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Tuesday, August 5, 1997 - Day 6
I woke Judy up after attending the DVC open house continental breakfast. We got to MK at 11 and took the
train around once, then got off at Toontown Fair. We walked around a bit, passing up the line to meet Mickey <g>
then walked over to Tomorrowland. We first saw Timekeeper and stood in the back for a better view. Everyone
gravitates towards the middle, but I'm convinced that the 360 degree films are enjoyed better when you can see as
much of the film as possible without having to keep turning around.
Next we went to Dreamflight. You know the park is crowded when there's any kind of line on Dreamflight and the
Tomorrowland Transportation Authority which we did after first going to Carousel of Progress. Granted they were
short waits, but lines none the less.
We grabbed a snack after that. I finally got to try one of those famous smoked turkey legs. Despite going to MK for
my seventh time, I still sometimes get disoriented, and I got confused trying to find the Plaza Pavilion. In walking
around, we passed one of those carts selling the colorful bouncing balls. A CM tossed one at me and having caught my
attention, we stopped to chat. It turns out that Jeremy was a Venezuelan student intern from the Univ of Georgia.
He worked for Guest Relations as a Portuguese facilitator, although he spoke four other languages. To me, he had the
perfect job. He roamed the parks making himself available to guests for questions. He told me that his manager's
only advice to him was to have fun. We chatted for about 30 minutes. As it was getting near parade time and I
wanted to get out of the park before the parade started, we started to say good-bye. Jeremy told us he wanted to do
something special for us. Before we knew it, we were being whisked through the crowd to the spoke connecting the hub to
Liberty Square, which was now roped off and empty, save for a few CMs looking official. Jeremy spoke to one CM and
then announced we were going to watch the parade from here, which was the VIP viewing area. There were four benches
lined up, so we settled in for what really was a special treat. We found out we were watching it with the VP of
Austria and his family. Too bad I don't speak Austrian.
After the parade, we said our good-byes and headed out of the park, stopping at City Hall to fill out a comment form
for Jeremy.
Dinner was at Artist Point, so we drove to the Wilderness Lodge. Dinner was excellent I had the Sausage Sampler and
Roast American Buffalo Sirloin. Judy had the Lodge Salad and Vegetable Plate, which may sound ordinary, but was
like no vegetable plate she ever had. It's interesting how observant CMs can be. A bird dirtied our window while we
were eating. I would never have thought of mentioning it to anyone, but next thing we new, one of the servers were
outside the window, cleaning it up. Our server had noticed it and had it taken care of. Fortunately, there was a
balcony there that made it easy to reach this window.
We drove to the Contemporary and parked, then grabbed the monorail back to MK. We worked our way around, starting at
the Grand Prix Raceway, to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Snow White's Adventure, It's A Small World and the Haunted
Mansion (again). No where did we wait longer than 10 minutes, except for the raceway, which was a long 20 minute
wait <g> This time I convinced Judy not to close the park, so we walked through Frontierland and Adventureland and
boarded the Jungle Cruise which had a zero wait. We were back in the room by an early 11:00.
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