Day Five August 22, 2007 – Disney MGM

Everyone in the family was exhausted from the last several days’ activities. MGM supposedly to be a relaxing place since Steve and I thought that the girls may not be interested in how movies were made and the stage shows. But the girls approved that we were wrong. They loved the shows!

Both girls were excited to have pictures taken with Goofy and Minnie, except Kathy was scared away when Goofy tried to give her a hug. After that we did not get any other characters to take pictures with.

We passed the entire Echo Lake area since the attractions were more for grown ups from the descriptions. For the nine hours we were in the park, most of the time we were running to catch show after show. The girls were excited to see the characters that they knew came out from TV to talk, sing and dance right in front of them. The Disney MGM Backlot showed us a tour on making a Harbor Day movie piece, and some other movie-making magic. The Great Movie Ride was an introduction on the American movie history. I was so moved again by the Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart’s kiss. Girls shouted out excitedly the names during the ride. However, they were not so much into the old western cow boy films. Muppet show was hilarious that I laughed the entire time. But again Kathy was not so much into the 3D vision. Sarah thought the show was just so-so, coz it was talking almost about nothing. Well, I was naïve, OK? Later on both girls were so excited to see the Mermaid in the Little Mermaid Musical show. The Bear in the Big Blue House was another stage show that the girls got really involved. They went to the front and danced right below the stage. Kathy really wanted to go to the Beauty and the Beast stage show. But we ran out of time so we had to disappoint her this time.

Our day ended with the Fantasmic. The show was a big deal to the visitors coming to MGM. People started to enter the stadium an hour and half prior to the show. We were there an hour before the show time, and it was hard to find a seat already. Luckily enough the assistant directed us to the row so close to the very front, almost right facing the center of the stage. People were bored while waiting, so we started a wave in the audient. Several rounds later, people got bored again. Started from somebody at somewhere, we began couple rounds of applause. Well, gonna have to entertain ourselves. Kathy sucked fingers for a while and bored by doing nothing. She stood on the stairs and danced with the music. People behind waved to her. Finally it came the show. Wow! It was nice! The girls shouted out the name of the characters. Kathy was scared a little by the bad dragon and the witches. But soon she was cheered up by the dancing princesses on the boats.

In conclusion, the girls said that they loved the “Honey, I shrunk the kids” playground the most. Why I am not surprised. That’s my girl. Right after stepped on that ground, I lost both of them in a blink. The next thing I knew was that they both were at the top of a three-story web climb. Then I made a wrong decision to try to grab them from the holes under the big mushrooms. The tunnels were half of my height, and were almost totally dark inside. I lost myself before I could catch either one of them. Yeah, go ahead laugh at me, Steve.

Today we hit the lottery to order the worst Chinese food ever. When it was lunch time, we did not know any good Chinese food around; I got in this Chinese place seeing no customer at all at lunch time, I should know something was not right. Being hungry definitely did not help. I ordered anyway. “I don’t like it. Yucky.” According to Kathy. The name of the restaurant is China Star located at the Publix Shopping Center on the orange lake road right off Rt. 192. Then in the evening we could not get reservation in the Play N Fine at Hollywood & Vine. I do need some good food tomorrow.