Hucifer and Dan's flipping huge trip report *Last 3 days/Epilogue! 10/9, pgs 36-38*
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Finally, school has started here! I was a little upset Monday when my baby headed off to all day kindergarten & and my oldest headed to 4th grade, but it's Thursday now....I'm so over it! 
Besides, this gives me the perfect opportunity to catch up on the goings on in Wendy's World!! 
Great job, really enjoying the TR....and everyones comments as well!
Besides, this gives me the perfect opportunity to catch up on the goings on in Wendy's World!! Great job, really enjoying the TR....and everyones comments as well!
Alright, alright!!!Loubon said:
Yes, it's true that I haven't spend much time on this thread. I fully intend on finishing this mutha before our girls' trip in October, but first...
A big thanks to the new subscribers! Yay! I love new subscribers! twob4him, Libade, __disneygirl, svalencia1, stinkerbelle's mom, 1000thhappyhaunt (knock me over with a feather!
), Figments Pal, NewOrleansLady, Shir Kahn, and HMHunters. WHEW! Thanks to all of you for joining my drug-out report and enjoying it. And posting stuff. Wendy likes.And special thanks to the rest of you who keep hanging on, no matter how long it's been. Hugs and kisses!
And finally...a new installment:
He leads us to Adventure Land. Can anyone tell me what Walts favorite attraction was?
I jump up. Me! I can! Me! Me!
Matthew points to me. The Carousel of Progress! I say proudly. Im sure everyone is super jealous that I know this.
He looks at me like I had two heads. Uhh no.
Well, that was embarrassing.
Someone pipes up, Jungle Cruise?
Thats right! And thats what well be going on next.
Dan grins down at me. You thought you knew, Little Miss Show-Off.
Shut up, I said miserably.
The line to Jungle Cruise is hideously long because, well, my wish for large crowds came true. But lucky ducky us, we are going straight to the front of the line because we paid extra, dammit.
We end up getting an entire boat to ourselves. Yeah, the look on the other guests faces was worth the extra cost alone. I wanted to jump up and shout In your face, people! Maybe even stick my tongue out. But I stayed cool.
Our boat driver, Bob, was hilarious. And I mean screw-the-script-Im-improvising kind of hilarious. He had an excellent rapport with Matthew and the two of them kept us laughing throughout the attraction. They showed us a hidden Minnie and talked about various things that I cannot remember.
When Bob docked the boat at the end of the ride (this being possibly the best Jungle Cruise ride EVER, thanks to Bob and Matthew), we all thanked Bob and stood up to leave. I was on the outside of the boat and stood up to follow the folks around the fake cargo stuff that was in the middle of the boat, and around to the inside of the boat to disembark. Without waiting, Dan (Mr. Wilt Chamberlain Legs himself) steps over the fake cargo stuff and is immediately on the opposite side of the boat.
I guess I thought it was okay to do. I started to mimic Dans move and I brought my leg over the fake cargo stuff so that I didnt have to walk all the way around the boat. As soon as my leg flung over the cargo, I realized why everyone else walked around it.
The Jungle Cruise has a Ride Nazi.
Do NOT step over the middle! WALK ALL THE WAY AROUND! An angry cast member, with spit-fire coming out of his eye sockets in my direction, stopped assisting the folks off of the boat in order to draw attention to my illegal move.
Now Im in a predicament. Ive got one leg on the left side of the boat, one on the right. (Yeah, yeah, I know, port and starboard, blah blah I dont do nautical terms, okay?) So Im straddling the fake cargo stuff and Im getting screamed at and Im mega embarrassed and I dont know if I should just finish my illegal move or swing my leg back over and take the walk of shame.
I decide to take the Walk of Shame. I didnt want the Ride Nazi to be any angrier than he already was.
To make light of the situation (because I was extremely embarrassed by his public ridicule), when I made the Walk of Shame, I approached him and said, I like to be a rebel.
He wasnt having any of that, this stupid power-tripping punk of all about 20 years.
Im here to make sure everyone is SAFE. He still had his Angry Eyes on.
What was so unsafe about straddling cargo? I was in more danger of falling over the side from your screaming than I was from stepping over the middle. And this rule about walking around was not evident at all until Anger Management Boy unleashed his verbal demons all over me. Honestly, was it THAT unsafe of a move? To be publicly ridiculed for it?
Next installment: Part 3. The Worlds best tuna sandwich and an underground city, but not in the same place
I jump up. Me! I can! Me! Me!
Matthew points to me. The Carousel of Progress! I say proudly. Im sure everyone is super jealous that I know this.
He looks at me like I had two heads. Uhh no.
Well, that was embarrassing.
Someone pipes up, Jungle Cruise?
Thats right! And thats what well be going on next.
Dan grins down at me. You thought you knew, Little Miss Show-Off.
Shut up, I said miserably.
The line to Jungle Cruise is hideously long because, well, my wish for large crowds came true. But lucky ducky us, we are going straight to the front of the line because we paid extra, dammit.
We end up getting an entire boat to ourselves. Yeah, the look on the other guests faces was worth the extra cost alone. I wanted to jump up and shout In your face, people! Maybe even stick my tongue out. But I stayed cool.
Our boat driver, Bob, was hilarious. And I mean screw-the-script-Im-improvising kind of hilarious. He had an excellent rapport with Matthew and the two of them kept us laughing throughout the attraction. They showed us a hidden Minnie and talked about various things that I cannot remember.
When Bob docked the boat at the end of the ride (this being possibly the best Jungle Cruise ride EVER, thanks to Bob and Matthew), we all thanked Bob and stood up to leave. I was on the outside of the boat and stood up to follow the folks around the fake cargo stuff that was in the middle of the boat, and around to the inside of the boat to disembark. Without waiting, Dan (Mr. Wilt Chamberlain Legs himself) steps over the fake cargo stuff and is immediately on the opposite side of the boat.
I guess I thought it was okay to do. I started to mimic Dans move and I brought my leg over the fake cargo stuff so that I didnt have to walk all the way around the boat. As soon as my leg flung over the cargo, I realized why everyone else walked around it.
The Jungle Cruise has a Ride Nazi.
Do NOT step over the middle! WALK ALL THE WAY AROUND! An angry cast member, with spit-fire coming out of his eye sockets in my direction, stopped assisting the folks off of the boat in order to draw attention to my illegal move.
Now Im in a predicament. Ive got one leg on the left side of the boat, one on the right. (Yeah, yeah, I know, port and starboard, blah blah I dont do nautical terms, okay?) So Im straddling the fake cargo stuff and Im getting screamed at and Im mega embarrassed and I dont know if I should just finish my illegal move or swing my leg back over and take the walk of shame.
I decide to take the Walk of Shame. I didnt want the Ride Nazi to be any angrier than he already was.
To make light of the situation (because I was extremely embarrassed by his public ridicule), when I made the Walk of Shame, I approached him and said, I like to be a rebel.
He wasnt having any of that, this stupid power-tripping punk of all about 20 years.
Im here to make sure everyone is SAFE. He still had his Angry Eyes on.
What was so unsafe about straddling cargo? I was in more danger of falling over the side from your screaming than I was from stepping over the middle. And this rule about walking around was not evident at all until Anger Management Boy unleashed his verbal demons all over me. Honestly, was it THAT unsafe of a move? To be publicly ridiculed for it?
Next installment: Part 3. The Worlds best tuna sandwich and an underground city, but not in the same place
Trying desperately to get over my embarrassment, I hung at the back of the group. Fortunately, it was time for lunch.
We walked over to the Columbia Harbor House. I had never had food from this place before. We had a special dining area upstairs roped off just for us. They brought our food and I attacked it immediately.
Never had a hummus-and-coleslaw sandwich before. Oh MY was it good. I mean, really unexpectedly good. The vegan chili was good too (especially on such a drizzly crappy day), but the sandwich blew my socks off. Then Dan says that this is the best tuna sandwich he has ever eaten.
Seriously? I ask him. Although I have to admit, Dan is not one to lie or embellish. Hes a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy. I love that about him. Although I cant ask him things like, do I look fat in this? or what do you think of my friend? unless Im ready for his brutal honesty. I gotta say, its refreshing. Although occasionally I wouldnt mind a little white lie. But I digress.
Yes, I dont know what they did to this sandwich, but it is honestly the best Ive ever had.
One of the cast members assisting Matthew had overheard Dan. He came over and said he agreed that the CHH made the best tuna sandwiches on the planet. How weird is that claim-to-fame? To be able to claim you make the worlds best tuna sandwiches?
Note to self: we must eat here again.
After lunch, the rain gets worse. Before it was an annoying drizzly day. Now it is a torrential downpour. Forget the ponchos, we need umbrellas and rubbers. Maybe even plastic pants. There is a collective groan from the group.
Now where did I pack those plastic pants?
We run over to the Haunted Mansion. This is weird, we actually entered the exit. Come to find out, its because were skipping the lines and getting right on. But first we enter through a secret Cast Members Only area and walk through secret passageways to get to the front. This is wicked cool!
We get on our Doom Buggies and Matthew continues the tour from his own Buggy, pointing out hidden Mickeys and other various tidbits about the attraction that I cannot remember.
So we exit the attraction (yep, still raining like the dickens) and head over to the Hall of Presidents. We stand under a covering and Matthew gives us more information that I cannot remember.
We head back down Main Street. Matthew stops us and tells us we have a surprise. We follow him inside a gift shop. We walk all the way inside, to the back wall. On the other side of this wall, he will take us to the Utilidors!!!
Oh, color me excited! The Utilidors! The Utilidors!
I tried very hard not to elbow everyone out of my way. What sort of cool things would we experience on the other side of that door? Headless characters? Princesses putting on their makeup? Would it be like miles and miles of dark, cavernous tunnels, lit by hundreds of gas lanterns? Or like a whole underground city with buildings and cars and trees and traffic lights and machines that made colors?
Well, actually nothing like that.
It looked like any other employee building, but without the windows or sunlight. There were long corridors and rooms and areas that led off from them. Posters lined the halls, reminding the cast members to smile while onstage, to pick up their paychecks on Thursdays, that break time was 30 minutes, and that Janice Hooper was Employee of the Month.
But the cool thing about the Utilidors was that there were colorful signs and arrows telling you how to get to the Tomorrowland or Adventureland or Frontierland. Its like a little piece of the magic got left behind. Matthew told us that a cast member can go from one side of the park to the other in just a few minutes down here.
Although there werent any cars down there, there were a few golf carts being used. We had to keep being reminded to move so the carts could pass. I thought since we were backstage that the folks would be a little grumpier, a little more real. But I was pleasantly surprised. Many of the cast members smiled at us brightly when they saw us.
Matthew led us further in than I expected. We must have been down there an hour or so. It was a real treat to listen to everything he had to tell us. If only I could remember half of it. The best part, however, was the picture timeline. Matthew stopped in front of a line of pictures. It was the visual timeline of Walt Disney Worlds beginnings it was absolutely wonderful to see. He talked about each picture and its significance to WDWs history.
When the tour in the underground city was over, we moved back upstairs to the gift shop and headed back to City Hall, where it all started. The rain has stopped finally. Matthew announced that the tour was over. A collective groan went over the group. We really enjoyed all 5 hours of the tour, and we especially enjoyed Matthews quirky sense of humor which I didnt really talk about because I cant remember most of his silly jokes.
Matthew collected our headsets and the group disperses as if we never want to see each other again. Well, I guess we didnt. Dan and I head over to Tomorrowland to hit a few attractions. I take off my KTTK nametag off and throw my cast member nametag back on.
Dan says we should hit the Carousel of Progress and I get all sentimental inside. Im all, Aww he wants to see one of the original Walt attractions he likes this one as much as me he gets nostalgic too.
And Dans all, I get to nap for twenty minutes.
In the beginning of the attraction, Dan was singing along with the narrator, Theres a great, big beautiful tomorrow But midway through CoP, Im feeling all sentimental and squishy inside thinking he was enjoying it along with me until I look over and see him crashed out. Jerk, Im thinking. He tricked me.
CoP ends, Dan awakens, and we go outside to enjoy the overcast day with the rest of the blistering crowds. Lets see Pooh ride, 60 minutes. Splash Mountain 50 minutes, Big Mountain Thunder Railroad is 25. BMTRR it is! So we enter the attraction.
Holy crap! This line is deceptively long. And they werent kidding about the 25 minutes. I have never seen the line so huge on this attraction before.
Exhibit A: Crap line photo #1
Exhibit B: Crap line photo #2
Next installment: Dinner and a strip show
We walked over to the Columbia Harbor House. I had never had food from this place before. We had a special dining area upstairs roped off just for us. They brought our food and I attacked it immediately.
Never had a hummus-and-coleslaw sandwich before. Oh MY was it good. I mean, really unexpectedly good. The vegan chili was good too (especially on such a drizzly crappy day), but the sandwich blew my socks off. Then Dan says that this is the best tuna sandwich he has ever eaten.
Seriously? I ask him. Although I have to admit, Dan is not one to lie or embellish. Hes a no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy. I love that about him. Although I cant ask him things like, do I look fat in this? or what do you think of my friend? unless Im ready for his brutal honesty. I gotta say, its refreshing. Although occasionally I wouldnt mind a little white lie. But I digress.
Yes, I dont know what they did to this sandwich, but it is honestly the best Ive ever had.
One of the cast members assisting Matthew had overheard Dan. He came over and said he agreed that the CHH made the best tuna sandwiches on the planet. How weird is that claim-to-fame? To be able to claim you make the worlds best tuna sandwiches?
Note to self: we must eat here again.
After lunch, the rain gets worse. Before it was an annoying drizzly day. Now it is a torrential downpour. Forget the ponchos, we need umbrellas and rubbers. Maybe even plastic pants. There is a collective groan from the group.
Now where did I pack those plastic pants?
We run over to the Haunted Mansion. This is weird, we actually entered the exit. Come to find out, its because were skipping the lines and getting right on. But first we enter through a secret Cast Members Only area and walk through secret passageways to get to the front. This is wicked cool!
We get on our Doom Buggies and Matthew continues the tour from his own Buggy, pointing out hidden Mickeys and other various tidbits about the attraction that I cannot remember.
So we exit the attraction (yep, still raining like the dickens) and head over to the Hall of Presidents. We stand under a covering and Matthew gives us more information that I cannot remember.
We head back down Main Street. Matthew stops us and tells us we have a surprise. We follow him inside a gift shop. We walk all the way inside, to the back wall. On the other side of this wall, he will take us to the Utilidors!!!
Oh, color me excited! The Utilidors! The Utilidors!
I tried very hard not to elbow everyone out of my way. What sort of cool things would we experience on the other side of that door? Headless characters? Princesses putting on their makeup? Would it be like miles and miles of dark, cavernous tunnels, lit by hundreds of gas lanterns? Or like a whole underground city with buildings and cars and trees and traffic lights and machines that made colors?
Well, actually nothing like that.
It looked like any other employee building, but without the windows or sunlight. There were long corridors and rooms and areas that led off from them. Posters lined the halls, reminding the cast members to smile while onstage, to pick up their paychecks on Thursdays, that break time was 30 minutes, and that Janice Hooper was Employee of the Month.
But the cool thing about the Utilidors was that there were colorful signs and arrows telling you how to get to the Tomorrowland or Adventureland or Frontierland. Its like a little piece of the magic got left behind. Matthew told us that a cast member can go from one side of the park to the other in just a few minutes down here.
Although there werent any cars down there, there were a few golf carts being used. We had to keep being reminded to move so the carts could pass. I thought since we were backstage that the folks would be a little grumpier, a little more real. But I was pleasantly surprised. Many of the cast members smiled at us brightly when they saw us.
Matthew led us further in than I expected. We must have been down there an hour or so. It was a real treat to listen to everything he had to tell us. If only I could remember half of it. The best part, however, was the picture timeline. Matthew stopped in front of a line of pictures. It was the visual timeline of Walt Disney Worlds beginnings it was absolutely wonderful to see. He talked about each picture and its significance to WDWs history.
When the tour in the underground city was over, we moved back upstairs to the gift shop and headed back to City Hall, where it all started. The rain has stopped finally. Matthew announced that the tour was over. A collective groan went over the group. We really enjoyed all 5 hours of the tour, and we especially enjoyed Matthews quirky sense of humor which I didnt really talk about because I cant remember most of his silly jokes.
Matthew collected our headsets and the group disperses as if we never want to see each other again. Well, I guess we didnt. Dan and I head over to Tomorrowland to hit a few attractions. I take off my KTTK nametag off and throw my cast member nametag back on.
Dan says we should hit the Carousel of Progress and I get all sentimental inside. Im all, Aww he wants to see one of the original Walt attractions he likes this one as much as me he gets nostalgic too.
And Dans all, I get to nap for twenty minutes.
In the beginning of the attraction, Dan was singing along with the narrator, Theres a great, big beautiful tomorrow But midway through CoP, Im feeling all sentimental and squishy inside thinking he was enjoying it along with me until I look over and see him crashed out. Jerk, Im thinking. He tricked me.
CoP ends, Dan awakens, and we go outside to enjoy the overcast day with the rest of the blistering crowds. Lets see Pooh ride, 60 minutes. Splash Mountain 50 minutes, Big Mountain Thunder Railroad is 25. BMTRR it is! So we enter the attraction.
Holy crap! This line is deceptively long. And they werent kidding about the 25 minutes. I have never seen the line so huge on this attraction before.
Exhibit A: Crap line photo #1
Exhibit B: Crap line photo #2
Next installment: Dinner and a strip show
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It's about time, young lady.
You should've continued over the cargo and faked falling and started screaming that you were going to SUE because of this. Nobody TOLD you not to go over that ... until it was too LATE!
Nah, cuz then maybe they'd've thrown you out and this TR would be over.
And that would just bite!
You should've continued over the cargo and faked falling and started screaming that you were going to SUE because of this. Nobody TOLD you not to go over that ... until it was too LATE!
Nah, cuz then maybe they'd've thrown you out and this TR would be over.
And that would just bite!
NewOrleansLady
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Wendy, just wanted to say how much I am enjoying your trip report! You are very funny, and by very funny I mean this kind of funny 
Can't wait for more 
Can't wait for more 
isma
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Hi Wendy I just wanted to stop by and tell you how much I enjoy reading your report! It really is my favourite one! I ususally post on the Disneyland Paris forum because I will not be able to visit WDW within the next 2 years but I love reading everyones reports here. And to prove how much fun your report is to me: this is the first post I ever made on a different forum!! Can`t wait for the next installment (you know october will be soon, right?) 
It really is my favourite one! I ususally post on the Disneyland Paris forum because I will not be able to visit WDW within the next 2 years but I love reading everyones reports here. And to prove how much fun your report is to me: this is the first post I ever made on a different forum!! Can`t wait for the next installment (you know october will be soon, right?) 
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Ho, hum....it was okay but I would have preferred pictures of you stradling cargo instead of poncho pictures.
BTW, they tell you on every Jungle Cruise (except maybe the ones where you pay big bucks to cut the line) not to cut across the cargo. It is because of the low hanging speakers that you can hit your head on. So before you go DISing the CM (who BTW is the son of the woman who works at the restaurant you scammed....(it's been so long since the last part I don't even remember what restaurant it was)) who yelled at you, remember he was only looking out for your well being. CMs are our friends.
Also, I'm glad to hear Janice Hopper finally won Employee of the Month. Word has it she nosed out the girl who let people in for dinner without a reservation. Go ahead and laugh. Let's see you stand at the front gate all day and tell people where to stick their fingers. One slight mistake and .....well, use your imagination!
On a serious note (yeah right), the reason they made the underground tunnels is because when Disneyland opened Walt saw a character going from Frontierland (or maybe Adventureland) over to Tomorrowland while going on a break. It spoiled the magic and he promptly had them work on a way to prevent that. The rest is history. (True fact).
Also I would have guessed CoP as well. Rumor has it that it was Walt's favorite and that is why it has never closed (except for seasonally). Shame on Dan for sleeping in it. Psst, it's one of my tags....There's a great big beautiful tomorrow.......
Oh and one more thing......that doesn't make you look fat but your friend is pretty hot looking.
BTW, they tell you on every Jungle Cruise (except maybe the ones where you pay big bucks to cut the line) not to cut across the cargo. It is because of the low hanging speakers that you can hit your head on. So before you go DISing the CM (who BTW is the son of the woman who works at the restaurant you scammed....(it's been so long since the last part I don't even remember what restaurant it was)) who yelled at you, remember he was only looking out for your well being. CMs are our friends.
Also, I'm glad to hear Janice Hopper finally won Employee of the Month. Word has it she nosed out the girl who let people in for dinner without a reservation. Go ahead and laugh. Let's see you stand at the front gate all day and tell people where to stick their fingers. One slight mistake and .....well, use your imagination!
On a serious note (yeah right), the reason they made the underground tunnels is because when Disneyland opened Walt saw a character going from Frontierland (or maybe Adventureland) over to Tomorrowland while going on a break. It spoiled the magic and he promptly had them work on a way to prevent that. The rest is history. (True fact).
Also I would have guessed CoP as well. Rumor has it that it was Walt's favorite and that is why it has never closed (except for seasonally). Shame on Dan for sleeping in it. Psst, it's one of my tags....There's a great big beautiful tomorrow.......
Oh and one more thing......that doesn't make you look fat but your friend is pretty hot looking.
Funny stuff, Lou. Thanks for the laugh!Loubon said:
For the record, I did not hear any warnings about the cargo. Still, there were kindler, gentler ways of reminding guests to walk around...the public humilation was completely undeserved.
I am soooooo honored!isma said:Hi Wendy I just wanted to stop by and tell you how much I enjoy reading your report!
Yep, October is very close. I am really hoping to use this weekend to get more writing finished. My goal (and it's important to have goals) is to have this completed by the end of September. HOWEVER, I am leaving on another two-week work trip mid-September and this will put a serious hamper on my progress.
__disneygirl
well, all that's left now is the happy ending.
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Great installments! I really would love to take that tour. 5 hours seems long, but i'm sure it goes by quickly, no? I love the CHH, such great food... especially for counter service. Can't wait to read more! 
I really would love to take that tour. 5 hours seems long, but i'm sure it goes by quickly, no? I love the CHH, such great food... especially for counter service. Can't wait to read more! -
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