September 6, 2011
That's right, I don't care what the camera says, it's always taking
Smidgy's side anyway.
It's now probably around 3 in the afternoon now, we are checked in but not totally unpacked.
Our room is so close that we keep finding reasons to go upstairs and get or do
something, and when we're up there, we unpack "just this thing", or, "I'll just throw this in the drawer before nebo takes it."
Both of us were doing that, it was kind of like saving pool chairs outside, only you use underwear instead of towels.
After my last round of running around and taking more pictures, I tried to settle back down in the LoUNGER, but still my tailbone thought that was a really bad idea.
Evidentally, Diane has been watching me again out of the corner of her " Whack a Smidgy", Smidgy in the Box, Pop goes the Smidgy," eye.
Finally she said;
"I'm afraid to ask this question from what I'm seeing,
but how is your tailbone, anyway?"
With the elaborate introduction to her question, I felt like the quality of the answer needed to be upped, too, or I'd let her down.
"Like a Superhero's", I replied.
"Huh?" she asked.
"THOR".
I got a "little" laugh, she's getting tougher and tougher, or my jokes are getting lamer and lamer.
"Well," she said, "You havent taken any since on the road still in Georgia, I think you can honestly say you have some relief time coming so if you want, I'll go up
to the room and bring you down a couple so........"
When she got to the word Georgia in that last sentence, she wasn't looking at me but I was already on the second floor turning left to our corner room.
Did I mention our room is on the very corner of the building?
After settling back in, I gave her my best courtesy smile and picked uup my book.
No, not the Bathroom Reader this time, but this other disgusting book
I'be been reading now for what seems like forever.
I have read many books by this author, Richard Laymon, and they are all in the horror genre and quite a bit disgusting too, but this one takes the cake.
Believe me, you do not want to get caught with this book in your possesion if something happens, it's that disgusting.
I started reading it I believe, on an April trip in '10 at the end of the trip.
It then lasted until and through the Brazilian tour groups trip and Vero Beach and Beack Club trip, then all the time in betwixt, and it was the book of choice I brought down when we froze to death last December trip.
Well, even though the cover is now completely off, the rest is still intact and since nothing is really new happening in the book, I can pick it up and know immediately what is going on and pick it all rigtht up.
Ok, it's kind of like Last House on the Left meets Caligula, if that helps, no, it's not on the Weekley Reader list, and you won't find excerpts of it in Highlights, in between Goofus and Gallant and The Timbertoes.
After a while, I'm finally relaxing, the team from Minnesoda helped and I went and sat on the edge of the pool ready to slide in soon. It was almost time for my 5 minute swim.
"You going in?" she asked me.
"Yeah, I guess, coming?"
As hot as I was, with my legs dangling in the water,,, "
Man! Am I sure I want to go in there? Might stop my heart!
And my brain shut down.
The cold water temporarilly shut down my brain, for just long enough.
It was at just about this point in time, that I realized that the "beast" that I have been
referring to in a metaphorical manner mostly as a comparison to the tropical storm we had to drive through,
is more to it than that.
The "Beast" is an allegory to the entire trip, not just the weather and the drive down.
In other words, I had just better keep my eyes open at all times on this trip!
And don't forget about the ears, too!
Smidgy had just jumped into the pool, waiting for me to join her, after sitting there I finally pushed off and launched myself into the water from a sitting position on the edge of the pool.
As I was falling, and sinking deeper and deeper,,,
past the waiste, past the chest, past the shoulders,,,,,,,
I then thought to look over to the side and see what the actual depth is at this side of the pool.
As I'm still goin down, I see SIX FT. written on the side where I have just left.
Hmmm.
I'm six feet, one inch tall, that means my mouth will definately still be underwater if I was to just stand there.
But I'm not worried about my mouth, or even breathing for that matter.
Heck no, after what we've been through breathing, even breathing underwater is child's play, without the Chucky.
My problem is that in a depth of 6 feet, my EARS only reach a height of about 5'9''!
Wanna guess who never once thought about taking out his hearing aids until he was falling through the air and sinking lower, and lower, into the pool?
Go ahead, guess, you'll never get it!
My hands went immediately to my ears and covered them up still on the way down, when my feet touched bottom I shot back up and grabbed the side again that I came from, leaped out and ran to the table and took them out and opened them both up. Smidgy had no idea what I was doing.
I was so fast, they seemed ok, not even sure they got wet but it was something else to sweat about for the next couple days. I just told her that I forgot to take them out and i didn't want them to get wet.
Right.
Eventually it really did turn into a great time by the pool, we both started to get a bit antsy and around 5 went back up to the room to finish the un packing thing and change.
It' snot until you make the walk a few times to the food court,,,,,,Ok, you all see it, I see it, it's just a matter of one "space" button that caused it, I say leave it, you can all see how it happened, total accident,,,,, but I think it may, just may, have the capacity to drive someone absolutely insane, ESPCECIALLY, if I just leave it, Canadians just HATE to see typos that spell something else, well, that's what all the books say about Canadian Bacon and Meatballs campfire and story time.
It's time for a walk for us, then end up at the food court for dinner.
First, we headed to the food court to get our new mugs.
First surprise:
Almost 30 bucks for the two new mugs, I think with tax it was 14.49 a piece, yep, I don't care how much you read the DIs before a trip, they save surprises just for us!
We bought the new mugs, then went back to the room and used the mugs to now make a walking drink in.
We has washed them at the food court, then filled them up with ice and Sprite down there.
In the room we added our respective whiskey, (me)
(wodka), her to the mugs and headed back out again,.
In search of Bardot, I mean, Banderas, I mean, Barbados, this time, beware the picture alert warning sound.
"FlEEEEEEFLEEEEEFLEEEFLEEEFLEEE"
The siren is messed up, it's supposed to say, flee, flee, flee.
I had also brought with a Disney paper cup with just some whiskey on the rocks for sippin trying to make the mug drink last for a while.
This is in the Barbados section, if you are not staying in this island, you will never have a reason to see it, and it's the most different out of all of them.
If if wasn't so out of the way, I'd request it, but it's really a long walk to the food court from there.
What's cool about it is that enhancing the regular walkways throughout the buildings are a copious amount of wooden bridges and paths. THis adds a touch of rustic to an already very colorful area.
Think, Big Al does "Cinderella's Golden Carousel".
I like it a lot, but I still don't think that overcomes the distance aspect from the center hub to recommend it.
Two, three days, tops It'll probably be ok. Any longer and you will get sick to death of the walk, I believe.
I have to admit, you can't be certain of some building pictures I have here since the date is now betraying me. I know the main colors of Aruba section is pink, Martinique is light blue, Jamaica is yellow, I think Barbados is purple, we didn't make it to the Trinidads so the heck with them,,,,
We stopped back in the room on the way back and freshioned our drinks and went back to the main pool.
This time we went up to all the counter windows trying to figure out what we wanted, though we weren't quite ready just yet to eat.
This is a place that I both love and hate.
It's really cool looking in here for a food court, looks like what it's supposed to look like, and outdoor Caribbean market complete with apartment windows above the counter openings.
But it is dark in here, especially for me in the day time.
It would take me forever just to refill my Coke, only to find I just filled my mug up with mayonaise.
My cholesterol took a beating this trip.
Let's see if I can find some food court pics.
The food court is very basic here, they don't even have your basic fried fish basket like at Riverside, or a Mom' Night Out specials like at Pop. But they did rename all the burger meals like the rest of the food courts and change the name to Angus so they could up the price to 8.59 for a cheeseburger and fries. the
best buy is still a hot dog with fries for I think 6.59. No, it won't make you want to write a review on it but it will fill you up, which is all I'm looking for in Disney.
Without ordering yet, we took what's left of our drinks and went outside and got a table near the fountain.
What fountain you ask?
THis one.
I also made a point of going right up to the gate to the pool area and reading all the signage.
Pool open 24 hours a day
No slides and children's play are until 10:00
No lifeguards on duty until 10:00
Ok, that's what I'm looking for! I was concerned since it was a "gated" community that I might not be able to get in until 10, but no, open all the live long day!
We sat there finishing our drinks as it was getting dark out.
Tomorrow, I'll get up early, come down here and get the newspaper, which is a must for us,,,, well, mostily Smidgy,, and I'll get us some good lounge chairs, maybe a table too.
Then some employees started setting up around us.
It seems that nightime outdoors movies has really caught on at the resorts, we first noticed this last year at Nero's Beach.
Ok, we'll stay a while, we have a pretty good table to watch whatever it's going to be.
But I saw something I just had to get a picture of, these usually don't translate as well in photos as they did in real life.
While I was at it, the main pool looked good to me right now.
Then we watched about half of Beauty and the Beast.
The whole outdoor movie thing worked out well for all involved.
You could see the screen better than I thought you would be able to, the sound, too was loud enough, and whoa! what to you know?
People are now captive audiences and buying really expensive drinks from the bar. I'm willing to bet it was a bartender that came up with the idea to do it right outside the bar here.
I knew I owed Smidgy a fancy drink after coming through driving the way she did for us, sooooooo, while I was at it, I got one for myself too, from the outside bar.
These were Pina Colavas, no, no Coladas, Colavas and no I don't know what the diffference is, nor do I care. Come to
think of it, it might not have any coconut in it.
Or maybe it did.
But it did have some lime in it.
Yeah, that' it.
Coconut and lime.
Lime and Coconut.
You put the lime in the coconut, you drink it all down,,k
you put the lime in the coconut and you drink it all down..
Sorry, I miss Harry Neillson.
We never did go and eat at the food court that night.
With the movie playing, Illuminations started and you could see it very easily right from where we were sitting, at least the higher stuff.
After a while, we wanted another drink,,,, the last drink tasted a lot more like more than it did a hot dog and fries, but no way was I wanting to spend another 16.50 for two drinks, now add the tax like they do and you're expected to tip, of course, also.
So, two drinks cost 20 bucks and since you are on vacation you are expected to pay this without thinking twice.
At this point I'm expected to expectorate!
Twice!
You will sit there in your planning stages, and rule out a room or a resort cuz it costs another 15 bucks a night, but then you'll gladly hand over 20 bucks for a couple of pena colavas? Whoops, sorry, coladas.
Ok, you never got to see it, I changed it before I submitted it, sorry, the "Porky's", "Revenge of the Nerds" childish humor got to even me temporarilly and I gave in, temporarilly.
I won't let it happen again, at least for another day or two and I'm sure you all know what I typed.
Back at the room, we poured a little bit of the premade Margarita bottle I bought, TGIF I believe, poured it into plastic cups and broght them down by our own private pool for a little bit.
I thought about changing back into my suit,, mentioned it to her, but we both agreed that it just seemed like an overwhelming task at the moment, so we stayed dressed and just sat there, talking.
There are two tests, very simple, innocuous type tests that seem contradictory to each other that let you know compatibility scores with your partner.
One, is when you can sit there and talk until the wee hours of the morning and time will just fly by, really, have you ever been surprised to suddenly see the dark outside the window turn into dawn?
The second way is to sit there with your partner and maybe just hold each other without saying a word.
No, we couldn't exactly do that sitting at the table, but we weren't exactly blabbing up a storm either, it's nice to not feel like you have to entertain the other person.
Then we went back up to our room, knowing that we are finally in DisneyWorld, AND SLEEPING HERE TONIGHT, but even more importantly, I don't have to touch the car tomorrow, at all!
It took all of one day to throw our eating schedule off, it was going to be food court tonight, Planet Hollywood tomorrow and Braunschweiger on Rye Thursday night.
Back in the room Smidgy made the Braunshcew,,,,
liver sausage sammiches with macaroni salad and a hard boiled egg for each of us, yes, we brought the eggs already hardboiled.
And Cheetohs.
Again.
Boy, at the rate they are going, the macaroni and Cheetohs aren't going to get paired up with BLT at all!
That would have been a match made in heaven!
Take me back to CBR. Nice pic!
Nebo has a fuzzy cup in his hand and Smidgy don't. Didn't it used to be the other way around? 
Ya gotta be a dedicated resort drinker for that.
Everybody! 
