Day 3 of the Disney Adventure

Today started off better than Saturday right from the beginning. First, we managed to avoid the smoke alarm wake up call. Second, after about 30 minutes on hold being forced to listen to cheery Disney music, Handler 2 managed to get ahold of the people at Lost and Found. Turns out, his glasses had been picked up! So, actually, nothing was lost (for very long, anyway). Handler 2 headed out to pick up his glasses from Lost and Found and Handler 1 stayed back at the room to help me with my blogging.

Eventually, we all met up at Disney's Hollywood Studios. As it was already about noon the chances for us to get fast passes for the (relatively) new ride Toy Story Mania were pretty much nil, however, we were hopeful that since the park was open until midnight that night we might be able to get on the ride much later.


One of the main attractions at Hollywood Studios is the Tower of Terror. Forget the Demon Drop and it's ilk, this thing drops you several time from a not inconsiderable height, after already creeping you out with Twilight Zone references. Handler 2 loves it, so the handlers always have to go on it.

This is how Handler 1 feels about Handler 2 after she's been on it.

We wandered about the park and went on a number of other rides.

Here's for all my geek peeps...

We also managed to catch a moment of the Jedi training academy and watched little kids make fools of themselves fighting Darth Vader with a plastic stick and attack moves it took all of 6 minutes to teach them. Still, it was kinda of cool.

For all my fencing peeps...

And this one's just for Carolyn.

Okay, guys, I get it. I'm short. But can we stop with the munchkin jokes for just a second?!

We could have stayed longer at DHS, but the handlers had reservations for a sit down dinner at the France pavilion in EPCOT. First, however, they stopped off to see the movie Impressions de France. They were hoping to get some ideas for our upcoming Europe trip. However, the film seemed a bit (a lot) outdated, and thus was unhelpful. According to the film, there is only one major city in France (Paris) and the only part of it you get to see is the Champs Elysees. Otherwise, everyone lives in quaint little villages, where they move their goods via wagons pulled by horses and split logs in front of stunning chateau visages.

Dinner was equally underwhelming (and definitely not worth what was paid). So, France was something of a disappointment, but no matter. It was off to Disney Hollywood Studios again to finish up our tour. It was dark by that point, and a lot of the guests had cleared out because it was closing time for the regular park (although resort guests got to stay late). Despite the fact that it was now about 10pm, and all non-Disney resort guests had left, the park was still crowded.

The handlers tried again to get into Toy Story Mania (also known as The Ride Which Shall Not Have Fast Passes), and failed. The wait was 80 minutes and the handlers weren't about to bother. So, we just wandered around the remainder of the park going on some of the smaller rides and just looking around.

This is Joe.

He was working the later shift at the Muppet 3D show and was willing to humor us in our boredom with the pre show. We got to go "behind the scenes" as it were.

Everything in Disney gets scarier at night.

But everything is prettier too. Handler 1 indulged her non-tripod, night-photo habit again.

After that, we braved the very full bus lines back to the resort and prepared for our early day the next morning.