Day 4!
Well, as promised I woke Bob up at the crack of dawn.
There is no way after seeing the madness at the big rides at Epcot yesterday that I was missing RD at Hollywood Studios of all places. We showered, watched some more Stacey as we got ready
(what can I say
we love her!) and headed out the door to see some movie magic!
As we were standing in line about 30 minutes before RD, I was trying to figure out the best route to TSM. This is what I was most worried about this trip, getting on TSM with the quickness. We were in WDW last May and we missed the soft opening by only a week! So, I have been super excited for this all year! I was looking around - eyeing my competition if you will
- when I see a few cast members standing together in a huddle. I point to them and lean over and say to Bob that they will be picking The Family of the Day soon. I literally just got done telling what that means and tell him to keep his eye open on all of the families (because I am nosey
and we were guessing who may get chosen) when all of a sudden there is a tap on my shoulder and a CM standing there introducing herself to us. Her name was Kimberly and she asked a little bit about ourselves and why we were in WDW. We told her that we were celebrating our 1st anniversary and my birthday and she asked if we would like to help her open the park
I immediately started smacking Bobs arm screaming OHMYLORDYESSSYESYESYESYESSSSS!!!!!
So, we go into Guest Relations and Kimberly gets us some drinks, and talks to us about our trip and where we are from. She talked to us about the Penguins and how many times we have been to ESPN already
.
(Apparently our sports enthusiasm showed.) No judgement of course
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She explains that we are going to be part of the opening "movie" that they will be filming and that we will be getting into a car that was owned by Walt Disney personally, that several presidents have been in.
We'll be picked up, "shoot our scene" and then will be taken down Sunset Blvd in the car, and got to choose between either RnRC or ToT to have the 1st ride of the day - ALONE.
So, after some deliberation we chose RnRC! (Which ended up being a great choice because the rest of the day and the next day that we were at DHS, the line for RnRC was cr-a-a-a-zy. So that was the only time we rode it the entire trip)
We then walk out of the building and she weaves us through the crowd and past the rope. She takes our picture in front of the hat all by ourselves, says that she's just going to keep my camera take pictures during and then meet us at RnRC. The film crew comes and does their skit, and a woman named Tootsie Something-Or-Other comes and picks us up in the car. We are in front of about 3,000 or 4,000 people at this point. It was so exciting! We were cast as "The Happy Couple" and we had to wait until the countdown was over and yell into the microphone "HOLLYWOOD, HERE WE COME" and then they wisked us away down Sunset and opened the rope and the floods of people poured in.
At this point, all I could think about was TSM (isnt that sad
) because I had planned on going straight there. But, as soon as we got halfway down the Blvd, it snapped out of it and hit me how awesome this is! We arrive at RnRC. We're waved to by all the CM's with their big Mickey hands and then went into the sound booth. It was sooo cool being in there alone! I commented once we got out of the room that we would have no time to search for hidden Mickey's in this line, because that's usually how we spend our time in the "alley" before we get on the ride.
So, we hop in the car and we take off! The music was cutting in and out the whole time, but we didn't care! We were still so excited! When we pull in the CM's were like "Oh, NO WAY! You're not getting off that easy! We know the sound was messed up - you're going again!"
We take off for a 2nd ride, with sound this time and it was amazing! You heard no one else screaming - it was so cool to be in there alone!
When we got off the ride, Kimberly was waiting for us. She gave us FP's for TSM, another set for any other ride of our choosing and told us that she was going to leave a package for us at Guest Services for us to pick up when we leave the park! We took some pictures with her and then went on with the rest of our day!
) But, the cake was delish and by the time we finished up, I spotted a Photo Pass person out the window in front of the landmark in Japan and we rush out the door to grab him. 
) and make our way over to Mexico. When we’re finished exploring the shops, we hitch a ride on 3 Cabaleros with no wait at all...Is anyone suprised? 
Decisions..... 
Woo hoo!
Hi Shelly! 
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