We arrive back at POFQ, and on the way to our room,Cruella stops and checks witht he front desk to see if her hat had been found yet. No luck.
Back in the room,the girls change into thier swim suits and head to the pool. I rested a few minutes while having a water, and then decided to follow the girls over. I find them in the jacuzzi,and laughed. Here they were complaining about how hot it was when we were in the park,and now here they sit in the jacuzzi.
After sitting with them for a few moments in there,we all desperately needed the pool. After awhile,Cruella came out to join us too,saying she really wanted to work on her tan while we were on vacation. So we go and grab some chairs together,and I pull out my book and start reading.
Then I hear "there is a pool bar here,I want a drink."
I decided I wanted to fill up my mug too,since I was really liking the pomengrante lemonaide in the foodcourt.As we walk over there though, she convinces me to give one of the tropical drinks at the pool bar a try,as she is sure I will like it. Well,I wanted to show her that I was willing to work with her so she could enjoy her vacation too. So I ordered a drink she reccomended,and spent 8.00 dollars on something I didn't enjoy...I still tasted the alcohol.,but I sipped on it anyway because I was not about to waste that money...well, I could only drink half of it at the most,so I guess I only wasted $4.00 then.
So we finish our drinks, and go back to the pool and swim a bit more,and then everyone is starting to say they are getting hungry. So we head back to the room to get ready to go to what I thought would be Animal Kingdom. That was the plan anyway. But all three of them didn't feel like going to Animal Kingdom. They all wanted to take the boat to Downtown Disney,and grab dinner there. And so I relented,and went with them, realizing that most likely all my planning was for nothing.
So we take showers and I get ready. I can get a shower,dressed,have my hair done and make up on in less then 45 minutes. It is a set routine for me.
So there I was,waiting for Cruella, who had taken her shower first because she takes longer to get ready, and it took her almost 2 hours to finish.
I just don't get it. Am I abnormal or what? Do most woman take this long ?
The girls were ready awhile ago,a nd got tired of waiting.They wanted to go to Disney Quest,and so they took off without us. Lucky me.
Finally Cruella and I take the boat to Downtown Disney, and as we are arriving,still on the boat,she sees Fultons Crab House,and wants to go there for dinner.
I tell her "we don't have ADR's,but we can stop and see if they have an opening for us , but just so you know, they don't take the free dining plan,so if we go,it has to be out of pocket,but I'm game." I love crab legs and would have gladly went!
Well, no...she doesn't think so then. So I say we could check with Captain Jacks? I had considered it earlier in my planning,and had even had an Adr,but cancelled it. I wasn't too thrilled even now with going there,especially since I realized that it would take away from our TS credits that I had already had planned for.
So I am thinking,this is why I wanted you to look over the restraunts and tell me where you wanted to eat. I would have gladly worked with her to go to places she wanted to eat at,but she had to have taken an intrest in her own vacation,and she didn't want to until she was there.
So we get off the boat,and I ask does she want to go see if Captain Jacks has an opening, and she says no, let's just see what our options are first. Okay fine.
So we start walking,and she sees Rain Forest Cafe. She has never been in one,and heard so much about it from Pitate after we took her on a vacation a few years back. She always wanted to go to one she says.
Well..ok,I say, but they don't take the dining plan either.We can check for an opening and pay out of pocket though if you want. She is actually willing to do that, so we check, but there were no openings. So we walk on,and she is excited.She is impressed. She likes downtown disney...lol.
It is a shopoholics theme park!
But we are hungry and decide to eat first. I tell her my oldest dd says try Wolfgang Express for a cs meal. She says you can eat really well for a cs.
Okay,sounds good she says.
Well,dd failed to tell me that there were two WGPE,and since I only know of the one on the West side,that is where we walk to. We find pizza and sandwiches,not the chicken or lasagna she was telling us about.
So I call her,and she tells me we are at the wrong WGPE , the one she was talking about is back at the market place.
I wanted to go back there,but Cruella was starving,and was fine with eating there,and so we each grabbed a pizza and a dessert.She had the keylime pie and I had the carrot cake. We ate our pizza and it was pretty good!
Then the girls call,and are out of Disney Quest. We tell them where we are,and so they come join us, sharing are pizza and dessert with us. Definetly enough food there for two people to share one cs credit. Even the desserts were big enough to split into two peices! A great value there.
So after we eat,the girls go to check out downtown disney on there own,and Cruella and I begin a long night of shopping,and picture taking. She makes several hints about how nice it would be to get a table and drink and people watch for awhile. I tell her if she wants to,that is fine,but I will just order and iced tea instead. But she doesn't take up on the offer. Oh well.
So finally we make our way all the way down to the end of World of Disney,and she says she needs to sit down because her knee is hurting. We see an empty bench, and she says sit awhile,I am going to get a water,and off she goes.
Meanwhile a foreign lady,I think from India, comes over with another woman,who I later learn is her sister, and a little boy about five or six years old. His mother asks me if they could share the bench with me. I say yes. There was plenty of room,and I set my backpack next to me for Cruella when she returns. The little boy had just gotten a toy,and he is so excited and happy,and talking away,as he is begging his mommy to open his toy. It was so cute to see. I love children,and I miss my dd's being young.
So I am watching them all, smillng at them,and getting smiles back from them.They tell me this is thier first visit to Disney World and how much fun they have been having. Everything was going well ,when suddenly Cruella comes up,and sees them sitting there. She tells them they are sitting on her bench,would they please move?
The lady tells her that I said they could sit there. Cruella says,"Well,I need to put my leg up and rest it now,and I was here first,and you need to move now."
The ladies look at Cruella likes she is crazy.I can't say I blame them. Cruella goes on,what gives you the right to just walk up and take someones seat.
Get up!
Well,this didn't sit right with the lady,and she starts to give attitude back to Cruella. She says,"Your friend said we could sit here."
Cruella turns to me and yells at me ",Why didn't you tell them no,t that this bench is taken already, you knew I was coming back?"
I said,"There is plenty of room,I didn't think it was a big deal to share a bench with them.There is room for you,see,and I pat the place next to me.
She says "No,I refuse to sit jammed in between all of you like a sardine. Why do you think I told you to grab the bench awhile I got the water.(she only got herself water btw) My knee is hurting and I wanted to stretch it out."
"Well, I didn't know." I tell her.
She says,I told you it was hurting."
"So I say,well, I just thought you wanted to sit."
There really was plenty of space there,and she wouldn"t have been packed in like a sardine.
She turns back to the lady,and begins to get into a verbal war with her. That poor lady, I just felt so bad for her.Cruella really gets into an arguement with her and her sister.Thier voices are getting louder,and peaople are staring. I get up and walk away from Cruella. I couldn't deal with any of this. I felt so bad for the other woman and the little boy, but I was so embarrassed by Cruella's behavior,and I knew I had to live with her for eight more days yet. I hate conflict,and I was literally fighting tears just then.
I hear Cruella be so mean to her,telling her that her breath stinks, and that she needs to go back to where she came from,ect ect. I mean she was down right rude! I don't remember every word that was said ,because I was in sort of a paralyzed state by then. I just couldn't beleive this was happening! And frankly,I am glad I don't recall every word because what I do remember still haunts me for that poor lady. I wish I had grown a backbone and stood up to Cruella.
Then I hear the little boy who was so happy just a few moments ago,crying now. His aunt is trying to comfort him. The lady says to Cruella " Will you please stop,you are upsetting my son." Cruella says to her,"I don't care,you are upsetting me. If your concerned about your son,then leave!'
Well,the two ladies are more concerned for the little boy who was crying,and they get up and walk away. I stay where I am, at a distance from Cruella, and watch them. The mother was crying, and her sister was trying to console her and her nephew. They looked over at me,and I mouth that I am sorry,but I don't think they understood, I don't know.
I look over at Cruella,and she is there,putting her leg up,taking up a whole bench now just for herself. I didn't say a word to her, but walked past her and went into Ghiardelli's and got myself a chocolate sample and a water. Then I went to a quiet place and called my oldest daughter and husband, crying to them about everything that had been happening so far. It was no longer a joke about being frustrated with her shopping,and her bipolar moods. She wasn't just ruining my vacation now,she was ruining innocent peoples vacations too. My dh felt so bad for me,because he knows I don't deal well with conflict. He offered to call Disney to see if I could get a value room for just dd and I and to see if Disney could adjust our dining credits, ect for us onto that room.
I really just wanted to go home at that point . But I told him no,that would probaly be too difficult for Disney and would cost us alot of extra money,and I didn't want to set us back financially. I said I was better now, I would just deal, and I just needed to vent to someone. I hung up,and called Princess and told her I was going back to our room. I didn't tell her what happened.
Then I go back over to Cruella,and told her I was going back to the room. She gets up and follows me. I walked ahead, and didn't say one word to her. When we are on the boat, she says to me, "I am sorry,I just don't do well in crowds."
That was all she said to me. Which I happen to know was a bunch of bull. I have seen her many times in crowded places. What she doesn't do well with is her prejudism. Or maybe it was her sense that she was just better then other people.
I later heard many stories regarding her attitudes from Princess. Had I known before hand,I would have told her right away that she wasn't welcome on my vacation, but I just never knew that about her before. Princess said she just didn't realize it was that bad.
I went to the jacuzzi when I got back, just to be away from Cuella until the girls got back. Princess and Pirate arrived back at the resort shortly after we did. I returned to the room and showered and went to bed. Cruella just went on as if nothing had happened. I later learned that my oldest dd had called Princess up and told her everything that happened and suggested that maybe she should hang around me more. And so Princess agreed. God,I love my daughters....such good kids.
Well,that completes the second day. So very sorry that it wasn't a hppy read,but trust me,it wasn't a happy night either.Thanks for reading along and letting me vent it all out of my system though!
Which leads me to the question "How did they get it all home?" This is only day two!
They make up these words and the words become such a part of thier every day language that they don't stop to think other people don't understand what they mean,or how goofy they sound sometimes...lol. They don't think sometimes I guess....but they are so close ,it's like they are in thier own little world sometimes ,and expect it to revolve around them.
(I have been reading this the last few minutes before I sign off at work and am rushing home to read the rest 
