So we finished with Muppets, first hat pic and the Christmas shop being closed. We didn't feel like walking back to the front of the park to go to Starring Rolls for breakfast, and Mark had to have something to eat so he could take his medications. So we ended up at:
I had a cappucino and Mark had a water and a Chocolate Chip Muffin (sorry...I forgot to take pictures).
After Mark finished up, I wanted to be sure to get these two pictures this year as we have never done it in our numerous visits.
This year we were DETERMINED to do the Animation Studios tour as we had never done that before either. So we got into line...there were maybe 10 people in front of us; six of those ten belonged to one family. And I was really losing my temper with the family. Don't get me wrong...we have kids and we took our kids to Disney and I know they can't always stand still or that they get antsy. But these kids were outright rude and obnoxious. They would push us, literally, to run out of the line and then the father would go and get them and bring them back; then they'd be pushing and shoving and stepping on our feet in the process. I finally got fed up and said something to Mark and, of course, the people did not speak English, but I'm sure they got the gist that I was not happy as I could see the grandfather say something to the mother who had been on the phone the ENTIRE time and she turned to me and smiled. I told Mark when we entered the theater to go in the opposite direction. Like I said, I understand kids are antsy, etc., but these kids were just darn rude as were their parents. Anyway...back to our topic...the Animation Studios tour. We sat in the theater and watched the process of how a cartoon is done, etc. We then walked out into the gallery and looked around at all the cartoons and then had our picture taken with Sorcerer Mickey:
Obviously we don't have our photopass pictures back yet, but I'll either insert them at each appropriate spot or just post all the good ones at one time.
After seeing Sorcerer Mickey we went to see if the next drawing class was starting and it was just about to begin so Mark and I grabbed two of the last four desks available. I looked to the front of the classroom and let out a sigh of relief that we were NOT drawing Stitch (as many of you know, I am NOT a fan of Stitch). We were to draw Donald Duck. Now, I always stunk at art class and just am not good at it so I had no idea how my picture would turn out. Well, I'll let you be the judge (but if you are my friend you will certainly agree that MINE is better than Grumpy's drawing
).
I am so glad we did this; we really enjoyed it and next time want to spend more time in the gallery.
We decided to go back and use our Fast Passes for TSM. When we got there, we noticed that the Fast Pass Machines were already covered up and no more Fast Passes for the day (this was at 11:15 a.m.
). We waited less than 5 minutes in the FP lane and were on our way.
And, yes, Grumpy CHEATED again as you'll see in the next picture:
From there we went to the Great Movie Ride. In our personal opinions, this really needs an updating, but I'm not sure how much they can do with it:
By this time I was hungry. Mark wasn't starving, but he said he'd split a sandwich with me. So we headed off to Starring Rolls Cafe and had a light lunch there:
This was a very good ham sandwich.
We got a bag of chips and a cookie with it:
Mark got an iced tea and I drank the water he had refilled from the Writers Shop earlier.
We were getting hot by this time and it was too long to the next Beauty & The Beast Show and I really didn't want to do Tower of Terror myself, so we gave out our four fast passes and hit a few shops before heading back to the CSR for an afternoon swim/rest and a DIS meet before our night at the Halloween Party. And, of course, hitting those shops, you know that there is hat pictures.
Even I got into the act:
Up next, meeting DISer's and swimming at the Dig Site pool
Hey, Tim, thanks for the tutorial on posting chapter links, I'll have to try that one out myself.
It looks like such a beautiful resort, I'm kind of sad I won't be staying there in November, but maybe I will try it next year if I go! 
Can't wait to hear about your day at DHS!
I also cannot get over the number of things (like the umbrella and the Chinese laundry) we never saw when we were at DHS. How crazy!. More stuff to look out for next time, I guess.
Fine, let them run around/blow off steam, but when they are bumping into others...
How was your coffee at the Writer's Stop? I had an iced mocha there, it was GREAT!!!
Connie
