>>>>>>>The Extended Check-In and Pa Pa Pa Pa Please Can We Eat Now<<<<<<<
Ok, after 11 hours on the road and 20 minutes arguing over the Fry Daddy making it to the room, we get to the check in. The one thing I was SO waiting for: Welcome Home! Waiting
.Waiting
.Waiting??? The check in is that way sir. Oh well maybe later.
Hello Mr. David, I dont have the same number of people on the computer as you have with you. I can get you checked it but I cannot give you your room number. Is our room ready yet? Of course not. Here are your room keys. Uhh, mam, these names are incorrect. One person is not with us, one has the wrong last name and there is no card for one of us, other than that everything is ok. She looks up at me, I think. One eye is looking at me and the other is looking out west somewhere. Which way do I look?
Let me get a manager, says the eagle eyed keeper of my ressies.
You can go to the concierges desk and buy your park passes and get into the parks. But I dont think you will be able to put your park passes on the room key, we have a computer glitch that wont allow us to do that right now. No! That is not what I asked for when I made these ressies. I wanted everything on each card.
Hey Mr., manager (nice young man, bout ½ my age). I know you can make everything right. Mr. Manager says that the computer wont let him fix the problem. He is going to have to cancel the ressie and have DVC make a new ones and he does not know how long it is going to take, Where are you wanting to go, he asked me? We can get you a free fast pass for your party for having you wait?
We are hungry, I tell him in my friendliest voice and big smile, we
ARE in Disney, after all. We havent really decided where we want to go, just that we want to eat. SOON! I tell him we will go to Epcot since it is the quickest to get to and find something to eat there. SG has been hinting in a Oh so subtle way
.NOT. As I recall, she was looking for one of those "Grey Goose Slushies" when we made that last pit stop on the turnpike. She saw the frozen coffee at Starbucks and was asking then if the sold a Grey Goose Slushies.
Little Mr. Manager says he will get us a one day pass to Epcot. Cool, only need to by 6 day park hoppers then, cuz after Epcot we are going to head to DTD for dinner & whatever.
SG says,
He can upgrade us to the
DDP???? Give it a shot, I tell her. She thinks for a minute,
then picks up DD and tells her to give sweet eyes and say: Pa Pa Pa Pa Please, could we get the Deluxe Plan??? I think he kinda raises his hand to her while he is on the phone in a manner that acknowledges her.
About another 20 minutes go by. CL and the rest of the crew decide to browse around the gift shop while I wait at the counter. Of course, every 15-20 minutes she passes me a look like, what is taking soooo long, like I am in control of this situation. Her blood sugar is getting low and I am getting nervous. When this happens no one is going to have a good time until she is fed. Mr. Manager, I need some help, and fast.
Just about now Mr. Manager tells me that DVC has made the new ressies and he is waiting confirmation on his computer. How long, is all I want to know, PLEASE. More waiting. DVC had to RE-ISUE the ressies AGAIN. Second set was lost somewhere in cyberspace. Aint technology grand?
Finally, the ressies have showed up. Mr. Manager says we have already issued cards for a 1 day pass to Epcot for any day of your stay, so you dont have to buy 7 day passes, you only need 6. And thats not all. For your trouble, and those pretty blue batting eyes, you are upgrated to the DELUXE dinning plan at no extra cost.
ALRIGHT!
And yes we can get the 6-DAY passes on the same key. All is gud after all. NOW, lets get some fud in CLs gut before I get a kick to mine.
The room is still not ready (about 3:00 now). So we head over to the International Gateway with free passes in hand and decide we want to go to Mexico for a quick bite. But first we must go to France according to SG. You go to France, I am going to Mexico to get some grubb for the miss while I still can.
We get to the Cantina de San Angel where we can get something quick. CL and I got the Plato del Nino with the long sugar stick thing for a desert and a XX beer, she got something else to drink. We find a table close to the water to set up our picnic, and before I can even put my sore butt on the bench one of those d@&# seagulls swooped down and grabed the sugar stick thing off my tray and dropped it on the ground right in front of the trash can. Much to the delight of all the kids within eye sight of my table.
CL picks it up and starts to whistle for the bird to come back. You better knock that thing in the back of the head if you are not going to throw it away, I demand of her. Believe it or not, she actually threw it away. Must have been because she thought is was dirty, because I know she sure would not take my advice about something like that.
DD got something off the kids menu and demanded a milk shake even if it was not one of the choices that she had. Oh well, I had to pay extra for my drink, why not her too. Of course she was finished after the 2nd or 3rd sip. I finished all of mine.
Call the Boardwalk to find out the room is ready. WooHoo!
Get back to the rooms, unpack and get ready to go to DTD with the fairy godmailer lists in hand.
Hot leggs.
Candy anyone?
After a couple of laps around DTD in and out of half of the shops in Market Place we decide to head over to CJs for dinner. 25 35 minutes wait says the cute Hostess. The rest of the Invaders are cool with this. Half of them go for margaritas while the others go snoop through the Rainforest Café.
The Margarita crew come back and make me sample the margarita while I am holding the buzzer thingy. I can only hope it is not the same buzzer thingy that Buzz had. Here SG, you hold this while I go get a margarita. BRB. Ahhh, no one in line gud. Give me one of those Pa Pa Pa Please. Wow, this taste good as I mossy on back to CJs looking across the water. Life is gud. Hey David hurry up, we are waiting on you. That was a fast 30 minutes.
Lookie here, we get a table for 8 next to the window. I think the cutie hostess likes me.
Crab cakes, Spinach & Artichoke dip, Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail and someone got the Caesar Salad were our deserts. The dip and the Crab Cakes were gud. That is the ones that I tasted. I think the others were not bad either, they were all gone. LM and DD got the fruit or pre-made salad I believe, since that is about the same thing they were offered at most of the eating places on the kids menu.
While we are waiting for our entrees a little boy at the table next to us notices a bird standing outside the window next to our table and ask his mom if people eat those. Mom says I imagine some do. I leaned over to her and said that bird better watch out, we are from Louisiana and will put just about anything in a stew or a gumbo. For some reason she pulled her son a little bit closer to herself.
Entrees are here. Most of us ordered the Twin Lobster Tails along with a couple of Pasta dishes. Yes I was one of the pastas, the Shrimp and Penne Paste in a lobster sauce. This was very gud. I ASSUMEd CL would at least offer me a small bite of her lobster. Boy was I wrong. If I hadnt distracted her about that stupid bird again, I would never have know how gud that lobster really was.
As far as the deserts go we tried just about everything on the menu that was un-healthy. It was all great. I thing half of the dishes made it all the way around the table.
Check time. Since we are at a table of 6 or more the gratuity is included on the bill. Who would have thought that we would have eaten, most of it anyway, $325.00 worth of food with no adult drinks. I think the tips charged on the bill are 18%. Not bad. The service was really good too. Two thumbs up (or maybe 8 thumbs) for Capt Jacks. Will come back to this one in the future.
Catch a bus back to the BW. Who knew there were that many stops before the BW. I think we counted 5 or 6 stops. Back to the room at 10:30pm.
Next Stop/////////////Pirates, Princesses and Rain Party,,,,,,,Anyone have some Ketchup?????
looking forward to you TR! 
but if planned correctly, can be real gud. 
