Monday Sept 16th - Day 3
Text heavy on this first part.
This was the morning we had to meet Gold Mobility Rentals at POP by 11am. We grabbed a lyft and took our bags with us. We got there about 10am.. Since we had a split stay (x2) I didn't use the online check in, because I wanted to make sure that we were able to keep the same room the entire time. Well I got to the front of the line, told the CM why I was in line, and he first scolded me for not checking out of Movies. (I didn't know I had to!) and then he did get us checked in for POP. I used touring plans to send in a request... Will we get what I requested? While I was checking in, I sent Scott to get some breakfast for himself. He asked for the kids Mickey waffles and they told him he needed to produce a kid! WHAT!?!? I was done at the front desk, I went to join him... walked up to the line, ordered a kids bounty platter, and no one gave me any gruff. What kind of sexist crap is that!?! Scott was a little miffed when he found that out. Our room wasn't ready, so we went over to the smoking area for Scott, but they had moved it, and it took a few minutes for us to find it. At 11am I went to the meet the scooter guy and everything was perfect and right on time.
After this we went for swim. See my new hat and Scott's new purple hat?
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Scott didn't last long out in the sun... he got bored, so I stay at the pool a bit longer, and he went to the smoking area.. 3pm came and went with no room text.... 330pm... finally I looked at the app to see our room was assigned finally. I never did get that room ready text!
I requested the 50's area, bottom floor... I asked for a particular room, but we did not get that room. But we did get 50's area and bottom floor, so as far as I was concerned, it was perfect!
Here are the comparable differences of the shower head and closet.
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I can tell you one thing, POP definitely felt more like "home" than movies did... not that we don't want to stay anywhere else, we will when the right deal comes along.
Now that we had our room, I could order groceries from Instacart... and of course it was nap time again for Scott! I went to the front and waited for the groceries to be delivered, but somehow the guy slipped right by me and gave them to bell services... I only figured that out when I got a message asking me to rate them... and I didn't have my order yet! But eventually I asked the desk and they came out with it... I loaded up the scooter and went back to the room. We brought cereal from home, so I only ordered milk, water, some diet mtn dew for scott, donuts, and kleenex. This time the kleenex wasn't needed, so someone got a nice full box. I can't stand the cheap tissues.
Tonight was Pirates & Pals... and even though it's a dessert party, I had read we should probably eat first (they were right) so we went to the food court and Scott had the most bland piece of pizza, and I had the turkey sandwich... which was pretty good.. except the bread was a bit much.
These are not our actually photos:
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We decided to take the bus to the MK, and walk to the Contemporary instead of the monorail.
There we had our first Magicians meet up!
@dryerlintfan and A.
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That's my pirate face! ARRRRRRRRR! Dryerlintfan describes the party better in her live trip report than I could... organized chaos! This dessert party was definitely for the kiddos with some healthy snacks, and small desserts of cookies, mini cupcakes, and ice cream bars... but we were there for the BOOTY!
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I learned a protip from Tim Tracker... always bring coffee with you on the ship
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Stowing away all the booty in my cup!
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