Wednesday
We started out with EMM at HS. This is the link to my review of that event"Toy Story EMM 2/27. Edited to add pics
Picking up from there:
After breakfast at Backlot Express we were supposed to ride TSMM with a FP but the ride was down all morning after EMM. We did some pin trading, caught the Muppet Show, watched the March of the First Order and headed over to watch the Path of the Jedi movie. It was CLOSED! Now, who doesn’t check these things beforehand?? (Oops!)
By then it was time for our RnRC FP (DD declined to ride a second time) and then Star Tours FP. DS made the mistake of looking to trade pins with a guy at the DVC stand near Sci Fi. 20 minutes of hard sell later we finally extracted ourselves so we could make our lunch ADR. (BTW they offered us 3 extra FP each and $75 gift card for me and DH each!). Lunch at Sci Fi was great as always. After lunch we grabbed DD a Mickey Bar
Then we checked out the Incredibles and met Edna Mole before heading back to the hotel for a pool break.
We left BWI at about 6:20 to grab this boat back to HS (no one wanted to walk, apparently)
for the SW Dessert Party AKA my husband’s birthday celebration. Obviously, we didn’t make it and the next boat came at 6:45.
We made it to the dessert party at about 7:15 (started at 7:00). We were seated up in “The Canteen” which was basically an overflow room where the Storm Troopers don’t come. DH said it was nice not to be in the main room with the chaos but I think he was just being nice. I had emailed and called ahead about my DD’s food allergies and Disney disappointed me this time. (If anyone has food allergies, I’m happy to give you further info.)
Anyway, I availed myself of the open bar while we had some appetizers and desserts. DH and DS took maybe 10 minutes to look around the Launch Bay. Apparently, my son and one of the Storm Troopers formed some sort of love/hate relationship and they picked on each other for the rest of the party.
We hopped in line to meet Chewie (DH’s birthday request and great character interaction) and then BB 8. We were offered a meet and greet with Kylo Ren since our appointed time was apparently 6:45 (party started at 7:00, remember?) but we declined. We’re old school SW in our family. Then we were herded to the exit where everyone was given a Darth Vader plastic stein on the way out to the viewing area.
Now, let me say this, it was great to be able to sit on the low wall and not jostle crowds and enjoy that fireworks show. The viewing area is almost too close. It’s hard to take in all the scenes on both sides of the theater.
But I’ll take that any day over having to stake out a spot with the crowds.
We had a beautiful walk back to BWI after a very long day.
