Sunday, September 14, 2008

"Lost in Space!"

(Craig writes) We made it to Disney World on Friday night in spite of the crazy media blitz to raise gas to over $5.00 per gallon. Only saw gas problems in Columbia, seems to be plenty to go around once you get away from Central SC! Paid $3.59 gal. to fill up once we got onsite at Disney, no long lines or limits here!

Honey B., (Becky), and I made it over to EPCOT around 10:00 this morning, had a great time looking & listening in the countries represented there. The steak & salmon meal at Le Cellier Restaurant, (at the Canadian venue), was delicious. My country roots want me to exclaim, "we throwed down on some good eats at that place".

Before leaving we decided to ride Spaceship Earth. This ride is inside the huge silver geo looking ball that almost every picture of EPCOT shows. It was a very short wait to get on and then we were cruising in our little blue time traveler through thousands of years of history learning how man learned how to communicate with each other, (which apparently is an ongoing processs even today). About the time we get to the very top of the ride inside the big ball someone decided they would get out of the car, (excuse me - their time traveler), and take a look around. Well the Disney People, being safety conscious like they are, stopped the ride to catch the offenders and give them an all expense trip to the parking lot minus their tickets. The problem was that the Disney people, (a.k.a. Cast Members), were not able to capture the offending guest quick enough and several other people began to get out of their, now stopped cars/time travelers and walk down the track. The sudden deterioration of common sense left everyone else stranded in their cars waiting "to be assisted by a Disney employee". After several minutes they turned the lights on and sent an employee to release us from our "blue car bondage". In all the years we have been going to WDW we have never gotten stranded on a ride/attraction before. It was actually kind of exciting! We're headed for a water park tomorrow so I will be swimming with the sharks, tubing on the lazy river and hoping that no one fools around with the wave pool controls. Cowabunga.......!

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