Disney's Labor Day Weekend

We are staying at Wyndham Bonnet Creek, a piece of property that Walt Disney didn't get a chance to buy during his secret purchases, making it the only property on Disney not owned by Disney. Or so the Wyndham people keep telling me.

It is a newer Wyndham property and they are still working on it currently building a new tower for Presidential Reserve members like myself.

Despite my being at Bonnet Creek in May and also having listened to a spiel five weeks ago in Wisconsin, I was scheduled for a breakfast to listen to the exciting happenings in Bonnet Creek. We all trooped up to the main building at 11:00 AM to eat and collect the $75 visa card they were willing to fork over for me to attend. Breakfast turned out to be a choice of juices, coffee, and assorted packaged bars or bagels. There were also some apples, but they had been picked over pretty well. So much for the big breakfast, I had been promised.

Our representative surveyed the scene and sent everyone else back to the unit stocked up on packaged junk so that she could talk to just Tom and me. Two hours later we left armed with a contract that would "lower that maintenance fee" my mother pays for her property in the Dells, our visa cards worth $75, and two headaches. Nice people, but they have to understand that purchasing more property will not be happening in the next few years. We can't even use what we have!

We got to the Magic Kingdom at about 2:00 PM. The heat index was sky high and the sun was just beating down turning everything fire hot. You didn't dare touch anything that was in the sun or you would scald yourself.

John and I are people who sweat up north in the winter and from the moment we stepped out of the car, between the two of us, we could have filled a couple of 25-meter pools.

Disney always decorates for the season or for an occasion. The Magic Kingdom was decorated for Halloween with oranges, browns, and yellows everywhere along Main Street. There were pumpkins with all sorts of different faces. And of course, Mickey Pumpkins.

We arrived just in time to see the end of the musical show on the castle stage. Ben's eyes were wide open at all the familiar characters dancing and prancing and chattering on stage. Disney certainly knows how to put on a show and when the fireworks went off at the end even I got a little teary-eyed at the magic of it all.

We rode plenty of rides. Saw plenty of characters. Took plenty of pictures so we can go back years from now and remember it like it was yesterday.

 

We had a great day despite the heat. We got some showers that cooled off everything and the sun went behind clouds after 5:00 PM and made for a nice evening. The park was crowded, but not overly so and we managed to slurp down some delicious frozen lemonades.

Not a bad way to spend the holiday weekend.