FORZEN no not the movie just us
Well today we are heading out to the studios. We will have to recoup the plans that got scratched on Sunday not so fun day, but since it is an early entry day and we have some fp+ for things that both the guys want to do we should be fine/
First we need to check the weather hoping that what we heard last night was a bad dream.
Nope weather man says today will be the coldest on record for this day in florida.


32 degrees but with the wind chill factor

confused3what is that anyway we don't hear that too often at home) should feel like the low 20's
Shawndell and I had been checking the weather forecast before we left and knew it would be chilly so we had packed gloves and hats/hairbands but the guys pr
etty much said, "gloves we don't neeed no stinking gloves and beanies naw.
So after dressing again like the little kid in Christmas story, we check to see if we can put our arms down, and head out to the food court for hot coffee lots of hot coffee and lance and randy head over to the gift shop to purchase beanies and gloves guess they should have listened to their wives but what is a trip to WDW if you don't get to spend 20 bucks for a hat and gloves that you could have gotten for around 8 bucks at
walmart back home right?
We made it to the studios for early entry and headed straight to rocking rolling coaster and tower of terror,
walked on rocking roller coaster and we all took turns and got a few rides and then it was time for the old folks to stop in a dsa and have a breath of not so fresh air and the kids went and used the band to make sure the ride pics were loaded onto our memory maker/.
Then it was time for the kids to go on tower of terror. this will be the first coast to coast comparison for the son in law. and since it is my first tr I will put my two cents in on this.
Lance and I have been on this quite a few times as had shawndell, but we let the kids go on while we waited inside with little missy and tried to thaw out a bit, but we did have a baby swap for later.
now I must admit when we got our tower of terror out here we were so amazed at how fun it was, after we went on the one at WDW we like ours and love the WDW version. much better all around.
scanned the band for the ride pic and it was off to toy story for our first fp of the day. those rides are exactly the same on both coasts. except the line area and wdw has a much better area. we went in through fast pass and did not see much of it though but it still is much better than ours/
out here it is outside and other than mr. potato head we have none of the cool stuff like back there.
by now we are getting hungry so we headed over to starring rolls for a bite to eat. shawndell had never eaten here before as we did not discover it until 2009 the kids were amazed at the cupcakes. a great counter service big sandwich and huge cupcake oh heck yeah. we shared our plate while the kids each grabbed a meal they had the turkey and butterfinger cupcake and chocolate peanut butter. we had our usual turkey and chocolate peanut butter. love those cupcakes,
our next fast passes were for the indiana stunt show and I wanted a hot coffee to take with me so I went back into starring rolls and paid cash for a cup. I checked my receipt and there was a coupon for 20 percent off at .select gift shops that day. I checked my receipt from the day before at animal kingdom and it said the same thing






so I now had 2 of these so since we had a bit of time before the show we hit the stores (it was warmer in there anyway right?) scored some pretty good deals and so did the kids (randy has three nieces and they wanted to grab some stuff for them) so they used my other coupon, we had the stuff sent to the resort and off we went to Indy.
We were starting to get so cold the fun part was rapidly slipping away but we soldiered on and went to grab our seats.
we don't have anything like this out here and it is fun but I would like to see it updated sometime. but lance really likes this show and it was warmer in there than out side

so we watch the show randy liked it and was glad he saw it. he had also seen this on a special. when the explosions went off the whole crowd seemed happy for the brief warmth the blast put out.
Off to light motors action our last fp of the morning/day we were so cold by then we just wanted to see this and head back to the room. Lance was really starting to favor his leg also. but off we went to the back of the park where we caught a break er so to speak/ We were routed to the far side of the stadium and they were herding er uh leading the crowd to a rather large flight of stairs. Lance puts his arm around me and whispers in my ear..... don't think I can do all these stairs. about that time randy sees a CM and asks them if there is a way to get in that does not require all those stairs and she sees lance and says come this way. leads us around the front up a ramp and straight to front row center in the handicapped area, she said just sit here. That was a wonderful surprise. Now before you think us shameless, there was only one other party that was using any of those seats as due to the artic blast Orlando was getting the crowd was really low. I have never seen this show with so few people.
THey did leave out the jet skis on this run and I must say I cannot blame them. when they introduced the driver from Brazil the place went wild. It is that time of year and I think it was nice for them to see a guy from home in the show.
after the show we were done with the fun. it was just too darn cold we were going to try the mediocre movie ride but decided to pass and just head back.
time to raise up the leg for a bit and warm up.
when we got back to cbr we got off at the stop by the food court and went in and pounded down hot coffee /chocolate and went back to the room. little miss scarlett is loving the adjoined room deal. whe has been crawling back and forth between rooms. she would pull herself up on the bed and giggle. so many grown ups to snuggle with.
after a nap it was time to figure out dinner lance didn't want to do a whole lot of walking and was still not wanting to rent a chair or
scooter so Randy suggested pucks at DTD since that is pretty close to the bus stop. Shawndell even said she had a gray scarf he could use. so off we went. as we were getting off the bus in DTD Shawndell started fixing the scarf that lance had borrowed. Lance told her don't worry about it if the tag is hanging out no big deal, I looked at the tag and said "Lance let her fix it" "why is it such a big deal, I mean it is just a big scarf and it is keeping me warm" " you do realize that the tag say Motherhood maternity nursing scarf right"

so he decided to let her fix it, that is after we finally stopped laughing.
we had another great meal at pucks and then we went to the Christmas store to see if we could find Scarlett an angel Minnie ornament for next Christmas. when shawndell was little I got her an angel minnie and she wanted scarlett to have one too and they also got a family ornament.
we tried to stick it out and walk around a bit. heck it was so cold one of our favorite watering holes *or should I say shack* was closed. we just decided to head back.
we have a reservation for chef mickeys for breakfast and lance made a reservation for whispering canyon for our anniversary in the evening. since this was going to be our no park day. figured we could check out some of the resorts but since we lost our first day we were able to hit a park tomorrow so might as well hit epcot and take the monorail around the loop.
Things I think:
I think that when your wife says "honey let's get you some gloves and a beanie for the trip" while you are the clearance rack at walmart before you leave you should listen to her
I think that WDW has done a great job on their tot. ours is just a shadow of theirs. but we will make due with ours between trips

I also think that when your nursing daughter lends you a scarf you should let someone else help you put it on so the tag is inside

I think it was great to get a coupon on my receipts and will check them from now on
I think that next time I am here in winter I will bring some sugar free instant hot chocolate with me. (I have to watch my blood sugar)
I figure I should have run into elsa from frozen by now since it seems this is her kind of weather
Night everyone!