Day 8
Today I am heading to Typhoon
Lagoon. My reserved Fastpass
pluses have me at the studios. So much for those. Its been over a dozen years since I was here last. I pack up the same items I carried to
I wanted to get a bite to eat
at Pop Century food court, but I waited too long as it was after
waiting
for the bus
I get a locker, place my
stuff away and head towards the wave pool.
Took some photos while walking around to the wave
pool.
When they send out the
serious waves, they blow a horn first, followed by people screaming. Even though I was far away, when the wave hit
me, it hit me with enough force to spin me around. Every so often, people hit me too.
Here I am getting knocked
down a couple of times.
Then I used Instagram to do some live video to Facebook
and Twitter. Sadly, I held it sideways,
so here is the video with the right side up.
I also take a loop around the
lazy river.
And here is a short video I
took while I was on the lazy river. I
was using my smartphone to take this video. I didn’t
know I had my finger in the way.
After the lazy river, I get
something to eat, a early lunch. I get a cheeseburger meal. First problem is they don’t supply lids for
the soda cup, as they person at the counter service place said they didn’t use
lids as they clog up the water filters.
Nothing I can do except remember the first day
here when I gave my hand a soda bath trying to carry it to a table.
The seating area I am in,
there is only another person trying to eat here. She was getting freaked out when birds were
dive bombing her tray for French fries.
As soon as they held one in their mouth, they flew away. I held my ground J
After eating I went back to
the wave pool. Mild
waves. Here we have Miss Tilly on
A horn blowing signals a
large wave is coming, which makes people start screaming. I stand sideways when the wave hits me, but
still I get turned around. Here is some
video of more waves hitting me.
After having enough, I go to
change and get my $5 back. Since I got a
mug for
I am back on the bus back to
Pop Century. Get my usual assortment of
cameras and head to my second park of the day, Animal Kingdom.
Once at Animal Kingdom, I am
too early for my ADR. I try to roam
around a bit,
till I just give up
and ask if its ok to be seated early.
They say sure, doesn’t look crowded at all. After waiting a couple of minutes, I am
seated.
I will be using dining
credits to pay for the meal. Years past, since they are not Disney owned or
operated, they hold onto my key to the world card while eating. This year they seem to do what other places
do. Once seated, they scan my Magic Band
card, I enter my PIN. She looks at the
readout and tells me they show zero credits left. I am stunned.
Last night at ‘Ohana, I had
two. I didn’t know what to do, I
explained that I should have two left.
She suggested to pay for the meal and straighten
this out later. On the key to the world
card, there is a phone number. I told
her to give me a couple of minutes, that I would call to have this matter
fixed.
I called the number on the
card, gave them my room number, and she looked at my account. I told her I had two credits as of last night, that I haven’t used any dining credits since. She looks at my account and goes hummmm.. she
sees my meal from last night, including the tip I left, but she also sees a
additional two meals paid too. I tell
her, that is a mistake, see how much of a tip I left, I ate solo, not with two
others. This is the second time I had a
table service meal credit problem. She
fixes it, tells me to tell the server, give her 30 seconds to try the scan, I
should have the two credits restored.
The server returns, I tell her that the error should be fixed.
I have a good meal, I get the fried battered shrimp on a stick, skirt
steak wrapped around white rice.
And for dessert, what I dream
about, cheese wontons with vanilla Ice Cream.
After eating, and the server
good naturedly assuring me she only charger me a single credit, I am on my way
to the third park of the day, Disney Hollywood Studios. I can go directly as there is a dedicated bus
for the studios from Animal Kingdom.
At the studios I do Toy
Story,
then head over to Muppetivsion. It starts to rain before entering the
theater.
After Muppetvision
3D, I go and shop for things to nosh on at the Writers Shop.
Call me crazy, but I leave
the studios and ride over to Epcot, 4th park of the day. I basically just watch Illuminations
again. Hopefully no flaming debris this
time ;) Here is my video for
Illuminations using my new waterproof camera, just to see how it works.
The only event to report
about after this is waiting for a bus, some idiot who probably drank too much
at dinner, tried to get people to sing a Christmas song while in the line. Then he notices my NY Yankee hat and starts
chanting ‘Lets go Red Sox’
I just ignore him. I am
glad that I won’t be on the same bus as him.
While he was behind me on the line, There are ECV’s ahead of me, so I will be waiting for the next one.
Finally board a bus and make
it back to my resort without any further things to report.