Okay, so we check in at H&V about 15 min before our PS. We sit down and everyone calls their dads to wish them a Happy Father's day. It was kinda like "yeah, we love you, but we're in Disney World so gotta go! Bye!"
We decide that the only things that we haven't done are Millionaire, Narnia and DBFF and Co. would like to do the Backlot Tour. Now we're running out of time so we decide to go for the first two and I talk them out of the Tour.
DH says that after we eat, he is going to run to ASMu and check us in so that they can go ahead and deliver our luggage and get us a refrigerator so that we don't have to deal with that at 10pm when we come in from the park. What a great idea!
I do have the best DH!
We go in to eat. Once again, I find myself less than thrilled with the meal, but it is better than some I've had. The salad was fantastic - Disney has the best darn lettuce and great Ranch dressing. The other thing I remember was this kind of cornbread like side - Hey Angie - wanna elaborate???? Yeah, so it was not a very memorable meal. It makes me kind of mad that we spent $100 to eat there but after all, we weren't really paying for the meal, we were going for the priority seating at Fantasmic.
So after the meal, we say goodbye to DH so that he can truck it over to the resort and check us in. The rest of us head to Millionaire. The last showing is about to start and.....it's full (of course). We're a little bummed and now I'm especially bummed since it's about to close forever, but oh well....on to Narnia. I have to say that this was pretty cool. My kids were mightily impressed. You actually get to walk through the wardrobe to go in. They thought that was cool. We watched part of the movie and there are some surprises so I won't spoil it, but you get to see the sleigh and some of the costumes.
Since we had a little more time to kill, we decide to go into One Man's Dream. DBFF and I have both read "The Kingdom Keepers" and there's some things we want to check out. We take some great pics in there but the one I'll tell you about.......there's a life-size mural of Roy Disney with Mickey on the opening day of WDW. If you stand there next to them it looks like you were there. Well the joker of the group, DH2, goes up there and stands for his picture and is looking at his watch as if to say how bored he is and hurry it up Roy. Very funny! He really is a character of his own!
After we get out of there it is time to head up for our seats at Fantasmic. DH is still not back yet, but I call him and he's already in our room and has just finished ordering our refrig.
Making good progress! He's on his way back! So the nice cast member lets the rest of our party go on in for Fantasmic and lets me wait on DH. They've been in there about 10 min ahead of us. We're trucking it so as not to have to fight with anyone over seating, but when we get there...........THE PLACE IS EMPTY!!????!!! What's up with today???? We find DBFF and co. sitting in the smack dab center of the ampitheater with prime seating not the all the way over to edge seating we were supposed to have. This is great! Unbelievable, but Great! We get some snacks and settle in to wait!
Fantasmic (which none of us had seen in a long time) was very good. We got a little wet, but it was still okay. I had forgotten how good it is.
At the end, we are all herded out like a bunch of cattle and we start the trek to the front of the park. The wait for the bus wasn't terrible but we are tired and so thankful that we are going to get back to the room around 10:30pm so that we can get a good night's sleep!
DH shows us to our room which is in the very back of the Rock &Roll building and we get there just exhausted. We walk in and there's my little refrigerator just a chugging away and.......I'm sure you've guessed it by now............that's right........NO LUGGAGE! There aren't words that can express my initial thoughts. Well, there are, but I'd get kicked off for saying them and I try to keep my temper under control, but I'm pretty hacked off.
I mean, what's so freakin' hard about moving my luggage from ASSp (and by the way, I can almost see my former room from my new room) next door to ASMu!!?????!!!! Now DH is a much calmer, more in control, quieter, kinder person than I am, so while I run to the bathroom ("gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now") he's already on the phone with the front desk because he knew that if I got there first somebody would be chewed out. He's put on hold for about 10 min - really no exaggeration - and she comes back to the line finally and tells him that they are looking and that she'll call him right back.
Now, I've had an experience before with a front desk person that told me they would call right back and didn't so I'm timing her.
The minutes are ticking away. We're tired, the kids are griping, everyone wants to go to bed and unlike the first night when we arrived - we have nothing. Nothing. Only a Fozzie Bear and a Kermit the Frog and two glowing swords that they conned me out of while waiting for Fantasmic. We have nothing else. Thank God I took all of our money out of our luggage and carried it with me, otherwise, we wouldn't have it either! Well, 20 min goes by, and I've had enough. I get on the phone and have to tell this girl the whole entire story again. She puts me on hold and I sit there for again 10 min. Now by the time she comes back, we've already discussed whether we ever want to come here again, how we are luggage cursed, and several other things. She asks if she can call me back. HA! I know this one! NOTHING DOING! I make her pledge to me that she will (knowing full well that she won't) and hang up the phone. I wait dutifully for another 10 minutes or so and by now we're starting to approach 11:30pm. We have put the kids in the bed and we have walked outside to try to talk about this in private. Well, after a few minutes of back and forth discussion, I have had it.
Actually, I had had it about an hour ago, but I was trying to give Disney the benefit of the doubt. Well, I put my shoes back on and I'm heading to the front desk. Some manager is going to get it. I'm angry! I start towards the stairs and I see below me 2 girls unloading a luggage truck. I scan their cart and don't see any of my bags (I have a very easy-to-spot hot pink striped piece). The girl sees me and I say, "Hi Girls! Maybe you can help me. I don't really know where to start so I'm hoping you can." They politely say "sure, what's going on?" I tell them, "I checked out of ASSp this morning and was having my luggage moved over to my new room here. DH came over earlier and checked in just so that we could have our stuff in our room by the time we came back tonight, but it's not there. We called the front desk, but nobody seems to be able to locate our luggage. What should I do?"
The girls look at each other and then one of them says "What's your last name? " I tell them and they do one of those "oh crap" looks at each other. Well, I jump on that one. She then says "do you have pink striped suitcase?"
(it does pay to have memorable luggage) and I say "YES!!!!" She says "We took those bags to building 6 but you're obviously not in building 6 because here you are in Building 3!" So now I'm really concerned because my bags are in somebody elses room!!! She assures me that there is no one in that room yet and she says that as soon as she empties the cart that they have now, that they will go and get my bags and bring them right up to us.
I'm almost crying from the excitement of having found my bags! The girls did exactly what they said they would do. And by midnight (again, midnight
) I have my bags. I hugged both of the girls!
They were angels! And this is where you'll have to indulge me a little but this really did happen. One of the girls says "What are the chances that you would find us? I mean out of all the luggage people, you happened to stumble on the 2 of us that actually remembered your luggage???" And I said to them, "Oh, no girls, that wasn't luck at all. That was God just taking care of me just like He always does."
I would love to end this day by telling you all that the front desk called back, but no, we had to call them again. We told them that we had found our own luggage. And get this, this is the best part of all, we had our luggage tags on every bag, but when they moved our bags over they have these special tags so that the luggage folks know where to take them.....they had someone elses' last name on them - inches away from our tags - God forbid they double check!
Only 2 more days at WDW! I'll try and finish tomorrow!
Have a good day and if you didn't learn anything else from this day's trip report learn this: KEEP YOUR LUGGAGE WITH YOU!!!
when they check their email and this is a reply under "oh luggage, where art thou?"......
Now back to work!! 
That was cool and unexpected! 
Good news - as we're rounding the corner I realize that I'm hearing (sing along now) "Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long" and lo and behold there's Mater and Lightning McQueen! The kids get fabulous pics with them and all is good again! 
Hope camp was good. Just bumping this back up to the first page so I can keep checking for updates. love ya!
