Saturday May 22, 2004 Wilderness Lodge DIS Meet
I am not sure why but I was a little nervous I guess just meeting someone that you feel you know but you dont? Anyway Im there in the Lobby and I realize I may be the only one that shows up
What will I do for two hours until my family meets me? Deep breath calm down I love the lodge it will still be great to explore all by myself if need be.
I look up, here comes
Majestic it would be hard to miss Fred, we start talking just like two old friends then
Dizsneykid Jeanne and her husband Marcel arrived. We pulled up some rockers and started chatting away. (Mostly about our Dear Roy
FloridaCat and how we all wished he could have joined us) Next trip Roy.
After a few minutes another fan of WL shows up
ALDISNEYFAN Marqueta, yes we are chatting away and welcoming Miss Marqueta to the group but looking everywhere for
Tinkerbelle739, Ironz and
floridafam
After visiting with each other Fred called upstairs and arranges for us to take a tour of the 7th Floor Concierge. Marqueta has to rejoin her family and says good-by for now. One of the Concierge CMs Daisy comes down to the lobby and escorts us to the 7th floor. We where met by the Guest Service Manager over Concierge Mark Newman, he was very nice and we received a warm welcome. After introducing us to the other CMs on duty Mark gave us a tour of the area and went into detail of all the upcoming changes to the 7th floor at
The Wilderness Lodge. Mark has already started plans for two new lounges to be added to existing dead space areas on the floor. The designers have come up with some beautiful ideas, Mark also has several plans to update the Lodges offering by possible adding all the Jr. Suites access to concierge as well as all or parts of the sixth floor for guest who prefer the open balconies. We where shown one on the Deluxe Honeymoon Suites it was much larger then standard room and it has a beautiful bath area.
The information Mark was sharing was very interesting but the time was past my arranged meet time for my niece and nephew so I had to leave but told everyone I would wait down stairs until they had completed their tour. (Where they did meet up with
floridafam.)
My niece and nephew ran into a problem with the bus so they where in fact a few minutes late but arrived before I started worrying. Then the group arrived back down to the Lobby and Marqueta also rejoined us. We all had our cameras so we started snapping away.
While Fred has posted the two photos around Humphrey that we took for Roy, I took a few while we where upstairs Ill share.
View from 7th Floor toward Bay Lake
Majestic/Fred
Fred & Mark Newman
Jeanne & Marcel
As we all said our good-bys our thoughts where all with Roy and hopes of another meet soon with him as the ring-leader.