know DS is pulling my arm and we are loading into the limo's. Ugh--- I was really scared!!! Needless to say 20 seconds into the ride I opened my eyes--- and I really enjoyed the rest of the ride. I thought it was awesome-- and is know a "must do". I tried to convince the rest of my group to go on-- their FP's were still good. But the TOT did them in on thrill rides for the day.
We then decided to split up into some smaller groups. Sis was taking a group over to Playhouse Disney and I was taking the rest of them to Muppets. Muppets was great. Of course they weren't expecting the "little suprises". Afterwards we did the Backlot Tour-- where cuz got picked to go in the "water show". She was put in the seat where you use the phone. They told her nothing of what was going to happen before the show. DH and I were cracking up. She is the type of person who came to Disney everyday w/ each strand of hair perfect and every bit of make-up applied. She was a good sport though. We then headed for the trams-- looked back and found out my mom and aunt stopped at the bathroom (suprise-- suprise) . They held the tram, which we insisted they didn't need to do. It taught them a small lesson though-- they were really embarassed when they came out and found 100 sets of eyes staring at them. DH told them the driver announced we were just waiting for 2 more people who stopped for a potty break (this didn't really happen, but they believed him).
Lunch was on deck after this, then the Indy show. I thought Dniece would be okay during the Indy show-- we were about 1/3 of the way back. Well, she hated it. It was then that I realized just how "loud" Disney is. So sis left the show to calm her down. After the show we broke off again because it appeared DN wasn't going to really like any rides or shows (other than Playhouse Disney). So I took the rest of the group on rides while Sis& BIL walked and shopped. After the parade I switched roles w/ my sis--- and DH and I filled DN up w/ fudge
. I gave them directions on where to go (they didn't want to look at their maps-- they pretty much just wanted to be told what to do). They were all given explicit instructions to meet back at the gate for Fantasmic by 6pm. Of course, that must of been too hard to follow. 6pm comes and goes--- 1/2 the group is still missing. Finally by 6:20 they all arrive (mental note to myself--- always tell them to arrive 30 minutes early then I want them to show). Anyhow, sis decided to try Fantasmic w/ DN and see how it goes. Maybe it was the sugar rush from all the fudge, but she did fine. The little girl who liked pretty much nothing else--- kept clapping shouting out bad boy/girl-- all gone-- and yay!! We pretty much lost each other making our way out of the show. I told DH & Ds we should go wait by the bathroom's near the exit-- they would show up. Don't you know it, but 6 out of the 9 showed up at the bathrooms!
We went back to the villa-- ordered Papa John's Pizza (which was great and really cheap). Went to bed w/ sore feet. Epcot was on deck for the next day.
Cast-- same
Today we were heading to MGM. "The Plan" called for everyone to up and out of the house by 8am. We still had tickets to buy, and I really like being at the parks first thing. My troops did good today-- out the door by 8:05-- not too bad. I found it's always my mother that was the last one ready. Ironically she was always the first one up each morning too
.We headed straight for the TOT. While we went on this I had DH (who was watching Dneice) go get everyone FP's for RnRRC. I will admit I was alittle worried about my father on TOT. He insisted he was gonna do it. My mother claims he's a walking timebomb (for a heart attack). I guess she's said it so much I believe it--- well I keep worrying the whole ride that this was going to be it for him. I truly don't even know what I was doing on TOT-- I hate this ride. I can't stand the repeated drops. I always say I'm not doing it again-- then I find myseld dropping over and over
. Anyway, dad made it through just fine, but announced he'd never do it again! After that ride 1/2 of the group backed out of RnRRC. This was actually a first for me. For some reason it always gets skipped each trip. We collected our FP and made our way to the front of the line. Once I seen the first car "take off" I was looking for the chicken exit. I was very, very intimidated! I was trying to talk sis into leaving w/ me-- then I wouldn't be the only one. Next thing I know DS is pulling my arm and we are loading into the limo's. Ugh--- I was really scared!!! Needless to say 20 seconds into the ride I opened my eyes--- and I really enjoyed the rest of the ride. I thought it was awesome-- and is know a "must do". I tried to convince the rest of my group to go on-- their FP's were still good. But the TOT did them in on thrill rides for the day. We then decided to split up into some smaller groups. Sis was taking a group over to Playhouse Disney and I was taking the rest of them to Muppets. Muppets was great. Of course they weren't expecting the "little suprises". Afterwards we did the Backlot Tour-- where cuz got picked to go in the "water show". She was put in the seat where you use the phone. They told her nothing of what was going to happen before the show. DH and I were cracking up. She is the type of person who came to Disney everyday w/ each strand of hair perfect and every bit of make-up applied. She was a good sport though. We then headed for the trams-- looked back and found out my mom and aunt stopped at the bathroom (suprise-- suprise) . They held the tram, which we insisted they didn't need to do. It taught them a small lesson though-- they were really embarassed when they came out and found 100 sets of eyes staring at them. DH told them the driver announced we were just waiting for 2 more people who stopped for a potty break (this didn't really happen, but they believed him).
Lunch was on deck after this, then the Indy show. I thought Dniece would be okay during the Indy show-- we were about 1/3 of the way back. Well, she hated it. It was then that I realized just how "loud" Disney is. So sis left the show to calm her down. After the show we broke off again because it appeared DN wasn't going to really like any rides or shows (other than Playhouse Disney). So I took the rest of the group on rides while Sis& BIL walked and shopped. After the parade I switched roles w/ my sis--- and DH and I filled DN up w/ fudge
. I gave them directions on where to go (they didn't want to look at their maps-- they pretty much just wanted to be told what to do). They were all given explicit instructions to meet back at the gate for Fantasmic by 6pm. Of course, that must of been too hard to follow. 6pm comes and goes--- 1/2 the group is still missing. Finally by 6:20 they all arrive (mental note to myself--- always tell them to arrive 30 minutes early then I want them to show). Anyhow, sis decided to try Fantasmic w/ DN and see how it goes. Maybe it was the sugar rush from all the fudge, but she did fine. The little girl who liked pretty much nothing else--- kept clapping shouting out bad boy/girl-- all gone-- and yay!! We pretty much lost each other making our way out of the show. I told DH & Ds we should go wait by the bathroom's near the exit-- they would show up. Don't you know it, but 6 out of the 9 showed up at the bathrooms! We went back to the villa-- ordered Papa John's Pizza (which was great and really cheap). Went to bed w/ sore feet. Epcot was on deck for the next day.
