Disney Studios Day Part 1 - An Unfortunate Start
So, as you may recall, the night before, Stuart had reminded us that the clocks go back an hour. So, because we didn't want to stay up or wake up at 2am to change the clocks and weren't sure if our iPhones did it automatically, Abi set hers back an hour before we went to sleep and I didn't. The plan was to wake up when her alarm rang and see if our times were the same. Well, somewhere this plan was misinterpreted by yours truly and our phones went weird. As in Abi's changed the time automatically (after being set back the first time) and mine didn't. So when her alarm rang I just assumed my time was wrong and we got up and ready as normal. Well we got down to breakfast and had just grabbed plates when Stuart appeared and said "aren't you coming today?" and we said "of course!". Well, it was time to go he said. My first thought was that he was playing a prank on us but then he showed us his watch which said 9:30. Argh! Luckily he was kind enough to wait while we legged it to the room to grab our stuff. Phew! Back in the right time zone we arrived at the parks at about ten and joined the long line to get into the Studios.
First stop was breakfast seeing as we missed out at the hotel. We stopped at the long fast food place (En Coulisse?) in the Studio 1 entrance. I got the breakfast menu which includes a croissant, a hot drink, an orange juice and a milk carton. Pretty good value for money I think! And Abi got a chicken burger as well as my milk (I hate it on its own) but she had to drink it through the hole because I had taken the straw for my coffee. But only because they had put it into one of those McDonald's style plastic cups without a proper drinking hole.
Anyway breakfast in hand we speed walked through Toy Story Playland
and into the Ratatouille area - the ordinary queue was already 100 minutes so we got in the fastpass queue. Our return time was between 4:55 and 5:25. I love the whole Ratatouille area, but it was too crowded to get proper photos. I did get this one though:
Fastpasses safely in hand we headed to the next order of business which was characters! Abi had bought an autograph book the day before so she could get some signatures for her niece. We jumped into Buzz's queue first but he was taking forever to come back from his break so we switched to Mickey instead (of course 5 minutes later Buzz came back) but our queue had moved considerably so we stayed where we were. Soon enough we were meeting the big cheese himself:
He told me he loved my ears by gesturing to them and then drawing a love heart. Abi's turn!
As you can see, Abi had respected her Mother's wishes and was wearing a normal outfit today. I however, was skipping around in my Tangled dress and loving it. Next we hovered by Crush, wanting to get a photo when the shell whizzes by (the queue was 90 minutes and we both suffer from motion sickness so...).
Nailed it!
Our plan was to go straight to Tower of Terror, but we were distracted by the fact that Animagique was starting in 5 minutes.
Before the show started we entertained the kids in the row in front of us with our Cheshire Cats (yes they came back with us. Though I must admit mine made his way into my bag pretty quickly) and then it began! It was just as sweet as I remembered it and we both really enjoyed it. Now it was time to face my fear; TOT only had a 25 minute wait so now was the time.
Doo doo doo doo!
Doo doo doo doo!
I was feeling relatively ok until we got to here:
Then my palms started sweating, my heart started racing and I needed the loo. Badly. But I sucked it up and did what any person does in a time of crisis: channelled my inner Charlotte Le Boueff.
"I'm sweatin' like a sinner in church!"
"Oh Tia, Tia, Tia!"
"I used to think that wishin' on stars was just for children and crazy people"
Just a few of the quotes that jumped out of our mouths. The people around us must have thought we were nuts! At the boiler room part of the queue a sinister CM asked us how many were in our party and when we answered "two" he smiled creepily and said "follow me". Great. We were on the next elevator. And in the front row! There was a hilarious group of French guys with us who were acting all tough and not scared then as soon as we moved were fake screaming. Like every time we moved. But it was so much fun! We went through the twilight zone, saw the fate of those unfortunate celebrities and then off we went! It was amazing, but I think our picture will tell you that:
Coming up: Disney Studio Day Part 2: Animated times and the Princess Waiting Game.