Day 8
Oh, day 8 how hard you have been to write! You se, if I write you, then all that is left to write is day 9, and then it is OVER, which means I am really home, and my trip is over, and I’ve got nothing to do for the next eight months, one week and 4 days but work on planning my next trip!
…Wait a second, I only have
eight months to plan? Dude, I need to finish up this trip report fast so I can get started!
Day 8 was a sleep in kind of day. I had a fairly extensive list of things I wanted to cram into my last day, but #1 on that list appeared to be “sleep until after 9am”. And so I did. Check one thing off the list!
When I finally managed to get out of bed, I went out to my balcony to say good morning to Epcot, and… it wasn’t THERE.
Who stole Spaceship Earth???
I was fascinated by how the fog had totally covered the giant golf ball- very cool!
About a half hour later, I was glad to see that it had been returned:
And now I’m going to throw in a bunch of Beach Club/BCV photos here, because I have eight zillion from today, and I think they’re very pretty, and that means you all have to look at them!
There’s no graceful way to throw a bathroom photo into the mix, really.
Oh my goodness! This just reminded me of the bathroom story!!! I can’t believe I nearly forgot!
I kept noticing that every time I went into the bathroom, the water in the toilet was a milky white. I figured it had to be some kind of built-in bowl cleaner- if you flushed it, the water would be clear, but after sitting for a while, it turned white. I was perplexed! But it was working fine, so I didn’t really care.
Until it stopped flushing.
I know the normal thing to do at that point is to call maintenance, but I work front desk at a hotel at night, which means I’ve done my fair share of maintenance. Actually, the most annoying guest I had at the hotel the whole year earned that title because of a toilet maintenance problem. (She called the desk at like 11pm, and refused to believe me when I said that we didn’t have a 24 hour maintenance staff. “What do you do when something breaks at night?” she asked. A valid question. “I can usually fix it.” Because seriously, it’s usually a lightbulb that needs replacing, or a TV that’s come unplugged or something. “Fine,” she snarled, “You can come fix this then.” And so I did. It took ten minutes of searching the maintenance room to find the parts, but I totally replaced some parts in the toilet tank for the evil wench. I was awfully proud, and I think that means I can now add plumber to my resume.)
So, where were we before my evil guest tangent? Oh! The toilet wouldn’t flush. The point of my tangent is that I now fancy myself quite capable of fixing just about anything that breaks in a hotel room, thanks to two years of things breaking, so I wasn’t going to call maintenance except as a last resort.
The toilet seemed to be clogged, but it didn’t *look* clogged. I tried to peer down the drain, but all I could see was white. So I did the very professional plumber thing and grabbed a plastic knife from the kitchen, and stuck it in there to feel around.
The knife tip came out white. What the heck?
After some digging around, I finally figured it out. Someone had flushed a bar of soap, and it had molded itself to the drain! For some reason, this totally cracked me up! I used the knife to break it up enough that it would actually flush, and made a mental note to add hotel plumber to my resume.
Wow. I just told a ten minute story about a toilet. This trip report is going down the drain! (And oh NO! An awful pun on top of everything else! Must recover now with photos!)
Um, quick! Be distracted by the pretty pretty Beach Club Villas!
Art the greeter is awesome! Sorry his photo turned out so badly!
Also awesome? Lobster chairs!!
I love that the BC has so many fun sitting areas! Just hanging out in them is becoming one of my favorite Disney things!
On my way out to the bus stop, I saw the DME bus, which made me a little sad, since I knew that tomorrow, it would be me getting on that bus to go back to the airport!
My first goal of the morning was to make my way over to MK to see Captain Jack’s Pirate Tutorial. I may miss a lot of things on this trip, but there is NO way I am missing Jack!
Which brings us to a pop quiz! What BIG thing has Crystal totally missed on this trip? Not done it at ALL? Let’s see who can guess first!
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The the plumber portion
I'm going back for October 28th - November 4th
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