Day Two--Pirates, Turtles and Food
I'm getting anxious to finish the trip report, since we need to finish the report before starting another pretrip, right? I typed up my notes from the trip when we got back and Code has been using them to put in the installments. Usually edited as I tend to be longwinded and they end up being grammatically correct. However due to my lack of patience I'm going to continue on with the posting and Code will follow with pictures either inserting them in or adding them after my post. So here comes day two:
After a very long first day we were counting on Disney magic
and Dr. Pepper to get us going for morning EMH at Magic Kingdom. No worries on a lack of energy, something about Disney just made us giddy and full of energy. As soon as we entered the park we rushed to Space Mountain. I’d forgotten how much fun this ride was and can’t believe I got my grandma to go on it when she was 75. After Space we walked onto Buzz twice, each winning one round. We stopped at twice because it's nice to end with a tie. What a fun ride! It does make me wonder just how cool Toy Story will be when it's completed. We then went on Peter Pan, this ride I remember from
Disneyland when I was 4 because it scared me to death. I have no idea why it scared me so much, but it was pretty cool this time around. Cody laughs at my fear of Peter Pan as a kid, but he had a meltdown at Disneyland on the Storybook Canal boats. According to his mom he really really didn’t want to go into the whale’s mouth. We were young and who knows what either of us thought was going to happen.
We then walked over to Mickey’s Philharmagic and both loved it. The jewels that Ariel throws were really cool and the smell of fresh baked pie during the Be Our Guest part was awesome. Continuing down the row, we took Snow White next. Here is the first indoor ride that we really wish people would not use the flash on their cameras. The people in front of us made it seem like we were riding behind a strobe light.
Next I convinced Code to go to Toontown for some character pictures, he still wasn’t really sold on the whole character thing, but it was only day two. Minnie’s house was up first. The house was cute and we enjoyed the interactive kitchen especially the cake in the oven. Sadly Minnie wasn’t that great, I was expecting her to be energetic and well she just kind of stood there for the pictures.
Then we went to see Mickey, just like the Minnie’s house we appreciated the attention to detail. Code notice the oven with it’s fun heat settings. In the short line to meet Mickey we had our first Dis-meet with Mickeymouse2003, a couple of big Disney cruisers proudly sporting lime green shirts. Mickey was great, he saw our buttons and made a big deal about them.
After Mickey we decided to pass on Barnstormer and take the train to Frontier land. As it is Code's favorite we went to Splash Mountain enjoying the lack of wait to get on. We were in the front row this time and got soaked! It seems we made a wonderful water shield for the kids behind us. We went on pirates next, it was cool to see the changes and spotting Captain Jack.
On the way out in the pirating spirit we got in line to meet Captain Hook and Smead, the line was pretty long and soon after we really settled in for a wait they went on break so we gave up and headed down the street and saw a pirate pulling a cart yelling “Watch out, little man with a big cart” we watched him set up and found out his name was Mack and Captain Jack Sparrow would soon be joining us. It was great timing on our part. Mack was really funny and Sparrow looked so much like Johnny Depp it was amazing. I got picked to be an apprentice pirate scroll and everything (yay free souvenir).
The heat and sun started getting to us so we bought our first souvenir, I forgot to throw the sunblock in my bag that morning. So we spent $11 on sunblock (painful I know..but a burn is worse), they definitely know they have a captive audience. It was getting very hot so we decided get our first Dole Whips. We both got Pineapple Floats and they were amazing! After finishing our floats we did a quick walk through Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.
After seeing the wait for the Jungle Cruise was 40 minutes we decided to go to the Tiki Room: under new management. Ugh…we should have just waited for Jungle Cruise. I never saw the original Tiki Room but it had to be much better than the new one. I think the word travesty was used.
We then got in a short line to meet Genie. He was a lot of fun. By then it was around 2 in the afternoon and time for our midday break. We used Disney transportation that day, so we headed to the bus lines there were two people with
ECVs waiting for the bus. They had to be loaded first and it took over 20 minutes, they were not able to drive them on correctly. Lucky for us another passenger was able to drive them in by standing in front and steering.
At the hotel we both crashed for about an hour long nap before hopping over to Epcot. We stopped at the concierge to change an ADR for Kona Café so we could make the Wishes cruise with Abbybeth and the ‘rents.
We drove to Epcot and went straight for The Land, had a late lunch at Seasons both having turkey sandwiches. I got the strawberry shortcake for dessert and Code had the cheesecake.
Soarin’ was our first ride. We were top row on the left side, it was amazing! We then headed over to Living with the land which is always cool. Next up was Figment and it was…interesting. We then went to meet Figment in what had to be the loneliest character spot in the park. We snapped some quick pictures and headed on our way.
Next was the Living Seas/ Nemo the ride was cute, I loved the clamshells. We then decided to wait for Turtle Talk with Crush. We read all the displays and watched the jellyfish for a bit. We enjoyed Turtle Talk, it was pretty funny thanks to audience interaction. During the time kids could ask questions one kid asked a question and his parents were pointed out in the audience, then his brother raised his hand. Instead of a question he said “I hate bubbles” his big brother was kind enough to explain he doesn’t like bubbles because they smell bad when the get to the surface.
There was no need to explain what he meant and we all had a good laugh I’m sure the parents were proud of their not so shy little boy
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We wandered through the aquarium watching the dolphins and turtles and spotted our first dream team member. We traded a pin with her, it was her “mystery pin” turned backwards so we had to trade sight unseen. We traded an aesthetically challenged pin for an equally unattractive pin, but hey it was worth trying to strike up a conversation. I'm not above seeking out dream teamers in hopes of scoring dream ears.
Next up was Mission Space – Orange Team. I can say I rode it and I’ll never do it again. It took me almost 2 hours to feel okay again (I'm such a lightweight). I was pretty worried since it was our night to eat at California Grill. I didn’t start feeling normal again until we sat down for dinner. We had stayed as long as we dared to while leaving enough time to shower and change for dinner. On the way from Epcot we somehow missed a turn or a sign or something and ended up at Coronado Springs.
This was our first Coronado Springs sighting in what became a running joke for the trip.
We made it back to the hotel after some creative driving and had just enough time to get ready for dinner and head over to the Contemporary arriving exactly on time for our ADR.
California Grill was excellent.
Our server was Joy and she was wonderful. We both got a flatbread appetizer I got the roasted chicken and Cody ordered the triple cheese. For the main course I had the oak fired fillet of beef and Cody had the grilled pork tenderloin. Both were amazing. I never get steak, but boy was I glad I took Joy’s recommendation on it. About 5 minutes into our food we headed to the observation deck to watch Wishes. It was really neat to see again, I still giggle at the exploding blue fairies (I understand they fireworks are not meant to be the blue fairy exploding, but really it's a blue fairy shaped explosion..hence the exploding blue fairies). When we returned to our table we found our meals had been covered which was completely unexpected and very nice. For dessert I had the “Year of a Million Dreams Cake” it was yummy. Cody had the Banana and Butterscotch “Buzz” it was better! The best custard we’ve ever had.
Our ADR was pretty late so we milled around the Contemporary gift shop for a while then headed back to the hotel, where we happily fell into a deep and restful night of sleep.
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What we'll be doing differently...hmm well a couple rides were down so we are both looking forward to our first ride on Rock N Roller Coaster and a few others we some how missed. I'm looking forward to wandering around Tom Sawyer's Island. This next trip we are not going to do the water parks so we'll have more time to roam the parks re-ride the things we really like and we will be attending the Pirate and Princess party one night while we are there. Off property we'll be going to Bahama Breeze for dinner one night and one thing I'm really excited about is another day at Discovery Cove, I did the dolphin swim this trip(Day 6). Next time I'm going to do the Trainer for a Day which is more time spent in the water with the dolphins.
but I'm going to reply anyway.
A good excuse to get the DSLR maybe? 
). And Lease, I agree with you on the oak filet at CG - I was prepared for just another filet, and I was very pleasantly surprised, definitely delicious!
) and the holiday it's been a busy week. For those of you that have stuck with us, thank you...more is on the way 
Let it be known that when I do something I really go all out! The best part was the woman who rear ended me arguing with the officer that it wasn't her fault because cars are not supposed to be stopped on the freeway. 
