When I left off, we were just headed to 50's Prime time for our lunch reservation.
We got there a little bit early, but the allowed us to check in anyways. When I checked us in - I requested a TV table & a "fun server" - as a side note, I was more specific to include that I would love to see my girls put in a corner. The CM checking us in "made note of that". Cool.
So, the girls and I waited. There was another guest who offered to take a picture of the girls and I... Yay!
We waited quite a while - the whole time, I was taking pictures.
We were seated after waiting about 10 or 15 minutes.
Our server was Elaine - who after introducing herself promptly informed us "We don't like it when people tell us what to do, then we don't want to do it." Um, OK. Duely noted - I guess. <--- She was referring to the request I had made when I checked in.
When Elaine came back, we ordered:
A: PB&J Malt, Fried Chicken & a Brownie Sundae for dessert
V: Lemonade, Sampler platter and a PB&J Malt for dessert
D: PB&J Malt, Sampler platter and a Smores for dessert
While we were waiting for our food, I took several photos of our table, and even one of the girls.
I forgot to take pictures of our food.
The food was very good. Since V and I had the sampler platter, I honestly have to say that I liked everything. My least favorite was probably the meatloaf, and I only say that because I prefer my recipe better - and I even like the way V makes my recipe better than the way I make it. LOL Even though, I like my recipe better - it was still very good. The post roast - that was good too - again - I like mine better (I am really not that good of a cook), but theirs was good. I do have to say that I liked the chicken the best.
As previously noted, Elaine did nothing fun with us at all. She almost seemed to be making a point of it, by being excessively fun with the large table next to us. I was really irritated, but she seemed to take pleasure in being overly fun with them and doing nothing with us. Whatever, I made myself feel better by thinking "I'll write about Elaine on my TR."
I will add, even though Elaine did not act her part at all, she wasn't rude to us, and she was very nice. She even explained how to make the perfect PB&J Malt at home. She was just like any other waitress we could have had at any local restaurant. She did offer to take a picture of all of us at our table though.
Then dessert was served...
I really shouldn't have ordered the Smores... I only did because so many people love it and I wanted to try it. Normally, I am not a huge marshmallow fan, so I really didn't like this at all.
Now, Allison's Brownie Sundae was AMAZING (Cue heavenly music)... Now, that is what I should have ordered...
And, of course, V's PB&J Malt... TDF, as well. Really, the main reason we came to 50's.
Somtime during lunch, there was a family being seated at another table in our area. There was lots of hub-bub about their stroller, and the servers were kind of getting their undies in a ruffle about it. I just shrugged and went about not eating my dessert. As it turned out - the family had to move, and as they were moving - I noticed the
LGMH the mom was sporting on her bag. Yay!! A Diser! So, big mouth me, I asked if she was a Diser, and she kind of looked at me funny - then she realized what I was saying and she pointed me to her DH. LOL So, I introduced myself to him, who happens to be Childatheart82... I wrote it down on a napkin, so I didn't forget. We chatted for a minute, and noticed that we had the same Toy Story Alien shirts. Then he had to move along with his family... It was great meeting him though.

And I wouldn't mind if he chimed in here to tell his version of the stroller moving story - because I am nosy like that.
Of course - I discovered later in the evening - that I'd left the napkin with his Dis name behind - Doh!
Anyways... Here's a photo of the remainder of our desserts:
As you can see... The smores pretty much went to waste. But when Allison announced that she couldn't eat any more of her Brownie Sundae - I happily offered to finish it for her.... I really had to restrain myself from licking the plate.
We did leave lunch full, although a bit disappointed that we didn't get to enjoy the ultimate 50's experience.
When we walked out of 50's, it was sprinkling a little bit - but nothing we couldn't handle. We made our way to ToT to get another set of FP for later (I had a plan).
The girls rode RnR with their earlier FPs - I chose to wait outside this time.
Once the girls were finished with RnR - and I had offered to take several family photos for other families - we decided to head over to the Art of Disney Animation. At first the girls didn't quite understand what we were going to do at this boring place - but I assured them that I wouldn't disappoint, and they would love it. We had to wait for a while to be admitted - so we enjoyed the padded seating. Once we were admitted to the studio, we chose our seats and the artist chose his character - which V was excited about... It was Tink! She has been drawing pictures of Tink for a long time - so this was right up her alley. Here's how they all turned out...
A:
V:
D:
The girls ROFLed at mine for quite a while after that.
The girls loved this experience -and begged to go again.
I am not sure what time it was when we finished - but I'd like to say it was about 1:30? We decided to walk over to TSM, just to see if there were any FPs left. When we got there, the return time was 8:05pm... We were going to get FPs, but just as we were going to put our tickets in, someone came up to us and offered theirs to us! Total Pixie Dust!

The girls and I were "eternally grateful" and expressed our unending gratitude. Those ladies were headed to a different park, and decided to pass on the Dust the return time for their FPs was at 3:20. Awesome!
OK girls... change of plans.
We wandered around some of the shops back there and on to the Streets of America - making our way to Star Tours - to use our free FP from Guest Relations earlier in the day.
The entire way, they were complaining about how lame this ride was going to be... They complained all the way through the line.
*Side note: The gentleman in the far right of the photo, kept pointing at Allison's bag and commenting in their language... It didn't sound very nice, because they were laughing and pointing. Allison was very uncomfortable - because they were being really rude about it. I was actually getting uncomfortable too.
Once they rode ST - they were hooked! They wanted to go again - of course. I didn't record the standby line time in my journal - I wanted to say it was 45 min? But we decided not to wait.
We were off to find a cold snack, and we ended up with Strawberry Slushies at a little shop.
We stopped and watched a show going on in the Streets of America... making our way back to TSM.
We were still a bit early for our FP return.
We decided to wait for the meet n' greet with Woody & Buzz - which opened back up at 3pm... It was really hot out, so the girls sat next to me in the shade, just outside the que line.
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Day 4 Part C
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