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Day 2, August 04
An early morning and an early
night - Part 1
Even though we had only gone to
bed past midnight, our inner clock woke us up early.
So by 6.30 we were wide awake.
We stayed in bed for a little
longer watching a little TV, before Tom got up and got some coffee
on. We still had the cake,
which we had not cut the day
before and it made for a perfect breakfast treat.
We then got ready to head out,
trying to make rope drop at the Magic Kingdom, but failed, we only
made it to the entrance by 9.15.
No problem in being late, but I
did have a problem.
A few days before we had left on
the trip I had purchased 2 pairs of new shoes, sandals being one
pair and a pair of sneakers being the other. I had a similar pair at
home and they were like walking on clouds, soft and you never felt
anything. These sneakers had the same feeling when I tried them on
in the shop. Now that I had walked the short walk from Bay Lake
Tower to the Magic Kingdom I could feel that I had blisters on both
heels. So, what to do? Well, I remembered that there was a first aid
station right past Casey’s, so that was where we were headed. In we
went and within a few seconds a very nice cast member handed me
several bandaids and we sat down on the sofa and I put on the
bandaids. Carefully back into the shoes, tried a step or two, no
problem and off we went.
Outside we enjoyed the view of
the castle with the clear blue sky beneath it and I reached into my
small camera pocket for my camera.
Yikes, I had had it in my hand
when we had gone into the first aid station.
Now Tom was heading back, hoping
it would still be there. And it was, still sitting on the sofa where
I had put on the bandaids. Camera in hand we walked over to the
Jungle Cruise,
thinking that we might be able
to get on with just a short wait, since we had missed it the day
before. The park was still “empty” and indeed we walked up to the
ride and there were just a few people in line and we walked onto the
ride.
The skipper was a hoot
and even though we had heard the
spiel quite often he had us all in stitches.
Being such a short time after
the horrible incident with the little boy at the Grand Floridian,
the skipper very well maneuvered around the crocodiles by pulling
everyone’s attention to the other side. Soon it was time to get off
again
and we headed over to Pirates of
the Caribbean.
Just a five minute wait, so got
in line and again just walked onto the ride, or right up to the
gates. There we stood for quite a while while boats went through
without people in it. And after a few minutes of waiting quite the
line had formed and we were finally allowed to get into a boat and
get on our way.
Once we got off the ride we took
a restroom break and then slowly strolled over to the Haunted
Mansion.
Again we got in line and even
though there was a short walk we were inside the first room within a
few minutes. Surprise, surprise once we left the stretching room
there was quite the line, as they sent off every other doom buggy
empty. But finally they started filling them all and we were swept
forward and boarded our ride. Once we got off we were greeted by a
Florida grey sky and decided that since we only had had a small
slice of cake for breakfast it would be the perfect time to have
some lunch.
So we started walking over to
Columbia Harbour House, were handed a menu at the entrance and got
in line. And soon we had our tray in hand and were heading upstairs
to find a window table.
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