DwarFaith

We definitely got a late start. Jesse’s phone died overnight and his phone doubles as his alarm clock so when I woke up at about 8:20 I was pretty confused about why we were still in the rooms instead of already out there waiting for the shuttles. I ended up having to go bang on Jesse’s door to wake him up. We finally got out and on to the shuttle to go to Hollywood Studios, but we missed their opening ceremony (if they had one, which I don’t know!)

The first thing we went to was Star Tours, which turned out to be a mass motion simulator. It was pretty dorky fun though, the guy who let us in to the simulator had us “use the force” to open the doors. It was funny. Anyway, I don’t really remember what happened in the simulation but I think it was just flying through space and going in to lightspeed and then probably being in mortal peril at some point. Haha.

After that, we went to Jedi Training Academy, which we accidentally almost stood in line for, but the line was for kids who wanted to be IN the academy, not for people who just wanted to watch. So we went to the side of the stage (it was like a thrust stage, but only 2/3 of it were places where you could sit). It was a really funny little “show”- the kids got dressed in the brown Obi Wan Kenobi type cloak things and all got “training lightsabers” which were the ones that you flick to extend.

The all learned like 4 different attacks, then Darth Vader came out and they fought him with their attacks one by one.

The funniest part was that when he said “DUCK!” it took the kids like 2 seconds to register what he had said and they would like stand there with a blank look on their face and then duck, and the jedi master said things like “Nice timing!” or to one kid who was like 2 feet tall he said duck! And the kid never did so the jedi master said “Diiiidnt really have to.” HAHAHA

After that we were going to look for the Honey I shrunk the kids playground but ran in to the MuppetVision 3D show so we went in and watched that. It was really funny. All of the 3D shows we saw were pretty much great, even if we do get splashed or attacked by bubbles every time. Hahaha

After MuppetVision, we found the Honey I Shrunk the kids playground, so we played around there for a while. I came down a big leaf slide and almost died cause it was really fast and went all the way to the ground so when my feet hit the ground I kept moving forward. Hahaha. Oops.

We walked around a bit and I found Sulley from monsters inc! there wasn’t a line to meet him (probably cause it was off the beaten path a little) so I pretty much went straight to him! Haha.

After that we were headed somewhere but ran into the Studio Backlot tour line, which was a 20 minute wait, but I don’t think they had a fastpass option, so we went ahead and waited in that line. It was covered area so it wasn’t a bad wait.

The tour itself was pretty neat. First we saw this special effects bit over the water (I think they were showing us how they did stuff in the movie Pearl Harbor),

then we walked through the “props department”, and then on to the part of the tour where we sit in trams and get driven around for a guided tour!

That took us through a thing where they showed us how they create explosions and rain and stuff… they pretty much caught a set on fire and then drowned it.

There was the Boneyard, which was the home to props that are too large to put inside like cars and planes and the bonecage from one of the Pirates movies. So that was cool. They also have their own greens department for “filling in” places on set.

After the riding part of the tour, we walked through a walking tour bit of villians from movies.

I’m pretty sure we ate lunch after that. We went to Pizza Planet (like the arcade restaurant from Toy Story) and it was pretty good.

After all of that, we finally went to get in line for Toy Story Mania. The wait was LONG though… like I think it was 40 minutes to an hour. We went over to get fastpasses but they had all already been distributed for the day (which was crazy cause it was early). I was asking a worker there what time we should come back for the least line wait time when, once again, our good timing luck chimed in and some guy handed us FastPasses for the ride. We got in in what was probably no more than 15 minutes.

It was crazy cool because we were wearing 3D glasses FOR the ride! It was pretty much a little car thing that you sit in and there is a “gun” on the front (like space ranger spin) and you shoot your gun virtually at the screens in front of you. It was really cool. The best part was that I won!! Not just of me and Jesse, but of the other two people we were up against! WHOO! Ha.

We went to the Prince Caspian behind the scenes thing, but it was pretty lame… basically we all just stood there and watched the Cliff’s Notes for Prince Caspian… but the stone table in the middle of the room was cool, I guess.

At 2 something, we went and saw Beauty and the Beast: Live on Stage. It was cool. It was pretty much the whole story condensed into 20 minutes of song and dance! I recorded the whole thing, so hopefully I can put it up somewhere soon.

After B&tB, we went to the Block Party at 3:45. It was fun, but they wanted us to get up and dance, but we just sat and enjoyed the craziness. I would LOVE to be in a parade/show like that.

We rode tower of terror again. The people beside us were FREAKING OUT, which made the ride even more enjoyable for me. Hahaha.

Next we went to the Indiana Jones show. It was really really cool! There was so much that happened I can’t even begin to describe it… it is just something you have to see in real life! Haha

We went back to the resort to watch LOST, but it was only like 7:30 so we went to the main pool (the one with the 3 amigos or carabillos or whatever they are called in the middle) for about an hour.

I was passing out during LOST, so when I went back to my room, I think I pretty much went straight to sleep.

We woke up at like 8 something… 8:15 I want to think.

We were headed out to the shuttles but jesse forgot his sunglasses and I forgot my phone so he made 2 runs back for them.

We got on the shuttle in decent time and walked in to the front part of Magic Kingdom after bag checks in time for the back end of the welcome celebration thing. It was really awesome. When they have stuff like that the music comes from all around you and it sounds so cool and gives me cold chills. It was awesome.

We got in and just walked straight to the back part of the park because people tend to fill in the front parts like fantasyland and tomorrowland first

The first thing we rode was Mad Tea Party

There were like 7 other people on there, and there was no wait, so it was awesome.

After that we were going to go to toontown but it was closed to open later in the day for some reason so we just took a picture in  front of the sign there. Haha.

after that we walked past the dumbos but there was a HUGE line so we decided to wait to come back during extra magic hours. Haha. So we went to peter pans flight and it was pretty much great. I don’t know why.

It was just a really smooth ride, I guess… kinda felt like we were for real flying even though we were sitting in a boat. Hahaha.

Then we went to it’s a small world which was pretty crazy. It was like 8 minutes of the same song in different languages. Same verse. Kinda crazy. Haha.

After that we went to haunted mansion and I was looking at madam leota’s grave stone cause I thought there was supposed to be a camera in there and she blinked and I screamed and the worker lady standing there laughed at me.

The ride itself was pretty creepy. I don’t remember anything from 2003 except the part where there is a ghost between you. The dancing thing was cool, but you could hear the animatronics clicking above you. Haha

When we went thru the ghost friend thing, our ghost was sitting on my lap. I tried to film it but I think it was too dark. Haha

After HM we went to Splash Mountain! There were tons of signs on the way to the ride that said stuff like “last chance to turn back!” I was like dude, come on. Its not that bad. I think if I have kids that want to wimp out, ill just make them suck it up. Ha.

After that we went to the pirates of the Caribbean ride which I had never been to before so it was a new thing for me but not for jesse. But he didn’t remember much from 21 years ago. Haha

After that we climbed the swiss family treehouse. It was pretty cool except for that it was really crowded when we went on there.

We were walking towards tomorrowland when we ran into some kind of parade thing. It turned out to be the Move It, Shake It block party. It was really really cool. They told us to come dance in the street but then we didn’t really know what to do. Haha

We walked around to the other side and then a conga line started so we did the conga for like 5 minutes. Hahaha. It was pretty great.

We headed in to tomorrowland

and got fastpasses for buzz lightyears space ranger spin and then went towards space mountain. The wait was like 40 minutes so we were going to get fast passes when some random dude was like here let me save you some time and gave us 2 fast passes for space mountain. So that was pretty sweet. We got in in like 5-7 minutes. It was a lot better ride than I remember it. Of course I was in the front and front seats are always better!! Haha

We went to stitch’s great escape which used to be that Extra Terrestrial ride which was WAYYY scary. But the stitch one was not scary or anything… kinda funny though. My shoulder harness got caught too high and so I didn’t get the full experience. Sad. Oh well

After that we used our fastpasses for space ranger spin and I think we kinda accidentally cut line… oops. Anyway, the ride was fun. Whee.

We headed into toontown since it was open and stood in a slow moving line for minnie’s country house. There were these cute british kids behind us and one sprayed herself in the face and said ahhh that’s lovely. It was adorable.

We went to mickey’s house and donalds boat too, but they were pretty lame comparatively. We rode goofy’s barnstormer, which was pretty fun but I wish it would have lasted longer. Haha. I found one of those spinny sky writer things but didn’t buy it cause I thought I could find it different places in the park. Jesse got a frozen lemonade. It was good.

We went to the MK parade at 3pm- it was really good- I liked the music in it a lot. It made me happy and made me reallllly want to work at Disneyworld. Haha.  So I got some pretty great pictures from that. Oh I almost forgot, when we sat down, some Spanish woman came over and started slapping who I assumed was her son… I guess he was supposed to be saving the seats that we took. Haha. Ah well! Mean old fart.

Somewhere in there we went to mickey’s philharmagic, which was awesome. When the food came out in the beauty and the beast be our guest song, the whole theatre smelled like apple pie. It was great. Haha

When we came out of there, it had been raining so we popped our umbrella and went to the cosmic ray’s restaurant thing that had the veggie burgers and a HUGE toppings/condiments bar thing. Haha.

We ParkHopped over to MGM (now called Disney’s Hollywood studios) after that cause we would have until 2am to play at MK with the extended magic hours. Ha. So we went and went to the great movie ride (which was pretty great) except we didn’t like it when our host got taken and some gangster took over our car. Haha. Cute dude came back though so it is okay. Haha

We rode tower of terror and it was pretty awesome- I filmed most of it. Haha. There was some random comedy troupe thing there and they were pretty funny- I like the “Chinese” woman the best. Haha. We were going to ride toy story mania but it was already closed and then we realized that it was 7:10 and that was why. Haha.

So we went back over to magic kingdom (by FERRY!)

I was running around like crazy trying to find a spinwriter thing and didn’t know of anywhere to get one so we went all the way back to toontown to get one! Haha

at 9pm was the SpectroMagic Parade- it was okay…. I guess it would have been better if there weren’t 8 million people there.. haha. After that we went and got some ice cream. I got a double scoop of chocolate and cookies and crème. It was so big that I had to put it in a cup! Haha jesee had a coke float. It was good, too.

After that was the Wishes fireworks show- it was good. Tinkerbell ziplined from the top of the castle, so that was pretty sweet. Haha. We totally called that earlier too, cause we were walking along and were like I wonder what that huge long cord is? Yeah, I bet itd made a sweet zipline!! Hahaha

After that we went to tomorrowland and rode the astro orbiter. It was really neat cause it was way up high on top of a building.

After that we rode tomorrowland transit (aka the people mover) and it was actually pretty cool. You get to go inside behind the walls of some of the rides like space mt and buzz lightyear. After that we were going to go to carousel of progress but it was already closed. Oh wells.

We went over to dumbo and stood in a line even though it was close to midnight. Dude, take your kids home! Haha. After dumbo we took some pictures on the stationary dumbo and then Minnie and mickey showed up to ride and everyone freaked out. We went to opposite direction and rode the merry go round.

After that we finally found the flying carpets and then we watched some guy draw Disney characters on the ground with water. It was sweet.

We went for one final go on space mountain before we left for the night. I think it was about 1am. It was fun. Jesse sat in the front that time though so it was not as great of a ride for me. I only enjoy it in the front seat apparently. Ha.

It took us forrrrrreeeeeeeeeever to get on the shuttle back to the hotel. When we finally did, we had to take a detour because they were repaving the road, some road near MK. We got to see where the monorail trains sleep and where they shoot off the fireworks for Wishes. Then there was some random golfcart in front of us and our bus driver starts yelling for him to get off the road and laid on the horn for like a minute. Dude finally moved and we passed him, then the bus driver said, sarcastically, “did I forget to wish him a magical night?……… OH WELL!!” and we all laughed and clapped. Hahaha.

We got back to the hotel and took off our shoes and put our feet in the pool. It was pretty nice. But then I had to go to the bathroom so I went to the one at the pool so I didn’t have to go in the room and feel awkward if someone went in after me…. Haha.

Me and jesse met up after we took showers to plan out what we wanted to do the next day. After we were done, I went to go back in my room and my card wouldn’t work. I banged on the door but everyone was asleep. I was pretty mad/exhausted/mad. We had to walk alllllll the way to the front desk (our building is a decent walk away from said desk) and she tried to give me some bull about having a chaperone to get a new key, but since it was 3:45ish am she just gave me a temp and told me to come back for a real one later with dr f. psh.

I finally got to sleep at some point after that.

Okay so.

I don’t remember what exactly happened today…

I woke up at 6 something and I was really really grouchy because I had only slept for like an hour and 10 minutes or something. Blah.

Anyway, Mom gave me $50 and we went to Jeff City.

We got there at 7:45… the bus didn’t even show up until like 8:05. It seemed like a forever wait because we were all there early. Haha.

Anyway. We got on the road and I fell asleep pretty soon after that.

They watched The Princess and the Frog, then like, The Blind side, then some comedian (which was actually really funny for what I was conscious for) and then UP… maybe something else. Anyway.

We stopped for lunch in there somewhere.

Me and J had arby’s.
It was pretty good. I had fries and a side salad. Ha

And I think I fell back asleep after that…

We made another stop and me and jesse didn’t even get off the bus. I don’t even remember getting back on the road.

The next stop was at a gas station, and some federal law makes us have to get off the bus when they are fueling. I got some m&m’s that were pretzel centered. They were okay.

We stopped for supper at some travel center/restaurant.

It was wendy’s

The cashier was a jerk and the food kinda sucked. So fail for that. But oh well.

We got back on the road and some time later we finally got here.

We turned in circles forever it seemed like. Silly bus driver.

Anyway

We are staying at the All Star Music Resort in Building 7 (Broadway) and im room 4420 or something… I think

Jesse is 2 rooms down.

So yeah. Good trip, not too taxing. Haha.

We went swimming for a while in the piano pool. We tried to play a game of Ultimate but the water was pretty deep. Fail. Haha

Tomorrow we are going to spend a super long day at Magic Kingdom!! YAAA!!

I have like 7hours to sleep so Im going to do that now. PEACE

WHOO!!

Only 4 hours until I leave to leave for Disneyworld!

WHOOOOOOOOO!!