Chapter 31. Parents of the Year Award.
After lunch we went back to the room to relax.
Noelle ended up falling asleep on me in the bed while parker watched stacy on tv.
We were all up and ready to go to dinner after some down time.
A few more resort pictures along the way.
The favorite mine birds.
and the activity area was just getting into full swing with games as we went by.
the drop off (bar) and drink refill station since i think i forgot to post it before.
another angle of the wall with all the art between the lobby and the gift shop.
the light fixture during the day.
the lobby, notice the parts of the floor covered.
and also in this one.
those little squares were popping up all over the place of the lobby our first week there and we never knew what they were.
well a few days later i found out.
there were about 8 big disney execs there talking with some contractors one day i lingered around the penny machine to over hear what was going on, they were talking about the floor.
turns out the floor was some recycle type material that was not keeping clean as was sold to them.
and now they were in the phase of trying new products of recycle materials and so forth.
a day after that i talked with a CM that was cleaning the floor and he said the stuff they had was terrible. that it was not holding up to the heavy daily traffic that was wearing it out.
I asked how they know what is what since they were trying out new pieces all over.
he said there was a CM that had a diagram with each and every tile on it and every one was numbered in her program that she knew when it was laid down, what type of material it was manufacturer and pretty much everything you wanted to know about that particular square piece.
all of the CM's that cleaned the place were really hopping they found something good that didnt show dirt and cleaned well, as they said it was a pain to work with. so they we have it mystery solved.
we were on to our dinner destination of
we browsed around the pin store and all found some pins that we liked for our stockings...including a cheese ball boy with mickey and minnie.
right across the way was once upon a toy...where we had to fill another box of potato head parts...
and of course i did not take a picture of my master piece....that sucker was slammed packed full of goodness.
and according to the CM at the register both sides had to be closed to count, so i pinched them together and smiled. she accepted that, good thing for the disney niceness otherwise i bet other stores might not have accepted it.
as we leave the store we noticed the rain have moved in, and not a drizzle but starting to pour.
so we quickly ran to world of disney and walked through on our way to the other side of the store...which got us closer to our destination.
as we waited by the door there was a CM that heard us say that our dinner reservations were coming close and that we did not want to be late so she offered a poncho for parker.
and when he said what about my head, candi grabbed a clear bag from her and tour an opening for his head to fight through...i mean after all it isnt safe to put that bag over your head with out an opening right.
parker all secure from the rain, noelle under the stroller covering and mom and dad out in the elements it was time to go store to store and get to our dinner spot.
if you think that is the reason we won parents of the year award then you would be wrong, we outdo ourselves shortly.
dinner tonight would be dinning at T-Rex
when we planed this trip we knew how much parker loves dinos. so it would be perfect, all of his favorite animals would be here and he could eat with them, then make a dino to take home in the build a dino shop. perfect.
think that he clamed us to be parents of the year for bringing us here, well not just yet.
we walk past the bar area/undersea portion and see the huge fish tanks.
then the mammoth.
a little ice cave eating section.
and finally our table. right next to a few dino buddies.
this little baby one was talking and making noises and was cracking candi up as we sat down.
hey parker what do you think is this place awesome or what.
hmm, not a normal smile, maybe he is just in shock at how awesome his parents are for bringing him here.
pretty soon the dino starts talking again and we laugh, well me and candi do.
parker says he wants to sit on candis side of the table, so we move him. then the meteor show starts, and it is awesome
well we think so anyway.
parker starts to cry and wants to leave...not just i want to leave but a bawl, throwing a fit cry...so candi takes him outside the restaraunt to talk to him
no dice, he wont come back in under his own power.
so i take him to the gift shop to talk and he is good calms down and says he wants to go sit down.
so we go back in, we order our food, and one of the dinos then growls or something and he jumps in my lap like the cartoon shows type jump in my lap spills the water on the table. candi takes him outside again, when the waiter came over i asked if we could move tables to the water tank area.
that is what it looked like when we came in, but since then they had cleared the tables and were not seating anyone else in there right now.
he said no problem we could move.
i picked a table that was not in view of any dinos, right by the fish tank, we were the only ones over there.
well candi brought him back in and he sat in his seat for about 10 seconds then was under the table holding onto my leg.
we knew this would not end well.
so since we had scared him to no end, tormented him by having him eat there, as soon as our food came out which was less than a minute later, i asked the waiter for to go boxes for everything , he said no problem.
we packed our food up i paid the bill, and gave him a large tip for having to deal with it. he told me to not worry it happens pretty often with kids in there, being much larger and bigger than there toys and books etc.
and we went outside to no rain and sunshine.
now how did we react as parents, probably not the best, during the whole thing we were upset that he didnt like it, the dinner was no where close to what we pictured it would be like for him.
and we both pretty much yelled at him for acting that way at one point or another during the whole fight back and forth, not scream yell but the stern talk to yell/whisper that you do in there ear.
now dont get me wrong we also tried the comfort hold close technique which did not work either.
we all just had a melting point event going on there.
now the thinking was where do we eat this dinner we had boxed up.
we started walking. and found the tables by the girardelli chocolate shop and sat down.
we opened up the food and while sitting there, i thought that isnt how it was suppose to be.
so i apologized to the family and parker especially for how everything happened and went down, and for getting upset at him for him being upset.
it was just no where near what we expected to happen and we should not have gotten mad like that, so we made our amends with each other and i hugged it out with parker. and i told him how sorry i was for the whole thing.
i asked him if he wanted to still build his dino after we ate and he said yes.
noelle how was she in all of this, good as every she loved the animals, but she doesnt know scary at that age. and everything is roses to her.
with our dinner done it was time to head back over to the t-rex to build that dino.
and there you have our parents of the year story at t-rex
but how will this turn out?