Disbugs Family Christmas: Part 8.5! I want a LAPU LAPU, PLEASE!

[Disbug]

Well, now I can see why I should write my trip reports either "LIVE" or as soon as I get back... I am convinced that I am a candidate for ALZHEIMER's! So once again, let me back track a little! After walking DD9 back to the room from the Fireworks and Electical Water Pageant, I am rather "Energized"! (I'll use MagicinMyHeart's phrase!) I tell DH who is in bed already that I am going to wander around a bit! He gives me the thumbs up, since everyone is asleep with the TV on low...I bring my camera because I want to get some nighttime shots of the beautiful decorations at the Polynesian.

I don't really have any idea where I am going, but while I walk around I remember the posts from Tikkiman's Website about the "LAPU LAPU" and how he always had to have one when he stayed there. SOUNDS GOOD TO ME! At this point in our vacation I had yet to imbibe any adult beverages (the Coronas and the Chardonnay remained in the cooler, untouched!) nor had I ordered any wine with dinner due to needing to be sharp for my patients, DD15 and DD2. So this sounds like a plan to me!

I find the POLY lounge and "belly up to the bar" as it were and proceed to wait to be noticed. As I have experienced previously with the valet... I am invisible! I thought I was wearing my jaunty Christmas vest but I must have mistakenly put on my Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility by mistake! There is more than one bartender. Only 4 other patrons are sitting at the bar and they are enjoying their adult beverages. I wait for service even after the guy who has made eye contact with me continues cutting lemons. After about 5 minutes of not being "noticed", my smile is starting to slip a little.I don't exactly feel comfortable standing on the barstool and shouting, "YOOHOO! IS THIS A SELF-SERVICE BAR?!" When the bartender realizes I am not going away and I start looking left and right for someone who looks like a Manager, he gives me the equivalent of "WHADDAYAWANT?" I give him a BIG SMILE and announce, " I WOULD LOVE A LAPU LAPU, please!" "We're OUT" he replies. Not even a "I'm sorry we're out of pineapples, but we could make one for you in a regular glass." or "Since we're out, how about a nice Pina Colada. They are excellent!" NOTHING, NADA. Just silence as in "GO AWAY." So my smile slips and I slip off the barstool and walk away...

But, I truly am thirsty and want to try a drink so I go to the other side of the bar. This gentleman is a little bit friendlier, but just barely. He proceeds to make me a Pina Colada which I took into the nice sitting area with the Large Screen TV and apparently an important playoff Football game was going on. Right about then a MOST CHARMING British family came in pushing a 20 something year old girl who had the most beautiful smile and immediately wheeled over to me and announced that I was wearing the "most beautiful Christmas vest" she had ever seen! Now here is a total stranger on vacation who showed more friendly enthusiam than the CM's who earned a living being friendly and efficient at what they do! I thanked her warmly and kind of shook my head at the wonder of it. I stayed long enough to enjoy watching the patrons who were watching the game. It was quite comical. One gentleman at the bar who was wearing a football jersey and had his ballcap turned around backwards (I kid you not!) was screaming "YEAH! YEAH! *****'S SUCK!" (pardon my, French!) after the team he was rooting for scored... What was funnier still is that the team who "sucks" answered back with several touchdowns in a row and I believe went on to win the game!! That gentleman got REAL QUIET, REAL QUICK!

I call it a night and stroll back to TOKELAU!

 

[IloveDMB]

And bartenders work off of tips! I'm glad you got your adult beverage. Now, are those Coronas going to go to waste?

 

[MAGICinMYHEART]

Oh, Disbug,

Please don't give up Lapu lapu are delish but powerful....Try agian next trip....How rude of the first CM was he watching the football game???

 

[Disbug]

I don't know about the first bartender. He seemed intent on getting those garnishes chopped! Maybe he had a quota he had to finish before he could go home? The other bartender had a clear view of the game and was giving it a glance every so often, but he seemed to be handling all of the business of the bar.

My coronas came home nice and tidy back into the refrigerator! So did the chardonnay! Next time I go... I'll make it a point to get a Lapu Lapu. Never say Never!