LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

Today is WM’s birthday, which is most of the reason for our little jaunt. Disney’s running a promotion where if you go to the parks on your birthday you either get in a park for free that day or you get a gift card equivalent to a one day ticket.

Which is freaking $75! That’s a lot if antenna toppers!

We started at animal kingdom, lunched at Epcot and finished at the Magic kingdom.

Observations:

Lunch at the Rose and Crown – the food was great but the waitress stopped caring after the appetizer. Drinks were not refilled and plates were left on the table even though dessert came.

And seriously, Rose and Crown, I said it’d be his birthday when I made the reservation weeks ago. I said it at the check in stand. We told the waitress. And he was wearing the birthday pin. Could you have thought to put a candle in the dessert? Grrrr.

We got to Animal Kingdom 15 minutes before park opening and it was great. We ride Kali River Rapids 2x in a row first thing. And I can’t believe people still don’t use fastpass!

I liked the rehab to the first half of spaceship earth in epcot. I think they cheaped out on the 2nd half. I’ve seen Jib Jab movies and touch screens don’t impress me any more.

Wishes, the fireworks show at the magic kingdom still makes me weep like an orphan. It’s gorgeous.

And I still love Small World. Sue me.

Tomorrow: Disney Studios and Epcot.

Dog update: Ollie is carrying his toys everywhere and Max is peeing in everything.

WM and I are taking a trip VERY soon, and Max and Ollie will be spending the time in the kennel. It’s a great place and they’ve both been there before – Max quite a few times.

But…guh. It casts a small shadow on my trip to know they’ll be there. Because I’m genetically predisposed to worry, here is an incomplete list of the things that have been dancing through my mind. This is mostly so I can see how dumb I’m being.

• They will be lonely without us.
• They will be frightened and think we’re never coming back.
• They will be cold.
• They will be hot.
• They will be afraid of the flappy doorway that will let them go outside and play
• One of them will lick the Frontline spot on the other, get poisoned and die.
• There’s a sadistic employee there who loves kicking dogs.
• They will go on a hunger strike.
• There won’t be a “double” available (‘though we reserved one) so they’ll get split up into separate pens and they’ll be doubly lonely and doubly scared.
• Ollie’s groomer will call the SPCA on us because his “thumbnails” are starting to curl back on themselves and his fur is matted under his front legs.
• The place will burn down.

Seeing that list makes me want to crawl into a hole. It’s also why WM gave me a Mother’s Day card from the pets this year.

Taken 3/16/09 – Cocoa, Florida – Twister Airboat Rides