Tues. Nov. 30 ~ Lazy Day

Tues. Nov. 30

We had very few firm plans for today.  Which was fine because yesterday was long.  My feet and legs were still a little sore when I got up this morning.

Bryan headed out to SuperTarget to pick up a few more groceries...but that was the cover reason for going out to pick up The Sorcerer's Apprentice that came out on DVD today.

After breakfast, the kids decided to go swimming.  We headed to the quiet pool since Stormalong Bay didn't open until 10am. We were the only ones in the pool.  There's something cool about watching your kids race to be the first to get Dad's watch from the bottom of the pool.  The simplest things entertain my  kids.

It got to be 10am and we headed for SAB, though Bryan decided to stay at Dune's Cove for that hot tub. The kids and I played around for a bit, but I wanted to head back and make some cookies with my new edible pixie dust.  :-)  Sugar cookie dough was on Bryan's shopping list this morning so I made that.

They came back to some cookies with their lunch.  We watched the opening gambit of the Sorcerer's Apprentice and then decided to head to MGM Studios.

Whew.  Long drive. (FYI...it's like a 5 minute drive if you hit the lights right.  I'm not kidding.)

We decided to use our last set of magic Fastpasses from our volunteering since we were arriving after midday.  We headed to Will Call and got those taken care of.

And off we went to Toy Story Midway Mania.  Thanks goodness for the instant Fastpasses.  Regular FPs were gone for the day and the stand-by line was 70 minutes. (Insert smilie pulling its hair out.)

After that, the boys decided they'd go to the Great Movie Ride and us girls went to the Magic of Animation show.  Very cool show that was about 15 minutes long.  After that, you can meet two sets of characters or head to Animation Academy to learn from a real animator. Score!

Cate loves to draw and I knew she would love this class. For 25 minutes, we had an animator walk us through drawing a character.  This class was doing Tigger.  It was very cool, very fun and highly entertaining.  We got to bring out drawings home, signed and all!

We met up with the boys at Rock N Roller Coaster so Cate could go with them.  They used a magic fastpass, but really didn't need to.  Wait time was posted as 20 minutes...Bryan said it was virtual walk on.  When I walked by Tower of Terror, it was only 5 minutes.  This was like at 2pm in the afternoon.  Crazy.

I headed to the shops on Sunset Blvd.  I'm on a mission to find what all is part of this "Nerds Rock" line that Disney is carrying.  It has Minnie and Mickey with glasses on and lots of quotes like, "Nerds Rock", "Party with the Smarty" and Cate just loves them!  So far, I'm only seeing some shirts, eyeglasses case, wallet and pajamas.  I'm hoping for a notepad.  But so far, no luck.

We all met up one more time and hit Toy Story again with another magic fastpass.   Bryan and Cate wanted to go to the Voyage of the Little Mermaid show.  I went with them and Stefan went back to RNR.  Stef rode RNR four times using the single rider line while we were in the show.

Then we headed home.  We were all bushed.  We had reservations for Garden Grill but I just did not want to walk anymore today.  We settled for burgers from Hurricane Hannah's in the room while finished the Sorcerer's Apprentice.

I might head down to the hot tub to soak my feet and legs, but that's about as far as I'm planning on going tonight.

Tomorrow is loosely structured.  We're doing the Lunch with an Imagineer and then we have a Photopass Portrait session in the afternoon.  I'm really hoping that the rain has moved out before our photo session as I'd like to do a few outside shots.