After we ate lunch we decided to split up. Minnie and my DH headed to Animation Studios to draw. Simba and I waited in line for Toy Story. The wait was posted as an hour – and I think we waited 50 minutes. Mr. Potato head was not working.
I’ll say this again. I really like the queues with air conditioning in Florida. The Toy Story wait in Florida is much more themed that it is in California.
After this we met up with the rest of family and went to watch the Voyage of the Little Mermaid show. Waiting in line for this is where we experienced our first Brazilian Tourist Sing-along. A group of 15 our so were using fastpasses. While waiting they burst into song. The kids were very confused. I let my DH know that people on the DIS say this is very common.
We were that last people let into the Theatre and we had horrible seats. They were stage left – the last two seats in rows one and two. We could not see whatever was going far stage left. I was not that impressed with the show – but I think the seats had a whole lot to do with it.
Once again we were dragging our kids out of another dump shop. I don’t know if it is my kids ages or what – but they every ride seemed to end in a shop and we had a horrible time getting them out of there. It has never been as bad at
Disneyland.
Our dinner was scheduled for 4:40pm so we headed to 50s Prime Time café. We got there 20 minutes early and were seated almost immediately.
We were seated in a small room with 4 tables. It was in the front corner of the building. At first I was disappointed with the table/room. We did not have a TV at our table and the room seemed remote and far away from the action. But once Uncle Dale came to wait on us – my concerns vanished. He was very nice and made the dinner a very wonderful experience. The trip was finally looking up. We were beginning to relax.
Then the phone dropped.
My DH lets Minnie and Simba play with his phone to keep them occupied sometimes. Minnie was trying to show me something she created with the Bushes app when she dropped it without a case face flat down on the grown. The bottom of the screen is shattered – but no glass pieces fell out.
This could have been a really bad moment – but my DH was not very upset (not pleased of course) and we did not ruin our night. The next morning we tried to find a nearby ATT&T store that had iPhones in stock – and the closest one to POFQ did not carry them. My husband taped it with packing tape and decided not to waste travel time and cab fare as long as it was working.
Dinner was yummy. My DH loved his fried chicken and my steak was yummy.
We walked around a little and then headed over to Fantasmic. We got there before they let you be seated. Right about the time they let people in – “I have to go pee” – I took Minnie to the bathroom. Sure enough when we almost fought our way back the where my family was waiting – the crowd started moving. I saw my husband way ahead. Minnie saw them too and started weaving in and out of the EVCs trying to reach them. I was left saying “excuse me” and “I am just trying to catch my daughter who sees her dad.” While Minnie is good for getting you through a crowd – I do need to work on her taking off. This was twice in one day I was left in the dust.
We were in a seated midway up in a center section, Mickey I believe. Then the long wait began. I think it was 90 minutes. That is along time out of park touring. Looking back we could have come about 40 minutes before and still had good seats. But this was a major ‘to do’ for us – so we planned for a long wait.
There were lots of Brazilians there too. The wave started – and when it died down some of the tour groups held up a large flag of Brazil and broke into song. Best I can figure it was the national anthem – because a man pretty close to us and not obviously connected to the tour groups stood up and sang along passionately.
My kids were once again confused. They couldn’t understand why so many people were able to sing along to something they had never heard before.
While the tour groups were large and louder, we were not put off by them. I know some DISers have had bad experiences – everybody we saw just appeared to be out to have a great time at Disney.
The show finally started and we thought it was wonderful. At the very end my DH did get ash in his eye from the pyrotechnics. We were a shocked and a little disturbed. I don’t know whom my DH stopped to ask about it – but it was a cast member who told him it was probably ash and he should flush his eye and head to first aid if that did not take care of it. He went to the bathroom on our way out to rinse his eye and that did the trick.
Simba really wanted to ride Rockin Rollercoaster but Minnie is too small. My DH and Simba waited and Minnie and I did a little sticker craft project in the area. One of the CMs working it was from Ireland. So Minnie got to visit with an Irish guy.
I realized it was about 15 minutes until park close. I decided to rush Minnie to Toy Story. We get there with 4 minutes to spare. Even though the line was just as long as it was when Simba and I rode earlier in the day – our wait was shorter – about 30 minutes.
After we got off – I had a cell phone call from an unknown FL number. The voice message was from my husband. They were in guest services wanted to know where we were. We headed to try and find guest services. As we got to the end of Hollywood Boulevard we ran into Simba and Grumpy. They LOVED RnR.
We headed out of the park. There was the longest line at the POFQ bus stop. It went back 3 or 4 stations. But they started bringing two busses at a time and I don’t think we waited more than 15 minutes.
Back to beautiful POFQ and off to bed. Well, probably watched some Disney channel program. We really had trouble getting the kids to sleep at night.
UP NEXT - Our 'rest' day with lunch at Whispering Canyon, will we really be able to stay out of the parks?
And I can't wait to hear if you were able to escape...
