I'm not gonna finish this before my surgery. Dang it-that was my goal. Oh well. Here's another installment:
Buzz Loses His Temper With Lin 
Lunch time and were hungry. Buzz makes an off hand comment about Pecos Bills café in WDW, which puts me in the mood for burgers! So when he leads us into this counter service place to see the menu, Im not impressed. The only food I can eat in there is fried chicken and thats if I pull the skin off. No burgers of any sort. So I protest a bit. This was not met with the kindness Id hoped for. Buzz gets ticked and storms out of the restaurant and snaps, Then you pick where were going to eat.
Trying to back pedal, I tell him that place was fine. I didnt need to eat. I had a big breakfast-that buffet. I was hoping that would help him, but it didnt. Were ALL going to eat! So you decide.
I tried to tell him again, it didnt bother me not to eat, but nope. He wasnt having it. After all the carbs I ate last night, I didnt need to eat. Didnt matter. So I quick grabbed a park map and found the Hungry Bear. Its counter service with all sorts of food.
Buzz was still ticked though....
We were all in line and I told Buzz I was going to find a table for me and the kids to sit and wait for him. Hes still a bit sore so he grumbles, hell never be able to find us. I get us a table right in the front, very easy to see. I want him happy again. When he gets our food, I jump up and start waving like Im a hitchhiker trying to flag down a ride. This makes him smile a little. He comes over with burgers, chicken strips, and drinks. Ahhhh. The meal turned out good and everyone was happy.
This poor child behind us though. He was about 4 and he tipped his chair over while he was in it. It made a loud bang. He spent the whole meal crying. I don't know if he was hurt or just scared. I felt bad for him though...
Next we rode the train. I didnt like this too much. First of all, it took forever for the train to get to the station and when it did, it just wasnt that much fun. However, Buzz loved it. Go figure....
We get off at Toon Town. The kids play on the Chip and Dales Treehouse. When they were tiny, theyd play there for hours. Now it was 10 mins and they were done. So we ride Gadgets Go Coaster. That was fun. Kind of like Goofys Barnstormer but a hair longer and it squirts water at you. You just get a tiny spray on you-you dont really get wet.
We were ready to head back. On the way back through Downtown Disney, I spy a vendor selling pop. Theyve got my favorite: Sprite Zero! I beg Buzz to buy some so we get 4 bottles and a cotton candy for LA.
We head back up to change and go swimming again. Im hoping for no more life guard trouble, but alas, twas not to be.
It was an exact repeat of the day before, only this time, before LeeAndra could go down the slide even one time, they stopped her and she came back over to us. I asked what was wrong and she said they wouldnt let her go down the slide. We werent even settled in our spot yet and already thing were heating up. I start in about how stupid this is and Buzz gets up and goes to see what the problem was.
Apparently today, anyone going down the slide had to take a swim test. But after "speaking with Buzz," they excused LA from it because Buzz told them she could swim. And not in a nice way.
Id had enough. I didnt even want to be at this pool anymore. There was another pool behind it with no slide and no lifeguards and I wanted to go there, but Buzz said no, wed tough it out. He tried to get Trey to go down the slide, but he didnt cooperate.
I tried to warn Buzz but he didnt listen Trey got halfway down again and started screaming. The lifeguard yells through his cone to Go down the slide please. As if that would help. I actually smiled when he did that. Trey looks like a typical kid, but obviously he's not. It's always interesting to me when people try to interact with him. This lifeguard had no idea Trey has a disability so it was just amusing to me when he tells Trey to go down the slide. I wanted to tell him, "Yeah, that's not doing any good."
But I refrained.
Buzz went to the bottom of the steps, trying to convince Trey to come down and finally he jumped in the water like I did the first day to get him to come down. So we gave up on Trey going down the slide. For good.
We know he can do it, he can even swim, but it's a confidence thing, I guess. He'll get braver on his own and in his own time....
I was done with the whole slide itself and the lifeguards. I know they are there for our safety, but it just seemed they let their power go to their head. Weve never encountered this at WDW. The LGs are always friendly, nice, they dont bark at you, they sometimes bring out toys for the kids or even play with the kids. I make up my mind right then we are not buying into the DGC DVC-just because of the lifeguards. I love the whole DGC and it has many perks. Id love to be a DVC owner there, but I hate that pool situation. Its bad enough that I cant justify spending the money.
We go back up to the room.
Coming up: Buzz's napping is out of control
And as a side note, Trey's special education teacher just won an award for being an excellent teacher!!! We are so thrilled for her-and she so deserves this award!!!
This makes me giggle a bit and she asks if she can have some make up so I give her some. She informs me I dont need to put it on her, I know how this works, she says. At 6 years old
