Sunday August 30
Bus Stop Babe
This update stars a single early morning monkey.
I am an early riser. Every single day I wake up between 4:30 and 5 am, without an alarm clock and often against my wishes. Doesn’t matter if it is a regular school/work day, weekend, holiday, vacation, or if I have had a late night. My body wakes up at 0-dark-thirty.
When I am staying at the Beach Club, I do one of two things during those early hours. I either head out onto the balcony with my coffee, phone, camera and a book or I roam around the resort. This day, I chose to wander.
I also had a couple of missions to complete- I had promised on the FAQ thread to time the walk from the Beach Club lobby to the Yacht Club lobby and I also wanted to go out to the bus stop to monitor how early and how often buses to the theme parks (MK and AK) arrived.
First order of business- pictures of the hallways and Beach Club lobby.
Beach Club lobby:
I walked over to the Yacht Club. Since I was stopping and taking pictures along the way, this is not when I was timing my walk.
An empty Cape May Café
An empty Stormalong Bay
Looking back
An empty Captain’s Grille
Yacht Club lobby:
When I was done taking pictures, it was time for some FAQ business. I started at the YC globe and walked at a moderate pace to the Beach Club lobby.
Ready, Set, Go!
Final Answer: 5 minutes.
Then it was off to the Bus Stop. Although it was still dark, and I wasn’t going anywhere, I wanted to see how frequently the buses arrived pre-park opening.
On the way out
While I was out at the bus stop, there was a woman working. I told her what I was doing. I asked her to take my picture.
She was chatty. About one of her neighbors whose cable bill was overdue, but the notices kept coming to her house. About the people who let their dogs do their business on her lawn. About her cats. (I wonder how many cats?)
When I got back to our room and described the woman and said her name to my roommates, Rebecca said she had met her on a previous trip. And coincidentally, as I was relating the story later, another person at our meet had met her too!
Small World!
So what was the timing of the buses?
On this day, Animal Kingdom opened at 8 am and Magic Kingdom opened at 9 am.
As I walked up, a bus was just pulling away.
6:30, MK
6:52, AK
6:54, MK
7:06, AK
I wasn’t able to stay and be a bus monitor any longer because it was time for me to leave to get ready for breakfast with the gals!
Next up: Don’t Feed the Monkeys (La Tratorria al forno)