Guess what? I need your help here.
I'm just about out of time on this report before we leave again, so i'm thinking of doing a , as they said in school, a "consonent blend", or in this case, at "trip report blend" like I did two years ago. I hate starting from scratch, but I also know it can get unwieldly when you do a double report. But I don't really see a good alternative.
A double also gives the appearance I'm trying to pad the numbers, but any report will get high posts or hit counts if it goes on long enough. So what say you?
Should I start over when I get back or just keep plugging along and I'll continue the next trip on this same channel? This would be like the one report that strted out "Oil's well that ends well,, and turned into "From oil wells to jingle bells."
Ok, your thoughts always appreciated.
That Tuesday, after I looked like an idiot singing Kung Foo Fighting at the what was supposed to be, "quiet pool", we stopped off at our room for rations and our field manuevers took us to the bus stop to return to MK.
Once again our sippers ended up outside the little wall, but this time the bus was packed, SRO.
We both got to stand all the way to MK.
The worse thing about standing for the long drive to MK?
Ho ahead, anybody?
Whoa,, no,, I'm not trying to round up some business for the locals, I meant,,,
GO ahead, anybody?
The problem is that when you stand,,, in order to hang on I have to have my Sunny D in my pocket,,, and the pocket is much hotter than NOT in the pocket,,, which means the ice will melt that much faster.
Nothing worse than a room temperature or higher Sunny D and vodka.
But boy, was the park packed when we got there.
Had no problems getting through customs, and once again we got there just in time to catch the "parade/show wannabe" Move it, Shake it, Shove it or Lose it.
Did get a couple pics of it though:
There was no real plan tonight, but for the first time in years, we have now returned to a park in th evening WITHOUT a single fastpass, I felt kind of naked, like going to class without your pen and notebook.
For us though,,, we have had pretty much the same routine at MK at nighttime for quite a while now,,, and without even talking about it we just kind of let instincts take over and we followed them.
Buzz Lightyear,, a round trip on WEDWAY, and some air conditioning in what was once in December, "The Casserole of Progresso", but today was almost chilly.
However,,, the back was really bothering me,, and teh crowd level wasn't helping at all.
I could not,, and still don't know why it was so crowded that Tuesday,,, we have always found Tuesdays to be the most empty, but it looked like it was an EMH day today.
We started walking through Fantasyland,,, but my back didn't want any part of that either, and no, no pills with me.
I had taken a few back before we left the room, but now I feel as if I wasted them on the standing room only ride here.
Then I had a great idea to do something and kill time also,, we got on the train and rode that around,,, but not until we had bought a Sprite and split it with our little bottles that up until tonight had been going for the ride just to be ignored late on.
The train ride was nice,, and I'm alwyas surprised at how quickly you travel from station to station. (read, surprised at how small the actual park is, even going all the way around it without shortcuts)
We were about to take a ride on Jungle Cruise with a 20 minute wait,,, but for some reason,,, the fastpass time was only a half hour from now,, so we grabbed them instead and forced ourselves to sit tthrough Tiki Birds.
AND,,, I'm sorry, the new and improved Tiki Birds is even more boring than the last version was, The Old and unaproved Tiki Birds and,, a LOT more boring and I don't care if Walt would have like this better!
But with each passing minute, my back was going downhill, I can't believe I even considered golng to a water park today!
Yeah,,, that would have worked well, it would have been the first time you heard somebody scream from the immense buffetting waves that are created in the Lazy River.
Using our fastpasses, we got on Jungle Cruise.
Well,, Smidgy did it the normal way,,, I kind of just "fell" into the boat, trying to carefully step down into it.
And for about the tenth time I check my left pocket again, no, it still hasn't learned how to germinate new vicodin seeds yet.
Ok now, do you want to guess what else can happen to me when I have to deal with this crappy back for an extended length of time?
That's right, I get crabby.
Oh, I try my best not to, but eventually I will crack.
But usually only after great, extreme provocation, constant bullying or just constant, belligerent badgering by outside forces that really don't understand all the pain I am going through!
Here's an example:
When we got off the Jungle Cruise;
"Well Honey, what do you want to do now?"
See what I mean?
It was all I could do to keep myself stifled, but we walked on down to POTC anyway, right now that sounded like an excellent ride for me,,, it's Cool, long, slow, and dark enough where people won't see the tears rolling down my chubby cheeks.
And then we had a first happen to us:
For the very, very first time, (ever I saw your face)
sorry
first time,,,,
It was closed down!
It broke.
How can Pirates break? Did the water dry up?
Did the Johnny Deep animatronic need a W-D 40 break?
I stood there in disbelief, staring.
And then I quit!
As they say, this was the end of the line, the final chapter, the last straw, the walk-off homer.
She wasn't happy but she understood. I just turned around and headed back towards Main Street.
I stopped briefly to see if she was coming with me, she had paused, then started after me, and when I turned back around I got creamed by a M-1 Abrams 50 milimeter tank stroller!
She bounced off my shins briefly, stopped, then reversed course to try the battering ram effect once more; "Hey, it worked at the Battle of Helm's Deep!" in Lord of the Rings.
I stood my ground, but she pulled hard to port at the last second and went on her way, now I REALLY need to get out of there tonight. I just absolutely could not believe,,, I STILL can't,,, how crowded it was that day/night.
Back in the room, I start to really think about how the dining plan is just killing us.
Heck, I'm not even getting the snacks I had made lists of to take advantage of.
But I did hit the safe though.
I am now down to 12 total, after 3 went away, not good.
But it helped.
So did the liquid painkillers, and no,,, please, please, don't ever do this yourselves,,, these things should NOT be mixed.
My problem now is that I feel like I am wasting the night, totally.
Since I was feeling a bit better, we made somewhat of a touristy like walk through the Casitas, which we both love to do at night,,, it's so pretty, but made another discovery that didn't exactly make you want to smile.
The Casitas quiet pool is between building 4 and 5, and teh health spa is inside the main building in there, along with the bathrooms and changing rooms.
Remember how I needed to use the room key card to get into the bathroom at the Rancho pool? Well, this is the same thing, only you need it to just even get inside the building.
Ok,, I pull out my card,,,
"Excuse me while I whip this out!" (sorry, I love that line)
which is from?
But now that we are inside the building, we can see some guys going to town on the treadmills and nautilus equipment.
( I'm sorry,,, do you really need to have to keep in shape on a frigging treadmill of all things in DisneyWorld?) Your are not walking enough?
We each headed for our respective bathrooms.
And each respective bathroom was locked!
No, this time there is NO key card slot,,, locked is locked!
"How dry I am,
How wet I"ll be;
If I don't find,
The bathroom key.
I found the key,
but where's the,,,,,,,,
g'night all
:)
So you'd prefer 'Spike'?
Nebo! Who knew??
