Good gravy, I'm catching up on, what, 2 months worth?
Hope you don't mind me throwing in my thoughts! Going backwards in time.....
But I am not complaining, because my friend Molly shared her fast passes with me, and hey, all I can say, is you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. Right, Molly?
I did, didn't I? Hopefully it partially made up for the churro I did not get you, that I was supposed to get you, for the transfer you sent me.
So, just to let everyone know, they do not allow 7 adults into one boat. It would just weigh it down to much. Obviously the cast member took a quick glance at our hineys and knew they made a good rule with that one.
Remember how the first CM was OK with 7, since we had the two smallest rears sitting in the back seat. But she went away, and perhaps asked her male CM counterpart to come and tell us NO. Harumph.
Yes, there was a huge splash (hence the name) and a tidal wave that followed.
And the fine spray across the face of the person in the front. Gotta say it..duck poop water!
...most everyone had wet bottoms.
No good. No one needs wet undies.
No, no they don't.
...we scattered and started running around like we had ants in our pants.
Or Splash-water on 'em!
No one could decide on what to eat, so everyone was just going to grab some counter service and we were all gonna meet at the tables outside of the Riverbelle. Some of us had chimmichangas, others got stuff from Stagedoor or Rancho, and someone had ordered from Riverbelle.
And that's where we all felt paranoid, b/c no one could find the table and had to look around wondering if they'd been left behind.
After finding the table, though, it was fun! Thanks for being patient as I wiped out the kid's meal Mickey head plate to take home to E.
The only down side to dinner at Cafe Orleans was when the bill came. Some had their own bill and others were together. Steph had her own bill, but the waiter mixed up her's with someone else's and that's where the trouble started. Cutting to the chase, the waiter slide her card three times and ended up blocking her card from use. She was pretty upset since she had only so much cash on her and now her card was blocked due to his mistake. She would have handed him another card if he had been up front about sliding it the first two times. In the end things were straightened out.
The last ride before we were gonna meet up with the Fantasmic group was BTMRR. When we exited the ride we ran into Callie, Stacielee and a few others. We ended up chatting with them for a bit instead of heading straight over to Fantasmic. Just as we said our byes to that group, the lights went out and Fantasmic started.
There were server/bill issues at each place I ate! Slowness issues with CC, them running the card too many times at CO, and even WCT! Crazy.
I think I was with you guys before you ran off for F. I felt so bad when I found out you hadn't made it! Too much talky talky with the ladies I suppose. If only you'd known you weren't going to make it, you could have ridden Indy and watched me use my magical DVC FP that was not taken from me by the CM.
Our team worked hard and we worked with a strategy. There were 8 sheets of questions, so each of us took two pages. Then we moved with purpose from land to land. Each person was responsible for checking their own two sheets for any questions that needed to be taken care of in that area.
Ooh, good strategy. Better than ours! Ours was "Molly is holding onto the paper and TRYING to figure out what land each is in and has to flip through the pages repeatedly and keeps missing things". Not as efficient as I wanted it to be. Whoops. Yours was much better!
Now, the walk to Storyteller's was the longest walk in the history of walks to breakfast. It was almost mirage like. Just when you thought you were almost there, nope.....you still had a ways to go.
Truer words have never been spoken.
And Robert was our waiter. He was good, funny and he gave us pins. What could be better?
Molly, Amy Sue, Cristabel and I shared a table for the info session. We spilled, dropped and made a mess of our area. You would have thought that a bunch of toddlers sat at our table and not three moms and a responsible lady.
I think that was all me.
Muffin all over...didn't I even spill coffee? Craziness. I'm not usually that bad; I usually contain the spills to my chestal region.
I forget how those cars are... were you sitting right beside the man? or was he in front of you? It would be weird to be right beside some strange guy - unless he looked like Chery's waiter...
Yep, when you're in the SR line you are seated right next to a stranger. The times I did the line they have asked the standby line person if they mind being with a single rider; not sure the person always understands what they are saying yes too, though!
I think I focused too much on the tours and missed out on a lot of activities with the group. Next time I'm going to stick with the group
For me, the group thing was so cool. Aside from Cheryl I didn't have any one person to hang out with, and so I really let myself go with the flow, changing groups whenever someone else was doing something I wanted to (though if I was just flat out having fun with a group I'd stick with them). Now that didn't make for the most cohesive memories on my part...I remember moments but have a hard time putting the moments together into a timeline...but it made for nice, flowy hours and days, of sheer enjoyment. The biggest thing I found, by hanging out with different groups, is just how FUNNY people are! I mean, not just joke-cracking, but just chatting with people, people are just hilarious.
That's not to say I won't be signing up for the Segway tour in the future...but the group stuff was wonderful.
Thanks for continuing your report Stacerita! I'm enjoying it, especially since you have a good take on some of the moments we were together for!