This mom would just not quit, and she was right up in the kid's face, saying "Daddy doesn't get any kisses, only mommy! Right??" She leans in for another kiss and the kid totally rejects her. Bahah! Only mommy? Guess not. Then she won't give up pestering this poor lil' man! Next she has to take his picture over and over till she gets one she likes. He doesn't want to look, and when he finally does, he won't smile. She's all: "Tyler, look here! Look here, Tyler!" ...*takes photo*...*inspects photo*...to husband: "He looks constipated."
Oh man, was that queue line ever entertaining!
Gotta appreciate the free entertainment from other guests' odd behaviors!
We had an awesome experience here! Our skipper (server) was awesome, and he played it all SOO deadpan, just like the best jungle cruise skippers do. I believe his name was Robert (unless we didn't enjoy our meal, in which case his name was Paul.) He threw in lots of great gags, some from the JC ride (including the "please...get out" joke), and some original.
That is fantastic!
We don't have a meal here planned for August (though we may try for a walk-up if any of our days end up putting us in MK around lunchtime), but we're already thinking about adding this ADR to our January trip. It was a super experience for a moderately priced meal, and there are lots of other things I'd like to try there.
I'm glad to see you enjoyed it! *spoiler alert* I didn't end up getting to try it.
"You don't wanna be that snack credit hog that gets made fun of at the family reunion!"
But why not? If you're the snack credit hog, what can they make fun of? You got all the good stuff while they didn't. You snooze you lose. Their fault, not yours!
Turns out that N loved the rides at DHS, but he was strongly opposed to park touring by himself. He told me it wasn't fun without me. I love that man. So while I might be the kind of person who'd benefit from a solo trip, I don't think there'll be one in N's future any time soon.
I can understand this. Me, if I can go to a park alone for an hour or 2, I'm usually all over that. But I know it isn't for everyone.
For all of you still reading these wordy updates, you deserve a medal! I just realized that I'm headed back to WDW in a month (a month from today we arrive at the GF!! Plans are in my PTR in my signature!) and I should probably get this report finished up soon so I can move on to new Disney adventures! I'm going to do my best to finish out this day in one update...sorry in advance...and then get the return travel days done fairly quickly...so here we go!
Well, I want to make sure I say good luck! I hope the trip is fantastic and more importantly, I hope your wedding day is all you dreamed it would be. I want to give my best to the both of you as you begin this next chapter of life together!
I hope I can catch up on your PTR before you leave, but I just wanted to say something now in case I don't quite get there.
He didn't understand why that would matter at all to me at that point. Fair enough. Eventually I convinced him.
So yes, we skipped HEA, and left the park that was open until 11pm, to ride Soarin' at a park that was about to close.
Well, you're entitled to do whatever makes you happy!
(In the end, I'm actually 100% happy with this decision because it means that our very first time seeing HEA will be on our honeymoon, possibly even surrounded by my family, where we will have just eaten a wedding cake complete with a cake topper that says "Happily Ever After" and when we're about to begin our own "happily ever after" together. Now it seems right. At the time it was nuts.)
That's a great point. A lot of the talk about people being upset about losing Wishes for the new show is because of the meaning Wishes had for them. When you see HEA for the first time, it is going to be even more special now and it will be a moment you'll remember every time you see that show!
It was stupid, but tell that to sleepy Meghan and see if she's as reasonable as I am. (Spoiler alert: she's not. She never is.)
But sometimes I'm seriously astounded by the way people behave on vacation. Or anywhere, for that matter.
Also, tonight I went to my job singing at the 50s diner, and all of the toilets in the restaurant were broken and flooding, and was was pouring out the bathrooms down the halls, and then it started coming up from the drains in the restaurant floor, etc., and people had sewage water under their tables, and we were all expected to keep singing...and let's just say it's been a crazy night.
That stinks.
It was a little before 8am, we were all packed, had both done a full sweep of every room in the suite, and were standing by the door ready to go...when all of a sudden I stopped, completely stunned.
N says that he saw my face go white and blank and he thought I was about to faint or have some kind of medical emergency.
I turned to him in a trance and said: "Wait. Where are our passports?"
OH @#*$
I'm glad you remembered it before you got to the airport.
Golf carts can't talk.
They can't give advice.
I guess this one could?
Oh, praise to the wise golf cart!
Have you ever seen Cars?
We arrived for our now-later ADR time, got seated, and I was excited to have the same server we had back in December, Theresa! She's awesome. I'll definitely be trying to request her section in August. She's the kind of server who just offers to leave you the carafe of Jungle Juice because she knows you obviously will want it.
Awesome service!
N had a better vantage point, so I, being the crazy stalker that I am, made him take this creepy stalker picture:
That's cool! I'm glad you had a chance to say hi. Don't feel too bad, you had no idea that the breakfast was part of a MAW trip. I'm sure it happens to Joe anytime he is out and about on Disney property.
Theresa timed it for us. Because of this, she got not only my meal, but also N's meal completely comp'd. As in, our 2 breakfasts = COMPLETELY FREE. We hadn't even minded the waiting all that much. She got a great tip, and we still didn't really spend any more than we would have on quick service. Woohoo!
Wow! That's awesome service by Theresa. She definitely deserved a nice tip for her efforts.
I totally could have planned for more stuff this morning or had a later morning wake-up time...but I'm sure if I had then there would have been multiple natural disasters preventing us from making our flight on time. My family and I get so paranoid about these things.
I'm always nervous about that stuff when I fly too. I always want to make sure I'm at the airport and through security with plenty of time to spare.
As the flight attendants were checking the aisles on the plane, I accidentally nudged one of them with my elbow, and then apologized to him. He started joking with me, asking if I wanted to fight, and I said, "I didn't think you folks did that. That's a different airline." With the recent United controversy it totally caught him off-guard and he laughed, and gave me a fist bump out of respect. He left and I excitedly told N, "I got a fist bump!" I'd been waiting for one since seeing that PP photographer with that kid at MK, so it made me smile.
Well played! Impressive come back and I'm glad you got your fist bump.
I gave N a warning that I'd taken it, told him I'd try my best to stay in good spirits, and asked him not to take it personally if I was testy on the drive home, reminding him: "It's not you. ...It's not even really me. It's just the drugs."
Yeah... we'll just blame the drugs...
When it was gone, I sadly moaned to N, "I just ate the last of Disney!" Sad day.
Just think, you'd still have more to eat if it weren't for that little brat at EPCOT...
All I could do was laugh. Between the hilarious image of me as a viking, which I pondered while gnawing on a chunk of pepperoni, coupled with the ridiculous and awkward way he'd chosen to phrase that: "get the scurvy away." He must have been thinking the same thing, because suddenly and simultaneously we both shouted, "GET AWAY, SCURVY!!"
Just part of the price we (mostly N) pay to balance out the fact that he can make a living doing something he loves.
That's great that he is able to not only do something he loves, but has your support in doing it!