Day 6: Typhoon Lagoon & Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show – Part I.
June 20, 2007
Since we didn’t get to bed until 4:00 AM we made sure to sleep in! I think we ended up sleeping until 10 or 11 that morning, but we really needed it. Lets face it, a 9:00 to Midnight Magic Kingdom day is difficult to recuperate from, that is why we knew full well that we wouldn’t be getting to Typhoon Lagoon before the afternoon, but we knew our bodies would thank us later!
I woke up and immediately looked at my left hand to make sure it wasn’t a dream because it sure did feel like it. Relieved that it wasn’t a dream I stumbled out of bed, went down to the kitchen, and had my daily Frapuccino. DF had made some scrambled eggs, it was seriously probably the 3rd time I’d seen him cook something in 5 years.
After our hearty breakfast we began to get ready for our Typhoon Lagoon day.
It didn’t take long to get ready and of course, we were the first ones set to go. Realizing we still had a lot of time on our hands, I decided to cave and call my mom. I called and of course there was no answer, and I wasn’t about to leave a message on the answering machine that said, “Hi Mom, Disney is great, by the way I am engaged, miss you, bye.” So instead of leaving a message I decided to call my sister—I was meaning to call her anyways for her address so I could send my nephew a postcard.
She answered the phone and of course before I can even ask her for her address, I said, “Guess What?? I GOT ENGAGED!” I think she screamed and started asking me a million questions ranging from “How did he do it?”, “Did you pick a date?”, “What does the ring look like?”, “What season do you want to get married in?” and “What color bridesmaid dresses do you want to get?” I felt like I was being interrogated, but it was nice to see that she was excited for me.
Then my sister informed me that my mom was actually on her way to her house and that is why she didn’t answer at home. Perfect timing! When my mom did arrive I did get to talk to her. She got on the phone and said, “So is there something you want to tell me?” I guess she wasn’t going to be surprised since my Dad ended up telling her the day we left. Good thing DF waited to ask his permission!! My mom cried, which made me want to cry. I am going to be a sobbing wreck at my wedding! After talking with my mom, DF decided to call my brother, who also already knew the news because my Dad had called him right after DF asked his permission. I told you they had big mouths!!
By the time we had made all our phone calls it was time to get going to Typhoon Lagoon and we had to be there by noon because Ken, DF’s uncle, was going to meet us there today. When we walked outside we noticed it was HOT and we were very happy we were doing a water park today!
We made it to Typhoon Lagoon after a very short car ride. The first thing we did before we even entered the park was get our new bar code for our refillable mug and DF wanted to buy one those waterproof containers you wear around your neck to hold passes and money. We found a little hut and asked the CM for a new barcode, which we thought cost us $5.00, DF also found his container in his favorite color, orange. When the CM rang us up he only charged us for the waterproof container and not the barcode, even though he stuck a new barcode on our mug. DF asked the CM if he remembered that we got a barcode and he said yes. Okay then, free drinks for the day I guess. Maybe they changed the rule, but from what I know from experience, Disney doesn’t give anything away for free! Oh well, our day was off to a wonderful start and we were $5.00 richer.
We took our free mug and ran to the gates. Ken had just called Jeanne and told her that he was in the Typhoon Lagoon parking lot and should wait for him, now that is good timing! DF and I decided to split off from the group and find our seats, we told everyone to meet at the gates at 4:00 PM to leave for the day. It was going to be a much shorter day than Blizzard Beach. Since my scalp was sunburned I definitely wanted to sit in the shade today, even though I was wearing a hat and loads of SPF 50, I didn’t want to take any chances, plus I still felt so incredibly tired that I felt the sun would just wear me out. We found some nice seats not too far from the huge wave pool and a lazy river entrance. I lathered on some more sunscreen and asked DF what he wanted to do and he immediately said Crush n Gusher, which is his favorite Typhoon Lagoon slide. It isn’t so much a slide as it is a water coaster on an inflatable raft.
So we went off to find Crush n Gusher...That stupid slide is impossible to locate! It is tucked somewhere in the middle of no where and there is maybe 1 sign pointing you in that direction. I think we walked around the entire water park before we actually found it, and the worse part was that it wasn’t that far away from our seats in the first place. I hate how in the water parks everywhere you go looks the same! Along the way we stopped for this photo-op with our favorite Photopass photogs.
The line was kind of long to get a raft, we probably waited 15-20 minutes, but once we got the raft we probably waited only 5 minutes to ride. With Crush n Gusher, you can sit up to 3 people on a raft and the seating is kind of like Space Mountain, with one person in front of another. DF sat in the back and me in the front. If you go on this ride they tell you to keep your bottom up otherwise you will get some scrapes where you don’t want them! I never experienced any such thing, but I can imagine it would be painful! Anyways, in order to keep your bottom up you have to hold on to the handles and lift yourself up.
Once we were all situated we were off and it is such a fun ride, except I do not recommend riding this slide if you had just lathered yourself with sunscreen! The entire way down my hands were slipping from the handles because they were so slippery and my legs were slipping too. I was seriously hanging on for dear life and I thought I wasn’t going to be able to hold on because the ride really whips you around. It was quite a crazy experience and I just wanted the slide to be over so I could stop holding on so tight!! DF asked how I liked it and I told him not so much this year because of my near death experience. Next time I will definitely wait until the sunscreen dissolves more!
We started walking around to find Gang Plank Falls which is the Typhoon Lagoon’s family raft ride. When we did find it the line was really long, about 30 minutes, and with this ride you have to carry a very large and heavy raft up many flights of stairs. I do not understand why they didn’t build a conveyer belt like they did at Blizzard Beach. Anyways, we decided to skip it because it was too hot and too long of a line to be carrying that huge thing!
DF was getting hungry and I thought I was too so we went to Typhoon Tilly’s for lunch where we decided to split my food of choice, a chicken finger basket. I took one bite and was full, I guess I wasn’t that hungry, as a matter of fact, I felt more sick than anything. DF ended up eating the entire basket of chicken fingers and fries and I just watched him, boy was I feeling crummy. I was hoping that I wasn’t going to be sick because I knew we had the Spirit of Aloha dinner show that night, and I love that Hawaiian food! After lunch I told DF I just wanted to relax a bit before we tried to do anything else.
I think that I felt sick because my schedule was all messed up. I never ever stay up until 4:00 AM and I think was still over tired. It was easy to take a nice nap in the shade and that is what we ended up doing for about 40 minutes. After my nap I felt much better so we went in the Lazy river. I just love TL’s lazy river, I especially love the double tubes because then DF and I don’t get separated. I think we went around the river 2 times, and I probably took another short nap, boy was I tired!
Now when I am tired, I get cold so it didn’t take long for my body to realize it was in water so I was shivering! We decided that we had enough of the river and went back to our shady area to dry off. I felt really bad that we hadn’t done any other water slides because TL has a lot of great tube slides, but I just didn’t feel up to waiting in lines and walking up many stairs. DF asked very nicely if he could possibly go in the wave pool for a little bit, I told him to go ahead and have fun, because I am not a fan of that wave pool! The thing scares the heck out of me!!
So I waited in our shady area and just relaxed. I ended up calling my Dad at work to tell him that he had a big mouth since everyone already pretty much knew about the engagement. We talked for a little bit and I bragged about how I was sitting outside doing absolutely nothing and he was stuck at work! I am such a nice daughter.
After about a half hour of doing nothing, DF had still not returned and now I was getting bored. I decided to take my camera and try and find DF in the wave pool. I did not dare go deep into the pool though because like I said those waves scare me so I stayed near the shallow part where the wimps hang out. I am proud to call myself a TL Wave Pool Wimp. I soon realized that it would be very difficult to find DF in this pool, since it is huge. See?
I stood around for awhile thinking I would see him if he came out of the water. I had no luck in that department, but I did get lucky because the huge waves were not going off at that time!
I figured it was time to go back to our seats to see if DF had returned. In my head I was thinking he had thought about this whole marriage thing and decided to run out on me.
Instead, I found DF back at our seats wondering where I had run off too. He said he had been sitting there about 25 minutes waiting for me, and I told him I had went to the Wave Pool about 25 minutes ago looking for him. We had just missed each other.
DF told me that he ended up finding Jeff in the pool talking with some people. This one man asked DF if he was Jeff’s brother, when he said he was the man goes, “Congratulations, another one bites the dust...” Apparently Jeff was telling the people he met that his older brother had gotten engaged. Thank you Mr. Wave Pool man for putting negative thoughts in my fiance’s head. We laughed at how Jeff always manages to meet people wherever he goes, he is such a people person!
DF wanted to go in the wave pool again but I heard the waves going off, so I was kind of chicken to go in, but DF lured me in by saying we needed Photopass pictures in the pool and he had seen the Photopass guys in the water. He sure knows how to convince me though, I cannot refuse Photopass pictures!!! So I cautiously entered the pool and DF had to literally drag me deeper inside. I am chicken of that pool because in the past years I have gone I always manage to get hurt when a big wave is going off. I either get kicked or it makes me fall over. It is never a good wave pool experience.
We find a Photopass guy who is taking pictures way too deep for my liking and I am constantly listening for the siren that warns people that huge wave is coming. We find the Photopass guy and he takes our picture.
Please do not mind my hideous hair in these pictures!
The Photopass guy then asks if we want to take pictures with the wave coming at us and the wave hitting us. I immediately say no thanks, but DF thinks it would be the coolest thing in the world. The Photopass photog tells me to not be a chicken and do it for DF. Alright, fine! Peer pressure! DF promised that he will hold me to make sure the wave doesn’t take me away, and that is the only way I will even go in that wave pool!
So here are our lovely and embarrassing (for me) TL Wave Pool pictures...
As you can clearly see from my face...I am not liking this idea.
There is the wave. I am terrified. The Photopass guy tells me to try and look like I am enjoying this and smile.
So I appease the photographer... that wave was getting close!
Yikes!!
Of course someone managed to head-butt my leg and whoever it was had a huge head because it left quite the bruise! Like I said, I always get hurt in the wave pool!
We gave the photographer our Photopass card and I grudgingly said thank you to him. After that near death experience DF and I found some chairs on the shore of the pool so we took a seat and let the waves splash us. It was fun to just sit there and see how big the waves would get. After that we saw that it was nearly 4:00 so we started to head back to our seats to pack up all our stuff. On the way we found that DF’s family’s seats were right near ours the entire time. So we all met back at their seats and we were out of Typhoon Lagoon by 4:20.
Overall, it had been a relaxing trip to TL. I felt kind of sad that I had felt sick earlier because it stopped us from going on a lot of the slides, but we also got there late and the crowds were much thicker. It is much better to get to the water parks early to do the slides because there is barely a wait. Since I had already been to TL other times it wasn’t so bad that we didn’t get to ride everything we wanted, plus we weren’t sure if we were going to take another TL trip on our last day.
It had turned out to be a pretty good day. I was feeling much better and I was so excited for our Luau at the Polynesian and our romantic walk to Disney’s Wedding Pavilion which awaited us that night.
To Be Continued...
Up Next: Our fun night at the Spirit of Aloha Dinner Show & DF and I go on our walk for some alone time! - Find it on p. 21, #311!
I am making it a point to catch that this trip! By the way....I'm hungry now after thinking of Taco Bell...Thanks alot!
I 100% recommend Spectromagic! It is so much fun if you have never seen it!! I am sorry that my installment made you cry and hungry. 
The mansion looks very romantic
