bellebookworm9
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I apologize because this will be a short, pictureless update.
When we arrived back at Kidani, we both napped for awhile. I woke up first and felt much better. I went down to the Johari Treasures shop while Mom was still asleep to refill my mug and buy a snack. My snack of choice? Minnie's Bake Shop cookies in White Chocolate Raspberry and Chocolate Peanut Butter. I had half of each and saved the other halves for mom. These cookies were huge and delicious. I would never have guessed they were prepackaged! Once Mom woke up we ate some frozen dinners I had ordered from Garden Grocer.
We decided to go over to Jambo House and try out the Uzima Springs Pool. We took the brief walk over, and found some lounge chairs. I really preferred the Kidani Pool (Samawati Springs). The Jambo House pool was much louder, the slide looked slower though I didn't go down it, and from the pool, you could see the whole slide: it was short and boring. We were also confused by the pool hours. It said the pool closed at 8, but it was definitely after 8 when we were there. We just bobbed around for awhile and had a conversation about "interactive dads." Being someone who rarely sees her father, this was a strange thing. So many dads seemed to be interacting with their kids and having fun. In fact, I think we only saw 2 dads the whole trip who were ignoring their kids in favor of their iPhone or other distraction. Mom said if my father had been there when I was younger, he would have been playing/swimming with me, but always looking around to see who was watching him be a "good dad."
Anyway, it was at the Jambo House pool that I heard the title quote: "Lauren, can we swim under people?" a little girl said to her slightly older sister.
We stayed at the pool for about 45 minutes, and then headed back to Kidani. I stopped in the gift shop again and bought a bag of chip & dale's mickey head shaped cheese crackers. Yummy! We probably watched some TV and talked about what we did that day/wanted to do tomorrow.
A hint: tomorrow brings lots of shopping! That's right, we'd be going to Downtown Disney, another first. How much would we buy? What would we think of DisneyQuest? Where else would we go?
"I Don't Understand This!"
When we arrived back at Kidani, we both napped for awhile. I woke up first and felt much better. I went down to the Johari Treasures shop while Mom was still asleep to refill my mug and buy a snack. My snack of choice? Minnie's Bake Shop cookies in White Chocolate Raspberry and Chocolate Peanut Butter. I had half of each and saved the other halves for mom. These cookies were huge and delicious. I would never have guessed they were prepackaged! Once Mom woke up we ate some frozen dinners I had ordered from Garden Grocer.
We decided to go over to Jambo House and try out the Uzima Springs Pool. We took the brief walk over, and found some lounge chairs. I really preferred the Kidani Pool (Samawati Springs). The Jambo House pool was much louder, the slide looked slower though I didn't go down it, and from the pool, you could see the whole slide: it was short and boring. We were also confused by the pool hours. It said the pool closed at 8, but it was definitely after 8 when we were there. We just bobbed around for awhile and had a conversation about "interactive dads." Being someone who rarely sees her father, this was a strange thing. So many dads seemed to be interacting with their kids and having fun. In fact, I think we only saw 2 dads the whole trip who were ignoring their kids in favor of their iPhone or other distraction. Mom said if my father had been there when I was younger, he would have been playing/swimming with me, but always looking around to see who was watching him be a "good dad."
Anyway, it was at the Jambo House pool that I heard the title quote: "Lauren, can we swim under people?" a little girl said to her slightly older sister.
We stayed at the pool for about 45 minutes, and then headed back to Kidani. I stopped in the gift shop again and bought a bag of chip & dale's mickey head shaped cheese crackers. Yummy! We probably watched some TV and talked about what we did that day/wanted to do tomorrow.A hint: tomorrow brings lots of shopping! That's right, we'd be going to Downtown Disney, another first. How much would we buy? What would we think of DisneyQuest? Where else would we go?
"I Don't Understand This!"
) but the show is entertaining. 
The apple juice was also very large. Unfortunately, in our hunger, I forgot to take a picture. 
). There was a couple on the bus with a kid and we were all making "is this for real?" faces at each other. The man said "After this we won't need to go on any rides!" The driver may have heard him.
Well, we got in, waited for the "Cybrolator" and arrived on the third floor "ventureport". I really wanted to try Buzz Lightyears Astroblasters so we set off in search of that. Even with the map, we got lost and had to find a CM to send us in the right direction. When we arrived, we found that one of the school groups was there as well. It wasn't too long of a wait, but when the CM was giving the instructions over the mic we couldn't understand him, so when the ride began (According to allears: These are the bumper cars of the future. Two people team up in each car -- one to steer and one to shoot balls at the targets on the other cars. If you're hit, your car will spin out of control!) we didn't know how to pick up the ammo. It was just a bad experience. After that, we decided that although there were other things we wanted to try, we didn't like DQ enough to fight the groups, plus it was very loud and dark. We stopped at the bathroom on the way out. Once we got outside, I realized that once again my sunglasses were missing. 
we went to Design-a-Tee. We wanted to make matching shirts. They weren't as expensive as I was expecting. I think mine was about $27, and it included a picture and up to four lines of writing. I thought it would be x amount for the shirt, then x for the picture and x for each line. One thing that also surprised me was that for whatever reason, the larger sizes had more color options?! 
