April 10, 2023

Day three

 

Shirt of the day….. 20,000 leagues poster shirt.  Little sinister wearing this.  Going to see if a park worker comments on the shirt, will then say….  Cant wait to ride it.  Will see how they react.

 

 

I have some eggs, sausages, and toast.  And chocolate milk. 

 

Chocolate milk yes?

 

Heard of people leaving things in the hall for others to enjoy.. but I don’t think this is one of these??

 

 



After eating, I go back to the room, open the curtain, and see Cinderellas Castle… oh yea.. I am at Disney World J  Cloudy out.

 




 

 

 

I ride out to the dock, waiting for a boat to take me to the Magic Kingdom.  A smaller boat comes first.  Those cant handle scooters.  I make a joke… we need a bigger boat for Bruce, a Jaws reference. 

 

Here is a video of the boat ride.

 


I make it through the boat ride, bag check, and enter the park.  First thing I do, get a DAS return time for Peter Pan.  I head to Carousel of Progress, ride it, then cross the park to go on Peter Pan.

 

 



DAS people enter through the lightening lane entrance.  This line is very long, almost to Mickey’s Philharmagic.  I cant complain too much, the line moves fast.

 

 

 

 

After that, I ride It’s a small world, which I use my nickname for it, Tiny Planet. 

 

 



The above was taken with my new toy, the below with my Gopro 8.

 

 

 

 

After that, I ride a little mermaid ride, the one in the Magic Kingdom, I get the names confused, went on this one.

 

 

 

 

A trip is not a trip… till I do this… darn them all to heck.  Where the 20,000 leagues ride was.

 

 

 

In Liberty Square, the center of the pavement is brown.  Lets just say, they didn’t have central sewer in colonial times, so they dumped it in the center of the street. I make a joke… riding in pooh.

 

 

 

 

It  starts to rain hard, so I duck into Country Bear Jamboree.  I ask where to park my scooter, they say right under the right most bear behind the curtain.

 

 

 

 

I then head to ride Pirates of the Caribbean.  Standby time is 60 minutes, but I am using DAS.

 

 

 

 

I then head to Polynesian to meet with Virginia and Alan to eat at ‘Ohana.  Service is a little different then past years.  Instead of people walking around with skewers, they serve in small dishes extra food. I count 22 shrimps.  I count how many tails are on my plate.  Virginia makes a joke to the server, he had 22 a couple of years ago, wants to break his record, she offers to bring me another one, but I had enough.

 

 

After dinner, I stop by the DVC lounge inside the Polynesian, and they will have someone show me a DVC room.  I ask if they have any freebies for present DVC owners.  They give me this little piece of artwork.

 

 

 

 We walk to a room for show.  I hope its for show, as the front door is mostly glass.  Its on the first floor.  It’s a little on the small side, but it will be home in the future.  After the tour, we head to the Magic Kingdom via monorail.  Going through bag check at a resort….  L


First up  TTA.

 

 

 

 

We go on Winnie the Pooh, the ride, not the pavement. 

 

 

 



We then go to check in for the dessert party. We check in first, they show us to where we will stand to watch the fireworks, desserts after.

 

 

 

 Since I have a scooter, they bring me down to upfront.  I find a good view of the castle.  Virginia and Alan join me after.  I left word that I will have two guests show me.  It is raining decently now, a cold rain.  So I actually wear my poncho to help with the wind. Alan goes to a store to buy a jacket.  Makes it back in time for the fireworks.  I arrived at the viewing section before 8 pm, I thought the fireworks started at 8:30, but it started at 9 pm.  My new toy with its rain poncho on too.

 

 

 



Now while watching and videotaping it, another wheel chair party sits right next to me.  She invites a child to stand in front of her.  I hope I don’t get the kid in my way.  But she is nice, if the kid looks like getting too close she tells him to be careful. 

After the fireworks are over, we head back to the Tomorrowland Terrace, where the food service was.  Our table is reserved.  I booked a party of one for myself,
Virginia booked a party of two, but we wanted to sit next to each other, which we did.   We head to get snacks.  The food being offered has two areas, mirror images.  So everyone lines up on one side, till they said the other side is empty.  While they have alcoholic drinks, I had a glass of champagne, then I just go for a little red wine, and hot coffee, besides the usual cup cakes and stuff.  The wine.. how can I say??  Give me a little kick, in a not good way.

 

 

 



The area looked pretty empty.  There was no one waiting for more snacks.  I figure they shut it down, but they still had people serving.

We said our goodbyes till she drives me back to the train station.  I head back to my resort.

I make it back to my resort, stop by the quick service lounge, get my refillable mug,

 

 

 

make it up to the lounge before it closed, had some ice cream, and called it a night.