Once inside Studios we wanted to go DIRECTLY to Rockin Rollercoaster. MY DD7 was about 3/4" too short last year and that is all she has talked about since. Well of course the wait was about an hour, so we grabbed our fastpasses and headed over to Tower of Terror. The wait there was about 40 minutes so I went to get fastpasses. What's this? No fastpasses? That's when the CM at the machines told me that you could only get one at a time. I had no idea?!?!?! I guess we have been so blessed the last 2 years with crowds that I never really had to get more than 1 at a time!
So no worries, we headed up Sunset to towards The Great Movie Ride, which I love and DH hates. I really really like the end where they show all the clips. I am a preview nut when I go to the movies, so that part really appeals to me. If I get to a movie and the previews are over it takes away half the fun. Well we ran into the most interesting fella just outside of the Theater, his name is Bucky Greenhorn, Hollywood's Next Leading Man. He was strummin away on his Ukelele and I immediately fell in love
. He is soooo cute! I guess DH could tell I was totally enamored, because after one song he was ready to move on. **SIGH**
But wouldn't you know it, not far up the road some hussie had her arm around my man!!!! I mean how am I supposed to compete with the World's Greatest Movie Star?!?!?! That's right folks, Dorma Nesmond had her paws on my fella, AND HE WAS SMILING!!!!! THE NERVE!!!! She went on and on about how handsome he is, and how she loves her latin men. She asked him why he brought me, and he just laughed! WELL! First of all lady, he's American Indian, not latin. Apache in fact, get it right. And yes, my children ARE beautiful, now BACK OFF!
Kidding, Dorma was awesome and she was totally hubby's favorite. We saw her so much this week that I really am starting to wonder if something's going on...................
Now about Sunday is when the Brazilians came out. There must've been 5 or 6 groups of at least 200 and evidently they hacked into my disney vacation planner on disney.com and stole my schedule, because they were EVERYWHERE we were all week long! Truthfully the crowds on this trip were heavier than last year for sure, but we still had very low wait times for most things. We finally rode Rockin Rollercoaster, and DD7 LOVED it. We had to promise that we would come back and ride again. DS5 was wayyyy to scared to ride Tower of Terror, and DD3-the daredevil, was about 1/2" too short.
We ended up at 50's about 15 minutes late for our ressie but we were sat within about 10 minutes. I have to tell you that I really enjoyed this place! Our server was great, he made DD7 set the table and made DFJohn put his "toys" (IPhone) away at the table! The potroast was fork tender and everyone at the table raved about their meal. We were eating at Cindy's the next night and using 2 credits, so this meal was out of pocket. For 3 adults and 3 kids with 2 desserts and sodas it was about $115 without tip. That's not too bad for Disney. And the smores dessert was yumilicious!
By now it was starting to sprinkle so we did Tower and Rockin one more time and headed into the theater for Fantasmic! It was just as good as I remember! That show really is amazing, the production quality is superb even by Disney standards! We had no issues getting seats, and even when we were leaving we saw that there were still plenty of seats to be had, even with like 3 brazilian tour groups there. We sat down front so we got spritzed quite a bit, but it was drizzling anyway and we're at Disney, so who cares!
Afterwards, we headed to DTD and picked up some treats at Goofy's. I swear every year I get a rice krispy treat dipped in chocolate and Peanut Butter chips and it takes me 3 days to eat it. And every year I say I'm not gonna do that again. Guess what I had..........
Well DH landed a nice big job yesterday doing some video work for Daimler
, so he will be occupied for the next 12 days doing production. Looks like I will have to figure out how to post pics on my own. Any help is appreciated (that means you, all of you veteran Trip Reporters!)
Ya'll have a great day!
It was TOO CUTE!!! We moved a little further up Main Street and ran into the Jim Dandy's? I think that's the name of the group. They are a barbershop quartet. They were using these odd chimes that DFJohn and DH found fascinating! Both being musicians they were captivated by the show, so we stayed for the entire thing. Then they started talking to the fellas about the instruments. Turns out they are called Organ Chimes, and one set had just arrived from a Chicago Museum and was close to 100 years old! WOW!! Somehow I thought maybe most of that stuff was from a huge Prop Warehouse on property, but evidently a lot of it is really authentic! Anyway, to us some of the most amazing things in Disney are the street performers. I think that's why MK and DHS are our 2 favorite parks, because we love the citizens of Main Street and the Streetmosphere in DHS.
! She had her little baby hands up the entire time! She LOVED IT!!!! She squealed the entire time, so we got off and got right back on, and the squealing continued. Now when we took DD3 to the doctor the day we left she measured 38 7/8" in her stocking feet, so in her tennis shoes she was still a little shy of 40, but no one checked her?? We found out that she was a little shy a couple of days later when she was turned away at BTMRR and we went to color with a CM instead of riding. This info will be important later in the TR!! 
It was so frustrating. I'll have some comments about it in my TR coming up soon so I won't hijack your TR with it.
I tried to recommend askerhaus, but live and learn!
can't wait for the rest. I hope the crowds settle down before we get there.
