Disney 2010: Day 5

Yesterday was another sleep-in day.  We didn’t get out of here until around 9am.  We rode a bus to Hollywood Studios to catch a bus to the Swan and Dolphin resorts so that we could play a round of mini-golf at Fantasia Gardens.  (Pictures of every hole are in the gallery.)  John was beating me pretty badly up front, but we ended up finishing 2 strokes apart and both beat par.

From there we caught a boat to Epcot and wasted some time walking around World Showcase before our 1pm lunch ressie at Nine Dragons.  We love that place. After that we wandered around through Norway before deciding to head to Magic Kingdom and do everything we didn’t get to do the day before.  First up was a ride on the WDW Railroad around to Toontown, where we got pictures with the Fairies.  Fawn and Tink were very excited by my firefly button (a light-up Tinkerbell), but Tink was a bit jealous that she didn’t have fireflies too.  We tried to explain to Terrance how John doesn’t need Pixie Dust to fly, but he just wasn’t getting the concept of a flying machine that carried people.  And if you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you haven’t seen the first Tinkerbell movie, LOL.

Then we rode Space Mountain, which is freshly refurbed.  The new theming is pretty cool, and the ride is smoother, but it still jerks you around from side to side.  The first year we came, we rode it 4 or 5 times in a row.  This time we gave our Fastpasses to someone else to use because once (and the headaches that came with it) was just enough for us.  Guess we’ve got to grow up sometime, right?

We finished the evening with sandwiches at DTD, where I discovered that my room key had been lost or stolen or something.  Guest Services assured us that our resort could handle that pretty easily (and we never link our credit card to the thing!), so we stopped by Goofy’s Candy shop  for breakfast pastries and a choclate covered strawberry for me before catching a bus back to the resort.

The front desk invalidated my old key/ticket and issued me a new one with just a few clicks of a button, and we verified that all of our meal credits were in order, then finished the evening with a drink in the Sanaa lounge and 4 rounds of air hockey.  I think I my have scored more points on myself than John did.  My hand-eye coordination……. eh, not so much.  But we had fun, and that’s what counts.

We’re getting phone calls, emails and Facebook messages about the snow that’s coming, and we actually spent some time being a bit nervous about it.  I mean…. what happens if our flight gets cancelled?  Do they ship us back to this Deluxe resort where we’d have to pay $500/night to stay over?  Do we get sent to a random hotel at the airport?  Does AirTran put us up somewhere?  What happens to our bags?  Do I even have a chance at getting to Italy now?

Nothing we can do by worrying about it, so whatever happens, happens I guess.

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