MGM 2005

If you’ve been following my blog this week you’ll know the family is all in Orlando, doing Disney and hanging with my relatives who have NO Internet access. But it’s the first time we’ve done Disney without having to sit through one of those Time Share Tours. Oh, how I remember the last time sooo well! It was actually a pleasant experience! There’s always a first time for everything!

Our original sales guy called that morning and said he couldn’t make it so we prayed for a good salesman who would see we really weren’t candidates for time share and move on quickly. God answers prayers!

We arrived on time for our time share appointment even though it was at 7:30am. We got our breakfast and sat down with a nice middle-aged lady. We couldn’t have gotten a better sales person because while doing our profile she realized we were great candidates…but not at this time. So she didn’t try and close the sale, and she didn’t even take us on one of the tours…we’ve already seen them all before. She just had to sign off with her manager…who tried to sell us some smaller package. We declined. We were grateful to get out of there so quickly and with relatively little pain. Thinking back on the whole time share thing…it would be a great place to stay if you had some down time. But to do Disney like we do, a hotel would have been fine. I’ll have to make a mental note of that for next time.

We headed out to MGM. It was a beautiful sunny day. Our first stop was at the Star Wars Tour. Dh and I did the baby swap thing and the boys got to ride it twice. It was a virtual reality ride where you don’t go any where, but it looks like you’re flying a space craft. We were hoping to see some Star Wars characters, but they weren’t there. We did get some great pictures though.

Then we headed to main street where we heard the Power Rangers were going to sign autographs. Timmy (5) was a little shy and I had to force Chris (10) and Joey (8) into the line. But we got good pictures and they seemed to enjoy it. Timmy ended up taking a picture with one of the rangers. We also saw Jessie from toy story and Buzz Lightyear.

Next we went to the Indian Jones Stunt show, one of my favorite, but the noise was too loud and Grace (3) hates loud noises and started to cry. So I volunteered to leave. Oh well, at least I got the chance to see the spike’s shoot up out of the ground and the big boulder rolling after the guy. We left the arena, but she could still hear the noise. We made our way to where the characters were and we got in line to see Lilo and Stitch. Grace loves to watch the video, but she got real shy when it came time to take the photo. So I got someone to take a picture of me holding Grace who was crying.

We met up with the boys and did some layed back stuff like the Muppet 3D show and Honey I shrunk the Kids play ground. Then the boys went to a couple more stunt shows and back lot tours and I took Grace to see Beauty and the Beast.

Along the way we took pictures with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. We met for lunch at the Sci-Fi indoor dinner. It was set up like a drive in and we ate in cars. After a frustrating time getting the kids to be happy with their seat arrangements, we ate while watching clips from old movies. Not the greatest movie clips…return of the 80 foot woman and revenge of the mummy type stuff mixed in with cartoons. We sang happy birthday to Timmy and he got a yummy desert. We told the boys that they wouldn’t get big parties this year, but we’d celebrate their birthdays at Disney World. After we ate we rushed to the parade, but we were in the back row and couldn’t see well.

We couldn’t make it to all the shows we wanted to, but we did get to see the Incredibles…my boys loved that. When the boys were gone on a LOUD ride, I took Grace to the Great Movie Ride… the books said it was a must see. I prayed it wouldn’t be scary. We waited for over 30 minutes…the most we had waited all day and then we started the ride. The first scene we drove through was from a shoot it out movie…Grace got scared and cupped her hands over her ears. I told her to hide and she squatted down on the floor. She didn’t cry or anything, thank you God…we also came upon the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz and when we drove through the alien set…I huddled over her so she wouldn’t see the alien. There was no way off the ride, and we both made the best of it. She wasn’t scared…she was just hiding as she said…

Oh my gosh, I can’t remember what she said, and I guess I failed to write it down right after it happened. Talk about a cliff hanger. Let’s turn this into something fun, like finish that line. What do you think Grace said???

Later Grace and I met up with the big boys at the Rocking Rollercoaster. I volunteered to go on the ride which went from 0-60 in 3 seconds. Talk about leaving your heart at the boarding gate. For thrill seekers, that was a thrilling ride, but once was enough for me. I let DH take the boys again while I waited with Timmy and Grace and watched them dance and jump and run and love on each other while we waited. I was a proud mommy and we had a really fun day!