Early start day today, and we were at Hollywood Studios for just after 8am.
As always we made a beeline for for our favourite ride, and took a turn at the Midway Mania.
Modesty doesn't permit me to record the scores achieved in detail, but let's just say that they went in age order, from oldest to youngest!
Once we'd fired the darts, custard pies, hoops and everything else, we decided that the walk from Pixar Place to the Animation building was long enough for the RSI to wear off, and we took our seats outside the Animation Academy, ready to do our second favourite thing at the Studios - do some drawing!
We were given a choice of three characters to draw - Genie, Donald or Tigger, and the majority vote went to the bouncy flouncy one, and here are our efforts:
Drawing done, we crossed off the one other "must do" we had on our Studios list - a trip on the Star Tours, which was pretty much a walk on when we arrived there at about 9.30. I survived pretty well, despite simulator rides not being my most favourite.
Coming out of Star Tours, we were ready for a morning pastry, and so we stopped in at the Writers' Stop for a drink and cookie / danish.
Having refuelled, we wandered out and noticed a character photo opportunity where there were two dressed up characters, a Disney photographer, and a couple of other staff members, but absolutely no guests, and so we couldn't pass them by without stopping for a snap:
After a trip on the backlot tour (where some of the highlights were in the museum area after getting off the tram - Christopher Reeve's Superman cape, and Gimli's axe) we decided that there wasn't anything else that we were desperate to do, and so we took a stroll through the shops on our way back towards the exit. As always, a stop in the memorabilia store was necessary, and I only just overcame the urge to buy a BTTF photo signed by both Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd.
From the Studios we headed out of the world and had a trip to the Walgreens just down the road from Vistana. (Yes - malty balls were purchased.)
By the way, whilst we are on the road, here is a picture of the car:
And here is a picture of the rain that descended whilst we were in it today.:
Denny's for lunch, and I couldn't resist having something from the special Hobbit-inspired menu. I had the "Hobbit Hole breakfast"! Oh yes, and of course, no trip to Denny's would be complete without this:
Back at home, we played some games of pool and table tennis this afternoon, and then this evening we went out for dinner to the delightfully named "Fudruckers" at the Crossroads.
Enough for now - another early one tomorrow - Epcot beckons - Soarin', Test Trackin' and lunch at Teppan Edo.
