Pluto0809
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Four Parks, Four Plutos Done! Part 1
I woke up on Sunday March 19, 2017 still feeling kind of crappy. My stomach was just not cooperating. As a result I left the room around 7:15 am when I had planned to leave at 7:00 am. I did pause for a minute to take some room view pictures.
And my room number.
I had also received this ugly thing on my door.
I don’t have anything in my notes about the buses on this day so I’m assuming it was quick. Oh, and where was I heading?
Hollywood Studios for morning EMHs! I only planned on spending a few hours before hopping back to MK for the rest of the day. Once again I had no FPs at HS so it was the TSM dash for me. But first I had to make it through bag check. I was about third in line to get my bag checked when the CM stopped us because the lines were extending all the way back to bag check and he couldn’t let any more people through. Ugh, I should have moved faster that morning!
Well before 8 am though, they started letting people in and I made it through bag check and into the park only to run into this.
It’s not quite as bad as it looks, the rope was only halfway up the street, I don’t think even as far as Pluto on the top of the one building.
Right at 8 am they dropped the rope and I joined the crowd streaming towards TSM.
Here’s where I ended up in the line.
I had a great game and scored one of my highest scores. Still not 200,000 but I will get there someday! And I'm pretty sure I was best in vehicle but don't have a picture to prove it.
Sadly, as mild as it is, TSM made me quite nauseous that morning. I immediately realized that TOT was not going to be an option for me that day. I was really sad since that’s one of my favorites but better safe than sorry. Instead I headed towards One Man’s Dream to line up for the Moana meet and greet. There was one group, a mother and daughter in front of me when I got in line but it wasn’t long before this happened behind me.
I passed the time by calling Jim to check up on Alex. He said he was much better that morning but was worried because he thought Ellie had ringworm. What the heck? I was pretty sure there was no way she had ringworm but he wouldn’t be convinced otherwise and took her to the vet along with Alex that morning. I ended up being on the phone/texts with him off and on for the rest of the day but I’ll tell the whole story now to get it out of the way. Turns out she just had a bug bite (which I kind of figured) but the vet noticed she was limping. Jim and I thought she was but she didn’t do it all the time and we hadn’t been able to get her to do it at the vets. So she got to stay and have some x-rays done. Our vet saw something wrong with her elbow so she sent us to an orthopedic specialist. I ended up taking her there after I got home from my trip. Long story short, she had what is called “Shortened Radius Bone Syndrome”. Basically her radius bone stopped growing early than normal making it shorter than the ulna bone. It can be caused by trauma to the leg or just a birth defect but we will never know since she was limping from the day we brought her home. This was causing serious damage to her elbow joint since the bones were aligned wrong so she went for surgery the very next day. The orthopedic vet cleaned up the bone fragments in her elbow and took a slice out of her ulna bone to make the two bones even. This lead to six weeks in a cast with crate confinement which lead to many nights of this sad face.
After the cast came off she had four more weeks of crate confinement. Needless to say it was a rough 10 weeks. And on top of all that, Alex fell of the bed and hurt his back. Luckily it was muscular only but he was hurting and on meds for a few weeks. Then, we found a strange lump on the side of Sierra’s nose (which thank goodness was benign) so she went in to have that removed and also had her teeth cleaned. The vet ended up pulling 18 teeth! Poor thing was so sore and grumpy for about two weeks.
Sorry for that little interruption, we had quite the rough spring but everyone seems to be happy and healthy for the moment, knock on wood. The orthopedic vet was extremely pleased at how well Ellie’s leg healed. She has to be on joint supplements for the rest of her life and may have arthritis someday but for now she’s back to chasing squirrels with a vengeance.
I managed to catch this cute picture a few day ago.
Of course Eddie is missing from the shot but he never gets up on that stool anymore, usually he’s just sleeping somewhere. Alright, let’s get back to the TR. Where were we? Oh yeah, here…
They let us in to the meet and greet area right at 9 am. The meet and greet was cute and I was as awkward as ever. I meant to say I didn’t like to sail and was more of a land lover but when she asked me if I was a Wayfarer I just said yes. She asked me if I had found any islands and I said not yet but I was trying.
When I exited the ride, I noticed a few new displays near the entrance to the theater. There was the rose and Belle’s dress from the new live action B&TB.
And a few other items.
I think they were showing the Beauty and the Beast preview but I decided not to see it and headed out instead. This is what the line looked like for Moana when I left. Keep in mind there was a room beyond that doorway that had weave lines.
And this was the posted wait time.
I’m kind of glad I got in line when I did even though I missed the second half of EMHs to do so.
Continued in Next Post
I woke up on Sunday March 19, 2017 still feeling kind of crappy. My stomach was just not cooperating. As a result I left the room around 7:15 am when I had planned to leave at 7:00 am. I did pause for a minute to take some room view pictures.
And my room number.
I had also received this ugly thing on my door.
I don’t have anything in my notes about the buses on this day so I’m assuming it was quick. Oh, and where was I heading?
Hollywood Studios for morning EMHs! I only planned on spending a few hours before hopping back to MK for the rest of the day. Once again I had no FPs at HS so it was the TSM dash for me. But first I had to make it through bag check. I was about third in line to get my bag checked when the CM stopped us because the lines were extending all the way back to bag check and he couldn’t let any more people through. Ugh, I should have moved faster that morning!
Well before 8 am though, they started letting people in and I made it through bag check and into the park only to run into this.
It’s not quite as bad as it looks, the rope was only halfway up the street, I don’t think even as far as Pluto on the top of the one building.
Right at 8 am they dropped the rope and I joined the crowd streaming towards TSM.
Here’s where I ended up in the line.
I had a great game and scored one of my highest scores. Still not 200,000 but I will get there someday! And I'm pretty sure I was best in vehicle but don't have a picture to prove it.
Sadly, as mild as it is, TSM made me quite nauseous that morning. I immediately realized that TOT was not going to be an option for me that day. I was really sad since that’s one of my favorites but better safe than sorry. Instead I headed towards One Man’s Dream to line up for the Moana meet and greet. There was one group, a mother and daughter in front of me when I got in line but it wasn’t long before this happened behind me.
I passed the time by calling Jim to check up on Alex. He said he was much better that morning but was worried because he thought Ellie had ringworm. What the heck? I was pretty sure there was no way she had ringworm but he wouldn’t be convinced otherwise and took her to the vet along with Alex that morning. I ended up being on the phone/texts with him off and on for the rest of the day but I’ll tell the whole story now to get it out of the way. Turns out she just had a bug bite (which I kind of figured) but the vet noticed she was limping. Jim and I thought she was but she didn’t do it all the time and we hadn’t been able to get her to do it at the vets. So she got to stay and have some x-rays done. Our vet saw something wrong with her elbow so she sent us to an orthopedic specialist. I ended up taking her there after I got home from my trip. Long story short, she had what is called “Shortened Radius Bone Syndrome”. Basically her radius bone stopped growing early than normal making it shorter than the ulna bone. It can be caused by trauma to the leg or just a birth defect but we will never know since she was limping from the day we brought her home. This was causing serious damage to her elbow joint since the bones were aligned wrong so she went for surgery the very next day. The orthopedic vet cleaned up the bone fragments in her elbow and took a slice out of her ulna bone to make the two bones even. This lead to six weeks in a cast with crate confinement which lead to many nights of this sad face.
After the cast came off she had four more weeks of crate confinement. Needless to say it was a rough 10 weeks. And on top of all that, Alex fell of the bed and hurt his back. Luckily it was muscular only but he was hurting and on meds for a few weeks. Then, we found a strange lump on the side of Sierra’s nose (which thank goodness was benign) so she went in to have that removed and also had her teeth cleaned. The vet ended up pulling 18 teeth! Poor thing was so sore and grumpy for about two weeks.
Sorry for that little interruption, we had quite the rough spring but everyone seems to be happy and healthy for the moment, knock on wood. The orthopedic vet was extremely pleased at how well Ellie’s leg healed. She has to be on joint supplements for the rest of her life and may have arthritis someday but for now she’s back to chasing squirrels with a vengeance.
I managed to catch this cute picture a few day ago.
Of course Eddie is missing from the shot but he never gets up on that stool anymore, usually he’s just sleeping somewhere. Alright, let’s get back to the TR. Where were we? Oh yeah, here…
They let us in to the meet and greet area right at 9 am. The meet and greet was cute and I was as awkward as ever. I meant to say I didn’t like to sail and was more of a land lover but when she asked me if I was a Wayfarer I just said yes. She asked me if I had found any islands and I said not yet but I was trying.
When I exited the ride, I noticed a few new displays near the entrance to the theater. There was the rose and Belle’s dress from the new live action B&TB.
And a few other items.
I think they were showing the Beauty and the Beast preview but I decided not to see it and headed out instead. This is what the line looked like for Moana when I left. Keep in mind there was a room beyond that doorway that had weave lines.
And this was the posted wait time.
I’m kind of glad I got in line when I did even though I missed the second half of EMHs to do so.
Continued in Next Post
And the rest of your doggie issues for that matter! I'm glad everyone is doing ok now. Love that pic of the 4 dogs looking out the window, so cute!
I'm really getting excited, but I'll be feeling better about our plans once Monday is done!!
The prior neighbors had a schnauzer. I referred to him as The Grouchy Schnauzer because he was always coming up to our fence and grumbling and carrying on. They moved and the new neighbors have a pit bull who likes to instigate barking fests. 
And what FP luck! 
I'm not very "with it" for newish Disney characters though 
