Disney - Day 2

Here we are wearing our Toy Story clothes.  All the men wore Buzz Lightyear shirts and the ladies wore Woody shirt.  Jillian and Hadleigh had Jesse shirts. 

Disney - Day 2 was our first full day at Disney.  I had read in a book that you should do Disney's Hollywood Studios first if you were taking little bittie children.  After having followed this book's plan to a tee, I would have to agree with the strategy.  This was us bright and early at 8:00 in the morning.  We wanted to be at the park opening at 9:00, 

Every morning and evening we rode the Disney shuttle busses to the parks.  It worked fairly well and most of the time we waited around 10 minutes for a bus. 

We made it. 

Here is the whole gang!!!

Evidently, Hollywood Studios was hosting a Star Wars Weekend.  We saw a lot of Star Wars characters and Mickey and Minnie were dressed up as Luke and Leia. 

Bryan liked seeing Bo Bo Phet.

The famous sorcerer's hat!!!

Our first ride - Toy Story Mania!!!!!

Mr. Potato Head giving us some instructions!

Jillian rode with Daddy and Rocco and Hadleigh rode with Mommy!!!

Next off to Little Mermaid theatre....

We had lunch reservations at Hollywood & Vine for a character lunch with the characters from Disney Jr.

Handy Manny!!!

Jake from Jake and Neverland Pirates was a BIG hit!!!!

Hadleigh could care less and was more interested in eating her green beans.

June from Little Einsteins!!!!

Agent Oso!!!!

Handy Manny again!!!!

Have I mentioned yet about the Florida heat and humidity?  Goodness gracious!!!  Florida was supposed to break a record today for the heat.  Can you tell in this picture how hot we are???  It was brutal.  Can I also mention that Hadleigh has still not adjusted to Florida and is refusing to nap in the stroller or anywhere else?   Can I be honest and say I was not adjusting well either and may or may not have had a breakdown and said something to the effect of "Let's go back to the hotel" with tears streaming down my face.

But everybody rallied around me and we pressed on.  We next went to the stage version of Beauty and the Beast!!  Very well done!!!!

Belle

Codsworth and Lumiere

Belle has broken the spell

Next we rode the Star Wars ride.  As an adult, this ride was very cute and fun!!!  I have not allowed my kids to watch any Star Wars movies yet so this had no meaning for them.  But they still rode the ride and liked it.   

R2D2 givng us some instructions.

Our 3d glasses!!!

Jillian got the requisite ear hat!!!!

 That night we decided to eat at our hotel and let everybody get a good night sleep for the next day.  When we got back to the hotel, the Disney Fairy had been hard at work and let treats since the kids were so good.  I think the Disney Fairy was being pretty generous to Hadleigh considering her behavior today but considering she was only 15 months, she got something too!!!

Minnie and Daisy!!!



Mickey doll - SCORE!!!!

After my breakdown, I totally had a turn around.  I really had to release my control (or realize I had no control really!!) of the situation and enjoy the day for what it was!!!  Of the 3 parks we went to, Hollywood Studios was my least favorite park  BUT the Toy Story Mania ride was in my top 5 things on the DisneyWorld trip.