Wednsday morning rolled around and I was up before light.
I really wanted a smoke, but I was also curious on what the temp was outside, this was going to be the first day of the Big Chill.
Threw on my shorts, grabbed my smokes and stepped outside.
Not bad, I thought, I'm guessing around 64 right now, I went and hid in the Rubik's Cube and smoked.
It was just starting to get a little bit light out, didn't see any life anywhere yet.
By the way, this is for smokers only:
At Pop, some staircases are more hidden than others should you feel the need and don't want to either get in trouble or offend anyone else.
You are safe on the 4th floor, nobody is going either up or down from the 4th floor using the stairs, pretty much applies to the 3rd also.
Now, the sixties yo yos totally hide the staircase,and the lone 90's building in enclosed in a walkman, also very private.
Next in hiding would be the Rubik's Cubes in the 80's.
But pretty useless is the Bowling Pin staircases in the 50's, you can see right through them, and at the bottom of the list is the 70's, the stairways are wide open, with a big 8-Track mounted on the ground way in front of it.
Ok, how many non-smokers did I just tick off saying all that?
I only go there in off hours when I'm not going to run into anybody.
Usually.
Feeling better about the weather I finished up and went back to bed for awhile, next thing I knew it was almost 9 o'clock.
I pulled open the curtain just a bit to be met with bright sunshine.
Allright! We'll get some pool time in today after all, tomorrow we finally start with the parks.
I threw my shorts back on, grabbed the mugs and was all ready to go and get tea and coffee and the newspaper when I glanced over at Diane to find her looking at me.
"Dorothy, you're waking up!"
She smiled at me, I turned and threw open the door and walked out into Siberia!
I was crestfallen.
Backed right up into the room again, sat on the bed and angrily started looking for pants and socks.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just that International Falls moved into our building in the last couple of hours."
It had to drop 15 degrees since I went and had my smoke.
THis began what I called the "Lost Day", mainly because neither of us can really recall too much of what we did the entire day.
After I came back with the paper and mugs I also wasn't feeling too great, felt hungover.
I lied on the bed thinking of what I drank last night.
Hmm,, started with a beer and a whiskey on the rocks in the room. Then had a whiskey and Sprite in the fuzzy cup in transit.
Then two little bottles of vodka in the cup when we bought more Sprite at Contempo Cafe, followed by a Lapu Lapu on the beach and then two more beers on the beach as well.
This sounds like a lot, but really, it was over 7 hours, yep, must have been all that Sprite.
No, actually it was the mix of all those things, I don't usually mix drinks like that and really, the sweeter the drinks, the worse the hangover, that's where the Sprite came in. Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
We then talked about alternative plans for today.
Using the mini golf voucher was brought up, I laughed, "Fuggetaboutit, step outside and tell me if you want to "enjoy" walking around a mini golf course in that."
She stepped outside and agreed, then she suggested a movie, even called to find out the prices in DD.
We had wanted to see Unstoppable but I think admission was 12 bucks a head, plus popcorn and pop, we're talking about over 40 bucks for the two of us, I nixed that too and pointed out we spent a lot more than we intended to at the Poly last night.
I honestly don't really know what we did all day, but it did seem to fly by doing nuttin.
At some point in the late afternoon I know we made drinks again and took a cold walk down "Memory Lane" along the lake, even took her picture, let's see if she has a drink in her hand. (I won't know until it's posted, too little in the Photobucket snapshot screen)
All righty then, this is an obvious edit, after seeing the date this was a yesterday picture, things got our of order in Photobucket. Hey, I told you this was a lost day. But at least she doesn't have a drink in her hands!
Then we went back and made drinks in the refillable mugs, we were getting hungry and I thought this way we could drink them on the long walk there, maybe have a smoke, then we'll have the mugs for pop for dinner.
One thing I did want to do though, was see if we could do an early check in for tomorrow, we decided we want to go to Magic Kingdom for early entry if we don't have to change room, especially now with the weather so cold, don't want another day of lying around the room to stay warm. Yes, we know it will be just as cold there, but at least we can "knock" some stuff off, and many things are inside.
Besides, then we can have our pick of counter service restaurants on the dining plan and we won't have to eat at the food court again tomorrow.
Tomorrow our package officially starts, not we finally can get our park tickets and be on the free dining plan.
This was our original plan we decided to on the plane down, sounded like a great idea then before we knew about the Big Chill coming in. And now our room, which wasn't our first choice by no means, doesn't have the usefull "Pool" location it had going for it.
Actually, that part had been just killing me. Any other time of the year this would have been a great room for lots of pool time, but not with the sun this low in the sky, or the mercury this low in the thermometer.
On the way we stopped at the DSA by our pool, nope, no manic motor mouth this time. No anybody else for that matter, and I think all the lizards in the area were dead, not from the cold but from boredom listening to her. These lizards will NOT be going out and buying a Kindle, I guarantee it.
While standing there I laughed, "Poor Randy and Connie, (Goofyfan1 and Disney4ever) today is their check in day, I'd love to meet them and welcome them to "sunny Florida".
We were still in the vicinity so when we finished we went back and freshioned our drinks, then walked down to the food court.
There we peeked into the arcade for a bit, but I wan't in the mood for figuring out how the vouchers work there again, now it's all on a time card or something like that.
Whatever happened to the days when you had to stick in a quarter or a token to play a game?
After finishing our drinks in the smoking area out front we went in to talk to a castmember about getting our tickets.
Inside, right at the entrance to the registration area a lot of cast members were hanging around talking.
It looked like a Holiday cocktail party only without the cocktails.
Well, except for us.
I went straight to the guy who looked the most "management" type, he even had a shirt and tie on and explained we'd like to get our package tonight that starts tomorrow so we can make EE rope drop.
He understood totally, but apologetically said it's impossible to do, the computers don't think that way.
I asked him the earliest I could re-check in and get our passes and he told me not till 7am, that's when the computers come on line.
Ok, so tomorrow we get here at 7, pick up our passes and head to the bus stop for Early Entry, that should work.
Then all these milling around cast members formed a line, one of them turned on a stereo and they started dancing to "Do the Hustle."
Of course, now I don't have the camera with me, we were just going to eat for crying out loud.
I admit I have done some silly things in Disney, most notably the almost fatal adventure voluneering for the Indy Stunt Show, but they could not pay me enough to look as stupid as these CM's did.
But it really bothered Diane.
Apparently, whilst they were, in fact, dancing to "Do the Hustle", the dance that they were ACTUALLY doing was the "Bus Stop."
Oh the Humanity!
I was terrified she was going to walk up there, start waving her arms and pull the plug on the stereo and show them how it's supposed to be done.
That would have been grounds right there.
But she was good.
She did go up afterward and mention it to the acting DJ guy who admitted he knew that, but what the heck?
We then went in and ate at the food court.
I went back to the safe hot dog with fries again, and Smidgy ordered food again I think.
I don't remember what she ordered.
Then we went back and watched the weather channel.
Again.
Local on the 8's came on the screen:
Thursday: High 55, Low 37, for all you at DisneyWorld just slit your wrists now.
After stepping our of the room early the next morning I wished I had taken that advice.
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lol
. Remember laying there thinking--you stupid idiot, maybe contacts AREN'T so bad 
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AND I will be your and Smidgy's prayer warrior to help with that sight. 
.....but we are still going to Disney in March. Got to keep those priorities, and besides.....we promised the kids. 
Wonder if that will transer to our next trip which we already have booked for September!
Good story, and I have passed people hiding in the yo yo before. Good observation.
Nahh.. just kidding.
