Trip Report - March/April 2025

[Noreen411]

Friday 3/28/25
We went to the gym around 6:15. Our normal morning routine of laundry, jacuzzi, showers, and breakfast followed.

We drove to Hollywood Studios.


Scott loves these little aliens. On our last trip we bought a bunch of the ones that you push a button and they say things. With more than one, when you push the button on one, the others all chime in. I think we have 5 or 6 of them. But he posed with these stuffed ones for me.


Our first attraction was my favorite one at Hollywood Studios…Tower of Terror.


We bought a few more shirts, then stopped to watch One Man’s Dream which was about to start.

We came back to the front of the park to ride Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway train. This is cute, but I still miss the great movie ride. They really should put a ride photo in this ride.





One show we haven’t watched in a while was about to start, Indiana Jones Stunt show. When we’re here in the fall, it’s usually too hot to sit in the outdoor theater for this. The show ran into technical difficulties and the last scene was cancelled. The show was still enjoyable and if you hadn’t seen it before you probably wouldn’t know what you missed, other than they announced it.

We headed into Toy Story Land next. These green army men were walking by so I took a quick picture of them.


We mobile ordered pop tarts from Woody’s Lunchbox - Raspberry and Key Lime. The raspberry is my favorite. We tried a bit of each then wrapped them up, Scott had a little ziploc baggie just for this purpose.



The saucers were our next attraction. We both think this is cute and Scott is always fascinated more by the tracks and how the cars switch tracks than the rest of the ride.


Our next attraction was Toy Story Mania. This is always a favorite and we keep trying to remember to work together to get other screens and effects to open up.

 

[Noreen411]

Friday 3/28/25 Continued
We headed out of Hollywood Studios and took the Skyliner to hop over to Epcot.
Look how crazy my hair looks on the skyliner sticking straight up


We enjoy walking and with nice weather especially love strolling around World Showcase. We stop for different pictures and attractions too.

I don’t remember where exactly this was, but thought it was nice that they had a Muppets topiary knowing that attraction is closing in Hollywood Studios.


I think we did about 2 laps around. Pictures may be out of sequence.








It was time for us to ride Remy. This is cute but I am not a fan of the single rider line on this attraction.

 

[Noreen411]

Friday 3/28/25 Continued
We decided to try the bar at Shula’s tonight. We took the boat to the Dolphin, but when we got to Shula’s the bar was packed. We waited a bit but everyone seemed like they were settled in for a while. We don’t like to hover so figured we would try again another night and pick something else tonight.

We walked around the Boardwalk area and went into Flying Fish and asked if there was any availability at the bar. They were able to seat us immediately. I am definitely preferring this type of set up where they seat you at the bar rather than 1st come/1st served and having to wait around for a seat to open up.


Scott had a Martini and I had an Espresso Martini


For an appetizer we had the Pork Belly BLT; this is an amazing appetizer, we both really enjoyed it.


Their bread is good but we didn’t want to fill up on it.


Scott had the seafood pasta. He loves this dish and gets it every time we’re at Flying Fish.


I try different things and today I went with the potato wrapped snapper. This was very good too. One time I had it and wasn’t thrilled so didn’t try it again for ages. I’m glad I gave it another try since today it was very good.


We enjoyed our meal at Flying Fish but skipped dessert here with something else in mind

 

[Noreen411]

Friday 3/28/25 Continued
We walked over to the Cake Bake Shop to get dessert to go.

Scott loves chocolate chip cookies so we had to try the chocolate chip cookie. Scott was very excited to try it and ate half of it before remembering to pose the cookie for a picture. So this is only less than half the cookie. He liked it.


Since the car was at Hollywood Studios we took the boat back there. Waiting for the boat we started chatting with a nice couple from Indiana where the other Cake Bake shop is; they said they go there often and the carrot cake is their favorite. They said they will often buy a whole carrot cake for birthdays and other celebrations.

We drove back to the resort and tried our desserts from Cake Bake.

We bought the Blueberry Crumb. This was pretty good. We each tried a little piece.



We also bought a piece of Carrot Cake. How funny that the couple on the ferry mentioned this was their favorite. They were right, of the various cakes we’ve tried from Cake Bake, the carrot was our favorite. The part I found odd is that the little flower on the Carrot Cake wasn’t edible. They make pretty frosting flowers on other cakes, I’m surprised they didn’t on the carrot cake too.