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Disney Day 2: A scaredy cat in Hollywood

Dec 2, 2008 Seeing the world

This morning we were going to get up early to head to Disney Hollywood Studios because, unlike Magic Kingdom the night before, Hollywood Studios wasn’t open late. Instead it closed at 8pm. So we left the suite around noon. Hey, that was still earlier than the 12:30 start we had the previous day. Maybe by tomorrow we’ll get our lazy butts out of bed and on the bus by 11:30am. We’re wild and crazy like that.

Our first ride at Hollywood Studios was the Tower of Terror. And by “our” I mean Lee and the kids. I refused to ride on it. I know it goes. The freaking elevator pretends to plummet you to your death. Over and over again. And then one more time for good measure. I’m perfectly happy on the ground thank you very much. I did the Tower of Terror when we were here 10 years ago. I even have a t-shirt that says, “I survived the Tower of Terror.” I’m good.

I was starting to feel a little guilty for being such a chicken shit when all my Facebook friends started calling me a wimp when my 6-year-old got off the ride and exclaimed, “that was so awesome.” And then the whole family (except me) rode on it again. Seriously?!? I’m too much of a pussy to ride an attraction that my 6-year-old thinks is awesome? Maybe I should just stick to It’s a Small World and call it a day.

However I redeemed myself later in the day by attempting Aerosmith’s Rock ‘N Roller Coaster. And I loved it.

You have to be 48 inches to ride the Aerosmith coaster and we didn’t think Caleb was that tall. He wasn’t that tall this summer because they wouldn’t let him go down the big water slide at the city pool (even though he passed the deep end test) because he wasn’t tall enough. We’ve been telling him to drink his milk so he’d be tall enough to ride all the rides at Disney world. But we didn’t really think that would work. Apparently we were wrong.

We bought fast passes for the ride so me and Lee plus all the kids (minus Caleb) were already boarding the ride when my mom called. Caleb didn’t understand why he couldn’t ride the coaster so mom was trying to explain to him that he wasn’t tall enough. She told him to stand against the measuring stick so he would understand. Only he was tall enough and passed the line on the stick by about half an inch. Oops. The fast pass ticket girl took pity on him and gave him a fast pass that allowed him to take two more people with him. He wanted me and dad to go with him. So I rode the roller coaster twice. And loved it both times.

We also loved the new Toy Story attraction. At 3pm we went to buy fast passes, but they were all sold out…for the day. Apparently everybody likes the Toy Story attraction. The wait at that time was 90 minutes so we decided to come back later. At 7pm we came back figuring everybody would be at the Fastasmic! show. The line was shorter. Instead of 90 minutes it said 45 minutes. But it lied. It was closer to an hour. But it was almost worth the rate. It was a lot of fun. Even the teens liked it.

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