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Day two - Part 2~~

We headed over to MGM after checking we. We drove over to MGM and parked the car. We exchanged Cheryl’s voucher for her annual pass and headed into the park. The plan had been TOT, RNR, Beauty and the Beast and lunch at 50’s Prime Time. After we entered the park, we saw a sign at the Tip Board that Dame Julie Andrews would be signing copies of her books at the bookstore in the back of MGM. My mother is a major fan of hers (as am I) and I thought that would make a major cool Christmas gift for mom(really hard to shop for). We looked at TOT and saw that Fast Pass return was for 6pm, and we would be gone by then – there was a 45 minute stand-by line, do we turned to go and look at RNR…. It appeared like only one of the two towers of TOT was working and that was what made the line so long. We decided we would come back later in the week to ride TOT…

We went over to RNR – stand-by 10 minutes!!! WOO HOO. We hop in line and start talking about seeing Dame Julie Andrews and getting a copy of her book(s) signed. We had just listened to Mary Poppins on the way down in the morning, and we were SO excited at the thought of seeing her… If we went to the bookstore (at 1:00pm) we would have to skip our 1:00pm PS for Prime Time… But we decided we really really wanted to see Dame Julie – so we bailed on PT.

We went on RNR – saw the hidden Mickey in the studio and headed to the “alley” to catch our limo. We were the last seats in the car – this was a first for us, and we both thought it was a much rougher ride than either of us remembers.

After RNR – we grabbed lunch at the ABC Commissary. I had the Fish and Chips (with 3 very small pieces of fish) and Cheryl had the Tabbouleh Wrap and marinated tomatoes. We finished lunch and headed to the bookstore – only to find a HUGE line of people sitting on the ground outside the doors with the doors to the bookstore locked. We asked some other folks sitting there what was going on and were told that they had issues bracelets that morning – no bracelet, no Dame Julie…. Oh well… We headed over to One Man’s Dream and I finally got to do this (after a year of wanting to!!!). At the end of the movie with Walt – I was teary eyed.

We left MGM and headed to DTD to get some shopping done before heading back to AKL to relax before heading to MNSSHP…. We went into World of Disney – two words. MAD HOUSE!!! We picked up a few things (that took like 5 minutes) and ended up in line behind two ladies that each purchased 4 snowglobes!!! Did you know that anytime a snowglobe is purchased – it must be opened and shown to the customer?? Then it is placed back in the box and the whole thing is taped shut. Neither did we until snowglobe 3… by then we had too much time committed in the line to move!!! We definitely qualified as the grumpy girls. ONE HOUR later – we left the store…We were MAJOR tired. Lack of sleep definitely played in here. We drove from DTD back to AKL. We were hot, hungry and tired. We decided to take a nap for a while and then head to dinner at Boma. I went down to Mara to get us a snack while Cheryl headed to the room. She was not feeling well and wanted to sleep. I got us a roast beef sandwich and grapes as well as a bottle of water and headed back to the room. I could not sleep – so I sat on the balcony and took photos of the animals.

Part 3 – Cheryl not feeling hot, Boma, Birthday cup cake marathon begins and getting ready for MNSSHP….