Rise and shine Tuesday!
Our third day of the trip was already here! I woke up to find my cell phone still next to me after my late night texting rendezvous with Brian. Brian's game went into double overtime, so he got home around 10pm. He was still up when we stumbled in from Epcot. For some reason he kept texting me. I think it was something about not being happy that chuck was there supervising them. I just let his rant go in one ear and out the other. Lalalalalalalalalala. I'm not listening!
When my feet first hit the floor, I remember thinking, "Oh No! I can't walk". Between my blistery feet and my muscle fatigue from the marathon walking WDW require, I was having a hard time with simple ambulation. Fortunately, I got my stride back pretty quickly. DH was still asleep, so I set off to get some nasty nescafe to feed my caffiene addiction. Unfortuately, I put way too much cream in my coffee and it made it really luke warm. Bleech! Again - half the coffee went down the drain.
Now I know you are going to think I am crazy, especially since I've been complaining about my feet so much, but......I decided to go out for a short run. Yeah - call me what you will - glutton for punishment, dim-witted, not the sharpest tool,....OK....bring it on, I deserve it. But I just really wanted to go for a short run this morning, especially since I was sure I wasn't going to feel too much like running the morning after the Halloween party.
One good thing about sore feet and running. Running is not nearly as painful as walking or standing. My blisters felt fine, my feet didn't hurt. I felt OK, not great...., but OK. I only ran along the lake and my mileage ended up being about 1 1/2 miles. But a short run is better than no run. Right? So off I went.
I love the lake ....it's so pretty and relaxing. It perked me up even when I didn't really feel like running!
When I got back, Denny was still watching TV and he was not even close to being ready to go anywhere. So, needless to say, by the time we were ready to leave it was nearly 9am. Today we were going to spend the morning in AK, come back for a nice, long break, and then head to
MNSSHP. I was a little disappointed that we had not made a park opening yet, but sometimes it's better just to be a few minutes late. And, today was one of those days. We got the last parking space in the
AAA lot, so counting our blessings, we quickly headed into the park.
I really didn't want to waste any time taking pictures UNTIL.....we had FP's for EE in hand. So we walked right through the oasis, past Discovery Island, past the Boneyard, past Nemo, across the bridge, until we finally arrived to face the Yeti!.
We got our FP's and noticed that we could not see any sort of standby line. The wait time was posted as 5 minutes. Was that possible???? Geese - in June there were standby people backed up to the FP machines. Feeling optimistic, we entered the standby line. Could we possibly be as lucky as yesterday?
Here are some pics in the queue. Denny took them because I was just too darn impatient and only wanted to get on the ride.
DH put the camera away once he realized I had no interest in looking at anything in the queue. I just wanted to ride. When we got to the loading platform I asked the CM if it would be possible to ride in the front row. She motioned us to a small line with 4 people in it. Ok -
- this was going well, really well. Yup, we were basically walking on at 9:20 in the morning
and we were riding up front to boot!
I asked DH if he would take pictures during the ride. I would have done it myself, but I have this terrible fear that I will let go of the camera and it will hit another passeger and knock somebody out. DH was a real trooper. He took pics during the whole ride, and even though he didn't get the best view from the top of the lift hill, he did get some pretty good shots. So......get........ready...... Here is EE from the front row.
OK.... Are You Ready......??????
COOL! I Love It!
When I saw these pictures, I literally squealed. I was so super pysched to get such great pictures. So Kudos to Denny for taking them. But I'm not done yet. Denny took a few more inside the ride.......
OK....I have no idea where this next one is in the ride but it looks a little scary!....
Let me just say that the front row is totally worth it. The best part was the long drop coming out of the mountain. That was totally fun and was actually a little scarier than I thought it would be. Hail
September for giving me the opportunity to ride EE in the front row!!!!!
Of course, here is our ride pic.....
OK - the next one is not the most focused, but for anyone who really wants to see me smile.....Well....this picture speaks for itself
So.....Up next.....AK....a photographer's dream! And ...How many animals really are on the Tree of Life?
Mine were on my heels, my toes, and the side of my feet. I know I had moments where all I could think of was LL and the scooter she had to rent in May. Wheelchair, Scooter - Can't say I wasn't tempted!
Do you think they would let me in????? Is that a safety hazard????? Would I scare young children????? Would they cling to their mother's ankles when they saw me roll by??????
Geeze, I lossing it!! 
