Alice28
DIS Veteran<br><font color=blue>I'm Doombah Fricki
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Cast of characters:
Robin/Me- 31, 3rd trip to WDW, DL vet
Judy/Mom- 56, 2nd trip to WDW, DL vet
CR resort
We woke up early this day (miracles never cease here at Disney) and we were tired! We had success with EE day at MGM in March and were hoping our luck would strike again. We were in MGM by 8:10 and miracle #2- I didn't get a wheelchair today, my knee was working pretty well and I felt pretty good.
So, we head off to our favorite ride, Tower of Terror. Hello, it's already a 60 minute wait posted! Were my glasses fogging up cause of the humidity? We get closer- nope, it's really 60 minutes at 8:15 AM. 
We get a FP and wait in a 20 minute line for RnRC. I think ToT had such long lines cause only half the elevators were working, but it wasn't a good sign of things to come. We got on the second row of RnRC and mom was a little nervous cause she didn't ride it in March and isn't fond of upside down coasters. She did fine but was a teensy bit woozy afterwards. I thought it was awesome. Our picture was of me laughing/screaming and Mom's mouth was in the perfect O- like she was saying "Whoaaaa." We shoulda bought it. We went over by Millionaire and waited for the park to officially open and for our FP window to open up so we could get one for that. For kicks I tried our tickets 5 or so minutes before the time our ToT FP said we could get another FP and it worked! So then we walked around Walt Disney, One Man's Dream and that was really, really cool. Our FP for ToT opened up so we went back and bypassed a LOT of people and were able to walk pretty much up to the library entrance. Quite a wait in the boiler room area- maybe 8-10 minutes- not bad, but when we had gone in March we basically walked thru all that too. I have to say our ride ROCKED- up and down at least 5 times and WAY up and down- not just a little bit. We LOVED it and were cracking up! 
We made our way back to Millionaire and waited 10-12 minutes to be let in the show area. We were at the first show of the day and it was a female host and she was very good. Fastest finger question- out these academy award winning song in the order they premiered in the movies: Fame, Swinging on a Star, You'll be in my Heart & something I forget...I got it right and was #9 on the leader board! Woo-hoo! I rock! 
I had my little scheme of putting my finger on the button I knew was correct and furiously pushing it before all the lights lit up----then the person sitting to my left starting to catch on and not only mimicked my little pattern (which was fine cause lots of people do it that way) but then started being a TOTAL CHEATER and was looking at my answers too! What a cheater, man! The first guy who got up there was a high school student from Alabama and he got to 32,000 and I think he won that and lost on the 64,000 or lost on the 32,000. So they flash the leader board again....I am number 4! Ta Da! I am so pleased with myself. But the new winner....also from Alabama and the previous winner's.....FATHER! Not fair! He lost kinda early in the game and only got the $1,000 stuff and then it was over. I was off the leader board in the end cause I messed up on the last question. We walked around a bit and it was MOBBED back by Star Wars- an Indiana Jones show was going on, so it's not like a show had just let out. I have decided that when it's busy season, don't go to the EE park- it gets very, very busy and crowded. 
We had a PS for 50's Primetime Cafe at 11:30 which was when the restaurant opened and at about 11:35 we were seated. We had cousin Mesha and she was very pleasant and sweet. She recommended that Pot Roast, which mom ordered and I ordered the Turkey sandwich and I subbed fries for the chips it came with. She asked where we were from and I said Portland, OR and she asked if it got cold there and I said, "Yeah...not as bad as other parts of the country, but it's mostly gray and rainy the bulk of the winter." She said she couldn't imagine living anywhere but Florida and Mom and I were just discussing earlier that we thought we would melt if we permanently lived in Florida! It's funny how climatized one becomes to certain regions. Anyway, our food came out SO fast- they must have everything prepped and ready to go- it was literally out about 5-8 minutes after we ordered- why can't I have service like that when I have my 2 & 5 year old with me!? Everything was great, or as Mesha said "Yummeh." She asked us, "How is everything, yummeh?" Not yummy, or yummee, just a cute, casual "yummeh." That was a key word the rest of the trip- at every meal/snack/water break we would say "How is it...yummeh?" And promptly crack up. We shopped and ran into some wonderfully funny streetmosphere inside Mickey's 5 & 10- Stanley and his wife were shopping and arguing about whether or not to buy a lovely shirt his wife liked for an aunt- Stanley looked at the price and proclaimed "Are they kidding me? I can buy just as nice of a shirt at Target and pay $5! Let's get outta here!" Think exaggerated stereotype of a Long Islander or New Jerseyite I guess- George Constanza's parents on uppers. It was hilarious and I'm glad we caught them. Well, the park was absolutely a madhouse, and we really had wanted to see Beauty and the Beast, but the line was snaked up and around Sunset Blvd and while I am sure we could have gotten a seat, this was 45 minutes before the show even began! We were so hot at this point we felt slightly ill so we made the executive decision to leave. We both slept for an hour and a half and felt better. I had a headache, but I had taken some tylenol and I felt okay.
We had a PS for one of our faves, Whispering Canyon Cafe, so we walked down to the Contemporary docks and caught the boat. We love, love, love the Wilderness Lodge. I stayed there on my honeymoon and my parents just thought it was phenomenal and would like to stay there someday too. Our server was Heada Lettuce and she was a kick without being over the top. Another gal fit the bill there and she was very fun to watch. Lots of hooting and hollering, giving a guy name Mark a hard time, saw some LARGE "glasses" of water and iced tea, cheered on the pony racers, and loved our skillet dinners, esp the biscuits, ribs, pulled pork, salad & chicken. What is with Disney World restaurants and the word "cafe." So far we had eaten at the Kona CAFE, Cape May CAFE, 50's Primetime CAFE & now the Whispering Canyon CAFE- I guess we're cafe type of people, I dunno. We joked with our server about blowing our Weight Watcher Flex points, but oh well! We shopped in the mercantile and we both saw some things we pondered coming back to get. It was raining when we left and a pretty major electrical storm was going on as we boated back to the Contemporary.
It was neat to watch & explained the extreme humidity we felt at MGM. I looked some more at our resort shops for a Sulley doll I thought I had seen there, but no dice- I couldn't find it anywhere and I knew I had seen it somewhere in the beginning of our trip. For the second night in a row, loud booming (fireworks) were being shot off super late- like after 11:00. They were testing out the Wishes show, but unfortunately we could not see them from our room. We could hear the whole soundtrack too which was a bit annoying.
I must say a few things about the state of our room and wing at the Contemporary- I don't know if the CR is letting things go a bit while Shades of Green is occupying that wing, or what, but our original room had a broken door lock- the knob was broken off so it was tough to open and close. In the hallway an Exit sign was just dangling from the ceiling the whole time we were there. In our 2nd room, the whole entire handle to our sliding door was broken- hanging upside down by one screw, plus the lock was broken so it just had a sliding bolt up top. Plus the cable on the TV was not that great. Now, for $70 a night, I thought it was still fine. But if I were paying regular $300 a night rates I would have been irritated- Disney just holds higher standards than that.
Coming up- Seaworld, a magical moment at the Wilderness Lodge and a TEE-Riffic dinner at Kona Cafe!
Robin/Me- 31, 3rd trip to WDW, DL vet
Judy/Mom- 56, 2nd trip to WDW, DL vet
CR resort
We woke up early this day (miracles never cease here at Disney) and we were tired! We had success with EE day at MGM in March and were hoping our luck would strike again. We were in MGM by 8:10 and miracle #2- I didn't get a wheelchair today, my knee was working pretty well and I felt pretty good.
So, we head off to our favorite ride, Tower of Terror. Hello, it's already a 60 minute wait posted! Were my glasses fogging up cause of the humidity? We get closer- nope, it's really 60 minutes at 8:15 AM. We get a FP and wait in a 20 minute line for RnRC. I think ToT had such long lines cause only half the elevators were working, but it wasn't a good sign of things to come. We got on the second row of RnRC and mom was a little nervous cause she didn't ride it in March and isn't fond of upside down coasters. She did fine but was a teensy bit woozy afterwards. I thought it was awesome. Our picture was of me laughing/screaming and Mom's mouth was in the perfect O- like she was saying "Whoaaaa." We shoulda bought it. We went over by Millionaire and waited for the park to officially open and for our FP window to open up so we could get one for that. For kicks I tried our tickets 5 or so minutes before the time our ToT FP said we could get another FP and it worked! So then we walked around Walt Disney, One Man's Dream and that was really, really cool. Our FP for ToT opened up so we went back and bypassed a LOT of people and were able to walk pretty much up to the library entrance. Quite a wait in the boiler room area- maybe 8-10 minutes- not bad, but when we had gone in March we basically walked thru all that too. I have to say our ride ROCKED- up and down at least 5 times and WAY up and down- not just a little bit. We LOVED it and were cracking up! We made our way back to Millionaire and waited 10-12 minutes to be let in the show area. We were at the first show of the day and it was a female host and she was very good. Fastest finger question- out these academy award winning song in the order they premiered in the movies: Fame, Swinging on a Star, You'll be in my Heart & something I forget...I got it right and was #9 on the leader board! Woo-hoo! I rock! I had my little scheme of putting my finger on the button I knew was correct and furiously pushing it before all the lights lit up----then the person sitting to my left starting to catch on and not only mimicked my little pattern (which was fine cause lots of people do it that way) but then started being a TOTAL CHEATER and was looking at my answers too! What a cheater, man! The first guy who got up there was a high school student from Alabama and he got to 32,000 and I think he won that and lost on the 64,000 or lost on the 32,000. So they flash the leader board again....I am number 4! Ta Da! I am so pleased with myself. But the new winner....also from Alabama and the previous winner's.....FATHER! Not fair! He lost kinda early in the game and only got the $1,000 stuff and then it was over. I was off the leader board in the end cause I messed up on the last question. We walked around a bit and it was MOBBED back by Star Wars- an Indiana Jones show was going on, so it's not like a show had just let out. I have decided that when it's busy season, don't go to the EE park- it gets very, very busy and crowded. We had a PS for 50's Primetime Cafe at 11:30 which was when the restaurant opened and at about 11:35 we were seated. We had cousin Mesha and she was very pleasant and sweet. She recommended that Pot Roast, which mom ordered and I ordered the Turkey sandwich and I subbed fries for the chips it came with. She asked where we were from and I said Portland, OR and she asked if it got cold there and I said, "Yeah...not as bad as other parts of the country, but it's mostly gray and rainy the bulk of the winter." She said she couldn't imagine living anywhere but Florida and Mom and I were just discussing earlier that we thought we would melt if we permanently lived in Florida! It's funny how climatized one becomes to certain regions. Anyway, our food came out SO fast- they must have everything prepped and ready to go- it was literally out about 5-8 minutes after we ordered- why can't I have service like that when I have my 2 & 5 year old with me!? Everything was great, or as Mesha said "Yummeh." She asked us, "How is everything, yummeh?" Not yummy, or yummee, just a cute, casual "yummeh." That was a key word the rest of the trip- at every meal/snack/water break we would say "How is it...yummeh?" And promptly crack up. We shopped and ran into some wonderfully funny streetmosphere inside Mickey's 5 & 10- Stanley and his wife were shopping and arguing about whether or not to buy a lovely shirt his wife liked for an aunt- Stanley looked at the price and proclaimed "Are they kidding me? I can buy just as nice of a shirt at Target and pay $5! Let's get outta here!" Think exaggerated stereotype of a Long Islander or New Jerseyite I guess- George Constanza's parents on uppers. It was hilarious and I'm glad we caught them. Well, the park was absolutely a madhouse, and we really had wanted to see Beauty and the Beast, but the line was snaked up and around Sunset Blvd and while I am sure we could have gotten a seat, this was 45 minutes before the show even began! We were so hot at this point we felt slightly ill so we made the executive decision to leave. We both slept for an hour and a half and felt better. I had a headache, but I had taken some tylenol and I felt okay. We had a PS for one of our faves, Whispering Canyon Cafe, so we walked down to the Contemporary docks and caught the boat. We love, love, love the Wilderness Lodge. I stayed there on my honeymoon and my parents just thought it was phenomenal and would like to stay there someday too. Our server was Heada Lettuce and she was a kick without being over the top. Another gal fit the bill there and she was very fun to watch. Lots of hooting and hollering, giving a guy name Mark a hard time, saw some LARGE "glasses" of water and iced tea, cheered on the pony racers, and loved our skillet dinners, esp the biscuits, ribs, pulled pork, salad & chicken. What is with Disney World restaurants and the word "cafe." So far we had eaten at the Kona CAFE, Cape May CAFE, 50's Primetime CAFE & now the Whispering Canyon CAFE- I guess we're cafe type of people, I dunno. We joked with our server about blowing our Weight Watcher Flex points, but oh well! We shopped in the mercantile and we both saw some things we pondered coming back to get. It was raining when we left and a pretty major electrical storm was going on as we boated back to the Contemporary.
It was neat to watch & explained the extreme humidity we felt at MGM. I looked some more at our resort shops for a Sulley doll I thought I had seen there, but no dice- I couldn't find it anywhere and I knew I had seen it somewhere in the beginning of our trip. For the second night in a row, loud booming (fireworks) were being shot off super late- like after 11:00. They were testing out the Wishes show, but unfortunately we could not see them from our room. We could hear the whole soundtrack too which was a bit annoying.I must say a few things about the state of our room and wing at the Contemporary- I don't know if the CR is letting things go a bit while Shades of Green is occupying that wing, or what, but our original room had a broken door lock- the knob was broken off so it was tough to open and close. In the hallway an Exit sign was just dangling from the ceiling the whole time we were there. In our 2nd room, the whole entire handle to our sliding door was broken- hanging upside down by one screw, plus the lock was broken so it just had a sliding bolt up top. Plus the cable on the TV was not that great. Now, for $70 a night, I thought it was still fine. But if I were paying regular $300 a night rates I would have been irritated- Disney just holds higher standards than that.
Coming up- Seaworld, a magical moment at the Wilderness Lodge and a TEE-Riffic dinner at Kona Cafe!
And he helped someone out who needed a red crayon. Love that restaurant!
