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Day 3 - Monday, October 4, 2004
The Visitation, The Elimation and The Inebriation
or
Checking out Resorts We Can't Afford, Watching Some Kid Pee in The Bushes, and Walking Aimlessly Around DTD at Midnight
Terrible Mis-cast of Characters
Me, 28 - Copywriter Extraordinaire, likes her some pizza and Appletinis
FI, 28 - Still an Asst Golf Course Superintendent, likes him some fish and any kind of alcohol
When we last left Allison and Kory, they were getting back to their redneck roots and getting a sugar high at the MK. Let's see where Monday leads them.
"We're glad you're heeeeere! Huh Haa!"
Do you still get that message from Mickey on your wakeup call? I really wouldn't know since I've learned from Kory that:
vacation + redneck impersonations = no Mickey wake-up for Ally.
I see a very depressing pattern starting.
Well I was beat too (don't tell him that), so we decided to sleep in today. We hadn't really decided what park we wanted to visit, but PI was in the works for that night. Certainly don't want to overdo it.
Well I think I rolled out of bed about 9-ish. Took a shower and put my face on. I know...Thank you, Thank you. Kory got up soon after and was ready by about 10:30. At this point I'm thinking I don't want to waste a PHP just for 4 hours in a park. I decide (that's right, I decide! This is a dictatorship. Welcome to Allisonland! By the way, your taxes are due.) that we will go see some of my favorite resorts, have a nice relaxing lunch with a couple of relaxing drinks and ride the relaxing monorail.
We eat on the run; I grab a Luna bar I'd packed for breakfast and Kory gets a banana and apple juice from downstairs. Once downstairs we walk around SAB. Although I've stayed here before, I've never actually seen the pool. We wander all through the windey paths, up and over bridges. It looks like a lot of fun and I'm determined to enjoy it this vacation.
Back out front, we grab the car and our first resort stop is the AKL, which I have never seen except in pictures and on tv. It's really neat how the vegetation starts to change as you get closer. You just feel hotter!
We pull in front of the AKL. I just love this resort. I love the theming here and it's always pretty quiet. Except near the animals.
This is truly a gorgeous resort. We enter the resort and admire the lobby. I ask an African CM where we can see some animals and we think she said that dinner is served only on Wednesdays and we should bring our own clothing because the lights will be off.
Fortunately she does a great job pointing, so we figure out where the lobby overlook is. Many thanks to our helpful CM and we run off to see the animals. We are lucky enough to see a couple giraffes and a whole lot of weeds.
Now we head off towards the pool area to check that out, so we walk down past Boma and Jiko. I loooooove the Victoria Falls lounge. The waterfall gently crashing behind the bar would make great background noise for doing some shots. If you're into that sort of thing.
Out the door and around the pool, we manage to find the pool overlook. Its feeding time, so a guy has driven up in a truck filled with some browse. That's cut brush and shrubbery to the layperson. The animals are so freaking impatient they don't even wait for him to take it out. So they eat it out of the truck.
Impatient ungulates. That's hoofed animals to the layperson.
Here is Kory learning about the impatient ungulates. Didn't know he knew how to read, huh?
We also got to see a tiny pool of ducks. After a brief conversation with the little fellas, I learn that they are the same ducks that were in our apartment complex pond just a few weeks before! Can you believe that? Funny how you run into ducks you know on vacation. Anyway, big shout out to my homies Bobby, Dexter and Leroy. What, what.
OK, now it's getting freaking hot, so we head inside and stop at the giftshop. Saw some great artwork and figurines, but decide to wait untill we go to AK before we buy anything african-like.
Now its off to the Poly for our relaxing lunch and to ride the relaxing 'rail.
We pull in front of the Poly. I just love this resort. I love the theming here and it's always pretty quiet. Except near the volcano pool.
Upstairs we go to get us some grub. We end up having a great server, but I can't remember his name. He said he had been at Kona Cafe for like 16 years waiting tables. Crikey! I figured he must know what food is good and he recommends the Asian noodle bowl. I order that with a side of Mai Tai. Just in case I don't like the noodle bowl, I can chase each bite with some alcohol.
Apparently the food is good enough because I don't stumble out of there in a drunken stupor. Kory ordered their Mahi Samich and a beer which he liked. Then again, when does he not?
It's rhetorical, he always enjoys it. That's the point.
Nevermind.
We thank our server, Forgothisname, and go outside to see the property. As we near the marina, I ask Kory if he wants to ride the water sprite. He does, so we hook ourselves up with a boat and head for the horizon.
This was one of the highlights of the day because for the first time Kory really got to see the MK and the rest of the MK resort area. He asked all sorts of questions which I loved answering. The fact that he showed interest in the area was exciting to me!
One step closer! Yeeeeeeee!
Back at the marina, he pays for our nautical excursion. I am the Queen of Allisonland, pay up my minion! My obsequious follower! My love slave!
We decide to leave and ride the relaxing monorail over to the GF.
The monorail pulls in front of the GF. I just love this resort. I love the theming here and it's always pretty quiet. Except near...well even the pool is pretty quiet. You know those uppity people can't stand noise.
But I really wanted Kory to see how Disney does it up. So I figured we'd hob-nob with the uppercrust, mingle with the high-class. So we do what any highly-mannered, highly-educated person would do. We slide down the lobby railing, run up and down the stairs. Do some cartwheels in the lobby as we go "wheeeeeeee!"
We mosey on out to the pool and belly up to the poolbar. Imagine that.
"Sex on the Beach for the lady and a Margarita for myself. NOW!", Kory demands. You have to be firm and direct when you deal with service people at a place like this. They are used to be told what to do.
So we politely chit-chat with one another, giving off that we-belong-here-you-dont vibe to the other bar patrons.
Of course it is here that we are lucky enough to witness the little boy whip it out and piss in the bushes right by the pool. Yes folks, uppercrust is right. If all you have to do is piss in the bushes to be high society, then we're the original members!
We are quickly bored here, and fading fast, so we decide to ride the relaxing monorail once more past the other stops and head home. Which we do and 30 minutes later, we are on our way back to the BCV.
Back in the room to take a nap. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Couple hours later, I get up to take a shower and put on my face. No really, no applause needed. And then it happened. A moment forever etched in my memory as the day I knew I could never let Kory go.
Kory had the tv on the DVC information channel and it wasn't by mistake! I swear he watched it intently for 15 full minutes!!!
Oh, I feel faint.
Well of course I had to reward this outstanding behavior.
We now invite you to listen to some boring instrumental music used to distract you from what's really going on. La, La, Laaa, La, La, La, La, Laaaaaa
Just kidding. We're not married, we don't do that sort of thing. Ahem.
So after Kory gets ready, we decide we want a totty before we head over to DTD and PI. I swear there used to be a bar at the BC, but its gone now. So we walk over to the YC and decide to have a drink there.
Ok drink, boring atmosphere, so we walk out to the bus stop and wait at least 50 billion minutes for our bus. When it finally comes, we are happy to board and have the place almost to ourselves. Then I break the news to Kory...there is no beer at DTD or PI.
He tried to smother himself with his shirt in a suicidal protest. But as you know, he's my ride home so I'm glad he chose life.
A "just kidding" and some make-up smooches later, we arrive at the Marketplace just as it's starting to drizzle. Fortunately it doesn't last and we are able to walk the area in relative dryness.
We aren't sure where we want to eat, so we stop at every restaurant to look at the menu. Nothing is really doing it for us, so at last we reach Wolfgang Puck in the Westside and get a table at the bar.
Here I order a very strong Appletini and Kory gets a Grey Goose and Sprite I think. Din-din is a pepperoni pizza and he gets the salmon with mashed potatoes. We really enjoy our meals and wouldn't hesitate to go back. They make good strong drinks too, another reason to go back.
So now it's time for PI. Can I vent for a moment? Say yes, you don't have a choice. I am extremely disappointed that they have opened the gates for wanderers. There were tons of kids, teens and random people just loitering. I bet that if they had to pay $20 to stand around, they wouldn't! They'd go to Virgin or something and bottleneck up in there.
Anyway, it's just annoying to me, but enough of that. Our first stop was the AC where we were just in time for a Treasure Room show with the Maid and that bodyless head creature that moves around circles.
Here we run into Shannon and Len again. They have been there for a few hours already, but you didn't need to tell me that. One look at Shannon and that goofy, happy look on her face and I could tell she'd had a few too many.
After the Treasure Room show, they left to go outside for a few and we decided to stick around for the next whateverwastocome. Well everyone went into the Library, but we weren't ready to commit so we decided to go out and check on the CW times. But before we did, we got a picture with the entire cast of AC. It's quite rare to get them all in one picture, so we feel quite special.
I think the maid had her hand on Kory's butt. I can't prove it...let's just call it women's intuition.
We had a few minutes before the next show, so we walked around and checked out the shops. My favorite shop was gone, the art store that was next to that hotdog place. Another stab to my heart. We walked inside the gift shop that's there and made general fools of ourselves.
Beware of the strong Appletinis at Wolfgang Pucks.
Back outside, we get in line for our CW show. We get pretty great seats up near the front with a ledge in front of us. Our show was hysterical because they did a "This is your Life" skit with some woman whose life was so funny you couldn't have made up a better story.
Well PI is getting old, and so are we, so we head out towards the buses. If I remember correctly, they are on the other side of the Cirque building. So we walk, and walk, and walk. And walk some more. And walk a little longer. But what do ya know, they aren't there!
You knew? Why didn't you tell me?
So we walk back towards PI. And walk, and walk, and walk. And walk some more. And walk a little longer. We finally see the buses. RIGHT IN FRONT OF PI! I wanted to kill myself. We spent 30 minutes walking in circles at 12 am.
We see a Swan & Dolphin bus so I run up to it and ask if he's going to the BC. He's not and said the bus just left 2 minutes ago but another would be around in 5. HA! Likely story.
But it's promising enough so I ask that Kory NOT run to the bathroom, even though he has to go badly. He asks if he can just go in the bushes. I snap back with a quick "NO!", but then think, "Hmm, if we were in the bus line for the GF, no one would even say anything."
Common sense gets the better of me, so we wait. And wait, and wait, and wait. And wait some more. And wait a little longer. Finally our bus comes and we get ourselves a seat. Kory crosses his legs and hopes for the best.
Animals + Appletinis + Lots of Laughing = two tired Original Members of the Upper-class
Up next...Day 4: How to eat good food and bad food in the same day. Plus, how to avoid Illuminations at all costs!
The Visitation, The Elimation and The Inebriation
or
Checking out Resorts We Can't Afford, Watching Some Kid Pee in The Bushes, and Walking Aimlessly Around DTD at Midnight
Terrible Mis-cast of Characters
Me, 28 - Copywriter Extraordinaire, likes her some pizza and Appletinis
FI, 28 - Still an Asst Golf Course Superintendent, likes him some fish and any kind of alcohol
When we last left Allison and Kory, they were getting back to their redneck roots and getting a sugar high at the MK. Let's see where Monday leads them.
"We're glad you're heeeeere! Huh Haa!"
Do you still get that message from Mickey on your wakeup call? I really wouldn't know since I've learned from Kory that:
vacation + redneck impersonations = no Mickey wake-up for Ally.
I see a very depressing pattern starting.
Well I was beat too (don't tell him that), so we decided to sleep in today. We hadn't really decided what park we wanted to visit, but PI was in the works for that night. Certainly don't want to overdo it.
Well I think I rolled out of bed about 9-ish. Took a shower and put my face on. I know...Thank you, Thank you. Kory got up soon after and was ready by about 10:30. At this point I'm thinking I don't want to waste a PHP just for 4 hours in a park. I decide (that's right, I decide! This is a dictatorship. Welcome to Allisonland! By the way, your taxes are due.) that we will go see some of my favorite resorts, have a nice relaxing lunch with a couple of relaxing drinks and ride the relaxing monorail.
We eat on the run; I grab a Luna bar I'd packed for breakfast and Kory gets a banana and apple juice from downstairs. Once downstairs we walk around SAB. Although I've stayed here before, I've never actually seen the pool. We wander all through the windey paths, up and over bridges. It looks like a lot of fun and I'm determined to enjoy it this vacation.
Back out front, we grab the car and our first resort stop is the AKL, which I have never seen except in pictures and on tv. It's really neat how the vegetation starts to change as you get closer. You just feel hotter!
We pull in front of the AKL. I just love this resort. I love the theming here and it's always pretty quiet. Except near the animals.
This is truly a gorgeous resort. We enter the resort and admire the lobby. I ask an African CM where we can see some animals and we think she said that dinner is served only on Wednesdays and we should bring our own clothing because the lights will be off.
Fortunately she does a great job pointing, so we figure out where the lobby overlook is. Many thanks to our helpful CM and we run off to see the animals. We are lucky enough to see a couple giraffes and a whole lot of weeds.
Now we head off towards the pool area to check that out, so we walk down past Boma and Jiko. I loooooove the Victoria Falls lounge. The waterfall gently crashing behind the bar would make great background noise for doing some shots. If you're into that sort of thing.
Out the door and around the pool, we manage to find the pool overlook. Its feeding time, so a guy has driven up in a truck filled with some browse. That's cut brush and shrubbery to the layperson. The animals are so freaking impatient they don't even wait for him to take it out. So they eat it out of the truck.
Impatient ungulates. That's hoofed animals to the layperson.
Here is Kory learning about the impatient ungulates. Didn't know he knew how to read, huh?
We also got to see a tiny pool of ducks. After a brief conversation with the little fellas, I learn that they are the same ducks that were in our apartment complex pond just a few weeks before! Can you believe that? Funny how you run into ducks you know on vacation. Anyway, big shout out to my homies Bobby, Dexter and Leroy. What, what.
OK, now it's getting freaking hot, so we head inside and stop at the giftshop. Saw some great artwork and figurines, but decide to wait untill we go to AK before we buy anything african-like.
Now its off to the Poly for our relaxing lunch and to ride the relaxing 'rail.
We pull in front of the Poly. I just love this resort. I love the theming here and it's always pretty quiet. Except near the volcano pool.
Upstairs we go to get us some grub. We end up having a great server, but I can't remember his name. He said he had been at Kona Cafe for like 16 years waiting tables. Crikey! I figured he must know what food is good and he recommends the Asian noodle bowl. I order that with a side of Mai Tai. Just in case I don't like the noodle bowl, I can chase each bite with some alcohol.
Apparently the food is good enough because I don't stumble out of there in a drunken stupor. Kory ordered their Mahi Samich and a beer which he liked. Then again, when does he not?
It's rhetorical, he always enjoys it. That's the point.
Nevermind.
We thank our server, Forgothisname, and go outside to see the property. As we near the marina, I ask Kory if he wants to ride the water sprite. He does, so we hook ourselves up with a boat and head for the horizon.
This was one of the highlights of the day because for the first time Kory really got to see the MK and the rest of the MK resort area. He asked all sorts of questions which I loved answering. The fact that he showed interest in the area was exciting to me!
One step closer! Yeeeeeeee!
Back at the marina, he pays for our nautical excursion. I am the Queen of Allisonland, pay up my minion! My obsequious follower! My love slave!
We decide to leave and ride the relaxing monorail over to the GF.
The monorail pulls in front of the GF. I just love this resort. I love the theming here and it's always pretty quiet. Except near...well even the pool is pretty quiet. You know those uppity people can't stand noise.
But I really wanted Kory to see how Disney does it up. So I figured we'd hob-nob with the uppercrust, mingle with the high-class. So we do what any highly-mannered, highly-educated person would do. We slide down the lobby railing, run up and down the stairs. Do some cartwheels in the lobby as we go "wheeeeeeee!"
We mosey on out to the pool and belly up to the poolbar. Imagine that.
"Sex on the Beach for the lady and a Margarita for myself. NOW!", Kory demands. You have to be firm and direct when you deal with service people at a place like this. They are used to be told what to do.
So we politely chit-chat with one another, giving off that we-belong-here-you-dont vibe to the other bar patrons.
Of course it is here that we are lucky enough to witness the little boy whip it out and piss in the bushes right by the pool. Yes folks, uppercrust is right. If all you have to do is piss in the bushes to be high society, then we're the original members!
We are quickly bored here, and fading fast, so we decide to ride the relaxing monorail once more past the other stops and head home. Which we do and 30 minutes later, we are on our way back to the BCV.
Back in the room to take a nap. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Couple hours later, I get up to take a shower and put on my face. No really, no applause needed. And then it happened. A moment forever etched in my memory as the day I knew I could never let Kory go.
Kory had the tv on the DVC information channel and it wasn't by mistake! I swear he watched it intently for 15 full minutes!!!
Oh, I feel faint.
Well of course I had to reward this outstanding behavior.
We now invite you to listen to some boring instrumental music used to distract you from what's really going on. La, La, Laaa, La, La, La, La, Laaaaaa
Just kidding. We're not married, we don't do that sort of thing. Ahem.
So after Kory gets ready, we decide we want a totty before we head over to DTD and PI. I swear there used to be a bar at the BC, but its gone now. So we walk over to the YC and decide to have a drink there.
Ok drink, boring atmosphere, so we walk out to the bus stop and wait at least 50 billion minutes for our bus. When it finally comes, we are happy to board and have the place almost to ourselves. Then I break the news to Kory...there is no beer at DTD or PI.
He tried to smother himself with his shirt in a suicidal protest. But as you know, he's my ride home so I'm glad he chose life.
A "just kidding" and some make-up smooches later, we arrive at the Marketplace just as it's starting to drizzle. Fortunately it doesn't last and we are able to walk the area in relative dryness.
We aren't sure where we want to eat, so we stop at every restaurant to look at the menu. Nothing is really doing it for us, so at last we reach Wolfgang Puck in the Westside and get a table at the bar.
Here I order a very strong Appletini and Kory gets a Grey Goose and Sprite I think. Din-din is a pepperoni pizza and he gets the salmon with mashed potatoes. We really enjoy our meals and wouldn't hesitate to go back. They make good strong drinks too, another reason to go back.
So now it's time for PI. Can I vent for a moment? Say yes, you don't have a choice. I am extremely disappointed that they have opened the gates for wanderers. There were tons of kids, teens and random people just loitering. I bet that if they had to pay $20 to stand around, they wouldn't! They'd go to Virgin or something and bottleneck up in there.
Anyway, it's just annoying to me, but enough of that. Our first stop was the AC where we were just in time for a Treasure Room show with the Maid and that bodyless head creature that moves around circles.
Here we run into Shannon and Len again. They have been there for a few hours already, but you didn't need to tell me that. One look at Shannon and that goofy, happy look on her face and I could tell she'd had a few too many.
After the Treasure Room show, they left to go outside for a few and we decided to stick around for the next whateverwastocome. Well everyone went into the Library, but we weren't ready to commit so we decided to go out and check on the CW times. But before we did, we got a picture with the entire cast of AC. It's quite rare to get them all in one picture, so we feel quite special.I think the maid had her hand on Kory's butt. I can't prove it...let's just call it women's intuition.
We had a few minutes before the next show, so we walked around and checked out the shops. My favorite shop was gone, the art store that was next to that hotdog place. Another stab to my heart. We walked inside the gift shop that's there and made general fools of ourselves.
Beware of the strong Appletinis at Wolfgang Pucks.
Back outside, we get in line for our CW show. We get pretty great seats up near the front with a ledge in front of us. Our show was hysterical because they did a "This is your Life" skit with some woman whose life was so funny you couldn't have made up a better story.
Well PI is getting old, and so are we, so we head out towards the buses. If I remember correctly, they are on the other side of the Cirque building. So we walk, and walk, and walk. And walk some more. And walk a little longer. But what do ya know, they aren't there!
You knew? Why didn't you tell me?
So we walk back towards PI. And walk, and walk, and walk. And walk some more. And walk a little longer. We finally see the buses. RIGHT IN FRONT OF PI! I wanted to kill myself. We spent 30 minutes walking in circles at 12 am.
We see a Swan & Dolphin bus so I run up to it and ask if he's going to the BC. He's not and said the bus just left 2 minutes ago but another would be around in 5. HA! Likely story.
But it's promising enough so I ask that Kory NOT run to the bathroom, even though he has to go badly. He asks if he can just go in the bushes. I snap back with a quick "NO!", but then think, "Hmm, if we were in the bus line for the GF, no one would even say anything."
Common sense gets the better of me, so we wait. And wait, and wait, and wait. And wait some more. And wait a little longer. Finally our bus comes and we get ourselves a seat. Kory crosses his legs and hopes for the best.
Animals + Appletinis + Lots of Laughing = two tired Original Members of the Upper-class
Up next...Day 4: How to eat good food and bad food in the same day. Plus, how to avoid Illuminations at all costs!
