Another really long day

We have got our routine off pat now, we get up get showered and ready, go for breakfast and then catch the 10am shuttle to the EPCOT. Which is exactly what we did this morning. As we'd had such a long day yesterday, we decided to get the 8pm shuttle back to the hotel.

Today we visited Disney's Hollywood Studios. Little Prince was worried about Tower of Terror, even though he had been assured we would NOT be going on it! Eventually we told him to say "Ner ner we're not riding on you" and that seemed to do the trick. Mad Cat Lady has visited the Studios before, for Star Wars Weekends, but as her husband and boys are Star Wars mad that is all they have done. So most of the park was a complete surprise to her, like the Great Movie Ride. Although that scared Little Prince when our driver got kidnapped, he was very worried she'd been killed!! Mad Cat Lady took him on Star Tours, while I wandered round and waited, I get motion sick on that ride!! Afterwards we got him to play at the magic photo place, and he had his face magicked into Anakin Skywalker! The photo was quite expensive so I didn't buy it. When we got outside we heard a commotion back near the entrance to the ride, and happened upon the Jedi Training Academy. Little Prince was lucky enough to be chosen to be trained and he was hilarious!! He fought Darth Vader and 'forced' the Storm Troopers, Mad Cat Lady got it all on video and I can't wait to see it again! We then went to find Pizza Planet, but got distracted by the Muppet 3D Show, that Little Prince still insists on calling the Muffin Show. We eventually found Pizza Planet and had lunch - pizzas what else?!? We then went off on a mission to find the new Toy Story ride, and it was so much fun :-) Although I had to close my eyes when we whizzed so fast round the corners :-)

We saw the character Handy Manny, and queued up to get his autograph and picture. Little Prince insisted once we were in the queue that he didn't want to see him and got very stroppy about it, he'd done this in previous queues and been perfectly happy once we got to the front so we just jollied him along until it was our turn. This time it seems he meant it about not wanting to see Manny - he hid and wouldn't come out, so we just got the autograph and didn't bother with a photo. However, Little Prince was playing up and dancing round so that Manny couldn't see him and ended up standing on my flipflop and snapping it! I got overly cross with him and told him off, then marched him into the Playhouse Disney Live On Stage show. He thoroughly enjoyed the show, which was completely different to the one we saw last time. After the show I had to hobble around until we found a shop selling adult shoes, where I bought some brown, sparkly Tink flipflops, which were quite comfy until I'd walked round in them for an hour or so and then they started to rub!!

Mad Cat Lady took Little Prince on Star Tours again, and while they rode I caved in and went and bought the photo of Little Prince as Anakin. How could I resist?? We then remembered we had to get the Jedi Academy photos put on our Photopass, we had to queue up and it took ages. We then had to run to get a bus to the Transport and Ticketing Centre, and then a Monorail to EPCOT. However, after we'd sat on the bus for a few minutes we realised that we could get a bus directly to EPCOT and got off that bus and ran over to the EPCOT bus stop. Unfortunately we had just missed the bus!! We stood and waited for ages, well it seemed like a long time!! When it got to 7.55pm we realised we definitely wouldn't get to EPCOT in time for our 8pm bus!! So what did we do?? We went back into the Studios and watched the fantastic Fantasmic, of course!! It was a wonderful as ever, its one of my absolute favourite Disney shows :-) Little Prince spent almost the entire show with his fingers in his ears, but still said it was COOL when it had finished. We spent a while sat on a bench people watching, before going to get our bus back to EPCOT (Finally)!! We arrived back at EPCOT an hour early for the hotel shuttle, so once again found a bench and sat down. Little Prince was at the very end of his endurance and fell fast asleep in minutes. Mad Cat Lady is always amazed at how he does it!! We chatted to the Transportation Greeter, who gave us some bus trading cards for Little Prince :-) Eventually it was time to get our shuttle and luckily the driver didn't ask for our room numbers or anything, as we'd been booked on the earlier bus and weren't sure if they would allow us on!! There were very few people boarding, so it wasn't a problem.

Once back at the hotel, I put Little Prince straight to bed and he hardly stirred and was snoring again within seconds!! So that's the end of our "another really long day"!!