Sorry it has been so long since I have updated. But don't worry, I haven't forgotten!
Anyway, I left my parents at Raglan Road to head to the Virgin Megastore and buy a charger for my Ipod and some different headphones since mine kept falling out while I was trying to fall asleep. I left my dad happily singing Irish songs and drinking Guiness so all was well with them.
It was weird walking through PI to get to the Virgin Store because it was SO dead there. It was actually kind of sad, but in a way I was glad that I didn't have to deal with major crowds of drunken people. I was pretty much in and out of the Virgin Megastore and discovered that I didn't have to rush to get there before 11 since they were staying open late for a CD release party for the new Madonna CD at midnight. Oh well. It brought back fond memories of buying the 2nd NSYNC cd at that store when it was released during my college program in 2000.
I bought what I needed (pretty reasonably priced too, I was afraid it would cost me a lot) and headed back out. I stopped at Haggen Daz to get a milkshake since I left before dessert at Raglan Road and was still bitter over Ghiradelli not being open from its refurb. I then spent $7.50 on a milkshake (WHAT?) and enjoyed it as I made my way back through PI to DTD.
I called my mom but they were still waiting for dessert so I told her I would go ahead back to the Beach Club on my own and meet them there. I had been trying to get to sleep before them to avoid the Darth Vader breathing/snoring harmony they create.
Here is where my ridiculous WDW adventure happened. I was waiting for a bus at DTD and even though I KNEW that more than one bus stopped at the stop I was at, when the bus pulled in without its sign on, I heard someone else ask (or so I thought) if it stopped at the Beach Club and heard the driver say yes so I got on. Big mistake. It turned out it was NOT stopping at Beach Club or Yacht Club only the Swan and Dolphin (in all my days at the Beach Club I could never predict or know when the bus was going to shared with another EPCOT resort and when it wasn't). Not a huge deal since I know you can walk from any of those EPCOT resorts to the other resorts and I have done it many times. Plus it was a nice night and I love that area so I figured that I would just get off at the Dolphin and walk back to the Beach Club. Fine.
So I get off, cut through the lobby and head to the small path that wraps around the front of the Dolphin and heads to the Yacht Club. I don't know why I went that way instead of heading over the bridge, but whatever, it is what I did. All is fine until I turn one corner and realize the sprinkers are on. Okay, no problem again as they are aiming towards the grass not the path so I am just being hit with a slight mist from them. Then I turn another corner and see the sprinklers are on all the way down the rest of the path. At this point I figure, I'm halfway along the building I might as well just continue. So I keep walking through the sprinklers though these ones are not aimed as well so I am definitely getting wetter than is really necessary.
I finally turn the last corner and I am met with a gigantic piece of construction equipment blocking the rest of the path. I wish I had taken a picture of it because it was huge and placed directly in front of the path to prevent people from walking on it. So now I have no choice but to turn around and walk BACK through all the sprinklers again. I looked like a fool. By the time I got back around to the main entrance of the Dolphin I was soaked and irritated. Ha. I then took the bridge over and walked back by the Yacht Club and onto the Beach Club. I had just settled into the room when my parents arrived back as well. My mom was confused that I wasnt already in bed and then she said "Wait, did you get on the wrong bus??" and I said "Yes, how did you know??" and she said that they had almost done the same thing because the bus was not labeled but she got worried after they sat down and asked the bus driver and sure enough they were on the wrong bus. So they got off and waited for another one.
She did enjoy my story about the sprinklers though. But the bottom line is, they have got to get those buses labeled better as they pull into DTD where several resorts share stops.
