disney day 3

we woke up on tuesday to a beautiful florida morning...although we knew big storms were coming around 4p so we were up & at em.

grandma & grandpa hung out with gus while clay, luci & i raced to hollywood studios to get a few fast passes. we had hoped to get one for the ariel show, but the park was so empty they weren't handing them out! the nice 'cast member' (that is what they call all employees) suggested we go get fast passes for the toy story ride so we did, even though luci doesn't like the toy story movies because they are 'scary'.

we watched the ariel show which had some super cool special effects...somehow they made you feel you were under water! next we were off to 'playhouse disney' to watch pooh, handy manny, little einsteins & the mickey mouse club house. i was a little disappointed in the show...i didn't realize it was essentially a puppet show....and that said puppet show would be best viewed from the middle back...not super close in the front...where we were.

lulu enjoyed it, nonetheless.

then the whole crew went to see the beauty & the beast show in a big amphitheater. i don't have any photos because we were too busy watching the fantastic performance! even gus loved it!

luci with june from little einsteins

after that it was off for lunch at hollywood & vine with the characters from playhouse disney. it was fun, but wasn't as great as the princess character meals. i think the fact that most of the characters are non speaking puts the 'real life' princess at the top of the character chain. especially if you are a 3 year old princess lovin girl or her mama...nothing else just quite compares. even though we have watched little einsteins every.day.for.the.last.2+.years.

luci & gus with leo from little einsteins

gus with special agent oso. g didn't love the larger than life characters.

and the fam with handy manny.

after lunch grandma & grandpa took gus back to the resort to nap while clay & luci & i used our fast passes for the toy story mania ride. luci didn't totally grasp it, but clay & i really enjoyed it. i had a 60% accuracy while clay the professional scored 83%. :)

after that the three of us caught the ferry to epcot. we walked around the world showcase looking for princesses, but luci was a bit overwhelmed & spent by that point. she had no interest in waiting in a line to see anyone...not even belle & the beast or jasmine & aladdin. so...clay & i took the time to just sort of look around & enjoy things for ourselves. luci had some chocolate gelato from italy that she enjoyed while clay had a beer from germany. we went on a fun boat ride in mexico that featured donald duck that luci liked. after that we went over to the future world & checked out the under the sea ride and turtle talk with crush. luci really enjoyed the ride but wanted to leave in the middle of the adorable turtle talk (the on screen turtle really talks & interacts with the kiddos in the room). and she most certainly did NOT want to see the nemo show i was so excited about....so we didn't. and it worked out because right after turtle talk it started to rain. we knew it was going to be one heck of a storm (micro bursts & whatnot) so we decided to head back to the resort & order in pizza.

so we did. but once on the phone to order pizza we realized that said pizza was going to cost us since it wasn't covered by the dining plan. more than we've ever payed for a pizza before. so since we had extra 'quick service' meals to use up clay & i braved the storm to hit the take away quick service at our hotel. about 90 soaking minutes later we finally brought our family dinner...just in time for bed!