Finally I have managed to sleep a bit later. 6am start today :-) We were heading to Hollywood studio's We left about 8am and got there for 8.20am. Think we can definitely say we're 20 minutes from Disney. But we weren't first. We were a few rows back this morning.
Got near the gates and spied a nice garden of Sully and Mike with a photopass photographer! Typically the boy needed the loo. We were allowed in Early to the park, so I headed up to Toystory Midway Mania for fastpasses while the kids and Mr G went to queue for Rock'n'Rollercoaster. They ended up 35 minutes, which gave me a bit of time to chill in the shade.
When they came off we headed over to Star Tours. We practically walked on the ride. But we needed 3D glasses... this was new to us. But we all enjoyed it and it was nice to see it upgraded after loving it for 15 years.
Then it was on to Muppets 3D. Same old show as always but just as funny and proper 3D as you expect it to be. Definitely a favourite for us as a family.
As we came out, there was a line for Phineas and Ferb so the kids got autographs and photo's done. Then we walked round the corner and found Lightening McQueen and Mater.
After that we headed to Toy Story Midway Mania where we met The Green Army Man outside before using our fastpasses. This was a new ride for us. But we had great fun and with fastpasses took about 10 minutes to get on the ride instead of the 80 minutes for standby. Can totally understand why it's popular. Mr G got a bit competitive after the Buzz Lightyear fiasco the other day.
After this we headed in to the Backlot Tour. We got one of those little cards to hand in to see how long it took us to queue. Noticed some differences from previous visits but at least we got a sit down tour to rest our weary feet. We did see the queue for Mike and Sully but it was too big and we forgot to return.
We headed for lunch at the Backlot Express as the kids wanted Hot Dogs. They got a table while we queued and it rained while we were getting the food. Lil Miss thought it was one of those spray things just cooling her down. We headed to the Indiana Stunt show which was another first for us. It seemed a bit patchy and I got bored. Then it was ice cream time. Boy they were huge!
We moved to the Great Movie Ride. Having used Extra Magic Hours in Disney in previous trips, this was the first time we ever had to queue for it! It had changed slightly in the way the tour guide was dressed but otherwise a good ride for sitting down on.
We then went to the queue for The Little Mermaid but decided to leave it and went to the Photographers and got a range of photo's. One told me he was off with Donald and Daisy so we were 1st in line for them. Then we bought some stamps for our postcards and while I was putting the stamps on I became aware of a man chatting to The Boy. He kept answering his phone which was old fashioned and was going on about The Boy's amnesia. A photopass photographer appeared so I knew that it was a cast member and I think we had a magical moment. Then we popped into guest relations for some disney dollars for a friend where the cast member helping us regularly visits Aberdour!
Then we stopped by the Monsters Inc photopass to get some photo's before heading for the tram. We finally found the car and headed to the Premium Outlets. We had a successful shopping trip before heading to Golden Corral for dinner. It was very busy but a good meal. Then home to chill.
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