Ummmm I am a slacker and started this 1.5 weeks ago! So I truly want to finish this before I leave in less than two weeks
Its 3 full days and a short day
. Its possible right? I imagine it will be much shorter in than I have been doing and mostly pictures after this update!
So here I am on a Saturday morning
I have been up since 4 because well, joyously the power went out
. GRRRRR! So yeah, I am thrilled
I have been pretty busy the past few weeks
months
maybe even years
. Well right now I am not busy
My power is out. Which is no fun in December thankfully we are not in the subarctic cold streak we had just a few days ago. I guess, since it is pitch black, I am unable to do much I will sit here and keep a fire going to help heat the house and work on my TR. After all, I would like to get this finished before my upcoming trip! Which I might add is only three weeks away!!! Three weeks from now I will be sitting in an airport, sipping some Starbucks and waiting for the next fiasco that makes me buying EBCI useless (There always seems to be something, late for the airport, potty break, diaper change
.)
So here it goes!
Today was our Hollywood Studios day we were running a little behind. It was a typical morning of getting things together, making a quick breakfast and getting the kids portable breakfast going. Soon enough we were out to our car and headed for a morning at Hollywood Studios. This morning Olive proved to be beast like
Rivaling many of the villains at Disney at the time
. Well, we started our morning by making a dash to TSM. The wait was relatively short, I am thinking about 20 min, so after grabbing fastpasses who headed right on. Zoey had so much fun on this ride! We sat together and while my score wasnt so fab either, Zoey did manage to score about 1000 points, which I think is pretty good for a girl who never plays video games
It just a few minutes we were off, and Olive still wanted nothing to do with the 3D glasses as we put them in the sanitizing bin. Her ride must have been interesting, kind of like me walking around without my contacts in straight up blurry! Well, since we had a while to wait on our FP time we headed across the way to meet Buzz & Woody
.. This is where Olive became defiant. We were waiting in line, had one cute photo together and then she decided she wanted freedom and nothing would appease her. We tried and after a few minutes Zack ended up leaving with her to go for a walk. No one wants to stand in line and listen to a kid being a beast we figured.
This was a semi reoccurring theme, on so many trips I have been the baby/child watcher while everyone goes off. Not this time! Zoey and I stayed, and we eventually met Buzz & Woody. It seemed to take forever, however there was an entertaining family next to us with kids in the same age range as Zoey. So after a few quick photos and Zoey sneaking out a quiet Theres a snake in my boot we went out looking for Zack. Who happened to be waiting right outside the exit. Yay! no searching especially since I dont think I had my cell phone.
So now it is 6:17 real time
Still no power
Our next house it will have a standby generator!! Our living room is warm but I imagine the girls bedrooms are getting cold. I am not going to wake them until at least the sun comes up though
. Hopefully they turn the power on soon
So we still had time to burn before we could ride TSM again so we ventured off to the Animators Courtyard. Olive was still yearning to be free so Zack took her on a walk around the very empty building. There is this sunken in circular area with Mickeys handprints that he was able to contain her in while he relaxed. There was three character meets here Sorcerer Mickey, Ralph & Venellope and Mr Incredible & Frozone. There was also the character drawing class, which we did not do because of Zack already off with Olive. While we waited for the Mickey meet and greet to open we played with the terminals that have that game about what character you are most like
We had some fun, we were very silly and then we noticed the meet & greet was to open shortly so we walked over and stood in line
It was a short line, and again I was phoneless, it would have been nice for Olive to meet this Mickey as Sorcerer Mickey is one of her favorite stuffed animals
However aside from hunting Zack down there was no way for me to get ahold of him. There is always next time though!! We met Mickey and got some pictures and Zack showed up
2 minutes too late of course
The next M&G to open up was Ralph & Venellope. This line seemed to take quite a while. However, Zoey loves the movie and who knows how long the M&G will last. The one neat thing they had in the queue was little video game like terminals the girls played with these even though they had no clue what they were doing
We finally arrived to meet Ralph, well apparently he was a little too huge for Olives liking so Zack went to the side where they did not tower over her. We had finished, and checked the Incredibles time
Still had 10-15 minutes to wait, while not too long it can be when you have a beastish like toddler named Olive
.
Free Play while waiting for our FP
Hmmm I wonder if Zoey noticed she had one less finger than mickey
.
So our FP window opened up TSM seemed like the logical place to go. On the way out we wandered and I grabbed my favorite picture of my family
I did notice Sofia meeting outside the Disney Jr area, the girls do not really know who she is so the incredibly long line was not worth enduring in my opinion. I am thinking for Christmas of picking up a Sofia & Doc McStuffins DVD for the girls as stocking stuffers. Hopefully I get this up by then.
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Just to add I failed on both of those!....)
Ugh
Huge let down what sounded like a big old utility truck turned out to be the town salting and sanding
Boooooo! Luckily the kids are still sleeping
I never realized how late the sun comes up
6:44 and still super dark out
.
Well, we rode TSM again and I rode with Olive, and again she went for the blurry experience and neglected to wear her 3D glasses. We were debating on going to meet Mike & Sulley so Olive could show them what a good monster/scarer she is
Seriously this kid practices her RAWRs! Very funny when you walk into the local store and she is rawring at people with her arms up trying to be all tough
Zack was hungry so we went over to Fairfax Fare and grabbed a greasy lunch. It was pretty early and very empty. There was only us and a few other people. There was a family with 2 young boys. These boys were picking on the birds that hang around to feed off of whatever people drop. The parents thought it was funny and didnt seem to think there was any harm in what they were doing. I probably should have said something. However, I felt it wouldnt have mattered because they saw the behavior and didnt care
Well, apparently I didnt need to say a thing. Just seconds later another family sat down with a young girl who appeared to be 8-9 years old
Man she told these little boys!! I wanted to give her a high five. She stepped in between them, took the bottle they were kicking towards the birds and basically told these little kids they were mean. She had her little hands on her hips and intimidated them. Once they sat down the little girl went back to her lunch
. If those little boys even looked sideways at those birds she glared them down!! Way to go little girl fighting for the small guys.
Well in a brilliant move after our lunch we went over to the Tower Of Terror
. I was concerned this would be too dark and scary for Zoey. I knew she would love the free fall feeling but the moments leading up to it might be a bit much
We grabbed a rider swap pass and Zoey and I went on first
Ok
I stood near the TV so there would be some light
. I also brought my phone just in case
. So we make it through the waiting room
. Ok so far so good
. She starts to become a little apprehensive of the basement area so I am ready to chicken out with her, but then her mood changes and shes all about why no one cleans at this place. Why is it so dusty and dirty
Really? This is what you end up being concerned with? Ok works for me! We rode it, she seemed did not seem to love the ride until the drop
She loved that part and to her it was worth sitting through the rest as we skipped out to Daddy so they could ride together
The people in front of us all had their arms up so no picture of us, but we did manage to get one of her second ride
..
Before riding ToT
While Olive and I waited for Zack she was getting thirsty so I tried to get milk from the coffee stand outside the exit of ToT
I stood there and waited and waited
The kid manning the stand seemed more concerned with his cell phone than helping me
I know we all enjoy texting and social networking
but really
. If I didnt need milk I would not have purchased it from the Joffery stand but Olive was getting thirsty and it was too warm out to let her wait a few minutes
. So after I say something, and he finished up his conversation. With no good excuse by the way, I finally get milk for Olive. Yes, I did take his name, the time and report it to guest services. I really try not to complain but poor service is a HUGE peeve of mine. If he was trying to finish stocking or something work related I wouldnt have said anything, but it was very obvious he was on his personal cell phone. The CM at guest services said he would pass the complaint along to Jofferys and that was the best he could do. I found this to be perfectly reasonable.
Alright --- Now where was I
Ok so after the Tower of Terror We decided to head over to Star Tours
On the way we stopped and purchased a Disney Dooney wristlet worked great for carrying my phone and wallet when I didnt have them tucked into my camera bag. So after this short detour we walked over to Star Tours, the wait was short and it was getting hot so Olive and I wandered around, ducking into Tatooine Traders for some AC, checking out the Jedi Training getting a couple quick shots of this guy
And this thing
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Well Zack and Zoey came out, surprisingly she did not love this ride like the other thrill rides, she seemed grumpy and I think that the heat and stimulation were getting to her. So instead of attempting another go at it, or heading over to Monster Inc M&G we decided to leave. We walked out, stopped in another gift shop for some much needed AC and then headed out to the short trek to our car.
Next up
MNSSHP!!!