Saturday 19th Dec
Another breakfast at the hotel, I think I just had fruit and pastries today.
We decided to go back to Premium Outlets at Vineland Avenue again. I got a long cardigan from Ann Taylor and some more sketchers to add to my collection….I really must start wearing some of the new ones!
I got a polo shirt at US Polo Association and then we decided to get lunch at McDonalds across the road.
We had a fairly lazy afternoon and then got ready for our dinner at Sanaa.
On arrival at the lodge there was a group singing Christmas songs in the lobby which was nice, we were early so we watched them for a while and then sat on the chairs until our reservation time.
We had the bread service as usual and then I had Tandoori Chicken whilst Rob had Butter Chicken and Beef with basmati rice.
The dessert trio has changed slightly - no banana cheesecake instead it has been swapped for a lemon tart (I think). I stuck with my chocolate mousse which was delicious as normal.
With our DVC discount I think we paid around $80 including tip.
Sunday 20th Dec
We had an early start this morning so we skipped breakfast at the hotel. We arrived at Hollywood Studios at about 9.15, thankfully the line for bag check wasn’t too bad and we hired a locker on our way in to store our jumpers and lights for later.
We got ourselves a super healthy breakfast of cookie and muffin at Starbucks, we checked out the wait for Rock n Rollercoaster and it was already 50 minutes so we decided to head over to Star Tours instead and got straight on with no wait.
Next up we decided to check out the Launch Bay, it was a 10 minute wait for the movie and then we got in line to meet Chewbacca. It took about 25 minutes and then we took our time looking at the art and toys that were available to buy….we could have bought so many things but they wouldn’t have fitted in our bags!
We took a walk down towards Toy Story and popped in to meet Sorcerer Mickey (he had less than 10 min wait) and then we saw Santa Goofy (probably about 15 minutes for him).
I bought myself a green Osbourne lights top and we rode Star Tours again with FP, the standby wait was now up to 50 minutes. We dropped our shopping in our locker and went to check in for our lunch reservation at Sci Fi.
Lunch was good, I got a turkey sandwich and Rob had the special burger and we both had a sundae for dessert. It’s not fancy food by any stretch but we’ve always enjoyed our lunches here.
We had a little wait before our Toy Story Midway Mania FP - and no surprises here…Rob won again!
Next up at around 4pm was Tower of Terror with FP, I’m reasonably sure we stopped for a drink at some point as well.
After riding ToT we went to see if there was anything available for a 4th FP and amazingly we got Rock n Rollercoaster!
It wasn’t until 5.40 so we had a little bit of time, we decided to ride the Great Movie Ride. The wait was posted as 30 minutes and it was a little bit shorter; we got the cowboy scene which I hadn’t seen before.
We headed back across to Rock n Rollercoaster but it was experiencing technical difficulties so we went to see if we could catch the start of the Osborne lights - unfortunately we missed the start by about 1 minute!
The lights were packed so we made our way through the crowds and decided to head back across to RnR in case it was fixed. For some reason our My Disney Experience app decided to stop working at this point which was a pain as it meant we couldn’t easily check wait times.
We got back across the park and it was working again so we used our FP and were on the ride in just a few minutes. I did check for FP after we were done and got one for the 2nd Fantasmic which we ended up not using.
We got our proper camera from our locker and headed back to the lights to try and take some better photos, they were already much less busy which made it more enjoyable to walk around. I lost count of the number of photos we took for other people!
Once we were finished we put the camera away and got a drink from Starbucks which we drank whilst sat on a wall listening to the music at the dance party.
It started to get a little cooler so I put on my Osborne lights top and Rob put on his Christmas jumper…!
We went back to the lights again and just watched them for a while - we ended up staying until they were turned off at 10pm. I think we spent a good couple of hours here over the evening.
We followed the crowd out and went to find a spot for the fireworks, this was probably the only part of the day that dragged - I felt that an hour was too long to wait for them. Having said that the fireworks were great and I was glad we stayed, and in the end I felt like we got reasonable value out of our 1 day tickets.
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