davewasbaloo
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We had breakfast in the Manhatten Restaurant, followed by another morning in the Studios.
Tried the ToT and loved it. Same with Stitch, even better than Turtle Talk (and me made friends with a lovely dutch family of AP holders). We enjoyed Animagique as usual, and the kids loved the Animation exhibit (I still cry during the montage - so stupid, I know).
They were trialling Crush Fastpass, which was aweful - stand by waits at nearly 3 hours for it and while Sarah queued for 25 min for fastpasses, the time zipped by nearly 4 hours. It meant we could not use the 3:30 slots as we had 4pm reservations. It also drove the wait times for Cars up to an hour and the Carpets were at 45 min (same level crowds before FP the couple of days before - those were 25 and 10 mins respectively). If this isn't a sign that FP is evil, I don't know what is.
We had some good character encounters, and then went to the Steakhouse for dinner. Once again it was sublime, and Patrick was serving. You see he is quite important to us, as on Mikey's first trip to DLP age 12 weeks, Patrick made a huge fuss over us, and put bread plates by Mikey to give him mouse ears (you may remember the photos). He also held him while we ate our main course to give us some piece. Well he remembered us!!!! So cool. and gave Jessie some free ice cream. So nice.
It was a great meal, we then shopped in the Village and headed back for a swim and an early night.
Here are the pics:
http://www.kodakgallery.co.uk/I.jsp?c=56a8td25.2poiijrvt&x=0&h=1&y=-vbw2z4&localeid=en_GB
Tried the ToT and loved it. Same with Stitch, even better than Turtle Talk (and me made friends with a lovely dutch family of AP holders). We enjoyed Animagique as usual, and the kids loved the Animation exhibit (I still cry during the montage - so stupid, I know).
They were trialling Crush Fastpass, which was aweful - stand by waits at nearly 3 hours for it and while Sarah queued for 25 min for fastpasses, the time zipped by nearly 4 hours. It meant we could not use the 3:30 slots as we had 4pm reservations. It also drove the wait times for Cars up to an hour and the Carpets were at 45 min (same level crowds before FP the couple of days before - those were 25 and 10 mins respectively). If this isn't a sign that FP is evil, I don't know what is.
We had some good character encounters, and then went to the Steakhouse for dinner. Once again it was sublime, and Patrick was serving. You see he is quite important to us, as on Mikey's first trip to DLP age 12 weeks, Patrick made a huge fuss over us, and put bread plates by Mikey to give him mouse ears (you may remember the photos). He also held him while we ate our main course to give us some piece. Well he remembered us!!!! So cool. and gave Jessie some free ice cream. So nice.
It was a great meal, we then shopped in the Village and headed back for a swim and an early night.
Here are the pics:
http://www.kodakgallery.co.uk/I.jsp?c=56a8td25.2poiijrvt&x=0&h=1&y=-vbw2z4&localeid=en_GB
