Amy and F1gment ~ day 8
Today was a day to hit Downtown Disney in the morning to use a 20% off coupon printed at the bottom of a receipt. It was a bit of a rush in the morning as I woke up to realize that we (meaning me) had forgotten to charge up Mom's scooter battery overnight

So we plugged it in while she had a quick breakfast at the hotel food court. I opted to eat at Earl of Sandwich once we arrived at DTD. Those sandwiches are tasty! In fact, I was wishing that there was an Earl of Sandwich by us just a few days ago
For some reason it seemed to take a long time to get to DTD on the bus. Once we finally got there, we had about 2 hours to shop and use our coupon before the noon deadline.
After we made our purchases we wandered on down to see of Characters in Flight was operating. On our way, we saw one of our friends from Michigan outside the Lego store waiting for his daughter and grandkids to finish up shopping. He had known we were going to be there, unlike his son-in-law from earlier in the trip, so he wasn't as surprised to see us. We chatted for a few minutes and then continued on down to find that the weather conditions were not favorable for flights today.
Our friend Doc with his coffee. He said if he had known it would be this cold down in Florida, he would have stayed home!
I would have tried to pet him to see if this sign was accurate, but he was too far off the ground for me to try
A few of the Adventurer's Club...I wish now I would have taken more photos of all the DTD area since it is all being demolished
We made our way to the bus stop and while we were waiting for an All Stars bus, we saw 3 Grand Floridian buses, 2 Pop Century buses, 9000 Fort Wilderness buses,

ok, it was more like only 4 or 5 for Fort Wilderness, but still!!

This is when we had a nice long chat with a bus driver coming back from his lunch. He told us the new dispatch system for the buses sometimes duplicates the call so that is why you might see 2 or even 3 buses for the same resort show up right after one another. I wish now I would have asked him if I could take his photo since he was actually one of the most enjoyable CM interactions we had during our whole trip. But then again, I am a sucker for a nice Southern gentlemen
I like this photo of the fire station through the bus window
We made it back to the hotel, Mom got a sandwich at the food court and I ate her dessert for lunch

We got her settled back in the room for a short nap and to give the scooter a charging boost. And I went off to DHS. This was not to be our day for buses. I must have just missed one since I had to wait for over 25 minutes for one to arrive.
I lucked out and got into Toy Story Mania, went and checked on Rock n Roller Coaster, which was down...again. Rode ToT and then found F1gment about 5:15. We went to the 5:45 showing of Beauty and the Beast. I love that movie's music and can sooooo picture myself portraying Belle

We tried to hit the early showing of Fantasmic but it was standing room only. So we decided to eat some dinner. We ate at the street market again, but we didn't have the pulled pork bbq this time. Mom had a chili dog which was really tasty and I had a small pizza. And I found a lucky dime! Just like a lucky penny, only 10 times better
I saw this couple at the street market when I was ordering my pizza. They had the coolest jackets that they had made. He said they used something called el-wire to sew the designs...I had taken the photos before I talked with them so they are a bit blurry...
Beauty and the Beast
