"What is Your "Proper" Name?"
After breakfast, we returned to our room to get the small, but coveted gift Rebecca had for our friend Teena, who was now on duty in the lobby.
What’s in the bag???
A Joisey tomato from Rebecca’s garden!
I’m sure the homegrown treat did not make it out of Teena’s breaktime.
We exchanged hugs, chatted for a bit and promised to be back soon. Real soon as it turned out!
We returned to our room after our lovely, but brief visit with Teena so that we could change into our practice uniforms only to discover that we had been locked out of our room!
Did they view surveillance footage from our antics the night before at the Yacht Club?
We are a bright group of monkeys and immediately realized that it was a dead battery on the band reader since the indicator was not registering either the green or red. We knew it was not our Magic Bands. Rebecca and I returned to the lobby front desk to report the issue.
We waited in line at the Concierge desk and we found that one of the dwarfs from Snow White must be pulling double duty, because it was definitely Grumpy who was “helping” us. We told him the issue with our room, stating that it was a dead battery on the door lock. He asked to see our Magic Bands. Rebecca handed hers over and when the name “Rafiki” came up, he condescendingly asked
“What is your
proper name?”
We had a similar exchange when he examined my band (which, as we all knew, was NOT the problem). I have 3
MDE accounts- one for my family (Diana Lastname), one for my girls trips (Dee Lastname) and one for the class trips (Dee Hometown).
When he asked my
proper name, and I said Diana, he told me “You are NOT on the reservation”. I told him the name was under “Dee”. He harumphed and spent the next few minutes fidgeting with his computer changing the name from Dee to Diana. Unnecessary!
Finally, he said they would send someone up from maintenance to fix the door.
No offer to come up and let us in to our room.
Fortunately, we were able to find someone who could let us in.
We finally had access to the SABSPTT (Stormalong Bay Synchronized Pool Tube Team) equipment room.
We changed into our practice uniforms and fortified ourselves with some “OJ” in our refill mugs.
It is important to hydrate.
Once we were properly in uniform, we marched through the lobby to take a team picture with our mascot:
We also had to take a picture with our Coach (read the backpack), but he seemed too embarrassed to show his face!
Getting a little later start than we had hoped, it was time to hit the pool!
Next Up- Trained Monkeys: Stormalong Bay Synchronized Pool Tube Team practice
ETA: This was, appropriately, my 14,000th post!