I wake up late today, 7:10am. Dawn Otter Patrol is a bust since I dont want to wake Tink & Grumpy. I get dressed and go downstairs.
Ensemble; Sleeping Beauty Original Poster shirt, jeans, Wilderness Lodge flannel shirt, glasses, etc.
I took the time to check out Roaring Forks, the snack area of Wilderness Lodge. It is undergoing a renovation and wanted to see how bad the damage was. Not too bad. I got a bagel and cream cheese to go with the drink I brought from the room and settled down to people watch. Its a nice way to relax, start the day and gives Tink & Grumpy some space as well.
This gave me some time to think about time patterns. You see, when Grumpy was last here, he would get up around 11am, get to the parks at 1pm, and stay up until 3am. Conversely, I am up at 6:30am, at the parks by 8am and to bed by 10-11pm. No wonder this is not the softly flowing river through Candyland that I was picturing.
As I am watching the ebb and flow of kids in the lobby I notice something. Little kids have this twisty, turny way of running that if adults did it would make us look like total spazes. Its like they are little hippies dancing to the music in their minds. Im so glad most of them will grow out of that.
A 10 year old boy runs by totally spazing out. You know something, girls dont do this. Only boys do. Here I am doing a scientific survey. I am down in this lobby each morning and I have yet to see a little girl with the spazzy running thing going on. I dont count the girls in the pink water wings because that was just really bad fashion sense and can be corrected.
As I am contemplating whether I can get grant money from the Government to study this further, I see the Dotster and her parents. Here is the batting order:
Ursula the Sea Witch We are the same age except that I am younger, prettier and didnt lose my waist to birthin babies (well except for tonight wait for it). This woman eats Southern beauty queens for lunch.
Bert, Ursulas Husband He is fun loving, dances, fixes things badly, and is as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
Dot aka The Dotster She is their sweet, kind, spawn from hell. No she really is a cool kid but sometimes I think she is worshipping Gozer the Gozarian in her spare time.
The Sea Witch Family bought into Vacation Club and the Villas a few years back and have been taunting me with it ever since. Can I buy points? Can I stay there? No, why dont I get my OWN? Well maybe that is because the dot.com bubble burst and all of us 70k geeks are now baristas at Starbucks. I hate technology.
I text Tink with a message that the Family, it sounds more like a cult that way, are ready to leave so we are taking the boat to Magic Kingdom and will meet them there.
The Dotster who is already supercharged on sugared cereal is going 90 miles an hour when she hits me.
Iwannagoonpoohandthehorsethingandtheteacupsandthematterhornandtheplacewiththedollsandpeterpanbutnotsnowwhiteandalltheotherstuff!
WHOA! First Pooh is lame, he ate Mr. Toad. Second, the horses are cool, we can do that. Third, you can do the tea cups by yourself because I will puke on you if I go. Fourth, the Matterhorn is in
Disneyland so you are out of luck. Fifth, the place with the dolls is evil and they put little kids in there for being bad and then they have to sing that song forever. Sixth, Peter Pan is cool, we can go on that and seventh, what is wrong with Snow White?
She looks at me with that look. You know the look. The one like that little kid would give his brother on Different Strokes before he grew up to do commercials for a money lending place.
I had no choice. I was going to the doll house of evil. I got in the boat. While Bert distracted The Dotster with sitting in the front I spent some time visiting with my cousin.
You see, back home I am getting some fixin done with the house and have learned the hard way that all contractors will say 2 weeks and 5 months later you are up to your donkey in alligators. However I have hope that when I return my kitchen counters will be done. Ursula is not so convinced.
My Aunt Tilly has wood but that dont mean she has a boat! Those lazy good fer nothings are just sittin around watchin Oprah and not working.
Im not so sure if tile guys watch Oprah. I dont think they even watch Dr. Phil. I told here that I called them before I left and they wanted to know if I could still afford it since I was out of a job. I told them I could, I budgeted for it and it better be done. Ursula gives me the same look Dot did. They must practice together. Her response Well if that dont beat all. They arent doing it. They are just spinning the wheel of stupid excuses and hoping a squirrel answers the phone.
I am sooooooo screwed.
NEXT: We hit the Magic Kingdom, Dot discovers Stitch
I too hate the wave and the clap thing. I just ignore that it's going on around me...I mean really, should THAT many people be raising their arms at once at the end of a long disney day? I really don't think so. 
Yarrrrr!
