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Old 19 Feb 20, 09:41 PM  
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Ok Let's Try This With A Baby - Feb/March 2020 - Day 2


This morning I woke at 4.30am, slightly more reasonable but not ideal. DS woke about 5am so we got up and had abit of breakfast. Found some tea bags supplied in the kitchen so made a cup of tea and had a s'mores pop tart. Love these!



Dd and DH woke about 6, got some breakfast, packed our stuff for the day and we were heading out just after 7am. We were on our way to Hollywood studios hopeful for more success getting a rise of the resistance boarding group than yesterday. We arrived at the parking booths faced with another huge queue but with abit more time this morning. We got parked up in row 306 about 7.40am and walked into the park. The entrance was really busy but really well managed. We'd left all our bags in the car so we could go through the no bag line to speed things up. Everyone was asked to hold their mobile phones above their heads as the walked through the metal detectors and no one needed to scan their fingers to get in to the park so this sped things up a lot. We got into Hollywood studios at 7.50am and made our way down to Hollywood blvd to wait for 8am to try for a boarding group. I had my phone and DH had his. DH had the app open and ready at 8am whereas I decided to open the app when the announcement had made to try and increase our chances of one of us getting a group. I was able to click the join boarding group button as soon as my app loaded at 8am, whereas DH had to keep refreshing and the button still didn't activate. I clicked and we were given boarding group 21. Absolutely over the moon we weren't sure what time we would be called but decided as it was a cooler morning we would wander into galaxies edge and have a look around.



I'm not a Star Wars Fan but was hugely impressed by the detail and theming in galaxies edge. We wandered round exploring the area, DH being a huge Star Wars fan was in his element and was spotting loads of merch he is planning on buying.



Our boarding group for risenof the resistance was called at 8.40am and we had 2 hours to return to the ride, we made our was over and spoke to the cast members at the entrance who set up the rider switch for DD and I, so DH and DD could ride it first. Thought it was only fair he should go before me being a huge fan. They joined the queue at 8.50am and DS and I had a seat near the ride to do abit of people watching, enjoyed a nice Diet Coke in a Star Wars bottle and making the most of the cooler temperatures today while we waited for them to come off the ride. The cast members were telling people they try to limit the wait time once in the queue to an hour, fortunately Dd and DH were off within 40 minutes and Dd and I returned to the fastpass entrance for the rider swap. This meant we missed the main queue and went straight to the start of the ride experience. Dd and DH were blown away by the ride and thought it was awesome, I thought it was ok, not something I'm too fussed about riding again. After we came off we decided to head out of Hollywood studios as DS was due a bottle and we had left all the bags in the car. We'd been expecting to get a much later boarding group (if at all) so we were planning on leaving and and returning later.



We made our way to Disney springs and parked up in the lime garage. There was only one place I wanted to go for lunch and that was blaze pizza. This is some of the best pizza I've ever had! We got 2 and shared them between us.
First Dd picked red sauce, mozzarella, meat balls and tomatoes. This was great and the meatballs were really tasty.



DH then picked a red sauce with ricotta and mozzarella, topped with pepperoni, spicy sausage, meatballs and red peppers. Again this was really nice, the pizza base is lovely and think and even the crust is delicious.



We also got large fountain drink to share, we had the blood orange lemonade which has a nice tang to it.



After lunch we walked along to a pretties for a dessert. Dd and I shared a Mickey mousse cake, this was $9. They're not particularly big but it was enough for us to have between us to finish off our lunch. It was so refreshing there is a white chocolate and milk chocolate mousse inside and the decorations are chocolate.
After our dessert we went and had a look in a few shops starting with world of Disney. Dd was picking out things she would like and was obsessed with the princess dresses. We also popped into ghirardelli, I always intend to buy chocolate to take home but always leave it to another time so it won't melt and end up forgetting or running out of time. I will be back to buy the bag of 80 assorted squares this time! After a look in a few more shops we made the decision to return to mystic dunes, the sun was coming out and it was getting quite hot, so thought a relax back at out apartment and a few naps for some of us would be a good idea.



We considered spending the evening at Epcot but thought we'd head there tomorrow instead and we'd have another quiet evening at the resort. DS seems to be abit under the weather so we'll get him an early night. Dinner tonight was another take away order, this time from Buffalo Wild Wings. We did an online order and DH and Dd went to collect it. DH and I both had the buffalo bleu burger. This was a beef burger with blue cheese sauce, blue cheese crumbles, tomato, onion and pickles and I had mild sauce added to mine. They came in takeaway boxes with a rather small serving of fries.



Dd had a kids cheeseburger meal which came with fries and a chocolate milk.
Total came to $35.01.
Our estimated pick up time was 5.40pm. DD and DH returned at 6.15pm and considering Buffalo Wild Wings is less than a mile up the road an Formosa gardens it shows how long our food sat there while no one bothered serving. The receipt in the bag is actually printed as 5.33pm so I can only presume it sat around for half an hour before it was handed over and that would explain why it was absolutely stone cold when we came to eat it. Now we've had problems with service at this particular Buffalo Wild Wings location the 2 other times we ate here, service it so slow/non existent. So this will be the absolute last time we bother with Buffalo Wild Wings, the burger would probably have been ok but was completely ruined by being sat going cold for so long.


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Old 20 Feb 20, 02:31 PM  
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So pleased for you all getting a group allocated for Rise of the resistance. I’m hoping to use this in future as a way of DH agreeing to another holiday as he’s a massive fan!
A shame about the food at Buffalo Wild Wings. Hope your DS is feeling better soon.
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You did well with ROTR! Did you use mobile data or park WiFi?
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Enjoying this. We've got a little one now, so we're eager to see how you managed throughout your holiday.
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Interesting to read about how they’re trying to speed up entering the park. Great that you got a boarding group and enjoyed the ride.

That Mickey cake is cute!
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