The studios, Sunday night:
There really wasn't much pomp and circumstance preceeding the lighting of the Osbourne Lights, just a
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Osbourne family's spectacle of lights" or something close to that and then somebody flipped the switch and music started and the lights came on.
They are just amazing though, and just as amazing right then was the crowd, the streets were just packed for the lighting.
We did a quick walk through, and decided to come back later during EMH hours when it will be relatively empty then.
After looking at my watch, we decided on the spur of the moment to try and make the 7 o'clock final for the American Idol Experience, but with people trying to get out of the cold and only ten minutes left we didn't have very high expectations of getting in.
But we did, barely.
However, once again we are doing the "Quick, guzzle the fuzzy cup" routine, they weren't allowed inside.
As we stood at the top, just inside, a cast member asked us if we'd mind sitting in the handicapped seats down in front, there was still 2 open.
Smidgy looked at the CM and said, "I take it you know my husband?" But as he led us down it turned out the seats were taken now and we ended up way in the back but at least we had seats.
The final has all the winners from the five shows during the day, the winner tonight gets a fastpass to an actual audition for the show.
And all 5 final contestants tonight are women. You had to wonder if men were beaten out or just never tried in the first place.
What was even stranger, the first girl that Smidgy ended up voting for sang the Denise Williams song, "Let's hear it for the Boy" from Footloose.
The last girl that I voted for sang the Irene Cara song, " I need a Hero" from Footloose.
And the last time we did this show, a guy did the Kenny Loggins song, "Footloose" from,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
oh heck, what's the name of that movie again?
My girl won.
Then we went over and used our fastpasses for TSM.
This was the first time I have done this ride at night, and I was hoping for a big improvement in my score, hoping to see it much better now not having to come in from broad daylight. Ok, hoping to kick somebody's asp.
And I did, I bumped my score up from the 80000 area to almost 120000, a fifty percent increase!
Smidgy apparently could see better now too, she scored 132000, her all time high! This is somebody who holds both her hands over her head to catch a water balloon!
At this point I cracked and felt the need to do something bigger, so we walked down to the TOT, sign said only a fifteen minute wait time and I didn't think it would be something my back would have a problem with.
With Smidgy's help walking my through the darkness I ended up right in the front, there was really no wait at all.
The doors opened up and I groped my way inside as Smidgy took the old Snagglepus way out...
"Exit stage left".
I was right, it didn't bother my back at all but I'd swear the ride gets shorter everytime, I keep thinking there are more special effects before you get to the drop sequence.
Now the park is officially closed to day guests so we went back over to the Osbourne Lights.
Good call, wasn't crowded in there at all now.
Ok, going to throw a barage of pictures at you now, enjoy;
Are you all bored yet?
As we were walking around taking pictures, the music started up again and the lights are now programmed to the music. About half way through I got the idea to try to video this with this crappy little camera.
I have no idea what the song is, but it was fast so the lights really got to dance so let's find out if this is something I can post on the boards here or not.
Don't know if the music will come through either, we'll find out.
I suppose you have to click on the image to start it up, won't know till I'm done here I guess.
Ok, this is the edit. Yeah it worked if you click on the image, but it's not really worth it, and the music for some reason now sounds kind of demonic, like they are playing a Black Sabbath song backwards.
Oh wait, you didn't have to play Black Sabbath backwards to sound demonic.
Never mind.
If you are waiting for me to make a joke about how disappointed I was because I never did hear Iron Man or Children of the Grave I am going to let you down, you know I don't do obvious childish humor like that.
It was really getting chilly now, we hadn't eaten yet but all we had for choices now is the ABC Commissary or the ABC Commissary.
We chose the ABC Commissary.
I thought it would be packed since it's the only real fast food service still open for EMH but the place was dead.
They could have called it the ABC Cemetary.
After checking the menu, I see they have also done the same thing to the burgers here that they did at Pop Century, tacked on an extra 70 cents or so and changed the name to Angus Cheeseburgers.
Who is this Angus fellow and what in the hell is he doing to these cows?
No Ponzi, we don't want pictures, leave it alone.
Being on the dining plan, I went all out, they had an even more expensive burger with bacon and topped with 3 shrimp, why shrimp I have no idea but we both got it.
Actually, the shrimp were the best part of the meal, to me everything about the burger was too "seperate", if that makes sense. It didn't all come together as a unit like say a Big Mac or Whopper might.
That was it then for us and we headed on out.
Back at the resort on our way back to the room we were just passing a woman and a man in a wheelchair or
ecv when suddenly she said, "Well hello Nebo and Smidgy, I finally ran into you."
This is Mrsksomeday on the disboards, aka known as Tracy and her husband Bill.
Once again, our timing was terrible, they were on the way to get something from the food court, we were on our way back to the room, it was late by now, and it was freezing out. They both were real nice, I would have enjoyed talking with them like say, by the pool when it's warm out but no such luck. Just talked for a few minutes, found out they were only about seven doors down from us in the same building.
She even told us that Oregonmommy whom we were looking for at Teppenedo was pretty sure she saw us there, but told Tracy they just didn't have time to come and say anything. Then we all ran for where we were heading to get out of the cold.
Tomorrow, it's back to the Magic Kingdom, can't wait I think to myself, wonder if they're calling for snow!
(That deserves a dancing banana.)
I have really enjoyed reading both trip reports! 
Can you see yet? 
so you can sit out on the street corner all day and start raising some money for your next WDW trip? 
Hopefully your vision will improve soon(ishly). 
WE are under a month but this is the earliest that we have ever been. (March13th....do you know what to expect for weather?)
take care of each other.
On a totally different note:
