Now that I had these teeth pulled, I also quit shaving, figuring, even though i just shaved off my moustache, what's the use, I'm still going to look like a moron anyway.
And she now wants to see what I look like with a goatee, you know, hair on my chinny chin chin, since I also barely have any hair on my shinny shin shin. (thanks a lot, Mike, you started this)
And it's already itching!)
Then I see they are casting for the Deliverance re-make, so I grabbed my accordian and went downtown, thinking I have to be a shoo-in for the banjo guy role.
I didn't get the gig.
They said I was over-qualified!
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It's still Monday, going on back to the parks with fuzzy cups in hand, mainly to see Forbidden Journey at night for me,, and then for dinner at Jimmie's Buffet, Margaritaville style. On the way back we decided since it's still light out to hit the other park first and do the Mummy again, before you even get in you see this first:
Oh, but before you enter into the CityWalk area,, you have to go past a checkpoint to make sure you aren't bringing in any alcohol, as if somebody would do that.
Right before we rounded the bend to meet "checkpoint Chairlie' Smidgy slugged down the rest of her Fuzzy Cup drink.
And I wasn't in the mood to slug anything down just yet.
Smidgy glared at me,, "She's just going to take it away from you"
"We'll see".
After going through Diane's pack,, the girl asks me what's in my coffee cup.
"You just answered your own question" I told her.
She laughed, nodded her head to go on, and Smidgy glared even harder.
There's no scorn like a woman's scorn.
"Um um good,,, this tastes so good to me right now,, I hated to waste it in one big gulp"
I'm not helping matters.
And once again,,, The Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rocket. Or is it Rock it?
And we take a ride on the Revenge of the Billy Mumy again, I think it's a great special effects ride.( He was scarier in a couple of Twilight Zone episodes as a demonic little boy than IMHOTEP was in The Mummy,, IMHO.
Back to Island's of Adventure.
It was just getting dark, and our first stop on the way to Potterville was to see the new and improved Spideyman.
Well, less than a ten minute wait,, no point in even using our front of line privelages. As for them making it new and improved? Well, they did, and yes, they did that too.
Only it's not as good!
At least to me,, but she agreed with me as well.
The new digital images are sharper, more detailed,,, the sound improved as well, the simulation tied in even tighter to what's happending on screen.
But the OMG factor isn't quite as it used to be.
Especially what used to be the heart stopping fall at the end,,, now it so clear it, it's too cartoony,,, not scary like it was. The feeling of falling 40 stories just isn't there anymore. And for me,, no,, I'm not seeing 3-D like I used to see before,,, but again,, even Diane was;n't quaking like she used to do at the end of it. Oh, itj's still good, it just lost that little something extra that it had.
The score remains the same,,, nothing like this at Disney at all, I think it's still Uni 9- Dis 5.
Continuing on, we passed by Dudley Do=Right's Ripsaw Falls, and apparently I took a short video,,, not sure why,,, maybe after I load it and watch it I'll know.
But we weren't going to ride this now befor dinner, not in the mood to sit in an air conditioned restaurant in November in soaked clothes.
But we have ridden this many times before,,, and it's often compared to Splash Mountain.
Nope,, not even close.
Disney wins this round by a landslide,,, but I'm not saying it's not a fun ride, especially if you are kind of sick of Splash Mountain.
Uni 9 Dis 6
The sun is setting fast now, we keep on walking back to Hogwarts. And see the sign now:
Forbidden Journey; 60 minutes.
or was it JoeBiden's Journey; 60 years?
I did not want to try and make it through this queue again with a pack of feral Slytherin on my heels, pushing me along, nor did Smidgy relish leading me all the way through it again. It wasn't completely dark yet, and I had no idea what I'd see in there now, so we asked an employee if there is an alternate entrance, explaining that we aren't trying to escape the wait time,, just escape getting trampled.
Well, this guy's eyes lit up, he took it as a challenge.
He leaned over conspiratorilly, whispered, "stay close, follow me" and opened a door we didn't even know was there.
We followed.
I could not possibly even descibe the route we took.
The best I can say was it was long;
Down a dimly lit long hallway, down a flight of stairs;
another long hallway, past the bones of Peter Petigrew;
This is Hogwarts version of Magic Kingdom's "Utilidors", for employees only. (or for Buzz who's ute was just used as a door.)
A couple of bends in the road,,, and now he stops at an elevator and pushes some buttons, we are going back up now.
Another long hallway and finally we end up in a room with about 6 other people, just off to the side of the loading area.
And I kept wondering how did these other idiots get here?
It looked like they were mostly wheelchair people.
Soon, a girl took me by the arm,,, again,,,,and at least now I can see the moving walkway, loading went without incident. Yes, once in a while that can happen. I need a t-shirt the same color as a cardboard box, and on the front and back , "FRAGILE" in huge letters.
Then the most surprising thing happened to me on the ride:
after this morning I couldn't wait to ride it at night when I can see better, I just knew it would be an incredible ride,, and see better I did!
And I was kind of unimpressed now.
To use the phrase so many others use in descriptions:
Meh
The ride vehicle and all it's movements was totally impressive,,, but the matching up with the movie screens around you seemed like hit or miss. I also thought the screens were still grainy looking,,, everything stilll mostly at night, and dark, with Harry somewhere constantly shouting, "C'mon, let's go,, look out, bloody hell!"
Oh, it's still a good ride,,, I guess it just got built up too much in my mind first, like what used to happen when as a kid you'd see the Christmas presents under the tree, and you couldn't wait to get to open them,, and then you finally do, to reveal,,,,, socks and underwear!
Funny, nowadays, socks without the hole in the heel would excite me.
One thing though,, the whole area looks really cool at night, well done there.
One thing I wanted to do but forgot about, was to look for a restroom to see if Moaning Myrtle was peaking into the urinals. I thought that would be a nice touch, to have her image show up in a mirror,,, or a soundtrack playing of her flirting with everybody.
We took the Suess way out, and they totally changed the lighting in this land for the Holidays,,, and I wish they hadn't. I had never seen it here at night,,,but I could see al the lights that would be lit in the daytime,,, and now almost none of them are lit,, just strings of the little Italian style Christmas lights hanging over head.
Supposed to be festive I guess,,, but it just made it darker and less Suessian festive to me.
Time to go eat, I'm hungry.
For once, no wait really at Margaritaville, got seated right smack dab in front of the stage with a white guy with a guitar singing to us.
Singing.
The whole time.
Did I mention we were right in front of him?
I could have untied his shoes.
Now, I know I haven't kept up with music much lately, but how can somebody sing for an hour,,, and I only really recognized one song? Shouldn't he have accidentally played something I knew by chance?
As Diane's dad would have said, "I never heard so many strange songs in all my born days!"
And the song I did know, I didn't like; "Good times Charlie's got the Blues" Maybe I'm stupid,, but for some reason I kind of expected to hear something by a guy named Jimmy Buffet.
We split an order of the Volcano Nachos,,, and believe me,,, that's all youneed to do in here.
"I don't know, where I'm a gonna go when the volcano blows."
But she didn't really think it would be enough so we ordered another appetizer to join them,,, but darned if I can remember what it was.
Wait,,, yes,, I think I do,, it was cheesy fries, pretty sure, which we didn't need.
The Volcano nachos there are terrific,,, and it really is a mountain of nachos, HUGE! Think Vesuvius here. No, not cheap,,, but two people can eat and get stuffed for 15 bucks,,, now that's my type of dinner! And these are not your food court type nachos,,, these have plenty of ground beef, sourcream,,, cheese,,, this isn't just some chips drizzled with melted cheese.
I'm pretty sure the recipe says to take everything that tastes good but is bad for you, pile it as high as you can and enjoy eating them while you wait for the big one to hit.
I finally gave up eating,, and we had it wrapped up to go back with us,,, hve no place to put it,,, but we just could't leave what was left, when we left, to the left. (exit stage left)
It was still too good, and there was too much left to leave.
It was still kind of early, so made a drink in our DISNEY refillable mugs and took a walk around the lobby/grounds/pool area. Tomorrow we are going to start out by the pool when we wake up,, no rush to anything just take it as it comes.
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Tuesday,, November 27th,,, no more birthday,,, no more special treatment.
Hey, oh yeah,, what happened to the special treatment part? I think I missed that when I sneezed!
Oh well,,, I got up first, the double room room is really convenient for this type of thing,, I can leave "She who must not be disturbed" totally alone in the other bedroom while I open the blinds and turn on lights in the other side to do what I have to do.
Want to guess what was for breakfast that morning?
Hey, don't knock it, even cold they were really good.
Although I could have done without the jalapenos at 8 in the morning.
I was basically just killing time for a while right now, till it's time to head to the pool,,, at the moment it's still a bit chilly out,,, and the sun may not have climbed up higher than the building yet for any sun to reach the pool decks.
I considered going and checking on the car, till I realized it's 1300 miles away near Chicago.
No, I'll pass this time, besides, I don't think she could have closed the door on the seatbelt again, running down the batttery.
Right?
Right outside the door is a USA Today newspaper,, also a perk for being a Loews First member, though I'd rather have a Sentinel, so I read that for a while,,, then grabbed what I needed and went on down to the pool, hoping the Cackler would not be there.
They were just setting up the water urns again,,, and now thad the Sentinels in a pile as well. I grabbed one and took the exact same seats we had yesterday, when I caused the Chinese and Aussies to fly off into space from my faux pas.
One more thing here:
I took a short video to share with the class.
Only problem, I have no idea what it is I'm looking at, or hearing. It might help if I can turn up the volume to hear it better, but she's watching tv right now so I don't want to do it.
So for now it's a complete mystery to me,,, let's see if anybody else can come up with what it is, but by it's number sequence, it was either taken that night or one of the first things I used the camera for the next day.
No, the dates don't come through on my little videos.
