Saturday, December 2, 2006
We woke up today and I realized it was over. Nope, luckily the honeymoon wasn't over, but our stay at the Poly was. I was a little bit disappointed. Okay, a LOT disappointed. Life goes on, and I kept telling myself that I was still staying at Disney a few more nights! To me, this just seemed like the last leg of our trip. Everybody was gone, and we had to go back to Pop. The beginning of the end. I really needed to get out of my whiney mood. Luckily we had resevations for Chef Mickey's at 11AM for breakfast!
Before I get ahead of myself, back to moving. For this hotel transfer, we were using Disney's free service. Someone came up and got our bags, and they arrived at Pop later that day. We had no problem with this at all, and it only cost us a few dollars in tips. After we left our room for the last time, we jumped on the resort monorail to the Contemporary. We had never been there, and I was looking forward to it. I had originally tried to get a breakfast reservation for earlier in the day, with no luck. However, it worked out really well. Chef Mickey's wasn't too crowded, and there were still plenty of charachters and lots of food!
We were seated within a few minutes, and they recongized that we were on our honeymoon with special placemats that they told us we could keep as souvenears!
Chef Mickey's is an all you can eat buffet, and the food was good. They had a little bit of everything....eggs, toast, pancakes, omlettes, bacon, sausage, breakfast pizzas and burritos, fruit, bagels....I could go on and on. I only devoured a few carbs for this meal LOL
My extremly healthy plate: (one of them, anyways!)
I was so excited to find out that Donald Duck would be there that morning!! Chip and Dale are sometimes there, and sometimes Donald is....we got lucky this morning. All of the Characters came to each table for pictures and autographs...it was a lot of fun! We saw Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy! How much better could that have been?
Mickey was the most thoughtful-he asked his friendly helper to take our picture together!
Every 30 minutes or so, they "celebrate" at Chef Mickey's. Birthday's, anniversarys, honeymoons, etc. Music comes on, they announce who's special day it is, and everybody twirls their napkins! We were announed, and got a special cupcake muffin!
Too cute! Pluto really got into it, and came over and danced while this was going on!
We had a really good time at Chef Mickey's. Good food, decent price, and no waiting in line for the fab 5! I would go back in the future!
After we found a lobby full of pressed penny machines (which I'm collecting), we caught the monorail back over to the MK, where we planned to catch a bus to Pop Century. I was so glad we were having a "transition" day....they were filming the Christmas parade at the MK, and there were MOBS of people. It was CRAZY!!! I was not envious of those people at all....I would happily watch it on my TV in a few weeks!
While we were on the monorail, it was standing room only, and we were sandwiched in beside of a very nice lady who told us congratulations. (We were still wearing our just married buttons.) We struck up a conversation, and told her we were married at the WP. She smiled, and told us she works for Disney, and is somehow in conjunction with DFTW! Something to do with marketing somehow or another? I was fascinated, and told her how jealous I was!
We caught our bus to Pop, and pulled up. Not quite the Poly, but it was still Disney. Previous to the Poly, I LOVED Pop Century. Next time we go back, I will LOVE Pop. However, I learned a serious lesson. If you are going to resort hop, stay at the nicest place last. Seriously. I had a very hard time adjusting. The lines at check in were astronomical. I realized at this point that I was getting grouchy, and I did not want to take it out on Joe, because he didn't do anything. I just needed to chill. Joe was sweet enough to stand in line while I sat in the lobby. I had requested an upper level, non smoking room, when I made the reservation. I know this can't always happen, but I was really hopeful. Joe came and got me and we walked to our new room. I was mellowed out at this point. We got to our room....and I couldn't deal with it. It was on the 1st floor, it was smoking, and it was right beside a loud pool. So this would be where we spend the end of our honeymoon? Nope, Joe called the desk before I even opened my mouth. The said no problem....just come back to the front and we'll set you up with a new room! Great, that's nice of them! Like I said, I know that I'm one of millions of people with requests at Disney, and I'm no better than anybody else, but I was on my honeymoon and didn't want a room beside the pool. Boy, I really sound like a spoiled rotten brat! I'm not, I promise, and I would never ask to change rooms on a normal trip. But this was not normal
We got our new room, which was much better(the person at the front desk was very nice) and we got our luggage not too much later! The luggage transfer was easy and painless, just like the luggage transfer with Magical Express. Things were looking up. We lounged around for a little while, and decided to try MGM for a few hours, so we hopped on a bus over there.
There weren't but a few hours of daylight left, so we went straight for a few of the big rides. We got fastpasses for Tower of Terror, and got in line for RocknRoller Coaster because the standby was only 20 minutes. That 20 minutes turned into over an hour in line. I don't know what happened. If we could have gotten out, we would have, but we didn't realize how far back we were. The ride was pretty good...I didn't remember it from previous trips all that much, so every loop was a surprise. We headed over to ToT next, and walked straight on with our Fast Passes. We both loved Tower of Terror and decided we would definitely have to ride it again if we could before we went home. I really wanted to see Muppets 3D, so we headed that way.
Muppets was great-such a cute show! I love all of those charachters-my brother and I always used to watch the Muppet Baby cartoons when we were younger....the ones with "Nanny", who was the character who only had the striped legs! LOL Ok, if you never saw it, you have no idea what I'm talking about, but if you have seen it...wasn't that bizarre? LOL But such a good show!
It was now dark, and we somehow stumbled upon millions and millions of lights. And millions and millions of people. We found the Osborne Spectacle of Lights. It really was unreal. I have never seen so many lights. They had them choreographed to music every 15 mins or so, which was really cool. I have more pics of it that I'll post once I upload them.
I think everybody decided to go to MGM that night, so we fought the crowd and headed out. Back at Pop, I indulged in another healthy food group..tye-dye cheesecake
Honestly it tasted just like normal cheesecake, but where else can you get something like that? That was probably my 5th piece of cheesecake since we arrived in Florida-good grief, what had gotten into me?!?
Oh well, I would pay for it once I got home!
I have some more pictures to upload for the rest of the report, but once I do I'll be back!
I am sooo afraid of falling off those I don't tink I would give it a try!
As for Dinosaur, I am looking forward to riding it in Nov. I don't know if I've ever been on it, but we'll see!
We were given special trading pins that had a moving Segway on them, and we were done. Once I got comfortable, I really had the best time. It was a great choice for our honeymoon! I highly recommend it for anyone-it doesn't take any coordination, just don't jump off! 
I felt exactly like you did after the Nemo ride. I just didn't get it. DF and his parents thought it was so cool that it was part cartoon, part real aquarium. I thought the cool part of the ride ended after sitting in the cute shells! I totally understand about the Pop situation. My goodness, you don't sound like a spoiled brat at all. My first time staying at a value was this Dec when we went for our planning session, and we stayed at Pop. Never ever again! It was just a bad experience, I could hear EVERYTHING our neighbors were doing through the walls 
unfortunately I'm trying to lose weight for the big day, but I figure I'm not dieting when I get there, so cheesecake or maybe a dessert platter all for me might take place!
Being sick with the flu has it's benefits, I can catch up on all my DIS topics.
I think I keep digging myself a bigger hole).
