The Magical Mystery Trip - Day 3 Part 5 - Cali Grill **Updated 2/14 by Melissa** - Page 22 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Okay, we're back.... and ready to update. We're up to K & T's first morning on property. We got up and got ready, Angie stayed behind b/c she was meeting Bill and Jan and crew at Epcot to say goodbye. So the rest of us headed downstairs to eat breakfast. We just grabbed something from the gift shop/ food court that they have there.
Everybody but Andy had the egg and cheese croissant which was FAB!
Huge heaping croissant. As always I enjoyed my classic Disney staple: chocolate pastry for breakfast.
We also bought another refillable mug. I thought about bringing mine back from the summer, but I guess I've read too many debates on this hugely ethical issue so instead we just bought another one. You can never have too many mugs in my house..
yeah seeing as you leave them in the car
Or at work
we need atleast 5 to cover the work week
So anyways, after we filled up our mug we grabbed a spot at one of the tables in that area.....
Apparently in that second picture I was educating Tommy about something.....
After we stuffed ourselves full we walked out and realized the Solarium was right there. So we walked down to investigate the area. While we did T & K announced their usual routine of waiting until the last second to have to go to the bathroom. And where do they go to the bathroom? Back up to their room of course. Which you know, we wanted a room close to the Epcot entrance and didn't really care that that would mean a walk to the lobby, but at times like this....yea.... it was a long walk for them, which equals long wait for us. I just don't get it. Why can't you just go before you leave the room for breakfast?
b/c he just filled up his quarter size bladder
Yeah but there's a bathroom in the lobby area..... Anyway, we killed time in said Solarium....
Andy was impressed by the huge tv....
And since T & K were still on their half mile pilgrimage to the safety of the bathroom in their room.... we had more time to kill in the lobby. So I decided I should try out the chairs...
And I figured I might as well take some more photos...
And yes folks, I even had enough time to go outside and take pictures...
hey that's what you get when you go on a vacation with my dad
That's what you get when you go ANYWHERE with your dad....
And then I went BACK in and took some MORE pictures...
And even Andy was getting bored...
So he suggested I try to get a photo of the carousel with a slower shutter speed to try and capture its movement. (we were BORED folks....ready to go like 20 minutes ago)....
But I did get a good laugh at the fact the picture made it look like the carousel was booking it around and around and around....
Finally we decided maybe if we stood really close to the elevators and watch every person get off that we could speed them up.........
and I waited with my video camera to video them as they came off, with snide comments in the background
And I too was waiting, camera poised, ready to go...
And FINALLY! They made it back.......
So we were now able to make our way out towards the busses. When the greeter asked us where we were headed we told him the AK and he told us to "Have a wild day" ba dum ching! I loved it!
Here we were waiting for the bus...
And then on the bus...
Methinks they were not understanding why I had to take so many pictures of nothing.........
On the bus was this guy that my dad "smoked on the treadmills the day before". You have to understand that my dad is 61 and runs 7 miles a day, EVERYDAY. And he thought it was funny that this really younger guy comes in kicks up on this treadmill and lasts for like 30 minutes.
While Tommy was down there for atleast an hour and a half.... But anyway... Tommy had to wait the whole bus ride until we got off at the AK to tell us that story. Good times, good times...
Coming up: our day at the AK - "Hey Mikey I think he likes it" (wasn't that the old LIFE cereal commercial saying??)
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Danny and I at Epcot 8/14/08
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Dreams, Wishes, Hopes... these are the parts of childhood we should never lose.
so instead we just bought another one. You can never have too many mugs in my house..
Good times, good times...
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