DIsney Trip 2015 Part 2: Hollywood Studios- Edited to Add Video!

After a late night Sunday, we had planned to go to another park on Monday.  Yikes! The kids went to bed at midnight the night before.  They got up early because they are kids.  So we took them to Hollywood Studios.  Hoo dawg.  It was a rough start to the day but there are no naps at Disney World!! We must push on!

 Here is our 'before' picture.  We had just gotten to the park.  The kiddos were tired. Look at their poor tired faces. 

 Even the photog noticed.  He zoomed in for effect.

 Tommy just gave in and laid his head down.  Poor guy.

 So we decided to try and perk him up by taking him on the Tower of Terror.  I thought the ride would be pretty freaky for him.  I made sure to explain everything as we were going through.  The twilight zone stuff was dark and scary like I thought but he was fine knowing it was all pretend.  Then came the drop! I turned to tell him it was coming when they took the picture.  He was excited!  He refused to go on the ride again but I think he was pretty stoked that he went on a big kid ride.

 We went to the Little Mermaid show and then ate lunch.  The allergy-free chicken tenders we got at Studio Catering Company were not very good.  Oddly bland.  Usually they add something to make it taste better but not this time.  Can you tell Tommy was not in a good mood still?? He refused to let me take his picture.

 Charlotte was in a wacky mood for lunch at least. ;) 

 Tommy played on the Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground.  He loved riding the ant!


We went to the Frozen show.  Charlotte LOVED singing along with all the songs.  Love seeing that magic in the kiddo's faces.  Also, SPOILER ALERT: Elsa makes it snow!!!


Then we headed over to the Beauty and the Beast show. 

 We had perfect timing for this show.  While we were there, it rained!

 We stayed nice and dry!

 Charlotte yelled Belle several times.  The show was entertaining as always.

 Sofia the First was available to meet and get a picture after the show.  Charlotte loves her (mostly because she's one of the characters on her pull-ups).

 She was pretty excited to meet her.  I couldn't believe how well she was doing with the characters.

 But every time she met a character, she would run up to them, hug them and then run off.  It was pretty funny.

She matched FIA FURST (that's what she calls her) with her purple dress too! Too cute!

We went to watch the early Fantasmic show because it was getting late and the kids were pooping out.  (Literally but more on that later.)
It's one of Tommy's favorites still because (SPOILER ALERT) Maleficent the dragon makes an appearance.
Right before the show started, Charlotte filled her FIA FURST pull-up. Yep, #2.  I check our bag and realize that I had left our diapers and wipes in a bathroom after lunch (several hours earlier) clear across the park.  AARRRGGGHHHH.  Not good.  So I carried Charlotte up the stairs and tried to find a cast member. I found someone who thought maybe they had dispensers in the bathroom for diapers and wipes. She said if they didn't have diapers/wipes then I would have to walk to the entrance of the park where the baby care station was to get some or I could beg some other mom in the bathroom.  I chose the latter option and waited watching all the women going in and out of the bathroom.  I found a woman who was in the stall with a little boy who seemed like he was new to going potty.  She came out and I asked her if she could spare a square (wipe/diaper).  She said, "Oh, yes. I have 3 kids. I have done that several times.  Here, takes a couple diapers and some wipes."  SUCCESS!!! Charlotte got cleaned up just in time to head back to our seats and see the entire (terrifying, at least to Charlotte) show.  Charlotte eventually just laid her head down while I covered her ears and she fell asleep! That sounds familiar to another 2 year old at Disney. 

 After the show, we had one Fastpass left so we headed over to Toy Story Mania to ride it before we left.  Charlotte loved it! She had no idea what she was doing but she was having fun! Tommy and Dada loved it too.  The best part was that we didn't have to stand in line.  Those Fastpasses are the BOMB! The line for that ride is 3 hours at Christmas time.  No stinking way.  It was an hour plus the entire day we were there.  Not worth it.  But we enjoyed it with our 5 minute wait.  Whoo hoo!

 We had really pushed the kids to the brink but we pushed on because we HAD to see the Osborne Family Christmas Lights one last time.  The lights are being taken down after this year.  So sad to see them go. :(

 We COULD have stood in a LONG line to get a professional picture in front of this tree but we knew better than that. :)

Here's our version of the professional pic. Ha!

 There were so many people standing around taking pictures with their phones (us included).  It was amazing. It matched the Christmas music that was playing.  It almost put us in the Christmas spirit. (Pretty hard to do when it's 85 degrees and it's November.)

 Here is a partial family picture and my mom is photobombing us.  HA!

 The kids had had enough.  But they got  light up toys from Grandma so they were kept entertained for a little bit longer.

 We were about to leave when we decided we should go back and get Tommy a Christmas gift that we had picked out earlier in the day.  We let the kids out and they went nutty for a bit chasing each other around, light up toys glowing!

We snapped a quick family pic right before we left.  This is definitely our "After" picture.  Sheesh.  I was spinning Charlotte's light up Elsa toy in the second picture.  Memories, right? ;-)

 The kids were loopy on the tram back to the car.  It was a good thing we had a break day after this.  Wow.  They were absolutely troopers for what we put them through, I do have to say.  They did awesome for being so tired.  Way to go, kiddos.