We headed over there about 8:3o in the morning , we were told there'd be about a 10 minute wait for the internal shuttle, so we said heck with it, and drove ourselves over and parked.
wasn't as easy as all that. we ended up getting totally turned around and ended u in an employee's parking lot, which we had hard time finding our way OUT of!
Oh, before we go any further, I was remiss in my last chapter and left something out. This was a "you probably had to be there" situation, but at the time I thought it was really funny.
Before the Yellow Jackets started and before the Podium Animal Talker guy was rounding up kids to play games next to me, we were both just sitting in loungers next to each other, reading, when we heard this God-awful scraping sound that kept getting louder, and we both looked up.
From our left, here comes a young, strapping cast member dragging a lounge chair past us until he disappeared in the distance to our right.
We both just glanced at each other and shrugged, went back to reading.
20 minutes later, now, from our right, same, young strapping cast member
has now herded up a new lounge chair, and is half carrying, half dragging said lounger back to the original starting position, somewhere off to our left, and disappeared again. Even the cast member podium bird answering guy just stood there with his head slowly moving left to right, just watching.
Smidgy and I glanced at each other once again, only this time she provided the much needed "caption" to this little ongoing cartoon:
"Wonder what a good "chair walker" makes exercising chairs at Disney?"
um, we didn't know if it was a dif. lounge chair or not. It looked exactly the same, and looked like he frist dragged it one way, then a bit later back again. which was why it was hilarious when I drolly said "I guess it's his job to take the loungers for a walk"
It was perfect timing:
I laughed, and even the stoic bird talking cast member heard her and laughed himself.
at which point the CM "broke stance" and started cracking up!!
Even with our pick of the "table and loungers" litter, they have that inner ring and outer ring thing going on here too, we ended up choosing a spot right where the outer ring went in to the pool. There wasn't any tables right next to the pool.
As we just settle into our lounge chairs, not 2 minutes later, I hear a "Tsk, tsk".
Yep, no doubt, Smidgy is unhappy about something.
I can try and ignore it, which means it will now persist until the end of time or the Cubs win the pennant, whichever comes first, or I can get it over and ask,,,,,,,
"What's the matter, pratell?"
"Well what do you think is the matter?"
Uh oh, gonna have to maybe work at this one.
"Look at this, we have a great spot, we can at least see a good section of the pool from here and no I'm not crazy about the ping pong table between us and the pool, but who plays ping pong when it's 95 out, but right in front of us, ritht over there on the right, is a garbage can!"
Well, she was right.
One of those enclosed square garbage cans was sitting there as you walk to the inner section, the kind with the side doors that open when the cast member changes the bag. The kind that says, "Push" on one side.
"it's ruining the whole view!"
"Well, I';m sorry, " I told her, "Not much we can do about that, though. You don't want to move, do you?"
"No."
One final "Tsk" and that was it.
Or so I thought.
Not ten minutes later I heard this terrible scraping sound, and almost jumped out of my lounger.
looking around, you got it, there's Smidgy dragging the whole square container through the opening, around the corner where it was now just out of sight.
She came back with a big smile on her face.
Sweaty, but smiley.
and shortly there after, the first of about 5 dif. "pairs" of people started playing ping pong. one duo even brought over a radio with some rap music playing. I started singing "la la la dee de di de do to the tune of the african music in the background.. loudly!!!! "gee, steve, don't you just LOVE the african music in the background?" they got the not-so-subtle hint and turned ther "music" off.
I know, I know, I'm an old crabby lady... but I knew later on we would be deluged with yellow jacket music, and I wanted to enjoy the "theme" music while I could!
and, oh.. the garbage can, it was about 45 minutes when a janitor type CM walked by, looked at the garbage can in the new place, tsk tsked, shook his head, and moved it back to block out view. harrumph!!!
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This time though, when the Yellow Jackets moved in, and yes, they were over here as well, we were ready to go.
I considered one more dip in the pool, but remembered we drove over, and my suit was dry right now.
and, it was started to drizzle anyway, which turned into a ful blown rain. . we made it to the car in the nick of time.
We requested adjoining rooms in the fifties, second floor.
actually, I requested bldg. 3, which I thought was so clever!!! I heard if a request is important, don't list too many, or you might get the other 2 and not the imp. one. so by saying bldg 3, it took care of the 50s section AND the lake view request in one swell swoop! (we didn't pay for preferred or pool view)
Hopefully, we'll at least be close, and on the same floor, they don't have to be right next to each other, but, well, you know, walking distance.
we didn't ask for connecting for 2 reasons. we wanted to be considerate of those who really needed it(like a family with 4 kids) AND Todd really didn't want connecting rooms. heck, I thought maybe (for about a milisecond) it would be cool to get a suite at AOA, since there would be 5 of us, but Todd and Steve almost went for my throat!!
Did not get fifties, instead, we were put in the sixties, and area that was still "preferred".
We asked for second floor, and we got it.
We asked for adjoining, and instead, even got 'connecting'.
Our rooms faced a courtyard, if you walked to the end of the hall/walkway on one end you looked right at the lake.
Walking to the other sides end had you looking right down on the Hippy Dippy Pool! This was right where the elevators and staircase and ice was.
In other words,,, a REALLY convenient room. Rooms.
Nope, not changing nuttin!
it faced the dreaded "laundry roundabout, which I dislike, but it still was a free upgrade to preferred. the rooms we were back to back to would have been just as convenient, but a lake view, but I didn't want to mess with anything, since they told us it was guaranteed that they would not give the other room to anyone else.
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I love the dream world you live in!
