nebo
<font color=red>sharkbait<br><font color=teal>Uh o
- Joined
- Jul 5, 2006
- Messages
- 2,524
Warning! This is a blurb. This is not an actual trip report installment, just a blurb. Should you see evidence that this is actually a trip installment, please take cover immediately. You will be advised then what to do.
Boy, even I admit, I'm getting wierder all the time. Must be from trying to subsidize the lack of Pk's with copious quanities of collective counter served alcoholic beverages. Hmm, ok, go back and exchange the I and the E in weirder, and move the T over in Quantities. I'm too lazy to do it.
now,,,,
Yes, Kay, I have begun to start believing this. I actually added up all the times we have been in the park, We have been here seven times now. And yes, definately developing an inferiority complex when it comes to this park.
My therapist says get over it. He has been to Epcot many times and never seen DeTime. Says it's a big Grandfather Clock that walks around and blends in at World Showcase.
Diane says he's just messing with me.
I'm starting to wonder.
Oh, and hey, look who's back from rehab!
Lexmelinda.
Yes, Melinda, she really said this,
Boy, even I admit, I'm getting wierder all the time. Must be from trying to subsidize the lack of Pk's with copious quanities of collective counter served alcoholic beverages. Hmm, ok, go back and exchange the I and the E in weirder, and move the T over in Quantities. I'm too lazy to do it.
now,,,,
Yes, Kay, I have begun to start believing this. I actually added up all the times we have been in the park, We have been here seven times now. And yes, definately developing an inferiority complex when it comes to this park.
My therapist says get over it. He has been to Epcot many times and never seen DeTime. Says it's a big Grandfather Clock that walks around and blends in at World Showcase.
Diane says he's just messing with me.
I'm starting to wonder.
Oh, and hey, look who's back from rehab!
Lexmelinda.
Yes, Melinda, she really said this,
[Originally Posted by nebo
"Oh my Gawd, so do you shave your head or is that from , like, chemo treatment or something
/QUOTE]
Like I said, she was a real bundle of nerves getting on that ride, and attacked that nerve problem with a constant stream of chatter. She would've told me every place she ever found an Easter egg, if I would have asked her.
Tiggerwannabe, Man, from your pics, she does blend in well. I don't feel quite so bad now.
The picture Melinda has posted had her face sticking out like a Paris Hilton in a group shot photo.
I think Melinda went at her with a chain saw first, to clear it away for a photo. Yes, she's been known to do that.
Luvhockey, thanks for hanging with us here. I wish I could hang with the Blackhawks, but, to be honest, they suck! Martin Havlat is the only guy earning his money.
Ok, ok, shut up. It was about ten to eight when we walked out of Dino land and headed for the exit. I figured no problem getting to Cap'n Jacks by nine.
HA. Silly Goose.
Walked over to the Saratoga Springs bus stop. It is the closest resort to Downtown Disney, and we then have options of taking a "boat" there, or, "bus", or , "walking" from there. Confounding to me, is that there is no direct bus from the AK to there. Ok, fine, we always wanted to check out SS, anyway. You know, just for the sake of checking it out, not that we would ever have the money to buy a DVC.
So, we got on an SS bus , pretty quick, actually, had to wait there for a bit to fill up. On the way, Diane started talking to other SS ers, and asked where the boat dock was, how to get there from the drop off bus stop, and even where the walkway was to Downtown Disney.
She was met with blank stares.
I'm not kidding.
All these people that were just talking to her while I had my head buried in the seat for not finding Devine again, just kind of mumbled , but nothing helpful that could actually be used.
Now I perked up, not hearing an answer, and I mentioned to her, "Hey, the bus driver has to know, right?"
"Yeah, good idea."
I'm sorry, this bus ride was starting to feel a little too spooky for my blood.
I see her walk up to the front of the bus, and talk to him for a few minutes.
She comes back , and tells me "He doesn't know."
My response; "Ok, what doesn't he know?"
"He doesn't know where the boat dock is there, or where the walkway is, or anything."
"Oh."
Now, Diane is back to talking to the Zombies again.
Now, I"m definately creeping out.
"Look, all we want to do is get to our dinner reservation at Cap'n Jack's.
Can you tell me what works the best to get there?"
What made this even freakier, was when Diane walked up and talked to the bus driver, he turned the inside lights on.
Now, many drivers leave the lights on I have noticed, just a preference.
But he had them off, at first, now they were on.
Ok, this is a "You had to be there" thing. But with the lights on, the people chatting with Diane that now refused, of didn't know, to answer her questions, seemed even more bizzarre.
The woman that asked us how we liked the Animal Kingdom, when we got on the bus, was now picking things out of her young son's head and popping them in her mouth.
The chubby woman in the pink pants suit that got on with an empty stroller was now nibbling on her wrist.
I kept waiting for the voiceover from Rod S.
"Yes, tonight, you are the star."
Ok, I might have exaggerated a little bit here, but, really, no one could tell us anything about the resort. And these are people that are "staying" there.
One woman finally said; " Oh, we are going to Pleasure Island too, just get off with us at the first stop."
I saw a few heads nod in agreement.
Ok, that wasn't so hard, was it?
And then the bus pulled into Saratoga Springs.
And he stopped.
It was a bus stop.
And we got off.
We were the only ones that got off.
"Um, Honey?"
"Did I do an unexpected dose off somewhere along the way? Wasn't there a few people that just told you they were getting off at the first stop also?"
She was just as confused as I was. " I don't know." "That's what they told me."
Yep, the "creeps" are setting in again.
Give me a second to try to descibe the setting, here.
We have never been here. Nobody got off the bus with us like they said they will.
There is absolutely NO ONE waiting for a bus here, to go anywhere.
And it is pitch Black!
There were a few hidden road side lamps in the foliage I think, but a few renegade lightning bugs would drown out those lights.
And we waited for a bus.
ANd waited.
I looked around, there was a kind of lit up building off behind us, not sure if it was the front desk or what.
But by us here and now, vewwy, vewwy dark.
And absolutely NO bus arrived, while waiting for the downtown Disney bus.
This didn't make any sense to me. It's Friday night, Epcot, EMH! Open till 12.
"Diane, doesn't it seem strange that no busses have come?"
"Yes."
We got there about 8: 30, it was now five to nine. And not only no busses, not a single person showed up.
If I let my mind run with it, this whole trip from the AK was getting creepier by the minute. And I could tell she was feeling it too.
So, I did what comes naturally to me. I had told her that I'm going to walk over and check out the front of the building here, (just to see if it's real),
and I did. Well, kinda.
Then I circled back behind her sitting on the bench and said, " They're coming for you Barbara!." Ok, this is a long standing joke in our house, it's a line from "Night of the Living Dead", the original.
Then I said right away, " They're coming for you Diane."
"Ha ha, real funny, you have pulled that joke a few too man,,,,,"
Her head swung around when she saw what I was suddenly staring at.
And here are these people , kind of lurching at us just materializing out of the dark.
Diane stood up and gasped.
I crouched down behind Diane.
Ok, ok, I'm taking liberties with the facts again.
But really, this is pretty much what transpired.
The people walking up, were the same ones that said get off when they do at the first stop.
Diane pointed that out to me, and all I could do was shrug.
Finally, a bus pulled up, the first bus we have seen in over twenty minutes.
And it was a Downtown Disney bus.
After we got on, there was another stop in SS. And now, the other people that told us to get off at the first stop got back on. To this day, I still don't get it. Never did get to check out anything at SS, but the one bus stop I know intimately.
Right, nebo? Rhonda? Smidgey?
)
