Thursday, February 19th
It was so cold when I woke up I thought I was in Kansas. I didn't even want to get out of the bed, but it was a day off so I did. I bundled up and headed out to Hollywood Studios!
I had connected my Magic Band with my cast member pass and My Magic Plus on the internet the night before, but for some reason it wasn't working when I got to the touch point. Luckily I had my card and got in, but I went to two different Guest Service spots and they couldn't figure out why. It all looked like it should work, so they gave me a phone number to call.
But first I had a very important fastpass to make! I headed straight for Toy Story Midway Mania where I temporarily became a toy and had a good time.
My second stop was to check on the progress with the hat. I wanted to see it - or actually I wanted to not see it and wondered how close that was to not happening.
I walked to Fairfax Fare where I planned to get some breakfast and tried the number.
After a bit of searching, the nice CM on the phone figured out it was because I have too many Magic Bands. How funny. The thing is every time you make a reservation at a different resort, and not only did we come too much last year we often stayed at more than one resort. She deactivated a few of them and I was all set.
Fairfax Fare was supposed to open for breakfast at 10:30 but it never did. I was starving a so I headed to Starbucks. It was crazy busy so I bailed so I headed for my fastpass at Tower of Terror. It was as awesome as ever.
I decided to head to the Muppets area because I hardly ever go there. I stopped in the Writer's Stop because I needed something to eat. I waited forever to get a chocolate danish. I grabbed a table outside Pizza Planet and munched away. It was giant and had way too much frosting, but it was food so I loved it. I dropped it on the ground before it was finished but it was so much food I was ok with that.
Since I was over there, I decided to check out the Muppets movie. People do not move down the row! People! Follow the instructions. Move down the row. Jeez. I saw One Man's Dream next and then headed to the Animation Courtyard. I wanted to take the drawing class so I got in line. It was a long line and the people behind me were pushy and and didn't understand personal space.
We drew Dale. I've taken this class 3 times and drawn Dale twice now.
It was Academy Awards time, so they had a statue you could get your picture taken with. Of course I did. And posted it on my Facebook with thanks to my family and friends for the support. Also thanks to Mickey for making this all possible.
After that I had to Get Out of the animation courtyard because it was packed with screaming kids who needed naps or lunch of both. I needed some lunch myself so I walked over to the Backlot Express for a burger and padawan training show.
Here's one thing I've discovered about visiting parks by yourself: If you don't have someone to scope out a table for you while you're waiting for your food, you are going to have a hard time finding somewhere to sit. Seriously. Because all the people with a family have taken the tables while their people wait in line. I've heard that during busy times CMs stand around and make sure that doesn't happen, but I haven't seen it yet at Disney (I always see it that way at Universal). Eventually I did find a perfect table in the sun and enjoyed my food. And after that I headed back home.
Adriana got home right after me and we went with her friend to check out the last day of Cast Connections before they moved. We thought they might have some great deals since they were trying to get rid of everything before the big move - but really they just didn't have anything left. For real. So we headed back home empty handed.
It was 47 degrees then. And the low that night was 27. Crazy talk.
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