Long Disney posting

Here’s a map of Disney’s layout of their Parks. Not bad deal since it started out as swamp land.

Monday’s adventure took us to MGM Studios.

I thought this was my first time there but after getting lunch at one of the mass feeding places, I realized I had been there before. Many years ago albeit it being about 10 years ago.

It we spent most of the day there but it doesn’t really feel like we did either. Of course with most of these parks there is always the waiting in line. We didn’t do too much of that since there are not awhole lot of rides here. First ride was the Star Wars one.

This one has not changed over the years. The first time pilot still travels incorrectly thru the space station and other naughty things. (Don’t want to give it away for those that have not been on it.) The kids loved it since it was Star Wars, a ride, and robots. My stomach wasn’t too thrilled. Thank goodness we ate before jumping on.

Of course the ride has you exiting thru a ton of merchandise to purchase. Oh that Han Solo! How could I exit the store and not have his picture with me. ;) Not to mention that was THEE movie back in the day.

We did some looking around and possibly some other rides. The rides that we didn’t do are really the story. We wanted to catch The Little Mermaid but my bro couldn’t figure out where it was and the time it started. Found out it was only steps away and we just missed the beginning by moments. Ah well.

Hit this ride. Had to it was another one of those that one grew up with back in the day.

Other frightening ride(s) - Tower of Terror. Get this; my nephew was willing to go on. He’s usually the one afraid to go on such rides. So I’m thinking he didn’t understand what is involved with the ride. My mom and I couldn’t go on due to health problems, so no one went on that one. Next to that one was the Rock ‘n’ roller coaster.

Bro wanted to do the Aerosmith’s rock ‘n’ roller coaster. Since there are loops that leaves me out. Mom wasn’t too keen on it either. I think the niece was all for it. She was too small for the ride so we told her that she was not old enough to go on. She was cool with that answer. We were not sure how she would react if we said she was too small. Probably have a fit.

We would have liked to see this but it wasn’t dark enough at the time. Hanging around for another couple of hours just waiting for that was not on the game plan.

So after our ice cream break and looking at the rides we didn’t go on, we did what any American family would do. Went shopping!! A lot of the stores/shops were on our way out so we hit quite a few. We also hit the AFI Showcase. I totally loved just looking around. There was a board of all the AFI lifetime award winners. It did not have George Lucas on it since the broadcast of that had not occurred as of yet.

They also had a boards of the Good guys and the Villains. They did include animated folks as well like Ursula (wicked octopus from The Little Mermaid). I’m hoping the pictures of those boards comes out. If so I might be able to scan ‘em in and post ‘em somewhere.

We did a couple of hours in the resort pool before calling it a night.

Question: On a trip, if there were no limits on what you could take, What would you take with you?