I'm going to skip over January 2nd because we did nothing very interesting... or if we did, I don't remember it. I know we had breakfast at Pepper Market then went shopping at the Premium Outlets, and at night we went to see Fantasmic. That's it. SO I'll go straight to January 3rd, aka Grumpy's Birthday!!
We had a late start that morning. My mom wanted to go to the pool and it was her birthday, helloooo, so of course she got to decide. I occupied myself by going to the Business Center to retrieve another package and to the CSR gift shop. Well, what did they have, but those half-Mickey mugs I had wanted that first night at World of Disney !! The CM at the store told me I could exchange my mugs here if I still had the receipt but I didn't get to it that day.
It was past noon when we made it to Magic Kingdom. Usually, that's the time around which we leave ! The park was crowded and we knew it would be the last day until Splash Mountain went down for rehab, so first things first we had to go get FPs.
My mom wanted a burger with fixins at Cosmic Ray's but on the way to Splash we found Pecos Bill and they had a fixins bar too so we opted to go there for lunch instead and Grumpy had her fixined'bugga.
After lunch I went to get us FPs for Big Thunder Mountain. We thought it best to wait a bit before doing Splash and headed to the Haunted Mansion instead. I think it's the first time I actually had to queue for HM ! Didn't take that long, maybe 20mns, but usually we walk right in.
Then we went into Fantasyland, which was mobbed, except for PhilarMagic, which was great as that was what we wanted to do, yay! They were still doing the 1/2 off on shirts so we spent some time in the shop but I don't recall us buying anything. Grumpy begged for a cigarette break and we went to the area behind Liberty Tree Tavern. Then, we took a spot in front of Liberty Tree to watch the parade and the entertainment that preceeds it.
Like this dude...
.. and a lady who I am sure didn't expect to be quite the center of attention that day. We didn't notice it at first, but people around us were giggling long before the parade started. Then Grumpy saw why...
I'm sorry, I couldn't help but take that picture. Seriously, this lady's backside was being photographed by a dozen guests around us , I don't know how she didn't think it was weird that people were taking pictures when the parade had not started. She kept moving around and bending over to get stuff, and in the process she nearly mooned all of us back there... I felt bad for this woman!
"Maybe I should go tell her, you know, discreetly??"
"How do you
discreetly tell a stranger that everyone's looking at her butt?"
Good point.
Thankfully the floats started arriving at that point and we focused on those instead.
Picture time!
Thong lady was gone before the parade ended, which saddened us a bit. But we recovered fast, and went to do our usual get-soaked-on-Splash-and-dry-off-on-Big-Thunder-Mountains-Fun ! They put us in the front row on BTM , and good golly we screamed louder than Woody Allen at a Hannah Montana concert.
Don't worry, she was just fine. The tongue & drool is just for show.
Thong lady cracks me up(no pun intended).
