09/11/07 I try to mix it up with an easy park the day after one of the big parks. Someday you youngsters will understand the need for less speed.
The Great Movie Ride is always our first stop. It is not as easy to bypass the long lines as it used to be though and since I tend to get shorter and shorter if I have to stand still for any length of time we did not visit this attraction near as often. I always enjoy it though. I love old movies, especially the old movies. Musicals the most! Monty Python and anything by Mel Brooks tickles my funny bone. On one trip through the GMR we sat up front and the driver was an extra in one of the movies that is shown at the end. L&M tends to enjoy looking at the floorboards of each attraction while thinking of past meals and wondering how long until the next one. Everyone has to have a lifes passion. I can longer go through this ride without thinking of Janet2K and her progressive meal she had in this attraction. I was lucky enough to be at DW when she was there doing all those fantastic things and we shared a couple of Spectromagic parades and the fireworks together. Amazing woman!!
Having worked up an appetite on the Movie Ride we wandered down to the Commissary. Free Dining is an excellent opportunity to try places that you might otherwise not for fear of wasting hard earned dollars. The Commissary was alright. Sure tip off that it was less than stellar was the ample opportunity to find a table. I tried the Cuban Sandwich
that I had often read about. I liked it but then being carb deprived anything resembling bread thrills me beyond belief and when it is also toasted in butter and has cheese it is downright heavenly. L&M loved the Chicken Curry
and would like that again. I had the chocolate mousse but found myself envying L&Ms strawberry parfait.
The Stunt Show has changed a bit and we enjoyed it as always. I love details and can see something over and over again and see something different. Figuring out how things work, or do not, has kept me married for decades.
Still working on that one. The Garcia family kept me company while waiting for the afternoon parade to arrive on the steps over by Drew Carey, our favorite parade spot. They were from Houston and I gave them my card with info on how to become a DISer. Some kind soul on here once posted a site where you could download Disney themed cards and customize them so I include our names, state and then the DIS url. It saves me from writing it over and over and over again.
Learning from past mistakes I used two snack credits for some iced teas while we were visiting. Last year I nearly fell over from being dehydrated as I did not want to waste snack credits and ended up with enough left to give each person in our tiny town a treat.
A friend had insisted that we would enjoy the Animators so we dutifully went to see what it was all about. Nearly did not get in as we were near the end of the line and a lady whose daughter was an avid artist was going to be turned away and I was willing to give up my place for such a good cause but the CM put a couple of more chairs up front so we all could get in. I did a passable Pooh but would not do this one again. I already know that I can follow instructions and copy most anything. Unfortunately original art is where the money is. Also, I am not so good at painting ceilings.
We had eaten at Prime Time previously and went back again. I love the Boursin cheese and fruit appetizer and could make an entire meal from that alone.
I chose to have a Strawberry Smoothie YUM!
instead of yet another chocolate dessert. Who would have thunk it possible to get tired of chocolate?? I had the top sirloin steak
I knew my L&M had ordered poorly and would still be hungry. And the man complains that I do not take good care of him. How many wives do you know who plant night blooming flowers for their second shift husband to see when they returned home from work?) L&M had the Pork Tenderloin,
Shrimp Cocktail and Apple Cobbler. Onion Rings are a required side dish.
We headed down toward the stadium for the closing program in spite of threatening skies. You gotta have faith, lots and lots of faith. Did not work one bit though. Fantasmic was rained out but I drive to MGM and was parked near the front so it was not nearly as hard to get out of the rain and head toward our resort. When I got back to the room I was overwhelmed as someone or several someones had been by and left copious amounts of LGM as well as other colors. I had decorated our door and window in true DIS style as one of the threads I hang on had suggested and since our room was right across from the food court I had a lot of foot traffic. Just wish more folks had left their names as there were so many to thank this trip. I nearly needed another piece of luggage for my loot!
09/12/07 A breakfast buffet at Bomas started out our AK day. I am not much of a breakfast eater, as I have said previously, so you have to take my review in that context. Breakfast food is breakfast food and there was not much different to be found here. All things considered if I was paying OP I would just as soon go to our sturdy standby, Golden Corral, up by Crossroads. $5 and it includes your beverages. They also make omelets to order. Glad we tried it once but doubt it would be done again, OP or DP either. I do like the dinner buffet but just cannot eat enough to justify the cost. I tell you living with an all you CAN eat fellow while I am a can I afford the calorie type person is difficult. BTW, your stomach does shrink when you diet for a long time. I am grateful. (108 pounds gone and some more waiting) Make that 110 pounds of Tuesday.
I took a detour to AK to make sure I knew how to get to POP Century since there was a Meet the next evening. Easy, even for me but then everything looks different, to me, after dark. Gassed the car up for the rest of our Disney wanderings. Disney gas is cheaper, far cheaper than any other gas around. I am guessing that they want to keep us on property where we are not tempted to spend any of our money elsewhere. Smart, very smart. Everyone complains about how much gas it costs to drive there but we save so much on not driving nearly as much on property as we do at home to more than make up for the drive down and back. This only applies to folks who stay for long trips though.
Tom was feeling a bit feverish so we canceled our AK plans and I took him back to the room where he promptly fell asleep for the rest of the day. When he woke up I went up to the food court that evening to get him something to eat. He must have been feeling pretty badly as he did not eat nearly as much as usual. Instead of eating his food AND most of mine he only ate his.
The folks at the counter were so very unfriendly except for one young fellow named Tom. Made the experience a lot better. I was good and got a fruit bowl instead of a dessert to have for breakfast the next morning. Usually I just drink my veggies, in the form of a can of V-8. My steak salad was pretty lame. Quote the Raven Nevermore!
I had meant to post this last night but I got sidetracked. i would tell you by what but since some of you nearly nominated me for the Nobel Peace Prize for giving a fellow DISer a FP that I did not need I would be afraid of sainthood for my actions of the past few days and I certainly do not need that kind of pressure!!
I have a busy day tomorrow too but I will try to work a bit on a report for tomorrow. I need to post a couple of days at a time to make it by Friday. Keep in mind that I am also packing, cleaning, doing Christmas cards and a million other things. Did I tell you I was also old and slow?????
Slightly Goofy/Linda
Guessing you might live in the Cincy area?
can't wait to read on 
What an unexpected delight to come across the beginning of your trip report tonight. 
Hopefully when DH retires, we can vacation for 24 days, although I'd miss the cats! Your prospective of a couple with no kids TR is great.
