Herpin Family: DISNEY - Days 4 & 5 - Hollywood Studios & The Magic Kingdom (Again)

We arrived home on January 1, 2009 before noon. Happy New Year!

What a trip! Here a few more photos.

Here we are at Hollywood Studios on the San Francisco street set.

Lin-Ley posed beside the Chinese Laundry.

From time to time one of the characters or cast members would ask where we were from. Lin-Ley would always speak up and say, "I'm from China."

Our stay at Hollywood Studios was rather short. We saw many things and the adults rode the big rides but it got very crowded. So we headed back to our room to rest up for the following morning which would be our last day at Disney.

We were hanging out near the front of the Magic Kingdom on Main Street because we had seen Snow White there before. While we waited Pinocchio showed up.

We continued to wait but no Snow White. Finally a cast member asked who we were waiting for. She went into the nearest building and just a few minutes later there she was.

Tori was not fond of the furry characters but she loved all of the princesses! Snow white was the last one on her list.

One last ride on Dumbo.

And the carousel.

Pooh and Tigger!

Tru showed Tigger some of his bouncy moves. Tigger eventually joined in.

After five days at Disney we finally tracked down Mickey and Minnie.

Kisses all around.

"I like your shoes Mickey."

Fairy Godmother. This was a treat because we did not see her last time.

Captain Hook and Mr. Smee.

Peter Pan.

At this point, around 11:30AM, the park was super crowded. We learned from a cast member that New Year's Eve was the busiest day of the year for Disney. They expected the park to be at full capacity (80,000 people) by 1PM. There was to be a huge fireworks display at midnight. So if we were going to see the fireworks we would not be able to leave the park. Once we left we would no be able to reenter the park.
Obviously that was not an option. It was so crowed that it was very difficult for us maneuver through the park back to Main Street. It was time to call it a day.
Luckily we were able to see everything/everyone except Ariel, Mulan and Mary Poppins. We saw Ariel and Mulan last time but had never been able to find Mary Poppins.
So, we started (very slowly) to make our way through the crowd to exit the park.

We may as well make a trip into the stores on Main Street on our way out.

Tru does not do hats. This is the closest we could get him to wear Mickey Mouse ears.