From Oil Wells to Jingle Bells-Bells,pg.66, See you in September!

[jcc0621]

Gotta love th tour groups Love the way yo handled it. DH would have doe the same exact thing

This just souns like it is going to get wrse before it gts better

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

Okay, in MY defense... I must have skipped over the word "animated" in that case I don't think the Toy Story movies would count either, as they are NOT animated, but cg (computer generated). So, that makes part of YOUR list invalid as well... sir.

But, if we are counting the cg movies, I would have to redo my list.. with ONLY animated movies (also counting the cg, Disney/Pixar movies).

10. Meet the Robinsons (we used the Rob Thomas song "these small wonders" as a song we danced to at our wedding... so the movie holds a soft spot in my heart.)
9. Toy Story 3
8. Mickey's a Christmas Carol
7.Monster's Inc. (I had completely fogotten about this one... but, as I am Belle, I am also Boo to a T. I'm going to dress up as her for MNSSHP, when we go in Oct!... you can guarantee I'll have a pic posted.)
6. Sleeping Beauty
5. Toy Story 2
4. Toy Story 1
3. Beauty & The Beast
2. Finding Nemo
1. Peter Pan

Anymore qualms with my list Mr. Nebo... or may the defense rest?

 

[yellowtink]

Do you enjoy taunting your fellow disers? Wait, don't answer that we all know the answer.

 

[norybell]

I'm dying of suspense, here!

 

[kenaiwitch]

Do you enjoy taunting your fellow disers? Wait, don't answer that we all know the answer.[/QU

I think he lives to taunt us

 

[ddstratton]

I'm all caught up again! I usually lurk around on trip reports, as I have a hard time keeping up on some of the faster-moving reports. I love your writing, and am a wee bit sceered to see what happens next...

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

Do you enjoy taunting your fellow disers? Wait, don't answer that we all know the answer.[/QU

I think he lives to taunt us

He probably likes taunting me because I'm a newbie... I've only been on the Disboards for about a month... if that.

 

[kenaiwitch]

Naw Nebo doesn't discrimanate

 

[nebo]

Gotta love th tour groups Love the way yo handled it. DH would have doe the same exact thing

This just souns like it is going to get wrse before it gts better

Janet it was easy finding the determination and courage to risk taking on Randall Flagg and his henchmen.
I just pretended they were going for my bathroom bag.

Okay, in MY defense... I must have skipped over the word "animated" in that case I don't think the Toy Story movies would count either, as they are NOT animated, but cg (computer generated). So, that makes part of YOUR list invalid as well... sir.

Rebecca, you have the sarcasm down nicely, you will fit in quite well here I think.

However....All the Pixar movies are CGI, they are still drawn, just not on paper, and the computer "animates" them.

But, if we are counting the cg movies, I would have to redo my list.. with ONLY animated movies (also counting the cg, Disney/Pixar movies).

10. Meet the Robinsons (we used the Rob Thomas song "these small wonders" as a song we danced to at our wedding... so the movie holds a soft spot in my heart.)
9. Toy Story 3
8. Mickey's a Christmas Carol
7.Monster's Inc. (I had completely fogotten about this one... but, as I am Belle, I am also Boo to a T. I'm going to dress up as her for MNSSHP, when we go in Oct!... you can guarantee I'll have a pic posted.)
6. Sleeping Beauty
5. Toy Story 2
4. Toy Story 1
3. Beauty & The Beast
2. Finding Nemo
1. Peter Pan

Anymore qualms with my list Mr. Nebo... or may the defense rest?

Yes, Meet the Robinsons, but I can understand the sentamentality and how it can leave a soft spot for you. I hate to admit it but I'm not familiar with the song.
Our wedding song that we danced to?
You make me feel brand new, by the Stylistics
And no Lion King? Guess I like the songs Elton John recorded after he wrote them for the movie better then the way they were performed in the movie.

Do you enjoy taunting your fellow disers? Wait, don't answer that we all know the answer.

Hi Yellowtink, thanks for stopping by. Aside from sharing our experiences and maybe warning others, this thread is only really here for one reason, and that's for everyone to have fun. Teasing and taunting is most fun when it's done with friends and everyone knows it's just in fun and not to take it seriously. Heck, in my trip reports, no one takes a bigger beating from me than me.

I'm dying of suspense, here!

Me too Norybell, and I know how it ends!

Do you enjoy taunting your fellow disers? Wait, don't answer that we all know the answer.[/QU

I think he lives to taunt us

Sigh, ok, yes I do. So help me out here and explain your screen name, is Kenai a town in Alaska?

I'm all caught up again! I usually lurk around on trip reports, as I have a hard time keeping up on some of the faster-moving reports. I love your writing, and am a wee bit sceered to see what happens next...

not all goes bad at Sports, there was some good times too.
Pretty sure. I think there was. Yeah, there must have been. This was more a "series of unfortunate events".

He probably likes taunting me because I'm a newbie... I've only been on the Disboards for about a month... if that.

You're right. You can be the kid sister I never had.


Ok, I was really hoping to be able to get to work on the next chapter this afternoon or tonight, but I have to go out and I don't think that will happen. But I guarantee it will be up tomorrow night for sure.

Ok, c'mon, group hug everyone

 

[orangecats2]

Can't wait for the next update tomorrow!
I can't believe how rude those Brazilian people were!
I like lists too. So will you put your value resorts in a list of best to worst? We've only done two and I'm curious what you think.
I'd do a list of my favorite Disney animated films but I haven't seen many so my list would be really short. But I will say that I really liked Wall E. EVE...aaahhhh!
Have fun going out tonight! That's assuming it involves alcohol!

 

[nebo]

For Rebecca, find the hidden Boo

 

[kenaiwitch]

We live 3 hours south of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula. There is a town call Kenai but we don't live there. The witch came from my dad he always calls me witchie. I thought it was so cool that smidgy called me witchie.

 

[tiggerwannabe]

Ok, c'mon, group hug everyone

Daaaaaawwwww, Ok

Hey Neebs! (and Rebecca ) I got a picture of Boo at MK for Halloween!

This was from the morning before she and I joined you and Diane (and DIS crew)
at the Poly...

you guys didnt notice she was there cause she was napping in my bag~

 

[mmeb144]

Awwwww.... That is so cute!

 

[nebo]

Plans changed tonight, and I felt guilty leaving you stranded so even though it's late, I figured better late than ,,, well, later.


Lying there by the pool, I was really trying to get in a better mood, but there's a big difference between trying and achieving.

One of my problems is that I am very good at sometimes blowing a situation out of proportion and imagining the worst.

I just could not get that "guardian's" sneer out of my head, why would someone purposely not only try to provoke a fight, but also involve the teenagers that he's supposed to be setting a good example for?

I had brought my paperback down with me and I tried reading that to get my mind off of it, but that wasn't really working either, my stupid brain kept going back to the fact ours is the only car in the lot.
No, no way would they do something to it, right? Not here at Disney, no way.

It didn't take long in that heat before I had to get in the water, sometimes you can only hold it for so long.

I'm kidding, take it easy. We brought the stupid noodles in with us, for some reason Smidgy really likes these things, I find them pretty useless. By the way, this pool was really warm too, not quite as hot as Vero, but certainly up there.

Around 3 o'clock, I asked Diane if she wanted a wine cooler, said I'd go and fetch us some and she accepted.

By now I'm starting to see a lot more yellow shirts, many were from soccer teams, but I could tell that a lot were just tour groups, and from what I could tell, they were all from Brazil.

Back in the room, I grabbed my car keys, and I'm sure you knew this was coming, went to the lot the check on the car.
I gave it the once around, everything seemed fine, then I pressed the unlock button on the fob, then the lock button to hear all the doors lock and make the "cheep" sound that says the alarm has set.
Then I pressed the lock button again, and cheeped it again.
Yep, now it's really locked!

Back in the room, I grabbed a couple of wine coolers, paused, then broke down and swallowed a couple of painkillers.

I will be the first to admit, that this time I wasn't taking them for pain, pain wasn't too bad, but since I don't seem to be able to snap myself out of my funk the normal way, today I will try to do it through chemicals.

Soon enough I was back in the pool, I didn't mention that I went to check on the car, no sense in passing around my paranoia for her to share in it too.
One thing about the noodles; you have to be really carefull, especially if you're a guy, because if you try to put them between your legs and sit on them, well, um,,, let's just say it's not a good idea to do.
But Diane showed me the art of using them; One goes under the head, and the other goes under the knees, that way you can float around on your back without too much effort.

Floating like that for awhile, some tranquility set in, the pool there really is beautifull, especially if you can keep the ugly building with all the big stars on it behind you and out of your view.
Being in more of a relaxed state now, I was able to think more clearly.

(Ok, the reason that we still have the pool to ourselves is because there must be a big tournament going on at Wide World of Sports, and all the Brazilian soccer teams and the tour groups from there must be attending. The bunch we ran into either weren't due to play yet, or had already been elliminated, it was similar to when we were there when Pop Warner was there in December.

And the reason the lot is so empty, well DUH!, I'll bet almost the entire Home Run section has no Americans staying in it, they're all from Brazil and I'm willing to bet they didn't car pool to get here.

More and more were showing up now, what I couldn't believe was how many different groups of them there were.
I also didn't understand why even just walking through the resort, one of them has to be holding a flag tied to a stick up in the air.

As time went by we left the pool to go back and change, have a couple of drinks, maybe take a walk around the resort to see if there are any other good areas to stay for next time, and then hit the food court for dinner.

Sitting at the table in the room, Smidgy said she wanted to show me something in the Atlas, point out what to her seemed to be a better route to Vero Beach then the ways we took.

"Ok", I said, we're leaving the day after tomorrow and you can show me then."

"It's allright, only take me a moment to get it, besides, I want to get some Slim Jims out of the car for tomorrow" she replied.

As she was gone, I thought that at this rate, they won't have time to do anything to the car.

After putting our drinks in the refillable mugs, we hit the paths and slowly walked the resort.
It was all pretty much as I rememered, except for the Surf's Up section, the rest of the resort sucks.

We just don't like the theming.
The area between the main building in Touchdown is just that spongy surface painted green with football lines on it. There are signs saying due to the nature of the surface, please don't wear high heels when walking on it, so of course there's about 20 Brazilian soccer players running around on it in cleats.

The Hoops basketball section is also very bland, along with the tennis section, the only thing a little different is Mt. Mickey, a small hill with Mickey at the top with a bench. No, in my opinion, if you stay there it's the baseball section or you pop for preferred and stay in Surf's Up, unfortunately, after this mini stay there, the Home Run section has now lost any appeal to us that it originally had.

It was just getting dark by the time we got back to the food court, I expected a mob scene, but apparently they were all either in the pool or in the parks for the evening or still at World of Sports or terrorizing nursing homes.

Side note, we are not using any packages at all this trip, no MYW anything so I want to explain.

Before we went in April, we knew there was a good chance Diane's work place was going to shut down in July and we would piece together this trip. So instead of buying two separate packages, I crunched numbers until my mind was numb, and we ended up buying a ten day, no expiration package in April, with the 30 percent off code.

Then, for an extra 52 bucks a person we added the water parks and more option. This now gave us an additional 10 days in either water park or Disney Quest, to us that's almost like having a lifetime pass to Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach for 52 bucks! We used 5 park days in April, we'll use the other 5 now in July, and we doubt we going to waste a water park ticket in July when I'm sure they will be so packed you won't be able to stand it.

At forty five or so bucks a pop to get in the water parks, that would have come to nine hundred dollars for the two of us for ten days, our cost was 104.

This was about the only loophole in the Magic Your Way ticket system that I ever did find. I know since then they have just increased the no expiration rates so maybe that deal wouldn't be so good anymore, haven't looked into it.

Back in the food court, since we are not on any dining plan but paying out of pocket I'm as cheap as I usually am for myself. This drives Smidgy nuts, when I always order the cheapest thing, she says then it makes her feel guilty if hers costs and extra two bucks or so.
What can I say?

I have had a burger at the restaurant at Vero, burgers when Diane ran over to McDonalds in Kissimmee, and a burger at the pool side counterservice at Vero Beach also.

Sick of cheeseburgers!
And we just GOT to Disney.

I was going to get the hot dog /fries, but now she's rolling her eyes because I'm doing the cheap thing again, so I compromised;
I ordered the chili cheese dog!

But I asked them to put the chile and the cheese on the side, otherwise you end up with this big gloppy mess that you can't even pick up.
I didn't think they would do it, at first they didn't even understand my request, but then they added and extra bowl of melted cheese and an extra bowl of chili.

Wow, I felt like I hit the jackpot. Had to explain to the girl at checkout what it all was, she just shrugged her shoulders and said good idea.

After we ate we went outside and now the Surf's Up pool was getting packed, but that was nothing like when we got to the HomeRun pool, we had actually considered if it wasn't too crowded of taking a late night dip, well, not really late night, it's not even ten yet, but the entire area was just mobbed, not only the pool and surrounding tables and chairs and loungers, but the grassy area next to the pool, they were playing soccer there too.

But at least there were no more confrontations.
We were both tired, and I looked forward to getting under the covers in the air conditioned room and reading for a bit before getting a good night's sleep.

The next morning, I learned that I slept a whole bunch better than Smidgy. They partied until 1 in the morning by the pool, all trying to out yell the other one, and at one point she even went out there after seeing an actual older woman that appeared to be with some of them acting as a chaperone and pleaded with her to try to get them to at least stop yelling.
But the woman either couldn't, or pretended she couldn't speak English and turned her back on her.

Saturday morning arrives and we are going to the Magic Kingdom. This should be great I thought, the Magic Kingdom on a Satruday in July.

The main reasons we are even attempting this is to see the Main Street Elecricical Parade and the new Summer Nightastic fireworks show.

Armed with breakfast of Slim Jims, we hit the bus stop and again I was surprised to find mostly Americans getting on the bus, at least some other areas of the resort have Americans staying but it sure as hell isn't Home Run area.

We were right up front for the welcome show, and once again the magic was working for us.
Our goal this morning is basically to run around and collect fastpasses for tonight, there is no doubt that that's when we are going to really need them. There is no early entry today, and no extra hours tonight.
The parade is at nine, the fireworks at ten and the park closes at 11.

What this really means if you want the parade and fireworks, is that for someone like myself, I am doomed. Since it doesn't get dark until nine at this time of year, that means I won't have a chance to see the indoor rides at night, which is the only time my eyes work and adjust to the dim lighting on most of those rides.

Oh well, the one's we do try I guess I'm going to have to get by with just the audio version and let my memory supply the visuals.

Just inside the entrance, we took a different approach and went straight up to the train station. We want to start out by Splash Mountain, and I know the steps in my bad foot are numbered, a step saved is, well, a step saved.

The only problem is that they won't let you get on the train that brought Mickey and Goofy and the boys, you always have to wait for the next train that doesn't arrive until 9:08. I thought that would be a deal breaker, but we arrived at Splash just ahead of the vanguard of the charging rope drop mob.
Smidgy immediately went for SM fastpasses while I loped in the direction of Big Thunder.
We still just about got there at the same time and rode it. Then something happened that I would have bet my life could not happen in July, when our mine train pulled up at the end of the ride, there was nobody in our corresponding row to get in, so we just stayed put and did another go around.

Then we went over and rode Splash with a 5 minute wait.
I was really confused, we've been here when it's been more crowded then this at slower times of the year.
We still need another fastpass for Big THunder for tonight, so killed the 15 minutes we had to wait to get them at the smoking area, now, finally, I am in a great mood.

Everything is going swimmingly. It's not as crowded as expected, have not seen a yellow jacket group yet, and in a couple of minutes we will already have 2 fastpasses for tonight.

Once she got the fastpasses, we went and did Pirates, and it was as bad as I thought it would be. She had to lead me by the hand all the way through the queueing area, then help me into the boat like an old man because I was an accident waiting to happen.
But the ride was even worse, I could see very little from the bright sunshine outside to the dark inside. Never saw Johnny, never saw the dog with the keys, and only barely got a glimpse of the hairy leg hanging down from the bridge overhead.

Diane was concerned about how much I was actually seeing, and kept saying things like "Do you see..... blank... over there?"
And I kept responding "Oh yeah, I can see it."
Till she finally set me up and caught me.
"Do you see Johnny's head sticking out of the barrel there?"
"Oh yeah, right there on the left."

"Steve, we haven't got that far yet."

"Oh,"
Then quickly, "Damn, that Depp is good!"

No, I didn't know what it was supposed to mean either.

Then we had an early lunch, late breakfast at the El Pirata el Perico, something like that, which is right across the street form Pirates.

Usually this place is never open when we are here, and it's a great place to split a couple of tacos, but we're not splitting today.
Diane wants her own plate, all to herself, which now FORCES me to have to order MY own plate, all to MYSELF.

See what I have to live with?

One thing I should mention, I have not had on a pair of shoes since the day we arrived in Kissimmee.
The entire time at Vero Beach I wore clip clops, just like everybody else there and even wore them on the drive to Sports, which normally I don't like to wear when I'm driving.
I was going to try to put shoes on this morning, but figured that we won't be here that long, and it is daylight, so I'll chance the clip clops at the MK for a while.

Yes, I grew up calling them clip clops. When I was little, that's what I thought they were called, didn't quite hear that right, and eventually my whole family started calling them that.
My problem is that I can never find ones that stay on my feet. The really cheap ones with the hard rubber that goes between the toes really hurts after a while, but they fit the tightest. The ones I have have soft cloth instead, but I think they were made for Shrek's feet, they're too floppy.

Sitting there after I finished I was getting antsy, we still need at least one more fastpass and she still wants to do Philharmagic before we leave and go back to swim, relax, nap, whatever.

I gathered the garbage on the tray, jumped up and quickly headed to the garbage can. But my vision problems indoors also extend to the outdoors too, and sometimes I overlook that fact.

In the center of the seating area, in between us and the garbage can that I had my eye on, grows a decorative tree.
This said tree is also surrounded by a decorative enclosure, with some flowers planted around the base.
Said tree is also now providing ample shadows in the immediate vicinity, that stretch as far as the decorative enclosure.

Decorative enclosure is a concrete wall. Wall is not circular from what I remember, but a square shape.

The tree shadows hit one of the corners of the square shaped decorative enclosure.

But not as hard as I did.
With my right shin.

I never saw it. I went down hard, tray went flying, crushed some petunias and ended up eyeball to eyeball with a blackbird that wasn't fazed in the slightest.
At first I had no idea what went wrong, I swore there was nothing there in front of me to trip on. But I leaped to my feet, tried to pick up all the junk that's now scattered around, and tried really hard not to look at anybody sitting at all the tables around me.

I couldn't have made more of an entrance if I had jumped up naked singing "Stayin Alive", "Stayin Alive".

To make matters worse, a passing by cast member apparently witnessed the whole thing and ran up to me, "Sir, oh my God, are you ok?"
"Honestly, I'm not sure yet, think I am." And I looked down and blood is running down my leg.

On further inspection, it was just a deep scrape on my shin, there was a small gouge on my already swollen knee, and I lost some skin off my right big toe.

She kept trying to get me to go to the first aid station, but someone else handed me some napkins and I used them to hold on my leg until the bleeding stopped.

Eventually Diane said, "You finished?" "Can we go see Philharmagic now?"

I'm kidding, she got a cup of ice to help stop the bleeding, THEN we went and watched Philharmagic.

With that I am going to say goodnight, but trust me, we are not yet even close to being done with the wonderfull soccer players.
neb

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

For Rebecca, find the hidden Boo

It's a trick post... I'm NOT IN THE PICTURE! HA!
I'm just going as her in her regular clothes... not in her "monster" outfit though.
KITTY!

 

[Self_resqing_princz]

Daaaaaawwwww, Ok

Hey Neebs! (and Rebecca ) I got a picture of Boo at MK for Halloween!

This was from the morning before she and I joined you and Diane (and DIS crew)
at the Poly...

you guys didnt notice she was there cause she was napping in my bag~

TOO DARN CUTE!! I didn't even know they HAD Boo dolls! I'm going to have to look while I"m down there. There USED TO BE a Dis store in the mall right by my house, here in Indy.. but they closed it about 6 months ago.. SO SAD! Or else, I'd totally have one now!

 

[smidgy]

One of my problems is that I am very good at sometimes blowing a situation out of proportion and imagining the worst.nah, not nebo!

But Diane showed me the art of using them; One goes under the head, and the other goes under the knees, that way you can float around on your back without too much effort.the other one goes under your ankles! sheesh!



Sitting at the table in the room, Smidgy said she wanted to show me something in the Atlas, point out what to her seemed to be a better route to Vero Beach then the ways we took.

"Ok", I said, we're leaving the day after tomorrow and you can show me then."how can you explain how something LOOKS LIKE on a map without showing it?

It was all pretty much as I rememered, except for the Surf's Up section, the rest of the resort sucks. the surfs up section is really pretty!!! the pool is big, and beautiful! better than the other 2 main pools at the all stars. the rest is YUK. but a few trips back, we had a 2nd floor room overlooknig the pool in the baseball section, and it was kinda pretty. it's just that you have to walk THROUGH the ugly touchdown section to get to the food court, etc.

We just don't like the theming.





Back in the food court, since we are not on any dining plan but paying out of pocket I'm as cheap as I usually am for myself. This drives Smidgy nuts, when I always order the cheapest thing, she says then it makes her feel guilty if hers costs and extra two bucks or so.
What can I say?um, how about, "gee honey, you worked EXTRA shifts at the VFW, the whole week before we left, and you just get whatever your little heart desires.. you earned it!?

I have had a burger at the restaurant at Vero, burgers when Diane ran over to McDonalds in Kissimmee, and a burger at the pool side counterservice at Vero Beach also.





The next morning, I learned that I slept a whole bunch better than Smidgy. They partied until 1 in the morning by the pool, all trying to out yell the other one, and at one point she even went out there after seeing an actual older woman that appeared to be with some of them acting as a chaperone and pleaded with her to try to get them to at least stop yelling.
But the woman either couldn't, or pretended she couldn't speak English and turned her back on her.
I really hate to be an old crabby lady! I was a teen, once myself. I raised teens, who had all their friends hang around MY house. yes, it was the "party" house. (to this day, 20 or 30 somethings come into the restaurant and say, "hey! I've been in your basement!" ) BUT! when it was time for quiet, they KNEW "mama bear" was "loaded for bear" and you best quiet down.








The only problem is that they won't let you get on the train that brought Mickey and Goofy and the boys, you always have to wait for the next train that doesn't arrive until 9:08. I thought that would be a deal breaker, but we arrived at Splash just ahead of the vanguard of the charging rope drop mob. this was our firsrt time trying this , and when they told us we had to wait, it was frustrating. we thought we were way behind. but, turns out, we weren't
Smidgy immediately went for SM fastpasses while I loped in the direction of Big Thunder.




But the ride was even worse, I could see very little from the bright sunshine outside to the dark inside. Never saw Johnny, never saw the dog with the keys, and only barely got a glimpse of the hairy leg hanging down from the bridge overhead. this is ONE of the rasons I feel absolutely NO qualms, whatsoever, about "collecting" fast passes in the morning to use later, after dark. and any people who might want to argue the "legality" of it, the CMS let you do it. and: it's the only way Nebo can actually SEE anything in the dark rides.





Usually this place is never open when we are here, and it's a great place to split a couple of tacos, but we're not splitting today.
Diane wants her own plate, all to herself, which now FORCES me to have to order MY own plate, all to MYSELF.

See what I have to live with? ok, in nebo's defense, the reason we can take many trips is because we do it cheaply.I know, every dollar adds up. I confess, we had agreed earlier to split the meal, and I just "forgot" really I did, I was hungry!and since I am used to doing all the talking (pre-hearing aids) I just took control and ordered 2 meals.... gee, I kind of LIKED doing all the talking all these years!


Eventually Diane said, "You finished?" "Can we go see Philharmagic now?"hey, I was a woman on a mission!

all jesting aside, Nebo often puts his own disabilities aside so I can enjoy things.
and he is able to joke at his own expense. which means: ... post if you dare!!! he will joke at your expense, too!

 

[TwiddleDeeTwiddleDum]

Rounding a turn that brought us to the front, adjacent to the pool, we could see up ahead a huge group of people standing in the walkwayin yellow shirts, they looked to be teenagers with a man giving them instructions.

They looked right at us, but none of them moved. I gave them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were hoping we would stop at a room before we made it to them.

And now, unlike the Surf's Up pool, this pool is packed. I can hear a lot of yelling in jibberish, well to me it's jibberish, but I was sure they were all speaking some dialect of Spanish.

Finally as we got closer, Diane who's still in the front says loudly, "Excuse us."

By now I can see they are all wearing soccer uniforms and I would guess there age to be around 16, some maybe 17.

After Smidgy spoke again, "Excuse us", they all turned and looked at us this time. There were at least a dozen of them standing in the way, and then I saw the man lean forward and say something to them.

Now they all bunched together, trying to create a wall.

And I was ready to Friggin Explode!

We're certainly not going back the way we came from carrying all this crap, and the bushes on the left made it impossible to go around.
All they had to do was crowd into the recess where the doors are for a moment as we walked by.

Ok, I thought.
I told Diane, just stay behind me, I can tell our room is only four doors down from where they are.

Everybody is now looking at each other, and the "man" in charge of them now has a smirk on his face that made my blood boil.

I tossed the box up in the air a little bit to get a better grip, held it up a little higher and just started heading right into them at a fast pace, with Smidgy right behind.

I did enjoy the surprised look they had, two of them got nailed by the box before the rest of them started swearing I guess and moved to the side.

Wow, they intentionally made a human wall so you couldn't pass? That would've freaked me out

When the front desk offered to send security over, I think I would've told them I wanted them to move me to a safer location. Maybe they would've upgraded you to surfs up I mean seriously, they had to know what was going on over in the homeroom hotel.

Sorry to hear your trip started out on such a negative foot although from your teaser it sounds like that wasn't the end of it

 

[smidgy]

twideetwidum:why we didn't ask to be moved:
the first day, after that first encounter bringing in the luggage, it was kinda empty, at first,and we enjoyed the pretty pool.
Yeah, sleeping was tough that night, but we were going to MK the next day, and checking out the morning after. now, had it been we were going to be there the whole time??? yes, I would've requested some sort of change. (but this was peak season. they probably were booked.)
We were SO happy to get our room request. now, had they TOLD us, ""you should know, a whole group of Brazilian soccer players are staying in those 2 bldgs." we would have asked for a dif. room.( and as per other threads, I don't CARE about the "nationality", just the "behavior")
of course, if they had told us that when we made the reservations, we would have gone with our original plan. which was to spend 2 nights in Kissimee on the weekend (weekends are mucho extra points for DVC) but when they came out with the room only discounts, decided to spend the 2 days at sports, at DISNEY!!
we could have stayed at Vero beach, either the beach OR the pretty pool for a few hours. then checked into the Motel 6 on 192 in Kissimmee for $25 a night(with the coupon) for 2 nights. spent the next day at their tiny pool (but clean), and walked across the street to Old Town that evening. then left early AM to check into Beach club Villas.
BUT.. we decided to spend our money at DISNEY! the room only discount sucked us in. (and, once we KNEW we were going to disney RIGHT from Vero Beach, Nebo was anxious to GET there. (had we been going to Kissimmee, we might have spent a few last hours on the beach)
this is my main gripe. LET YOU KNOW, (so you can plan accordingly)when you make the reservations, that there is a large tour group, soccer group, staying there. had we known, we probably would have saved money and stayed in Kissimee those 2 nights.
and at the LEAST, at check in, TELL YOU! "um you really don't want to be in that area".
I feared Disney in July because of the heat and the crowds. we only went because I was off work anyway. and figured we would spend time at the beach, and time at storm along bay,(and were renting points) and see the parks a bit. I admit, we knew NOTHING about these brazilian tour groups in July.