franandaj
I'm so happy, I could BOUNCE!
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2009
Day 9
Woke up this morning at 6:15. Did a quick calculation in my head of when we had to leave and we had three hours. I rolled back over and went to sleep for a few more minutes. I decided I would take a bath again this morning. My legs were still sore and figured I needed a make up tub from two nights before. I looked out the window and it was REALLY foggy, remember the view from the day before?
I waited until GMA came on at 7 to see if there was any news, and after listening to their top of the broadcast tease, one of the stories was who was going to win "Best in Show" at the Westminister Dog Show.
Obviously it was going to be a slow news day.
After the bath, I sat around cooling down playing Mahjong before I decided it was time for coffee and V8. We didn't want to spoil our appetites today since we had Fran's favorite breakfast at 1900 Park Fare. I also got out one of the suitcases while Fran got dressed and started putting away clothes that we weren't going to be wearing in the next couple days.
We got out of the room only about 10-15 minutes late, but we made up for that because as soon as we pulled up to the bus stop a MK bus arrived. I heard someone say one of the nicest things I've heard from another guest. A father said to his daughter. "Hold on sweetie, we have to let the people who need the ramp get on first." Wow! Maybe not everyone is glaring at us!
At MK there was a HUGE line at security. I suggested that it might be faster to take the path to the Contemporary and board there, but we stuck it out. As we got close to the front, Fran agreed that I might have had a good idea. We would remember next time.
Finally through security, we scooted over to the monorail where there was already a train, but it was full so we had to wait for the next one. We were still OK on time, so hopefully we wouldn't be late for our reservation.
We weren't. They were running about 15 minutes late so we just waited until they could seat us.
Mary Poppins came by first before we had a chance to go up to the buffet.
Pooh was quick on her heels so I waited for him.
I wasn't feeling eggish or breakfast burrito-ish so I just went right to my Mickey Waffle course.
Fran got herself a plate of food.
I got myself a bowl of strawberry soup.
Fran asked me to get her an egg Benedict with extra hollandaise.
And then Alice came by
Then the Mad Hatter. He wasn't nearly as much fun as the Hatter in October, but you can't win them all.
I got some bread pudding and fruit. I sure wish I could eat like I used to. I barely had anything this day.
Then Tigger came around.
Fran got herself one last plate, and it appears that I neglected to take a picture of it.
As we were leaving, a nice lady offered to take a picture of the two of us since we didn’t get any together with the characters.
Then we left for MK. City Hall was under renovation.
This was not a happy visit. At all.
Our first FP was for HM. They used to make exceptions for disabled visitors by letting them go in a back door and miss the long queue, however this time they wouldn't budge. She either had to get a manual wheelchair (they didn't say how she was supposed to operate it, they just assumed someone in her party would push, what if she was a solo traveler?) and traverse the queue that way. Well Fran is not someone who will be pushed in a manual chair so she tried to walk the queue, but it was too much for her and about halfway to the entrance she turned back and said, "This is too far for me to walk". I was sad to ride the ride all by myself, but I hadn’t been on it in this version for a long time, so I rode it.
I rode by myself, and it was very lonely. Clearly I was more interested in the shutter speed than posing for the picture…..
Even though it’s not a great shot, I think that this is my first ever graveyard shot to come out not completely blurry.
When I got off the ride she had texted me where to find her. It was really hot. My next FP was for 7DMT, but I really wasn't feeling it.
She insisted I go on it and tried to get me to do it twice. Once was plenty. The hot air rushing over my face actually made me nauseous. Really on 7DMT? So we turned around and went back to the room. The next day I realized that I was probably dehydrated. I didn’t drink any water, just POG and coffee during our breakfast at 1900 PF, and so being full, and not hydrated made me feel icky.
On the way out of the park I looked for that castle zoom PP shot, but there wasn’t a photographer in the spot so we gave up on it.
We did stop for a few PP pictures on the way out since I knew this would be our last trip to MK this trip.
Back in the room Fran went right to sleep.
And I’ll just leave this off right here for now. There isn’t a lot of days left, and I need to start catching up on my bonus features which I will use to kill time after I finish this TR.
Woke up this morning at 6:15. Did a quick calculation in my head of when we had to leave and we had three hours. I rolled back over and went to sleep for a few more minutes. I decided I would take a bath again this morning. My legs were still sore and figured I needed a make up tub from two nights before. I looked out the window and it was REALLY foggy, remember the view from the day before?
I waited until GMA came on at 7 to see if there was any news, and after listening to their top of the broadcast tease, one of the stories was who was going to win "Best in Show" at the Westminister Dog Show.
Obviously it was going to be a slow news day.
After the bath, I sat around cooling down playing Mahjong before I decided it was time for coffee and V8. We didn't want to spoil our appetites today since we had Fran's favorite breakfast at 1900 Park Fare. I also got out one of the suitcases while Fran got dressed and started putting away clothes that we weren't going to be wearing in the next couple days.
We got out of the room only about 10-15 minutes late, but we made up for that because as soon as we pulled up to the bus stop a MK bus arrived. I heard someone say one of the nicest things I've heard from another guest. A father said to his daughter. "Hold on sweetie, we have to let the people who need the ramp get on first." Wow! Maybe not everyone is glaring at us!
At MK there was a HUGE line at security. I suggested that it might be faster to take the path to the Contemporary and board there, but we stuck it out. As we got close to the front, Fran agreed that I might have had a good idea. We would remember next time.
Finally through security, we scooted over to the monorail where there was already a train, but it was full so we had to wait for the next one. We were still OK on time, so hopefully we wouldn't be late for our reservation.
We weren't. They were running about 15 minutes late so we just waited until they could seat us.
Mary Poppins came by first before we had a chance to go up to the buffet.
Pooh was quick on her heels so I waited for him.
I wasn't feeling eggish or breakfast burrito-ish so I just went right to my Mickey Waffle course.
Fran got herself a plate of food.
I got myself a bowl of strawberry soup.
Fran asked me to get her an egg Benedict with extra hollandaise.
And then Alice came by
Then the Mad Hatter. He wasn't nearly as much fun as the Hatter in October, but you can't win them all.
I got some bread pudding and fruit. I sure wish I could eat like I used to. I barely had anything this day.
Then Tigger came around.
Fran got herself one last plate, and it appears that I neglected to take a picture of it.
As we were leaving, a nice lady offered to take a picture of the two of us since we didn’t get any together with the characters.
Then we left for MK. City Hall was under renovation.
This was not a happy visit. At all.
Our first FP was for HM. They used to make exceptions for disabled visitors by letting them go in a back door and miss the long queue, however this time they wouldn't budge. She either had to get a manual wheelchair (they didn't say how she was supposed to operate it, they just assumed someone in her party would push, what if she was a solo traveler?) and traverse the queue that way. Well Fran is not someone who will be pushed in a manual chair so she tried to walk the queue, but it was too much for her and about halfway to the entrance she turned back and said, "This is too far for me to walk". I was sad to ride the ride all by myself, but I hadn’t been on it in this version for a long time, so I rode it.
I rode by myself, and it was very lonely. Clearly I was more interested in the shutter speed than posing for the picture…..
Even though it’s not a great shot, I think that this is my first ever graveyard shot to come out not completely blurry.
When I got off the ride she had texted me where to find her. It was really hot. My next FP was for 7DMT, but I really wasn't feeling it.
She insisted I go on it and tried to get me to do it twice. Once was plenty. The hot air rushing over my face actually made me nauseous. Really on 7DMT? So we turned around and went back to the room. The next day I realized that I was probably dehydrated. I didn’t drink any water, just POG and coffee during our breakfast at 1900 PF, and so being full, and not hydrated made me feel icky.
On the way out of the park I looked for that castle zoom PP shot, but there wasn’t a photographer in the spot so we gave up on it.
We did stop for a few PP pictures on the way out since I knew this would be our last trip to MK this trip.
Back in the room Fran went right to sleep.
And I’ll just leave this off right here for now. There isn’t a lot of days left, and I need to start catching up on my bonus features which I will use to kill time after I finish this TR.