Marla Hellwig
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Two Gals from Ohio take on the World!
This is a repost of our trip last July from the old boards - by request!
CAST:
Marla - me
Kara - the kid 9
DAY 4 - Wednesday, July 19 MGM/Disney Studios EE, sleep in, Studios,
What, it's time to get up already?!
Where did I leave off? Oh yes, Kara stating that she will be able to crawl out of bed at 6 so she can ride Tower of Terror and RocknRoller first thing. HA HA mommy said!
I did make a wake up call for 8:00 a.m. The phone rang and Kara didnt move at all. I answered the phone and promptly went right back to sleep. Oh my legs are hurting this morning. I dont even want to look at my feet.
Kara finally woke up around 9:30 and crawled out of her bed and into mine. We snuggled for a couple of minutes and then she said time to get moving mom! Yeah, right kiddo. As I put my feet on the floor, Kara hollered, "Mom look at your feet, bet they hurt." I had developed blisters on my blisters. I quickly found my Motrin and hobbled both of us into the shower. Did feel some what better after shower. Kara is dressed a lot more quicker than me and while I was tending to my poor feet, she went down and filled up our mugs again. For a late breakfast or early lunch we had pop tarts, little cans of peaches and Sprite.
We finally made our way to the bus stop around 11:30. I just wasnt moving very fast today. Wonder why?
Our bus arrived just under 5 minutes, and we were walking in to the Studios by noon. Boy it is hot today. 99 and humidity is over 100 %. All of the waits were horrible, but got in line for the Little Mermaid show. Wait was 50 minutes but Fast Pass return was after 5 by now. Mermaid show good as before and the cool theater felt good to me
Before we left home, I had purchased little fans that hung around your neck. I also got a new battery charger and rechargeable batteries. These fans worked really well until today. I think the little motors just burned themselves out. Unfortunately, mine died in line for Mermaid. I had looked at the misting fans and decided that they may get "too heavy" by the end of the day to have hanging off your shoulder.
The Animation Courtyard Shops, just down from Mermaid had the little fans like we had so we got 2 replacements, as Karas had started acting up before we got into Mermaid.
Bear in the Big Blue House show was not until 2:45, so we found the villains stuff at The Beverly Sunset store next. I found some shirts for me and hats for both of us. They did have some Fantasmic shirts ½ price so got one each for both of us. Had stuff shipped to room. Had a real nice CM and he even gave us couple of villain post cards.
Made our way back over to Bear and had a 20 minute wait or so. This show is really cute, but the floor is very hard while you are sitting. We were directly in front of the house about 3 or 4 rows back. You can video tape and take all of the pictures you want during the show. 2 little girls were selected to "dance" about half way through the show. Kara was sad that she couldnt get her picture taken with Bear but got one of her sitting on the steps of his house after the show.
After Bear, noticed that the Great Movie Ride wait was under 15 minutes so got on this next. We had the gangster version. Kara liked this also. As we came out of the ride found a Green Army Man and Geppetto and got pictures and autographs. They were moving the characters from front of Movie Ride due to the parade.
By now it was around 4 p.m. and we started making our way out of the park walking down the main street. Wanted to get out of the park before the parade started. We got to the boat dock and waited about 2 minutes for the boat to the Yacht Club (YC) and Beach Club (BC). We were getting ready for a few
Surprises
First, we were meeting for the first time another family from the Dis: Harry, (HarryC), his wife Cathy and dd Meghan Carey from Scotland. We had been emailing back and forth since early April when Harry had posted about sharing an Illuminations cruise. We had Surprise PS at Camp Café May at 5:30 and then yet another 2 more Surprises after dinner.
stay tuned for part 2 of day 4
This is a repost of our trip last July from the old boards - by request!
CAST:
Marla - me
Kara - the kid 9
DAY 4 - Wednesday, July 19 MGM/Disney Studios EE, sleep in, Studios,
What, it's time to get up already?!
Where did I leave off? Oh yes, Kara stating that she will be able to crawl out of bed at 6 so she can ride Tower of Terror and RocknRoller first thing. HA HA mommy said!
I did make a wake up call for 8:00 a.m. The phone rang and Kara didnt move at all. I answered the phone and promptly went right back to sleep. Oh my legs are hurting this morning. I dont even want to look at my feet.
Kara finally woke up around 9:30 and crawled out of her bed and into mine. We snuggled for a couple of minutes and then she said time to get moving mom! Yeah, right kiddo. As I put my feet on the floor, Kara hollered, "Mom look at your feet, bet they hurt." I had developed blisters on my blisters. I quickly found my Motrin and hobbled both of us into the shower. Did feel some what better after shower. Kara is dressed a lot more quicker than me and while I was tending to my poor feet, she went down and filled up our mugs again. For a late breakfast or early lunch we had pop tarts, little cans of peaches and Sprite.
We finally made our way to the bus stop around 11:30. I just wasnt moving very fast today. Wonder why?
Our bus arrived just under 5 minutes, and we were walking in to the Studios by noon. Boy it is hot today. 99 and humidity is over 100 %. All of the waits were horrible, but got in line for the Little Mermaid show. Wait was 50 minutes but Fast Pass return was after 5 by now. Mermaid show good as before and the cool theater felt good to me
Before we left home, I had purchased little fans that hung around your neck. I also got a new battery charger and rechargeable batteries. These fans worked really well until today. I think the little motors just burned themselves out. Unfortunately, mine died in line for Mermaid. I had looked at the misting fans and decided that they may get "too heavy" by the end of the day to have hanging off your shoulder.
The Animation Courtyard Shops, just down from Mermaid had the little fans like we had so we got 2 replacements, as Karas had started acting up before we got into Mermaid.
Bear in the Big Blue House show was not until 2:45, so we found the villains stuff at The Beverly Sunset store next. I found some shirts for me and hats for both of us. They did have some Fantasmic shirts ½ price so got one each for both of us. Had stuff shipped to room. Had a real nice CM and he even gave us couple of villain post cards.
Made our way back over to Bear and had a 20 minute wait or so. This show is really cute, but the floor is very hard while you are sitting. We were directly in front of the house about 3 or 4 rows back. You can video tape and take all of the pictures you want during the show. 2 little girls were selected to "dance" about half way through the show. Kara was sad that she couldnt get her picture taken with Bear but got one of her sitting on the steps of his house after the show.
After Bear, noticed that the Great Movie Ride wait was under 15 minutes so got on this next. We had the gangster version. Kara liked this also. As we came out of the ride found a Green Army Man and Geppetto and got pictures and autographs. They were moving the characters from front of Movie Ride due to the parade.
By now it was around 4 p.m. and we started making our way out of the park walking down the main street. Wanted to get out of the park before the parade started. We got to the boat dock and waited about 2 minutes for the boat to the Yacht Club (YC) and Beach Club (BC). We were getting ready for a few
Surprises
First, we were meeting for the first time another family from the Dis: Harry, (HarryC), his wife Cathy and dd Meghan Carey from Scotland. We had been emailing back and forth since early April when Harry had posted about sharing an Illuminations cruise. We had Surprise PS at Camp Café May at 5:30 and then yet another 2 more Surprises after dinner.
stay tuned for part 2 of day 4
