Trip Report The (second) ONE with enhanced cleaning and (a little less) Physical Distancing. Sept 2020

How is everyone doing out there???

A little background on this trip. This trip was origionally booked as a Food and Wine/Birthday girls getaway with two of my friends. We booked The Poly at 7 months Thursday through Sunday. (One friend’s bday was Thurs, the other was Sunday! Sooooo perfect!!!)
Buuuuut, they are both teachers and were not allowed to go. (Read that again. Not Allowed☹️)
I had the reservation and I wanted to go. My friend, R and I had a trip in April we had canceled. We had rescheduled for October to do a Halloween party (Nope!) and a DVC moonlight madness (Nope again). Then, she lost her job😞 so she came back to work with me. Her Mom, Gpa and Uncle own the business.
“Hey R, want to go to Disney in September instead?”
“Yeah!”
“Should we add a night? I still have 18 points I can use.”
“Yeah”
“Do you think we can get the extra day off?”
She looks at me. I look at her. 😂😂😂
I mean, her Mom makes the schedule.

She booked her flight, bought her park tickets, made her park reservations and we were set.

Tuesday night, September 15th I caught the sunset and headed to bed for an early start the next morning.
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Wednesday, September 16 came early. R’s Gma was flying back to Ft Lauderdale an hour before our flight. So we all went together to help her out.


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We were not sitting together because our flights were booked seperately. I asked to move us together but I asked on the late side and it was a no go. It was fine. We watched movies. I love Jet Blue TV’s!
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Yay! The sign said 45 minute wait. The woman who checked us in pointed out the sign and said it “could” take 45 minutes.
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Overheard on the ME: “Mom, I dont want to go to the Magic Kingdom!”
“Where do you want to go?”
“Legoland!!”
Haha😂
Lets check the weather...
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Notice my phone is only at 44%🤦🏼‍♀️
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Back of the bus. Not a 45 minute wait but about 20.
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Too far in the back of the bus to get THE SIGN. How about the side of the road? Almost as good???

For the record, we went to Wilderness Lodge, BLT, the Contemporary and then The Polynesian.

We finally made it and were ready to let the fun begin!!
 
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Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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Darstarr said:
Friday September 18 cont

R and I had plans. One plan was to get a rise BG so plans don't always work out. She had a phone interview at 12:00 and we had an early dinner at Prime Time Cafe. We thought we would get a snack. I thought Baseline!!!
It was just after 11:00. The Baseline line was long (remember, 6 feet apart). I got in line while R went to get an iced coffee. I ordered a charcuterie platter as well.

Real life update
I was sitting here typing this when my dog started going nuts. I looked outside and I saw my son’s girlfriend’s jeep (the son in fla). Then I saw my son walking up the driveway. Yesterday was his 21st birthday and he flew home to see me❤️.
He is fed and we went grocery shopping and he has had about 6 drinks, including prosecco and homemade limoncello
( @bee ) with a splash of pomegranate.
Now he is napping.


Back to the TR!
When I exited Baseline I asked the bouncer about seating....because there was none.
She told me the Commissary was open for overflow. Would R be able to find me???

There was one of those long 8 tops with three woman down on one end. I asked if I could sit on the other end. I quickly added that it was totally ok if they said no ( and it would have been). The two younger ladies on one side looked at the woman on the other side. I could see she wasn't sure. Again, I said it was ok if she said no. She said “ok, as long as you stay all the way down there.” I assurred her I would. I did tell them about R but that we would pull her chair around to the end and she would be even farther away.

R found me and we sat and ate and drank. “By the way, my interview got moved to 2:00.”
“2:00? Did you tell them No? Did you tell them 2:05 is better?”
#BGpriorities

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I had a Golden Road to match my hat.
This above photo was taken at 11:19.

We began talking with the three women. A mom, my age, from Kentucky, her daughter, R’s age, who know lives in Tampa, and the daughters best friend from Kentucky.
We hit it off so well. We laughed and compared stories and had an absolute blast with them! We all totally clicked. It was very natural and fluid, like we were old friends. When we were done with our drinks I insisted on getting the next round since they shared their table. I Mobile ordered from pizza rizzo because the baseline line was cray cray. I ordered 5 drinks so I needed two people to come with me. Two of my new friends came, one forgot her ID. The CM giving us the beer told me to go outside, hand one of the beers off then come back and get the other one.
OK.
The three of us marched across the street back to Baseline and there were a bunch of suits (I know they dont actually wear suits but they are non costumed CM’s. Manager types) One says in a loud jovial voice, “hey, where’s the party?” I said, “it’s a pity party, none of us got boarding groups”.

This picture was taken at 12:09. Exactly one hour after the first. What an hour can do....
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Third round at 1:07
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And R’s drink. I dont remember what it was but it looks good and she enjoyed it!
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(And my hand sanitizer. This one is my favorite!)

This is where the part about less physical distancing in my title came from. We were old pals already.

R and I decided to blow off our sit down meal at Prime Time. We had rides we wanted to do so agreed the trade off for these hours of fun would be a QS somewhere later. Until then we all sat and drank and talked and laughed until 2:00.

It really is amazing how things happen, if you let them.

1:59 and R’s phone rings. It’s the interviewer. The rest of us stared at our phones. I did not have much hope or any expectations. Whereas this morning I was a bundle of nerves, at 2:00 I was calm and serene. I was one with the force and the force was with me.
It felt like it had been about 58 seconds or so since my clock turned to 1:59. I calmly pressed the join button even though it had not turned blue and the clock still read 1:59.

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What do I do? I hear the ladies to my right saying shucks and awwww and worse. R is on the phone being interviewed for a job she would never take (it was in Vegas) and I sat there calmly looking at her. She looked at her phone, refreshed and saw we got it. She gave me the thumbs up. My new Mom friend asked if I got it. Quietly I said I did. They were happy for us but I know the disappointment in their voice. I have been there.

“I have an idea. Give me your email addresses. Quick!” The daughter who now lives in Tampa knew exactly what I was going to do. She told her mom and friend, “do it I will explain later.”
I sent them emails to join my friends and family list. They accepted and I went across the street to the GET CM’s.

Now let me make this clear. The Rona protocol is one PARTY per vehicle. Whether that party is 1 person or 8 people you are in one vehicle. So by adding them to my party I did not cut anyone. I did not take anyone’s spot or delay anyone in any way. Under normal riding conditions, I never would have done this.

I approached the GET CM full of liquid courage and knowledge. So much knowledge from reading the ROTR BG thread. I know friends and family sometimes get left out of the BG. I also know the GET CM will fix it roughly 9 out of 10 times.
Her name tag said she was from Queens, there it was. I began talking and talking and talking (I am not a huge talker). I told her my friends did not make it into my BG (not a lie). I told her I know the vehicle seats 8 otherwise I would never ask. I talked about Queens and the airport and traffic in Queens to the airport. I kept talking. I did not give her a chance to say no. She checked to see that my friends were, in fact in the park. She asked if we were all trying for a BG.
“Yes.” (Not a lie)
She said sometimes group members get left out if more than one person is trying for the BG (something I already knew and was counting on her to know). She said this time only she could add them because we would all be in one ride vehicle. (Again, I knew that.)

Done
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I returned to the table triumphant just as R was hanging up and the girls were returning with a celebratory round. They had confidence in me that I would make it happen.
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See the woman at the table to the right. The girls met her on line. Making friends is contageous!

Meanwhile Mom had been listening to R’s interview and gave her high praise. She said she nailed it.

We had now been sitting at this table for three hours!!!
I know, crazy right!? We spent all this money to go and drink at a bar in HWS. But I would not have traded these three hours for an extra ride on RotR. It was exactly what I needed and R had fun and made a couple new friends as well.

What to do until our BG gets called???
“Have y’all ridden Millenium Falcon yet?”
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@Darstarr excellent job!!! I know you totally followed the rules, but I would have not judged you in any event as all is fair in love and boarding groups, and besides you made the day of your new friends! Well done. Also tell R to take the job in Vegas, no or low taxes, UFO watching, and I heard they make OK bagels there too 😀
 
Darstarr

Darstarr

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Disstevefan1 said:
@Darstarr excellent job!!! I know you totally followed the rules, but I would have not judged you in any event as all is fair in love and boarding groups, and besides you made the day of your new friends! Well done. Also tell R to take the job in Vegas, no or low taxes, UFO watching, and I heard they make OK bagels there too 😀
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Ok bagels in Vegas?? Blasphemy!!!
Even for you.
I could get behind the low/no tax thing (says the girl who pays long island taxes😩)
 
Disstevefan1

Disstevefan1

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Darstarr said:
Ok bagels in Vegas?? Blasphemy!!!
Even for you.
I could get behind the low/no tax thing (says the girl who pays long island taxes😩)
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I will turn you around on bagels eventually :) As for the high LI taxes, as a born, raised, now former Long Islander, I feel your pain... One of the things I do miss about LI, we had a great bagel place! :) In fact, the day I left LI, I left with a bag of fresh, beautiful bagels :cry:
 
Darstarr

Darstarr

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Disstevefan1 said:
I will turn you around on bagels eventually :) As for the high LI taxes, as a born, raised, now former Long Islander, I feel your pain... One of the things I do miss about LI, we had a great bagel place! :) In fact, the day I left LI, I left with a bag of fresh, beautiful bagels :cry:
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What was the name of the bagel place on LI?? If I am ever in the neighborhood (read: if my stupid governor ever allows me to leave my house) I will try it, for you, and report back. I have to say, however, in college I worked at a gym in Cedarhurst upstairs from a bagelry. The bar is high! (And yet, still not a huge fan)
 

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