We enjoyed a slower, quieter start to our day on Thursday. We spent some time walking around Pop as we waited for the Hippy Dippy pool to open at 10:00am. As you can see, there wasn’t a long line at the gate when it opened! Crazy Canadian’s swimming in January in 16oC/60oF weather!
Hannah had the entire pool to herself for about 10 mins and then a few kids joined her. I want to take this time to say how absolutely impressed I am with the care and dedication that Disney requires of their life guards. What you’ll see here happens every single second that their pools are open. Hannah is the only person in the pool yet all 3 guards are 100% focused on their section of the pool and constantly monitoring their section. When another life guard comes on duty you will watch them diligently walk back and forth in the section they are taking over while the current life guard continues to do the same. They give one another an all clear sign and the old guard moves to their new section and does the same. it gives such confidence to the parents as their children are swimming.
Unfortunately we couldn’t stay long as we had a brunch reservation later in the morning but she enjoyed the bit of swim.
After her swim we got ready for the day and made our way to the Contemporary Resort to go to Chef Mickey’s for brunch. This is one of Hannah’s favourite places to eat so it’s on our list each trip. Meeting the Fab 5!
When you leave your phone on the table when you go to grab more food, your daughter may take advantage of that and snap adorable selfies of herself with her dessert!
After lunch we headed to Disney’s Hollywood Studios (DHS) for the remainder of the day.
DHS is a park under a lot of renovations right now so we knew we didn’t need a full day there.
Next time it will be a new story as Toy Story Land is opening on June 30th and we’re super excited to check it out on our next trip!!!
For this trip we visited some old favourites and met a new one too. Hannah was excited to meet BB8 although I think she might have been a little star struck when she did.
We enjoyed a quieter afternoon of shows and rides. After riding Star Tours Hannah wanted to use her money to add to her little droid collection.
Something Hannah enjoys at DHS is the Peanut Butter and Jelly milkshake that is found at the 50’s Prime Time Café. She talks about these year round so it’s on her must-do snack list each time we visit DHS.
As our day drew to a close we took a walk down Sunset Blvd. One of the carts was closing up for the day and giving away their extra stock. We enjoyed a free churro thanks to this generous Cast Member.
We continued down the street and rode Rock ‘n Roller Coaster before finishing up our day with a couple of rides on Toy Story Mania. (Another great touring tip is to get in line for popular rides close to park closing. Even though the posted wait time for TSM was 50+ minutes, we got in ride at 7:25 and rode it twice before the park closed! As long as you are in line before the park closes you get to ride)
One our way out of the park we found one of these great water drawings on the ground that was created using a broom and dustpan of water! I love these little gems that you find at Disney that make us smile!
Good night Mickey and Minnie! See you at Epcot tomorrow!
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