Day 2-Breakfast at CRT
WORTH EVERY PENNY Do you hear me all of you non-believers. It was awesome. You think, no big deal, breakfast in the castle, kind of cool, until Cinderella walks up to you and you are five years old again and speechless.
We checked in, apologizing for being late, and were immediately ushered up to our table. The kids were awestruck by the castle and the site of the princesses roaming about. We were seated and our food was brough out rather quickly. I was pretty happy to see the food as I was starving. This is the perfect time for the Princesses to start arriving. First Mary Poppins, then Snow White, then Belle, then Cindy herself, then Aurora. Who has time to eat? We took at least a thousand pictures. The baby was quite amused by the whole thing and laughed as each princess arrived. Chris was a little shy, we promised him we wouldn't tell his friends if he had fun and acted like a kid for a week and then he lightened up. He admited that he thought Aurora was pretty hot. I have to say that the Cinderella we had for the breakfast was the best one we saw all week. The same goes for Snow White. Those voices, how do they do that all day long?
Needless to say, I didn't eat very much because of all the excitement. Shelby was in seventh heaven and even DH had fun. We had a wonderful waiter named Sir Dana, the kids even got his autograph!
After breakfast Shelby discarded the Princess garb and we headed for Fantasyland to ride a few rides. (Zack wanted to go swimming for the record) We were surprised to find no lines!! We rode Dumbo, Peter Man (twice), Pooh (twice), Snow White, and the Tea Cups rather quickly. We saw Alice and the Mad Hatter (without a doubt the funniest characters we encountered all week)
By this time the masses of red t-shirts were streaming in so we decided to take the boat to the Poly and then head to MGM. First the kids swam for a few minutes, of course and we grabbed a cookie in the lounge and a coke.
Before I tell you about MGM, I have to explain about the ID tags I made. I got some of the green paint chips at Home Depot and decorated them with stickers. I put pictures of the kids on one side and our cell phone numbers and resort info on the other side, I laminated them so the kids could carry them. They all laughed at me. Even the baby. The first day they carried them, and I never saw them again. This is important to remember as I talk about our trip to MGM.
Our Zack is a Star Wars fan, so I was sure he would love Star Wars weekend at MGM. We were surprised when we arrived to find no characters at all. I don't know if it's because we got there late or what, but we saw two storm troopers and Darth Vader, that was it.
When we got to MGM we rented a stroller for Shelby, since she was tired. It was time for our reservation at Sci-Fi Dine in, but no one wanted to go, so I canceled. Cue the rain. Again. We got a fast pass for TOT and then rode Star Tours since the line was pretty short. We looked around and it was almost time for our TOT fast pass, so we got another Fast Pass for Indiana Jones and headed for TOT. We bought some ponchos on the way to cover the stollers, so the rain quit. When we arrived at TOT it was now 2:15. I needed to be back at the resort with the baby by 4 pm since we had a sitter. We planned on doing rides for a while without the baby and the stroller, and then we had a fireworks cruise planned with two other Dis families at 9:15.
Zack did not want to ride TOT so I volunteered to wait with Zack, the baby, and the two strollers and then use the rest of the fast passes for my turn. We got Mickey Bars and sat on a bench to wait. and wait. and wait. Not only had the rain stopped but it was now about 200 degrees out. At 3:00, we went into the gift shop and got a t-shirt for Chris and Shelby ( I survived type of thing) and went back out to the strollers. And sat. And sat. At 3:15 we went in to wait in the shade where you exit the ride. We waited until 3:30 and then left a note in the stroller we had rented saying we had gone to the room and that I would meet them at Star Tours at 5:30. We went to the bus stop and my cell phone rang.
"Where are you, is everything alright?" I demanded.
"I am in the room, where are YOU?"
After a ten minute long heated debate it turned out that me must have been sitting next to each other for at least half and hour. He claims I wasn't where he left me. I was sitting ONE BENCH DOWN FROM WHERE HE LEFT ME.
Needless to say, he was furious and it pretty much ruined the whole night. Matt was there to greet the sitter, named Wendy, from Kid's Night Out and I got there about 4:15. She was really great. Very thorough, good with the baby, brought lots of toys.
We decided after lots of dirty looks back and forth between Matt and I to go to Epcot for a while. We got there and headed for Test Track. The stand-by line was like 2 hours long and there were no more fast passes. (The same thing happened last trip) We headed to find something to eat since we hadn't eaten since breakfast. Along the way, we came to Norway and went by since we were in search of food. Matt proceeds to start complaining that we were passing up rides. So I asked if they wanted rides or food, he wanted to ride Malestrom, fine, so we did. We ride and leave to find food once again.
We get to China and Matt decides this is as far as he will go, he is eating now. I can't eat Chineese food, but that's ok, we go in to the counter service place and everyone eats but me. Matt is still not speaking to me over the TOT mishap. I say to him "why didn't you call my cell phone in the park?"
Chris pipes up "He doesn't know your cell phone number and his cell phone was dead. He had to wait until we got back to the room and could look at our ID cards you made to get the number"
Turns out they went to Guest Services in the parks and they asked my number, he turned to Chris and Shelby and said "Did you bring your ID cards." No you told them they were dorky. So the cm asks what room they were in at the Poly "I don't know." Great. I am sorry, we can't help you then.
Now that the truth is out I am mad.
"Aren't you going to eat anything?" he asks as we book through World Showcase. "No thanks, let's just get back to the Poly so we can go on the cruise." We head for the monorail.
Cue the rain, the thunder and the lightening. Back at the Poly we check on the baby and ask the concierge desk about the cruise.
Nope, not cancelled despite the pouring rain and the lightening. We got a glass of wine in the lounge (actually several) and went to stand in the rain. No one was there. No one, it was dead. I go back to the concierge desk. Are you sure they aren't cancelled?
Nope, not cancelled. Why is no one there? Because the little rat behind the desk told us to wait at the boat launch not at the marina, where we should be.
We head to the marina. I don't want to go on this cruise at this point, I just want to go to bed a start over. It turns out the cruises were cancelled. So we go back to the room and release the sitter and go to bed. Still mad. (and hungry)
