Thursday, August 1st
I woke up feeling rotten. I had a really rough night and hadn't slept well. I was nauseated and crampy and just not feeling well at all. We were supposed to have a FP for A.S.S. at 9:55 and an ADR for Sci -Fi Dine in at 11:00, but there was no way I was getting out of bed yet. I asked my husband how he was feeling and he was fine, but didn't mind sleeping in. A was fine staying in, and E couldn't go by herself. I'm the one who makes the plans and gets everyone going, and since it was me who was not able to function this morning, that meant no one was going to be up and ready to go. I didn't want to be charged for not making the ADR, so I floated it and then canceled. I canceled the FP because I knew someone else could use that one and we obviously couldn't. I went back to sleep for a few hours and felt a bit better when I woke up. Not great, but good enough to go into the parks. Off to HS we went.
I had really wanted to get a Carrot Cake Cookie, having heard wonderful things about it. We went to Trolley Car Cafe and E and I each got a Carrot Cake Cookie, I got a breakfast sandwich, and there was nothing A wanted.
The breakfast sandwich was decent. Nothing spectacular, but then, I didn't expect it to be. The carrot cake cookie was very disappointing. I hadn't realized it had raisins in it. I love raisins, but not in my carrot cake...it gives it a weird texture and it overpowers the cake. I couldn't finish it. It needed more frosting, too. I'll stick to the carrot cake I make myself.
While the kids and I were getting food, my husband was on his way to RnRC to do the single rider line, then he took A to StarTours while E and I looked for a cupcake, preferably chocolate. ANY cupcake for A. There was not a cupcake to be found. He won't eat things like the butterfinger cupcake anyway, etc, but I couldn't find cupcakes anywhere! I went back to Trolley Car and got a Croissant and a brownie for him, knowing he wouldn't eat anything at our ADR. We met up with A and M at Mama Melrose. In hindsight, going when I wasn't feeling the greatest probably wasn't the best idea, and while it had been a couple of hours since the breakfast sandwich, I still wasn't very hungry, but I really wanted the Steak and Mac 'n' Cheese. E ordered the same as I did, M got a pasta with shrimp, and we ordered the woodfired chicken pasta with A's credit, since he wouldn't eat anything there anyway, and we wanted to try it.
The steak was SOOOOOOOOO salty. I couldn't eat it. I would have sent it back, but since I wasn't hungry anyway, it would have just been a waste, so I didn't bother. I did taste the pasta with chicken and it was very good, and E ended up eating that instead of her steak. M said his pasta with shrimp was really good.
We also got dessert. I don't remember what everything was, but I know the thing on the left was some sort of cheesecake, which A and M won't eat, so I got theirs, and I think the middle thing might have been tiramisu, which only M will eat, so he got those, and then I don't know what was on the right. It must not have been memorable.
While we were eating, I managed to snag a FP for A.S.S to replace the one I had canceled this morning. We had rather bad timing. Once we got up through the line and it was our turn, something happened with our side of the ride and they had to recharge the batteries? We had to wait for a couple of ride cycles before our side was up and running again. It's a one and done for us...none of us enjoyed it. It whipped us every which way and made me nauseated again, and kept slamming me into the side of the car every time it whipped out...very rough and just not fun. Oh well, at least we got to try it, and now we know we won't have to waste time on it in the future. We can use the FP for something else.
We got a DAS return time for TSMM. I am TERRIBLE at this one. I think I had something like 7000 points. Yes, I'm that bad, but A loves it. Then we went to Woody's Lunchbox for a drink and recognized the CM as someone who is often in Alice's vlogs on youtube. We said hi, and mentioned we had just visited with Alice the night before and she asked if we were the ones who knew her family and we said no, we were the ones who gave her the ears. And she made a magical moment for us and gave us free lunchbox tarts. Thank you, Betty!!
Then we went to the Frozen Sing-Along again. We were happy to have gotten Equity Ben as Eric again, but we did not like the woman who played Aria as much.
When we got out it was storming a bit and we hadn't done the Lightning McQueen racing academy, so we decided to walk over and check it out since we had done most of the other indoor stuff already. It was supposed to start soon, and we stood there waiting and waiting. There was a family there who had obviously done something Star Wars...one of the kids had some sort of double sided sword thing that they were swinging around, which the parents should have put a stop to in a confined area, but instead, dad joined in and I think he knocked something over or accidentally hit someone....anyway, I remember thinking that I wished the CMs would say something to them. It was very unsafe and they were lucky no one was hurt. Meanwhile, they kept announcing technical difficulties, we would be brought in in just a few minutes, as soon as it was resolved. 15 minutes later, they announced that they could not fix the issue at the moment, the attraction was closing and we all needed to leave the queing area, and we were shooed out.
Our Mama Melrose ADR was the dining package that included tickets for Fantasmic. With the rain, we weren't entirely sure it would happen, but we had the tickets, this was our last HS day, so we didn't want to miss it. There was still quite a bit of time, so we decided to go to One Man's Dream to pass the time. I was actually really interested. We watched the movie, which I found fascinating and then spent some time looking at displays.
I'm not sure where all my pictures went....I think I must have put them in the wrong folder.
Then we went to Fantasmic, hoping that it would actually go on, though they kept making announcements that it could be delayed or canceled if the weather was bad. We had brought a bunch of glow sticks, and handed them out to the few kids who were there....I think most people must have decided not to chance it, because there weren't very many kids at all, and it had been raining off and on. But the glow sticks were just not wanting to work. I felt bad for handing out duds, but what can you do?
Finally the show started! The lights on some of the boats weren't working, and we were sitting near the front and it was so windy that we were getting quite wet from the spray of the fountains where they project everything. Poor E said she was really cold, and was soooo happy when the lake turned to fire, because she was finally warmed for a few minutes. Once it was over, we made our way back to the buses and called it a day. Not a very productive day, but a day, and I was glad to have had a day with the whole family and no one being a party pooper.
Great system. We were sitting right there, no one ever came to call our name, the buzzer didn't go off...if I hadn't asked, we'd have missed our meal completely. We were obviously not seated at a window table, but M and A could see some of the fireworks once they started. I couldn't because my back was to the window, and there was a pillar there in the way if I turned around. The food was really good though!
But when we got out, Alice was there!!!