Monday 1/15
First photo as a 5 year old! She was up nice and early, which is typical. As usual, R and I slept terribly, but we were excited to celebrate LP's birthday!
She had chosen Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom for the places she wanted to go. I think she wanted MK first, but I didn't want to deal with parking and stuff so HS was much easier to start with. Plus I wanted to take her on Rise of the Resistance for the first time!
Walking in at 8:12am. There weren't very many cars in the parking lot yet, so that was promising. We moved through bag check and tapstiles and by 8:21am we were here -
Early entry officially started at 8:30, and we started making our way back to Galaxy's Edge.
Want to guess what happened next
Rise was down. I knew this was probably the only shot we had this trip as the line would be way too long once it came back up (I was right), so we sadly had to just give up on riding it this trip. Maybe next time. I think it came back online about an hour after park opening, but I never saw the wait less than an hour, which is about my threshold for waiting.
We kept walking and entered Toy Story Land.
So our first ride of the day was the saucers!
LP really enjoys this one, I think it's pretty fun too!
We tried talking her into Slinky Dog Dash, but she didn't want to do it. We did it in May but she said it's too tall, so we may try again in a few more trips.
Toy Story Mania was I think a 25 minute wait, but only took us 15. The park was opening as we were getting on.
She likes to ride most things with R.
Ok now I don't know if R was pulling my leg or what (he tends to do that) but he said he had the exact same score as me! Because he told me he got best in vehicle, and I argued that I had best in vehicle. He of course doesn't have photo proof because the man has taken a grand total of 6 pictures in his whole life
Hopped in line for MMRR because I figured that was the last ride we'd do there. The line was long, I think maybe 40 minutes? But I had a little bag of goodies for LP to open. She seemed to only care about the toy I put in there this trip. Each day, she barely acknowledged the snacks.
We did wait about 40 minutes, but soon were ready to board!
Brought her ear covers for a few things, including MMRR. This ride is very loud! Maybe it's not noticeable to most, but she seems sensitive to that, and I also noticed last time that it's much louder than other rides. The ear covers helped a lot!
I think we did Muppet Vision 3D next, which would explain why I have this picture. R doesn't care for that show, but I had to introduce LP to it! She liked it.
R went off to get the stroller. Since she's getting bigger, we would bring it and park it somewhere but often went from place to place without it. It was nice to have for when she started getting tired though. It's a lot of walking for little legs!
LP had been begging all morning to get a toy. She got $100 for Christmas and it was burning a hole in her pocket! We headed to the shops and she picked out an Asha doll. Has she seen the movie? Nope? Doesn't matter, haha.
We also got her birthday button and the CM gave me an "I'm celebrating" one too. I very very lazily cloned (in lightroom so it doesn't work that well) out her name on our buttons, so if they look weird, that's why.
Up next - lunch
. I feel like character interactions are always great in that restaurant, even though they're kind of awkward because of the half-round booths and lack of aisle space.
) I get it, you want to be efficient, but pushing through people is not a good look. The cast members usually help guide people to the second tap-in, but whatever. It bugged me and then we had to be behind those people in the line.
Glad y’all had a good time! LP is beyond adorable, and while I’m sure it drove you crazy, I loved her photo antics. 