Sunday, May 20, 2012

Disney Days: Hollywood Studios

 Our next day was spent at Hollywood Studios, which is more of the Hollywood style behind-the-scenes theme park. We went straight for Toy Story Mania, and then rode it again later with a Fast Pass. It was a fun ride that we could all do (including Zach). We had a photo op with Lightning McQueen and Mater (who Zach just loves), rode Star Tours a few times, and enjoyed the live Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid shows. Jared and I swapped out turns riding the "big kid rides": the Tower of Terror and the Aerosmith rollercoaster-very fun. We were able to hang out with the Nelsons more this day, which was really nice. Being with them kept our kids a lot happier during the wait times and the heat. We left the park to pick up a quick (and much cheaper) dinner, then came back to watch the Fantasmic night show. The 30-minute show was very impressive (lots of fireworks and music and characters and explosions and spraying water and water on fire and...) It was worth staying out late for!

Waiting for Toy Story Mania.

Zach loves the Cars movies, and plays with the Cars toys, so it was really fun to let him see a life size McQueen and Mater.
 The girls got to dance in a street show.
Feeling the size of a bug in the cool play area.
  One of the green army men from Toy Story.
 Dashing into Star Wars battle.
 Hanging out with the cousins, waiting for Fanstasmic to start.
 Disney characters--the good guys in the Fanstasmic show.

1 comment:

robin marie said...

what a fun few days! i'm glad you got to see family and disney!