pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2007
Yep. And getting worse tomorrow. Ah well...So it’s become even more crazy since the last time I updated.
I disagree. Yes there are still things in place from 9/11, but you might argue that they should have been in place before 9/11.I’d like to say something about things “going back to normal.” But I don’t think that is ever going to happen. Sure, stores and restaurants will reopen, we will be allowed to go back to the beaches, go to concerts, gather together in groups, but I don’t think it will ever be “the same”.
But a terrorist attack is quite different from a viral pandemic.
How many things affected you on a daily or even occasional basis after the pandemic of 1918? Maybe lessons from that were to wash your hands more... but that's been forgotten. We've already (pre-COVID) been teaching our children to cough into their elbows. Will there be changes? Sure. Many in the short term with more and more restrictions being lifted as time goes by. We'll all remember this, just as we remember other momentous occasions in our lives.
Oh, no. I'm sorry to hear that. I sure hope she gets well.I’ve already had one DIS friend hospitalized due to this thing, and I hope she fights with everything that she’s got!
Wait... What? Fran woke you?? FRAN??????But Fran promptly woke me at 5:25AM.
Cue Rocky theme music.That day was here, the one I'd been training for.
With the requisite V8.this was my breakfast.
Oh, shoot!When we were about to leave Fran noticed that I had plugged her scooter charger into the wall, but had neglected to plug the cord into her scooter.
You know... that's the first time ever that I've seen that.
Not just with Fran... I mean with anybody.
Just a few of your closest friends.
Whoa... Dudes! Just FP one!By about 7:45 the lines for ToT and RnRC had stretched all the way out to the end of the street.
Makes me think of all those movies where someone is holding two guns in their hands, ready for action. Matrix, perhaps?Because of the trauma of getting a Boarding Group, I brought both phones on the trip and had them ready to go this morning.
I had no idea there were differences. Huh.At DL everyone in your party is automatically selected and you have to de-select those who aren't with you. On WDW's app you have to select your party much like the process of making FP.
Yuss!I don't remember exactly the rest but I hit whatever affirmative buttons I saw like "confirm" or "continue", and boom! Group 10!
Uh, oh...we would be riding very soon and have the rest of the day to do whatever! Or so we thought….
I'm actually surprised it took that long.somewhere around 8:30 the Back Up Groups sold out.
Well, poop...We followed the rest of our group and pretty soon we found out that a CM would be scanning our MB to give us a FP to come back anytime the ride was up and running.
Where is that available?The ride had been down for over an hour now, and we decided to go get a pink donut.
I'm a bit surprised you didn't get a text or something, but...I checked the app again for the hundred thousandths time, and they were on boarding group 15! The ride had opened back up!
Nice! Any differences between the two parks?Since we had "recovery passes" and not a regular boarding group a different CM had to scan our MBs, and again we were on our way to join the resistance. By 11:30 we had finished our mission
Oh, no...As we were going out and up a slight hill to the front of the Chinese Theater her scooter started to act up.
What an ordeal! You didn't have to push it again, did you?I was able to get the scooter up the hill while Fran walked. Once we were on level ground, Fran rode the scooter to the Skyliner. I drove it up the hill and into the cars. We changed lines at CBR and when we got off at Riviera she got back on the scooter. Just as we got back into the hotel, it stopped again. She gave up and told me to ride it, and walked through the hallways back to the room. It barely made it, but we did get back to the room.
That could be? Are both batteries identical?I do know this much, over time a battery loses it's overall ability to hold a charge. Her scooter is bigger than mine, and she is heavier than me. Perhaps the combination of the larger scooter and extra weight caused the battery charge to go down more rapidly.
I played my Mahjong game for a few minutes and eventually also succumbed to the nap.
However I was rudely awakened by a phone call from one of those health care consultants who wanted to "take a few moments to discuss my health".
So annoying.
What do you mean? It was there and loading when you got to security?We unloaded at MK, made it through security and they actually got us on the monorail that was loading.
Yikes!We disembarked at the Poly and were checking in to Trader Sam's by 6:15. However they were quoting an hour to 75 minute wait to get in.
Did not think of that. Good tip!When we put in our names, I knew that it wouldn't be a full hour. I saw the hostess scroll through the guests on the list, and there were parties of 9 and 7 in there and people like that don't want to wait that long. It makes the wait for small parties like us much less.
Sure. It probably had rum in it.Her drink tasted a little funny. Neither of us could peg what it was, but wasn't bad enough to keep her from finishing it.
Have yet to have some.We went upstairs to the Tambu Lounge which was my main reason for coming here. I really wanted the 'Ohana Bread Pudding.
Oh! I might have to rethink things a bit...I said that I would cancel it as long as I could have the bread pudding, so now I could cancel it. Even better, we found out that you can now get the noodles, potstickers and chicken wings from 'Ohana at the bar. So now we have a "thing". If there is a wait for Trader Sam's, we will come up to the Tambu Lounge, get some drinks and some appetizers, go to Sam's, have more drinks and appetizers, and come back for dessert. We'll call it the "Polynesian dinner!"
Was the bus that you "missed" full?So we waited probably a good 20 minutes for the next bus before we boarded. BTW, we were the only people who had to wait for the next bus.