Day two, part three: Hollywood Studios afternoon

When I left off, we had just been playing in the snow at Wandering Oaken's Trading post. 

We really wanted to meet Phineas and Ferb so Doug and I decided to take the girls back over to meet them while my parents shopped. 

We couldn't do both and make our next fast pass time. 

As we waited in line we started to get worried that we were going to be late for our meet up with my parents.

Then a CM announced they would be taking a break in a few minutes. We got nervous. 

But then he said, "After this family." and pointed to us. 

Sweet! It was a lucky moment for us!

Soon it was our time to meet the boys. 

They were funny and the girls were so excited to be meeting them!

We love this show and since meeting them Abi has been even more into it.

After our meet we RAN over to Toy Story Mania for our Fast pass. My parents were already there so we were able to get right into line.
It was a LONG line.
Even with FP there was a wait.
I felt bad for everyone trying to do this without a fast pass.
And I personally LOVE the new system for fast passes where you get to pick them 60 days in advance (if you are a resort guest) because it was so nice to have our 3 FP's all figured out before we got there and not have to run ahead to get them in the morning.

Eventually we were up to the gate ready to get on. 

Doug rode with my dad. 

Abi rode with my mom. 

And I got to ride with Maddy.

There was a little bit of a learning curve with her but eventually she got it and loved playing.

My mom and Abi...

Doug and my dad...

I liked it when we were turned and could see the others in their cars. 

Maddy... and then Doug and my dad.

Maddy and Abi and my mom in the background.

After our ride, we went back to the Lights!Motors! Action! Car stunt show.
My parents had got to this before but the rest of us had not.
I gave the girls a snack I had made that said do you want to build a snowman on it.
Inside were marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and orange jelly beans.
They loved it.
And Maddy was even more excited when she pulled out this marshmallow (that I had never noticed!) and said, "I got a Hidden Mickey!"

The show started. It was pretty cool and interesting. But... of course Maddy didn't like it.

Toward the end she was really starting to get nervous about the stunts so I took her down and we waited for the others out front. 

A few minutes later they met up with us and we started going toward the front of the park. 

Abi was so excited to be able to get cooled down by the Coke mist.

We went to the Little Mermaid show that we had missed earlier.

At this point we really wanted to get up to Fantasmic to try to get good seats so we decided to skip a few more things and not get dinner yet and go straight there. 

While we waited I got out the bubble guns I had bought at Cracker Barrel for a fraction of what they cost at Disney. Then I realized I needed a screwdriver to open the battery compartment. Uh-oh.

I dug through my backpack to see if I had anything that would work.

I found a mini sewing kit (from Target's dollar section or the dollar store.. I can't remember which) and was able to use the mini tweezers in it to unscrew them. YAY!!

The girls had a blast with these things. We always remind them to shoot them in the air not at people. But the bubbles fly everywhere. There was a grumpy old couple behind us that were really annoyed... but all the kids around us were having a blast. We tried to keep as many bubble as possible away from the couple but had to just deal with the fact that some were going to float that way.

At this point we also decided to skip looking at the Osborne lights. 

We did see them on our last trip and we knew that we didn't want to have to walk all the way back to the back of the park again.

My dad's knees were bothering him, we were all hot and tired, and the girls were pretty much done. So, we decided we would head back to Pop right after the show and have dinner there and relax the rest of the evening. 

Soon the show was starting!

We love Fantasmic!

It is such a fun show and such a great way to end the night at the park.
On our way out we stopped at a photo pass photographer and were able to get a photo of us with the hat in the back!

Time to go relax!

Day two, part two: Hollywood Studios Frozen Fun

Our original plan after leaving the animation studio was to go to the little mermaid show and then to lunch before going to the Beauty and the Beast live on stage show. But Little Mermaid had a pretty long line so we decided to just go to lunch. 

When we got to Backlot Express they weren't open yet. So we decided to sit at some outside tables and talk about the plans for the rest of the day.

With some of the times of the shows we realized we wouldn't be able to do it all. 

I realized that if we went to the Beauty and the Beast show it would put a major time crunch on us so we decided to skip it. 

I was a little disappointed because Beauty and the Beast is my favorite... but we saw it on our last trip and I knew it would go a lot smoother if we did this new plan. I am really glad we did because the day was still so packed and busy.

Finally, Backlot Express opened up at 11:30.

We went right in and got in line. A few others had showed up right as they were opening so we still had some crowds but not too bad. I would definitely recommend going when they open because by the time we left it was INSANE.

Doug got the cheeseburger, fries, and a chocolate mousse and said it was all good. 

Abi and Maddy both got the chicken nuggets with fries and a cookie and loved it.

I tried the buffalo chicken nuggets and they were delicious! They were pretty spicy and tasted just like chicken wings but without the bones. I wasn't expecting them to be as good as they were so that was great.

My parents both got cheeseburgers and cupcakes. Their cupcakes were really cute Disney themed ones.

After lunch we went to the Indiana Jones show. We have heard that it is closing soon so we really wanted to go one more time.

It is such a good show.

One of the funniest things happened. On our last trip in 2010 when Abi was Maddy's age, she yelled out in the middle of the show (when there were explosions and fire) "I hate fire!"

This time, Abi was totally loving the show. But Maddy was a bit nervous. 

And then the explosions and fire came.

Maddy yelled, "I hate fire!"

I just thought it was so funny that they both had the same reaction at that age.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the trip. 

I just love how it captured the wonder on Abi's face. She thought the show was amazing.

When we got out of Indiana Jones, we hurried next door to Star Tours for our fastpass time. 

My dad chose to stay off so the rest of us headed in.

Maddy began to get nervous immediately with all the robots.

When we got up to board and were in our lines ready to get on, she started crying. She was really scared. I knew that I might get her on and have her be fine. But I also knew she might not. And I didn't want to ruin the ride for anyone else by having a crying kid on board so I took her out of line and we went out to meet up with my dad. 

He gave her two quarters while we were waiting which made her very happy.

When Doug, my mom, and Abi (they all loved the ride!) met back up with us, we headed straight over to the Frozen sing along for our next fast pass. 

Honestly, I know a lot of people love this but I was underwhelmed.

I thought Anna and Elsa would be out the whole time but really they were only out for a few minutes and most of the show is two storytellers telling the story of Frozen and then all of us singing every single song. 

Singing along is fun. When snow fell from the ceiling that was fun.

But even our girls were getting bored and restless by the end.

Next we went over to go the Muppet 3D show. We all really love the Muppets so we were excited for this... but.... when we got there it was a 20 minute wait and then the show and I knew that would cut some of our time for things afterward.
Plus, the girls were starting to wilt.
It was so hot and humid and they were getting kind of tired.
So we decided to skip the Muppets and get snacks instead.
We got some Mickey ice cream bars for the girls, sprites, and water to share.
This worked wonders!
Everyone was cooled off, refreshed and ready to get going again.

We decided to head back over to the Frozen area to check out Wandering Oaken's Trading Post. 

On our way we saw these guys. We didn't stop to meet them but waved as we went by.

Once inside we waited in line for about 15 minutes for our turn to play in the show. 

The girls really loved this.

I wanted to add some pictures from my phone to show how it actually looked in there...

We got a magic shot before we left.

It was a nice little break.