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Love it! It's a good thing you noticed the Macdonald mixup at CP. That's something I wouldn't even think of checking! Love the Dumbo pics, they totally make me smile!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
I cannot I am THREE updates behind! WOW you are totally just rolling those out and I it!
Love the birthday mickey ears!
Love the "fidel" pics....they are just such great pics! How super sweet of him to give that little boy that cupcake!
FF waiter "drunky" , when I read that I thought i was going to spit my drink out LOL too funny!
If I had gotten stuck on IASW I would've jumped boat myself. UGH I cant take that song for that long.
Citricos sounds amazing...I really wish we had booked that this trip but maybe next time.
Cant wait for more
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After dinner, and with a little time to spare we headed downstairs to the GF bus stop, stopping to admire the antique Caddy on the way out.
We got right on a bus to DHS and were very quickly arriving at the gate, through the bag check and into the park. We checked the board to see if there were FP available for ANYTHING. Nope, so we headed to the Tune in Lounge and managed to get seats at the bar rather quickly. Oh wait--story first. We went in the door to the actual lounge, not the door into the restaurant and there was a sullen looking teenager sitting on the floor with his feet on the wall, blocking entrance into the bar. It took him a minute to move and once we had passed, saying "excuse me," he put his feet right back up on the wall. Where were his parents? Sitting on the couch watching this happen. Did they say or do anything? A resounding no . . . this occurred at least twice more before the kid got smart and moved. Duh?
We got seats at the bar and I immediately had a flashback to December. When the bartender basically refused to acknowledge that any of us were standing there waiting for drinks. Guess what? Same bartender, same crappy service. This time however, I remembered to write down his name! I've got a note in my Iphone that says D*** from L*** is awful. Eventually we got our drinks. I had a margarita and Brandon had his without salt--against the rules, but . . . oh well. We got Blake a diet coke. Sharon arrived soon after us and never did get her drink because Tammy and her family arrived for their ducks! It was nice to meet you and your family Tammy!
We finished our drinks and headed out into the night. We rode the Nightastic ToT, which has some neat new effects, but I kind of miss the old one. The drop is pretty cool though. We hit the RnRc single rider line and then went over to TSMM. The wait time was rediculous, so we parted ways with Sha, as she had some ToT FPs to use up. We headed to Star Tours next. I'm glad I got one last ride on this one, but I'll be honest I'm glad they are redoing it. The ride is showing its age, and to be honest its the only ride at WDW that makes me queasy. We, and my somewhat upset stomach headed back to ToT for another go and I was feeling pretty tired after so I decided to get something to eat and head back to the hotel while the boys stayed to ride RnRc again.
Turns out I really just needed to eat something. I got, and devoured a whole cheeseburger and fries from Rosie's All American Cafe. It was pretty good--or I was pretty hungry--still not sure which. I texted Brandon to tell them I was feeling better and that if they wanted to I was game to wait for TSMM. They were, but they were hungry too--so they grabbed BBQ sammies from Fairfax. I got some ice cream while they were eating. Yeah yeah--Disney stomach.
We headed over to Toy Story and the wait was still long, but we got in line anyway. Then, it got interesting. There was a large party from Argentina about 3 families behind us. I think it was about 7 kids and 4 adults. Well just as we're entering the builiding 3 of the kids snake through the line to a gap 1 family in front of us. They start goofing off and motion for the rest of the family to push through the line and join them. One by one each of the little boys seem to end up ahead of us. The kids all appeared to be of the same age--I have no idea how--two families with multiple births or all about 9 mos apart. Who knows? Anyway--these kids are climbing all over everything. Balling up and throwing pieces of paper. Running back and forth in line. Eventually one of the father's joined the kids . . . and continues encouraging the bad behavior. We're laughing about it by this time with the family directly in front of us. By the time we get to the spot to pick up your 3-D glasses There are 9 people in front of us who weren't there before, by the time we got to the stairs the entire party had managed to squeeze in front of us--or climb over railings to join their party. I found it interesting that there are ZERO CMs policing this line. I had a brief conversation with the mother of the family directly behind us, as I noticed from their T shirts that they were from Baton Rogue. I say brief because I quickly ascertained that Mom was sloshed! This was by far the most entertaining hour I have ever spent waiting in line at WDW. Nope, that's right, I'm not complaining. All of the line craziness made the hour plus wait fly by!
I rode solo and Blake rode with Brandon. I believe I scored Beaver, but I didn't write it down, so I'm not positive. Everyone really enjoyed the ride and I was honestly glad we had waited, but now everyone was really tired--not surprising considering that I hadn't napped and we'd been up and about really early to get to breakfast.
All in all it was a wonderful birthday! Thanks to everyone who shared it with me! We caught the boat back to the Beach Club and went to sleep. I think we were all ready for it!
The weather today was . . . HOT again, with sun and clouds
The best thing today was . . . Blake= DUMBO, Brandon = dinner, Heather = seeing Sharon!
The worst thing today was . . . bad parenting
The funniest thing today was . . . really bad jokes told by the driver of the boat back to the beach club. I'm going to give it my best shot, but forgive me if it lacks the ouch factor:
Three women die and are greeted at the pearly gates by St Peter, who admits them to Heaven, which is, for some unknown reason, populated by lots of ducks. Peter advises them to have a great time, but not to step on the ducks. The punishment for stepping on a duck is to be chained to the ugliest man in heaven for eternity. A few months go by and the women are really enjoying themselves, until one of them steps on a duck. She is immediately taken away by Peter and chained to a stooped over, ugly man with a huge nose! The two remaining women continue their revelry until one of them steps on a duck a few weeks later. She too is immediately grabbed by Peter and cuffed to a man with warts and hair all over his body.
The last woman spends her days lounging on clouds and drinking mead. Suddenly Peter appears with a gorgeous man who he chains to her. The woman thinks to herself, "This must be my reward for following all the rules." Outloud she just says thank you to St Peter. She turns to the Adonis and says, "How did I get so lucky?"
He says I have no idea, Last thing I remember was I was drinking a beer, next thing I know I'm lying on a pile of dead ducks and now I'm chained to you!
Bad . . . really bad--all they way back to the BC.
Today I tried . . . Storm Along Bay and the result was . . . a slight sunburn, but a great time catching up with Sharon!
The most magical moment today was sharing my birthday with some great friends!!!!!
Tomorrow--will I make an early morning at AK and an unplanned PP meet!
Finally a picture I forgot to post in the birthday morning update that I just love:
That's a great picture at MK.
And a great joke from the boat!! Like an after-hours Jungle Cruise!! Kidding.
What a great way to end the evening. But I have to wonder - the sloshed mother in the Toy Story line, I wonder how she did while spinning around on the ride?
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I am impressed you did so much at DHS that night and still made park opening the next morning. The TSM line jumpers story still makes me chuckle. I'm sure it was so worth it to them to be able to ride 60 seconds sooner.
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