Day 3- Hollywood Studios

On our third day in Disney we went to Hollywood Studios.

This is prob the only park that I really wish we had more time in.

There were so many shows and they only play at specific times...

we were on a strict timeline here...

First thing we did when we got there was go and get our fast passes for the Toy Story ride.

(we learned our lesson last time)

We actually got the fast passes and then waited in line and went on the ride right then.

On the way to the ride we got to meet some characters.
Right when they took this picture Lightening reved his engine,

so then Brandon put his hands on his ears hence the picture

 Brandon and Mr. Potato head while we were in line for Toy Story

 The boys in 3D glasses

 We had a little bit of time to fill so we went to the "honey I shrunk the Kids" play area.

Its so funny b/c I remember going on this as a kid.

Plus all of these children have NO idea what that movie is.

Here's Brandon going down the currently non existent Kodak film slide

 Spiderweb tunnels

 I just took this b/c i think the grass towering over you looks so life like and neat

So one of the things we were doing for the first time was going to see the Fantasmic show that night.

Out of all the times I've been to Disney, I have NEVER seen that firework show.

I heard from a friend that you can get tickets in advance by purchasing a food package,

that way you get seats right away and do no have to leave the rides early to wait in line.

When you do that package you have a choice of 3 places to eat, (Normally for dinner)

but since we were seeing the 6pm show we couldn't get any good dinner times.
So we ended up having a 3 course meal for lunch at Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano

I honestly think this was the best meal we had all week.

After Brandon ate his meal he got a kids meal cupcake that looked just like spaghetti.

He was confused but then happily ate it. It was really neat.

Next we went over to the Disney JR show that he loved so much last time.

It didn't disappoint him :)

 (even though it was exactly the same)

 Then we caught the Pixar Parade that my mother took Brandon to last time

He sang the song they played for days, and still talks about it.

 Brandon checking the hand prints outside the Chinese Theater before the Great Movie Ride

 Brandon's second favorite thing from his first visit here:

The car show!

This time they updated it and took out Herbie the love bug

(THANK GOODNESS)

and put in Lightening McQueen.

Which all the kids loved

 He even chased a spy car. Brandon really enjoyed it.

 We went on our second ride of Toy Story with our fast passes.

We really like this picture :)

Then Fantasmic!

Its true the package we got was so worth it.
We walked right in, had a special seating area where we could pick any seat we wanted.

We clearly had no idea what this was and took the front row

all the other sections were packed with people and for once we didn't have to touch someone

Basically what the Fantasmic show is a fireworks and image display on water

with characters that go by on boats... Did i mention Water?

Well apparently tall water display (no matter how pretty)

with wind equal water on you and your camera....

The picture below is the only one I took, kenn has some better ones but we had to keep covering

the cameras quickly. And although it was warm, it was JUST cold enough to

get chilly with all the water droplets.

It was a really beautiful and neat show with the images projected onto the wall of water,

We just know better then to sit that close next time :)

The show was pretty early and the park was basically closed, so we took the boat over to downtown Disney and ate a quick to go dinner and shopped.
Brandon was exhausted and fell asleep long before we left.

So we just got him a big cookie from Ghirardelli's while we got ice cream :)