I gotta start with one thing.
Melinda, I could just kill you.
Why, you ask with a furrowed brow?
I'll tell you why, 9 (and yes, she has a very talented brow),
Because of your stupid ditty, the one that for some reason won't leave my head.
Ah, now the quizzical look goes along with the furrowed brow.
No problem, I'll explain.
It just stuck there in my pathetic brain like "It's a small word" does.
here, I'll show you.
"Hey Nebo, how was the drive into work today?"
"Easy peasy, lemon squeezy."
"Uh, ok, hows the back doing."?
"Easy peasy, lem,,,"
" Yeah, fine, nice talking to you."
make it go away
Meanwhile, back at the Hippy Dippy Pool, the dreaded washer-man finally finished up and left, and we were left in solitude and bliss. Or was it bliss and solitude, I can't remember. But I was finally noticing one thing about my activities on this trip. That lawn chair was one of the worst things for my back when it's not up to par.
The back, not the lawn chair.
Geesh, this writing thing, so many rules.
I had a couple of pills in my pocket, but wanted to save them, and it was getting close to time to leave anyway, ,,,,,, and then they started again.
The "they" are the cast members surrounded by a bunch of little kids, officially opening up the pool for the day.
I looked at my watch, yep, It's 10:52, official opening time.
?????
I have seen this routine before at Coranado when they turn on the pyramid water and the slide, have the kids do a countdown to it. At 9:30!
Nope, at Pop it's 10;52.
And then, approximately 10 minutes later, that sound came again that we heard earlier in the week. Now, I was not familiar with this sound, having lived a sheltered life, with no friends, learning to read by candlelight, walking two miles to school, up hill both ways,,,,, but, I digress.
No, I never heard this chant until I was at Disney,, but Smidgy knew it.
"Marco,,,,,, Polo,,,,,, Marco,,,, Polo."
Diane is going,,"Oh brother."
I'm going, " Why the heck are they yelling that?"
And she tried to explain it to me, only problem was, it was going in one ear, looking around, saying "what's the use" and running right back out the same ear.
It was then that my wife's brains hit the fan.
"Hey, how bout we get in the pool, you get on one side, I'll get on the other, and I'll yell out "Vasco, and you yell out De Gama?"
Huh?
"No, really, it'll be fun."
" I've always been a little partial to Ponce De Leon."
"Uh, no , Vasco is better I think."
"Oh, of course, how could I have been such a fool?"
" All right, I'll swim over by the food court side, and you behind the kids, when I yell Vasco, you yell De Gama."
Like I said, I was just about ready to go up to the room before this ploy was hatched. But I acquiessed,,, " OK"
I told her, "Just don't make it too obvious, and do it the minute you get over there."
And we both went in the water, she to her side, I to mine.
Timing couldn't have been better for me. This big group of new checkerinners had just walked past the pool. She couldn't see me.
I was almost to the elevator when off in the distance I heard
"Vasco",,,,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"VASCO!"
,,,,,,,,,,
I started laughing when the elevator came, and couldn't stop.
Thankfully , it was empty.
Back in the room, I thought, Uh oh, this can't be a good thing."
and composed myself.
Then the door opened up and I saw the look on her face, and I busted up again, Thankfully, she has a good sense of humor, and started laughing herself. This might be one of those, " you had to be there times," but it was funny.
And subliminally, it might have been a little payback for our upcoming dinners.
You see, free dining or not, I don't like having my whole schedule itinerized by when we eat. Now, we are going to the AK today, EMH starts at five, goes to eight. Those that know me know that my favorite ride in all of Disney World is the Flame Tree Barbecue. But we have ADR's at Capn Jacks, in the marketplace tonight at nine fifteen. Yes, we have studied the menus on All Ears, and once Diane saw the twin lobster tails, that was end of the discussion. Thus, by the time we got to Ak, if we had a counter service at ftb, we wouldn't be hungry for Capn Jack's. So we changed, and hit the food court for our counter service meal before we got on the bus.
I had a chili-cheese dog, don't remember what she had nor do I care.
I guess it was ok, had to go and grab a fork though, no way you could pick it up with your hands. But at least then, the entertainment started.
"Your not going to believe this," she said, " Guess who's sitting across the room in the booth to your left."
I looked, and yep, there was good ol' Little Jimmy.
And evidently he had just finished eating, cuz he was doing the turn around belly slide, to get down off the seat, and took off running like a bat out of hell.
Wherever he saw a little kid his size, he would run up to them and try to drag them away. All the other parents I could tell would just say to there kids, " you just sit there."
And he would run off again. His folks? They would just glance up now and then. I knew it would happen sooner or later and I wasn't dissapointed.
He ran up to the self service counter, just as a woman and her young son were grabbing their drinks and napkins and whatnot after paying for lunch,,,
Little Jimmy grabbed the boy, who grabbed his mom's leg, who lost her balance a little, and wished that she lived in the house that Jack built.
No, she didn't fall, but a big cup of coke went over on her tray, soaking everything.
I looked at the parents, and they saw it too.
"Jimmy, you come over here and sit back down."
That was it!
I couldn't believe it. As this poor woman has a useless lunch now, and coke running down her leg.
I was actually , um, p , no can't say that,,, uh,, Tinkled Off! And so was Diane. But the woman just went calmly up to the cashier, talked for a second, went back up to a counter and got something, and right past the casier again. This time though back at the drink station, she was looking around,,, I was all set to go up behind her and say, " I"ll cover you," but Little Jimmy and his wonderful folks had left.
Man, not even an "I'm sorry."
Ok, on to the bus stop. I was still a tad peeved, not at little jimmy, but at his folks. If his dad was out there by the AK bus stop, I was ready to drop kick him Jesus through the goal posts of life.
But they weren't.
We got to the Animal Kingdom fast, and the most important thing I'm wondering is, how much time do I have before the chili dog starts barking?
Crap!, Did I just say that out loud too?
"YOUR ATTENTION! YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE. NEBO AND DIANE ARE IN THE PARK, AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT THEIR MAIN GOAL IS TODAY, AND THAT IS TO FINALLY,,,AFTER TEN VISITS, ,,,,,"FIND DEVINE!"
Yes, after all the times we have been here, never seen the bi,, uh, cast member that dresses up like an actual vine , and hangs around in the Asia land, either standing by a vine covered shop wall or against a tree.
Not today. This time I will find her.
"AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER BE HUNGRY AGAIN."
sorry, wrong line.
"AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I WILL FIND DEVINE TODAY!
and you guys will have to wait to see if that happens, I'm done.
I'm getting pissy.
DH says other things but we won't go there.
Thanks for explaining the "so she doesn't get hurt reference." Duh! I'm glad that's all it was. I was afraid he wanted you to read it so you'd see that all my picking on him is just in fun and I'm not a mean heartless person by nature! 
Yes. You did. 
