billybaruch1
Mouseketeer
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Day 6: MK and Golf and Epcot and MK
That morning the MK bus from ASMu left full at 7:30 am and I waited for 12 minutes for the next one. We missed the opening, but walked right in at 8:05 am with no waiting. As before, I went to Mickeys PhilharMagic first. I just missed the show and had to wait 12-14 minutes for the next one. Then I waited about that long at the Liberty Square rope. Splash was a walk-on and Im done. I just happened to see Cinderellas Surprise Celebration in front of the castle and enjoyed it. I went looking for a cup of coffee and a bagel or something, but the only place open before 11 am was the Bakery and it had a line.
At about 10:35 am I had a very short wait for a launch to go across the lagoon to the Polynesian. I got a banana and some orange juice at Captain Cooks before heading out to the Funai Classic PGA Golf Tournament. I must have gotten lost because I went out the front doors and turned right as I was told to do, but soon found myself in a parking lot with lots of dead-ends everywhere I looked. Im usually not one to go back and try a different route so, upon seeing a road and knowing I had to cross a road, whether it be this one or some other, I ducked through some bushes and saw the golf course across the road. Just then a guy crossed the road from the other side, and as he was passing by me standing on the grass, asked if I needed a ticket to the tournament. I could see he had at least a dozen of what looked like official passes. I said, well maybe, and he says hell give me a weekly pass good for the whole week for $20. I told him no thanks, I only want a pass for today and I could get one at the tournament for the same $20. So he goes down to $15, I trade him the colored $20 bill from the ABC Commissary for one weekly pass, telling him at the same time he better not be cheating me. At first he says he doesnt have $5 for my change, then as I demand the $20 back, he finds a $5 bill and gives it to me. So I go down to where some employees are stopping traffic on the road to let pedestrians cross, and go directly out to hole #2 and there is Tiger Woods, unleashing another long one. Is this great or what? The crowd up at the green is too big for me to watch the putts and get a close look at the young superman, too. So I dont see Tiger make a long birdie putt on #2, but I was right at the rope as he strode past not 10 feet from me to the 3rd tee. This is a dream come true. I saw him make a few more shots and then I walked ahead and eventually around the whole front nine and back to the Poly at about 1:30 pm. The first guy I see walking past me is an older man and I ask him if he is a golf fan. He says he is and I offer to give him my pass. He said he already had a weekly pass for himself, but his wife could use it. I give it to him and he asks if he can give me something for it. I say $10 or $15 would be okay. He hands me $15 for the $50 ticket I got from the scalper for $15. Ive just seen Tiger Woods play golf and it was free.
I rode in the monorail back to the MK and went to the Caribbean Beach Resort bus stop. I waited five minutes, arrived at the CBR, and had a look around. By 3 pm I was back at a bus stop where I noticed a poster for Pleasure Island. The poster advertised the various clubs and it misspelled the AC as the Adventures Club.
I took a bus to Epcot and asked at Guest Relations about the closing time of the MK that night. Some printed material I had showed 7:30 pm and some showed 8:30 pm. I looked for Tom to see if I could thank him again for helping me fix my glasses, but he wasnt there. The CM saw the time discrepancy and called someone on the phone who said 8:30 pm was the correct closing time and was the time for the Wishes display that night. M:S was another walk-on and I was at the big water fountain for the short 4 pm musical show. I went to Ice Station Cool again and had some of the Beverly (yes!) before walking to the Russia & Eastern Europe booth and getting the Beef Stroganoff and a 12 oz Pilsner Erquell. It was very pleasant to sit in the shade at the waterside and have a small meal. I went to the U.S. booth and bought another little container of Lobster and Corn Chowder and a cup of the Sam Adams dark beer. This time they made the soup with potato in place of the lobster, so I wished I had gone elsewhere. I got another beer at the theatre and sat down to wait for the 5:45 performance by the Spinners. The crowd was much larger than had been there two days before and nearly all the seats were taken. When I got up to get another beer I turned around and someone had taken my seat. Oh well, hakuna matata, I found another one.
It was right after the show that I saw DISboards in lime green on the back of someones t-shirt. I called out and it was Webmaster Bob. We had a nice chat and he gave me a key ring. I think it was to keep me calm, because by that time after all the beer I may have seemed like a raving lunatic. We agreed the weather was perfect and he said thats pretty much how it is down there in Florida from October to April. I said I was going over to see the Wishes fireworks and that I thought I might watch them from the Plaza Pavilion. He suggested in front of the Crystal Palace might be better. I said Id be taking the bus from Epcot to the MK, but I found out there is no bus, only the monorail to the TTC. Anyway, we said goodbye to each other, and by 7:15 pm I was at the Ferryboat dock. I had to wait about eight minutes. On the crossing the western sky was glowing red and the castle was a light purple. When I entered the park, I had forgotten about the SpectroMagic parade. Town Square was packed, but I lucked out on my way to the restroom (all that beer, you know!) and then I just stood in front of City Hall and had a perfect view of all the lights and the characters. Following the parade down Main Street I eased through the crowds and found a seat in front of the restaurant as Bob had suggested. Before the fireworks began I talked with a young CM who said he never gets tired of seeing this new show. I said the audio could be better because I was hearing the pre-show announcements from a couple of different places and they overlapped and were hard to understand. He agreed and said it was because we were in between lands. If or when I go again, I might try a little ways to the right or left of where I was to get a clearer audio. The fireworks were amazing. Simply outstanding.
I had to wait about five minutes for a bus to the Swan, where I waited 11 minutes for a bus to Downtown Disney. That bus was slow because it had to wind its way in and out of the small parking lots to pick up and let off passengers at the Epcot resorts. I went more or less directly to the Adventurers Club, where StaceyA found me. She said she saw the alien green Mickey from Home Depot on my cap I had set on the bar. I was also wearing my new lime green Typhoon Lagoon t-shirt. She was extremely inebriated by this time, and even though she said they had only just arrived at WDW, I could barely understand what she was babbling about. Im kidding, Im kidding! We had a brief chat and she seemed like a real nice person to me. I left to go hear Jump Time at the Jazz Co. But the club had changed acts and the Mike Macarthur Group was playing that night. I was sorely disappointed I didnt get to see Jump Time again. At midnight the fireworks went off and there were many more than before. It was pretty good. Next - Day 7.
That morning the MK bus from ASMu left full at 7:30 am and I waited for 12 minutes for the next one. We missed the opening, but walked right in at 8:05 am with no waiting. As before, I went to Mickeys PhilharMagic first. I just missed the show and had to wait 12-14 minutes for the next one. Then I waited about that long at the Liberty Square rope. Splash was a walk-on and Im done. I just happened to see Cinderellas Surprise Celebration in front of the castle and enjoyed it. I went looking for a cup of coffee and a bagel or something, but the only place open before 11 am was the Bakery and it had a line.
At about 10:35 am I had a very short wait for a launch to go across the lagoon to the Polynesian. I got a banana and some orange juice at Captain Cooks before heading out to the Funai Classic PGA Golf Tournament. I must have gotten lost because I went out the front doors and turned right as I was told to do, but soon found myself in a parking lot with lots of dead-ends everywhere I looked. Im usually not one to go back and try a different route so, upon seeing a road and knowing I had to cross a road, whether it be this one or some other, I ducked through some bushes and saw the golf course across the road. Just then a guy crossed the road from the other side, and as he was passing by me standing on the grass, asked if I needed a ticket to the tournament. I could see he had at least a dozen of what looked like official passes. I said, well maybe, and he says hell give me a weekly pass good for the whole week for $20. I told him no thanks, I only want a pass for today and I could get one at the tournament for the same $20. So he goes down to $15, I trade him the colored $20 bill from the ABC Commissary for one weekly pass, telling him at the same time he better not be cheating me. At first he says he doesnt have $5 for my change, then as I demand the $20 back, he finds a $5 bill and gives it to me. So I go down to where some employees are stopping traffic on the road to let pedestrians cross, and go directly out to hole #2 and there is Tiger Woods, unleashing another long one. Is this great or what? The crowd up at the green is too big for me to watch the putts and get a close look at the young superman, too. So I dont see Tiger make a long birdie putt on #2, but I was right at the rope as he strode past not 10 feet from me to the 3rd tee. This is a dream come true. I saw him make a few more shots and then I walked ahead and eventually around the whole front nine and back to the Poly at about 1:30 pm. The first guy I see walking past me is an older man and I ask him if he is a golf fan. He says he is and I offer to give him my pass. He said he already had a weekly pass for himself, but his wife could use it. I give it to him and he asks if he can give me something for it. I say $10 or $15 would be okay. He hands me $15 for the $50 ticket I got from the scalper for $15. Ive just seen Tiger Woods play golf and it was free.
I rode in the monorail back to the MK and went to the Caribbean Beach Resort bus stop. I waited five minutes, arrived at the CBR, and had a look around. By 3 pm I was back at a bus stop where I noticed a poster for Pleasure Island. The poster advertised the various clubs and it misspelled the AC as the Adventures Club.
I took a bus to Epcot and asked at Guest Relations about the closing time of the MK that night. Some printed material I had showed 7:30 pm and some showed 8:30 pm. I looked for Tom to see if I could thank him again for helping me fix my glasses, but he wasnt there. The CM saw the time discrepancy and called someone on the phone who said 8:30 pm was the correct closing time and was the time for the Wishes display that night. M:S was another walk-on and I was at the big water fountain for the short 4 pm musical show. I went to Ice Station Cool again and had some of the Beverly (yes!) before walking to the Russia & Eastern Europe booth and getting the Beef Stroganoff and a 12 oz Pilsner Erquell. It was very pleasant to sit in the shade at the waterside and have a small meal. I went to the U.S. booth and bought another little container of Lobster and Corn Chowder and a cup of the Sam Adams dark beer. This time they made the soup with potato in place of the lobster, so I wished I had gone elsewhere. I got another beer at the theatre and sat down to wait for the 5:45 performance by the Spinners. The crowd was much larger than had been there two days before and nearly all the seats were taken. When I got up to get another beer I turned around and someone had taken my seat. Oh well, hakuna matata, I found another one.
It was right after the show that I saw DISboards in lime green on the back of someones t-shirt. I called out and it was Webmaster Bob. We had a nice chat and he gave me a key ring. I think it was to keep me calm, because by that time after all the beer I may have seemed like a raving lunatic. We agreed the weather was perfect and he said thats pretty much how it is down there in Florida from October to April. I said I was going over to see the Wishes fireworks and that I thought I might watch them from the Plaza Pavilion. He suggested in front of the Crystal Palace might be better. I said Id be taking the bus from Epcot to the MK, but I found out there is no bus, only the monorail to the TTC. Anyway, we said goodbye to each other, and by 7:15 pm I was at the Ferryboat dock. I had to wait about eight minutes. On the crossing the western sky was glowing red and the castle was a light purple. When I entered the park, I had forgotten about the SpectroMagic parade. Town Square was packed, but I lucked out on my way to the restroom (all that beer, you know!) and then I just stood in front of City Hall and had a perfect view of all the lights and the characters. Following the parade down Main Street I eased through the crowds and found a seat in front of the restaurant as Bob had suggested. Before the fireworks began I talked with a young CM who said he never gets tired of seeing this new show. I said the audio could be better because I was hearing the pre-show announcements from a couple of different places and they overlapped and were hard to understand. He agreed and said it was because we were in between lands. If or when I go again, I might try a little ways to the right or left of where I was to get a clearer audio. The fireworks were amazing. Simply outstanding.
I had to wait about five minutes for a bus to the Swan, where I waited 11 minutes for a bus to Downtown Disney. That bus was slow because it had to wind its way in and out of the small parking lots to pick up and let off passengers at the Epcot resorts. I went more or less directly to the Adventurers Club, where StaceyA found me. She said she saw the alien green Mickey from Home Depot on my cap I had set on the bar. I was also wearing my new lime green Typhoon Lagoon t-shirt. She was extremely inebriated by this time, and even though she said they had only just arrived at WDW, I could barely understand what she was babbling about. Im kidding, Im kidding! We had a brief chat and she seemed like a real nice person to me. I left to go hear Jump Time at the Jazz Co. But the club had changed acts and the Mike Macarthur Group was playing that night. I was sorely disappointed I didnt get to see Jump Time again. At midnight the fireworks went off and there were many more than before. It was pretty good. Next - Day 7.
