Well, now that I'm back from Slacktown, I can continue with our story. This was day 5 of our trip, day 3 at the parks. After the late night at
MNSSHP, and because I was dealing with some nasty blisters, we took the opportunity to sleep in this morning. We slept until about 8:30 and then slowly started getting ready for the day.
I'm not going to lie. My feet were not pleased to be up and moving around. I re-applied the neo-sporin and bandaids and picked a different pair of shoes for this day. Most likely my Keens, as they were quite worn in and comfortable. We finally got moving and out the door about 10am. Here are the girls doing some posing.
They were ready to go. We headed over to Old Port Royal at CBR for some breakfast. Here is where I may lose a few more of my few readers. Why?
I didn't take pictures of our food.
We were starving and I may have left the camera in the car. You know Jason wasn't going to be helpful in that department with his phone, because he wants to eat his food, not photograph it.
Anyway, we had the basic breakfast fare. The kids each got a small Mickey waffle, eggs, and sausage. I got the large Mickey waffle with eggs and Jason got some bounty platter with eggs, meat of some sort, and potatoes. It was good. Not spectacular, but good and filling. After breakfast, I decided to take a quick stop in the Calypso Trading Post in OPR and see if they had any more heavy-duty bandaids for my ailing feet. Lo and behold, they had gauze and medical tape for not an insane amount of money. I bought those and got the kids a little Stitch magnet and a little Donald Duck back pack animal. They were taking a minute in the arcade, so I met them there and we were off.
Jason drove to our park for the day while I doctored my feet again. The gauze really provided a nice cushion and helped a lot! They still hurt, but it was much more bearable. Let's face it, I would have soldiered on any way. I'm not one to let some blisters stop me, but the extra cushion was nice. I packed the stuff away in the back pack in case I needed to re-apply later.
So, where were we off to this fine morning? Hollywood Studios! Our first FP+ was for Tower of Terror. This would be Maura's first time riding, and she was not excited. Before we went on though, we stopped for some PP along the way.
First they took these really cute Magic Shots of the girls!
She didn't quite get it here.
Then we all got in on some TOT shots.
Already the hair is falling and we've only been outside for 15 minutes!
We were supposed to look scared in this one. The kids didn't quite get it which makes it funnier.
We headed onto the ride. Poor Maura was really apprehensive, but we told her she had to try it, and if she didn't like it we'd never make her go on it again. Even Lucy, who had been on before was a little nervous. She likes the drop just fine but hates the ghosts. Again with the ghost fear. Who ARE these children? Certainly not ours!
The verdict? She didn't like it, but she was very brave and didn't cry. Here's our ride photo and video. The guy sitting in front of us in the gray shirt whose turned around? He was so sweet. He could tell Maura was nervous and told her he was too. He kept turning around to check and see how she was doing. Super nice guy!
After this, we realized we had missed Lucy and Jason's FP+ window for Rockin Rollercoaster. I'm not sure how we managed this next part, but it says in my notes, we got an updated FP+ for RNR. I don't have more details, but I guess we got it fixed. Anyway, our next FP+ was for Star Tours. Jason and I hadn't been on this since 2001 and I barely remembered it. I'd heard such good things about the refurb, we were all excited to ride. Our kids haven't seen all the Star Wars movies yet. I believe Lucy watched the original with our nephew, but Maura hasn't seen any. They are familiar with some of the characters though. They weren't concerned about this one being scary. We had FP+, but there was really no standby line either. We used or FP and had soon received our 3-D glasses.
A line photo:
On our ride we got Naboo and Gungin. Pretty cool! And, even cooler was that Lucy was the Rebel Spy!
We got off the ride and the kids loved it and immediately wanted to ride again. Since stand-by was non-existent, we got in line again. We pretty much walked right on. This time we got Hoth and Gungin. A different place for the second planet would have been cool, but it's just a fun ride!
We stopped in the dump shop to pick up some Star Wars characters for our neighbor who is Lucy's BFF. He just got into Star Wars recently (he and Lucy are in the same class and have been friends since birth), and he loved his souveneir. We had to bring him and his sister something good as they were watching Bowser, our beloved Pug, Jasper, our 19 year old cat, and Hamburger, our hamster.
After Star Tours, we split up for a while. Jason and Lucy were off to use their R-n-R FP+ and Maura and I were off to ride Toy Story Midway Mania. We parted ways and said we'd meet up shortly. This was our first time in the FP line for TSMM. We'd never gotten there early enough to get one before, but had always had good luck in the stand-by line. I have to say, it was nice to be in the FP line, but you don't get to see all the fun stuff you do in stand-by. I missed Mr. Potato Head for sure. But, we were all set to ride! Maura liked this ride in 2012, but she was only 3 and didn't get the whole shooting thing very well. She got it much better this time.
Ready to go:
Here was our car. Maura was excited to see we had Jessie.
Here were our scores. I guess the prizes weren't working. Mine isn't the greatest (right), but I'm fairly impressed by Maura's! I believe 2 years ago she barely broke 3000.
I don't know much about what happened while Jason and Lucy rode R-n-R. I know they rode and Lucy, our thrill ride junkie, loved it. Here is there picture.
I know Lucy looks scared, but I think the wind from the take off made her close her eyes. She loved it. It wouldn't be the last time she rode that day!
While we were waiting for Jason and Lucy, we went to the Honey I Shrunk the Kids play area. We had never been there before, but the kids had heard about it and wanted to play for a bit. Fine with me! It meant I got to rest my blisters! I texted Jason to let him know where we were and turned Maura loose! She loved the giant ant.
You can kind of see her about to come down the big net ladder.
Finally, Lucy and Jason arrived. Lucy wanted a picture on the giant ant too.
We let them play for a bit and then decided to head somewhere else. We were near Muppets 3-D and our kids are recently very into the Muppets, so we headed there. The show was only about 3 minutes from starting!
First a few outside pictures.
You can see how hot it was. Their cheeks are all pink from playing!
Fountain picture.
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And, Lucy was scared her first time too and she gave it another shot this year, so I know there is hope.
One of the main reasons we decided not to have more than 2 kids. We liked sleeping. I will say this too, now that the kids are older, we do sometimes get to sleep until 9 or 10 on the weekends! They just get up and do what they want.
So glad to hear you are staying at CBR! We have loved it there and feel like we're cheating on it by trying POR in August.
