When we woke up on Day 4, we were short 3 family members. Finley and crew had an early flight home that morning. I thought I had told the boys this the day before, but they both acted completely shocked that Finley had left the trip early. Despite their obvious disappointment, they quickly got ready to head to Hollywood Studios. For once I thought we were on time according to our schedule. Daddy rushed the boys to the back of the park to get in line for a spot to battle Darth Vader while Yaya and I waited in line to have all our bags checked by security. Despite getting to the park pretty much on time, Mac and Coe barely got a spot to battle the dark side. Matter of fact they got the 2nd to last session of the day – 7pm – it was not my plan to be at HS at 7pm when we had reservations at the hotel for dinner at 6:30! Further the rain was supposed to roll in around noon, and the Disney staff had already confirmed that even a light sprinkle would cancel the battle. We were assured that they would do their best to create “an alternate experience” but everything I read online made that sound pretty lame. Couldn’t do much about it at the time, so I moved the dinner reservations to later in the evening and we started checking off the items on our HS must see list. Since we had been to HS a year earlier, we were able to hit the highlights and skip the stuff that we knew wasn’t worth doing again. Eventually the rain started and Coe was on the verge of exhaustion so we headed to the hotel to rest with a plan of coming back to the park for the nighttime battle with the Dark Side!
*The boys got to pick one souvenir at the Star Wars store. Its easy to figure out what they picked as the items are in every picture thereafter!
The rain came as we were leaving the park…and it never left. I kept watching the forecast and it showed more and more rain. The boys were so disappointed when I told them the battle with Darth Vader was cancelled. I didn’t mention the “alternate experience” as it just didn’t sound like anything fun, and I was concerned it would make the whole thing even more disappointing.
After staring at two very sad faces, I talked to Albi and we came up with a plan. With raincoats on bodies and the rain shield on the stroller, Albi and I grabbed the boys and headed back to MK to ride all the roller coasters in the rain! {Yaya decided she would just meet us at dinner} Mac and Coe were ecstatic to go on this rain soaked adventure, and we ended up making some of our best memories over the next 3 hours. We rode Thunder Mountain several times, finally got on the Mine Train again (it was shut down when we first got to the park), battled it out on Toy Story , and basically just ran around in the rain with minimal crowds.
We met Yaya a few hours later for dinner at the hotel. I don’t know if I was exhaustion {plus being wet and cold}, but dinner was really delicious – sushi, noodle bowls, and great wine! We all crawled in bed that night knowing the trip had come to a successful end. We didn’t do everything according to plan, but we had a blast and made memories that will last a lifetime. Three little kids “dreams came true”, and I’d say the adults had almost as fun watching it all happen.
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