DAY THREE:
This was my original plan:
- SUNDAY: Hollywood Studios. ADRs at City Works (lunchtime) and Mama Melrose (early dinner). Plan here is to arrive early, hit MMRR first, then MFSR and try for a RoTR boarding pass. Beyond 10am, with no boarding pass for RoTR we would leave and go back to the resort for a while. We would then return close to 1:30pm to try again at 2pm if necessary, or time our return based on any boarding pass if we are lucky. I'm also considering taking a break from this park by hopping on the Skyliner to head over to maybe Beaches and Cream for dessert or, now that @Jenny Sanders has provided an awesome review, maybe checking out Abracadabar.
Ok...so we all woke up and since we didn't have to be at STUDIOS until around 9am for the 10am opening we mostly chilled. We ordered some breakfast from downstairs...some of us. I actually got up early and hit the local Walmart by 7am, picked up some water, some muffins and bananas, some milk and some sodas just to get us through the few days. I was back in the room by 8am.
I told the group I wanted to leave around 9am and I think we were out a bit after that. We drove to the park, don't recall when we arrived, but we headed directly to Galaxy's Edge as my friends had never seen that part of the park and neither had my FIL or the kids. So we took our time walking through the area, and actually headed to the area of MFSR. It was approaching 10am so I decided we would all stop there and try for a boarding pass to ROTR. Keep in mind DH and I were the only ones who had done this before...and we failed the first time and got BG 87 or 89 the second time. We all stood around a small area under MF and I set my watch for a one minute countdown starting at 9:59am. At around 50 seconds I started to load the queues...and soon after this was what I got:
Well that screen shot is actually as we looked later for our boarding time...but as you can see we got BG 13! We all celebrated our success...and then we got right in line for MFSR where we may have waited 15 minutes for that or so. With 7 of us we asked who wanted what roles, and so once we had our 4 pilots, I chose the gunner so I was with my son and FIL in one vehicle the the other 4 went to another vehicle. My son and FIL of course were terrible. I think we got out, and headed over towards Toy Story Land to see if we could squeeze something in there, but even TSM was about 30 minutes and we didn't want to miss our BG so we headed back into Galaxy's Edge and grabbed a drink and soon after our group was called!
Selfie with a Wookie while getting drinks...see my FIL in the background trying to hear what the nice CM was asking him!
Just after 11am we saw this of course. The Star Wars fans in the group of course loved it all. We were a bit hungry, so we decided to stop at one of our favorites at Studios...Baseline Taphouse. We got a pretzel and charcuterie and some drinks and grabbed a table to have some food and drink. It was a nice little break.
We checked the lines next, and I think may have walked towards Tower and then saw the line for Tower...the line for RnRC which stretched across the street to where Beauty and Beast used to be...and it was hot and humid. So we chose to go back to the room to watch our NFL Ravens take on the rival Steelers.
I picked up some wings and other bar food from Hooters because that's what DH wanted. I got a salad that was actually pretty good. The guys ate and napped and the Ravens lost. Boo.
Around 4pm we hopped back in the car and headed to Studios. We knew after the hot and humid day that rain was coming...DH assured us it would be well after 8pm. This is what we saw around our 4:30pm arrival:
We headed directly to Tower which showed a very short wait.
That family in the back did not want to get on the ride with us at first when they knew they would be in the back row, because, as the woman pointed out, her daughter ALWAYS has hands in her face during the photo when she is in the back and she wanted a photo of her daughter's face (the one you see 3 from the left in the back). I was trying to tell DH and FIL and my son NOT to put their hands up on the ride...and all DH would say was he wasn't going to make his ride less because of somebody else. UGH. Disappointing. In any case, it didn't matter as you see here and DD and I were on the far right at the bottom.
After this we hopped in line for RnRC, which I think was about 30 minutes, though the line outside stretched all around in the courtyard area of the ride, it moved quickly.
Once off this, my friend and her husband were elsewhere in the park. He opted out of riding Tower and she had stayed in the park when we left earlier as she met up with a college friend who was also there and walked around with them. We told them we were heading to TSM and they were in line for Slinky.
I did not do well on the ride...oh well. We then headed over to Slinky which was showing 40 minutes but looked to be about 20 and I'd say that was pretty close. Around 6:30pm it started raining while we were in line...so we knew we were in for a wet ride.
Afterwards we met up with our friends and the rain was letting up a little bit, but it was close to park closing so we walked out and decided...perfect time for a ride on the Skyliner as my friend's husband hadn't been on it before. So we just took some circuits on the Skyliner for a bit, for fun, and then returned to Studios and drove back to our room.
Almost forgot...we were hungry and the kids wanted Earl of Sandwich. I had no desire to go out to Disney Springs...so we found the menu onlin and Uber Eats was showing about a 45 minute time from our order to delivery. We were looking at food arriving around 8:25pm so we ordered.
And we waited.
And waited.
And my friend and I went out to outside of the lobby to wait around 8pm.
And when it was 8:30pm and I wasn't seeing an update, I called the name and number showing up on the Uber Eats app. And nobody answered.
At 8:41pm my phone shoed that my food would arrive in 9 minutes.
A guy walked up with pizzas...I guess I was too hungry...I asked if he was "Elder D" which was the driver showing on my Uber Eats app. He said no.
At 8:52 PM it showed 6 more minutes.
I think it was sometime after 9pm when a guy walks UP the steps from the Wildnerness Lodge MAIN PARKING LOT...why he didn't park in the valet area is beyond me. I ask if he is "Elder D" and he says no...then asks if I'm "Dina" and I said yes...and he hands me my food...and yes I still tipped him in cash.
Hey I was hungry.
We ate our sandwiches and soups which were good but no way worth that wait.
Then it was time for bed.
Next day would be a late day at EPCOT and kids would be doing virtual school!