It was the second to the last day of our trip. At first it seemed like the trip was moving at a slow pace, I didn't feel rushed and I didn't feel like the trip was rushing by either, but when I woke up I realized that it was almost over.
Coach and I got up and ready and were out the door before the girls woke up. They had told us they has no desire to see World Showcase they wanted to spend their time at MGM, which I now know is Disney's Studios, I will however keep calling it MGM for the rest of this TR because that is what it was when we were there.
We got to Epcot before WSC opened so we just hung around the gate and took pictures until it did open. We started out to the right and had planned to walk counter clockwise around. It wasn't very crowded when we started out. I really can't remember a bunch of details now, I know that I really like canada and that somewhere past there we stopped and watched a street show on Charles Dickens "Christmas Carol" it was hilarious.
In france we watched a street performer balance on chairs, he just kept adding chairs and going higher and higher. We watched another street peformer in Italy, it wasn't super exciting but it was cute and kept me busy for the hour that Coach spent in the shops, she mainly ended up buying tons of chocolate. we kept looking for something to bring back to the other 2 coaches at Raptors and to the owner, as of now we had found nothing.
We stopped in Germany to have lunch. I was uber excited for a bratwurst and sourkraut. I was let down in a huge way. It didn't taste anything like what I was expecting. Growing up in Germany I ate alot of bratwurst and it was devine, I loved Germanys food, but this wasn't even a close second, I wouldn't even describe it as a cheap knock off, it was yucky. Coach T who by this time in the trip had become a Disney know it all who knew nothing really starts telling me why the food tastes different and how it is normally cooked in Germany. I was fustrated with her, I know why the food sucked, and don't try and tell me something about a place when you have never been. she called me spoiled. Well I guess I am, when you have lived in Germany and eaten their great food I guess you do get a little spoiled.
It was 3:00pm we had ADR's at 50's Prime time at 7:00pm, or so I thought. I checked to make sure and oops, our ADR's are at 4:45pm. So we decide to use up the rest of our snack credits on German chocolate and (oh, and Coach T was an expert on this too because she hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany and he brought her some chocolate) and start making our way to the buses. We stopped into a few more shops looking for some gifts to bring back but we came out empty handed each time.
I called Reese and told her to head to 50's PT and put our name in when it got close to our ADR time, I was hoping to get there on time. We were running so late.
Our driver that took us to MGM was hilarious, he did all kinds of impersonations and telling jokes, he really made the 15 minute trip lots of fun. We got his picture and autograph, Mike, will be famous someday!
At the entrance I was told I would have to get a locker for the wine I had bought at Epcot, we had 10 minutes until our ADR, I was a wreck, I don't do the rushing under pressure thing to well. We went to buy a locker and the lady infront of us was taking so long to pay for her stuff. It was $7 dollars, how hard is it to count out $7, you could do a 5 and two singles, you could do 7 singles, you could do a $10 and get back change, you could do a $20 and get back more change, there's always the credit card or debit card option, make a decison lady!!!!!!!! I turned to Coach and said loud enough for everyone to hear. "I am about to just pay it for her so she'll get moving." now if I were her I probably would have called my bluff and said ok, pay it. But then again if I were her I would have no trouble figuring out how I wanted to pay in the first place.
We finally get the the locker paid for, we dump our precious crap in it and take off for 50's PT, we are looking at the map and walking at the same time. COach says "I got it, follow me." so I did follow her until she missed the turn, I called out for her but she didn't hear me, I called her phone but it went straight to voice mail. so I just kept heading towards 50's PT and figured she would eventually end up there.
The girls were waiting out front they had already given our name at the desk, so we took a seat on the bench and waited for Coach, she called Coley to tell her she lost me and Coley let her know I was there already. Coach showed up 5 minutes later wondering how I had beat her there. I pointed to where I came in from and she realized that she took the long way around.
We went inside and wow I was taken back to my elementary school years. We had the big fork and spoon hanging on our wall too. It was way cool to see this, they were decorated for Christmas too with all their old fashioned decorations. I loved this place the atmosphere was awesome. It wasn't long before they called us to our table.
Cousin Ashley would be waiting on us. SHe handed us the silverware and told Coley to set the table. She also told Reese to get her elbows off the table, so Reese removed her elbows but then layed her head down on the table. Cousin Ashley came back through and did not like this and told Reese to sit up straight, Reese told her she was tired and cousin Ashley told her she could go to bed early after supper. Reese really was too tired to find the humor in this, she waited for the cousin to leave and let me know that she hated this place.
Our drinks came first, we all got soda but I had also ordered a Pina Colova, which they messed up at first and brought me the Pina Coloda, it was an easy mistake, they fixed it right away.
While we were looking at our menus a group of people came in and I noticed their homemade T-shirts, so we ask one of the ladies about it, she was explaining how to make it when Coach asked her if she was on the Disboards, the lady said yes, so now I am all into this conversation.
"I'm a diser too, what's your username"? She told me Poohtiggey, I could have hyperventilated right then but I kept my cool and shrieked, "Your Poohtiggey? I'm Disneyaddicted." Where as we had not posted on eachothers PTR's we had both been posting on Roxanensteves PTR . so we knew of eachother and had seen eachother around the boards. Of course I took pictures, and sorry they aren't posted, but it was still way cool to have personally met another Diser.
After that we ordered our food, I got the fried chicken even though I was not the least bit hungry. They give the most awful vegetables to you. When my food came it looked like someone had already chewed the vegetables for me but gave up trying to swallow them. I can't remember what everyone else got, but I know Coach was the only person to clean her plate. The rest of us got threatened with no dessert unless we ate our vegetables. I tried to hide mine under the chicken bone, but cousin knows all the tricks. She let us all slide this time.
Cousin came back later and layed a viewmaster on the table, we thought it was to pass the time until the dessert menu was brough out. Reese was the first to look through it and said she was surprised it wasn't something Disney in it. Coley looked through it and claimed it to be dumb and boring, so I look through it and at first agreed that it was a little ridiculous, then it hit me, I should be colored stupid, this was the dessert menu, how ingenious of an idea was that?
I got the s'mores, so did Reese, I can't remember what the other 2 got. I couldn't finish mine, it was a shame because it was so good. We finished up, took a potty break then left the restaurant. The girls wanted to ride ToT again even though they said they had ridden it 15 times already that day. So we all head over and just before we get there I am struck with a massive pain in my abdomen that went up my side and around my back, it had me doubled over. At the time I thought it was something I had eaten. The pain was so bad I needed to throw up. Looking back I think it was my twisted ovary making itself known. I sat the ride out and finally told them I was going back to the resort, I didn't know if I was going to make it, I literally went from bench to bench because I could hardly walk.I finally just sat down and waited for the pain to stop, it finally did. Coach caught up to me almost at the entrance and asked me to go look at the pictures with her and pick some out, so I did, I ended up getting a few of them, I really like them and now I vow that when I go back I am going to use mostly photo pass, I never realized how cool it was. I added sayings to my pictures and cute borders.
We left and made it back to the resort with no problems, the girls were right behind us on the next bus. They gave us their stuff and took off to... you guessed it, meet up with their CM friends. I got on my Jammies and then went and sat by the pool to call kent. I told him about my abdominal pain and how it was worse then the time it happened last fall. (See there were signs) He was thinking maybe it was gull bladder, I figured next time it happened I would go the Dr. about it. hinde sight really is 20/20. I talked to Jim for a
while, he was really peppy and upbeat. I was really missing the boys and couldn't wait to see them.
I was just relaxing when Reese came over. she said she was missing home and ready to leave. I think we both had had enough of Coach and COley, I was wondering if we were annoying them just as much as we were annoyed by them. Reese told me that Coley was always telling her she was ugly. Everytime a guy would look their way Coley would say "They're looking at me not you." They are both pretty girls and I am sure the guys like looking at both of them. but Coley really had Reese questioning herself. We talked a bit about random things and then went back to the room. We packed up alot of our stuff and only left out what we would need for the next day. Coleys stuff was all over the place, she said she would wake up early and pack then. I knew she'd be rushed, but really it wasn't my problem to worry about.
Coach and Coley wanted to go to DTD our last day there, I thought it was a waste to not go to a park since we still had park tickets. But I didn't want to complain. SO we all went to bed fairly early. I was excited to go home the next day. Weird, I know!
just sitting here waiting
Ty posted an Update~
I was sure hoping things were getting better!
