Saturday, February 23, 2013

November 2012 Day 1


 
The girls woke up ready to rock and roll, we are headed to Hollywood Studios for Rope Drop.
In the morning mommy was still unsure whether she was actually going to go through with the half marathon tonight, but it would be a shame to walk away from all that training!
 
 
Let's hit it.  We walked from the Boardwalk to DHS which is such a nice walk along the water.
We got there for park opening did the mad dash to Toy Story Mania and did that a few other rides and hit the Disney Junior Show
 
 
The girls love grabbing for the gold doubloons at the end.  We also redeemed our Photopass and
met up with our Mimi
 
 
Not very happy to wait around while Daddy rode Tower of Terror
 
 
Making funny faces while we pass the time.  We didn't come all the way to Disney to sit around and wait, let's go!!
 
 
 
Then it was time for late breakfast at Hollywood and Vine, it was actually pretty good and the characters were fun!
 
 
Oso giving Mimi some love :)
 
 
 
 
 
 
We had gotten some cute family pics in front of the hat by Photopass earlier in the day.
This is actually one of our best family pics of the whole trip!
 
So after a quick morning, mommy decided she was going to go for it and we all headed back to the hotel for a break.  I went on my way to the expo to pick up my race stuff and gear up for the evening.
Here is a picture of the course:
 
 
Crowds gearing up for wine and dine:
 
 
The lines for the bathroom at the race were the longest lines I waited in the whole trip.  I was so worried that I would have to go mid race and have nowhere to go!
I really wish that I had people take my picture during the race, but I was so focused on finishing and didn't want to lose my steam. 
 
 
So while I was gearing up for the half marathon, Steve and the kids headed to Hollywood Studios again for Fantasmic:
 

 
 
Dinner at Mama Melrose's.  Apparently it was mediocre, but it looks like they were having lots of fun, I am sorry I missed it!
 
 
Met up with the rest of the clan for Fantasmic.  This was one of the hardest things about doing the race, missed Fantasmic and Osborne Lights.  What a bummer, but I know we will be back again, and I did get to run through the Osborn Lights during the race.  That was very cool since it was near mile 10 or 11 and I was starting to get tired. 
 
But it was totally worth it, will never get tired of looking at this: