Home 29th Commissioner's Academic Challenge April, 2014 at Disney World

We returned to Bay Lake Tower at the Contemporary Resort Convention Center for the 29th Commissioner's Academic Challenge, Tom's 17th.

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At 0634, its 73 at Disney World and the radar shows a wall of water approaching from the northwest. We left the room about 0815 and caught a bus to Hollywood Studios. It stopped at the Polynesian Hotel, too, so it was quite packed by the time we arrived. We went straight to L.A. Props and bought stuff for the boys from Maria, who made the Pixie Dust List. From there we walked to Star Tours and walked right in. Our speeder was less than half full as we went to the Ice Planet, Hoth, were intercepted by Yoda, and finally ended up at Coruscant. From there we walked down to Muppet 3-D and walked right in. We then walked through Walt Disney’s story and enjoyed the movie he narrated himself. At Toy Story Mania, I scored 81,000 to Lyd’s 41,000. I was quite proud until we saw the sign that said today’s high score for one car was 180,000. We purchased Saving Mr. Banks and a Winnie the Pooh movie and then took a Pirate’s Oath with Captain Jack Sparrow in a 10 minutes show. We walked in to the Brown Derby at 1200. After lunch, it had stopped raining, so we went through the Great Movie Ride before returning to the bus, the room, and naps. At 1815, we asked the BLT desk for a taxi to take us to Animal Kingdom Lodge. We were seated, promptly, at the Cooking Place Counter at Jiko. After dinner, with NO takeout boxes for the room, we solicited a taxi to return us to Bay Lake Tower. Lyd was in bed by 9.

HollywoodStudios StarTours Piggy's Wardrobe Sam Eagle Lyd, Statler & Waldorf Mickey, Walt & Lyd Tree Of Life Tokyo Disneyland New Fantasyland Toy Story Jack Sparrow's Oath