Dreamer & Wisher
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Day 2
We woke up to breakfast in our room. DD thinks room service is fun (it is!), and, in my mind, Disney is all about the kids. BTW Did I mention how much DW and I enjoyed looking off our balcony (after the kids were asleep) out at the Savanna under the fake moonlight the night before? We definitely want to spend some more time at AKL on a future trip. Anyway, the room service food was good. DD got Timons Griddle Cakes for breakfast because it included a side of gummy candy. I had the Safari Breakfast with scrambled eggs and pork loin. The pork loin was huge and a very yummy alternative to the standard bacon or sausage. DW had the Cinnamon Raisin French Toast. Everybody was happy DS mooched off the rest of us
Check out was 11 a.m., so we loaded up the minivan and headed on over to Coronado Springs to see if our room was ready. Again, DW called ahead, requesting a room in Cabana 9B because of its close proximity to everything and again Disney took care of the request. However, while our room was ready when we arrived, when we got to the first room, it smelled strongly of stale smoke even though it was supposed to have been a non-smoking room. DW went back to the front desk to make them aware of the problem and we were moved to a different room down the hall.
We paid extra for a water-view room, but all we could really see (we were on the ground floor) were bushes that hid the tiny lake on the other side. Our other complaint with CSR was that everything seemed like a long walk (longer than we remembered from POR and longer than we experienced later in the trip at CBR). Its a big resort, so who am I to complain? The parking was a lot closer at CBR, but we always drove to Old Port Royale because it was so far from our room in Trinidad South!
The grandparents arrived a few hours after we got settled at CBR. They were pleasant enough to start. We had just seen them in May, so there wasnt a drawn out lovefest (not that thats really ever happened with these people) in our room when they arrived, thank goodness! For lunch, we decided to head over to Downtown Disney. The grandparents wanted to take the Disney bus, but DW and I wanted to drive the minivan because our stroller was in it and the van was nowhere near the bus stop. We have one of those macdaddy humongous strollers with the place for the older kid to stand on back. We brought this thing with us on our March 2005 trip and it was a pain to fold it up and lug onto the Disney buses (this one image haunts me of trying to get this stroller onto a bus thats standing-room only after the MK closes one night ... another time, DW almost missed the bus because she was trying to fold the macdaddy stroller up and the kids and I were already on board). On the two trips to Disney since, weve mostly sucked it up and rented strollers at the parks rather than lugging this thing around. Anyway, so we compromise with the grandparents; they take the bus and the kids and DW and I take the van.
Looking back, DW and I realize this was the first sign of her parents being difficult (why couldnt they just get in the van with us?). Still, this was very mild compared with what was to come the next three days. Once we got to Downtown Disney, DW and I looked around in the shops a bit while we waited for the members of our party taking the slower transportation to arrive! DW, DD and I all got into the Disney pin thing on our last trip, so we hit the big pin hut place. I picked up a limited edition pin from the old ride "If you had wings"; I remember the ride from my one trip as a kid in 1980 and the ride opened in my and DW's birth year of 1972, which is on the pin. DW grabbed Tinker Bell birthstone pins for her and DD and a Tinker Bell birthday pin for her mom. When we were done pin shopping, we tracked down the grandparents and our kids and ate lunch at Earl of Sandwich, which was very good. We did a little more shopping; we filled up one of those boxes of Mr. Potato Head parts for the kids at World of Disney, DW got a postcard-style Disney pillow, a hair bow for DD and we bought a really cute Eeyore, whose head bobs, for my mom/dog-sitter.
After the shopping, we headed back to CSR to take a break and get ready for our dinner reservations at the Whispering Canyon Café. We ate at Whispering Canyon a couple times when we stayed at WL in January and loved the place. We had a 7 p.m. ADR, but when we arrived at 6:45 p.m., they told us it was going to be an hour wait. We balked and said, But we have an ADR. They told us they were sorry. Luckily, five minutes later our buzzer went off and we were seated. DD was too scared to ride the stick horses, but she was one of about 20 kids who got up and took crayons to another kids table during one of those ketchup-like roundup deals. I always get a kick out of the servers taking care of the men of the house first at Whispering Canyon. It really adds to the atmosphere in my book.
My MILs birthday was coming up on Day 3, so we told the waitress; I think her name was Alondro. She was great told grandmaw to stand up and had the whole restaurant sing happy birthday to her. Afterward, Alondro promptly ate the gummy worm out of what looked like was supposed to be the MILs birthday dessert (or maybe that was for DD?). Really funny. The food was delicious. We had the all-you-can-eat skillet (two of them actually!). DS ate pretty much all of the corn out of both! After dinner we showed the grandparents around WL a little but it was pouring down rain thanks to Ernesto so we couldn't go outside to see the geyser etc. After the inside tour, we headed back to CSR for the night.
Note: DW and I are cranking these reports out together; Im the writer in the family, but its her family that made a mess of the trip, so she gets the final say on what goes in! We hope to have Day 3 out later this evening. Her parents got progressively worse leading up to Day 5 and the incident, so I promise therell be more juicy stuff coming for Day 3!!!
We woke up to breakfast in our room. DD thinks room service is fun (it is!), and, in my mind, Disney is all about the kids. BTW Did I mention how much DW and I enjoyed looking off our balcony (after the kids were asleep) out at the Savanna under the fake moonlight the night before? We definitely want to spend some more time at AKL on a future trip. Anyway, the room service food was good. DD got Timons Griddle Cakes for breakfast because it included a side of gummy candy. I had the Safari Breakfast with scrambled eggs and pork loin. The pork loin was huge and a very yummy alternative to the standard bacon or sausage. DW had the Cinnamon Raisin French Toast. Everybody was happy DS mooched off the rest of us
Check out was 11 a.m., so we loaded up the minivan and headed on over to Coronado Springs to see if our room was ready. Again, DW called ahead, requesting a room in Cabana 9B because of its close proximity to everything and again Disney took care of the request. However, while our room was ready when we arrived, when we got to the first room, it smelled strongly of stale smoke even though it was supposed to have been a non-smoking room. DW went back to the front desk to make them aware of the problem and we were moved to a different room down the hall.
We paid extra for a water-view room, but all we could really see (we were on the ground floor) were bushes that hid the tiny lake on the other side. Our other complaint with CSR was that everything seemed like a long walk (longer than we remembered from POR and longer than we experienced later in the trip at CBR). Its a big resort, so who am I to complain? The parking was a lot closer at CBR, but we always drove to Old Port Royale because it was so far from our room in Trinidad South!
The grandparents arrived a few hours after we got settled at CBR. They were pleasant enough to start. We had just seen them in May, so there wasnt a drawn out lovefest (not that thats really ever happened with these people) in our room when they arrived, thank goodness! For lunch, we decided to head over to Downtown Disney. The grandparents wanted to take the Disney bus, but DW and I wanted to drive the minivan because our stroller was in it and the van was nowhere near the bus stop. We have one of those macdaddy humongous strollers with the place for the older kid to stand on back. We brought this thing with us on our March 2005 trip and it was a pain to fold it up and lug onto the Disney buses (this one image haunts me of trying to get this stroller onto a bus thats standing-room only after the MK closes one night ... another time, DW almost missed the bus because she was trying to fold the macdaddy stroller up and the kids and I were already on board). On the two trips to Disney since, weve mostly sucked it up and rented strollers at the parks rather than lugging this thing around. Anyway, so we compromise with the grandparents; they take the bus and the kids and DW and I take the van.
Looking back, DW and I realize this was the first sign of her parents being difficult (why couldnt they just get in the van with us?). Still, this was very mild compared with what was to come the next three days. Once we got to Downtown Disney, DW and I looked around in the shops a bit while we waited for the members of our party taking the slower transportation to arrive! DW, DD and I all got into the Disney pin thing on our last trip, so we hit the big pin hut place. I picked up a limited edition pin from the old ride "If you had wings"; I remember the ride from my one trip as a kid in 1980 and the ride opened in my and DW's birth year of 1972, which is on the pin. DW grabbed Tinker Bell birthstone pins for her and DD and a Tinker Bell birthday pin for her mom. When we were done pin shopping, we tracked down the grandparents and our kids and ate lunch at Earl of Sandwich, which was very good. We did a little more shopping; we filled up one of those boxes of Mr. Potato Head parts for the kids at World of Disney, DW got a postcard-style Disney pillow, a hair bow for DD and we bought a really cute Eeyore, whose head bobs, for my mom/dog-sitter.
After the shopping, we headed back to CSR to take a break and get ready for our dinner reservations at the Whispering Canyon Café. We ate at Whispering Canyon a couple times when we stayed at WL in January and loved the place. We had a 7 p.m. ADR, but when we arrived at 6:45 p.m., they told us it was going to be an hour wait. We balked and said, But we have an ADR. They told us they were sorry. Luckily, five minutes later our buzzer went off and we were seated. DD was too scared to ride the stick horses, but she was one of about 20 kids who got up and took crayons to another kids table during one of those ketchup-like roundup deals. I always get a kick out of the servers taking care of the men of the house first at Whispering Canyon. It really adds to the atmosphere in my book.
My MILs birthday was coming up on Day 3, so we told the waitress; I think her name was Alondro. She was great told grandmaw to stand up and had the whole restaurant sing happy birthday to her. Afterward, Alondro promptly ate the gummy worm out of what looked like was supposed to be the MILs birthday dessert (or maybe that was for DD?). Really funny. The food was delicious. We had the all-you-can-eat skillet (two of them actually!). DS ate pretty much all of the corn out of both! After dinner we showed the grandparents around WL a little but it was pouring down rain thanks to Ernesto so we couldn't go outside to see the geyser etc. After the inside tour, we headed back to CSR for the night.
Note: DW and I are cranking these reports out together; Im the writer in the family, but its her family that made a mess of the trip, so she gets the final say on what goes in! We hope to have Day 3 out later this evening. Her parents got progressively worse leading up to Day 5 and the incident, so I promise therell be more juicy stuff coming for Day 3!!!
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I was at MK on that Thur and MGM on that Friday. It really was great having no waits.
