I think I would die if Joe Rohde was there.
so here's our sort of embarrassing Joe Rohde story...
years ago, we went on the sunrise safari.....
it was an unexpectedly large group, so they split us into two smaller groups, with our group going with a guide who had been recruited at the last minute to take the overflow..
though we'd been going to disney since 1974, we weren't "fans" in the sense of knowing all the underlying nitty gritty type stuff (my grown up kids are fans now, but they were young teens then)..
ok....so the guide was phenomenal, telling us lots of background stories of how AK and AKL had been designed..
the depth of his knowledge was extremely impressive...
and he was a super nice guy, making sure we were all having a great time, including during the included breakfast buffet....
spending a really long time speaking with each group all though the tour and breakfast...
so later that day, long after the tour was over, as we were paying for something or other at one of the stores somewhere in WDW, the CM was chatting us up asking how our day was..
so i said we'd had a fantastic sunrise safari with the most amazing guide..
then i told her how the guy had this totally odd earring in one of his ears and i was surprised they let a CM wear it...that it was this super long feather like thing in his ear..
the CM practically swallowed her tongue..
she said "Oh MY GOD!!!! YOU HAD JOE ROHDE AS YOUR GUIDE?????????????????????????"
i just looked at her and said....."umm...yes...that was what he said his name was....why?"
so she explained who he was and how she just couldn't believe we didn't know what kind of disney royalty had been our guide...
it was so funny really....we hadn't had a clue....he was amazing true...and clearly incredibly knowledgeable....and super nice...and outgoing..
and with this really bizarre thing in his ear...
and we were entirely clueless....we didn't even take any pictures as far as i recall, though maybe we did..
anyway...that's our joe rohde story....
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