December 2, 2005 Stop, Drop and Roll Meet Muppets Meet Chef Mickeys WL: Gift Exchange

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I was up and ready to go by a little before 8am, but let all three girls sleep in this morning.  Maddy needed the rest and would hopefully feel better.  Brinn was up until after 1am, so she needed more sleep as well.  They will join me at Disney MGM Studios (MGM) later this morning.  Thank goodness for the magic of cell phones!  :-) As I walked out to the bus stop I saw the MGM bus!  Yay!  Then I saw it pulling away.  Boo!  So I plopped myself down on a bench to wait.  Much to my surprise another MGM bus pulled up about two minutes later!  I got this bus all to myself ALL the way to MGM!  We even saw the other bus leaving FW as we pulled in.  Of course, no one was waiting.  So I enjoyed my personal bus service to the park!  ;-) I was there by 8:20 and ended up being first in line at the turnstiles.  LimeGreenCheri and family joined me at the next turnstile over a few minutes later and we chatted until they let us in.  Its a bit foggy, but I remember seeing FLSharon and John, and Zakerdog and Gary that morning too I believe.  Then I started seeing LOTS of Taginators on their way to the Stop, Drop and Roll meet.  At 9am, they let us through and we headed down toward Rock’n Roller Coaster.  (RnR) The group was to meet at the Fast Pass Machines, get Fast Passes and then head over to Tower of Terror (ToT) and wait in line.   After everyone arrived and had grabbed Fast Passes for RnR - SusanL and BaciBecky awarded a few prizes for correct answers to trivia questions.   My favorite was when Jimbolini won the Minnie Christmas ears!  :-D  They looked good on you Jim!  So off we went for ToT for our DROP!  There ended up being more than enough of us to fill an entire car, so a few people went in another car.  As soon as someone sends me a scan of the filled car I hope to "merge" the picture to put everyone in ONE elevator!  :-)   It was a GREAT ride, and quite a wild bunch!   We chatted in the store area while a few people bought pictures and then we were off again. Now it was time to head back to RnR for the ROLL portion of our meet.  I don’t think we even NEEDED the fastpasses - there was NO standby line at all when we returned!  On we went, and it was pretty much a walk on.  I rode with Moley and we had a great ride in our super stretch limo.  :-)   After exiting the ride we all gathered under the big guitar for a group shot.  As luck would have it a Photopass photographer was right there to take our picture.  Many people also got personal shots as well.   It was a great meet and a lot of fun.

Now everyone was splitting up into smaller groups.  I joined the crowd with breakfast on their mind.  A group of us headed off to Starring Roles for a quick bite to eat.  About then I received a call from Kristen that she and the girls were on the way and I told her to meet us at the cafe.  They arrived just after I sat down to eat a bagel and some water.   How many people are on a bread and water diet at Disney!  ;-)  But it sounded good at the time.   After that a few of us headed to the Great Movie ride.  It was great as always, and we got the cowboy this time instead of the gangster.  That hasn’t happened to us in quite a while.  It was a fun ride and then we split off because the girls wanted to do Star Tours.  Maddy was feeling much better this morning, but we were still a bit concerned taking her on such a bumpy ride.  She did fine and the girls loved it as always.  It was about 11am and the girls were hungry, so we headed over to the counter service restaurant near the Indy Show.  (forgot the name, obviously!) and had some lunch.   Then it was time for the Muppets meet.  Photographer and AmyMouse were hosting this one and after some fun games for a few prizes we headed inside.  We timed it pretty well - the preshow was already in progress and soon we were inside enjoying the show.  The girls actually like this 3D movie.  Mickey’s Philharmagic is the only other one they like.  Bug’s Life still freaks them out and they don’t like Honey, I Shrunk the audience at ALL!   After the meet we headed off on our own again.  The girls were checking out the face painting, and we decided to splurge and let them do it this trip.  Maddy choice the Princess and Brinn the Mermaid Princess.  It was fun watching the CM’s work, and they did a great job.  Brinn’s CM missed a center section on the first try, but she quickly added it when we pointed it out to her.  They were really quite busy today, so I’m sure it gets hectic for them trying to keep up with all the customers.  After that we decided to head back toward the entrance, do just a bit of shopping and then head back for a rest before dinner at Chef Mickey’s.  We were taking it real slow today and Maddy seemed to be doing OK.   We didn’t mind missing a lot of the attractions, since we were just here in August, and it was nice to take it slow.  We hit the Big Hat for a few pins, and then we HAD to stop in the Villains store.  Nothing new of interest to us, but we did enjoy the Streetmosphere actors as they put on a show out in front of that store.   Then it was off to the busses.  We grabbed a couple pictures by the MGM Christmas tree and then waited for our bus.  It was there in about 10 or 15 minutes and we were on our way.