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[b]Day 6: Part 2: MGM at Night and the lights Fantasmic!

<font color="red">Next we wander our way back over to Star Tours. Another first for us. We get on our ship in about 4 minutes and off we go. the ride! Chuck especially likes the effects. We disembark and move on to Muppets Vision 3D. Of course we have to stop and get a picture of Chuck on the Speeder Bike.



We get right in and wait for about 3 minutes before they let us into the theater. Not as great as Mickey’s Philharmagic or Tough to Be a Bug but still good. After leaving 3D, we head over to the ABC Commissary and grab a drink. On our way, we get sidetracked by the Monster’s Inc Characters. Who am I to pass up a character greet and meet? They do not sign or stamp books so we get our picture taken.



We go get our drink and people watch for a bit. I want to head over to the Magic of Disney Animation because I love it so much. We discuss other options and we agree to head there next. I snap a couple of the pictures of the sketches on the buildings.</font>



I just loved how the trees made this on look.



<font color="red">We wait for about 15 minutes as a group just entered into the theater right as we got there. I love seeing the different phases how a character comes about.We finally get in the auditorium and here all about Mushu. We exit and go into the interactive area. Of course, I know that the Incredibles are here, and we go stand in line for them. WOW….these guys are popular. We wait for about 25 minutes, and I finally get to see them. Chuck is wielding the camera as well as the Disney photographers. Mrs. Incredible stamps for both her and Mr..Incredible. Now a total of 6 pictures are taken between the two cameras. In every single one of them, it looks like I am copping a feel on Mr. Incredible’s behind. See for yourself!!</font>


My Picture


Disney’s Picture

<font color="red">After groping Mr. Incredible, we head back out as the Disney Stars nad Motor Cars Parade. We actually get pretty good seats right in front of the Brown Derby. We have about a 15 minute wait before the first car arrives. My pictures are not great because I had a very rude person cut right in front of me with his video camera. I voiced politely to the man that he cut right in front of me, and he just looked at me acting as he could not understand English. OK…I don’t press the issue. About 5 minutes later the man is speaking perfect English to someone standing by Chuck. Arrrggghhhh! Anyway, here are the pictures I am able to get.</font>








Took this one by just putting my camera up in the air in the general direction.



<font color="red">We have some time before our dinner so we go over to The Great Movie Ride. We get through the line in about 20 minutes and go through the history of movies. We go through the cowboy side. I love the end of this ride with all the clips. We exit and I have to go get some pictures of the hand and footprints.





Our PS for the Brown Derby is for 5:50pm, and we check in about 5:38pm. Now as we are at the desk, this lady out of nowhere comes flying up to the desk, pushes chuck aside and begins yelling, no let me take that back, screaming at the host. She keeps saying that she put her name in 30 minutes ago and her party of 9 is still waiting. She has seen many people come in after her and go right in. Now the host is trying his best to explain that the people she has witnessed going in before her, had a PS and she came in as a walk-in. This goes back and forth for about 10 minutes. Another host gets us checked in and as we turn to go sit down and wait, she turns on us. Ok…this is not the thing to do to Chuck. He rather calmly explains that if she would have planned ahead like his wife did, she wouldn’t be having this problem. He then says that this is the happiest place on Earth and if she can’t find the joy of being in WDW, not to ruin it for the others. I cannot help but smile. She then states that if we get in before her family does, she will be going to the highest person in Disney and letting them know what happened to her.</font>


Chuck after telling the lady off.

<font color="red">Yep, at this point, I am hoping that we get in before her. The manager comes and tries to explain the same thing that many before him failed. Well, he fails as well. He walks into the dining room and somehow finds a way to get a party of nine seated. Now, he tells they have a table ready and guess what??? She has to go get everyone from outside. We are called while she is gathering her family. Now, Tim, I believe, the host from the beginning must have said something to the manager about how she turned on us. As we are being seated, he comes over with two glasses of champagne for us having to deal with the lady. Very cool!!! We thank him and he asks Chuck what he said. The manager laughs and tells us to enjoy our dinner. He lets us know the family is on the other side of the restaurant so there shouldn’t be any worries.

Our waitress comes and we order the Cobb Salad for Two and the Filets. Chuck and I start talking about Fantasmic and how we are glad we decided to the Fantasmic dinner package. We thought about skipping it this time around, but it was one of the last things I had mom change. Our salad comes and we devour this thing. I the Cobb salad. It is just so yummy!! Next, we get our entrees. We both got the Filet Mignons and oh my goodness were they tender. They practically melt in our mouths. Now, I am stuffed but Chuck refuses to pass on dessert. I cannot remember what he ordered at this point but I known it was good as he cleans the plate. We sign our receipt and head out back into MGM.

We snap this picture right outside of the Brown Derby.



We have about 30 minutes before we have to head to the back entrance into Fantasmic. We find the spot to get our EMH bracelets and then just go through some of the stores. We head to the back entrance and make our way into the reserved seating. We get pretty good seats about in the 4th row. We love the show just like we did last time. Here are the pictures that are presentable for show.











We head out of the stadium and head directly to ToT and RnR. They are still giving Fastpass to ToT so we grab one of those and head to RnR again. Only showing a 25 minute wait and we get through pretty quickly. We find a hoodie that Chuck loves in the gift shop after RnR but they do not have it in his size. I try and console him with ice cream. We have about 30 minutes before our time opens up for ToT and I get an ice cream Mickey sandwich for me and a Mickey bar for him. We start talking about how tomorrow is our last day. We are a little down but refuse to let it take away from the time we have left. We finish our snacks and head over to ToT. We are still a few minutes early. Finally, our time opens up, and we are in.

All I can say is that it is a totally different experience at night as well. Still awesome but really different. We end up buying our picture this time around and head into the gift shop. Now Chuck finally finds a hoodie that he likes and is in his size. Phew!! It takes about 15 minutes to check out for some reason and we head back out to the other shops. I cannot resist going into the Pooh shop and I buy one of the bigger plush Eeyores in a sleepshirt and nightcap. Do I have her put it in the bag? Nope…I carry it the rest of the evening. We head to the bus stops a little early and luck out. We hop on a bus right away that isn’t even filled to capacity.

We make it back to our home in Aruba and as I start the depressing task of packing, Chuck calls Guest Services again and tries to get our meal problem worked out. They say that it will show by tomorrow morning. We then call and get a time for them to pick up our luggage to store while we are in the parks tomorrow. We set the wake-up call and finish packing. It is here we discover we do not have enough room for everything. Uh-oh! We put what doesn’t fit in the luggage into a bag and decide, we’ll just have to buy another carry-on bag. Oh darn!

We take a shower and head to bed.</font>

LAST DAY: One Last Look at the Magic Kingdom &amp; the Quest Ends