Day 4: Tuesday October 23rd
Today was our first early EARLY day! Our alarms were set for 6:45 am, and I told my parents "booty in seat" (we actually use another un-DIS friendly word in place of booty lol) time was 7:50 and they were right on time! We had a date with Toy Story Mania and couldn't be late! In no time at all, we were at DHS parking the car and found an empty turnstile so we could be first. As we waited for the gates to open, we had some breakfast and DH and I started planning out our morning. As we were talking, we were saying things like, "Phineas and Ferb starts at x time...then we can do Cars..." etc. I look over at my mom and she is looking at a map with a totally confused look on her face until I asked what was wrong and she replied, "Am I looking at the wrong map? Where are these attractions you're talking about?" Oh, man, did I get a good laugh out of that! I then had to explain that we were doing TSM and then hitting the character stations. She is definitely not used to traveling to WDW with a little one anymore!
At 8:45 am, they opened up the turnstiles and we walked over to
Pixar Place. Can I just pause here to say how much I LOVED the new opening procedure at DHS?! It was really awesome to just be able to walk over to TSM without being smushed in a huge crowd of people going to the same place. There were still a few morons running, but overall it was a MUCH more pleasant experience.
Our first photos of the morning! (Actually, we must have taken this TSM photo later, because the wait was definitely NOT 45 minutes!
We decided to hit the standby line first and grab FP's later, so we all entered the queue.
We walked right onto the ride with no wait, and decided for the first ride that DS would sit on DH's lap while we rode. DS was not a fan of the spinning, and was actually whining for most of the ride until DH figured out a better way to hold him that he didn't hate quite as much. This was the most disappointing time we have ever had on this attraction! Not only was DS whining, some of the games were not working, and we were just sitting in front of a "Windows is shutting down" screen while the one beside us was working fine. I thought we should tell the CM and see if they would let us ride again, but then we decided to just get off and get the FP's for later instead. One good thing did come of this experience, and that was that I finally beat DH!
DH didn't appreciate my gloating and continued to claim he was handicapped by DS fussing, but whatever! lol I still won!!
After getting our FP's with a return time of 10:40am-11:40am we thought we would get in line for the Buzz & Woody meet, but it doesn't open until 9:15. Since we wanted to get it done early, we knew we didn't have time to ride anything else, so we decided just to head to the hat and see which characters were out.
Up first, we met Hollywood Goofy with no wait.
Next to Goofy, Chip & Dale were meeting with only a couple of groups ahead of us, so we waited in a short line and I took this picture.
And this one of DS trying to get to the flowers.
Finally it was our turn and we went up for our pics with DS's favorite chipmunks!
Poppi's version
Photopass's version. Can you tell how much I LOVE taking DS to meet the characters?!
They were VERY excited about the fact that DS was turning 2! So no, they are not holding up peace signs lol
After meeting those guys, we walked back over to Pixar Place and saw the line to meet Buzz & Woody had grown considerably, but we still wanted to do it now before it got even longer later in the day. We ended up waiting about 15 minutes, our longest wait for characters the whole trip, but at least there is plenty to keep DS occupied in the queue!
First up, he found an oh so exciting STICK!
Finally we made it inside where they have all of the little photo ops available to keep you busy during the wait. We had a LOT of fun with those!
Continued in next post...