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Ok are you all ready for Day 4??? I messed up in the title lmao...
Well too bad if you aren't cuz I'm ready to spill the beans...
Today was our day for Hollywood Studios. We got up around 8 or 8:30 and got ready to head out the door and grabbed Pop-Tarts. We stopped at the Food Court to fill up our mugs.
We then went and grabbed the bus to Hollywood Studios.
I was supposed to wait til Saturday to drop of Kristen C.'s packet at her resort but today actually worked out better to do that. Well we started the day by attempting to ride Toy Story Midway Mania. By the time we got there, there were NO more Fast Passes available AT ALL... SO we stood in line and got all the way up to Mr. Potato Head when the ride shut down. We all had to leave and there were still people lining up to get in. We were very upset. So we decided that we still needed to get out of the heat so we headed back up front and went on the Great Movie Ride instead. It was great. We had a great CM and unfortunately she was rushed off by the Mobster. But greed got the best of him. We got our CM back and it was great.
Then we decided to head towards the Backlot Express and get some lunch. We ate at the counter inside. Then after lunch I decided that NOW would be a good time to go drop off Kristen's package. So DD and I headed out to All-Star Music. We stayed there last year so it was no trouble finding our way to the resort. I even called Kristen while I was delivering it. Kristen has major OCD issues so I wanted her to be re-assured. I even let her speak to the CM at the check in desk to prove that I handed over the package.
While we were gone I do know that DS rode RnRC and loved every minute of it.
Well then DD & I played the Music Trivia challenge at the Gift shop. DD got a certificate for winning. So then we went back to Hollywood Studios. We met up with DH & DS near RnRC and ToT. So we decided that since we had time we would take in the Beauty and the Beast show.
After the show, we headed over to our ADR at H&V. We had some time to kill so the kids tried to watch the HSM 2 show from benches. They even had to stand up on benches just to see it. But instead we wanted A/C so we went and chked in for our ADR.
We got the Fantasmic package and I highly recommend it. It was perfect to get us over to the show and great seats. After dinner we went and looked around in some of the shots and just walked around til it was time to head to the Gas station for our Fanstasmic show. We got in and went all the way down to the front of the theater. We had great seats.
I FINALLY GOT TO SEE FANTASMIC!!!!!!!!!
This was one MAJOR thing on my TO DO list this year. It had actually got rained out the night before so I would say we were very LUCKY.
After DHS we headed back to the hotel for some rest and to prepare for my Birthday the next morning...
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Last edited by MaryEL8775; 08-24-2008 at 10:40 PM..
Glad that you had such a great day at DHS and finally got to see Fantasmic! What a bummer about TSMM though!
And I had to laugh that you were stuck under that particular thing in PotC because Mary Devall ducks everytime we go under the stinky foot! She was still be traumatized if she had been with you.
woohoo great updated. It's so sad you couldn't do Toy Story mania... us to in the mrning no more FP but we waited and did it... WOW I really loved it! But I'm glad you saw Fantasmic
BTW... I don't have OCD, I have control issue thank you much! LOL
If you read my report you'll understand why I have control issues....they miss-placed said package!
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