Youll have to forgive me
its not that I suck, its that I live in a place that does! Weather has been the main contributor to this being so late, along with sickness and needing to flee from our no heat apartment for a few days while it got fixed!
But Im here now
with a shiny new chapter! Arent you excited?
*crickets*
Well
at least Jiminys here.
Chapter 4: We can play games at home you know. Shut up and paddle faster!
After staring at my phone for approximately 30 seconds, I panicked. I admit Im not the most eloquent of panicers either. I looked at him in near tears, afraid my phone was dead for good. The boy reassured me that everything was going to be fine and we headed back like trout upstream heading towards the boat back to Port Orleans.
And yes, it truly was like trout upstream. Who had the idea of coming here over New Years Eve again!?
oh yeah.
We stood around for a few minutes at the boat dock, me trying to turn my phone back on before it finally came back on for about 2 seconds and then said goodbye to me. Well, it was dead, but at least it was still slightly breathing. We headed back to the resort and back to the car. I plugged in the phone and promptly called the number on the neat little card our CM gave us when we checked in.
Room 5226. Of course building five. Why couldnt it have been building 1 where we were parked at!! Things just couldnt be easy, could they? Oh no. I think thats pretty much a trend with me anyway.
We hopped in the car, new bags of Christmas stuff and all and started searching for building 5. Ok, there it is. The parking lot for building 5. But
um
where in the heck IS building 5?! We drive around for a few more minutes and I mention I think its back there
pointing to the very back of the resort near the river. The boy sighs and we park, of course, no handicap spots are near so we park near the back of the lot. Ok, whatever. Now, wheres that building?
We both suit up with about 5 package/suitcases each with more still in the car. We figure we can make another trip, but I curse myself for over packing for the moment. We start our trek. Oh look! Theres a golf cart! They wave nicely. I have to admit, I gave them a look. I dont think it was nice. What can I say, strap 5 different packages to your person and be nice to a motorized thing coming towards you!
After what seemed like forever, we arrived at building 5! Hurray! Um
where
was 5226? We looked up. Second floor. Oh heck no! There was no way we were hauling our tired, suitcase draggin, unmotivated butts up stairs! Where was the elevator?
Now, Im glad Disney has signs because I was about done with searching for stuff. I suddenly hear the boy cry out, Theres the pool! Wooooah
he stood staring at the slide. You know, the slide where you slide down the serpents tongue? The boys got a bit of a water slide fetish. I did not know this before I met him
otherwise I would have taken him to a water park the first date. Nothin says love and cuddles later like water slides! Or so the boy thinks
I mash the button on the elevator and drag him inside. Im so ready to get to our room! We start counting the rooms down as we walk, and then we get to a corner. We turn the corner and there it is! 5226! And oddly enough
theres a
playpen in front of our door?? Um
ok. We dont have children unless you want to count the boys inner water slide child. We just left it there and entered. We were completely amazed!
It sounded like every single suitcase and package dropped off the both of us at once. Just one big thud. I was out of breath, the boy didnt want to carry anything else
and we both kind of walked around the bed. I got a sudden second wind and went nuts looking at EVERYTHING! Hurray! Everything! I took some pictures while the boy was getting ready to go get the rest of the stuff
turning the air blue in his mind Im sure since I was a bit too tired to go with him. (Was I, or was it a clever ploy to take pictures? You decide)
I unwrapped our Mickey rice krispie treats for a picture as well before chomping into mine. They looked SO good but they were huge and could not be finished in one sitting. Into the fridge afterwards they went!
Mines on the right, his is the weird one on the left. Weirdo liking white chocolate. Hes lucky Im with him for that! (Or am I the lucky one? Hmmm.)
He flopped down on the bed before I started to unpack and told me to take a picture, so I did. Am I evil for posting it? Im going to assume yes.
I popped the suitcases on the bed and started to unpack the clothes and put them into drawers. Im not a live out of the suitcase kind of girl by any stretch of the mind. I like living out of my drawers! Maybe someday when Im a rich and famous comedian I shall live out of a suitcase. As this will never happen I shall rely on drawers instead!
The boy made a face at me and asked what I was doing. I told him I was unpacking into the drawers so it feels more like home. I even unpacked the entire toiletry bag and spread it out along the vanity as you can see in the picture. I think that might have driven the mousekeepers a little nuts! I smiled at him and started to change clothes.
He had told me before getting the second load of things that he wanted to get to the pool. Of course, I just wanted to rest for a while since I had just shopped my butt off but fine. We could go to the pool. After I got everything all organized the way I wanted it organized we headed down to the pool.
I swear that boy went running for the slide as fast as he could. Well, as fast as he could without looking like a fool. He probably went down it 5 times that first day. Or maybe not. Maybe only three. Maybe he went down 15 times! Youll never know! Just know hes got a water slide fetish. Keep that in mind, it will come back to bite him in the butt later I promise.
He even got ME to do the slide. And let me tell you folks, that thing goes a heck of a lot faster than you think its going to! These little kids start coming down and they hit water what looks like pretty slowly
I felt like the big whale torpedo coming down full speed ahead to hit the enemy submarine. And I must have hit that sub pretty hard because at first I had a hard time coming back out of the water! Its interesting to come down to a laughing boyfriend. Whats even more interesting is that he talked me into it again! Maybe it was fun, but I still was a torpedo. Maybe I like being a torpedo. FULL SPEED AHEAD!
After an hour or so in the pool, we were both pretty hungry so we headed back to the room to get changed. I took a quick shower and was pretty proud of myself for finding the clothesline. Note to anyone reading; dont bother setting up the clothesline while you shower. You get a face full of water doing so.
Now, unbeknownst to the boy I had ordered two baskets for his welcome since it was the first time in the world. One had alcohol so I knew itd have to be picked up, but the other was supposed to be delivered to the room. It was the whole reason I agreed to pool it! So hed be out of the room! I asked him, while I got changed to go pick up whatever was at the front desk for us. It was only supposed to be one basket according to the message so I figured he could take care of it himself. He went and came back with the snack pack and bottles of water that I had ordered from Sarah for his OTHER basket! I was just livid! I called down to the front desk and asked where our two baskets were. I knew the one with the snack pack was there because he brought back the snack pack, and I got a voicemail about the other! Well, after about 15 minutes they FINALLY found our baskets in the back room. I decided wed pick them up after dinner since we were both starving!
We walked down to the food court and our curses of how far the building was from the car became joyous praise when we discovered how close we were to everything else! We were less than a few minutes away from the main building. Talk about nice!
We headed in and stood in line. I chose the hotdog and the boy
well he chose a meatball sub. Surprise surprise! When given the choice of steak or meatball sub, this boy will choose meatball subs. Theyre like his kryptonite. Meatball subs and water slides. I think he was in heaven.
I have to admit, the food at Sassagoula was pretty darn good. I was at least surprised and at most extremely pleased. There wasnt much in the way of a crowd and we were able to snag a table right by the drink station for easy refills. And yes, we did get the refillable mugs. Theyre currently sitting in my cupboard waiting to be taken with us on the way to our next trip to get us in the mood drinking the way down.
We went over to the front desk and picked up our baskets. The boy looked at me and said And you expected me to bring all of this back to the room by myself?! Ok, I admit, it was a lot. But had I of known all of it was there I would have come with him! I threw a mug at him and kept walking. Or maybe not. Maybe we just got back to our room.
The baskets turned out just the way they were supposed to though! Take a look:
We decided not to open the one with the wine, but we definitely wanted to open the other one! We did and picked through the pins that were included, the lanyards, the snacks, the chocolates
oooing and ahhing the entire time. We put pins on the lanyards, put our tickets in the card holder and strapped them around our necks. We looked like real life Disney pros!
After much discussion during the unpacking baskets ritual, we had decided to head to Disney Quest. Now, I know most people would advocate going to the Magic Kingdom the first night but we really wanted to save that for the next day when we would be there all day long! There were no other parks we really wanted to fight the crowds for that night, so Disney Quest it was!
We hopped the boat over to Disney Quest and I have to admit, those boats at night are freaky. Disney would have quite a ride during Halloween to haunt that darn thing because it is freaky! I was half expecting Jaws to come out of the water to attack us and then I remembered we were in the wrong place for that.
We walked over to Disney Quest and it looked quite uncrowded on the outside. Ha! Hahahahaha! More on that later of course. We walked in and used our tickets for the first time. Talk about fun! Its a feeling that you just cant get any time else. We got into the elevator and watched the Genie opening. We were both very impressed and giggled like mad! Then the doors opened. We stepped out into the middle
and I admit, we got a little confused!
Ok, Ill admit, we had no clue where we were. We walked down some stairs and ended up someplace weird, then up the stairs and ended up near the little eatery. Then finally found a map hallelujah!
I have to say, if youve never been to Disney Quest before, get a map. Seriously. Its really really confusing if you dont!
We decided to hit up Cyberspace Mountain first. I had heard a lot of good things about it and in addition to a water slide fetish; the boy has a bit of a roller coaster fetish too. Freak.
The line was about 35 minutes long. Ok, we could wait that long, its not like we have anything else to do! We hopped in line and got infront of a screen with Bill Nye. Have I mentioned I love Bill Nye? I sing the Bill Nye theme songs at random times in the car. I think it kinda creeps whoever Im with out. I like it that way.
We compromised on a pretty ok rollercoaster, not too fast not too slow
not too many loops. Im not a huge thrill ride kind of girl myself. We got in the LONG line to get to the simulators. Of course, the boy was getting more and more excited by the minute, I could tell. I was actually starting to get pretty excited too! This was going to be fun!
We got up to our simulator about a half hour later, and handed our lanyards to the very nice older CM. She smiled at us and took us down to the simulator. I was a bit worried about fitting into the seats, but we both fit. That
wasnt the problem. She tried to lock the harness. It wouldnt latch. It would click, but it wouldnt latch. See, while the boy and I are bigger people, I have a chest like a porn star and he has shoulders like a football player. We couldnt ride the ride.
We were both pretty crushed by that. It felt really impossible. Maybe we wouldnt be able to fit into any of the rides here, the boy worried. I couldnt blame him, I tried not to worry myself and tried to reassure him, but it was hard. The CM gave us a fastpass to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride downstairs and we took it with thanks. I will never understand how that ride bigger people and well endowed women have problems with but Rock n Rollercoaster people have no problems with whatsoever. Go figure right?
We went down to the PotC ride and walked into the entrance. The CM paired us with a group that had done it before, score! They didnt mind taking us on and we got into the ride. The guy who was evidently a pro began barking orders at us, and were pretty glad he did though sometimes I wanted to pop him one with my cannon. If hes reading this cause hes a DISer, youre pretty cool dude, but youre very loud. The dead guy woke up because he heard you I promise
We actually did pretty darn good. We were about 100 points from the highest ranking! It lifted our spirits a bit since we were still pretty down about the Cyberspace Mountain experience. We headed back up to the Radio Disney booths, not quite understanding the concept but wanting to try it. I thought you actually sang (my specialty) and the boy was scared to death thinking you actually sang.
Ok, heres where the frustrations begin. Were standing in line. Several teenage girls stand in front of us. They get into two different booths, no big deal. Then they stay in those booths and start calling to their friends. Then their friends make their mixes
who werent even in line to begin with. We would have told a CM but we were afraid of getting out of line. And then suddenly, the end booth broke! Yeah, broke! A CM came running over to fix it and we just stood there. The boy looked at me worried and I just reassured him wed get in one soon. Finally, we did. We got into the broken one. It wasnt broken anymore though, thank goodness
though the one on the OTHER side broke shortly after the CM got into the original one that broke.
We began mixing the song and much to the boys relief and my dismay we didnt have to sing. But we had fun anyway! We apparently are going to party party party tonight. We did a funny mix and went to go pick up the CD. The CM smiled at us, got our song and then frowned. Oh, there wasnt a sign saying you couldnt get a specialty mix made into a CD? Um
no. They couldnt give us our CD. Ok
whatever. We were disappointed but wed live.
We headed down to the floor below, and took a look at the different places. PotC was up to 45 minutes, no way we were going to wait in that line. Jungle Cruise was only 15 minutes. Ok, wed do that! We hopped in line and watched as people got tossed around like rag dolls. This will be fun! At least thats what I kept telling myself.
The line got to us and we got to our raft. I sat in the front, the boy sat in the back. When we started, we started off pretty good
then it really got going! Um
why are my feet trying to hang in the air? Oh yeah, its because Im currently on my back and I cant get up!!
Im yelling to the boy, telling him to help me, laughing the entire time. Hes trying to help and paddle at the same time, laughing hysterically at me. I cant get up, Im laughing too hard! I finally sit up and we begin to paddle. And paddle. And paddle. And yet, were still sitting in the same place. I stop paddling and look at it perplexed. Why arent we going anywhere? Maybe were just not paddling hard enough! So we start to paddle harder and faster! Um
barely moving. Well what the hecks up with this thing?!
One aerobic workout and 8 minutes later we finally make it to the end. I throw my paddle to the side and glare at the boy, whos still laughing. Yeah, that was a bunch of fun let me throw myself into that situation again!!
We headed back upstairs for a well needed drink. I plop down in front of a computer and the boy gets us both something to drink. That was probably the fastest drink Ive ever drank in my life. 30 seconds and it was gone. But it was so worth it.
We decide to head back towards Cids Toy thing
and make some toys! We stand by the screens, really just killing time until we can do the animation class. We both make some really
freaky toys. Let me just give you the names.
Mines Kangaony. A kangaroo pony. His, My Little Robot. A Robot with a pony body and big wheels for the back legs. Were both sick sick people, but both of them will be displayed on the Disney shelf.
We made our toys and after about 10 minutes of helping the boy put a robot head on a pony body, which by the way is impossible and just proves that robot heads do not belong on pony bodies, we head over to the animation class. Theres still about 45 minutes. We hop into seats and look at each other. Were both pretty sick and tired of Disney Quest. I look at him sadly and he looks at me, in an almost silent moment, we get up and start heading towards the exit.
After we left, we both stated that it would be a long time before we ever went back. Have we really finally grown out of video games? Nah
just ones that dont work!
We hopped the boat back to French Quarter, stumbled up to our room and headed off to dream land without any trouble. After all, the next day was the day we were both waiting for
the first glimpse of the castle of our dreams.
Next Chapter: Of Mice and Men
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