oof! I can breath again! Ok, let's see if we can't actually finish an entry now that she's decided to go lay down on the bed instead of me.
Disney Recap: Part Two
So....we started Monday morning off with a trip to Epcot to ride Mission Space (and Test Track, though, after my Love feeling sick from the former, we decided to skip the latter) and then hopped back on the Monorail and hit our favorite: The Magic Kingdom. We wanted to get photos of the chess board in the Pirates of the Caribbean because my Love had heard a rumor that it was in a stalemate. That would be funny because they are both skeletons, so they died with neither winning. It took quite a bit because the dungeon (which is in the line for the ride) is about a story down and pretty much almost completely dark. We borrowed our friend Rand's camera in order to get the shot since he's got a really nice Nikon with a 3x zoom. In the end, I did manage to get the perfect shot.
After that, I took a ton of pics with my camera - scenery, Main Street, Adventureland, Swiss Family Treehouse, Frontierland, Liberty Square, The Haunted Mansion, and Fantasyland - of the rest of the park. We got to ride a few things and got ourselves some food and then the skies opened up in a torential downpour complete with really, really dangerously close lighting. It rained so hard, so fast that the park flooded. There were free-standing puddles everywhere - some several inches deep. It was one of those you think it's a hurricane storms that just comes in out of seemingly nowhere, spawns all kinds of nasty things like tornados and causes utterly life-threatening lightning. It continued for about an hour before lightening up and then for another half-hour or so it rained lighter. What sucked was this happened smack dab in the middle of the day - like 3pm - and since the park wasn't closing until 8:30, it was far too early to (try) to leave for the day. So we stuck it out and once it eased up, we rode a few more things (though many things were closed or WAY overcrowded as people took shelter in the covered lines) and then, since my Love still wasn't feeling good - from the damned Mission Space ride that morning - we finally called it a night about 6:45pm.
I was able - thanks to the persistance of my Love - to get a way cool Haunted Mansion black baby doll tee and a wicked cool silver bat-tipped, old-fashioned "key" that's a keychain that I had wanted before it started to pour but which the cart that sold them had closed because of the rain and was not reopening. I forgot to get pics, but they are two way-cool items. My Love got a 3/4 "baseball" style shirt in two-tone blue that says "evil" on the front and has the demon guy from Fatasia on the back. Uber cool as well.
All-in-all, despite getting rained on two days in a row and my Love getting sick day two, we had a good time. :) So endeth the Disney Recap.
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