DaveinFallsChurch
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2011
I hope your learning experience for the kids at the pool actually left an imprint with them.
I'd never really thought about the Tiki birds in that way before, but yeah, definitely glad they're audio animatronics. I don't think too many people would be willing to sit in a theater with a bunch of live birds right over their heads.
It really is kind of a shock sometimes when you realize so many people don't understand all the little tricks and the logistics of getting around Disney World. It kind of makes me wonder why they don't do a better job of making sure people know about everything? I mean sure there are signs, but we all know about 75% of the people around don't read signs anyway.
It did leave an imprint with them as I found out later in the trip, especially for DS. I'll tell you more about that later in the TR when we went back to the pool a couple of days later.
I've been an avid DISer for our past 3 trips. I remember back in Dec 2008 when we went to Disney for the first time with DD (and DS wasn't born yet), I was so green when it came to Disney and not being aware of all it had to offer. I didn't know even know about the character meals and only found out about them as we were walking by Crystal Palace and saw Pooh and the gang through the windows!
The one that still makes me laugh to this day is when we were at Epcot and it was nearing dinner time. I didn't know about ADRs at the time so we went through the whole trip mostly on QS. But this one evening at Epcot, DW said she wanted to try a sit down place for dinner. We just happened to be in Canada when this conversation took place. So I see this little restaurant over there that appeared to be a steakhouse and I tell DW, "How about that one?". DW walked over to the hostess to see if we could be seated and came back disappointed saying that they were completely booked. So we went elsewhere. Had no idea at the time how popular Le Cellier was and how people were making reservations 180 days in advance!