Tuesday September 7th.
I was excited when we woke up this morning. Only one more night of Pop and then we could check in at Riverside and we were headed to a park that I knew I could manage well....Hollywood Studios!
We made it to Hollywood Studios in plenty of time for rope drop and we were able to wait in the nice shaded area before the turnstiles. All the parks should be designed that way! Soon enough we were let on to Hollywood Blvd (I think that is what they call it) to wait for the little show they have going on. It seemed to be a shorter version of what they normally do but I think that was because it was less than 5 minutes until 9AM.
We had a rope drop plan of course, Marc had our park tickets, he was on fastpass duty and I was going to go wait at the beginning of the line for him to be done. It was an uneventful rope drop, Marc followed the rule quite nicely and I waited at the beginning of the line. In January they allowed parties to get in line and then let their fastpass runner meet up with them, I don't like doing this but this trip, you had to have your entire party with you. I like that better. I think it makes for less confusion in line.
Marc picked the slowest fastpass machine, I guess it was having problems but finally he was able to get our fastpasses and we hopped in line. While we were in line, he told me about this mean woman in a
scooter, apparently she was getting a fastpass and the little girl behind her went to go ahead of her...the lady threw out her arm so hard that the little girl fell. Marc couldn't believe the mother didn't say anything to the woman but the little girl was sobbing I guess. Marc said he felt so bad. It wasn't like the little girl even had her ticket to get ahead of her, it was just RUDE.
In line Marc was talking a good game, about how he was going to kick my butt and was I prepared to cry. I just kinda listenend to him, he was being so funny that the guy in front of us was laughing at him, teasing him about being competitive.
I am HAPPY to report that I kicked Marc's butt...by a lot!
I was thrilled, I had a little spring in my step. That is what you get you when you are cocky!
After our ride, Marc headed to Tower of Terror and Rock N' Roller Coaster. I headed to Voyage of the Little Mermaid. I just adore this show, it makes me so happy to be sitting in the theater watching it.
I had a huge smile on my face when I left the show. I headed back over to Toy Story Mania. I bought Marc a pressed penny of Wheezy because he informed me earlier that he was his favorite Toy Story character and then I got us another set of TSM fastpasses.
Marc meanwhile rode TOT twice and Rock N' Roller coaster twice. He was thrilled with both of his rides but he told me that he thought he liked the acutal R&R ride better than TOT but TOT won for themeing. He said that TOT had less than a 5 minute wait both times he rode and then it jumped a bit and then he had less than a 10 minute wait for R&R both times.
I looked around at the pin shop under the Sorcerer's hat while I waited for Marc to meet back up with me. When he made his way over to me, I was munching on a mini clif bar on the bench, making sure I ate something before our lunch.
We decided to ride Great Movie Ride while we waited for our TSM fastpasses to be ready.
I didn't believe it but we actually got the gangster side!! I always get the cowboy side ALWAYS!! This was only the second time I have ever seen the gangster side, I was thrilled.
I didn't take as many pictures as I usually do because I wanted to enjoy this first ride. Like always, I enjoyed the movie clips. I'm a sap but I get a little teary eyed at places.
After our ride it was time for another Toy Story show down!
Coming up....
Does Lightening Leslie or Macho Marc take the win??
I'm so sorry for all of the trouble you had with eating. I hope you decided to get another ice cream later in the week.
I hope it got better, but I can only imagine how frustrating it must have been! I am glad you all were still having a good time on the rides, etc. even though some of the "non-ride" time was UNFUN! Hoping for more magical pixie dust and WONDERFUL memories to come!
The Great Movie Ride. We always get the gangster. I think we got the cowboy once.
I can't wait to ride it again this trip. I've never been through the standby line at TSM either. I need to do that at least once so that I can see Mr. Potato Head. 
