Day 7 part 8 - Best Night Ever
August 17th, 2011
When I last left you we had just watched
and were about to head our separate ways. Ron had Star Tours FPs burning a hole in his pocket, so that's where he went.
He had two FPs so he was able to go on it twice in a row. Then he tried to go on Rock N Roller Coaster, but even the single-rider line was too long. So instead he went on Tower of Terror. Fun times, but nothing special.
I, on the other hand, was in for a treat. Can you guess where I was headed? First, on the way there I took this beautiful picture of the hat at sunset.
If you guessed the Animation building, you guessed right! Can you tell it's one of my favorite place in DHS? Love this place! What I love even more is that it was around dinner time, meaning CHARACTERPALOOZA!!!!! Between about 5 and 7pm lots of random characters come out. I got in line to meet Captain Hook, but then saw the Evil Queen (from Snow White) walk past me so I followed her instead. While waiting in line I starting chatting with this lovely mom from England. her daughter and I were meeting the characters while the dad (and I think son) were off elsewhere. They were in orlando for 5 weeks!!! I guess when coming from so far, it's best to stay longer. They were spending two weeks in Disney, but had spent 3 weeks visiting other Orlando and Florida attractions before. The mom nicely offered to take my picture for me while I visited the Evil Queen.
As I walked up to meet her, the Evil Queen said, referring to my ears "Oh my, what a lovely crown you have!"
I then tried to do my best impression of an ice cold face to match hers.
Captain Hook was still there, so I got in line to meet him. The mom & daughter from England lined up behind me, so she took my picture again for me. (There were no photopass people around).
Captain Hook was nice at first, but then after he signed his autograph he noticed my book had Tinkerbell on it. He was NOT happy about that. He refused to give me back my book, and even pretended to throw it away.
I felt kinda bad, but at the same time it was hilarious! At the end he gave me back my book and finally posed for a picture.
After those great character interactions I had a choice to make. Should I meet Goofy and his son Max, or go do a drawing class? I've never really known Max, and I knew I'd meet Goofy later on in the trip, so I passed on that. I think Stitch was also out, but I had already met him (twice!). I really did not think the drawing class would be so popular, but at 6:10pm the 6:30 class was already full! So I lined up for the 7pm class and used this sitting time to catch up on my journal.
Remember how I said earlier that I was drawing Pluto for the second time. Well, I had it wrong. In the morning I drew Pluto for the first time, and that night I drew Pluto for the second time, not only of the trip but of the day. I was disappointed at first, but this time it was from a side angle so it was okay. In fact, I had a blast!
I
love this place (in case you didn't know that yet...) and could stay in there to draw characters all day. But it was already 7:30pm, we had 2 sets of FPs unused, and we had not even eaten dinner yet. So I texted Ron and we met up. We were close to
Pixar Place, so we decided to use our TSM FPs first. We again got the super fast party of 2 line, which is awesome. We had fun, but our scores were slightly lower than that morning. Still pretty high scores though!
Our last ride of the day was Tower of Terror. And boy was it awesome! Even more awesome than before. First of all, we rock our poses and buy the picture (please excuse the squirrel face I'm making, but I love how it shows how much fun I was having. And Ron's pretend scared face is funny.)
Now, what made this ride even better than usual were the people on the elevator with us. See, there was this one girl who was terrified and it was hilarious. I don't mean to make fun of her in a mean way, but she was at least late teenage years/early adult years so it's okay. She was holding on for dear life on her sister's arm, so much that her sister exclaimed "You're cutting off the blood circulation in my arm!". Another few funny lines from there were "Sorry everyone for my sister", "Why did I choose to gooooooo?" and "Everyone's laughing at you!" to which the scared sister replied "I don't care!!!". The whole elevator was laughing, especially the non-scared sister. Don't worry, the scared girl did not seem at all upset about us laughing. You can see them in the bottom left corner. It made buying this photo even more special, since we have a story related to it.
So now is the time that you get the answer to the question from the quiz "Which restaurant did we try to walk up to and did we get in?" I'll give you some time to think about it...
Up Next, Where Did We Eat?
Unfortunately, the results are inconclusive, they couldn't tell us the sex. The u\s went well, and the baby seems fine. However, the technician performing it was new (I was her first patient ever) so it took her FOREVER. Peanut seemed to have his legs opened at first, but by the time she got around to checking the sex (almost an hour later 
) his legs were firmly closed together. I think at that point he was annoyed of being poked around on the head constantly. 
Oh well. I'll most probably try to go for a private ultrasound, if the price is not ridiculously high. I just really want to know and I can't wait until birth or another ultrasound in the last few weeks.
That would annoy me SOOOO much...I feel like when that happens, they should let you come in the next day or something so you can find out the sex, it's not your fault the baby is moving around! No way would I be able to wait until giving birth! 
), etc. Phew! No wonder I feel tired! 
If everything goes as planned, it should be in about 10 days.
Glad your doctor is going to get you another ultrasound so you can see Peanut and hopefully find out if Peanut is a he or she! 
Out of the two, I surprisingly prefer Lights! Motors! Action!
Excited to find out what you are having... I will guess ... a girl
x
and thank you!!
At least I do know that Peanut is healthy, so I'm happy about that.
