eliza61
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- Jun 2, 2003
Brief recap from our 10 day family reunion. just some funny observations. Disclaimer: this contains some "misses". If you're the type that does not like criticism of the mouse, this may not be for you. LOL.
Players: 18 of my nearest and not so dearest relatives. Oy Vey!! celebrating the 100th birthday of my Aunt.
Most improvement award: Disney's mid level ts restaurants. I've literally stopped eating on site because the last couple of years the quality has been lacking. This trip I was sort of forced to because we didn't want to go offsite. I found the park places greatly improved. The Plaza in MK was delicious, Sci fi diner very good and a few others. New Italian place on the Boardwalk was very very good (forgot the name)
Idiot award goes to Yours truly, me. So I'm African American and I guess because it was cloudy a few days I thought I wouldn't get sunburned. 10 lashes with a pixie stick for me. wooo, Florida sun was/is brutal. day 3 I had a nasty case of sunburn across my shoulders.
Best line from a cm In line for test track, got to the head of the line and the cm ask how many, we said 18. He just looked at us and said "Why". whole family cracked up. why indeed.
Great timing award We arrived the 25th of August, the first 3 days were a bit crowded but by the begininning of the next week, crowds really dropped. 35 minute wait for TSM at times. 10 minutes for Soarin.
get it together Disney award: fast pass plus. sorry it was a horror. 90% of the time we could not make adjustments, out of 10 days we were only able to get additional passes 2 days. One day the system totally lost our fp reservations. Always had a 15 minute wait at the kiosk. ALWAYS. by the 5th day we simply did not bother. And it wasn't because it was a large group of us. I only made fp for my immediate family and three others (6 total) but almost everyone had issues.
forgot how to be a parent award. lol, now I know we should never criticize strangers parenting butttttt.......
In epcot at the world showcase and run into the bathroom, a poor mom is fighting with a ~4year old little girl to put on her pullups. The little girl wanted to wear her cinderella pull up but unfortunately it was torn so she was having a meltdown and refusing to put on any pullups. Mom, threw up her hand and said "fine don't wear anything" and then proceeded to let her run around sans bottoms.
Now I get it, I'm old, I grew up during the "because I said so " generation. I realize today parents are more "talk to and explain" to your child but seriously isn't letting a kid run around half naked unhygienic and yes she let her leave the bathroom without bottoms.
Players: 18 of my nearest and not so dearest relatives. Oy Vey!! celebrating the 100th birthday of my Aunt.
Most improvement award: Disney's mid level ts restaurants. I've literally stopped eating on site because the last couple of years the quality has been lacking. This trip I was sort of forced to because we didn't want to go offsite. I found the park places greatly improved. The Plaza in MK was delicious, Sci fi diner very good and a few others. New Italian place on the Boardwalk was very very good (forgot the name)
Idiot award goes to Yours truly, me. So I'm African American and I guess because it was cloudy a few days I thought I wouldn't get sunburned. 10 lashes with a pixie stick for me. wooo, Florida sun was/is brutal. day 3 I had a nasty case of sunburn across my shoulders.
Best line from a cm In line for test track, got to the head of the line and the cm ask how many, we said 18. He just looked at us and said "Why". whole family cracked up. why indeed.
Great timing award We arrived the 25th of August, the first 3 days were a bit crowded but by the begininning of the next week, crowds really dropped. 35 minute wait for TSM at times. 10 minutes for Soarin.
get it together Disney award: fast pass plus. sorry it was a horror. 90% of the time we could not make adjustments, out of 10 days we were only able to get additional passes 2 days. One day the system totally lost our fp reservations. Always had a 15 minute wait at the kiosk. ALWAYS. by the 5th day we simply did not bother. And it wasn't because it was a large group of us. I only made fp for my immediate family and three others (6 total) but almost everyone had issues.
forgot how to be a parent award. lol, now I know we should never criticize strangers parenting butttttt.......
In epcot at the world showcase and run into the bathroom, a poor mom is fighting with a ~4year old little girl to put on her pullups. The little girl wanted to wear her cinderella pull up but unfortunately it was torn so she was having a meltdown and refusing to put on any pullups. Mom, threw up her hand and said "fine don't wear anything" and then proceeded to let her run around sans bottoms.
Now I get it, I'm old, I grew up during the "because I said so " generation. I realize today parents are more "talk to and explain" to your child but seriously isn't letting a kid run around half naked unhygienic and yes she let her leave the bathroom without bottoms.
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Left me smiling. I, too, have some issues with fast passes. We usually use them for our must do rides, then just forget them - too much hassle for us. I hope Disney fixes this problem to help us out with these problems!
