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 Our Balcony . . . Let this be a lesson - always complain! Do it and sooner or later you too will get upgraded to the most expensive room in the hotel. Yes, a room where you can space out your seven family members on the balcony fifteen feet apart and you all can wave to the peasants below, not with the ordinary peasant wave but with the "Pope wave." You know, the wave with palm facing the sky while moving the hand two inches to the left, and then, two inches to the right. Alas, I took a picture of the seven rooms inside the suite but it came out too dark. Next time we'll take Charlie along so we can get some good shots. He would have come in handy and doubled as a butler in the pantry. Oh well, next time.  ;void(0)) View from balcony . . . One day, while we were fanned out on the balcony pretending to be rich, a group of tourists, dressed as Cinderella, Snow White, Goofy, et al, walked by on the boardwalk and my son took one look and exclaimed, "Imposters!" I damned near bust my gut laughing. ;void(0)) View from balcony . . . Boats pull up to the dock in front of the hotel and take you to the Magic Kingdon or Epcot. ;void(0)) 3 granddaughters with Goofy . . . In every theme park Disney characters take photographs with the kids - or adults like Margaret who are still young at heart. ;void(0)) Pool . . . My youngest granddaughter won a hula hoop contest here one day. Quite amazing, I believe she could have gone on for hours without dropping the two hoops. You'll notice that the hotel in the background has no balconies! A hotel for the poor. Sad. ;void(0)) Animal Kingdom . . . Out of view in this picture was an empty water bottle. I mention it because it was the only piece of litter we saw in eight days. Litter, apparently, is not allowed in Disney World. Nor are bugs! Mind you, this is a place that was built on swamp land yet bugs have evidently been outlawed. So has chewing gum - it is the one food that cannot be purchased anywhere in Disney World. Which reminds me, I got worried our fist day at the Magic Kingdom because there was no alcohol! It was bad enough only having a few places where one was allowed to smoke but combined with no alcohol and I was almost ready to strangle the next Mickey Mouse I encountered. Luckily for me Epcot, MGM studios, and the Animal Kingdom had more than enough booze and I was properly soused by the end of the day after visits to those parks.  Hunting big game in Africa, or is it Animal Kingdom? . . . While Ylem and others see these animals on a daily basis and take them for granted it was a thill for me and Margaret to encounter them. There was a problem on this tram ride when we started off and we experience a ten-minute delay. The driver ran out of things to say after five minutes but luckily for him Margaret was in the first seat and proposed animal charades. So the driver advised a co-worker who was nearby to act out various animals while we in the tram guessed their identity. ;void(0)) During a boatride . . . On our last day during our second visit to the Animal Kingdom Margaret experienced dizzyness and shortness of breath. An employee immediately came by and called a park manager. The manager advised us that medical care was available but Margaret declined. She did, however, take him up on the offer of a wheelchair. She's fine and I only mention the incident to point out how friendly and professional are all the employees (called "Cast Members") of Disney World. It seems to me that a lot of companies would do well to take that page from Disney. So ends our brief journey down Florida way. It's all totally unreal, phony, and contrived, and yet, great fun, if for no other reason than seeing the joy on the faces of the children. Happy travels to you and remember, always complain. :) | DISNEY WORLD | RED ROCK - FEB. 2010 | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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