
OK, So we are here. We get set up in the room and try to call the rest of the group, no answer, this becomes a recurring theme for the next few days

For the life of me, I can't remember if we meet at Captain Jack's at 5 or 7. It is now around 3:45 and we can not reach Jim. Do we wait or do we head over to MGM........all together now, We go to MGM. So we pile in the car and head over to MGM. We go right thru the parking gate. We look like VIP's with our Pop parking pass. Then we are shown to the very last parking section. We hop on the tram and I can feel the excitement building as we get closer and closer to the front gate. Then, the phone rings, ADR is at 5:00 pm

so as the tram pulls to the drop off point we stay aboard for the ride back to the car. I did however get a picture of this
Did anyone ever see Tinytoons Summer Vacation? Hammie (Porky Pig's
Nephew) takes Plucky(Daffey Ducks Nephew) to Happy World Land.
They drive for days and when they finally get there they take the tram
to the front and go home "we don't want to over do it on our first trip"
As we are riding back I remember this and chuckle. Back to the car we speed over to Downtown Disney. We park with about 10 min's to get there and, we of course have no idea were this place is. So we check the map, Oh great it is as far away as possible.

So we walk as fast as possible to CJ's with a "hey look there is the
Lego store" and "look over there it's the Pin Hut" we turn down the last walkway and it dead ends with no CJ's do we go left to Rainforest Cafe of to the right? I think hhmmmmmm if Rainforest is to the left CJ's must be to the right. WRONG So we backtrack to CJ's and get there at the stroke of 5. Jim and Stacie are just getting off the bus and we check in with a party of 13. No problem it will be about 20 mins. The guy behind me party of 2 " I think we will have a table available around 10:00pm"
Yea for ADR's. Jim and Stacie show up and begin to tell us wonderful stories of how great everything is and Sandi gets to see SDD12 for the first time in 5 days and they were all hugs

Now we know that we are going to need a few extra meal credits so the girls split 2 Fettucini Alfredo's with lobster tails and Sandi and I split one as well. Now the girls don't want there Lobster tails so I get 3

when all is said and done we are fat and happy and the bill is some rediculous amount like $214.00. It is now time to start raveing about the meal plan it is AWESOME. With out it we would have been over at McDonalds spending $40.00 for a lame dinner - with it we ate what we wanted and did not worry about the price. So with dinner over we headed back to MGM. Once again we whiz thru the parking booth and this time we get to park up close. Tonight we have one thing on our agenda ride Rock'n Roller Coaster. we get in and head over and are met with this sign
Wow,

thats a loooonnnng wait, but for us it's now or never, because RR goes down on Jan 2 for the rest of the month. So we go to the right, and back to the left, right one more time, last time left and now we go up, meanwhile the rest of the people in the state of Florida have gone thru the fast pass line(our time is coming) and as we get half way down the next row.......que the phsyco music......it breaks down

now for the people behind us it is no problem they leave in flocks. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE in front of us got out of line so we wait 5 and then 10 minutes and I say "lets go hit TOT" and they moan "just a little bit longer" so we wait a few minutes more...........and finally it starts up again. The fast pass line goes on f-o-r-e-v-e-r, and this "lady" behind me says "I know they are not going to let all of these MF's go ahead of us" So I turn around and say "you know, I have little kids up here" she was not very happy with that. She spent the rest of the line talking about she could not belive that I said something to her and that it is so loud out hear that they could not hear her. I held my piece but the constant talk about it to her friends let me know that I had made my point.
I can handle many of the PG cuss words and won't say a thing. I will
give a dirty look but I don't usually say anything but when the F bombs
come out it is time to say something.
As we swing around the post and head up to the cast member who stops us and says just a minute. aaarrrgggghhhhh OK we get to go to the que area.
we are so close and you guessed it The darn thing breaks down again. No wonder it is going down for a month!!!!! We finaly get our turn. But wait with 7 people riding someone has to ride alone. This would be me. Now the gates open and I can ride RR my DD8 starts to cry I want to ride with you, then SDD11T says I can't ride alone.

"OK all three of us will skip it"

I am pretty mad but, it is our first night and I don't want to start the trip out on a worse foot than this so I tell them it is OK and we can ride it the next time we come. Sandi was a little more upset that I waited and rearranged our days so she gave me a 3:45 fast pass that someone had given her and insisted that I go ride. I go through the fast pass line they look at my 3:45 time and say ......."go ahead" I get to ride the best ride of all the parks. I come out and it is 10:00 pm and the park is closing we take this picture
JDD8, SDD11T, SDD12, SDS15, ME, SDD11K, JDD13
We head back to the van and when we get there the passenger sliding door is open

I guess when the last person got out on that side there was somebody behind them and they thought they would shut the door. That person got out on the driver side and shut that door. Nothing was taken but I had to search the van before anyone could get in.
I am the kind of guy that, if I see a car with it's lights on
I will check to see if the doors are unlocked and turn off the lights.
So far I have not set off any car alarms and have not been arrested.
We headed back to the POP and got to bed around 11:30. So I will end it here and see you guys later as we get to epcot at 7:00 am
