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It was now time to leave TSI and there was a raft approaching and a small number of folks to get on. When the raft docked the “captain” had to make a phone call and I heard him say while he was steering he heard a loud crack sound. We needed to wait for a supervisor to come over on the next raft and make sure everything was ok. I guess it was because we didn’t need to switch rafts and we didn’t sink either.

Now my original plans were us to come off TSI and find a spot to watch Festival of Fantasy parade. However our day was going very well and we were actually a little ahead on our time. It was really stinking hot and I didn’t want to just sit there baking in the sun waiting for the parade. We figured our time would be better spent back at the resort with a nice swim.

First we took the train from Frontierland to Main Street and then from there we made our way into The Emporium to do a little shopping. We browsed around. Evan kept looking at the huge monorail sets. We have the starter set but he saying he wanted to replace it as it was broken. Huh? It isn’t broken. Then I realized he was looking for a toy monorail, not the one that comes in the big box sets. Last trip we bought a monorail but it was much smaller, I think it was in like a large bin or just loose in a container. It has 4 cars attached to each other. Ours is broken as one of the clasps holding the cars together fell apart. We still have all the cars they are just not all linked together anymore. I have no clue where we bought it but we couldn’t find them in the Emporium. Oh well, maybe next time. We did both buy a T-shirt and I bought my sister’s family a pack of candy bars and there is a story there.

We left the Emporium with purchases in hand and exited the park. We decided to take a spin on the monorail. Evan loves trains and stuff so this was a slight detour but nothing major. Exiting off the monorail back at the Magic Kingdom we now trudged out to bus stop 34 and proceeded to wait for 20 minutes for the bus. We were about the 3rd family from the font so I knew we would get seats.

AHHH! How nice it was to sit down when the bus came. It is so funny isn’t it? This was one of the best bus rides I had. Evan and I were sitting in separate seats and as the bus was filling up and people began to stand in the aisles I told him to sit on my lap. He of course didn’t want to but when I explained that someone else could sit down he was OK with that. So his seat is free and the family in front of us start to bicker about who it going to sit in the seat. Or should I say NOT sit in the seat. It went something like this …
Middle age mom/daughter “Dad sit down”
Senior citizen dad “No, I’m fine”
“DAD, sit down”
“No you have the seat”
through gritted teeth “DAD, sit down!!!”
“I’m good, let her sit down” speaking of teenage granddaughter –“Her knee is worse than my back”
Rolled eyes from middle age daughter and then teenager sat down and stretched her knee out.

I was laughing and I said to the woman sounds like me and my mom. We, the group of adults all in that immediate area, just began talking. It was very pleasant. Just about life, and getting older and how Disney has changed and how travel has changed since 9/11 and how hard it is to have small children and aging parents. Nothing special but really helped pass the time. Then we all got off the bus went our merry way and we will never see each other again. Ships that pass in the night I guess, just funny.

Back at AOA if felt like a storm was approaching. You could hear thunder but I couldn’t see any lightning and it wasn’t raining. I needed gas so we drove to the Hess station to fuel up. We went inside and got some fuel for our bellies as well. We each got a soda and a snack. Evan wanted chips. Really? I have an entire unopened bag of potato chips in the room but he wanted cheese curls. Figures. I never can guess right. If I had bought him cheese curls for the car ride he would have wanted chips. So cheese curls and Gatorade for Evan and for me a Diet Dr. Pepper and soon we were back in the room.

We quickly changed into our bathing suits and went to the Little Mermaid pool but it was closed. There was no reason just a sign stating it was closed. I figured it was because of the storm or a problem with the pool. We decided to walk to the Big Blue pool to see if that was closed too. Along the way we passed a Cast Member and she told us all 3 pools were closed. I guess the storm was closer than we thought. As a side note we found out later in the trip if lightning is going cloud to cloud then everything is ok, they don’t close things but when it goes cloud to ground then thing close – how you like to the person that has to make that determination?

So what is a momma to do with no pool time??? Why take a nap of course. I fell dead asleep for about an hour. I had set my alarm as I knew I was going to zonk out. Evan sat quietly and played on his Kindle so he rested too but just didn’t fall asleep – God forbid that boy would EVER take a nap.

After I woke up I called the front desk and all pools were still closed so we took our time cleaning up and then headed back out for a night of fun at MK. Neither one of us was very hungry even though it was dinner time so I just figured we would grab something in the park later on.

Coming up next: The story of the candy bars, our night in MK