A Pirate looks at 30
Day 4 - A visit with some old friends.
Cast:
Darren aka ktulu aka darrrrren - me, 30, and I'm a pirate, arrrrr
Jill - my wife, 26, not a pirate, but the best wife in the world!
Arrrrrrr, it not be a good sign when me has no dreams. It be 9:30 in the morning, and me and me wife walk out to get some breakfast. Me gets as far as the elevators and me wife sends me back to put on pants. Arrrr, it be one of those mornings.
We have our usual breakfast of stuff at the hotel concierge. I decided that this morning I would lick all of the muffins. Breakfast at the WL from the 7th floor is truly awesome. Even a hardened pirate like myself can really appreciate the hard work that goes into keeping this place up. Then my wife points out the huge collection of spider webs and dust in the windows at the very top of the ceiling. It's good to see that Disney has the same problems I do with tall windows.
A short while later we are fed, showered and headed out the door to the boat dock. The wait is short and soon we're being welcomed aboard. The trip is nice. We motor past the Contemporary resort, and come around to see a big ferry right in our path. I spring from my seat and take over the helm. A quick turn to the left puts out of harms way of the ferry, but there are at least 100 of those mouse boats in our path. I pull ole trick number 134 from the Pirate Captains handbook and soon we're docked safely. The passengers and crew thank me for my heroic actions. If they only knew...
We get past all the necessary check points and make our way to main street. I yell 'Mickey is at town hall giving away free stuff' and the crowds all rush over there leaving us alone to walk down main street. Up ahead there seems to be some commotion in front of the Castle. Bah, it's just Mickey and the gang having a party. Then some ugly woman shows up and I see me old matey Captain Hook up on the Castle. I yell his way, and he gives me a big single hook up. I never remember if that's bad or good.
Since tonight is E-ride night we make a list of the rides we don't have to ride until tonight and then head to the ones that we must do before tonight. We get fast passes for the Jungle Cruise and then head to the Tiki Room. I see that it's under new management now, which might be good. The drinks we had last time were weak, and there was a feather in my soup. We walk to the line, and the bottom line is packed, the top two are empty. I mention to Jill something about lemmings and we head to the middle row. We're up front watching all the people wonder how we got there. Another rude family pulls up. Grandma in her little electronic cart thing, and the kids who think the rope means it's there for them to climb on or ignore. One stares at the microphone for about 5 minutes, you could see the thought process going on. I secretly wish he would just go for it, but the CM arrives before he has a chance.
One more observation about people waiting in lines. "Do not sit on the hand rails" must mean something else at Disney World. The guy had to tell the same family at least three times to not sit on the handrails. They sit, the guy says don't, they get off. Wait 20 seconds and repeat.
The doors open and we're in. Ah...sweet sweet air conditioning. We sit near the exit wanting out of here as soon as possible. They make the announcement, "no flash photography, no videoing." They ask a guy named Jose to wake up the bird Jose, he just looks at the CM like "I am awake" and Jose the bird magically wakes up after the CM flips a switch and we're thrown into Tiki Room fun. Oh, the lightning is coming early, nope, just some lady using the flash on her camera. Hey, look at the guy two rows back, that's right boys and girls, that red light means the camera is recording. I have a word for these people, just can't say it
here
We leave the Tiki Room and I look at the Magic Carpets. Is it just me, or was the the worst place to put this ride? I really think it looks out of place here. We still have time to kill before we embark on our Jungle Cruise. I spot a tower and cannons, I hear a squawk from a parrot, and that familiar feeling surrounds me.
I'm drawn to this, as if some force is pulling me there, and then it happens. The people move out of the way (okay, they all go left and we go right) and we enter into the Pirates of the Caribbean!
Arrrrr, now it be time for me to be tellin ye this tale. Me and me beauty walk slowly through the line, takin it all in. Me stops to look down at me mates who died playin that infernal game of chess. If only ye be listen to me, they not die tryin to win a stalemate. We gets closer and me hears some of me bucko's workin in a cave. Me sees another mate. Me throws out a friendly 'ahoy' and he asks how many in our group. Me gives him two fingers, we all laugh. We're aboard our jollyboat and we set out. The cool air of the cave is a nice contrast to the air outside. Me hears a familiar voice... "Deadmen tell no tales"
We plunge into the darkness, screamin ensues from the forrard of the boat. "Belay that screamin ye cowardly swabs, ye'll meet the rope's end for that!"
Arrrr, then she comes into view, me mateys ship, and right in the middle of a battle! Arrr, me smiles like a pirate in a battle, even as me is hit with some water comin from one of the cannon's on shore. Me sings along with me mateys as we wind through the city. Me remembers a bet me had with one of these scurvy dogs, if me won he would be shavin his legs like a woman. Me spots him sittin on a bridge, as we pass under, me sees that he still has not made good on that bet, arrrrr you can never trust a pirate!
Arrrr, me just sits back to take it all in and before me knows it we're being told to get out. Me grabs me wife and me pal mickey and head out. "Gangway, handsomely ye land lubbers, before me keelhauls ya." We come out and some Sutler has setup a shop. Me looks for things a pirate needs and comes up empty. Me pal mickey does ask me questions, but me will leave that for ye own adventure. Me wifes tells me it's time for our Jungle Cruise, and we leave. Me wonders on the way out who is brave enough to shave and tattoo a parrot.
As we step aboard the Jungle Cruise, the smirk on the drivers face tells me that this is going to be a long trip. Me thinks about a mutiny on this boat, but he has a gun, and me pal Mickey is still hungover from the night before, so me cannot count on him, so me lets this one go.
Me is surprised and amazed, for the first time in me life me sees the backside of water. Arrr, me has seen plenty of water from different sides but never the backside.
We make it back safely and we set out for our next adventure. Once again I'm drawn to the Pirates of the Caribbean, and we ride again. Again, the lemmings go left, and we go right. This time me joins me hearties and we splice the mainbrace. After me is thrown out, we press on.
We walk past Splash Mountain, knowing we'll be riding tonight. A quick nod to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, 'see ya tonight!' A quick look at Tom Sawyers island reminds me of my younger years when I'd get to visit Disneyland and the hours me and me brother spent running around there, going through the caves.
We walk along and come up to some nice looking mansion. The line is long so we take advantage of the Fast Pass. It's nearly time for our PS at the Crystal Palace and we head that way. Oh Pooh! I forgot the camera. Knowing darn well we'd be at a character breakfast for lunch too. We stop by a store and buy a disposable. The CM is from Scotland. I tell him my wife is Scottish he asks from where, and then I look like an idiot as I tell him it's her family, and she was born in the States. He sighs and asks us where we're from, we tell him Texas. He says that if we're not Scottish, at least we are from the greatest state in America, and goes on to tell us how everything there is better than everywhere else, except for Guinness beer. We tell him we know I give him a quick arrrr, and we're on our way.
Lunch at Crystal Palace was great. We got pics with our favorite characters and had a great meal. The waitress was a little slow, but we survived. She did bring us drinks to go which was nice. With a full stomach we leave.
We head to Fantasy Land and get fast passes for Peter Pan and then head back to the charming house. Haunted Mansion is always best when the CM's get into it. We have a good time visiting, Mickey is scared by puts on his best smile. We leave, find the ring at the exit, point to it, get a picture of it and leave.
After Haunted Mansion it was all a blur. We waited for It's a Small World. Jill happily sang along and I pondered drowning myself. I did have fun waving to a kid who looked confused as I kept waving. He was in the restaurant with a window seat. We walked over to Tomorrowland and checked out the lines there. Since our fast pass for Peter Pan was not until later, we headed to the exit and the boat back to the Lodge.
When the boat pulled up, the youngest looking girl was driving. Since we saw many young people already we didn't think about it. Then she tried to dock. She tried and tried, and tried. Finally someone else took the wheel and docked on the first go. This was not the first time we'd get to witness her numerous docking attempts. I thought of it like this, at least she's not an airline pilot!
We make it back to the Lodge dry. I get off the boat and kiss the dock. I stand up to wipe my mouth and tell off the people staring at me, but before I can get the first expletive out, I spot something. It's a food dispenser for things like ducks and fish. I quickly buy a couple handfuls and start tossing it in the water. Nothing. I toss another, no go. The ducks, at the boat rental dock, see what's going on and head our way. Finally a fish comes up and takes the food. The ducks arrive and it's on, who will get more food. The ducks have an advantage because we like them better, but the fish have stealth. It goes back and forth, ducks, fish, ducks, fish. At one point I bounce a piece of food off a ducks bill, it lands on the back of another duck and a third duck eats the food. The story would be much cooler if a fish jumped out and got it, so I'm changing it to that. Yeah, much better. We reach the end of the food, and a tradition we have is to do what we call the 'feeding frenzy', which is we buy more food and throw it all in at the same time. At this point others have joined in the fun and they all get a good laugh when we perform the amazing feeding frenzy. Bored and out of quarters we head up stairs for snacks of our own.
The snacks are great here. Pretzels, nuts and my favorite, a big basket of gummy worms. We snack till we can snack no more, grab our tickets for tonight and head back to the dock. This is a different boat, thus a different crew, which means I will not have to take charge. Finally, I can relax and take it all in.
We arrive back to the Magic Kingdom, stop to get our wrist bands and head to the train station. While at the hotel Mickey called up Minnie and told us he was doing his own thing tonight. That was fine by me, he was getting a little bossy.
We board the train and have a nice talk with the people in front of us. They think Splash Mountain is It's a Small World, I correct them and everyone on the train is amazed by my superior Disney knowledge. We stay on until we reach the Toon Town station, we say our goodbyes and head out.
Hey look, they're growing corn.
We make it to fantasy land without any incidents. We head to Winnie the Pooh first and ride it. Jill and the CM running the ride talk about how the wait time is posted at 20 minutes, but we wait 30. They also talk about how someone in line smells. Jill has a nose like a dog. She smells things that I never catch a whiff of. The CM and Jill have just bonded over the odor of some family. I find it funny that Jill and the CM are talking about smells and we're about to get on a ride called Pooh. I think about making some poo jokes, but I figure the CM probably deals with enough Pooh or poo jokes every day and hold off. We board our honeypot, set out. I point out the owl/Mr. toad picture. I really wish that it was still Mr. Toads Wild Ride.
After we pooh it's time to soar over the streets of London with Peter Pan, Wendy, Chunk, Stevie, Bob the dog and Tinker Bell. Jill and I really enjoy this ride. Again, someone has a flash camera, I yell out how it's rude to use flash camera's on rides like this and smile knowing that we're in a room with a bunch of other people on a ride and they'll never know it was me!
After we PP we head to Snow White. Boy that's a scary adventure. From there we head to Tomorrowland. We wait in line for the speedway. Again, lemmings take the first right, we go straight and get in a different line. We finally make it to our cars, and we're off. Jill is in front, and I'm following. Her car smells, and I can almost here her complaining about the car in front of her, oh wait, I can hear her
We race around, my car is faster than Jill's and I have to keep letting off the gas, which is fine, it prolongs the ride. I like these rides where you control how long you stay on I pull into a Sonic for a limeade and then head back out to finish the race.
Happy, we decide we want to start Enight in Frontier land, so we head that way. We still have time, so we head to Pirates of the Caribbean to check it out. Well, Spectromagic is going on, so we can't cross at this point, so we ditch the plans to ride PoTC and head to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Riding at night is great, I recommend it if you get a chance!
After BTMRR we ride the Haunted Mansion again. This place is extra spooky at night, and for some reason makes for a better ride. I see the eyes in the tombstone, one kid points it out to his friends, they miss it and think he's lying.
After HM we go to Splash Mountain. The wait is not long (Enight still hasn't started) and we get on quickly. I like the new log setup, it's comfy. Brer Jill and Brer I sing along and clap along much to the enjoyment of our Brer Logmates. We get to see some of the Brer Fireworks while outside and then we Brer pose for the Brer picture. We decide we need to Brer ride again and get in Brer line. The 2nd trip is just has much fun as the first and we walk away happier than a Brer Mule in a briar patch.
The line has gotten much longer, so we head back to Tomorrowland. Last time we visited WDW we did Enight and ate at Casey's. Well, we did this again. Hotdogs, fries and diet cokes. The total prices was the normal cost for two hotdogs, fries and diet cokes at Casey's. We ate while a CM told some people near us how his friend told him how great it was to work at WDW as a summer job, and his friend was doing something glamorous like Monorail pilot and he got a job emptying trash. Well, for someone who empties trash all day he was pretty happy. Maybe they surgically alter his nose or something.
We finish eating and head to Tomorrowland. First ride is Alien Encounter. I like this, if you get into it, it'll really mess with your head. We leave from there and the call to help the galaxy is answered as we ride Buzz Lightyear. Jill gets like 60 billion points, and I get about 3. I usually rule on these games and I determine that my gun is faulty. Jill happily skips and I sulk over to Space Mountain. This is where drama unfolds.
Apparently the kids in front of us ditched one of their friends who is now at the hotel, and they are looking to blame someone. They pick one of the guys there. These kids have no problem dropping the f-bomb right there in line, and they use it like I use ARrrrrrrrr. Finally we get the choice to split away from them, they go right, we go left. I wish them good luck with their friend. We ride space mountain. Again, I am impressed with the seats on this ride. Very comfy, even for a fat pirate like me. We leave Space Mountain and head up to the TTA. At this point our feet are very tired, so a nice relaxing ride is in order. We get a whole train to ourself and kick back and relax. We talk about the fun we've had so far. Before we know it, we're coming back into the station. We don't even have to ask if we can stay on, we just sit there. The CM closes the door and we ride again. You'd think that Mr. Morrow would have answered the page by now. Sheesh!
During the two trips we took, the CM's had to tell some kids in the train in front of us to sit down at least 3 times. If I worked there, that'd be some kids who would be waiting in an office for mom and dad to come pick them up for their hijinks. I just don't understand why people refuse to respect rules, it really boggles the mind.
We decide to call it a night, it's late, we're tired and just want to sleep. We slowly walk to the exit, turning to get one last look at things and head to the boat. We're so glad they were still running. We miss the first one, but the 2nd one is not far behind. That was a bad thing, as we were both extremely thirsty. Jill had to stop me from dunking my head into the lake at least twice. We finally get back to the lodge and Jill grabs the room service menu to order a bottle of water. It'll be about $10 with all the fees involved. I talk Jill out of it and we settle on tap water and ice. We fall asleep armed with the knowledge that we start stocking up the fridge tomorrow!
Next Day 5 - Out of tragedy the 8th dwarf comes to life.
Day 4 - A visit with some old friends.
Cast:
Darren aka ktulu aka darrrrren - me, 30, and I'm a pirate, arrrrr
Jill - my wife, 26, not a pirate, but the best wife in the world!
Arrrrrrr, it not be a good sign when me has no dreams. It be 9:30 in the morning, and me and me wife walk out to get some breakfast. Me gets as far as the elevators and me wife sends me back to put on pants. Arrrr, it be one of those mornings.
We have our usual breakfast of stuff at the hotel concierge. I decided that this morning I would lick all of the muffins. Breakfast at the WL from the 7th floor is truly awesome. Even a hardened pirate like myself can really appreciate the hard work that goes into keeping this place up. Then my wife points out the huge collection of spider webs and dust in the windows at the very top of the ceiling. It's good to see that Disney has the same problems I do with tall windows.
A short while later we are fed, showered and headed out the door to the boat dock. The wait is short and soon we're being welcomed aboard. The trip is nice. We motor past the Contemporary resort, and come around to see a big ferry right in our path. I spring from my seat and take over the helm. A quick turn to the left puts out of harms way of the ferry, but there are at least 100 of those mouse boats in our path. I pull ole trick number 134 from the Pirate Captains handbook and soon we're docked safely. The passengers and crew thank me for my heroic actions. If they only knew...
We get past all the necessary check points and make our way to main street. I yell 'Mickey is at town hall giving away free stuff' and the crowds all rush over there leaving us alone to walk down main street. Up ahead there seems to be some commotion in front of the Castle. Bah, it's just Mickey and the gang having a party. Then some ugly woman shows up and I see me old matey Captain Hook up on the Castle. I yell his way, and he gives me a big single hook up. I never remember if that's bad or good.
Since tonight is E-ride night we make a list of the rides we don't have to ride until tonight and then head to the ones that we must do before tonight. We get fast passes for the Jungle Cruise and then head to the Tiki Room. I see that it's under new management now, which might be good. The drinks we had last time were weak, and there was a feather in my soup. We walk to the line, and the bottom line is packed, the top two are empty. I mention to Jill something about lemmings and we head to the middle row. We're up front watching all the people wonder how we got there. Another rude family pulls up. Grandma in her little electronic cart thing, and the kids who think the rope means it's there for them to climb on or ignore. One stares at the microphone for about 5 minutes, you could see the thought process going on. I secretly wish he would just go for it, but the CM arrives before he has a chance.
One more observation about people waiting in lines. "Do not sit on the hand rails" must mean something else at Disney World. The guy had to tell the same family at least three times to not sit on the handrails. They sit, the guy says don't, they get off. Wait 20 seconds and repeat.
The doors open and we're in. Ah...sweet sweet air conditioning. We sit near the exit wanting out of here as soon as possible. They make the announcement, "no flash photography, no videoing." They ask a guy named Jose to wake up the bird Jose, he just looks at the CM like "I am awake" and Jose the bird magically wakes up after the CM flips a switch and we're thrown into Tiki Room fun. Oh, the lightning is coming early, nope, just some lady using the flash on her camera. Hey, look at the guy two rows back, that's right boys and girls, that red light means the camera is recording. I have a word for these people, just can't say it
here
We leave the Tiki Room and I look at the Magic Carpets. Is it just me, or was the the worst place to put this ride? I really think it looks out of place here. We still have time to kill before we embark on our Jungle Cruise. I spot a tower and cannons, I hear a squawk from a parrot, and that familiar feeling surrounds me.
I'm drawn to this, as if some force is pulling me there, and then it happens. The people move out of the way (okay, they all go left and we go right) and we enter into the Pirates of the Caribbean!
Arrrrr, now it be time for me to be tellin ye this tale. Me and me beauty walk slowly through the line, takin it all in. Me stops to look down at me mates who died playin that infernal game of chess. If only ye be listen to me, they not die tryin to win a stalemate. We gets closer and me hears some of me bucko's workin in a cave. Me sees another mate. Me throws out a friendly 'ahoy' and he asks how many in our group. Me gives him two fingers, we all laugh. We're aboard our jollyboat and we set out. The cool air of the cave is a nice contrast to the air outside. Me hears a familiar voice... "Deadmen tell no tales"
We plunge into the darkness, screamin ensues from the forrard of the boat. "Belay that screamin ye cowardly swabs, ye'll meet the rope's end for that!"
Arrrr, then she comes into view, me mateys ship, and right in the middle of a battle! Arrr, me smiles like a pirate in a battle, even as me is hit with some water comin from one of the cannon's on shore. Me sings along with me mateys as we wind through the city. Me remembers a bet me had with one of these scurvy dogs, if me won he would be shavin his legs like a woman. Me spots him sittin on a bridge, as we pass under, me sees that he still has not made good on that bet, arrrrr you can never trust a pirate!
Arrrr, me just sits back to take it all in and before me knows it we're being told to get out. Me grabs me wife and me pal mickey and head out. "Gangway, handsomely ye land lubbers, before me keelhauls ya." We come out and some Sutler has setup a shop. Me looks for things a pirate needs and comes up empty. Me pal mickey does ask me questions, but me will leave that for ye own adventure. Me wifes tells me it's time for our Jungle Cruise, and we leave. Me wonders on the way out who is brave enough to shave and tattoo a parrot.
As we step aboard the Jungle Cruise, the smirk on the drivers face tells me that this is going to be a long trip. Me thinks about a mutiny on this boat, but he has a gun, and me pal Mickey is still hungover from the night before, so me cannot count on him, so me lets this one go.
Me is surprised and amazed, for the first time in me life me sees the backside of water. Arrr, me has seen plenty of water from different sides but never the backside.
We make it back safely and we set out for our next adventure. Once again I'm drawn to the Pirates of the Caribbean, and we ride again. Again, the lemmings go left, and we go right. This time me joins me hearties and we splice the mainbrace. After me is thrown out, we press on.
We walk past Splash Mountain, knowing we'll be riding tonight. A quick nod to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, 'see ya tonight!' A quick look at Tom Sawyers island reminds me of my younger years when I'd get to visit Disneyland and the hours me and me brother spent running around there, going through the caves.
We walk along and come up to some nice looking mansion. The line is long so we take advantage of the Fast Pass. It's nearly time for our PS at the Crystal Palace and we head that way. Oh Pooh! I forgot the camera. Knowing darn well we'd be at a character breakfast for lunch too. We stop by a store and buy a disposable. The CM is from Scotland. I tell him my wife is Scottish he asks from where, and then I look like an idiot as I tell him it's her family, and she was born in the States. He sighs and asks us where we're from, we tell him Texas. He says that if we're not Scottish, at least we are from the greatest state in America, and goes on to tell us how everything there is better than everywhere else, except for Guinness beer. We tell him we know I give him a quick arrrr, and we're on our way.
Lunch at Crystal Palace was great. We got pics with our favorite characters and had a great meal. The waitress was a little slow, but we survived. She did bring us drinks to go which was nice. With a full stomach we leave.
We head to Fantasy Land and get fast passes for Peter Pan and then head back to the charming house. Haunted Mansion is always best when the CM's get into it. We have a good time visiting, Mickey is scared by puts on his best smile. We leave, find the ring at the exit, point to it, get a picture of it and leave.
After Haunted Mansion it was all a blur. We waited for It's a Small World. Jill happily sang along and I pondered drowning myself. I did have fun waving to a kid who looked confused as I kept waving. He was in the restaurant with a window seat. We walked over to Tomorrowland and checked out the lines there. Since our fast pass for Peter Pan was not until later, we headed to the exit and the boat back to the Lodge.
When the boat pulled up, the youngest looking girl was driving. Since we saw many young people already we didn't think about it. Then she tried to dock. She tried and tried, and tried. Finally someone else took the wheel and docked on the first go. This was not the first time we'd get to witness her numerous docking attempts. I thought of it like this, at least she's not an airline pilot!
We make it back to the Lodge dry. I get off the boat and kiss the dock. I stand up to wipe my mouth and tell off the people staring at me, but before I can get the first expletive out, I spot something. It's a food dispenser for things like ducks and fish. I quickly buy a couple handfuls and start tossing it in the water. Nothing. I toss another, no go. The ducks, at the boat rental dock, see what's going on and head our way. Finally a fish comes up and takes the food. The ducks arrive and it's on, who will get more food. The ducks have an advantage because we like them better, but the fish have stealth. It goes back and forth, ducks, fish, ducks, fish. At one point I bounce a piece of food off a ducks bill, it lands on the back of another duck and a third duck eats the food. The story would be much cooler if a fish jumped out and got it, so I'm changing it to that. Yeah, much better. We reach the end of the food, and a tradition we have is to do what we call the 'feeding frenzy', which is we buy more food and throw it all in at the same time. At this point others have joined in the fun and they all get a good laugh when we perform the amazing feeding frenzy. Bored and out of quarters we head up stairs for snacks of our own.
The snacks are great here. Pretzels, nuts and my favorite, a big basket of gummy worms. We snack till we can snack no more, grab our tickets for tonight and head back to the dock. This is a different boat, thus a different crew, which means I will not have to take charge. Finally, I can relax and take it all in.
We arrive back to the Magic Kingdom, stop to get our wrist bands and head to the train station. While at the hotel Mickey called up Minnie and told us he was doing his own thing tonight. That was fine by me, he was getting a little bossy.
We board the train and have a nice talk with the people in front of us. They think Splash Mountain is It's a Small World, I correct them and everyone on the train is amazed by my superior Disney knowledge. We stay on until we reach the Toon Town station, we say our goodbyes and head out.
Hey look, they're growing corn.
We make it to fantasy land without any incidents. We head to Winnie the Pooh first and ride it. Jill and the CM running the ride talk about how the wait time is posted at 20 minutes, but we wait 30. They also talk about how someone in line smells. Jill has a nose like a dog. She smells things that I never catch a whiff of. The CM and Jill have just bonded over the odor of some family. I find it funny that Jill and the CM are talking about smells and we're about to get on a ride called Pooh. I think about making some poo jokes, but I figure the CM probably deals with enough Pooh or poo jokes every day and hold off. We board our honeypot, set out. I point out the owl/Mr. toad picture. I really wish that it was still Mr. Toads Wild Ride.
After we pooh it's time to soar over the streets of London with Peter Pan, Wendy, Chunk, Stevie, Bob the dog and Tinker Bell. Jill and I really enjoy this ride. Again, someone has a flash camera, I yell out how it's rude to use flash camera's on rides like this and smile knowing that we're in a room with a bunch of other people on a ride and they'll never know it was me!
After we PP we head to Snow White. Boy that's a scary adventure. From there we head to Tomorrowland. We wait in line for the speedway. Again, lemmings take the first right, we go straight and get in a different line. We finally make it to our cars, and we're off. Jill is in front, and I'm following. Her car smells, and I can almost here her complaining about the car in front of her, oh wait, I can hear her
We race around, my car is faster than Jill's and I have to keep letting off the gas, which is fine, it prolongs the ride. I like these rides where you control how long you stay on I pull into a Sonic for a limeade and then head back out to finish the race.Happy, we decide we want to start Enight in Frontier land, so we head that way. We still have time, so we head to Pirates of the Caribbean to check it out. Well, Spectromagic is going on, so we can't cross at this point, so we ditch the plans to ride PoTC and head to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Riding at night is great, I recommend it if you get a chance!
After BTMRR we ride the Haunted Mansion again. This place is extra spooky at night, and for some reason makes for a better ride. I see the eyes in the tombstone, one kid points it out to his friends, they miss it and think he's lying.
After HM we go to Splash Mountain. The wait is not long (Enight still hasn't started) and we get on quickly. I like the new log setup, it's comfy. Brer Jill and Brer I sing along and clap along much to the enjoyment of our Brer Logmates. We get to see some of the Brer Fireworks while outside and then we Brer pose for the Brer picture. We decide we need to Brer ride again and get in Brer line. The 2nd trip is just has much fun as the first and we walk away happier than a Brer Mule in a briar patch.
The line has gotten much longer, so we head back to Tomorrowland. Last time we visited WDW we did Enight and ate at Casey's. Well, we did this again. Hotdogs, fries and diet cokes. The total prices was the normal cost for two hotdogs, fries and diet cokes at Casey's. We ate while a CM told some people near us how his friend told him how great it was to work at WDW as a summer job, and his friend was doing something glamorous like Monorail pilot and he got a job emptying trash. Well, for someone who empties trash all day he was pretty happy. Maybe they surgically alter his nose or something.
We finish eating and head to Tomorrowland. First ride is Alien Encounter. I like this, if you get into it, it'll really mess with your head. We leave from there and the call to help the galaxy is answered as we ride Buzz Lightyear. Jill gets like 60 billion points, and I get about 3. I usually rule on these games and I determine that my gun is faulty. Jill happily skips and I sulk over to Space Mountain. This is where drama unfolds.
Apparently the kids in front of us ditched one of their friends who is now at the hotel, and they are looking to blame someone. They pick one of the guys there. These kids have no problem dropping the f-bomb right there in line, and they use it like I use ARrrrrrrrr. Finally we get the choice to split away from them, they go right, we go left. I wish them good luck with their friend. We ride space mountain. Again, I am impressed with the seats on this ride. Very comfy, even for a fat pirate like me. We leave Space Mountain and head up to the TTA. At this point our feet are very tired, so a nice relaxing ride is in order. We get a whole train to ourself and kick back and relax. We talk about the fun we've had so far. Before we know it, we're coming back into the station. We don't even have to ask if we can stay on, we just sit there. The CM closes the door and we ride again. You'd think that Mr. Morrow would have answered the page by now. Sheesh!
During the two trips we took, the CM's had to tell some kids in the train in front of us to sit down at least 3 times. If I worked there, that'd be some kids who would be waiting in an office for mom and dad to come pick them up for their hijinks. I just don't understand why people refuse to respect rules, it really boggles the mind.
We decide to call it a night, it's late, we're tired and just want to sleep. We slowly walk to the exit, turning to get one last look at things and head to the boat. We're so glad they were still running. We miss the first one, but the 2nd one is not far behind. That was a bad thing, as we were both extremely thirsty. Jill had to stop me from dunking my head into the lake at least twice. We finally get back to the lodge and Jill grabs the room service menu to order a bottle of water. It'll be about $10 with all the fees involved. I talk Jill out of it and we settle on tap water and ice. We fall asleep armed with the knowledge that we start stocking up the fridge tomorrow!
Next Day 5 - Out of tragedy the 8th dwarf comes to life.
