Okay, there's so much to say, and so little time to say it.... I wracked my brain trying to think of the best way to post a 12-day-long trip report with over 2,000 pictures, and in the end my sweetie talked some sense into me. She said "Look, first you gotta focus on the big meet-up day... that's what people want to see."
So I agreed that the best thing to do would be to tell our story about the big day when we all met and hung out, and after that I could fill in the rest of the details, including back-tracking to our actual first day (we were there 4 days before the meet-up). So here goes:
The morning of the big meet-up dawned clear and cool... perfect for the mayhem to follow. Sadly, the whole 12 days just kinda blurs together in my mind right now, but I'll give it my best shot. I remember that we got up early, put on our Subsonic shirts and Mayhem Marauders buttons, and then had a quick bowl of cereal in our room at Coronado Springs before catching a park bus to MK for Rope Drop (sorry, Len, we didn't get the bus number). Little did we know that Amy and F1gment were there as well, and we probably stood almost right by them for the Rope Drop. But anyway, we rushed in and headed for Fantasy Land. It was important to us that we include MmeLeota and Chernobog40 as much as possible in spirit for the festivities, so we rode several rides with their picture boards, such as PPF, SWSA, and IASW, and even posed them in the stocks in Liberty Square:
About that time, we got in touch with Amy. She was not in the park yet, due to having forgotten some stuff in their room and having to head back for it... but she described her mom (F1gment) well enough over the cell phone that we were able to find her at Casey's Corner. While we were there with F1gment waiting for Amy, Mindflipper showed up. So we all got acquainted for a little while, and then set out to create some mayhem:
Mindflipper was kind enough to make sure that MmeLeota and Chernobog40 weren't left out:
During the ensuing mayhem, we got in touch with the Boilers. They told us that they were running behind due to circumstances I'll let them explain in their report. But the bottom line is that they were not going to be able to join us until later. Meanwhile, we also got in touch with NaCler and his mom. We managed to meet up with them and hang out a little bit before they had to leave and do some other stuff they had planned (you'll notice that Mindflipper again made sure that MmeLeota and Chernobog40 were included... for purely unselfish reasons... had nothing to do with hiding his face or anything like that...):
Finally, the Boilers came and met up with us in Tomorrowland. About that time I had to leave to go back to our room and get the rum for the big meet-up later, so they all stayed together and did a few things before heading over to the Poly where I met up with them all right before our dinner. Mouseoholic didn't get any pictures of this part of the day, unfortunately.
Well, it's getting late and I'm super tired. I'll end this post for now and pick up again tomorrow where I left off (at the Poly, just before dinner...).
I can't wait to show this to Chernabog40, he's gonna love it!!!!
