Day 3
Okay, if you know me at all (which I know you don’t but let’s just say you do) then you won’t be surprised to hear that we didn’t make it out of bed early today. DD and I are complete night owls, we do not do well rising early in the morning normally and we certainly don’t want to drag our sorry butts out of bed while on vacation! Because of this we have had to modify today’s plans.
Anyway, about 8:00 we finally roll out of the sack. DD and I decided to go grab some breakfast snacks from the lounge to bring back to the room. We stuffed ourselves with carbs and then decided to head to the pool since it looked like it was going to be a beautiful day. I made the wise choice to forgo a swimsuit because I have still got that beautiful snow-like-lily-white-non-existant-tan-glow going on but DD was ready to go swimming! So she put her suit on and we headed down to SAB. On the way in we were issued wristbands because SAB has had such a problem with pool hoppers.

I was really upset to see that the majority of chairs on the first rows were already covered with towels, magazines, shoes, etc. What was odd though, was that there were only like 5 people in the pool and about 10 people actually occupying the lounge chairs. This was at 9:15, the pool had been open for 15 minutes and all of these chairs were already taken?

I had read about the chair poachers but it irked me to see it for myself. It was totally obvious that numerous people had grabbed 4 or 6 towels each and just thrown them over the backs of chairs and then bailed to go have breakfast or go to the parks for a couple hours or whatever. I found this really rude especially since there are signs posted very clearly that you are not supposed to do this.

DH said I just needed to move the towels and grab a seat, which I would normally do, but I didn’t want to be getting into a brawl at Disney!!!! After walking the entire perimeter of SAB I finally managed to find a couple of chairs in the corner area by the sand by the small store. We parked ourselves and DD got in. She loves to swim!! The lifeguards were plentiful and they were obviously very attentive. She said the water was warm. I felt confident that my DD would be able to swim safely even if my watchful eyes couldn’t see her. But, of course, I don’t like to let her out of my sight at the pool! That was really the one thing I didn’t like about it--the twists and turns that made it impossible to keep an eye on your kid. DD didn’t want to just hang out in one little section, she wanted to go all over, who could blame her?! I just wanted to lay back and bake in the sun so I wasn’t too crazy about having to keep getting up to follow her around the corner or over to the other side of the pool. Luckily for us she decided she was too cold and wanted to leave after an hour.

I have to add…during the hour we were there, I didn’t see one single person enter the pool area that sat down at any of the chairs which were already saved! They all had to do the same thing I did--SEARCH! Next time I will know and I’ll just move a towel and not stress about it. We don’t park it at the pool for the entire day so I am going to quit being so worried about what other people think….they are doing something they shouldn’t be doing anyway so why should I feel bad about taking a chair so I can watch my child? Some people may disagree with me about this, but it makes me so mad to see stuff like this happen!
I've got to go get DD in the bath, so I will continue with more of Day 3 in a bit!!