Day came early. It always does when in Disney.
Stoopid alarms...
So much to do, so little time! Especially if there is relaxing and lounging to be done.
There's an oxymoron if I've ever not seen one.
And especially if one happens to be royalty. Like me.
Yes, ma'am!
so that's Your Highness to you.
Whoops! I mean, Yes Your Highness!
I did! I said it!
er... Your Highness.
Ok, fine, I’m a royal pain in the you know whatty. Take it or leave it.
Yes, Your Hindness.
(6 more updates! Yes, yes, I know you couldn’t be more thrilled…)
Actually... yes.
So, what does one do when they are staying Concierge Level at AK?
Laundry, duh.
Of course. This makes total sense.
Did I ever tell you the time I let a hotel do my laundry?
We were in Cologne, Germany. We had some laundry... Oh! Look! Laundry bags. We can just have them done! Yay!"
So we did.
And it came out to about $100.
ouch.
I mean, yes, I did actually go commando this trip,
Woot!!!! All Right!!!!!! This TR just got
good!!!
That's all it takes. And.....
Sure it was.
Another probably saw a similar fate when I practically wet myself when Anara pantsed herself in the Coral Reef.
Okay... what is all that?
Hold on. I remember you saying you didn't like breakfast type foods. That looks pretty breakfast to me.
“But what about the FREE food in the CL Lounge??!!”, you may be asking yourself. Keep your shorts on; I’m getting to that.
Is that what you said to Anara?
And don't tell us to, when you aren't even wearing any.
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Mara may have pretty good food, but good coffee they do not!
But they do have.... zebra domes!!!!!!!!!!!
(How many of you forgot I still have a FL Keys vacation to Report on?)
Not me! Looking forward to it!
After sashaying in like we owned the place, <“Excuse me, you seem to be encroaching on my table and are taking far too long at my espresso machine. Yes, thank you, if you could just step over there while I adjust my tiara a bit and fix my latte foam….”>
Point of order. Shouldn't Her Highness have a serf to do that for her?
Stunning.
No, the view never gets old.
No kidding. That's really beautiful.
Soon, there was a knock on the door. <Knock, knock!>
Thank goodness you wrote that! I was thinking it was <kerfuffle, kerfuffle!>
Yep, a DVC Team Member. They were there to give us a free print as a momento of our stay.
This is a thing? Maybe only if you stay concierge?
The choco is gone; the print is still sitting in a pile of crap under my bed. No, not that kind. The clutter kind of papery-stacks-of-junk crap.
Thus indicating it's relative worth.
Royalty isn’t accustomed to having the entirety of their belongings heaped on a closet floor.
I would imagine that royalty has far more than would fit in a single closet.
we got our mostly dry clothes <insert mild grumble of irritation here for only mostly dry clothes>,
Why mostly? Did you interrupt the dryer? Or did it just not have enough oomph to complete the job?
How’s that for a pretty leisurely morning?
Well, except for laundry and walking aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal the way back and forth..... not bad!
I have no idea how long we waited for my Royal Footman to show up (I really need to either behead him or offer him more pay- still deciding on whether to be more tyrannical or to promote capitalism and productivity through wage incentive)
Do both.
Behead one and pay more to the replacement. Instills loyalty and terror. A good combination.
We always waited. With no exception. Ever.
This is a thing?
I couldn’t tell, but some may have cowered in fear.
Of this I have no doubt.
Others looked as if they may have broken out in a sweat at the sight of me. Then again, perhaps it was because the fact that it was 900 degrees out with 90% humidity. Hard to tell.
Nah. They're Floridians. They're used to that.
It was you.
Sir Marv and Lady Pat provided perfectly wonderful company for the remainder of our afternoon and we all enjoyed our time spent together!
Oh! Very nice! You had company for the day.
After strolling the red carpet along Main Street, we turned left and spent some time in Adventureland…
You sure it wasn't right?
Plenty of drunken, hoarding, plundering debauchery was enjoyed.
With Pat and Marv along?
Of this, I have no doubt.
Please Disney. Leave this alone.
(Random question: how many times does the PoTC dog, who's apparently named "Poochie", appear in the ride. Photographical evidence suggests at least twice!)
No idea. Good question. Now I'll be looking for him.
As your queen reviews the photographs, it is obvious that a campaign against human trafficking needs to be given serious thought.
No it does not!!!
And clearly, the royal treasury needs to be fortified and more heavily guarded. Somehow a dude with personal hygiene and disturbing dental cleanliness issues has sneaked in.
Oh? I thought the women swooned for ol' Jack.
Let me repeat that: These were free Disney souvenirs. Run, do not walk to play this game. It’s fun!
Did you play them all? I've only done two, I think.
Hey, Guys, I read in the fine print that you get the Redhead as booty.
Haha, made ya look!
Don't
do that!!!!
Just kidding, but it is a no-brainer that a proper treasure to be plundered is from here:
Did you have her pose like that on purpose?
And the money magically comes out of the royal coffers. It’s called coffers because one generally gets choked up when they open their statement following a Disney vacation.
Praise It To Allah?
You must really like it!!!
Hence, the reason I got this pretty okay photo, but also the reason no less than 4 fewer rides/attractions were seen.
D'oh!
Sir Marv said we must. No, we didn’t get a cinnamon roll.
So.... what did you get? Surely you didn't go in there as a way to BOG. It's out of the way!
The Queen must eat. And what better place to be a guest than the very place where they ask you to. (Be their guest, of course.)
Seems legit.
That is a particularly difficult, yet seemingly simple, shot to get.
No, the gray stuff wasn’t delicious. It was meh,
Agreed.
The other stuff we got was okay, but then again none in the Queen’s party ordered the French Onion Soup either.
Total fail. I would go to Disney
just for that soup.
Dark photog takes time, a commodity of which there is precious little in Disney.
Go solo. Take all the time you want.
Hand held? Tough one.
Every queen needs a throne, no?
And a place to leave her camera, no?
I told her I’d trade a snotty little mermaid for her really cool eel pets.
Wait! Wait! You're trading mermaids???? How do I sign up???
As you can see, Ariel is quickly given legs, something of which my kids have forgotten they have this summer. Hands may be an equally forgotten commodity when the Royal Gardens, dishes, room cleaning or anything else that closely resembles work comes up for discussion.
Oh, Lord. How this sounds familiar.
As you can also see, she is perfectly reposed. Again, much like my teens at 10:00 on any given summer morning.
Yep.
Well. 50/50.
Elle is up and out fairly early for work. But I don't see Kay typically until after noon.
Eventually, the subjects stepped aside to allow your humble monarch to ride this:
Yesssssss......
(By the look on her face, she must have just opened up her own credit card statement after staying on a Disney property.)
That
would do it!
Probably more than a few idiots who took flash photos of her and her deadbeat pals, a few lovers making out, and on the rare occasion someone trying to get away with disposing the remains of their loved one in the graveyard. (Don't believe me? Google it. I dare you.)
Who makes out on HM? There's so much to see!
Well... okay. I suppose if you have a couple of young kids who are crazy about each other then maybe that takes priority...
And yes. I knew about the ashes to mansion thing.
I wonder if those who are doing it know their loved ones wind up in a vacuum and ultimately a garbage dump?
Too soon after a grand tea party on the Puke Cups it was time to say good bye to Sir Marv and Lady Pat.
Pretty good photo for being on the cups.
I presume you weren't spinning it quite as fast as when the three of us rode?
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