By the time we mosey on over to the Hippy Dippy Pool, it is about 4:30. We hadn't done lunch, but we'd all snacked on the fruit and goodies from Publix in the room. DH and I had decided to play eating by ear as it was so hot, no one was really hungry.
Good thing, too. I am not exactly screening my calls because Sports Illustrated is hounding me to be the cover model for the next swimsuit issue, but goodness. gracious. Apparently not all the rooms at POP! have working mirrors, based on things I saw. Things that cannot be unseen. Scary things.
There was the french couple in their late 40s. I don't think her suit was designed as a thong, it just turned into one. And it really had not business being one. As her SO took photos of her cavorting (and there really is no other way to describe the way she was posing), the rest of us wondered if she even had a suit bottom on.
We tried not to look, but it was like that wreck that you know will haunt you and yet you just can't seem to turn away...
Fortunately, just as it was getting pretty bad, they started the water balloon competition and we were distracted... DS and DD had a ball playing poolside games and swimming in the pool for over an hour.
We pull their pruny bodies out of the pool, luring them with the promise of good food and maybe even dessert...(good parenting technique or not, bribery DOES work
) and head of to Coronado Springs Pepper Market for dinner. We are trying to avoid burgers and nuggets, and after perusing menus at allearsnet, it seems to me that the best way to do this is to visit the counter service places at the resorts.
I'd never seen CS before, and DH and I have decided that the next time we want to stay at a moderate, this is the place for us! The Pepper Market is great, and the overall atmosphere is really well done. For supper, I had fajitas, DH had pasta with sausage, DD had a quesadilla and DS had a kids spaghetti and meatballs. Very tasty! We decided to walk to the CS pool area to take a look, and that sealed the deal - it is wonderful! The pool is beautiful, and the play area is very well done with a sandbox, multiple climbing frames and slides and swings.
On the way back from looking at the pool area, DD reminds me that we had promised dessert, but not yet delivered. We stop by Rix (another counter service at CS) and get some gelato. Good stuff!
I remind the kids that we need to get a little schoolwork done, and both of them get right on it in the room. DD has figured out a way to incorporated our visit to Epcot WS into her English project by interviewing cast members of the respective countries she is researching. So if you see a young woman interviewing CMs at Epcot using her iTouch, she and her mom aren't nuts, they are just us
doing what we can to further her education.
On deck for tomorrow: Rope Drop at DHS, and then on to Epcot...
Good thing, too. I am not exactly screening my calls because Sports Illustrated is hounding me to be the cover model for the next swimsuit issue, but goodness. gracious. Apparently not all the rooms at POP! have working mirrors, based on things I saw. Things that cannot be unseen. Scary things.
There was the french couple in their late 40s. I don't think her suit was designed as a thong, it just turned into one. And it really had not business being one. As her SO took photos of her cavorting (and there really is no other way to describe the way she was posing), the rest of us wondered if she even had a suit bottom on.
We tried not to look, but it was like that wreck that you know will haunt you and yet you just can't seem to turn away...Fortunately, just as it was getting pretty bad, they started the water balloon competition and we were distracted... DS and DD had a ball playing poolside games and swimming in the pool for over an hour.
We pull their pruny bodies out of the pool, luring them with the promise of good food and maybe even dessert...(good parenting technique or not, bribery DOES work
) and head of to Coronado Springs Pepper Market for dinner. We are trying to avoid burgers and nuggets, and after perusing menus at allearsnet, it seems to me that the best way to do this is to visit the counter service places at the resorts.I'd never seen CS before, and DH and I have decided that the next time we want to stay at a moderate, this is the place for us! The Pepper Market is great, and the overall atmosphere is really well done. For supper, I had fajitas, DH had pasta with sausage, DD had a quesadilla and DS had a kids spaghetti and meatballs. Very tasty! We decided to walk to the CS pool area to take a look, and that sealed the deal - it is wonderful! The pool is beautiful, and the play area is very well done with a sandbox, multiple climbing frames and slides and swings.
On the way back from looking at the pool area, DD reminds me that we had promised dessert, but not yet delivered. We stop by Rix (another counter service at CS) and get some gelato. Good stuff!
I remind the kids that we need to get a little schoolwork done, and both of them get right on it in the room. DD has figured out a way to incorporated our visit to Epcot WS into her English project by interviewing cast members of the respective countries she is researching. So if you see a young woman interviewing CMs at Epcot using her iTouch, she and her mom aren't nuts, they are just us
doing what we can to further her education.On deck for tomorrow: Rope Drop at DHS, and then on to Epcot...
My family likes to go to other resort CS, as well. Pepper Market is must do, so is Captain Cooks at Poly. I agree with you, Dinosaur is loud and jerky. I'm always seated on the outside, so I can get the dinosaur roar right in my ear. It's not one of my favorites, either.
we were in the park more than 30 minutes prior to rope drop and even then, we got the last show of the morning (number 13 out of 15 at that!).
Putting together conversations with various CMs, it appears that a lot of CMs who aren't working and many locals came today knowing that the F&W festival would have a soft opening. We plow through and get the four countries DD needs for school taken care of, plus a Gran Fiesta Tour in Mexico and head back to Future World. Test Track is first on the list - a family favorite! Then we decide we have enough time for Soarin' before heading out for the night.
Sounds like your having a wonderful time. If you pass out at the end of a Disney day from exhaustion you know you did something right!
