Day 7: Feb 9th 2006 The Gangster Has Good Taste

The guys and I slept in until 9am today. In fact I think Mark had to literally push me out of our bed to get me moving. But we did eventually all get moving. We were tired but ready to make the most of the day. After all… we’re in WDW! We can’t let even a nano-second go to waste! So down the elevator we went, hiked past the bowling pin shaped pool, past the Hippy-Dippy pool and into the Everything Pop. Matt got his ol’ faithful breakfast wrap, Mark got a western omelet and I had… chocolate chip pancakes. I tell you, nothing gets you ready for the day like chocolate.


Mark dances in front of our bed for me. I’m not sure why but I like it!

So, with our bellies full of nutrition we headed off to Blizzard Beach. No! Are you crazy? We didn’t do anything at the water park. It was cold enough to freeze spit mid… spit. Ok, maybe it wasn’t that cold but it sure as heck wasn’t warm enough to even dip my toe into the water. (I only wish we had been that smart later on…) While the crazy Canadians on our bus headed off to plummet into the icy waters… we marched ourselves on over to Winter Summerland mini-golf course. The story is this is where Santa hangs out in the summer. It was pretty fun, although very windy. My damn hair kept blowing in my eyes! We did both the Winter and Summer courses. I came in 2nd another time! And Mark… he’s my mini-golf idol because he comes in first every time! Do you know the other reason he’s my hero? Because he also bought me a frozen snicker bar after our games. Mmmm!


Mark! We’re golfing. This is no time for ice fishing!


You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of the girl.


Look at this guy! Mark had the best scores of the day so far!


Here I am hitching a ride in Santa’s sleigh.


Here I am tripping on my way out of Santa’s sleigh. Oh that Mark is a quick one with the camera!

After our rousing game of golf (watch out Tiger Woods… I’m gonna take you down!) we headed to MGM. We got there just in time to get great seats for the Indy Stunt Show. It was more interesting than I remembered. And I totally called out the fake “audience member” as soon as I saw him. Psh… try to slip a phony by me, will you? I think not!


Isn’t this guy just adorable?!


Mark poses with Skippy the Coke Man. I don’t know if Skippy is really his name but it is now.


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My awesome Indy picture. It’s ok to use it for your advertisements, Disney. I just want 10% of the revenue.

Now here’s a little background about Mark. He has sensitive ears. He doesn’t like most loud noises (and he’s a drummer?!). Example: He hated the new Lincoln show at Disneyland because of the headphones and all the sounds there right next to your ears. Yet somehow Matt convinced Mark (perhaps he used his Jedi mind powers?!) to go see Sounds Dangerous with Drew Carey. BOOOOOORING! What terrible headphones. The sound didn’t sound dangerous at all. Although, Mark was probably happy about that we all agreed that it was just a good spot for a nap and nothing more. Also… I heard that on the way out Matt kicked a little kid in the head. Supposedly there was a kid laying in the middle of the floor as you exit and Matt didn’t see him and booted the poor (although slightly dumb kid) in the noggin. But you see… I missed all of that because I heard the parade coming and I was busy trying to get the guys attention so we could go watch it!


R2-D2! What are you doing in a Disney parade? “Beep-boop bleep-boop-boop beeeep!”


Tell me the Imperial March didn’t start playing in your head as soon as you saw him. Yeah… I knew it did. You just can’t help it.


Isn’t this the whitest Aladdin and Jasmine you’ve ever seen?! They are so white you’d almost swear it was Jeff Foxworthy playing Aladdin. No wait… I think it is!!


Ariel says “Praise the lord!!”

After the parade was over we turned around and do you know what we saw? Busts! Lots and lots of busts! And we had more fun with those busts than any three people should legally be allowed to have.


Matt and his hero Babwa Wawa. I overheard Matt saying: “Oh, Barbara! I want to be a hard hitting journalist just like you when I grow up!” Keep the dream alive, Matt. Keep the dream alive.


Milton Berle and I have an uncanny resemblance, dontcha think? Random Fact: Did you know Milton Berle once played a Rabbi in Diffr’nt Strokes? He did!


Mark and Sid Ceasar. Are they smoking or having tea? Its hard to tell.


Hey look! I know this guy! Matt is also going to hell in a fashionable handbag for giving Walt bunny ears. Unless they were “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” ears in honor of his homecoming…


Oh Betty White! You were the best Golden Girl EVER!


Matt gives Alan Alda a hand… or two arms as the case may be.


Mark and Matt play with the Oparah Bust and with Oparah’s Bust. Can’t take those two anywhere!


Mark feels certain that if the real Bill Cosby was there, he’d think Mark’s impression of him was terrific. “With the pudding, an the jell-o and the razzle dazzle.” Really, his impression works best when you see him do the little Bill Cosby jig that goes along with it.


Matt and Matlock have a staring contest. Matt won.


Mark is excited that he finally found someone with bigger feet than him. Roger Rabbit!


Look! It’s Captain Mark Sparrow! “Savvy?”

After our bust fun we headed to Hollywood and Vine (I must have called it Hollywood and Dine, because that’s what DCA’s was called, about a million times!) to check in for our Fantasmic Dinner Package. I thought this was a good deal. We paid the same price as everyone else eating at the Hollywood and Dine (It’s a buffet) AND we got priority seating for Fantasmic! Not a bad deal. The thing that did suck however was after whe checked in we had to wait 40 minutes to be seated because they screwed up. Also… why do they shout your name when its busy and loud to hear and not use a microphone and speaker system? Well, despite their screw up the rest of dinner was nice. They apologized about the mistake and we were ready to eat! And let me tell you… the food was really good there!


Ha! Caught Mark off guard right before we went to go fill up our plates.


Matt didn’t waste time with any of that salad garbage! He was sad however that they didn’t have peanut butter and jelly pizza.


Mark’s ready to dig in!


I look like I’m about ready to hug my food rather than eat it.


The awesome dragon made of chocolates by the desserts. Yes… after 3 plates full we all had dessert too. Good thing we did lots of walking on this trip!


Mark and I show off how full we are.

After dinner we headed off to the special “Priority Seating” section on Fantasmic! We got to go backstage which made me happy because I wanted to compare WDW’s backstage to Disneyland’s. The show was good. But I like Disneyland’s better. I was not a fan big of the Pocahontas scene (and that may be because I’ve never seen Pocahontas. I’m ashamed of myself!) and I really missed the Pink Elephant song and the Columbia. However I did really like how they had more villains (Even if those dirty rats took out the best part, where Ursula tells us that she’ll take matters into her own testicles.). In fact the villains portion MIGHT have been enough to almost put the show on par with Disneyland’s but then there was the tragedy that came next. The terrible, awful, hideous creation that is… the steam boat. It looks like it’s made from cardboard! How in the world does it stay afloat and not fall to pieces. I just don’t think the grand finale is supposed to send me into a fit of giggles. So even though the ending stunk I still enjoyed myself.


Stopping for a picture before heading over to Fantasmic! We didn’t do a very good job.


So a nice manager helped us out. Thank you!


Backstage MGM! It’s clean and it doesn’t smell like garbage. Psh…It doesn’t feel like home back there because that’s nothing like Disneyland’s backstage.


Waiting excitedly for Fantasmic! to start while I wait patiently for the little booger behind me to stop leaning on me… with his sucker in his hands!


This part of the show = GOOD!


This part of the show = VERY BAD!

After the show I attempted to use two separate restrooms and encountered lines longer than anywhere else at the resort. A word to the wise, ladies; do you tinkling BEFORE Fantasmic! We got our Extra Magic Hour bracelets from the slowest “bracelet-er” ever in the whole world! We rode Rockn’ Rollercoaster again and Mark and I did the awesome Stephen Tyler “thumb lick and sizzle”. Then we rode on Tower again. I liked it better this time. We had a much better drop sequence plus I had the backpack this time and I put the handle through the seat belt and put the backpack on the floor. This pulled down on the seatbelt giving me a whole lotta airtime. Fun stuff! The guys busted out the tri-pods and got lots of pictures of MGM before we decided to go ride the Great Movie Ride. During the ride we had the gangster scene and “Mugsy” told Mark he’d show him how to treat a lady so he jumped in our seat and put his arm around me. LOL! And right before he got off our tram again for the end scene he leaned over and whispered to me “You’re a really pretty girl. I just want you to know that.” And then he was gone. LMAO! What can I say? The man has good taste.


The Hat.


Aren’t we a good lookin’ crew?

The park was closed by the time we got off The Great Movie Ride. We headed back to the hotel and we all got ice cream because for some reason the 3 plates of food PLUS dessert just 5 hours earlier wasn’t enough. And then Matt slipped into some bizarre southern accent and told us “In the bayou, sausage is a bad omen.” LOL! I’m still not sure what that means.