Wednesday, April 1 2009
Disney Hollywood Studios
I’m really not sure how the wake up went this morning because I wasn’t the first one up. I know Grandma and Daddy didn’t get in until way late because Grandma actually flew into Sanford Airport NOT the Orlando Airport. Daniel made the discovery before she landed and was in route the extra 40 some miles to pick her up. Life is always an adventure when you travel
The boys all slept through the rearranging and organizing and were very happy to see Grandma this morning. Daddy and Joey were going to stay in the room and join the rest of us at the park later so Daniel took our dirty clothes downstairs to the resort laundry mat to wash them. Then at 8:30 Grandma and Mommy took Alan and Eddie down to the bus and headed to Disney Hollywood Studios.
We arrived to the park right before they opened. We had plenty of time to take Grandma and activate her ticket. Thank God Daniel was thinking ahead and gave me his active duty military id to be successful with this task!!! Then we asked some park employees about the park entrance for breakfast. They gave us directions to the restaurant and we headed in that direction once they opened the gates to the park.
We had 10:10am reservations to eat breakfast with Jo Jo and Little Einsteins from Playhouse Disney at the Play N’ Dine at Hollywood & Vine restaurant. It was only 9am, but the lady said it was no problem if we were hungry we could go right in!! We got to meet Leo and June from Little Einsteins and Jo Jo and her Lion while we had a great buffet to include Mickey waffles. They had little mini shows with music for the kids to sing and dance along with the characters!!
After breakfast we caught park of the High School Musical 3 show going on at the Sorcerer’s hat and headed to Animation Courtyard.
There was only a 5 minute wait to see the Play House Disney Live on Stage show where we helped Mickey and the gang throw Minnie Mouse a Surprise Birthday Party. We had to use the tools in OH Toodles: Handy Many, Little Einsteins, and My Friends Tiger and Pooh to prepare for the party. Goofy needed help making the cake and the story with Handy Many showed him how to work together to get a big job done. Then Donald got help from the Little Einsteins to see how an overwhelming job could be accomplished with cheering and encouragement from your friends. He was able to get help from his audience friends to write Minnie a song for her birthday present. Finally Daisy needed help hanging the birthday banner and we saw how Our Friends Tiger and Pooh asked their friends for help to get a kite unstuck from a tree.
When the show let out we say there was no wait at the Magic of Disney Animation. The lady explained all the planning that goes into the characters of an animated movie. Mushu from Mulan was the example they used to see how much they change as the movie develops. He wasn’t even supposed to be a dragon when they were first developing the movie then he evolved into 2 dragons from there a 2 headed dragon and from there the little red dragon we all know and love.
The exit from the presentation allowed us to look at some amazing artifacts of animation and they even had a real live artist drawing in one exhibit. When we walked a little farther we saw you could meet characters!!
We got in line to meet Sorcerer Mickey. Daniel called to say he and Joey had arrived at the park and would wait for us to finish.
There was also a line to meet characters for the movie bolt. The boys really wanted to meet them too so we got in line and sent Daddy and Joey off to lunch. I got to practice my Spanish with a family from Mexico while we waited in line. Bolt left just 2 groups before us and we only got to meet the hamster named, Rhino. The boys didn’t seem too upset by this as we haven’t seen the movie yet.
The last line was to meet the Incredibles. We got to meet Elastagirl because the others were on break.
Meeting all these characters took a VERY VERY long time!!! We called Daddy and Joey when we finished and they were just finishing lunch and we ALL needed a potty break. It was off to the Commissary to find them.
After our pit stop it was off to get Fast Pass Tickets to the Atar Tours Star Wars flight simulator ride. I noticed the guy working was named Diego and looked a lot like the character from Nick that Eddie LOVES named Diego. I hollered for the big boys and we took a picture with him. Eddie thinks he was the real Diego and was soooo amazed.
Then we were of to catch the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show. We got to see how they do the cool car/motor cycle stunts in movies. They had cars that were identical only one had the driver facing out the back making it appear that the cars was going backwards. They also had cars were the driver was in a go kart like contraption on the back side of the car making the car appear to drive itself like the infamous #53 Herbie. There were lots of stunts, explosions and action on the set. This is a must see show!!!
Then the tall people headed to the Star Wars ride while Mommy and Joey went to look for the Toy Story ride to get Fast Pass Tickets. We were unsuccessful as the ride is soooo popular ALL the Fast Pass tickets were used up before 3pm for the whole day!!! What a disappointment
We went back to the Star Wars ride to wait for the tall people and bought a popsicle while we waited. We got caught and Alan and Eddie talked Daddy into buying them ice cream treats too.
We went to the Great Movie Ride where you watch clips of all kinds of classic movies while you wait in line. Then you get in a vehicle to tour through scenes from all kinds of movies. My favorite was Wizzard of Oz where the Munchkins sang.
It was raining when we got done with this ride, but we didn’t let that get us down. We headed to check the wait time for the Toy Story Midway Mania and were surprised it was 110 minutes wait time!! No way could our crew handle that much waiting so we went to the Journey Into Narnia: Prince Caspian 15 minute show from the movie.
When the show let out it was still over 100 minute wait for Toy Story so we proceeded to find Lighting McQueen and Mater from Cars.
When we finished meeting Mater and Lighting McQueen there was less than a 10 minute wait for the Muppets Vision 3D show so we headed in that direction.
It was a great 3D interactive show totally Disney style and one of Grandma’s favorites of the day!!!
The show let out just in time to get in line for the very last showing of the Indinan Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!!. The “30 minuted live show featuring edge-of-your-seat stunts and adventure included extras from the audience. You guessed it Mommy got to be in the show!!!
They tell me Joey knew it was me on stage and fussed wanting to sit with me. He practically jumped in my arms when I got back to the seats!!
We went to check the wait time on Toy Story again and it was up to 120 minutes. We were fried and no way gonna make a 2 hr wait. Daniel went to get a Fast Pass for the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and the rest of us went to scope out the American Idol stuff. We decided the boys were too tired and the American Idol wasn’t worth it so we went to find Daniel. He had no luck as the Fast Pass Tickets ran out for that ride, but he got some for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. We were all soooo tired we gave them to some teen age boy near by and headed out of the park to catch the bus to our hotel. We threw the boys in the tub and just finished pizza. We are hanging out with grandma and about to go to bed for the night. Stay tuned for details from Epcot tomorrow.
Disney Hollywood Studios
I’m really not sure how the wake up went this morning because I wasn’t the first one up. I know Grandma and Daddy didn’t get in until way late because Grandma actually flew into Sanford Airport NOT the Orlando Airport. Daniel made the discovery before she landed and was in route the extra 40 some miles to pick her up. Life is always an adventure when you travel
The boys all slept through the rearranging and organizing and were very happy to see Grandma this morning. Daddy and Joey were going to stay in the room and join the rest of us at the park later so Daniel took our dirty clothes downstairs to the resort laundry mat to wash them. Then at 8:30 Grandma and Mommy took Alan and Eddie down to the bus and headed to Disney Hollywood Studios.
We arrived to the park right before they opened. We had plenty of time to take Grandma and activate her ticket. Thank God Daniel was thinking ahead and gave me his active duty military id to be successful with this task!!! Then we asked some park employees about the park entrance for breakfast. They gave us directions to the restaurant and we headed in that direction once they opened the gates to the park.
We had 10:10am reservations to eat breakfast with Jo Jo and Little Einsteins from Playhouse Disney at the Play N’ Dine at Hollywood & Vine restaurant. It was only 9am, but the lady said it was no problem if we were hungry we could go right in!! We got to meet Leo and June from Little Einsteins and Jo Jo and her Lion while we had a great buffet to include Mickey waffles. They had little mini shows with music for the kids to sing and dance along with the characters!!
After breakfast we caught park of the High School Musical 3 show going on at the Sorcerer’s hat and headed to Animation Courtyard.
There was only a 5 minute wait to see the Play House Disney Live on Stage show where we helped Mickey and the gang throw Minnie Mouse a Surprise Birthday Party. We had to use the tools in OH Toodles: Handy Many, Little Einsteins, and My Friends Tiger and Pooh to prepare for the party. Goofy needed help making the cake and the story with Handy Many showed him how to work together to get a big job done. Then Donald got help from the Little Einsteins to see how an overwhelming job could be accomplished with cheering and encouragement from your friends. He was able to get help from his audience friends to write Minnie a song for her birthday present. Finally Daisy needed help hanging the birthday banner and we saw how Our Friends Tiger and Pooh asked their friends for help to get a kite unstuck from a tree.
When the show let out we say there was no wait at the Magic of Disney Animation. The lady explained all the planning that goes into the characters of an animated movie. Mushu from Mulan was the example they used to see how much they change as the movie develops. He wasn’t even supposed to be a dragon when they were first developing the movie then he evolved into 2 dragons from there a 2 headed dragon and from there the little red dragon we all know and love.
The exit from the presentation allowed us to look at some amazing artifacts of animation and they even had a real live artist drawing in one exhibit. When we walked a little farther we saw you could meet characters!!
We got in line to meet Sorcerer Mickey. Daniel called to say he and Joey had arrived at the park and would wait for us to finish.
There was also a line to meet characters for the movie bolt. The boys really wanted to meet them too so we got in line and sent Daddy and Joey off to lunch. I got to practice my Spanish with a family from Mexico while we waited in line. Bolt left just 2 groups before us and we only got to meet the hamster named, Rhino. The boys didn’t seem too upset by this as we haven’t seen the movie yet.
The last line was to meet the Incredibles. We got to meet Elastagirl because the others were on break.
Meeting all these characters took a VERY VERY long time!!! We called Daddy and Joey when we finished and they were just finishing lunch and we ALL needed a potty break. It was off to the Commissary to find them.
After our pit stop it was off to get Fast Pass Tickets to the Atar Tours Star Wars flight simulator ride. I noticed the guy working was named Diego and looked a lot like the character from Nick that Eddie LOVES named Diego. I hollered for the big boys and we took a picture with him. Eddie thinks he was the real Diego and was soooo amazed.
Then we were of to catch the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show. We got to see how they do the cool car/motor cycle stunts in movies. They had cars that were identical only one had the driver facing out the back making it appear that the cars was going backwards. They also had cars were the driver was in a go kart like contraption on the back side of the car making the car appear to drive itself like the infamous #53 Herbie. There were lots of stunts, explosions and action on the set. This is a must see show!!!
Then the tall people headed to the Star Wars ride while Mommy and Joey went to look for the Toy Story ride to get Fast Pass Tickets. We were unsuccessful as the ride is soooo popular ALL the Fast Pass tickets were used up before 3pm for the whole day!!! What a disappointment
We went back to the Star Wars ride to wait for the tall people and bought a popsicle while we waited. We got caught and Alan and Eddie talked Daddy into buying them ice cream treats too.
We went to the Great Movie Ride where you watch clips of all kinds of classic movies while you wait in line. Then you get in a vehicle to tour through scenes from all kinds of movies. My favorite was Wizzard of Oz where the Munchkins sang.
It was raining when we got done with this ride, but we didn’t let that get us down. We headed to check the wait time for the Toy Story Midway Mania and were surprised it was 110 minutes wait time!! No way could our crew handle that much waiting so we went to the Journey Into Narnia: Prince Caspian 15 minute show from the movie.
When the show let out it was still over 100 minute wait for Toy Story so we proceeded to find Lighting McQueen and Mater from Cars.
When we finished meeting Mater and Lighting McQueen there was less than a 10 minute wait for the Muppets Vision 3D show so we headed in that direction.
It was a great 3D interactive show totally Disney style and one of Grandma’s favorites of the day!!!
The show let out just in time to get in line for the very last showing of the Indinan Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!!. The “30 minuted live show featuring edge-of-your-seat stunts and adventure included extras from the audience. You guessed it Mommy got to be in the show!!!
They tell me Joey knew it was me on stage and fussed wanting to sit with me. He practically jumped in my arms when I got back to the seats!!
We went to check the wait time on Toy Story again and it was up to 120 minutes. We were fried and no way gonna make a 2 hr wait. Daniel went to get a Fast Pass for the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and the rest of us went to scope out the American Idol stuff. We decided the boys were too tired and the American Idol wasn’t worth it so we went to find Daniel. He had no luck as the Fast Pass Tickets ran out for that ride, but he got some for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. We were all soooo tired we gave them to some teen age boy near by and headed out of the park to catch the bus to our hotel. We threw the boys in the tub and just finished pizza. We are hanging out with grandma and about to go to bed for the night. Stay tuned for details from Epcot tomorrow.
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