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Friday, January 30th, 2004
Today is the saddest day of all! The last day, well really the last NIGHT before packing up and going home. I have had a ball and can't remember a solo trip being more fun than the adventure I've been on. I head over to EPCOT again since it has so many places to explore. On the last day there are no really pressing places to visit. So I hop from one thing to another following my nose which ever way it is pointed... I try not to be sad. I know I'll return, but it is the same feeling no matter~ THE LAST DAY BLUES! I honestly don't remember much of what I did during the day...I was looking forward to the night! My mother and her best friend were driving down and staying at POR for the weekend. I was expecting to hear from them for dinner and making plans after they arrived.
Well, the rain I had been expecting all week arrived with them
(Thanks, Mom! LOL!) Unfortunately they were so hungry, when they arrived they went ahead and ate dinner at Boatwrights before calling me. I was back in my room at OKW awaiting their call while contemplating the insides of my eyelids when they finally rang my room! "HELLO, WE'RE HERE!" WHUH... WHO are you and what have you done with my mother? Oh, it's you, Mom! You're here? Great! Have you eaten? I'm starved! Already ate? At Boatwrights? How about dessert? No Dessert? Great!! I'm just around the corner at OKW so I will pick you up and let's go over to Artist's Point for Dessert! They have the most fabulous flourless Whiskey Cake and I have been dreaming about it for ages! See ya in about 15 minutes!~
Normally I consider myself the consummate navigator and I have been to POR, but haven't parked there in awhile. I knew where the Mansions were, but I forgot about the back way in to the parking lots for Oak Manor. OOPS! 15 mins was more like 20 to 25 by the time I found the correct turn around loop! Luckily they were standing there waiting for me (under an umbrella!) Being very gracious women, they did not tease me for my tardy arrival. After they were onboard, we whooshed over to the Wilderness Lodge where the Front Gate guard welcomed us "home"... (since I had my OKW parking pass we were treated so very special!)
We pulled right up to valet parking since it was raining and voila! we were inside the cavernous lobby of the Wilderness Lodge!
Now I have in recent months become very fond of pin trading and I always try to keep a few in my pocket for trading. What a great way to meet the CM's and other pin traders! Just as we crossed the Lobby, I spy the pin trading cart and I dope slap my forehead as I remember, I had left my trading pins in the car! I go ahead and look through the trading book and sure enough... there's a pin I'd like to trade for! We go ahead and enter Artist's Point since it is now 9 PM-ish and I get my Mom to order my coffee and dessert so I can run back to the car. The way my luck usually works... if I wait~ the pin I was looking at invariably is gone when I return!
I sheepishly smile at the valet and request a return of the vehicle for pin retrieval emergency! LOL! The valet is ever so glad to do so and earns himself a tip for not mocking me or rolling his eyes (at least until I left!) Well, when I return to the pin cart there is a woman there with her children and she is just cleaning out the pin trading book!!
AND with the CM just looking on....
I must stop here to fill in others who are not savvy on pin trading etiquette.... you can only trade 2 pins from the book at a time. The pins have to say "Disney", be a metal type cloissonne (no plastic, no buttons, no nametags), and the pins should not be the same one. But it is considered discourteous to trade more than two at a time... Especially if there are people waiting behind you to view the book and trade.
This woman was putting a whole new spin on "discourtesy" and turning it into downright greed! The original intent of these trading books has become a little twisted. In fact, in several resorts (re the Polynesian) someone has STOLEN the entire book! UNBELIEVABLE! This was also the case at the pin trading cart at DTD. People these are only PINS!
I clear my throat and say, "Pardon me ma'am. But you are only allowed to trade two pins." She responds... "Oh, really? I never heard that!" I look at the CM and she responds... "Well that's true, but since it's Friday~ I'll look the other way!"
HUH? I know that pin traders usually come to the resorts on Fridays to trade, but COME ON! I was still shaking my head as I returned to my table...
However, all thoughts of pins were erased as I arrived just as our server was bringing "THE CAKE"! Mouthwatering is not an apt description... it is a MUST DO! Incredibly scrumptious! And with a cup of coffee? Heaven! Pure and simple!
Artist Point has a fabulous flourless Whiskey Pecan Cake! Served with Raspberry Sorbet~ YUM!
My mother and Janice had fresh seasonal fruit with the raspberry sorbet in a scrumptious light pastry bowl... very unusual and temptingly good! Maybe next time...
I cannot think of a better way to top off the night than with dessert and coffee at the WL (and good friends)! We strolled around the grounds afterwards to show Janice how truly beautiful and unique this resort is. We gabbed like high school teenagers at a sleep-over and before I knew it.. it was late! I dropped them off back at POR and managed to get myself back to OKW before turning into a pumpkin myself at midnight!
Today is the saddest day of all! The last day, well really the last NIGHT before packing up and going home. I have had a ball and can't remember a solo trip being more fun than the adventure I've been on. I head over to EPCOT again since it has so many places to explore. On the last day there are no really pressing places to visit. So I hop from one thing to another following my nose which ever way it is pointed... I try not to be sad. I know I'll return, but it is the same feeling no matter~ THE LAST DAY BLUES! I honestly don't remember much of what I did during the day...I was looking forward to the night! My mother and her best friend were driving down and staying at POR for the weekend. I was expecting to hear from them for dinner and making plans after they arrived.
Well, the rain I had been expecting all week arrived with them
(Thanks, Mom! LOL!) Unfortunately they were so hungry, when they arrived they went ahead and ate dinner at Boatwrights before calling me. I was back in my room at OKW awaiting their call while contemplating the insides of my eyelids when they finally rang my room! "HELLO, WE'RE HERE!" WHUH... WHO are you and what have you done with my mother? Oh, it's you, Mom! You're here? Great! Have you eaten? I'm starved! Already ate? At Boatwrights? How about dessert? No Dessert? Great!! I'm just around the corner at OKW so I will pick you up and let's go over to Artist's Point for Dessert! They have the most fabulous flourless Whiskey Cake and I have been dreaming about it for ages! See ya in about 15 minutes!~Normally I consider myself the consummate navigator and I have been to POR, but haven't parked there in awhile. I knew where the Mansions were, but I forgot about the back way in to the parking lots for Oak Manor. OOPS! 15 mins was more like 20 to 25 by the time I found the correct turn around loop! Luckily they were standing there waiting for me (under an umbrella!) Being very gracious women, they did not tease me for my tardy arrival. After they were onboard, we whooshed over to the Wilderness Lodge where the Front Gate guard welcomed us "home"... (since I had my OKW parking pass we were treated so very special!)
We pulled right up to valet parking since it was raining and voila! we were inside the cavernous lobby of the Wilderness Lodge!Now I have in recent months become very fond of pin trading and I always try to keep a few in my pocket for trading. What a great way to meet the CM's and other pin traders! Just as we crossed the Lobby, I spy the pin trading cart and I dope slap my forehead as I remember, I had left my trading pins in the car! I go ahead and look through the trading book and sure enough... there's a pin I'd like to trade for! We go ahead and enter Artist's Point since it is now 9 PM-ish and I get my Mom to order my coffee and dessert so I can run back to the car. The way my luck usually works... if I wait~ the pin I was looking at invariably is gone when I return!
I sheepishly smile at the valet and request a return of the vehicle for pin retrieval emergency! LOL! The valet is ever so glad to do so and earns himself a tip for not mocking me or rolling his eyes (at least until I left!) Well, when I return to the pin cart there is a woman there with her children and she is just cleaning out the pin trading book!!
AND with the CM just looking on.... I must stop here to fill in others who are not savvy on pin trading etiquette.... you can only trade 2 pins from the book at a time. The pins have to say "Disney", be a metal type cloissonne (no plastic, no buttons, no nametags), and the pins should not be the same one. But it is considered discourteous to trade more than two at a time... Especially if there are people waiting behind you to view the book and trade.This woman was putting a whole new spin on "discourtesy" and turning it into downright greed! The original intent of these trading books has become a little twisted. In fact, in several resorts (re the Polynesian) someone has STOLEN the entire book! UNBELIEVABLE! This was also the case at the pin trading cart at DTD. People these are only PINS!
I clear my throat and say, "Pardon me ma'am. But you are only allowed to trade two pins." She responds... "Oh, really? I never heard that!" I look at the CM and she responds... "Well that's true, but since it's Friday~ I'll look the other way!"
HUH? I know that pin traders usually come to the resorts on Fridays to trade, but COME ON! I was still shaking my head as I returned to my table... However, all thoughts of pins were erased as I arrived just as our server was bringing "THE CAKE"! Mouthwatering is not an apt description... it is a MUST DO! Incredibly scrumptious! And with a cup of coffee? Heaven! Pure and simple!
Artist Point has a fabulous flourless Whiskey Pecan Cake! Served with Raspberry Sorbet~ YUM!
My mother and Janice had fresh seasonal fruit with the raspberry sorbet in a scrumptious light pastry bowl... very unusual and temptingly good! Maybe next time...
I cannot think of a better way to top off the night than with dessert and coffee at the WL (and good friends)! We strolled around the grounds afterwards to show Janice how truly beautiful and unique this resort is. We gabbed like high school teenagers at a sleep-over and before I knew it.. it was late! I dropped them off back at POR and managed to get myself back to OKW before turning into a pumpkin myself at midnight!
