Corona Virus Quarantine Day #270: Hollywood Studios: Thursday, December 18, 2020:
Today we ventured to our one Disney park. We selected this one because it was our favorite one the last time we came two years ago. We loved Slink Dog and the Tower of Terror and this time they have new Star Wars rides so we wanted to try those out!
I have to say that Disney did up the Christmas decor far more than Universal. Partly, I’m sure, because it’s so much smaller but dang! It was awesome! The kids loved it. Also, we broke our ride record for the day with 22 in one day (a number that will make mommy and daddy pay the price).
This was the one morning that started out a little brisk. It was about 50 degrees and it felt cold! Thankfully the sun came out in the afternoon and it felt amazing.
Per usual, the pictures will tell the story far better than I can so here it goes!
One of our favorite rides (Bryan’s least favorite) The Tower of Terror. We went on this bad boy 5 times today. I love the picture on the far left where Fletcher has his hands up and is smiling while both Finley and I are holding on for dear life! He’s insane. He loved this ride the last time we went and he wasn’t quite 4 years old then!
Admittedly the Star Wars area was incredible. They spent millions of dollars perfecting this area to make it awesome and it was awesome for sure. There were many grown people carrying specialized life sabers and some that even created their own droids. It was serious business. We aren’t huge into Star Wars so the kids didn’t know what a lot of it was but we fell in love with Baby Yoda for sure and we loved the rides.
The Star Wars Millennium Falcon ride was very cool but super vomit inducing for Bryan and I! Holy cow! The ride actually allowed the kids to drive the machine (which explains why it made me sick) and we ran into a lot of Star Wars things while attempting to do so. But it led to a lot of laughs! Fletcher was the gunner and had to shoot the bad guys which he loved!
We had to try the strange Star Wars Milk stand treats. I cannot say they tasted like treats. Blue was definitely better than green. The green one tasted like grass! The blue one was tastier, the kids liked it. Sometimes I swear it’s just the novelty of it!
The Rockin’ Roller Coaster was also a huge hit! We went on this sucker 5 times as well! It goes upside down and quite fast in the dark! The 5th time did me in but the kids were ready for round 6! Sadly, Fletchy can’t go on this one because he isn’t quite tall enough yet, but he would have loved it. On our last round he sat with Daddy and ate his Mickey Mouse ice cream and said he to everyone who walked by. He was quick to tell me when we got out of the ride that only 2 people said hi back!
The entire Toy Story area is beyond creative. The trash cans look like legos, the light posts are straws or pencils or Lincoln logs…they literally thought of everything. It’s so bright and colorful.
Slinky Dog Dash takes the cake as the coolest coaster at Hollywood Studios. It’s so much fun and thrilling while not making you sick or shaking your brains! We love this one and went on 5 times as well!
Can you really say you’ve been to Disney if you don’t get a Mickey Mouse ice cream? I think not! It really is delicious! We got a lot in our belly and bit on our faces! So good!
Some of our favorite decor! Of course, the giant tree all lit up! But…the mini trees on all the lamp posts were equally super cool!
The Toy Story land all lit up was amazing. Those giant lights were so cool, the kids loved them! This picture on the right is the only one we got with our whole family in it. Some nice gentleman asked if we all wanted to be in it. We took him up on his offer. In the days of social distancing we didn’t feel like we could ask anyone but this guy took it upon himself which was pretty awesome!
The Tower of Terror during the day and at night! It was super cool at night they light the whole thing up and project Christmas scenes onto it! The kids were a huge fan of this!
After 10 hours of theme parks who doesn’t want to go back to their condo and swim for a few hours? I mean, I know I did! The kids had boundless energy and swam off whatever they had left when we got home. It was pretty awesome that every time we were in the pool we were pretty much alone!
Fletcher made a friend at the pool, one of only two kids we saw there. We told them they had to stay 6 feet apart so they went to two different hot tubs so they could chat. Pretty smart!
#Celebr8Awesome 