We're Going to Disney World! MGM

- MGM has long been my favorite park. Lots of great rides, great atmosphere, lots of cool shops.


- Tower of Terror. Probably our favorite ride. The premise is you're in a haunted hotel in the elevator which raises and drops you over and over and over. I love that it's random drops so every ride is different. The "Twilight Zone" theme is great and carried throughout the ride. I also love the doors opening at the top so you could see the park briefly before you plunge.


- Rock 'N Roll Rollercoaster. Inside roller coaster, so of course I enjoyed it. Nothing really distinguishing except for the Aeorsmith soundtrack playing. Why haven't other roller coasters employeed a soundtrack? I loved listening to the music while going through loops.


- Star Tours. It's pretty dated (compared to, say, Mission Space), but it's great fun. I enjoyed this one so much. I believe Rachel's comment was "it's cute." Even better is the store with Star Wars memoribilla. I got a lightsaber key chain, Yoda and Vader Pez dispensers, and a Yoda-Mickey figurine. Sadly I couldn't afford the autographed Carrie Fisher framed pictures. And, yes, I'm 30 years old, married, with a decent job. Shocking, I know.


- Indiana Jones. A stunt show featuring an Indiana Jones theme. Fun to watch. Always enjoyable watching how stunts are done. Lots of humor and fan interaction too.


- Beauty and Beast: Live Onstage. A 30 minute live action Beauty and the Beast. Basically they rearrange the story a little and take out everything that's not a song. Not too bad a presentation for taking a 90 minute show down to a third of the time. Rachel loves Beauty and the Beast, so she was really excited to see this.


- Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater. Our one "nice" dinner at Disney World. There's a movie screen at the front of the restaurant showing trailers from old horror movies. The tables are made to look like 50's era cars and the waitresses are on roller skates and wearing 50's era clothes. The environment was great. The food left something wanting though. We expected diner/drive-in type food, and instead got steak and pasta dishes. The food wasn't terrible, but not what you expect to eat while sitting in a parked car watching a horror movie.