Turn the Bus Around and Take Us Back to Disney! *COMPLETED*

[wiigirl]

Very cute pics!

 

[Denovagirl]

AWESOME pictures!

looks like a great start to HS! this is my top park! besides MK of course.. Cannot wait to hear how you liked it.

Thanks! Yea I loooooved this park!

 

[Denovagirl]

I was so surprised how EASY our mornings were because we prepped the night before. I could let the girls sleep until the last possible moment, because all they had to do was their hair/makeup and eat. It was so nice. I highly recommend this approach.

D~

Ditto!

 

[Denovagirl]

That is my plan as well - I hope I can be as dedicated as you. Great pictures!

It makes a huge difference in your morning- and I slept better knowing everything was ready...it took us like no time every morning, loved it!

 

[Denovagirl]

I agree!!! You guys did so much. Good thinking to stop in to see the princesses on your way into the park.

I went back and looked at your first day's report again so I could see the pictures better and I'm glad I did. The girls are so cute.

I love the pictures of Olivia meeting the princesses. She is totally checking them out and then seems to be thinking "Yup, I'm hanging out with royalty".

Organizing your stuff the night before was a great idea. I always have this plan but never get it done. I will try to be more like you on our next trip. And then up early enough to take some cute pictures at AoA.

Can't wait to hear about your HS day. I think it is so hard to tour that park and see everything because so many shows have specific start times.

Thanks! The organizing the night before was such a blessing. It was hard when I was tired but worked so well!

I actually found HS the easiest park to tour, I guess because of size and luckily they have quite a few showtimes for most shows- we just had to come to terms before we left of which shows wed see! Otherwise we would be in shows all day!

 

[Denovagirl]

I love the pics!!!

Thanks!!!

 

[Denovagirl]

Love the pictures! Especially the one of the girls in the treasure chest-adorable!

Thanks! That was a fun time!

 

[solana131]

You got some great shots around the resort! I love the one with you and DD "dancing" with the fish Precious memories right there!

 

[Denovagirl]

You got some great shots around the resort! I love the one with you and DD "dancing" with the fish Precious memories right there!

Thanks!

 

[spiritsim]

love all the resort pics I didn't relies they had all that stuff there. Can't wait to see it in person.

 

[IheartDDuck]

Love all of the pictures around the resort. I definitely need to head over there the next time we visit.

 

[Denovagirl]

love all the resort pics I didn't relies they had all that stuff there. Can't wait to see it in person.

Yes! It is amazing! You'll love it!

 

[Denovagirl]

Love all of the pictures around the resort. I definitely need to head over there the next time we visit.

Everyone should visit! It really was amazing! I can't believe it's a value resort! It was just too awesome!

 

[Denovagirl]

Sorry for the lack of updates guys!! Busy week! Olivia's dance class and tball started up, my bible study and life group started and I was volunteering this week and doing some side work for my chiropractor! Ahhhh! Anyway- ill be posting an update tomorrow because I have a whole afternoon at home! Yay!

 

[Chicago Mo]

Sorry for the lack of updates guys!! Busy week! Olivia's dance class and tball started up, my bible study and life group started and I was volunteering this week and doing some side work for my chiropractor! Ahhhh! Anyway- ill be posting an update tomorrow because I have a whole afternoon at home! Yay!

I've been waiting! your doing a great job!

 

[babynala]

It is a bummer when life gets in the way of the important things like Disney and trip reports.

 

[Denovagirl]

Sorry I didn't get the update last night! But I got it for you this morning! Enjoy!

When we left off we had just pulled up to Hollywood Studios. Again, hardly anyone at all was here yet, so we took a few pics with the Monsters University stuff they had out front and then found our way to sit down in front of the turnstiles!






Awesomness then happened because as we were waiting Minnie and Daisy came out front for M&G’s!! Yay! So Chris took Liv over while I waited.




***Now while doing my TR I’ve noticed something weird…Minnie didn’t have a PP person, but Daisy did, but there were no pics of her with Daisy on the PP!!! Ahhh! Somehow they didn’t make it on, I also noticed our PP pics of Chip n’Dale weren’t on PP either! Sadly, I relied solely on PP Photographers for pics at M&G’s most times so I didn’t even snap a pic, grrrr, has anyone else had this happen?! 

As soon as they got back the lines opened up and we were through the gates!

I was sticking with my strategy of meeting characters first, and I knew we had to meet Woody & Buzz to show them our awesome Toy Story shirts, so that is where we headed! Margo and Bob decided to go rent a wheelchair because her knee was really hurting after yesterday, so they went their way while we got a spot in line!

NO ONE was getting in line to meet Woody and Buzz yet! We were the only ones! It was 8:45 when they let us in, and the M&G was set to start at 9:15, so we just plopped down and chilled, totally enthralled in the craziness of family’s that were doing the mad dash to Toy Story Mania. That was too funny! People were running and just clamoring to that ride, thank goodness we didn’t have to! In a matter of 15 minutes, the line wait time for TSM went from 5 minutes to 60 minutes! Crazy!!!!! Must have been every person in the whole park- seriously!

While we waited, we took some time to appreciate this area of the park, Disney really took some time here in the TS area, it was amazing!



After about 9 rolled around another family or two joined us in line and soon we saw the CM’s setting up! Yay! 9:15 came and then the most coolest thing ever happened!!! Since Olivia was the first child in line, Woody came out to the front of the building to grab her hand and walk with her to the M&G area! It was soooooo cool! I was trying really hard not to get emotional! Once we got back there Buzz came out and they both did their autographs.



These guys were sooooo COOL! They spent a lot of time with us, and once they noticed our shirts they made a big production out of pointing at them and being impressed! We all took some awesome pics, and it was soooo cute that Buzz wanted Olivia to stand by him because she had on the Jessie shirt! Awww





Woody had to take a pic with just Bob since he was sporting the Woody shirt,he even did the pose on Bob’s shirt!



This was my favorite M&G the entire trip, and I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world!! We may have had to wait about 30 minutes, but we didn’t miss out on anything, because next we walked right over to TSM and basically walked on the ride! Yee-haw!!











Talk about impressed! This line queue was beyond amazing, and the ride itself was the most fun ever!!! It quickly became my favorite and I knew we would be back to do it again! Unfortunately I lost the first time to my hubs, but hopefully revenge would be in my future!!

After TSM I wanted to go find the M&G area for Mike & Sully because they were on our must-do’s also! They started up at 9:45 so we still had about fifteen minutes to go. Everyone else was really interested in the Backlot Tour ride as we passed it, so I told the group to go on and do that, since I knew it was a long ride, and that I would take Liv to the M&G and we would meet up after.

This worked out perfectly!

Once again, we were the first in line for the M&G, and almost immediately after we started waiting, people noticed us standing there and started to ask what we were waiting for and in like 5 minutes time there was a pretty hefty line formed! Crazy!

This M&G was okay, the characters “don’t do homework” aka autographs, so Olivia just hugged them and took a pic and we were done.



While in line, another family told us they had just met Phineas & Ferb and that there was no line, so we decided to go look for them since our group was still gone. A CM pointed us in the right direction and we were off!!

We passed this lovely little ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ umbrella on the way…so I let Olivia have a shot at taking a pic of me!! She did pretty well!



Again, people noticed we stopped to do something and immediately there were two families behind us waiting to take pics with the umbrella as well! I am SOOOO glad I did my research and knew about all these little jewels in the parks!!

Sure enough after that we found the duo we were looking for right next to Lightening McQueen and Mater! Score! No lines at either!!!

So we went and did Phineas & Ferb first!



Then Cars!



I love Olivia’s pose with the cars, she’s a pro, seriously!

We began back tracking back over to the backlot, and as we were we saw one of the tour buses go by, and it had our family on it! So we had to snap a pic!!!



Chris also snapped some pics on the tour…





I knew they’d be a few more minutes then, so I texted Chris to meet us at the Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground, and Olivia and I headed over there!

This is a COOL playground, if there weren’t so many people around I would have like to play some too!!







Sadly, the spider web nets were closed due to some rain they had that morning, but we still had fun! We got to play for about fifteen minutes before the group came over to meet up with us.

Basically I was like on a Disney high at this point. It was roughly 10:30am and we had already accomplished six separate M&G’s, rode two rides, and stopped to play! Not to mention three of my absolute must-do’s were done! So I left it up to the group to decide what we should do next, and they ended up picking another fun must-do…

Up next, The One With the Hat!
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[Denovagirl]

It is a bummer when life gets in the way of the important things like Disney and trip reports.

Really!

 

[Chicago Mo]

As always your family is adorable!!!


Love how much your enjoying hs!!!! Favorite park and awsome meet and greets

 

[babynala]

Great update. Your Buzz and Woody map sounds amazing. How cool for Olivia (and all the big kids too). Bummer about the fastpass pictures not being in your account. Yiu have had a very eventful day and you've only been at the parks for 90 minutes!



Hmmm, I am wondering which hat????? Can't wait to read more.