Wednesday we got a late start so we had breakfast in our room and then headed to Hollywood Studios (which I kept calling MGM!). We hit Playhouse Disney Live on Stage first thing and Drew enjoyed it, though he didn't get as in to it as I thought he would. We had Fastpasses for the new Toy Story ride but they were over 2 hours out so we killed time by riding the Back Lot Tour and walking around some. I was surprised that Drew didn't want to see any of the characters...there are Playhouse Disney people plus all the Pixar friends but he didn't want anything to do with them. The only one he was really interested in was Lightning McQueen, but we got to the line too late twice and didn't get to "meet" him. We tried the Muppet 3D movie but Drew would have nothing of it so we left. We ate lunch at Toy Story Pizza Planet and spent some time in the air conditioning playing arcade games. We then played on the Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground (still neat, but some of the stuff is lost on today's kids...a roll of film? What's that?!) to burn more energy and then finally got to ride Toy Story Mania. It was absolutely awesome! I would have ridden it again but the 45 minute wait kept me away! Daddy then got to ride Rockin' Roller Coaster while Drew enjoyed his first Itzakadoozie before we left for the hotel for some naps. The evening was great with a boat ride to Downtown Disney, dinner, riding the little train and carousel, shopping, playing at the Lego store (for at least 30 minutes!) and ice cream at Ghirardelli (Mommy's favorite stop at DD!). Drew really enjoyed himself and snuggled on my lap on the boat ride back to our hotel. It was nice.
Thursday we headed to Epcot and had an awesome day. It was the longest we stayed at any park for a continuous time and Drew did great. We rode Finding Nemo, talked to Crush and looked at all the fish. Next we rode the boat ride at the Land and then had lunch at the Garden Grill with Mickey, Pluto, Chip and Dale. That was an unscheduled stop and was a hit! Journey Into Imagination was next and Drew really liked Figment...he has quite the appeal to kids I guess! We decided to tour the World and headed to Mexico for the new Donald boat ride. It's pretty funny...still pretty much like it was before, just with Donald and those other birds thrown in for comic relief! Drew enjoyed dancing to the mariachi band there...he's my music man! Since we were doing well with boat rides, we hit Maelstrom at Norway and he liked that too...although he was quite tentative about it! We continued our World tour, bypassing China and headed for the trains at Germany. Of course, most of them were broken or derailed, but there were a couple for Drew to watch. When we finally tore him away from there, we quickly went around to the UK. We visited the toy store where we ran into Pooh and Tigger (no, Pooh did not run away from me this time...if you need that story, I can fill you in later...and Patrick and my brother have it on video somewhere!). Drew also found Thomas in the toy store and was thrilled that he was at Disney too! On the way out, we decided to ride Spaceship Earth since it was the only thing there we had not ridden that was Drew friendly. They have changed it too since I rode it last and it was pretty cool. You get to make a video postcard at the end of the ride with your own futuristic story and they use your face on the characters. Drew thought it was pretty cool and laughed at his little guy. We went back to the hotel for naps, but it wasn't meant to be. We had pretty much missed the nap window and Drew was not going to sleep...he rested quietly but never really closed his eyes. So we offered him another night at Magic Kingdom if he wanted to get up. Of course, he said yes so off we went. We started on the train (do you see a pattern?) and this time got off in Frontierland so we could on some new rides. We rode Pirates of the Caribbean, the Jungle Cruise, It's a Small World, the carousel, Dumbo, Peter Pan and watched Mickey's Philharmagic. We decided to get out of there before the parade and made it back for an early bath and bed. We had experimented with skipping a formal dinner and just letting Drew snack along the way. I thought it worked pretty well until I brought my dinner in while he was getting ready for bed and he ate half of it! Oh well...live and learn!
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