Oh, what a trip.
10:30 AM - Up and done with breakfast and we are off to the closest pool for a short bit of poolin' and hottubbin' and sunnin'. Unfortunately the sun didn't much cooperate but the other two were there. We actually experienced a ton of wildlife on this trip, but for the most part the kind you'd expect. But this morning we got two kinds you may not totally expect.
First, on the way to the pool, some golfers passed by us and told us to stay away from the water hazard right in front of the green they just played, as there was a gator poking his head out of the water!! OK I know gators in Florida are hardly newsworthy, but this is a small lake on a golf course, I would think the staff might try to keep out the alligators. At some point some golfer is going to get too close to the water and try to retrieve a ball, and lose an arm. Or worse.
I would have got a picture of this but, uh, I was just too anxious to get to the pool. It had nothing to do with a morbid fear of gators or anything like that.
I'm just going to assume he looked like this.
At the pool, we got some more wildlife, and this time we actually saw it: a Corn Snake, in the tree right above the pool! He started out on the lowest branch, just about 8 feet off the ground (I probably could have reached it if I wanted to jump at it, and you know, if I felt like getting bit by a snake). A security guy came by and said he'd try to move it later when the snake got lower. Uh, buddy, if the snake gets lower he's on the ground and the guests may not like that much. Corn snakes are not poisonous but they will bite if cornered, and let's face it, snakes scare the bezeezus out of a lot of people including a certain lovely female accompanying me on this trip.
Snakes actually don't scare me at all, especially if I see it and know where it is, and even moreso when I know it's not dangerous. I'm not trying to sound like a tough guy, if I walked down the street and suddenly a snake slithered right in front of me I'd probably jump 10 feet and screech like a 12-year old girl at a Bieber concert, but it would be the surprise of the thing that did it to me, not necessarily the snake itself. I actually enjoy seeing snakes at zoos and the like. I just like to know what they are and where they are :)
As I was leaving the pool I went back to the tree and was going to take a picture of the snake but was told he had slithered to a higher spot in the tree and I couldn't see him.
3:30 PM - After lunch we head back to the Magic Kingdom for our last park day of the trip. There is a severe thunderstorm warning tonight but we are lucky, as we have been all trip, and the only rain we see while we are in the park is about 5 minutes of very light sprinkling.
While in the 30-minute lineup for the Winnie the Pooh right (which was actually 12 minutes), I wrote a song. This is totally original, all mine, and any resemblance to Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys is completely coincidental. In fact I may have my lawyer contact Willie Nelson's estate posthumously
He's not dead? Seriously? How is THAT possible?
Anyway, here goes.
Mamas, don't take your babies to Disney too early
They'll never remember
A thing that they see
And all they will do is bug meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Mamas, don't take your babies to Disney too early
They'll bitch and they'll cry
They'll whine and they'll moan
And you will just want to go hommmmmmmmmmme
I think I may have to call Bruce Dickinson. I smell a gold record.
Seriously, people, leave the damn babies at home. We saw TWO different babies that looked like they were about 4 hours old. Is Dad standing at the foot of the bed with scissors to cut the umbilical cord and a MagicBand??? "Hey babe, pop that little thing out so we can make it to Epcot in time for the parade!!!".
8:15 PM - Th-th-th-th-th-that's all, Folks!!! Oh I just mixed Looney Toons with Disney. Actually how come Disney hasn't BOUGHT them yet? They own everyone else.
Back to the car and headed back to the resort to finish packing. Tomorrow comes very early. Looking forward to being home, of course, but also don't ever want to leave. What a truly fantastic trip.
Oh, Alamo finally called me this morning. The guy was very sympathetic to my problem and said he was going to look into my rental and call me back later today to see if they could give me a better deal on my car (since I didn't get the car I wanted). He didn't call back.
DON'T RENT FROM ALAMO!!!!
Assuming nothing overly interesting happens tomorrow, this will be my last blog post of the trip.... sort of. I will, as promised, give a more detailed description of our dinner at Victoria & Albert's and full pictures of all the food and reviews of the wine. I'll try to get that done sometime this weekend.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the ride.
Our next Florida trip won't be until the Magic Kingdom's 50th Anniversary, in 2021 or 2022, depending I guess on when the official celebration is (it opened October 1st, 1971). It kind of pisses me off that the Frozen ride will be celebrating it's 5th Anniversary before we get here again!!! And the Avatar land will be 4. And everything ELSE that opens between now and then.....it's like it never ends!!
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
- Walter Elias Disney
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