Ok so 3 million years ago (ok, maybe it was 3 weeks ago, but it felt like at least a million
) when I last left off with my Honeymoon report we had gone up to the room to take a nap. Well, DH took a nap I, of course, couldn't sleep. So, I decided to raid the lounge for food. That is why we paid for the concierge level right? I loaded up my plate with lots of yummy snacks and then made one for Candi too, I knew he woulds be jealous when he woke up and saw my super yummy brownie, and well, I just can't share when it comes to chocolate
. Then I grabbed a couple of cokes and went into the room to watch TV. Well, when I walked into the room it was a site to be seen. Candi had managed to take up the whole bed and was already SNORING!!! I mean seriously, it took me like ten minutes to get the snacks!! My poor baby was pooped, but in a hilarious sort of sleeping fashion. He was laying on his back, but was sideways on the bed with one foot on the footboard and the other stretched out to the side. He was using
3 pillows for his head and had one arm hanging off the side. Now why exactly I didn't get a picture of this I will never know
Oh yes, because I was laughing too darn hard to find the camera
I actually didn't mind that he was taking up the whole bed, I wanted to go out onto the balcony anyway. But first, I figured I better help him get into a better position so every bone in his body wasn't aching when he woke up! I helped turn him to where the bed was long enough for him and then helped him get off his shoes (that's right, he did not even take the time to take off his shoes) and that's when I saw it ...............
HIS ANKLE WAS SWOLLEN UP TO TWICE IT'S NORMAL SIZE!!!!!!!!
Like, I said before, I love him for not complaining, but this was not good. I instantly ran out of the room and asked concierge for a ziploc baggie to put ice in. They asked me what I needed it for and said they would be back in five minutes. I waited in the lobby and when they came back up, I started crying, they came back up with a real ice bag (not just a baggie), an ace wrap, ibuprofen, and a tinkerbell pin (magical pixie dust of course, he said). I know it sounds silly to be crying over that, but it made me realize why Disney makes all the difference. I know at so many other places they would have, maybe, gotten the ziploc baggie, but more than likely, acted like it was a huge ordeal for them. I thanked him profusely (I wish I could have remembered his name, next trip I am making note of people's names) and proceeded to the room to "doctor up" Candi's foot. I took the two pillows he wasn't using and propped up his foot and molded the ice bag around his ankle and then wrapped the ace bandage around it to hold it in place while he slept. Now, if somebody put freezing cold ice on my foot while I was sleeping I would have woken up screaming. But no, he just went "mmmmmmmmm" and started snoring again
After, I tended to all that I went out onto the balcony to eat my snacks.
Oh my goodness, everything is so beautiful about the Wilderness Lodge, I cannot stress it enough. Here was the view off the balcony
If you looked to the right
And if you looked to the left
I loved all of the trees and feeling so secluded. Now I kid you not at that very moment I was thinking to myself "this is so romantic if only Candi was out here with me" and out hobbles Candi going "when did I put ice on my foot?" Oh geez babe, it was Tinkerbell
I asked him how he was feeling and he said he was sore. I gave him the Ibuprofen and his brownie and told him we would just stay in the rest of the night. He wasn't having it, he said it was only swollen because he hadn't been on it so much in a very long time. This was very true, after his last surgery he was put on bed rest for three months!!!!!!!! I double checked and he said he was positive, that we just had to take it easy tonight. I told him I promised as long as he promised to let me know if it got to be too painful. He agreed and we got ready for the second half of our first full day in WDW. This evening we once again had dinner reservations so off we went
We got downstairs and the bus we needed was pulling up, SCORE!! We hopped on and talked about everything that had happened so far. Only halfway into our first full day and already so many magical things had happened. After a couple of stops at other hotels, which I enjoyed by the way. I know it sounds silly, but I loved checking out the other hotels. Anyway, after two other stops we pulled up to
Of course I had to explain to Candi how when I was there a decade ago (literally) it was called Disney's MGM Studios and then I had to try to explain to him why they changed it. He decided Hollywood Studios sounded better
Tonight we had the Fantasmic Dinner package. My Aunt had purchased this for us off of our registry (thank you Aunt Kathy
). We were early for our dinner reservation so we started walking around and then I spotted them...I had been looking for them all morning and there they were.....
WEDDING EARS!!!!! These were also purchased for us on our wedding registry...man, I loved that registry!!!!!!!!
After getting our wedding ears we went exploring the park. We decided that we would stay on the same side of the park that our reservation was on. So we stopped and talked to this guy
Then Candi saw this
But we had missed the current show and would be eating during the last show. We agreed to come back later in the week and try to catch it then but he was still very sad
Then Candi's cell phone started ringing (but remember the promise about not answering) so he let it go to voicemail and then we checked it to make sure it wasn't an emergency. Well, it was the limo company we used for the wedding saying that the card we had given them was declined....WHAT?!? That constituted as an emergency and we went and sat down to call them back. While Candi made the phone call I explored and decided that I wanted this in my backyard
I love me some Dopey...he is just too cute!!!
Candi got off the phone and let me know that it was all taken care of. See as a wedding gift Brian (Candi's brother) gave us the money to book the limousine. When we booked the limo they took our card number to put on file and said that we would be charged the Monday following the wedding, to include all the hours we ended up using plus the tip we had left. Well, we forgot the bank card we left on file had been lost and we had to replace it. The new bank card had a different number and we had forgotten to call the limo company to tell them....oops! Oh well, all was fixed now. Then the High School Musical parade thingy started coming by and Candi ran away
I'm not kidding either...he HATES HSM and grabbed my hand and took off in a mini jog to get away from it...MEN!!! We decided we would attempt one attraction before our reservation and Candi decided to go into this
The Drew Carey, Sounds Dangerous show. After we got out he tells me "if I would have known this was here, I wouldn't have needed to go back to the room to nap
" Seriously, we thought it was that awful...don't waste your time...that's my opinion anyway. The good news though, was that it was time to eat. Due to the reservation times available we chose to eat at
Now, I am not normally one to complain, but I have to speak my mind on this one. I understand that it is a buffet and I don't expect 5 star cuisine from a buffet, but this experience was all around bad. We went up to the podium to give our name and I (out of habit) gave them my maiden name (oops, sorry babe) when she said she didn't have it I realized my mistake and gave her my married name. Well, this lady seriously tried to accuse me of just seeing that name on her list and saying it was mine...WHAT?!?!? Luckily, I had the printouts of our reservation confirmations. Then she said that the wait would be 45 minutes....ummmm, what's the point of a reservation then? I could have understood if it was 10 minutes or so, but 45??? Well, we were hungry and we already had the package so we waited. Well, it took about the whole 45 minutes and then we were seated. I knew Candi was starving by this point, so I told him to go get his plate of food and I would wait to order our drinks. He fought me, but I threatened him with another viewing of Sounds Dangerous
so he obliged. He got back from making his plate and there still hadn't been anybody by to take our drink order. So I went up to get my food, and by this time a line had formed so it took me a good ten minutes to get through the line (no biggie) but when I got back we still hadn't had our drink orders taken. Finally, I saw a waitress walking by and asked her to which she rudely said "we are very busy but I will try to find your waitress." Finally, our waitress came out and got our drink orders. I was kind of upset that she didn't apologize for taking so long, I'm not going to lie. Well, then it took her ten more minutes to bring us our drinks....they were an iced tea and a diet coke...nothing difficult. She brings them out and I ask for a straw (I'm sorry but I have to have a straw at restaurants) and she stomps off all mad because she didn't have any straws in her apron. She brought our straws and then we never saw her again. Now, if the food had been good I would have brushed off the service but, it wasn't. Half of it was cold and the other half wasn't edible. I ended up going back to get the kids mac and cheese and chicken fingers (now those were good). Finally we hit the dessert buffet and those were delicious!!!! Then we had to flag somebody down for our check. When (a different) waitress brought our check she asked for our payment immediately so they could give our table to somebody else. Ok, the place was busy, but it wasn't like we had been there for hours or anything and half the reason it took so long was because we could never find our waitress. At that point Candi asked to talk to the Manager (who I admit came right away) but he basically told us we needed to understand that it was busy and to expect that the waitresses would feel rushed. Rushed? Fine. Rude? NO!! In the end he took 10% off of our bill, which I kind of didn't feel like was enough, but I wasn't really trying to get a free meal. I just wanted them to know how rude their servers were...this was Disney not a school cafeteria for gosh sakes.
Ok, enough complaining, we were lucky and it was the only bad experience we had the whole rest of the trip (well, the WDW part anyway).
After we left the Hollywood and Vine we realized there was plenty of time before we had to give our little passes to get into Fantasmic! So we made a plan......
! Cant wait to hear about the honeymoon too ! Gotta love WDW!
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We had a blast...hope you stick around to read the rest 
Here is the link to the official description if you are interested
