Hi Everyone
We're back. Tired, achy feet and all. We had a lot of fun -- although the heat & humidity was hard on us. Somehow or another, we didn't do everything that we set out to do, but we had fun with what we did get to do.
It seems like the kids like to do the same thing over and over again. Get a fast pass, ride the ride in standby line, come out, ride the ride with the fast pass. We spent one night at the MK for extra magic hours and before we knew it, it was almost time for the park to close at 1 a.m. Who knows where those couple of hours went, because we certainly couldn't have been riding only SM & BTMRR during those 3 hours.
The kids love nature and insects/bugs and this trip surely didn't disappoint. They found snails at the VWL which would come out late at night. One night, we went swimming around midnight and came back to find several had climbed on MY lawn chair (of course, they were going to attack Mom
), huge frogs/toads by Jungle Cruise, frogs in the MK by the barber shop (yep, Walker ended up getting another mohawk, just in time for school), lizards and hanging around the dock by the boat to go to the MK was this huge bass. It's mouth had to be about 5" when it was opening eating those Mickey pretzels the kids were throwing over.
Our most memorable memory will have to be our experience riding Tower of Terror.
Except it was ToT in the VWL. We came back one afternoon, heading into the elevator, Walker pushed the buttons and we started moving. Next thing, we're standing there and I'm thinking Walker pushed the stop button for a joke. Nope. We're not moving. So, I push the call button and they ask if we're in the elevator and stuck. Yep. The man wanted to know if we were between floors, I had no idea where we were in that elevator shaft. No sooner does the "voice" on the other side say they are sending rescue
, but the lights go out.
The "voice" is still there, and says don't panic, we're on the way (too late for that, we're already in panic mode
). Cameron really started to panic, Walker started to panic and I recovered from my panic to take care of my kids. We all sit down on the floor -- still waiting for help. After an eternity, the lights come back on, we're thinking we're getting out and bam! the lights go off again. Panic again.
Back sitting down on the floor, huddled into the corner with my kids who are still panicing, and it's still dark. The elevator finally moves, the doors open and the lights come on. As the doors opened, there was a bell man standing there waiting to get on (now that I think about it, maybe that's why we ended up moving -- because he pushed the call button??
The bellman looks at us, sitting in the corner of the elevator and says "were you stuck in there"?
It's funny now to think about it, but if I was thinking straight, I should have said back to him, doesn't everyone sit in the elevators here?
Needless to say, from then on, the kids were not to keen on riding in the elevators. Good thing we were only on the second floor. We never went back into the ToT -- but did take the stairs to find out they exit way in the back of the VWL by housekeeping. We certainly took the scenic route.
We met Jeff for dinner one night. We dined at Hollywood & Vine for the Fantasmic dinner buffet. It was good and nice to talk. Afterwards, we went over to see Indiana Jones which turned out to be an abreviated show due to lightening, headed over to Star Tours where Jeff & Cameron rode (Walker wasn't feeling good) and then over to Muppets. By the time that was over, it was raining again, the line to get into Fantasmic was long, and Walker just didn't feel good at all. So, we decided against the show (don't even know if it was on due to the weather), rode the tram to our cars, Jeff gave us a ride to our rental car and we headed back to the VWL. We had fun, despite the weather and Walker getting sick. I enjoyed talking to Jeff, as did both of my boys. We will definately get together another time we're down there.
Now, to try and catch up around here.