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!!
 

Darstarr

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Saturday, September 19 cont

After about a 35 minute wait, which included a small stoppage (breakdown? Cleaning? I am not sure. We could see the trains were not running so I think breakage as they usually run the rides as they clean them. It’s the dryer cycle.), we made it.
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With ears...
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and without.
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As I removed my ears I noticed this. Heck yeah it is!
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Ride was great!

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Should we get a drink?
Mine:
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And R’s
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I have no idea what she got but my money is on an iced coffee.

It was such a glorious day we wanted to document it in photography form.
Huh?
We wanted pictures!
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donaldtoo

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The last Friday the 13th was this past March. Can anyone guess where I was? If you said at home canceling my birthday Disney weekend, you would be correct.

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Oh my. So sorry.

Friday the 13th update...
For the first time during this whole damn-demic I forgot to take one of my good masks to the office, and my front drivers side tire blew on the freeway on the way there...NO JOKE...!!!!! :facepalm::hilarious:

Off to pick up DS from work. Will resume ketchup thereafter...!!! :)
 
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donaldtoo

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Wednesday, September 16 cont


Let me back up a Oui bit 😉.
On our walk to France I pondered out loud, “why hasn’t our instacart order been delivered?”
So I opened the app to see what was up. What was up was, I had put the 17th as the delivery date instead of the 16th🤦🏼‍♀️ I changed it to be delivered within the next two hours.

Sitting in France, overlooking the riff raff river eating drinking our festival snacks we overheard a Mother yelling at her daughter about an assignment she didnt turn in. I was laughing because it sounds like me. In fact, one day, last year, I said to AJ, “I am really tired of getting these missing assignment notifications.”
AJ: “Turn off notifications.”
Me: 😡

Anyhow, I then get a text from my instacart delivery person, Jessica. Turns out she is a Cali Grill Server who has been furloughed. She gushes over the Poly and we text back and forth for a bit and then I went to the instacart app and increased her tip. Any Cali Grill regulars know Jessica??

R loves France. The real one.
We ventured into the pavilion to use the ladies room. And she shopped. She got the France ears and something else but I didnt write it down so 🤷‍♀️

Rides:
“R, what are your must do’s?”
“Frozen and Soarin’”

Continuing on we find ourselves face to face with this:

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Me: “we have to get the cheese bread! Everyone ( @ajrwdwgirl ) I know raves about it!”
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R: “Needs a side of marinara.”
Me: “Yeah, pretty bland. Maybe I have the Rona and can’t taste.”
Anyhow.....I wanted to like it but.....

Look at that beautiful palm tree!
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Another PoL (proof of life) for R’s Mom. See her new ears???
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My second most anticipated dish, after the Goat cheese tart that did not happen, was the Hummus fries from Morocco. I had shared one last year with four of us. I was excited there were only two of us this year!
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And a Casa beer which I always like. But, you may be asking, why are the toppings on the side? R is allergic to onions and peppers. Not pepper the spice. And oddly not onion powder. Hummus is not usually made with onions or peppers. (Chick peas, tahini paste, lemon juice, garlic, salt and olive oil are the traditional ingredients.) Buuuut, we broke a “fry” apart and R decided she better not, just to be safe. So I dumped the good stuff on top and chowed down.
On her list was the Sushi flowerpot from Japan so she went to get that since we had a nice table. I really wanted a Kirin draft from Japan but we were hydrating so I thought maybe not. I do love Kirin on tap though. I worked at a fish market/restaurant back in Cali when I was home from college and we had Kirin on tap. I have never seen it on tap anywhere else besides Epcot.
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*Note
We did eventually figure out that every eatery has an allergy book.

We continued on to Germany. We were too full to eat or drink anything but the restroom sounded good.

*insider tip: mask getting to you? Once you are locked in your stall pull it down for a mini mask break.

We walked to the restroom via the trains.
I might have been a smidge tipsy, but it was a happy tipsy! I was making myself laugh. Sometimes I amuse myself...we had just left Japan and can you see the lizard on the top right of the house? View attachment 501126
What about here on the rock?
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Well, I was thinking, this little lizard was huge in the tiny village. Like Godzilla.
R didnt get it 😒

Then I continued, as we passed these four I said really loudly, “What?! I cant hear you, it’s so loud here!”
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The guy in the green shirt gave me a dirty look. The older guy in the navy hat got it and laughed (courtesy laugh? Perhaps) I hope he explained the joke to the young whipper snappers after I left😂

Yep, older guy here, so got that loud thing right away...!!!!! :hilarious:
 

Darstarr

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Beer goin’ down right now, and the original “Mary Poppins” is on Freeform...!!!!! 🍻🤓

The ONLY Mary Poppins lol
I watched it too
It’s practically perfect....
I did find something out, something odd. The little boy looks like the guy who voices Rex in the Toy Story movies. So I googled the cast. Did you know the Sherman brothers were in the movie?? One was a penguin waiter and the other was the old bird woman!😮
I never knew...
 

Darstarr

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The banter on these last few updates have been so funny!!! Love all the dancing go on. :)
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Who doesn't believe in dinosaurs! 🤣 Your mouse ears are so adorable and I love that they printed Best Day Ever on the side!!! I need to try that Asian beer next trip!
Kirin is really good. Especially on tap!
And I love your dancing dinos!!!

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donaldtoo

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I watched it too
It’s practically perfect....
I did find something out, something odd. The little boy looks like the guy who voices Rex in the Toy Story movies. So I googled the cast. Did you know the Sherman brothers were in the movie?? One was a penguin waiter and the other was the old bird woman!😮
I never knew...

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Note:
I tried to find a Gif of the real Johnny Carson for this, but, only found a meme...!!!!! :(:hilarious:

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Can ya’ just imagine the jokes that man coulda’ made about social media these days...!!!!!!! :joyfull::hilarious:
 

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