October 4th.
I've got a little bit of time, without the energy to do more cleanup, so I figured I'd type a bit.
We were hitting the wall, so to speak, on this trip, and needed a break. The break came in the form of total jealousy over those cabanas poolside, and the realization that we could do it. We arranged it for the afternoon (a half day rental) and decided to take the morning off. "Off" consisted of a Surf's Up breakfast.
We didn't have a reservation, so we did have to wait, and during that time Eamon convinced us to buy him a replacement pirate musket for the one that has slowly broken down. We hadn't seen them anywhere during this trip, so when we saw them at PPH's shop he knew it was now or never. He made sure it lit up and made noise while choosing the one he wanted. We had it sent over to DLH to be picked up the next morning.
The experience of Surf's Up...
We got our picture with Mickey, there were little things like follow the leader, and Eamon had fun. We met some characters; Daisy complimented me on my bracelet that I got from Epcot a year or so ago, we were given trouble for not having any pins of the group that's at the breakfast, etc. This was our first experience getting the photo package with Photopass Plus, and it was pretty darned cool. I mean, we'd gotten the photo package at Chef Mickey's at WDW, but that was painful b/c it was so expensive and neither adult really wanted the pictures of ourselves. But with this we felt better about ourselves and it was prepaid, of course!
The food of Surf's Up...
The scrambled eggs, as usual, were hideous. Robert is an intelligent person and therefore went straight to the omelet station, where he got himself somethiing scrumptious-looking, made just for him, and FRESH. After a bite of the eggs that Eamon and I scooped up for ourselves, I headed straight to the egg chef to get something for E and also for myself. E got a simple omelet, and I got the supercalifragalisticexpialidocious Huevos Rancheros.
I took a close-up shot of it, which makes ME happy, but I'm not sure if it will look good to others. If you wish to see a close-up picture of salsa and avocado and eggs and cheese and tortilla, click
here. If that sort of picture might make you ill, don't click.
Everything else was either decent or good. We felt that the food and experience were worth it, especially since they have the bendy straws there, LOL.
Not sure what E is looking at here!
This isn't quite as close-up, so I don't have problems with the picture. Robert said that this flatbread was QUITE good.
Playing around on our way out.
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Apparently we don't know what a "day off" is, because we found ourselves heading to the parks.
Turns out that Robert simply had to ride Jungle Cruise or his trip wouldn't be right. We got to experience the Upstairs Of The Line, where none of us had ever been. Animatronic bird in line.
Wait, what does that say?
I either took this picture from upstairs waiting for JCruise, OR at the end of Big Thunder.
hey look, it's another water station:
Found at:
Finally we realized that we had lost our minds, and we headed back to the hotel to get ready for the pool. Got there, found our cabana, and made ourselves comfy!
I settled in to read on a lounge chair that I didn't have to worry about being stolen...ahhhh. Of course, there was almost no one at the pool at that hour, LOL, but still. My view; we were in #4 or 5 I believe, down at the pool area not the slide (otherwise I would have had a side view of the slide).
The cabana rental gets you the cabana and a bowl of fruit. We got 6 little bottles of Dasani (I've read that others got 4 waters...I wonder if they are full sized rather than the ones that come with kid's meals?). The cabana has a TV, a safe, a table, umpteen towels, two couches, two lounges.
There are wait-staff for everyone at the pool, so we didn't get anything special there, but since we had a place to put food we actually ordered.
All in all, it was lovely.
They bring food out in these fabulous containers (not just to cabanas) and it was brought in this really cool carry-all bag thing. Watch for it, the next time you're at DLH pool. They are neat.
I want these plate/bowl things, though.
I also want that beer.
The remains of the fruit bowl, and E's flatbread.
The TVs at DLH now have ports for the right sort of cords, so Robert could hook up his computer to it and play our movies. We did that towards the end of our rental because E was wiped out!
Alas, the rental period was over before we knew it, which was sadness.
ETA: another Trader Joes trip that evening, some wandering around DTD, some ice cream at HDasz. There were also two evenings during this trip that we did some arcades. DLH doesn't apparently have one, so we went to the one at the Grand and PPH. It was well worth it, because it was fun. It's not like (some of?) the resort arcades at WDW, where you can get little prizes, but the experience can be worth money, too. Plus, playing Ms PacMan is fun.
