Friday, September 5, 1997

Hey!! Why aren't you looking at the BONUS PICTURES?!? Oh.. you want to read this page first? Okay, but don't forget....

Picture not available	Typhoon Lagoon again in the morning. Lea came along this time, and she had a pretty good time. Josh loves the wave pool, we spent 4 hours in it, getting out only to eat.
	We went to the Magic Kingdom in the afternoon to get tickets for the E-Ticket Express (described later), we decided to go to the Crystal Palace for supper. The Crystal Palace is an all-you-can-eat buffet, with Winnie the Pooh characters that travel all around the restaurant, migling and allowing you to take pictures and get autographs. Josh was obviously surprised.
	(I think Lea has found her Christmas card picture)
They also have fiber-optic lines in the sidewalk, that form cool patterns during the night-time.	We then went to Epcot, to finish the rides we didn't get to (Journey Into Imagination, The Living Seas). We asked if we could ride in the front car of the monorail, where the driver sits. (I had done it before, so I knew you could, I just didn't know if anyone else had dibs). They said no problem, and as we climbed in, I noticed that the driver's name was Rufus (For anyone that hasn't seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, this may pass you by). I asked him if he got teased a lot, and he said that every time he talks to other WDW employees, they tell him to "Party on, dude!". (After Epcot, we went back to the monorail, and sure enough, one of hte CM's directing people was Rufus. We walked up to him, and in our best Bill & Ted voice, yelled, "Rufus!" He got a good laugh out of that. We then jumped back on the monorail to the Magic Kingdom.
	History lesson: When WDW first opened, you had to buy a ticket for each ride. The cheapest tickets were "A-tickets", then B, C, D, and the absolute best rides were "E-tickets". In fact, you can still hear people talk about something fun as being an "E-ticket". WDW decided to test a new feature this year: on certain nights, if you were a WDW Resort Guest, and had a multi-day pass, they would leave the biggest attrations open for THREE hours after the park closed for you. They called this test the "E-ticket Express", and said that only 5,000 would be sold for $10 apiece. Well, September's pretty dead, so they only sold 1,000. The park was DEAD! We went to the Haunted Mansion, and there were only 6 people in the Stretch rooms. Alien Encounter only had 8 people in it!

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