The Osbourne Lights
Since we knew we would be staying late at MGM, we took our time, had a little breakfast in the room (advantage of having a villa - food and drink in the fridge), and walked over to Downtown Disney for a little early shopping and looking about, snapping pictures along the way.
Right by the entrance of the Downtown Disney Marketplace (where the bus stops are), they had some winter-styled statues of some of the classic characters, done in an icy blue-white color and given some holiday decorations. Plus, more towards the World of Disney store, they had a Christmas tree set up, with snowflakes and Barrel Full of Monkeys monkeys encircling it, and various board games laid out like presents underneath it.The Osbourne Lights
We stopped by the Ghiradelli fountain shop for some ice cream, and set our sites on returning later in the week to try some of the holiday oriented desserts.
When we visit MGM, we often find ourselves going back and forth across the park, and we wanted to try and avoid that this time. I don't think we were terribly successful, but we were only there for a partial day. We did a few of the standard attractions (with the in-laws bowing out of Tower of Terror and Rockin' Roller Coaster), and at one point we split up with DW and DMiL taking our youngest to see Beauty And The Beast, while DFiL, myself and our oldest checked out the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular.
After a while, we went to see Fantasmic (no dinner package this time - and we got much better seats because of it). We sat third row left of center, and got to see things much more clearly than the extreme right side seats reserved for the dinner package people.The Osbourne Lights
After Fastasmic, it was time for the lights - The Osbourne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. This is something you really have to see. It may sound like Disney has just dressed up the Streets of America area with some holiday lights...but it goes far beyond that - think "Christmas Vacation", but better. Millions of lights light up the streets, with large areas of them set in sync with music. Angels float over the courtyard in front of LMA. And "snow" (really, fine soap bubbles) falls over the guests. It was unbelievable.
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