Monday, August 4, 2008
Today we all kind of slept in. We were all pretty tired after last night. We took our time getting around and didn’t head out till lunch time. We decided to go to Magic Kingdom for lunch.
OK now I understand about the great numbers of people and the long lines. It was crazy today. People everywhere. We were so lucky last week and didn’t even know it. It was crazy!
After lunch we went and road the Mickey Philaharmonic and It’s a Small World again. The wait for Splash Mountain the log ride was over two hours! We didn’t do that. We walked back around the park and headed for the shops. Jenni is looking for clothes for her baby Minnie doll.
Scott and Laura called. They had made it and are swimming at their resort. We are all meeting at the Contemporary resort for dinner.
We had to take the monorail to dinner. It was really neat. We ate at a restaurant called the WAVE. Kind of adultish for this place. The food was really good but again more of a formal atmosphere. This was the only place we could get in tonight though. When Tim called to make reservations last night, we were lucky to get the places we did. Last week we had no trouble at all. The person taking the reservations said this week is really busy because it is the last week before kids start school. Like I said glad we had last week with lighter crowds.
After dinner we decided to go to Animal Kingdom’s extra magic hours. We all rode over on the bus. Jessi, Jake, Josh, Maddie, Sam, Scott and I headed for Expedition Everest. Oh this was so awesome!!!! You get in a cart. It takes off nothing too dramatic. It takes you up a steep grade and the tracks quit. Then you go backwards for a while then the tracks change again and you go forward. A giant Yeti comes at you. It was so cool we rode it twice. It took us about 40 minutes to ride it twice. During the day the wait can be as long as 2 hours. It was so cool.
The first time we rode it Jake left his new hat in the cargo holder. We went back but of course they aren’t going to be real helpful. They are trying to get people on and off as quick as possible. They sent me to lost and found for the everest ride. The lady there said it had been turned in but they had already taken it to the front of the park at guest services.
We walked back to the front to meet Tim, Laura, Hannah, and Jenni. They had gone to see the Lion King show. It took about an hour to actually get to the guest services. No hat. They told me it sometimes takes a while for the cart to get back to them with the lost and found stuff. The gentleman there tried to get me to call a central lost and found in the morning. I said no. She said it had just been turned in and it was coming to here. We would just wait till it came in. So everyone else went home but Jake and I sat at the Guest services area till almost 11:00 when the guy came and took Jake to the store and gave him another hat. He told me it wasn’t here yet and he didn’t know how long it would take them to get it there. I thought that was pretty nice. If the lady hadn’t said it was turned in and they had it I would have just gone on but it was found and turned in and I didn’t want to have to go running all over this 43 square mile complex trying to find their central lost and found tomorrow.
Jake and I made it back around 12:00. So off to bed for rest for another big day tomorrow!
Today we all kind of slept in. We were all pretty tired after last night. We took our time getting around and didn’t head out till lunch time. We decided to go to Magic Kingdom for lunch.
OK now I understand about the great numbers of people and the long lines. It was crazy today. People everywhere. We were so lucky last week and didn’t even know it. It was crazy!
After lunch we went and road the Mickey Philaharmonic and It’s a Small World again. The wait for Splash Mountain the log ride was over two hours! We didn’t do that. We walked back around the park and headed for the shops. Jenni is looking for clothes for her baby Minnie doll.
Scott and Laura called. They had made it and are swimming at their resort. We are all meeting at the Contemporary resort for dinner.
We had to take the monorail to dinner. It was really neat. We ate at a restaurant called the WAVE. Kind of adultish for this place. The food was really good but again more of a formal atmosphere. This was the only place we could get in tonight though. When Tim called to make reservations last night, we were lucky to get the places we did. Last week we had no trouble at all. The person taking the reservations said this week is really busy because it is the last week before kids start school. Like I said glad we had last week with lighter crowds.
After dinner we decided to go to Animal Kingdom’s extra magic hours. We all rode over on the bus. Jessi, Jake, Josh, Maddie, Sam, Scott and I headed for Expedition Everest. Oh this was so awesome!!!! You get in a cart. It takes off nothing too dramatic. It takes you up a steep grade and the tracks quit. Then you go backwards for a while then the tracks change again and you go forward. A giant Yeti comes at you. It was so cool we rode it twice. It took us about 40 minutes to ride it twice. During the day the wait can be as long as 2 hours. It was so cool.
The first time we rode it Jake left his new hat in the cargo holder. We went back but of course they aren’t going to be real helpful. They are trying to get people on and off as quick as possible. They sent me to lost and found for the everest ride. The lady there said it had been turned in but they had already taken it to the front of the park at guest services.
We walked back to the front to meet Tim, Laura, Hannah, and Jenni. They had gone to see the Lion King show. It took about an hour to actually get to the guest services. No hat. They told me it sometimes takes a while for the cart to get back to them with the lost and found stuff. The gentleman there tried to get me to call a central lost and found in the morning. I said no. She said it had just been turned in and it was coming to here. We would just wait till it came in. So everyone else went home but Jake and I sat at the Guest services area till almost 11:00 when the guy came and took Jake to the store and gave him another hat. He told me it wasn’t here yet and he didn’t know how long it would take them to get it there. I thought that was pretty nice. If the lady hadn’t said it was turned in and they had it I would have just gone on but it was found and turned in and I didn’t want to have to go running all over this 43 square mile complex trying to find their central lost and found tomorrow.
Jake and I made it back around 12:00. So off to bed for rest for another big day tomorrow!
1 comment:
I read "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. He had a Disney World story just like Jake's.
His was about a gift for his parent and he broke it and one of the disney people told them to go back to the store and ask for a replacement. He did and they replaced the gift at no charge. It gave me goose bumps when I ready Jake's story and remembering the story in the book I read. Then the end turned out the same, it made me feel good all over to see that Disney World is still be run with great care for the children. Customer service that you don't find just everywhere in America.
It's a great book. It will make you cry.
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