cinderaimee
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Tuesday, January 15 - Hollywood Studios
I have to start this day's report by apologizing because I just did not take many pictures, and my memory of it at this point has gone a little fuzzy, so we'll just have to muddle through.
Our FP's for this day were 9:00 RNRC, 10:00 SDD and 11:00 Star Tours. At this point, I knew the kids would not like RNRC so we decided to just let it fall off so we could start looking for more Toy Story Land FP's after we did Star Tours.
We had another sort of relaxed morning. I went to Roaring Forks for coffee and picked up a breakfast platter for the kids to share and a bagel sandwich for DH and me. We split those in half and also had cereal and bananas in the room.
The bagel sandwich was so good that we wished we had ordered two of them. The only disappointment was the potatoes that came with the sandwich were so dry and flavorless, not even extra salt and ketchup could help them. Just not good.
We got on a bus around 10:00 and were at the park by 10:30. We saw Donald and Daisy out meeting, but they had long lines and we were already inside our SDD FP time, so we didn't stop.
When we got up to the stage, there was a Star Wars show starting and DS1 really wanted to watch it. We told him we had to get to SDD and we'd come back to watch it later. Well, that answer really did not make him happy. We stopped for a PP photographer with no line and DS1 was just not having it.
At that point, we had to kind of say, okay this trip is for the kids, if he wants to watch the show, let's watch it. Once the show ended, I told DH to stop at the lines behind the stage so we could watch the characters leave, and DS1 loved everyone walking right past him.
Moods bolstered, we headed to TSL with just a few minutes to spare on our FP. My picture time stamps show us in the queue at 10:55 and boarding at 10:58.
I love everything about this queue and for some reason Slinky Dog doing the safety announcements in Spanish really tickled me every time I heard it.
I didn't want to post this ride photo because I look terrible, but the joy on DS2's face makes me so happy.
We stopped for a PP picture outside the ride-
(DS2 is mad he couldn't ride it again )
After this, we headed out of TSL for our Star Tours FP. This was the first day the crowds really got to me. Our first HS day was the Saturday of Marathon weekend and the crowds were really not bad at all. I figured by Tuesday, most of the marathon people would be heading home and the MLK weekend people wouldn't be showing up for a few more days. Well, I was wrong. This Tuesday at HS was just packed, for some reason. We felt like cattle trying to get out of TSL, and I remember saying to DH "where did all these people come from?!?"
We got over to Star Tours and despite the crowds, it still only had a 15 minute SB wait.
This time we go the scene with Darth Vader at the beginning, and one where we were like flying through asteroids and then the snow planet. So much fun, as always and DH was not bothered as much by the 3D this time.
I'm going to stop here so I at least have a few pictures to put in the second part.
I have to start this day's report by apologizing because I just did not take many pictures, and my memory of it at this point has gone a little fuzzy, so we'll just have to muddle through.
Our FP's for this day were 9:00 RNRC, 10:00 SDD and 11:00 Star Tours. At this point, I knew the kids would not like RNRC so we decided to just let it fall off so we could start looking for more Toy Story Land FP's after we did Star Tours.
We had another sort of relaxed morning. I went to Roaring Forks for coffee and picked up a breakfast platter for the kids to share and a bagel sandwich for DH and me. We split those in half and also had cereal and bananas in the room.
The bagel sandwich was so good that we wished we had ordered two of them. The only disappointment was the potatoes that came with the sandwich were so dry and flavorless, not even extra salt and ketchup could help them. Just not good.
We got on a bus around 10:00 and were at the park by 10:30. We saw Donald and Daisy out meeting, but they had long lines and we were already inside our SDD FP time, so we didn't stop.
When we got up to the stage, there was a Star Wars show starting and DS1 really wanted to watch it. We told him we had to get to SDD and we'd come back to watch it later. Well, that answer really did not make him happy. We stopped for a PP photographer with no line and DS1 was just not having it.
At that point, we had to kind of say, okay this trip is for the kids, if he wants to watch the show, let's watch it. Once the show ended, I told DH to stop at the lines behind the stage so we could watch the characters leave, and DS1 loved everyone walking right past him.
Moods bolstered, we headed to TSL with just a few minutes to spare on our FP. My picture time stamps show us in the queue at 10:55 and boarding at 10:58.
I love everything about this queue and for some reason Slinky Dog doing the safety announcements in Spanish really tickled me every time I heard it.
I didn't want to post this ride photo because I look terrible, but the joy on DS2's face makes me so happy.
We stopped for a PP picture outside the ride-
(DS2 is mad he couldn't ride it again )
After this, we headed out of TSL for our Star Tours FP. This was the first day the crowds really got to me. Our first HS day was the Saturday of Marathon weekend and the crowds were really not bad at all. I figured by Tuesday, most of the marathon people would be heading home and the MLK weekend people wouldn't be showing up for a few more days. Well, I was wrong. This Tuesday at HS was just packed, for some reason. We felt like cattle trying to get out of TSL, and I remember saying to DH "where did all these people come from?!?"
We got over to Star Tours and despite the crowds, it still only had a 15 minute SB wait.
This time we go the scene with Darth Vader at the beginning, and one where we were like flying through asteroids and then the snow planet. So much fun, as always and DH was not bothered as much by the 3D this time.
I'm going to stop here so I at least have a few pictures to put in the second part.
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