Think You Can Hold Up?: Disney Day 5: Hollywood Studios

My mind is not good. I can't remember stuff. Like I have to think REALLY hard to remember what I ate for breakfast or where I put my shoes. Ask me to remember ALL THE WAY BACK to March to our day at Hollywood Studios? Forgetaboutit.

Insert the good ole Powell Family Disney Journal! Do you see why this journal of memories is so important? Get your family one of these and USE it. Trust me. You will SO appreciate having it!

Here's a peek at ours in case you've forgotten:

I will rely on the Powell Family Disney Journal HEAVILY as I am DETERMINED to get this blog updated. (And by "rely on it heavily", I pretty much mean typing up whatever Joe wrote word for word and inserting my commentary where needed...... worked last time, so I'm sticking with it.)

Ahem. I now present to you "Disney Day 5: Hollywood Studios".............!!!!

Joe writes,

We all got together out front at 8 today headed over to MGM.(Joe still calls it MGM.... old habits, you know....) We got in line, then took Mary back out front for a quick Stitch reunion.( Please note the mouse ears OVER the hood. It was COLD!) They were glad to see each other again. Still needing a Donald greeting (Don't think we EVER saw him! Weird!)..... Once we got in, everybody but Mary and I (Joe) went over to Toy Story Mania. We stayed under the hat to visit Chip and Dale as well as Pluto. She loves characters. Midway was broken, so everybody was kinda at a loss. Ha! (Good thing we had Fast Passes for later.... it was up and running when it was our turn! Jack was happy to ride with Cousin Will who had done all the research on the tricks to scoring high. He and Will were the top scorers in the bunch!) We finally got into the Little Mermaid show while the boys did single rider on Aerosmith. We met back up and headed over to Star Tours where the boys did TWO tours. Not me. (Joe again.) Too queasy! We then all split up for lunch. Pizza Planet for us... a family tradition! After, the boys saw The Muppets while we (Mom, Dad, Mary) walked the Streets of America. Mary fell asleep as we were looking for Monster's Inc. (They've moved since we last saw them.... now they're over by the Backlot Tour!) She slept for almost two hours in her stroller! (Halleluyer.) Meanwhile, the guys all did Tower of Terror.... TWICE...(had enough Fast Passes in our group and just swapped out armbands so the boys could all ride twice.... worked very well!) and Dad bought ice cream for everybody. (Next time, Mary gets her own. Sharing with her is not fun.) Plus, he (Dad) treated himself to a double espresso. (over by Tower of Terror) The Beauty and the Beast show was next and Mary really enjoyed it. Naps help. (You got that right.) We stopped in to see Sorcerer Mickey and Minnie Mouse. They also had the Wreck it Ralph people, but we skipped that. Next was the Great Movie Ride.... one of Jack's top five. (Mary took this all in except when Mom covered her eyes during the Alien part. She kept trying to pull my hands off her eyes like, "Hey, Mom! What are you doing? I can't see here!) The line there had been bad all day, but had finally gotten manageable. We then split again to take Mary over to meet Mike and Sully, while the rest took in American Idol. She doesn't really know Mike and Sully, even though she is the spitting image of Boo... piggy tails and all! (Mom was a bit bummed that we didn't get a decent picture here..... Dad even had to jump in the photo to help rally Boo...) That was it for Mom, Dad, and Mary. The boys stayed with Raneys for supper, American Idol finale, and Fantasmic. We headed back to Pop and had a nice supper. Dad got his favorite Tie Dyed Cheesecake! Back in the room and Mary bathed by 7:30. Boys came back to the room at 11:52PM.

Photos of the day in absolutely the most random order EVER......

Mary was more interested in Minnie's SHOES than she was Minnie herself. We finally got one decent photo. Probably should post the bloopers sometime. Oh dear....