Day 6 EE to MGM & Late Entry to Epcot!
Cast:
Me - mother and dutiful wife and biggest kid of them all!! 34
DH Affectionately known as Squirrel ageing punk rocker and tattoos to boot 40
DD our princess Millie ..6, and turns 7 in WDW!
The original plan here was to get to MGM for EE and stay all day and watch Fantasmic @ 7pm however, the past dew days had taught me that trying to stay in the park for that length of time would be very tough on Millie and us! So .we planned to be out of here quite early, back home for a couple of hours R & R then onto Epcot to do some of Futureworld and Illuminations of the Earth. This hopefully would mean we can bypass some of futureworld and spend more time in the worldshowcase on our designated Epcot day. We then planned to see Fantasmic on Millies birthday after spending the morning in MK! PHEW! Hope youre still with me!! And yes, I can get blood out of a stone!
I think this was the first night that I had slept through! Woke up at 6.15am Hubby did the room service run this morning!..so I will spare you of giving you anymore details of our morning ritual. We were up and at em early (no surprise there!) ..caught the bus about 7.30 and we were in the park before 8!
This was the first time we arrived in a park to hear the opening music .pretty cool! Mind you, I was in a shop downloading the memory card from the camera at the time. It was pretty gloomy this morning really foggy but the day was forecast to be hot so ..fingers crossed!
Well EE meant we had to hit the big 2 rides first so off we headed towards ToT and RnR now surprisingly (as you will recall from my Seaworld report, Millie does not like upside down rides) Millie really REALLY wanted to go on RnR I had heard that this was a pretty mean ride but, hey, I was not gonna say a word!!! You see, Millie has seen quite a few real limos and more recently it was my nieces 18th ..and she had a stretch limo to take her and her friends out; Millie was really taken with the limo and she thinks they are soooo cool!! So ..Millie has seen the RnR on the planning DVD and thinks this is fast limo ride!!!! And hasnt a clue that it goes upside down now as this ride is indoors she isnt going to know any better is she?! *evil grin* First we see TOT looking quite eerie in the fog
.but the standby time is already 45mins!!! So we get 3 fastpasses even though Millie is protesting rather loudly that there is no way she will go on that!! Well see ..fastpasses are for 9.10
Stand by for RnR is 15 mins so in the queue we get loved the pre show with the Aerosmith video really effective and Millie thinks they are the real deal! We are now getting very close to the front of the queue and Millie is saying she is scared!...mmm ..like you were about Space Mountain? .yes she grins ..a good scared then I respond and she giggles (PHEW!) just as I say that we see a limo take off .!!!!!!!!! Ahem, it was there a nanosecond ago .where did it go!!!!??? and my stomach does a leap and I give Millie a nervous smile trying to re-assure her that its a good scared (who I am kidding?! Im pooping myself here!) DH just looked at me and laughed did you see THAT?! ..gulp .I am now having second thoughts about Millie riding this ..but she didnt bat an eye lid I am even wondering if she saw that limo take off!!!
Next were in the limo Im sat with Millie and DH is in front of us on his lonesome thankfully we were not at the front! Harnesses over our shoulders and a nervous look at Millie (and having second thoughts about whether I am a responsible mother!)..then I felt we had left our bodies behind as we are shot with so much force I really cannot describe how FAST this thing takes off!!!! So much so I really DID feel the contents of my breakfast jump about in my stomach and to be honest I cannot remember too much of the ride I was feeling really nauseous ( and I have never suffered on a coaster before!!) ..and I was worried how Millie was!! The music was great and really did add to the ride, I remember seeing lots of lights and signs!! It was an exhilarating ride and would have loved to have gone on it again to experience it more ..When we got off I was shaking slightly and really wobbly!!! Mille was grinning like a Cheshire cat but did say that she banged her head a few times. DH Loved it and bought some really naff hotrod flame dice to hang in our car! When we came outside I pointed to the upside-down car
Look Millie ..thats what we were doing! .she looks at me in disbelief .what? upside down? .yup I reply..LOL .then she looked nervous!!! And yup, you guessed it giggled! And added that she didnt want to ride it again!
We now had about 20 mins to kill before our fastpasses for ToT ..wanted to watch Beauty & the Beast but the first show didnt start until 1.15pm so we just strolled around a few shops rather than head off to another part of the park.
9.10 .ToT time! Millie had defiantly decided she did not want to ride this so DH went first and I waited with Millie by the exit where they display the on-ride pics we chatted with the CM there who was lovely she had a go at convincing Millie that if she could do RnR then ToT should be a piece of cake ..Didnt push it with her any further. DH came off really laughing saying it was the funniest ride he had ever been on. Hmm .the name Tower of TERROR does not fill you with funniness!
Im up next and even though I had a fastpass it was ages before I got on .I was sat with 2 other single riders right at the front ..a middle aged gent on my left and a lady of on my right. I was blabbing about how much I hate heights etc .and the lady said she hadnt been on this since they had made it random ..I am really edgy at this stage waiting for the drop .when does the drop come? I ask the lady .oh, youll know, the lift opens and you can see the .. .queue the lift opening!! SCREEEEAAMMMM and I instinctively grab the wrists (very tightly) of the man and the lady either side of me all 3 of us are really laughing! .I hasten to add that I kept a firm grip on them throughout the Terror! I do wish I had bought the ride photo .it was classic!! And yes, I do agree .a very funny ride!!
Although Millie would have loved the ride I do think the pre-show would have been too atmospheric for her and would have spooked her a bit. It felt like Freddy Kruger was going to appear any moment when I was in the basement waiting to get into the lift!!
So the thrill rides done what next? And to be honest, we didnt really know what to do!! Hands-up here, I hadnt really gend up enough on this park *hangs head in shame*
So we took a slow walk up towards Aerials grotto (which had a 40 mins stand by time) so went over to The Great Movie Ride we enjoyed this
We headed up Mickey Avenue and we saw lots and lots of people dressed up for Mardi gras well, not TOTALLY dressed up but were wearing loads of beads and the T Shirts .and they were quite happily handing out beads! Millie was chuffed that a lovely little lad gave her some beads! She then had her face painted along Mickey Avenue in Mardis Gras style.
Turned into Streets of America and watched Muppets 3d another great 3d show but nothing has come close to Mickeys Philharmagic! When we came out the fog had lifted and it was glorious warm sunshine
We were really taken with Streets of America! and could have spent ages just looking around but we were pretty tired and had only been here a few hours! This park was much more busier than the other parks and I guess we had been spoilt with the virtually non existent queues. We decided to give Star Tours a miss well, Millie didnt really want to do it and neither did DH so I conceded (DH & I had done this in DLP).
Mooched down towards Commissionary lane to catch Sully & Mike .a small queue ..hugs and pics taken
Had some lunch at the ABC Commissionary and sat outside in the baking sunshine ..
Millie and I spent time huddled over the map deciding what to do next ..and we plumped for Aerials grotto. I avoided mentioning the Beauty & the Beast shame on me!! We had missed the 1 o/c show and the next one was at 2.30 and I was conscious that we were all flagging a bit and we had late entry planned for Epcot!...by the time we reached Ariels grotto there was still a long queue and fastpasses were far too late for us .so we waved goodbye to Aerials grotto. Millie was fine about this bless her *HUG*
So, we decided to call it a day here and strolled back to the hat .where Millie bought an MGM pin
We did stop on Hollywood Boulevard to watch the hilarious scratch band (Im not sure if thats what they are called!! If its not, please dont ask where I got that term from I havent a clue!!!) So so funny .the girl in the red had to sing a song in the style of rap, and for the life of me I cannot remember the song!! They also sang when you wish upon a star in Elvis style!!!
...you can just make out the Elvis sneer on the lady in red!
A quick photo and autograph with the Queen from snow white .
On the bus and back home for some R n R which turned into Millie and DH having a swim ?!....whilst I had 45 mins shut eye
5.30 and we head over to the foodcourt to grab some dinner and then off to Epcot. We get to Epcot at about 6.30 and get in the queue for our late entry wristbands exciting stuff! The aim here was to try and get some of futureworld done this evening, before illuminations this would then allow us more time to explore the world showcase on our designated Epcot day.
We are immediately taken with this park it looks stunning at night, all lit up
the pavements are great fun and spend quite a while just messing about!
We then go onto Spaceship Earth which was a walk on we really enjoyed this and Millie was full of questions about cavemen, Romans etc. when we came out as she is learning about olden times at school! ( now I can relate to an older post where people had listed their favoutrite smells, sights etc .many people had put Rome Burning and I hadnt a clue what this was now I know !).
Next over to Figment again a walk on. GREAT FUN!!! Although I think I was the only person who could not smell the skunk DH & Millie were gagging at the smell!!! The imagination lab was virtually deserted so we had great fun here too spent ages making music with figment
..the sound mats were fun too and we were the only people on them! Also spent quite a while on the Kodak thing where you make a funny photo which we emailed to my niece (it was the only email addy I could remember off my head!)
It was 8.15 already so we took a slow walk up to the showcase - all the railing space at the front of world showcase was full and Millie was shattered so we didnt dare risk walking further up we leant against a railing just down from Mexico the plan was that Millie could have a kind of piggy back on DH and half stand on the railing to watch. We camped on the floor waiting for it to start ..and Millie fell asleep!!!
It started Millie awoke (thankfully quite chirpy I though shed be all grumpy!) Illuminations was amazing we had heard this each night from our room ..but we just were not prepared for the sheer scale of this fireworks everywhere! We couldnt quite see the water effects properly (Millie could though!) but it was still an awesome show again, I took some video footage on the camera although I really did not know where to point it the fireworks were everywhere .at least we had the sound with it as well tough DH & I both said would we love to see this again ..
Time to go and we walked really slowly back as Millie was really tired but being a real trooper ..
Before long we were on the bus .Millie fast asleep in my arms and then DH carried her back to our room .
Forgot to mention earlier what mousekeeping had been up to today ..we came home to this when we got back from MGM!
Our mousekeeper had obvioulsy realised that Millie likes leaving her notes in the morning! and yes, one more addition to the "cuddlies"...a Shamu!
Heads had hardly hit the pillow and we were soundo
Tomorrow another rest day shopping at premium outlets and R n R by the pool
Cast:
Me - mother and dutiful wife and biggest kid of them all!! 34
DH Affectionately known as Squirrel ageing punk rocker and tattoos to boot 40
DD our princess Millie ..6, and turns 7 in WDW!
The original plan here was to get to MGM for EE and stay all day and watch Fantasmic @ 7pm however, the past dew days had taught me that trying to stay in the park for that length of time would be very tough on Millie and us! So .we planned to be out of here quite early, back home for a couple of hours R & R then onto Epcot to do some of Futureworld and Illuminations of the Earth. This hopefully would mean we can bypass some of futureworld and spend more time in the worldshowcase on our designated Epcot day. We then planned to see Fantasmic on Millies birthday after spending the morning in MK! PHEW! Hope youre still with me!! And yes, I can get blood out of a stone!
I think this was the first night that I had slept through! Woke up at 6.15am Hubby did the room service run this morning!..so I will spare you of giving you anymore details of our morning ritual. We were up and at em early (no surprise there!) ..caught the bus about 7.30 and we were in the park before 8!
This was the first time we arrived in a park to hear the opening music .pretty cool! Mind you, I was in a shop downloading the memory card from the camera at the time. It was pretty gloomy this morning really foggy but the day was forecast to be hot so ..fingers crossed!
Well EE meant we had to hit the big 2 rides first so off we headed towards ToT and RnR now surprisingly (as you will recall from my Seaworld report, Millie does not like upside down rides) Millie really REALLY wanted to go on RnR I had heard that this was a pretty mean ride but, hey, I was not gonna say a word!!! You see, Millie has seen quite a few real limos and more recently it was my nieces 18th ..and she had a stretch limo to take her and her friends out; Millie was really taken with the limo and she thinks they are soooo cool!! So ..Millie has seen the RnR on the planning DVD and thinks this is fast limo ride!!!! And hasnt a clue that it goes upside down now as this ride is indoors she isnt going to know any better is she?! *evil grin* First we see TOT looking quite eerie in the fog
.but the standby time is already 45mins!!! So we get 3 fastpasses even though Millie is protesting rather loudly that there is no way she will go on that!! Well see ..fastpasses are for 9.10
Stand by for RnR is 15 mins so in the queue we get loved the pre show with the Aerosmith video really effective and Millie thinks they are the real deal! We are now getting very close to the front of the queue and Millie is saying she is scared!...mmm ..like you were about Space Mountain? .yes she grins ..a good scared then I respond and she giggles (PHEW!) just as I say that we see a limo take off .!!!!!!!!! Ahem, it was there a nanosecond ago .where did it go!!!!??? and my stomach does a leap and I give Millie a nervous smile trying to re-assure her that its a good scared (who I am kidding?! Im pooping myself here!) DH just looked at me and laughed did you see THAT?! ..gulp .I am now having second thoughts about Millie riding this ..but she didnt bat an eye lid I am even wondering if she saw that limo take off!!!
Next were in the limo Im sat with Millie and DH is in front of us on his lonesome thankfully we were not at the front! Harnesses over our shoulders and a nervous look at Millie (and having second thoughts about whether I am a responsible mother!)..then I felt we had left our bodies behind as we are shot with so much force I really cannot describe how FAST this thing takes off!!!! So much so I really DID feel the contents of my breakfast jump about in my stomach and to be honest I cannot remember too much of the ride I was feeling really nauseous ( and I have never suffered on a coaster before!!) ..and I was worried how Millie was!! The music was great and really did add to the ride, I remember seeing lots of lights and signs!! It was an exhilarating ride and would have loved to have gone on it again to experience it more ..When we got off I was shaking slightly and really wobbly!!! Mille was grinning like a Cheshire cat but did say that she banged her head a few times. DH Loved it and bought some really naff hotrod flame dice to hang in our car! When we came outside I pointed to the upside-down car
Look Millie ..thats what we were doing! .she looks at me in disbelief .what? upside down? .yup I reply..LOL .then she looked nervous!!! And yup, you guessed it giggled! And added that she didnt want to ride it again!
We now had about 20 mins to kill before our fastpasses for ToT ..wanted to watch Beauty & the Beast but the first show didnt start until 1.15pm so we just strolled around a few shops rather than head off to another part of the park.
9.10 .ToT time! Millie had defiantly decided she did not want to ride this so DH went first and I waited with Millie by the exit where they display the on-ride pics we chatted with the CM there who was lovely she had a go at convincing Millie that if she could do RnR then ToT should be a piece of cake ..Didnt push it with her any further. DH came off really laughing saying it was the funniest ride he had ever been on. Hmm .the name Tower of TERROR does not fill you with funniness!
Im up next and even though I had a fastpass it was ages before I got on .I was sat with 2 other single riders right at the front ..a middle aged gent on my left and a lady of on my right. I was blabbing about how much I hate heights etc .and the lady said she hadnt been on this since they had made it random ..I am really edgy at this stage waiting for the drop .when does the drop come? I ask the lady .oh, youll know, the lift opens and you can see the .. .queue the lift opening!! SCREEEEAAMMMM and I instinctively grab the wrists (very tightly) of the man and the lady either side of me all 3 of us are really laughing! .I hasten to add that I kept a firm grip on them throughout the Terror! I do wish I had bought the ride photo .it was classic!! And yes, I do agree .a very funny ride!!
Although Millie would have loved the ride I do think the pre-show would have been too atmospheric for her and would have spooked her a bit. It felt like Freddy Kruger was going to appear any moment when I was in the basement waiting to get into the lift!!
So the thrill rides done what next? And to be honest, we didnt really know what to do!! Hands-up here, I hadnt really gend up enough on this park *hangs head in shame*
So we took a slow walk up towards Aerials grotto (which had a 40 mins stand by time) so went over to The Great Movie Ride we enjoyed this
We headed up Mickey Avenue and we saw lots and lots of people dressed up for Mardi gras well, not TOTALLY dressed up but were wearing loads of beads and the T Shirts .and they were quite happily handing out beads! Millie was chuffed that a lovely little lad gave her some beads! She then had her face painted along Mickey Avenue in Mardis Gras style.
Turned into Streets of America and watched Muppets 3d another great 3d show but nothing has come close to Mickeys Philharmagic! When we came out the fog had lifted and it was glorious warm sunshine
We were really taken with Streets of America! and could have spent ages just looking around but we were pretty tired and had only been here a few hours! This park was much more busier than the other parks and I guess we had been spoilt with the virtually non existent queues. We decided to give Star Tours a miss well, Millie didnt really want to do it and neither did DH so I conceded (DH & I had done this in DLP).
Mooched down towards Commissionary lane to catch Sully & Mike .a small queue ..hugs and pics taken
Had some lunch at the ABC Commissionary and sat outside in the baking sunshine ..
Millie and I spent time huddled over the map deciding what to do next ..and we plumped for Aerials grotto. I avoided mentioning the Beauty & the Beast shame on me!! We had missed the 1 o/c show and the next one was at 2.30 and I was conscious that we were all flagging a bit and we had late entry planned for Epcot!...by the time we reached Ariels grotto there was still a long queue and fastpasses were far too late for us .so we waved goodbye to Aerials grotto. Millie was fine about this bless her *HUG*
So, we decided to call it a day here and strolled back to the hat .where Millie bought an MGM pin
We did stop on Hollywood Boulevard to watch the hilarious scratch band (Im not sure if thats what they are called!! If its not, please dont ask where I got that term from I havent a clue!!!) So so funny .the girl in the red had to sing a song in the style of rap, and for the life of me I cannot remember the song!! They also sang when you wish upon a star in Elvis style!!!
...you can just make out the Elvis sneer on the lady in red!
A quick photo and autograph with the Queen from snow white .
On the bus and back home for some R n R which turned into Millie and DH having a swim ?!....whilst I had 45 mins shut eye
5.30 and we head over to the foodcourt to grab some dinner and then off to Epcot. We get to Epcot at about 6.30 and get in the queue for our late entry wristbands exciting stuff! The aim here was to try and get some of futureworld done this evening, before illuminations this would then allow us more time to explore the world showcase on our designated Epcot day.
We are immediately taken with this park it looks stunning at night, all lit up
the pavements are great fun and spend quite a while just messing about!
We then go onto Spaceship Earth which was a walk on we really enjoyed this and Millie was full of questions about cavemen, Romans etc. when we came out as she is learning about olden times at school! ( now I can relate to an older post where people had listed their favoutrite smells, sights etc .many people had put Rome Burning and I hadnt a clue what this was now I know !).
Next over to Figment again a walk on. GREAT FUN!!! Although I think I was the only person who could not smell the skunk DH & Millie were gagging at the smell!!! The imagination lab was virtually deserted so we had great fun here too spent ages making music with figment
..the sound mats were fun too and we were the only people on them! Also spent quite a while on the Kodak thing where you make a funny photo which we emailed to my niece (it was the only email addy I could remember off my head!)
It was 8.15 already so we took a slow walk up to the showcase - all the railing space at the front of world showcase was full and Millie was shattered so we didnt dare risk walking further up we leant against a railing just down from Mexico the plan was that Millie could have a kind of piggy back on DH and half stand on the railing to watch. We camped on the floor waiting for it to start ..and Millie fell asleep!!!
It started Millie awoke (thankfully quite chirpy I though shed be all grumpy!) Illuminations was amazing we had heard this each night from our room ..but we just were not prepared for the sheer scale of this fireworks everywhere! We couldnt quite see the water effects properly (Millie could though!) but it was still an awesome show again, I took some video footage on the camera although I really did not know where to point it the fireworks were everywhere .at least we had the sound with it as well tough DH & I both said would we love to see this again ..
Time to go and we walked really slowly back as Millie was really tired but being a real trooper ..
Before long we were on the bus .Millie fast asleep in my arms and then DH carried her back to our room .
Forgot to mention earlier what mousekeeping had been up to today ..we came home to this when we got back from MGM!
Our mousekeeper had obvioulsy realised that Millie likes leaving her notes in the morning! and yes, one more addition to the "cuddlies"...a Shamu!
Heads had hardly hit the pillow and we were soundo
Tomorrow another rest day shopping at premium outlets and R n R by the pool
Thanks for sharing your day with us, sounds like you had a great time.
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