Gram was sitting there, on the sidewalk, in her
scooter, watching the bus drive away. I ran up (why I ran I have no idea) and asked "Was that the Epcot bus?" She answered "Yes"
"and why didn't you get on the bus?"
"Because you weren't here."
I looked at Scott who said "We'll just catch the next one"
The next one. Twenty minutes later. Then to get Gram on, then to stop at Fort Wilderness and to sit there with no one getting on.
Finally we arrive to Epcot. John and I run to the entrance. First the bag check, I'm ready but no one in front of me is. Then to the entrance. and then we run to Canada. I mean run. John is 13, into sports and as tall as I am and he had a hard time keeping up with me. We run all the way to the Le Cellier podium....to stand in line. When it is my turn the CM asked if our entire party was there. I said "right around the corner" (and they were, exactly where around the corner I have no idea.) Would you believe she would not check me in until she saw my entire party? What's up with that? Probably because we were 20 mintues past our ADR. Guess I was lucky she didn't say we were cancelled.
When everyone else showed up, I got back in line. I show her my party and she told me to go inside to check in
I get in another line.....and wait. Finally I get to check in and we happen to find seats inside. I was tired and a little ticked off. One by one parties are called. Each time they come to us first. Nope, we would shake our heads, not us. Now, I have an issue where if I don't eat something when I get hungry, I end up sick, quickly. Gram and Scott both know this but tend to "forget" at times. It's 1:30pm now and I haven't had anything since 8:30, not good. Plus all the running and stress. Each time they called another name the more upset I got. Finally at 1:45 I gave up. I was sick, upset and didn't need to be around my family right now. I left them there and went back to the resort.
Getting back took no time at all. I took some meds, ranted a bit, (okay a lot) and fell asleep. Until the pool party started. That bull horn. How I wanted to separate that CM from his bull horn. So, I got up, washed my face, got dressed and went to the food court for something to eat. Figure I had missed Le Cellier, but still had Biergarten for a late dinner. That would be fun.
On my way back to the bus I called Scott to let him know I was on my way back. Guess what?
Aly wanted to ride the monorail so they were going to do that and then go to Downtown Disney. I was like, what about dinner. "Oh, we had such a big lunch and didn't eat until after 2:00, that we cancelled it."
That's right my family cancelled dinner. So, no Thanksgiving dinner for me this year. I kind of wonder now if this was their way at getting back at me for refusing to cook this year.
So, on to Downtown Disney. How bad could it be? It's Thanksgiving Day, people will be like me and more interested in big dinners, than shopping. Right? Wrong!!!!! The place was so packed. Think
WalMart Black Friday morning,....double. I have never seen it so crowded. But we did do a bit of shopping. I really wasn't in the mood. We did get some nice ornaments at the Christms Shoppe. I love that place. Then we made our way back to the WL. Took a while for the bus to come and then it was very crowded. Didn't help that everyone leaving had lots of packages.
So, I never got around the countries of Epcot this trip. I really missed them. I had been thinking for quite a while, but this night is when I decided that I was definitly going to find a way to come back by myself. Later Scott did apologize for not going straight to the bus when we were trying to leave. He said he didn't realize it would take so long to get there and thought I was just micro managing.
I only took one picture this whole day and it didn't come out.
It's Aly in front of the Christmas tree in the lobby of the WL.
I loved your trip report but am sorry that your Thanksgiving Day was a total washout.
I said that would undo all of her physical therapy and she said "SO....I need to sleep for 3 days and I dont care" 
