Stitch Inside
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DW and I went down sans children a day early (1/19/05) for our 3 night Anniversary Stay at the WL. We decided to stay Wednesday at POR to check it out and see if we wanted to bring my parents and the children there this May. We stayed in the Mansions. They were nice. The room was almost exactly like POFQ. Clean, newly renovated. The only difference I notice was a darker privacy curtain between the sinks and the bedroom.
We arrived at POR about 5:30, checked in with no problems and no AP in hand (they never even asked for my voucher), drove over to the Mansions, parked in front of our room, unloaded, and headed over to Magic Kingdom to pick up APs and catch Wishes.
It was so weird walking into MK with no diaper bag, no stroller...I felt naked. "Hey, where are the kids?" DW better call her mother and let her know we made it OK and make sure they're behaving.
Getting our Annual Passes wasn't too much of a hassle. The Ticket Center of course was closed, so we took the monorail over to MK. They misspelled my last name, voided that pass tried again, and then misspelled DW's first name. This after copying the names from our Drivers Licenses. Are the kids learning anything in school these days? Maybe the CM had ADD and just couldn't pay attention to the name on the DLs long enough to copy them, who knows? I gave her the benefit of the doubt and kept my patience, we were at Disney after all, I was not going to get upset...yet.
Finally, APs in hand, we head for the gate. Oh no, they're finger printing/scanning/imaging, or something. There goes my anonymity. "Two fingers all the way in and squeeze them together." Not too difficult for your average tourist, but we are at Disney. These are not your average tourists. They have places to go, Mice to see. Their minds just aren't in the game. "Let's go DW, TWO fingers!"
We make it through, now what? We don't have Knucklehead DS(6yo), so we don't have to do Space Mountain first.
"Whaddayawannado?"
"I donno, whaddayouwannado?"
"I donno."
We're lost. No miniature guides to dictate where we go next.
It's all a blur. We had a good time. We went where we wanted, when we wanted, it was nice to a point. We could have done without AK. Stay away from the Bugs. I almost got DS (then 5) into "It's Tough to Be a Bug" last year, but he chickened out at the last minute. He was smarter than DW and myself. All I was thinking the whole time we were in the dark with things moving around was, "Thank God I didn't make Knucklehead go in this." The Primeval Twirl coaster thing was fun. We met a nice lady from Canada and her son who told us Dinosaur was a "Must do." So we did. DW liked it. I'm not so crazy about things jumping out at me in the dark. That is why we will never set foot inside Stitch's Alien Encounter.
WL was nice, and LOUD. I do not recall being able to hear so much going on (flushing, running, etc.) when we were here before. Maybe it was just that we were on the busiest side of the hotel. We were in 5018 and able to see the Castle from our room. WL had placed a Anninversary Card, some balloons and chocolates on our bed. It was a nice touch. WL is a beautiful resort, but I think it may be time to freshen up/renovate the rooms. Also, I got claustrophobic every morning I went down to the food court to fill up my WL Coffee Mug. Everything else about the resort was wonderful, the lobby, the transportation (esp. the boats to the Contemporary and MK), the little almost hidden sitting areas on the upper floors of the lobby.
And I love Artist Point. DW not so much. She's more into Cape May. We trade off. I pick one night, she picks one night, and we agree on something the other. My pick this trip was Flying Fish over at the Boardwalk. I had the Mahi Mahi which was delicious, and DW had the Charred Steak. I guess she missed the part on the menu that said it was "Charred" because at first she thought it was burnt. But when you cut into it, it was nice and warm and pink. The food was very rich and very pricey. We almost never spend $100 on a meal and that's with kids. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the Lobster Bisque I had ,"yada yada yada" (for you Seinfeld fans)...it was pleasantly spicey.
Anyway, back to the parks. We loved Mission Space last year, but for some reason this year we almost got sick on it. I hope this doesn't mean we're getting old. We'll have to try again in May. We also did Test Track, and it didn't break down the whole time (10 minutes) we waited for it. This was only the second time I had ridden it, because the past couple of years we've come, it's either broke down while we were waiting in line, or the line was too long, or the Fast Pass Return time was not convenient to our dinner plans etc. But no ride at WDW beats the rush of Rockin' Roller Coaster. It's just a great roller coaster with a great soundtrack sung by a great band.
While we were waiting in line to ride it one last time on Saturday, the CM announced over the PA system that the next train would be "unavailable." The "unavailable" train then came through the station partially filled with Manny Ramirez and his family/entourage. Being huge Red Sox fans ever since Wilmington, NC's own Trot Nixon joined them, I believe we were about the only people in the room who recognized him. DW wanted to try to get a picture of him, so we rushed off the coaster after rocking to "Sweet Emotion" and tried to find Manny. We were told by two "guys" (and I use the term loosely) at the exit that "whoever he was, they just left." I inform them that that was Manny Ramirez of THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPION RED SOX, and one of them actually said "whatever" like a pre-teen girl.
Anyway, we had a good time, but mostly we missed our kids every moment we saw a family doing something we knew we would be doing with ours this May. We just have to stretch Knucklehead so he can ride that Twirling Coaster thing at AK.
We arrived at POR about 5:30, checked in with no problems and no AP in hand (they never even asked for my voucher), drove over to the Mansions, parked in front of our room, unloaded, and headed over to Magic Kingdom to pick up APs and catch Wishes.
It was so weird walking into MK with no diaper bag, no stroller...I felt naked. "Hey, where are the kids?" DW better call her mother and let her know we made it OK and make sure they're behaving.
Getting our Annual Passes wasn't too much of a hassle. The Ticket Center of course was closed, so we took the monorail over to MK. They misspelled my last name, voided that pass tried again, and then misspelled DW's first name. This after copying the names from our Drivers Licenses. Are the kids learning anything in school these days? Maybe the CM had ADD and just couldn't pay attention to the name on the DLs long enough to copy them, who knows? I gave her the benefit of the doubt and kept my patience, we were at Disney after all, I was not going to get upset...yet.
Finally, APs in hand, we head for the gate. Oh no, they're finger printing/scanning/imaging, or something. There goes my anonymity. "Two fingers all the way in and squeeze them together." Not too difficult for your average tourist, but we are at Disney. These are not your average tourists. They have places to go, Mice to see. Their minds just aren't in the game. "Let's go DW, TWO fingers!"
We make it through, now what? We don't have Knucklehead DS(6yo), so we don't have to do Space Mountain first.
"Whaddayawannado?"
"I donno, whaddayouwannado?"
"I donno."
We're lost. No miniature guides to dictate where we go next.
It's all a blur. We had a good time. We went where we wanted, when we wanted, it was nice to a point. We could have done without AK. Stay away from the Bugs. I almost got DS (then 5) into "It's Tough to Be a Bug" last year, but he chickened out at the last minute. He was smarter than DW and myself. All I was thinking the whole time we were in the dark with things moving around was, "Thank God I didn't make Knucklehead go in this." The Primeval Twirl coaster thing was fun. We met a nice lady from Canada and her son who told us Dinosaur was a "Must do." So we did. DW liked it. I'm not so crazy about things jumping out at me in the dark. That is why we will never set foot inside Stitch's Alien Encounter.
WL was nice, and LOUD. I do not recall being able to hear so much going on (flushing, running, etc.) when we were here before. Maybe it was just that we were on the busiest side of the hotel. We were in 5018 and able to see the Castle from our room. WL had placed a Anninversary Card, some balloons and chocolates on our bed. It was a nice touch. WL is a beautiful resort, but I think it may be time to freshen up/renovate the rooms. Also, I got claustrophobic every morning I went down to the food court to fill up my WL Coffee Mug. Everything else about the resort was wonderful, the lobby, the transportation (esp. the boats to the Contemporary and MK), the little almost hidden sitting areas on the upper floors of the lobby.
And I love Artist Point. DW not so much. She's more into Cape May. We trade off. I pick one night, she picks one night, and we agree on something the other. My pick this trip was Flying Fish over at the Boardwalk. I had the Mahi Mahi which was delicious, and DW had the Charred Steak. I guess she missed the part on the menu that said it was "Charred" because at first she thought it was burnt. But when you cut into it, it was nice and warm and pink. The food was very rich and very pricey. We almost never spend $100 on a meal and that's with kids. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the Lobster Bisque I had ,"yada yada yada" (for you Seinfeld fans)...it was pleasantly spicey.
Anyway, back to the parks. We loved Mission Space last year, but for some reason this year we almost got sick on it. I hope this doesn't mean we're getting old. We'll have to try again in May. We also did Test Track, and it didn't break down the whole time (10 minutes) we waited for it. This was only the second time I had ridden it, because the past couple of years we've come, it's either broke down while we were waiting in line, or the line was too long, or the Fast Pass Return time was not convenient to our dinner plans etc. But no ride at WDW beats the rush of Rockin' Roller Coaster. It's just a great roller coaster with a great soundtrack sung by a great band.
While we were waiting in line to ride it one last time on Saturday, the CM announced over the PA system that the next train would be "unavailable." The "unavailable" train then came through the station partially filled with Manny Ramirez and his family/entourage. Being huge Red Sox fans ever since Wilmington, NC's own Trot Nixon joined them, I believe we were about the only people in the room who recognized him. DW wanted to try to get a picture of him, so we rushed off the coaster after rocking to "Sweet Emotion" and tried to find Manny. We were told by two "guys" (and I use the term loosely) at the exit that "whoever he was, they just left." I inform them that that was Manny Ramirez of THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPION RED SOX, and one of them actually said "whatever" like a pre-teen girl.
Anyway, we had a good time, but mostly we missed our kids every moment we saw a family doing something we knew we would be doing with ours this May. We just have to stretch Knucklehead so he can ride that Twirling Coaster thing at AK.
