Karen's October Adventure--Day 1--October 22, 2004

[TLinden16]

Day 1-Friday October 22, 2004

A town car picked my friend Leah and I up at 8:30 a.m. for our 10:40 JetBlue flight out of Boston. I really like flying JetBlue. The flight crew and ground crew are all super friendly and helpful. Our flight landed at MC0 at 1:25 p.m., 15 minutes ahead of schedule. We went to baggage claim and grab our luggage. After a quick stop at Publix for some groceries, we were off to Pop Century.

Our room was ready when we arrived at Pop. We were in room 0157 in the 70`s section. Our room was clean and comfortable. It was plenty big for my friend and me, but I think it would be crowded for four people. The walls were paper thin. We could hear our neighbors talking, and the telephone ring. I enjoyed walking around the resort and looking at all the icons. It was fun looking at the Rubix Cube and Pac Man and the ghosts in the 80’s section. There seemed to be quite a bit of working going on around the grounds. There were several areas that were roped off and being landscaped. I thought the food court was fantastic. There was an excellent selection of fresh and prepared foods.

After getting settled in our room, we took a bus to MGM. We had booked a Fantasmic dinner package at Hollywood & Vine, so we went right to the restaurant. The food was very good. I really liked the turkey pot roast and southwest caesar salad. I really enjoyed the snickers cheesecake.

After dinner, we went on the Great Movie Ride, and then watched the Little Mermaid and the Muppets. We then went to see Fantasmic, which was as fantastic as ever. Fantasmic is one of my favorite things to see at Disney World. I had gotten rained out of it during my last trip, so I was glad to be able to catch it this time around.

After Fantasmic, I hot footed it over to the Boardwalk to go to Jellyrolls. I made it out of Fantasmic, and walked to Jellyrolls in about 25 minutes. My favorite piano players Scotty and Ray were playing, and it would be the only chance I would get to see them play together during my trip, although I would be catching Scotty later in the week. A couple of DISers--SyracuseWolverine ant Travelin'Tigger--met me at the bar.

At the beginning of the night, Tommy Bell, one of the piano players was asking where everyone was from, and when he got to me, he said, “I know where you're from. You're a local.” I replied, ”No I'm not. I'm from Boston.” He said, “So everytime you come here, you come all the way from Boston?” I replied, “Yes." He said, "I did not know that." You know you go to a bar too much when the think you are a local.

Scotty and Ray were as wonderful as ever. As soon as Scotty spotted me, he announced that "Our friend Karen is here." I got a big hello from Scotty and Ray. SyracuseWolverine requested "Charlie on the MTA [The Man Who Never Returned]" by the Kingston Trio and I requested "Dirty Water" so they did our two Boston songs back to back. Some guy left a tip on Scotty's piano to never play "Charlie on the MTA" again.

We left Jellyrolls around midnight. As we were walking out of the bar, I spotted Andrew Dan Jumbo from the TLC show “While You Were Out” sitting at the bar. I didn’t say anything to him, as he was chatting with someone, but it was pretty neat seeing him there. It was a great start to a great trip.

 

[pumba]

that was one of our favorite songs growing up...the MTA song.....always brings back fond memories of singing it at dances.........thanks for the start of your trip

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Wow! I've now been mentioned in two different trip reports in the same week. Almost certainly a record for me

 

[JenniferW]

Thanks for posting, makes me want to go!

Jenn

 

[travelin' tigger]

but we sure made up for it Tuesday, didn't we!!!!

 

[Minniespal]

Great report ~ Thanx for sharing.

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

Man, if I had seen Andrew I would have taken him home with me. I just love watching a man work. Is something seldom seen around here. I do the home improvements and I am not too darned good at it. Slower than dirt to boot.

SyracuseWolvrine, I would have mentioned you in my report if I had met you. LOL Maybe next trip? The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of the next trip.

SG/Linda

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

Originally posted by SlightlyGoofy

SyracuseWolvrine, I would have mentioned you in my report if I had met you. LOL Maybe next trip? The only thing that keeps me going is the thought of the next trip.

I seem to remember seeing someone with a DIS pin or t-shirt while I was working AK exits, and introducing myself, and I seem to remember hearing SlightlyGoofy as the name, but I honestly can't remember.

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

SyracuseWolvrine, it is always possible that we met. I try to write down the names immediately cause my memory is picky though. Were you on the entrance? I always go through RF to avoid crowds but do come out the regular way most of the time.

I will add your name to my AKlist and make it a point to say hi next time. I am going to make up more of those thank you cards I handed out this time and add the DIS website url to them cause I got a million requests for the info and my hand got tired of writing them. LOL

SG/Linda

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

Is that your CM pin on your post? I will add that info if I am right. Looking forward to meeting you in person one day.

SG/Linda

 

[SyracuseWolvrine]

I seem to remember being on AK exit when I saw the pin, but not entirely sure. Yes, my nametag that I wear is very similar to the one in my signature (slightly different style of the actual pin, but the text is the same)

 

[TLinden16]

Eric, Slightly Goofy was at the AK the same day I was--Saturday (the day after we met at Jellyrolls). Short hair, glasses, I believe she was wearing a floral shirt that day, and she was wearing her DIS pin on the collar. Boy am I good at remember details.

Karen

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

Heck,I do not even remember what I was wearing that particular day. LOL I always wear my pin up near my face cause I figure people will look at something so odd looking. (grin)

Come to think of it I actually do think I remember speaking to a CM that day as we were leaving.

I get a bit distracted at times cause I am hearing disabled and cannot converse with more than one person at a time and (honestly) have a hubby who has some sort of adult austism. When he gets his mind on something in particular he tends to run over people and stuff so I am on edge watching for such behavior and trying to steer him away from such encounters. (Again, I apologize to the entire bus load of people at DTD who were treated to him literally jumping up and down after he took over the head of the line because he felt the bus should be there quicker AND was set on getting on whether it was there or not AND being first) More apologies to the man he nearly knocked out of his seat as he got on. He can be charming when he wants to be but if he gets frustrated or intent he can be a menace. When leaving or entering the parks I have to watch that he does not either crash a line without going through security or wander off into the parking lot in front of a bus. That is the reason I may have forgotten meeting Eric. Do they sell adult sized leashes?

Don't we sound like an interesting couple? I laugh cause it is ever so much easier than crying and crying would not help anyway.

Slightly Goofy (and got a darned good reason)/Linda