Our first full day in the parks. The plan is to hit everything we loved last time, catch a little High School Musical, eat at Luke’s favorite restaurant (Pizza Planet) and to meet Goofyluver since I owe her some money for Leia’s new tutu which Goofyluver is carrying around with her. Luke starts complaining that he needs an autograph book for Star Wars characters. The kid doesn’t even act like he likes the movies. He goes and plays in other rooms every time Anakin turns one on. But we stop and grab one at the General Store . We totally meant to get there really early and meet Goofyluver before the park even opened. That went out the window. Nobody else was as excited as me to meet a Disser and they all took their sweet time. We take the boat over from the Boardwalk and get to the park about twenty minutes before opening. I call Goofyluver and they’ve been there for an hour! Those people were really excited about their trip! I shouldn’t actually just say I called Goofyluver. I think we left a total of ten to fifteen messages on each other’s cellphones. It was loud!
The gates open and people start pouring in. I’ve never gotten to a park early enough to have to wait for them to let you past other points in the park. We always mean to but well intentioned doesn’t get you on the rides any quicker. Anakin tries to run ahead to get our fast passes for Star Tours. He makes it but we are almost caught up by then. So then it starts. The autograph hunt. Didn’t we do this last trip? Ugh!
Anakin sees Chewbacca, then he sees himself, then he sees Luke (not our Luke). He’s confused. He doesn’t know which character to send our Luke to first. They decide on Chewbacca. It was at this point that Leia lets us know that she only wants girl autographs. After Chewbacca we go over to Luke Skywalker and our Luke gets his autograph. We ask the CM where Princess Leia will be. Score, she’s gonna be right here where Luke Skywalker is in about ten minutes. If you’re here when they switch over you can get them both at the same time. We circle through the line a few times trying to catch when Princess Leia comes out. She finally joins Luke and then our Luke and Leia are first to catch them. I inform Luke Skywalker that our Leia only wants boy autographs before he grabs her book and she freaks out. He is quite offended and since he has already signed our Luke’s book he gets down on the ground and has a discussion with her. All the while I’m having Princess Leia explain to our Luke that Luke and Leia are brother and sister because he doesn’t believe me and he keeps leaving the room when the movies are on. I told you that already right. Next thing I know our Leia is grabbing her book from Princess Leia and handing it over to Luke Skywalker and he announces that she will now let a boy sign her book. Now that that’s all over I don’t have to keep saying “our” every other word.
While the kids and I were harrassing Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia our (oh carp) Anakin was waiting in line for the real Anakin because he was getting ready to go on break. We rush over and Luke jumps in line with his father. At that point I call Goofyluver again to ask where the heck they are. She announces that they are in line for Darth Vader and there isn’t hardly anyone in line. We rush over there and of course they aren’t there anymore and the line is huge. Anakin announces that he doesn’t think Goofyluver really wants to meet me and is just sending me to different spots around the park to mess with me. We get in line and wait, and wait, and wait. Halfway through the line we see Darth Sidious (I have no idea if that was actually his name but it’s what it sounded like Anakin said) walk by. Anakin insists that I take Luke over for an autograph because the Darth Vader line is sooooo long. We rush over and get in line. The CM says, “You’re the last in line.” She then proceeds to ruin the day of at least twenty people who come up and try to get in line all feeling that they were the first ones that she was cutting off. We make it back in plenty of time to get Vader pictures and have Vader torture my son by making him jump up to get his pen.
Now it’s time to ride Star Tours. Anakin runs over to grab fast passes for TOT and meets us there. They were doing the Jedi training and the kids enjoyed watching some of it. Then when Darth Vader comes out on stage I have never seen so many people jump in front of a four year old in all of my life. Leia is crying because she can no longer see the show so I have to pick her up and luckily Anakin got there so we just went in the line and got on the ride pretty quickly. It was great as usual and afterwards I got to get my favorite pictures taken which I’m still waiting on Heather to send me the money for because I never would have done them if she hadn’t posted hers in her TR.
I’m a little confused and can’t remember the exact order that we rode things in but hopefully get it worked out as I’m typing.
We are getting ready to eat lunch but I decide to call Goofyluver again since I knew that they were eating at the same place. She says that the parade is about to start and they will eat lunch after it. We spent so much time getting autographs I had forgotten about the parade so we ran down and put the kids on our shoulders so they could see the parade then we went back to Pizza Planet. We got our food, we ate, slowly, no Goofyluver. I call and leave her a message and let the kids play a couple of games while I look out the windows. Then I see them and run out the doors to chastise them for their tardiness. Goofy gives me the tutu and I realize that I just turned all my small bills into quarters. Oops. She borrows ten from Dam and I give her a twenty. I say, hey we need to hurry and get a picture but they were in a hurry to eat and she totally blows me off saying that we would meet back up with me. I knew we wouldn’t but I let her believe it and we went our separate ways.
Now we’re outside and it is HOT. We decide to ride the Great Movie Ride just so we can be inside again. The line was really long but we were just waiting for TOT to be ready at that point. After the ride Anakin runs over to get RnR fast passes and we head over to TOT and the fast pass line seems to take a long time. Luke was really nervous about it and kept going back and forth about whether or not he wanted to ride it. I didn’t feel like hearing the whining so we just shoved him on it. The kid went limp after the first drop but Leia loved it and yelled and screamed and laughed. After the ride we decide to grab some cold drinks and Anakin holds Luke on his shoulders so he can watch High School Musical.
The plan was to go to the Magic of Disney Animation and get autographs from the Incredibles and Meet the Robinsons. Then I was going to take Leia over to get Kim Possible’s autograph while Luke and Anakin rode RnR. I was gonna skip RnR this time in order for us to get back to the resort and let the kids have some pool time. Mother Nature decided that this wasn’t a good plan. We got to the Magic of Disney Animation and didn’t realize we basically had to sit through a little movie about animation before we were allowed into the studio to see the characters. It was cute and we got to see some great characters then we decided to do the artist thing where they try to teach you to draw a character. The character was Pluto and both of my kids ended up bawling their eyes out because they couldn’t draw it. This artist came running around in front of our table climbing over people’s stuff and trying to help them but it was pitiful. Then someone comes in and says it’s raining cats and dogs, er... Plutos out there and someone yells from the crowd, “You mean Figaros and Plutos!” HaHaHa. We head back in to play in the character area some more and avoid the rain and get a horrible picture of Luke with Frozone. He was still mad about the art thing and was throwing a fit. Frozone tried to be nice and handwrote his autograph (he usually stamps it) and then after that Luke was mad that his was handwritten and not stamped. He’s never happy. We are really bored at this point and just wanted to leave. Our whole schedule was ruined now. There was no way that Kim Possible was coming out in that weather.
We now make the stupidest decision of our lives. We should have just stayed in the boring studio but no, we decide to buy over priced ponchos and try to make our way over to RnR and see if it is still running. About ten feet out we realize, it’s not just rain. It’s hail! Too late now, we are already wet. We rush over to RnR and Luke and Anakin run and get in the fast pass line. It was moving at first but then it stops. We look up and see that TOT is still running. We find out in a bit after another family comes to stand by me that RnR stopped running because people refused to leave the gift shop so there was no room to let people off the ride. Therefore there was no room to let people on the ride. We stood there forever. Leia fell asleep but I don't think it's all that healthy to fall asleep when you're cold and wet. The rain finally started to let up (we were soaked at that point) and we decide to start walking toward the exit. We would have just left earlier but it was raining soooo hard. We let Leia decide if she wants to just go back to the resort (swimming wasn’t happening on this trip now, that was the only time slot available) or if she wants to watch the Muppet 3D movie. She opts for the movie and we stop to buy a beach towel and soft pretzel first. We get to the movie and I dry the kids off and cover them up for the movie. After the movie Leia announces she wants to ride TOT again. No way kid, we're beat! We head back to the resort wet and tired. Much later than we wanted to. That’s when we realized how bad the food options were at the Boardwalk. I ended up just getting the kids corn dogs and we all fell asleep.
Hey! I don't think we forgot anything today!
I did this update today for Steph but won't be able to do another one until possibly the weekend. Unless of course I find doing a TR as addicting as the DIS itself then I will try to post an update soon. We are leaving for soccer in a few minutes though so not tonight! 
While we ate a squirrel was running all over the place and flattening himself on the ground under the tables. He was so cute but I didn’t take a ton of pictures this trip and have none to show you of the squirrel. 
