Holleywood Studios - That's a wrap (almost)

Well, it’s our last full day here.   Today we planned to spend our time at Hollywood Studios right after breakfast at the Grand Floridian hotel and resort.  This was another character meal that we had signed up for.  I do have to say, that in my opinion this resort didn’t measure up to the Disney “Magical experience” we’ve seen almost everywhere else.  This wasn’t just in one place either it was spread wider than this.  It was from the monorail at this stop, the meal check-in counter and even a character during breakfast.  I guess it was just an off day.  Oh well, I’d just suggest another resort – everywhere else we’ve experienced was really good. We did have some awesome parts to.  Alice really tried her hardest to get Dawson into a picture that he was not wanting to be in.  Her and our waitress both were really good.

We arrived at Hollywood studios and made our way in to start looking for a photographer to take that picture with us and that big Fantasmic hat behind us.  Well, it started to rain – and luckily it was that infamous Florida rain where it rains for 10 minutes and then stops.  It sprinkled here and there after this, but nothing really substantial that would prevent us from enjoying the park.  I am so thankful that the rain that we thought was headed our way never materialized.  We were able to have a great week.

Most of the day was seeing shows and not a whole lot of rides were ridden today.  We really only rode on one ride which was Danielle’s favorite ride – Aerosmith’s Rock and Rollercoaster!  She and Noah went on this ride while Sam, Dawson and I sat through a Disney Playhouse show.  This was a great time spent by all.  Noah and Danielle loved the ride and Sam and Dawson were dancing, clapping and joining in where they could.  For the Disney Playhouse show, we all had to sit on the floor with our legs crossed.  This was fine for the first few minutes, but you know you’re getting a little older when it just plain hurts when you try to get up from here. 

One show that all seemed to love was the Indiana Jones stunt show.  The boys really loved this and this was included in each of their favorites for the day.  I was kind of surprised as Dawson hates loud noises and as you can guess, this had some loud explosions.  It really was pretty neat and at a few points during the show, you really felt like you were in the movie.  This was really pretty neat.

The other huge event for the day was seeing Chip and Dale.  Unknown to Danielle and I, this happens to be Dawson’s favorite characters.  I may have mentioned that Noah started to get passionate about trading the Disney pins, but I think I failed to mention that Dawson started to get into this a couple days later.  Lo and behold – he started collecting – or asking for – Chip and Dale pins.  This is how we learned of his interest.  Well, we saw them today and they were GREAT with the kids.  Really played with them well and spent a lot of time with us even though there was a line of kids waiting for their picture to be taken.  We had bought Dawson some little stuffed Chip and Dale animals and he just had to show these to the characters.  Seeing this, I think, prodded them along to see how much Dawson loved them and so they spent a little more time with them.

Outside of another show or two and several more character pictures - the day was over.  Nothing too exciting.  It was off to a campfire with smores at the Wilderness resort where we were staying.  This was fun, but uneventful.  The most fun was seeing Sam dancing to the music all by herself - then to spice things up, daddy had to join her in doing the hokey pokey.  We all had fun.

The last thing to note about the day was that “boys will be boys”!  Noah took a tumble at the end of the day.  After being told not to climb on something, he continued to climb on a steal pole and fell.  He scrapped his cheek right next to his eye and his eyebrow swelled up etc.  We’re very lucky that he missed his eye the way he fell and we believe he’ll be fine given a little time.  He did tell me after that he learned his lesson. 

We leave for home tomorrow, but we did buy an additional ticket so we could go back to Magic Kingdom.  We missed one whole area in here and the kids have so many rides that they just love in here.  I was amazed at how cheap the tickets are at this point.  They were only a little more than $5 per ticket.

We get home late so I may have one last post for tomorrow.  We’ll see how it goes.  We both look forward to reading the posts that you all write here, so please drop us a note with your thoughts!