8:15 AM - SUCCESS! A post-8 AM sleep in! Now this actually feels like a vacation!
While the wife sleeps, I walk down to Earl of Sandwich and pick up a couple of breakfast sandwiches. They are Egg McMuffin-esque, but I must admit the McMuffins are better. When I return she is awake and getting ready to go out. Today is "pool day", but first we had the brilliant idea to go into California Adventure (in our pool clothes) and ride the Grizzly Run Rapids Ride. Hey, who cares how wet you get when you are dressed in your bathing suit and headed right to the pool?
It's a fabulous plan, as we get drenched but couldn't care less. Such a fun ride, and even more so when you don't have to be concerned with whether or not you are going to be uncomfortably wet for the rest of the day. Off to the pool!!!
After an hour or so, I've reached my pool limit, so I head back to the room to relax while Tracey continues. The pool was so dead that we had one of the three pools to ourselves for most of the time. Such an awesome pool, with many lifeguards and waiter service.
1:45 PM - Tracey's back from "pool day" and we are getting ready to head to lunch....er, dinner.... er....what do you call a meal at 3:30 in the afternoon anyway?
"Pool day" isn't actually over, it will continue into "pool evening" as we are planning on heading back down for another swim/hot tub after the football game tonight.
One of the best features of our room is that we are directly across from Haagen Dazs. The only downside?
We are directly across from Haagen Dazs.
3:15 PM - Into the Blue Bayou early for our meal, and we get a seat right next to the water. The ambiance here is off the charts, of course (how many restaurants are in a theme park ride??), and the food is always great. For the first time ever I'm not that crazy about my entree, Cajun salmon, but it's still good - just not great. All the extras are terrific as usual. Salad, two kinds of buns, and the side dishes are always top quality and today is no exception.
On the way out of the park, we hop into a store that we hadn't yet been into (featuring some amazing Disney art), and I notice quite by accident that Mickey AND Minnie are right next door posing for pictures with guests. And there is virtually NO lineup! All the Disney trips we've been on and we've never had pictures with BOTH of them until today. Check that one off the list.
Glad they had them inside; my GOD, can you imagine how hot those costumes are for the poor performers inside? Unreal.
On our way back to the room we stop at the aforementioned ice cream facility and we both make a terrible choice which neither of us enjoys much. That just means that it didn't count and we'll try harder to get the proper ice cream selection tomorrow! We will just keep trying and trying until we get it right.
8:30 PM - After the football game we head down to the pool and hot tub until to find we have been joined by every freaking kid in the State of California. Good grief. It's almost 9 PM on a Monday, don't these kids have school tomorrow? They can't ALL be from BC can they????
There are, no exaggeration, 60 people in the pool, so after about 2 minutes of being splashed and involved in a rowdy game of "Marco Polo", we head to the hot tub which was empty 10 seconds ago and is now half full, but whatever. We get chatting with a nice local couple, and her parents, who are enjoying a couple days of "staycation" at the resort. That's a pretty good place to come for a couple nights.
9:50 PM - Back up to the room to plan our day for tomorrow; seems like a sleep in day (or at least whatever my version of "sleep in" is these days) and then over to DCA in the afternoon. We are having dinner over there before the World of Colour show....er, World of Color as these Yankees put it. We've seen the show once before but I've heard they have made some changes so looking forward to that.
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