Day 2-Hollywooooooooddddd dah dah dah dah dah dah daaaaah….
So..day 2. It was time for some red lipstick and a little bitta' Hollywood!
This used to be my all-time favourite park when we were kids but since they’ve: in my opinion; gotten rid of the whole point of this park to “re-imagine” it into “The New Hollywood”, it has lost its identity. HOWEVER… I do think that although I’m not a Star Wars fan, it will be amazing I’m sure! BUT..I digress!
We were awake early again about 5:30am and showered, gathered our things and wandered up to breakfast about 9am. I thought instead of wasting my snacks on breakfast, I would go and buy some from the shop and get some bagels & cream cheese and have those for a few days. They were delicious & I just bought a side of eggs. The dining hall was never super busy the whole time we were staying which was nice as sometimes at the All Stars you could be stood waiting for AGES!
We arrived into MGM...I mean Hollywood Studios around 10:30-10:45am and wandered up and through the shops. Fully love the pet ears and outfits they have here!!
I refrained however as I don't think my cat would be that happy if I rammed ears on her head!
Me and sissy
We spotted 50’s Prime Time diner to the left but more on that later. We all had a FP+ for Toy Story Mania between 10:35 and 11:35 so we headed that way. On our last visit, we hadn’t managed to get on this ride so we were excited to try something new . Unfortunately, myself and mums’ shooters weren’t working so we sat with sulking faces the whole way round…they obviously let us ride again…mum won… 107k to 123k.
Next up Tower of Terror FP-
My absolute favourite ride in the world. I know I know..I say I love every ride but really this is my number 1.
Every time I go on it, as soon as those doors close I say, “why am I doing this again?!” and then as soon as those words speak “you are about to enter…The Twilight Zone” I soon realise why!! THISSSSS ISSSS AMMMAAAAZZZING! We had made fast passes for all 10 of us but only 6 were used as the others bowed out so we used the remaining ones to ride again!! We also received our second red queue card of the hol!!!
We wanted to right Rock n Rollercoaster but the queue was 120 minutes and we had a FP for another day.
Lunchtime- There were quite a few options on the Boulevard so we split up to get food and met back at a table in the middle. I had salad again and the rest had some of the Mexican food options (fajitas, Empanadas etc) which they all said was lovely. I had my first Strawberry Lemon Slushy of the holiday. YUM.
(I am so sorry I didn't take any pictures of the food ...I do have some other tasty food delights on my camera though..I just need to work out how to get them onto my computer....I know no excuses !!!!)
We were all full and hot after lunch so we thought we should go and cool down in what better place than to see the one and only Indiana Jones! Great show as always except the ball wasn’t in it?! We weren’t sure if this was because it wasn’t working or just because they don’t do it anymore?? After the stunt spectacular, we headed over to Muppets. We walked sadly past the old Streets of America and my favourite little store “Writers Stop”. *sob* After this we went for a ride through a Galaxy far far away, but not before we had watched the young Jedis being escorted to the stage. ADORABLE!
It was VERY hot by this point in the afternoon but we couldn’t go back to the hotel as we had our first ADR!! 50’s Prime Time. We have been before but back in about 1997 so we were really looking forward to it. We had booked two separate tables so that we could be in at the same time but we weren’t anywhere near each other in the end.
(I have more pictures...blah blah yes I know you dont believe me and my trip report is just full of writing! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE!! I PROMISE IT GETS BETTER!) The food was great and we became members of the “Clean Plate Club” aka "the Fat Pig Club"
If I could have licked the plate I would have. I had “Aunt Liz’s Fried Chicken” and that mash ohhhhhmmmmyyyyyy I could have eaten a full plate of the mash! The chicken was lovely and juicy and they certainly don’t skrimp on the portions
. Perhaps I shouldn’t have gone for the mammoth vanilla milkshake!!!
Mum and sis got “A sampling of Moms favourite dishes”. Both said it was lovely. I love that we got a TV table as it was really entertaining to watch the old clips between courses. It seems our server wasn’t really feeling it this evening as we didn’t really have much interaction with him other than when he brought the food over and cleared the plates. It sounds like the other table had more entertainment with their server who made one of them stand in the corner for not eating their greens, but all in all we enjoyed the experience and the food.
We got out just in time to go and get in for Fantasmic at 9pm.
Mum decided to head back to the resort so the rest of us carried on to the theatre. After the Mexican waves we were soon onto our favourite little mouse working his magic. The soundtrack is just beautiful and I can't help singing along!!
After the show we decided against rushing out to watch the fireworks so we snuck out the side entrance of the theatre to get to the park exit. Although we didn’t get back to see the fireworks properly, the rest of the gang said it was amazing! Kay even said it was better than Happily Ever After…….SHOCK I KNOW!
We managed to see some of them on the bus back to the resort though!
Next up…Tidal waves and Sunshine…