Frick & Frack go for a ride
Conclusion of Day 1
Things started to go downhill, honestly, after Splash Mountain. It was still only about 10:30 a.m. at that point - 12 hours after I woke up from my 2 hour nap to start the day.
Frick was in the need for some food and water something awful, and me? I was just in the need of a nice sit down to rest my eyes for a little while. The question of what to eat caused a major headache and melt down and led to our almost-big fight. She needed food, but of course everything was still closed until 11:00 a.m. so we both stalk around with big old scowls on our face. We were walking through Fantasyland when I just got fed up with it all and just had to walk off because she was being stubborn and silent, so I left her at Pinnochio's Daring Journey and kept on walking towards the hub. Of course I happen to see on of the characters at that moment that I would do just about
anything to get my picture taken with - The Queen. Don't let my screen name fool you, Snow White has always been and always will be my favorite Disney movie, and any characters will make my day in a heartbeat. So I dash off to join the line while trying to find my phone to call
Frick over. I'm too happy at that point to care about how tired of hungry I am. But of course, as luck would have it, while
Frick is walking her way over there I get told the line was already closed ahead of me. Gee, thanks for telling me that beforehand. The CM wouldn't even tell me if she'd be back in the area at all for the rest of the day. No, no, no! So now I'm even grumpier than I was beforehand.
So at that point we just decide to go up to Refreshment Corner to grab some food because we're pretty sure it should be time for it to be open and I could do with a Coke, which I hate to say is like water to me. One of these days I
will cut back on it, and then cut it out completely, but for now it will remain my biggest vice. At least the promise of food cheers us up.
I think she's going to eat me if we don't get our food soon
I realize now that I meant to take pictures of all the food we ate to do a dining review, but I think this is the only meal that I actually remembered to do so with! We just split the chili bread bowl, and it was yummy-yummy-in-my-tummy. I am a chili nut, and the bread was perfect. Not to mention when you throw a Coke in, I'll eat just about anything. So we sat there and chilled, and I wanted to jump for joy because we were sitting in the sun which meant that I got to dry off quite a bit more. There is a downside to that too, which you'll see later - not that you can't guess what it was!! We took a little break and tried to plan out when we would do what. We came to the consensus to do DL all day on Saturday and then do DCA on Sunday with DL before and after. But for the rest of Friday we were stumped. I needed a nap really, really, really bad! But it wasn't close to being 3 yet, so it's not like we could go and check into the hotel and get to our room.
When we were satisfied with what we'd eaten and our time sitting down we decided to make our way back to Main Street Station to inquire again about the Lilly Belle. We liked the idea of sitting down, so if we had to wait for a while, we didn't really mind. When we got there we had to do a little waiting while there was a group already there trying to sit up with the conductor on the train and just before we were about to ask about the Lilly Belle a couple comes up behind us and asks first. Uh-huh, great. Thanks for pushing your way in front of two people that were already there waiting and had been for a few minutes. Since the Lilly Belle was already in the station they got escorted straight away while
Frick and I were left waiting again to see if they would have someone available in 20 minutes when the car came back in. They were going through their lunch shifts, so they weren't sure just yet. After a few more minutes they let us know that we can get our turn on the next go around so we sit down to relax and wait thinking that something is going right again.
As we're waiting, a party of about 6 or 7 ends up joining us, although it wasn't until someone came to lead us to the Lilly Belle that we knew for sure what they were waiting for. Actually, the CM who took us back barely even registered that
Frick and I were there. Sign #1 this was not going to be a nice experience. I certainly did love being led to the end of the train with everyone watching us though, it does make you feel special, that whole
"Oh! They get to ride in the Presidential Car? Why can't we?" feeling that I know I've felt before. The same with the people pointing at each station as we passed by. But that was the only fun part about it. We didn't get to look around the car because that other party took up the majority of the space and gave me real attitude when I tried to look at the photo of Walt and his girls. I can't even begin to describe how rude they all were to me. So we were very much limited to the front 1/3 of the car. I would have liked to hear something, anything, the CM could have told us about the car but after he took a photo for
Frick and I (his name was Justin, by the way) he went to the back of the car to talk with the other party and never gave a second thought about us throughout the whole trip. He didn't even turn on the narration until maybe the last leg of the ride. It didn't help my already foul mood so I pretty much sat there, sulking, the entire time. At least we could still get the tender tickets, right? That at least would make up for everything a little bit, to take home a small souvenir. Wrong. They were all out. Maybe I had built up the whole thing a little too much in my head, but I was pretty close to tears when we left Main Street Station and sat on a bench for about 20 minutes before I felt like doing anything at all.
Do you see what I see? M-I-C ... K-E-Y ... M-O-U-S-E
You know, I'm still fuming about all of that. But what's done is done. At least I got a couple of nice photographs out of it.
After that we really needed a pick me up, and we realized there
was something that we needed to do that we have been anxiously awaiting since we decided to go to DL! We had to go back and get on the train for another pit stop over at NOS because we are both very much addicted to Mint Juleps!!!
With our mint juleps in hand, we just took to meandering around NOS and then through Frontierland and back to Main Street. It was more of just a relaxing walk/time killer for both of us. We poured through the shops until we decided that it was time to walk back to HOJO and check in and take much needed nap! When we get there, it still isn't quite 3:00 p.m. yet, but after about 10 minutes of waiting, we're told our room is ready and we get our key card, our luggage, and we're off!
We ended up staying in the 4th building on the first floor next to the stairs - that's the building right next to the Castaway Cove pool. If I had had enough wits about me, I might have worried about the possible noise level, but as it turned out it never bothered me one little bit. Again, I wish I had taken photos of the room, but you snooze - you lose - and that's exactly what happened. I planned on napping until about 5 when we planned on either (a) going back to the park or (b) going to get some dinner at Mimi's Cafe. My nap only ended up being about 1/2 an hour long, but
Frick was still passed out and had no intention of getting up by 5:00 p.m. so I ended up showering and heading back to the park for a little me time that was pretty much just shopping for my coveted post cards. It wasn't long before she finally did get up and give me a call and we settled on diner at Mimi's at 7:00 p.m. where I had my second alcoholic beverage in one month. Trust me, that's a new record. Pretty much up until now I've stuck to a single drink at my birthday diner, and nothing else. So as I have told
Frick, I have now reached my quota until I turn 25. But after a 45 minute wait - the restaurant was packed - dinner was fantastic. I don't remember what
Frick ordered, but I had a very tasty salmon salad. Let's just say I was pretty much done for the day at that point. There's only so much I can take on a total of 60 minutes of sleep in over 24 hours. We got back to the hotel and I got ready for bed while
Frick prepared to go back to the park for the night. She'll have to fill you in on the rest of her night.
Oh! Now before I forget, here is the aftermath of my first day in the park. It pretty much sums up how the whole day made me feel for the most part - minus the fact that I didn't have to go to work when I woke up!!!!
Habit is what it is.
Random, and mad, and totally awesome!! I saw him again a few times, and managed to stop for another photo on our last day when Alice was nowhere in sight. They were hilarious and we totally got some fun time with then. It wasn't a snap and rush.
. Ha! Oh and first thing I did when we got back to the hotel was empty the purse to let it dry out 
I'll keep it in mind for the next trip! Then again, she'd probably wake up thrashing and we'd end up in a ditch. Hehe. At least she got to sleep, lucky lady.
Have you added your PhotoPass codes yet? I think some that I'm looking for got added onto your card!
I was ready to kill her shortly after leaving your wonderful company. lol 
