alrighty then.....
since nebo mentioned Typhoon, guess I'm up!
I mentioned earlier, todd said the night before that he was sleeping in. didn't say until what time, but I knew it couldn't be TOO late with Jackson in the room. Now you all know how I like to sleep in myself, but I didn't know waht time I could sleep till.
. I forget what time I got up, but I kinda walked back and forth in front of their door a bit, glancing sideways at the window to see if there was any movement. I don't rmember what time we left, but nebo and I ALWAYS get to a water park before rope drop.
so we can grab a good spot for "home base"
we used to always grab a couple loungers near the smoking section (sigh) . now a few year back I discovered there is a contorversy about this . (controversy? on the DIS? no kidding!)
some people think "take your feet, lose your seat". huh? how does THAT work? we like to lie on the loungers quite a bit, sunning and reading. (nebo more that I. I'd prefer we do more slides than we do. feel like we're wasting the tickets doing what we can do at the pool. but his bad foot , and his back, can only take so many stairs, and lines. ) anyhow, you need a home base. rest a bit, go on the lazy river. rest a bit, go on a couple slieds. etc etc. then, sometimes you split up. I go in the wave pool by myself, or do the shark thing, or a slide or 2 on my own. with kids, you really go your sep. ways. how are you supposed to meet up? where do you put your stuff?
someone on a heated thread said "just rent a locker.." um, and go back to it everytime you want to get your cigs? or your book? or your bag of sandwhiches, etc.?
just take everything with you, who needs a spot? um, a wet book is kinda hard to read. someone even said to put all your stuff under the cahir, and if someone is sitting in it when you return, gather your stuff and move on. huh? and leave a note for your family? "excuse me Mr. who too,k my chair I got here at rope drop for.. can I pin this note to you for my kids? just tell them I went thataway!"
but I digress. so todd, kim, jackson and I got there about an hour or so after openeing.. crowded. we just found some little chairs near a rock near the left side of the entrance to the wave pool and put our stuff on it. this would be the last time I would use my chair!!!
It was a good thing Nebo didn't come with.. he would not have been happy. he would have wanted a spot to lie on a lounger, and he loves the sun, but it shouldb e near shade cause of his headaches. and he would have wanted to know everytime we left the area, "when will you be back" um, dont' know there is no itinerary, we are playing it by ear"
ok, I went to get a life jacket for jackson, since I was gong to rent a towel anyway (they broughttowels from home) turns out the life jackets are free, but they told me to get a small and it looked too small, and the guy said, just take both, bring the other one back. they are free! so I did. so once again, I am running bakc and forth.
jackson loved the wave pool!!! so did todd and kim it was fun! nebo ususally last about 2, maybe3tidal waves, and he's done. after a while I told tood and kimm to go on out to the deep end for a while I would stay with jackson.. boy did that make me nervous. even with his lifejacket on, you totally lose the other person when the wave comes. after surfacing, I was madly looking around left and right! "wheredidhegowheredidhego?'
we went and did the lazy river. no,wait, they wanted to do that next and I said we should do the family raft slice and the tube slides before the lines get too long. and they listened! we did the family one.. it was a LONG wait! in the hot sun! nebo wouldn't have been able to do it. about 30 minutes at least. and it was SO SHORT!!!! I said" see? this is why we like the family raft slide at blizzard beach, it's very long." we went on one tube slide. then got in line for the other.
about half way in line, it just stopped. ok. not moving. longer.. nomoving... everyone is wondering. just like in POTC, as leatst COMMUNICATE let us know what's going on
. those around us our talking about this , send word down the line. then we are all laughing about the game "telephone" and how the story will totally change by the time it gets to the bottom. (I know, Nebo would have a funnier way to tell this, and it was funny at the time, some of the possibilites, but I don't remember them now. of course, nebo would have just made up a couplefunny scenarios. but you're all stuck with me)
finally we get word that a woman was hurt at the bottom of the slide. and the EMTs were there and the ride had to stop while they took care of her. I'm thinking are they sure it's a woman? did nebo change his mind and sneakin ahead of us?
about 10 minutes later. some guy in a bathing suitruns past us all in line. he is the guinea pig to make sure the slide is ok.. we all anxiously await the news of his successful arrival at the bottom.. yay! line resumes moving.
Jackson was great though this! no whining or complaining at all!
ok, then,lazy river. then crushand gusher!!!!!
now it turns out that Jackon is only 48" with his shoes on. uh oh. he is JUST short of the line. and the lady won't let him get in line.
jackson was morose.
they all turn to walk away but I say well why don't you 2 go on it, at least try it. and I'll stay with Jackson. there is this little pool area where people are swimming and we;ll go in that. so they take off.
this was the only time I saw that Jackson was crabby. crabby? he was inconsolable. he is not a cryer. but you could see a few tears welling in his eyes and he just kinda squatted near one of the pool entrances and would NOT go in. and wouldn't talk to me. he jus kinda looks down or looks out into space, like he can't hear you.. knda weird, kinda scary.
I finally get him to talk, and he is inconsolable."I wasn't standing up straight. my daddy measured me at home and said I would be tall enough for everything at disney."
about 10 minutes later, lo and behold there is CM changing of the guards. "jackson! look , a new person guarding the line.. let's go try again!"
now maybe this was stupid onmy part. giving him false hope, setting him up for more disappointment. but I had to try.
this Cm was a young guy who looked like he just started shaving his 5 facial hairs last week. I told jackson to stand up straight! and he was stil a tad short. and the kid CM said, sorry buddy. and I kept saying how he went on TOT and Rockinrollercoaster, etc. and jackson looked like a little soldier standing at attention and now a few poeple were gathering around and saying "oh, he's tall enough.. let him go let him go." and the kid CM caved.. yay! and gave him a wrist band to show he passed the test.
now, you would think we would hurry into the line before the CM changed his mind.. but.. jackson wanted to rid ewiht his daddy, of course. (I personally hate these stairs, and the thought of tryng to hold Jackson's hand, carry that big rubt up, etc. how am I going to hang on to the rail fordear life??? ) but the most imp thing was, they must be coming down soon. how will they know where we went? what if they go back to home base? so we waited.
and waited and waited. and keptwalking over to where they come down. and now I amwondering if there was some way we missed them.. maybe they walked by us while we were browbeating the kid CM? uh oh, gotta get in line soon, what if the girl was only on a short bathroom break or something. so I am panicking, which I am very good at doing in a quandry.
about 10 minutes more, they finally get down.. we tell them the good news, and now the 4 of us get in line.
I am paired with kimmy,(surprise) and she carried the tubeup. at the top . me legs seemed more shakey than ususal without nebo there to protect me, but we all go down. it's shorter than I remember, but jackson was happy. and.. NOW!!! he has the wristband. so off we go to the stormslides. he loves them.. so it's on to humunga cowabunga! I do not do it.. but the 3 of them did and Jackson LOVED it!
I think then we wetn back to home base. did I call steve? we got something to eat did the lazy river again. did the wave ppol again, etc etc. did not sit down once at the home base, irelax in the sun! I could have, but actually I was having faun having someone to do all the slides with.
oh, we chose our spot partly cause it wasn't too far from the kiddie play area. how silly was that? never went over there once. the kind is going down humunga cowabunga, he's not going to want to splash around the kiddie area.
I'm sorry to admit this, but it was a fun day. but I did miss nebo. really, I did!
I have never heard the term "soquid" before, and even my trusty Merriam Webster site drew a blank. I thought I had Ponzi on a typo finally; but what did he mean. Squid - no that doesn't sense. Something to do with British currency "some quid" - well maybe, but the farthing wasn't dropping. Google sent me to Urban Dictionary - ohhhh! Soquid. Cool word! 
They'll put anything on TV these days won't they. Opinion: I don't know what's dummer, the studio exec who airs it, or the 2.5 million people who apparently regularly watch it (with apologies if you are one of those 2.5 million)?
I shouldn't laugh, 'cause I get how nerve wracking that is... but still... "wheredidhegowheredidhego?'
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