CampbellScot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 26, 2006
Hey everyone! Sorry this one took a little longer than the last two. My flu is officially "gone" and I'm back to work! I DIS when I can during the day but the real writing has to wait until after work!!!
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After the parade we all found each other again. The nice Stroller Lady thanked Teddy for helping to keep her little one company during the parade!
Teddy responded with,
"I like babies. They smell like toast..."
I swear, that is what the child said.
no CLUE where he came up with that but it seemed to be a complimentary statement.
Oh Teddy...too funny.
I thanked the Stroller family once more for their kindness and bid them a good evening!
The MEANEST lady in Disney was nowhere to be seen...perhaps she got wet and...melted...or something...
*ahem*
I asked SallyRally what her FAVORITE part of the parade was!
She had lots of favorites!
Cindy and Prince Charming! (a wee bit blurry!)
Flora!
Fauna!
Merrifeather...(Sally INSISTS that is the fairy's name!)
What had been Teddy's favorite part?
King Triton
The Three Little Pigs...even though I only see TWO!
GOOFY!!! Of course!
MissCammie's personal favorites had been:
Ursula...a member of the *wicked* society!
The White Rabbit...as I so often chase after him down rabbit holes!
The Ballerina Ostriches!!!
and my ALL TIME favorite character EVER in a parade and my personal Holy Grail of Character Pictures and signatures...*drumroll*
Hyacinth Hippo!!!
Jay had declared he liked the WHOLE parade! VERY diplomatic of him. Of course we all LOVED Mickey and Minnie...but all the pictures I got of them were dark...dang that flash!
Teddy seemed completely unruffled by his exposure to the MEANEST lady in Disney. He was hopping around, ready to go RIDE something!! Sally was much perked herself. She was smiling and hanging on to her daddy's hand. Of course we were staying for Wishes...it's actually illegal to leave Magic Kingdom before Wishes if you are there after the sun goes down.
It is. Seriously...
*ahem*
We decided we'd try and ride Thunder Mountain Railroad...so we headed that direction...by way of the Aloha Isle...cuz there was a Dole Whip with MY name on it!!
Jay doesn't go much for sweets...except for Brownies...he's got a problem with the Brownies...and chocolate chip cookies...but other than that...he's not so much a sweets guy.
I'll tell y'all what though...Dole Whips have captured his heart. He loves them as much as I do...which is saying a lot considering my tendency to be utterly devoted to certain foods...and or caffeinated beverages...
SO...the kids climbed into the kid transporter and away we went. There was a bit of a breeze finally, which was FABULOUS. It was still muggy as all get out, but at least we had us some breeze!
The crowds were MUCH thinned after Spectromagic. Which was nice. We were able to stroll along at an easy pace, just feeling the night.
We like to feel the night. It is an often requested activity in the summer. Something about night time walks feels special to the kiddies. It feels like summer. So we do it a lot.
As we walked along I told Jay a bit about the MEANEST lady in Disney. I was still bothered by it a little. I was trying to NOT be bothered by it, but things like that sometimes stick. I find that talking to Jay about this sort of stuff incredibly helpful.
Jay listened and nodded his head. I puzzled it out a little...trying to figure out something that was impossible to know. I infuriate myself with this...always asking WHY? or HOW?...
See my problem is, I'll get stuck on things that have NOTHING to do with why I'm so bothered. I didn't actually give a bunny's patoot about why this woman had acted so ugly. I was trying to solve an existential crisis...
Finally, Jay stopped the kid transporter...turned to me and said
"BABE..." and then he proceeded to give me a VERY loud zerbert...right there in the middle of the bridge to Adventureland!
Teddy immediately screeched from inside the Kid Transporter,
"IT WASN'T ME!!!"
Sally's head peeked around the side of the transport...
She gave her father a disapproving look.
Jay points at ME...
to which Sally replied,
"Daddy...MissCammie doesn't poot...she's a LADY from TEXAS!!!"
YES I AM!!
Thank you Sally!
Something about a zerbert and poot jokes just breaks up the existential angst!
We are a CLASS ACT huh?
I decided to do as I often tell Sally to do...I was going to "STEER MY FEELINGS" to a happy place and stop worrying about what was to come. I was at Disney for Pete's sake!!!
AND I was about to have me some Dole Whip!
It was fabulous...Jay and I shared one and the kids shared a vanilla soft serve. The CM's at Aloha Isle were nice enough to split the serving into two small cups and put sprinkles on BOTH. Everyone was THRILLED with our late-ish evening sugar rush.
After that we rode Thunder Mountain. A blast was had by all!!
Then we did Peter Pan's flight and It's A Small World AND Dumbo...there was barely a line...for two seconds...after our flight landed a BIG line had formed!
WooHOO for hitting all the green lights!!!
Finally it was time to take our spots outside of Casey's for Wishes.
We are creatures of habit.
If it ain't broke...don't fix it!
and we DON'T!
Wishes was just as magical as always. I cried at the end...as always...Jay laughed at me and hugged me...as always.
oh my how we THRIVE on routine.
As the crowed surged around us, I was once again grateful for our kid transporter and the fact that Sally and Teddy were safely inside it! That end of day crowd surge towards the exit is NUTS!!
We walked down the sidewalk and ducked into the little alley way where the "Music Lessons" take place. We sat for a few and let the crowd die down a bit. Sally asked about who lived upstairs. The kids decided that it was most likely Pinocchio and his dad and their cat Cleo and the Goldfish! Teddy thought maybe Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow lived upstairs too...and maybe some rabbits...
I love these conversations.
Finally it was time to head for the exit. The crowd was considerably lighter.
Sally found her grumps when we had to return the kid transporter.
SHE was TIRED.
I smiled at her and said,
"Me TOO...will you carry me please?"
Teddy offered to carry me...I almost took him up on it!
We loaded up our stuff that had accumulated during the travel of the day...we had been all around the WORLD showcase after all!! As we got in line for the Wilderness Lodge Boat, Teddy commented that maybe we needed a WAGON!
I told him that we didn't need a wagon at all...that's what we brought KIDS for!!!
He countered with "Nuh-uh, because it's your favorite thing to carry stuff!"
Jay gave a snort and said under his breath "Also called you won't LET anybody carry anything..."
I gave him a look and said sweetly "I'm fixin to CARRY you in a minute mister...RIGHT to FIST CITY I'll CARRY you!!!"
(we make threats because we love!
)
this brought on a round of laughter from Teddy.
Sally chimed in to the conversation with "MissCammie lets us carry our autograph book bags with our autograph books and pens and wallets...and sometimes toys if we want to...like I got to carry Princess Pluto...even though our wallets don't have all our money in them...so we can be responsible and safe...right MissCammie?"
Precisely! I am NOT controlling. I am ORGANIZED.
okay I am controlling...but in a good way...
*ahem*
ANYHOW...It seems we had JUST missed the boat...so we had a bit of a wait.
Sally was having a somber moment!
She had gotten her "Build a Pluto" at MouseGears that day...she had picked Pluto, being the dog lover that she is...and then decided that Pluto wanted to wear a crown and have a pink dog carrier!
Teddy was having a quiet moment, staring out at the water.
We were all tired and ready for BED. As we waited, a couple with kids a little older than Sally and Teddy began talking to Jay and me. They told us about what they'd done that day...and how they were going to go swimming when they got back to the lodge...except the daughter...b/c she had JUST gotten grounded for talking back to her mom. So the parents were going to tag team it and take turns watching her because it was THEIR vacation too and they shouldn't miss swimming just b/c they had to GROUND their daughter.
ummmm....
okay.
It was one of those uncomfortable moments...I mean I'm all for kids having rules and boundaries and consequences and such...but I am NOT all for airing dirty laundry to strangers...know what I mean? I was MORTIFIED for the little girl...
the little girl didn't seem mortified at all...she was smiling placidly...seemingly unworried about her loss of swimming privileges...or the fact that her parents were calling her out to perfect strangers about all the things she'd done wrong that day...The parents ALSO had smiles on their faces as they talked in a reasonable and friendly tone about putting their naughty little daughter straight to bed...she'd had THREE chances after all...her first strike had been at dinner...her second had been at Space Mountain and her THIRD had been JUST few minutes ago.
on and on it went.
It was the most bizarre conversation I've ever been witness to.
*sigh*
Jay was doing his "smiling and nodding" politely thing...making little sounds of "hmmm..." and "uh-huh"...
If that boat didn't get here soon, my nervous laughing was going to kick in and I wouldn't be able stop. This often happens to me when I am in uncomfortable situations...or I'm scared...or have been injured...I laugh...I could already feel the smile tugging at the corners of my mouth...the laughter was going to come tumbling out any minute!!! Seriously...when I broke my wrist a few years ago, I was laughing rather maniacally and the ER doctor kept asking if I'd "taken something..."
nope...just crazy.
see what I mean?!
THANKFULLY, Sally "needed to ASK ME SOMETHING"...and I was able to excuse myself...but NOT before I said to the little girl,
"You sure are doing a GREAT JOB sitting quietly right now!"
I couldn't resist. I HAD to say something nice. I felt badly for her!
And the dad said "Oh give her a minute...she'll do something else...she's the bad one!" He said this in a very loving tone...it was just so WEIRD. The tone was not corresponding to the words. It was FREAKING me out...so I bailed. Sally needed me...
*ahem*
Sorry Jay!!
Sally didn't actually need to ask me anything.
She just wanted to comment on the fact that she would be SO embarrassed if we told STRANGERS that she was grounded or in trouble or a rule breaker...
at which time I was to respond that we would NEVER do such a thing.
Which I did.
Sally was relieved.
as was I...to be away from that conversation...
FINALLY the boat arrived!!!
We took a seat in the open area in the back of the boat. Aside from the company of the muggy air, we were blessedly ALONE. The kiddies had taken their usual seats...Teddy curled up in my lap...hot as it was...and Sally sat with Jay.
It was a lovely ride home to the Lodge. We all soaked in the sounds of the water, and felt the night and thanked the Good Lord that we'd made it safely-ish through another day!!
Up Next: We made it to DAY 3!!! Animal Kingdom!!
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After the parade we all found each other again. The nice Stroller Lady thanked Teddy for helping to keep her little one company during the parade!
Teddy responded with,
"I like babies. They smell like toast..."
I swear, that is what the child said.
no CLUE where he came up with that but it seemed to be a complimentary statement.
Oh Teddy...too funny.
I thanked the Stroller family once more for their kindness and bid them a good evening!
The MEANEST lady in Disney was nowhere to be seen...perhaps she got wet and...melted...or something...
*ahem*
I asked SallyRally what her FAVORITE part of the parade was!
She had lots of favorites!
Cindy and Prince Charming! (a wee bit blurry!)
Flora!
Fauna!
Merrifeather...(Sally INSISTS that is the fairy's name!)
What had been Teddy's favorite part?
King Triton
The Three Little Pigs...even though I only see TWO!
GOOFY!!! Of course!
MissCammie's personal favorites had been:
Ursula...a member of the *wicked* society!
The White Rabbit...as I so often chase after him down rabbit holes!
The Ballerina Ostriches!!!
and my ALL TIME favorite character EVER in a parade and my personal Holy Grail of Character Pictures and signatures...*drumroll*
Hyacinth Hippo!!!
Jay had declared he liked the WHOLE parade! VERY diplomatic of him. Of course we all LOVED Mickey and Minnie...but all the pictures I got of them were dark...dang that flash!
Teddy seemed completely unruffled by his exposure to the MEANEST lady in Disney. He was hopping around, ready to go RIDE something!! Sally was much perked herself. She was smiling and hanging on to her daddy's hand. Of course we were staying for Wishes...it's actually illegal to leave Magic Kingdom before Wishes if you are there after the sun goes down.
It is. Seriously...
*ahem*
We decided we'd try and ride Thunder Mountain Railroad...so we headed that direction...by way of the Aloha Isle...cuz there was a Dole Whip with MY name on it!!
Jay doesn't go much for sweets...except for Brownies...he's got a problem with the Brownies...and chocolate chip cookies...but other than that...he's not so much a sweets guy.
I'll tell y'all what though...Dole Whips have captured his heart. He loves them as much as I do...which is saying a lot considering my tendency to be utterly devoted to certain foods...and or caffeinated beverages...
SO...the kids climbed into the kid transporter and away we went. There was a bit of a breeze finally, which was FABULOUS. It was still muggy as all get out, but at least we had us some breeze!
The crowds were MUCH thinned after Spectromagic. Which was nice. We were able to stroll along at an easy pace, just feeling the night.
We like to feel the night. It is an often requested activity in the summer. Something about night time walks feels special to the kiddies. It feels like summer. So we do it a lot.
As we walked along I told Jay a bit about the MEANEST lady in Disney. I was still bothered by it a little. I was trying to NOT be bothered by it, but things like that sometimes stick. I find that talking to Jay about this sort of stuff incredibly helpful.
Jay listened and nodded his head. I puzzled it out a little...trying to figure out something that was impossible to know. I infuriate myself with this...always asking WHY? or HOW?...
See my problem is, I'll get stuck on things that have NOTHING to do with why I'm so bothered. I didn't actually give a bunny's patoot about why this woman had acted so ugly. I was trying to solve an existential crisis...
Finally, Jay stopped the kid transporter...turned to me and said
"BABE..." and then he proceeded to give me a VERY loud zerbert...right there in the middle of the bridge to Adventureland!
Teddy immediately screeched from inside the Kid Transporter,
"IT WASN'T ME!!!"
Sally's head peeked around the side of the transport...
She gave her father a disapproving look.
Jay points at ME...
to which Sally replied,
"Daddy...MissCammie doesn't poot...she's a LADY from TEXAS!!!"
YES I AM!!
Thank you Sally!
Something about a zerbert and poot jokes just breaks up the existential angst!
We are a CLASS ACT huh?
I decided to do as I often tell Sally to do...I was going to "STEER MY FEELINGS" to a happy place and stop worrying about what was to come. I was at Disney for Pete's sake!!!
AND I was about to have me some Dole Whip!
It was fabulous...Jay and I shared one and the kids shared a vanilla soft serve. The CM's at Aloha Isle were nice enough to split the serving into two small cups and put sprinkles on BOTH. Everyone was THRILLED with our late-ish evening sugar rush.
After that we rode Thunder Mountain. A blast was had by all!!
Then we did Peter Pan's flight and It's A Small World AND Dumbo...there was barely a line...for two seconds...after our flight landed a BIG line had formed!
WooHOO for hitting all the green lights!!!
Finally it was time to take our spots outside of Casey's for Wishes.
We are creatures of habit.
If it ain't broke...don't fix it!
and we DON'T!
Wishes was just as magical as always. I cried at the end...as always...Jay laughed at me and hugged me...as always.
oh my how we THRIVE on routine.
As the crowed surged around us, I was once again grateful for our kid transporter and the fact that Sally and Teddy were safely inside it! That end of day crowd surge towards the exit is NUTS!!
We walked down the sidewalk and ducked into the little alley way where the "Music Lessons" take place. We sat for a few and let the crowd die down a bit. Sally asked about who lived upstairs. The kids decided that it was most likely Pinocchio and his dad and their cat Cleo and the Goldfish! Teddy thought maybe Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow lived upstairs too...and maybe some rabbits...
I love these conversations.
Finally it was time to head for the exit. The crowd was considerably lighter.
Sally found her grumps when we had to return the kid transporter.
SHE was TIRED.
I smiled at her and said,
"Me TOO...will you carry me please?"
Teddy offered to carry me...I almost took him up on it!
We loaded up our stuff that had accumulated during the travel of the day...we had been all around the WORLD showcase after all!! As we got in line for the Wilderness Lodge Boat, Teddy commented that maybe we needed a WAGON!
I told him that we didn't need a wagon at all...that's what we brought KIDS for!!!
He countered with "Nuh-uh, because it's your favorite thing to carry stuff!"
Jay gave a snort and said under his breath "Also called you won't LET anybody carry anything..."
I gave him a look and said sweetly "I'm fixin to CARRY you in a minute mister...RIGHT to FIST CITY I'll CARRY you!!!"
(we make threats because we love!
)this brought on a round of laughter from Teddy.
Sally chimed in to the conversation with "MissCammie lets us carry our autograph book bags with our autograph books and pens and wallets...and sometimes toys if we want to...like I got to carry Princess Pluto...even though our wallets don't have all our money in them...so we can be responsible and safe...right MissCammie?"
Precisely! I am NOT controlling. I am ORGANIZED.
okay I am controlling...but in a good way...
*ahem*
ANYHOW...It seems we had JUST missed the boat...so we had a bit of a wait.
Sally was having a somber moment!
She had gotten her "Build a Pluto" at MouseGears that day...she had picked Pluto, being the dog lover that she is...and then decided that Pluto wanted to wear a crown and have a pink dog carrier!
Teddy was having a quiet moment, staring out at the water.
We were all tired and ready for BED. As we waited, a couple with kids a little older than Sally and Teddy began talking to Jay and me. They told us about what they'd done that day...and how they were going to go swimming when they got back to the lodge...except the daughter...b/c she had JUST gotten grounded for talking back to her mom. So the parents were going to tag team it and take turns watching her because it was THEIR vacation too and they shouldn't miss swimming just b/c they had to GROUND their daughter.
ummmm....
okay.
It was one of those uncomfortable moments...I mean I'm all for kids having rules and boundaries and consequences and such...but I am NOT all for airing dirty laundry to strangers...know what I mean? I was MORTIFIED for the little girl...
the little girl didn't seem mortified at all...she was smiling placidly...seemingly unworried about her loss of swimming privileges...or the fact that her parents were calling her out to perfect strangers about all the things she'd done wrong that day...The parents ALSO had smiles on their faces as they talked in a reasonable and friendly tone about putting their naughty little daughter straight to bed...she'd had THREE chances after all...her first strike had been at dinner...her second had been at Space Mountain and her THIRD had been JUST few minutes ago.
on and on it went.
It was the most bizarre conversation I've ever been witness to.
*sigh*
Jay was doing his "smiling and nodding" politely thing...making little sounds of "hmmm..." and "uh-huh"...
If that boat didn't get here soon, my nervous laughing was going to kick in and I wouldn't be able stop. This often happens to me when I am in uncomfortable situations...or I'm scared...or have been injured...I laugh...I could already feel the smile tugging at the corners of my mouth...the laughter was going to come tumbling out any minute!!! Seriously...when I broke my wrist a few years ago, I was laughing rather maniacally and the ER doctor kept asking if I'd "taken something..."
nope...just crazy.
see what I mean?!
THANKFULLY, Sally "needed to ASK ME SOMETHING"...and I was able to excuse myself...but NOT before I said to the little girl,
"You sure are doing a GREAT JOB sitting quietly right now!"
I couldn't resist. I HAD to say something nice. I felt badly for her!
And the dad said "Oh give her a minute...she'll do something else...she's the bad one!" He said this in a very loving tone...it was just so WEIRD. The tone was not corresponding to the words. It was FREAKING me out...so I bailed. Sally needed me...
*ahem*
Sorry Jay!!
Sally didn't actually need to ask me anything.
She just wanted to comment on the fact that she would be SO embarrassed if we told STRANGERS that she was grounded or in trouble or a rule breaker...
at which time I was to respond that we would NEVER do such a thing.
Which I did.
Sally was relieved.
as was I...to be away from that conversation...
FINALLY the boat arrived!!!
We took a seat in the open area in the back of the boat. Aside from the company of the muggy air, we were blessedly ALONE. The kiddies had taken their usual seats...Teddy curled up in my lap...hot as it was...and Sally sat with Jay.
It was a lovely ride home to the Lodge. We all soaked in the sounds of the water, and felt the night and thanked the Good Lord that we'd made it safely-ish through another day!!
Up Next: We made it to DAY 3!!! Animal Kingdom!!
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Of course, I also rarely claim my state with all the wacky news the state reps keep making. 
Oh well, at least I'll get to look forward to your next trip report and your review of AKL. (We're also staying there for the first time. Partly motivated by how much I liked it when I visited, all the fun activities (which your kiddos should love!), and mostly by the fact that it uses few points and we're cheapskates. 
