We all slept like dead people...traveling can just wipe out a person.
No alarm...no wake-up call...I wake up around 8AM...Sunday Morning...MAN it is cold in the room...I quitely get dressed...and get done in the bathroom and sink...then wake everyone else up.
It's 9AM when just about everyone else is ready...Boy seems to take the longest...but he has a scalp condition and has to wash his hair in the mornings to wash out the overnight medication.
While we are waiting on boy...Mel and I discuss the QSDP...we are already 2 meals ahead on the
DDP...as we didn't use any on Day 1. So we decided to check out the Pepper Market for Breakfast...and have a lunch in the Park.
We also have the Bus/Drive debate...I really hate being a passenger...except on the Monorails...since we are going to the MK today and and it was a EMH night until 3AM...I decide to drive.
So we go to El Centro...let me pause just a minute and say how nice the temperature was our first few days...nothing like the typical Florida weather...the humidity was down...it felt like a mid 80's to low 90's...I was like...are you sure we are in Florida.
The Pepper Market can be a little confusing...when you arrive your are taken to a table and a server takes your drink orders...for the DDP at breakfast you get 2 Drinks...and an Combo meal. You take cards to the various different Stations to be stamped when you order item X... I got the Southwest Omlet...Mel got the Ham and Cheese Omlet...Boy got the egg platter with Sausage...Tiny got the Kids Mickey Waffles from the kids station...as he was 9 and according to the literature...he has to order from the kids menu...we later find out this is not true...but that's a different story. The Breakfast Food at the Peper Market was good...but then Breakfast is hard to screw up.
This totalled about $40...4 Meal credits on the DDP...I'm already liking the Dining Plan...and I'm thinking just how would you eat at WDW...staying onsite...without a Dining Plan of some sort??? I've been to WDW before...but all ofsite stays and we brought our own snack food in...and maybe eat 1 Meal a day from a counter service location. Anyway we get done...Mel and the Kids stop at Panchitos for another look...I walk around the Registration Lobby looking for Hidden Mickeys.
Thought I saw one here...but I'll be darned if I can find it again.
and then there is this potential Mickey off of the Eagle looking Totem thing...
We head to the Park finally... Take a left out of the CSR and World Drive is the next road...over the bridge and down the ramp on the left...next thing you know we are at the Parking Toll booth...$12...Glad I don't have to pay that for a change...the last time I was here in 2007 it was only $10.
We get parked in Pluto...on the far end...yeah the long walk back to the Tram...we get to the TTC. and get on the Monorail...it was the Peach one...Tiny said...is that the Pink one that crashed...I'm not getting on that one...
...I pointed out that it was indeed Peach with the white Delta pattern breaking the line...also told him how it had been 38 years accident free. The Monorail is an attraction itself to me...and all part of the magic.
POP quiz! do you know the other color Monorail with a White Delta breaking the Stripe. Think DIS'er Identification
color...
Have I mentioned that Boy is a skeptic...he told me he wouldn't believe we were going to Disney until he stood on Main Street USA and saw the Castle...and being that we had a grumpy old man living with us for the last 6 Months I really couldn't blame him.
We get through the gates...and there is Main Street and the Castle...Boy is a believer.
BTW this is one of those days I forgot I owned a camera...sorry Picture lovers...I was just to caught up in the Magic.
At this point most everyone in "normal world" is like what ride are we going to first...
Not Mel...and she's even infected the youngin's with the shopper syndrom...we head to the Emporium.
I collect Tickets and go in search of a Fast Passes...as I know where I'll find them when I return...the Emporium.
Time for a Video Break...
Skipper Dan
After watching this video for about 2 weeks before our trip I just couldn't wait to see the "Backside of Water"!!!
So I got my Fast Passes...and on the way back I got my long awaited...Dole Whip Pineapple Float...(chorus of angels singing)...but don't tell the wife and kids.
We meet up...and head back to Adventureland...it's about 45 minutes until my FP...so we goto PotC.
No Picture of the hidden Mickey...but the shadow of the cat on the right...where the drunk pirate is saying "here kitty kitty kitty"...makes a Mickey shaped shadow.
Then we make our way back to the Tiki Room...I really miss the old show... Iago and Zazu just mess it up...however I did get an Iago Feather from the floor.
Now it was time for our Jungle Criuse...I saw the Sand Stone and didn't take it for Granite...I knew that was an African Bull Elephant...because we were in Africa...I saw the backside of water...and I even saw the "head" Sales Man at the Jungle Criuse gift shop.
Next Episode... Tom, Robama, and I see Dead People.
? You report is so entertaining! Keep it coming!
