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GRANDBABIES
II: THE RETURN Day 1, Arrival and Epcot We’ve made six
“Grandbabies” trips over the last five years, taking each
of our grandchildren (one at a time) the
year before they enter school. Since we don’t have a five-year-old this year, Laurie
thought it would be reasonable to recycle them as ten-yearolds and take Elysia again this summer.
(And of course by “this summer,” I mean last summer, in 2006. Having made a move
and taken a new job last year, I really didn’t get right on the trip report as I had
hoped. ;-) We had wondered about the logistics of getting the kids for our trips, since our
new home is about four hours away from them. This trip works nicely though, as
Lisi’s family takes a week-long road trip vacation that ends with a couple days at our house. We have another couple days with
her before we leave, which provides time for some enjoyable planning. She
hasn’t been what you would call a morning person these few days, but now that departure day is
here she’s up bright and early and skipping outside to load the car. The conversation on
the way to the airport is fun, during which we discover her career plans. She’s going
to be either a professional tennis player or a professional swimmer. (That’s a new one to
me, must be ESPN doesn’t carry the National Swimming League.) If neither of those works
out, her third choice is to go to Harvard. Well, it certainly is good to have a backup
plan. The only time she’s flown was
with us when she was five, and she seems to be experiencing a little anxiety at
the airport. She’s careful not to show it too much though, and we’ve been looking
forward to seeing what the little differences are between a Disney trip at five and one at ten.
At ten, you hide your anxiety a lot more. The takeoff is a bit tense, but we relax
immediately thereafter. She found Gone With the Wind in our carry-on and thought that would be
a great way to spend the flight, but she’s spending most of her time with her face
glued to the window saying “Oh my gosh, look at that!” She’s extremely wide-eyed
later when we break back through the clouds, and is awed by the way the rivers bend and join
the ocean. All the little details after
arrival are exciting, too, things you and I don’t spend much time thinking about. Restaurants and
shuttles and Baggage Claim A and B are all very exotic and exciting. It’s here that
(for the only time on the trip) Papa pouts and insists on getting his way because the girls
want to stop and eat at the airport and then go, but I want to get to Disney NOW and we
can eat at the food court. They don’t put up too much of a battle. Which is more
than I can say about the Disney cm (cast member) at the airport who only very reluctantly
lets me borrow his Mickey hand to wave to the waiting Magical Expressers. We get to see
The Incredibles on the bus ride, and Laurie’s as excited as anyone on approach,
pointing out the Epcot ball as soon as it appears. I love taking the morning flights,
because we still have better than half a day ahead of us when we arrive. When we get to our
resort (Pop Century), we find one way that 10 is a lot like 5 – “Can we do
the pool first?” Laurie checks us in while Lisi and I walk around the end of the building to stow our
luggage and check out the pool area. As we’re walking and looking, we’re
just like a couple of tourists, taking turns walking in front of each other and stepping on each
other’s heels as we check out the scenery. She’s been telling Laurie for
two days that her ears are starting to close up (the piercings, that is), so before we even get to
the food court, we’re checking out jewelry in the gift shop. I show her where the prices
are, and she looks at me, incredulously. “$18, I’m not getting THAT!! I think I’d
better look for the cheaper ones.” It turns out 10-year-olds are much more serious shoppers, as
she wants to get gifts for her sisters in our first 12 minutes in the resort. I make a
strategic move here that will add to my enjoyment of the trip, telling her that I
can’t help her buy anything because Grandma is the Official Companion Shopper. It’s what
we call a Win-Win-Win. During lunch at the food court, we
fill Elysia in on the only two big rules we have for our trips to Disney – the first
is No Hiding, and the second is that whenever one person has to go to the bathroom, everybody has
to try. When we get out to the Epcot bus stop, Laurie suddenly remembers she forgot to
get the camera from the bag we checked, and wonders aloud if she should go back and get
it since we’re going to the Princess dinner tonight. Heck, even I know the answer to
that one! As we board the bus, I excitedly
announce First Bus of the Trip, which Lisi immediately corrects to Second Bus of the Trip,
not discounting that Magical Express ride. We see Laurie running around the corner of
the building with the camera, so the driver waits a moment and she joins us. Lisi
brings her up to speed on her updated list of our modes of travel so far, which include car,
bus (at our airport), airplane, monorail, bus, bus. She decides we shouldn’t try to
keep track after this. The entrance to Epcot is very
exciting, what with Spaceship Earth towering over our heads. We talk her into bypassing
it so we can go back and get FPs (fast passes) for Soarin’, but it’s 3:50
and they’re gone for the day. “Can’t we just go back
down and ride the ‘ball ride’?”
After reminding her that we don’t have a stroller this trip and
might want to save some steps, she
pleasantly agrees to go over to Honey I Shrunk the Audience. Walking past my favorite
waterfall, she asks “Is that water jumping UP?” Looking at the water running past
The Land, “Is this a river that runs all through Disney World?” The leaping fountain
“looks like water worms.” Okay, 10 is going to be fun too. Remember when I said that the
ten-year-olds are more likely to hide their anxiety? Lisi has this awesome thing she does
with her 3-D glasses during the movie – disguising the removal of her glasses during the
‘scary’ parts of the show. Instead of pushing the glasses up to her forehead or
(heaven forbid) covering her eyes, her hand is on her chin and side of the face, where the
first two fingers can sneak up and grab the bottom of the lens and pull down, instead of up.
But she smiles at the lion, and merely rolls her eyes at the snake. Journey into Imagination is next,
and she must have built up a bit of immunity now. We get the big blast on the Figment
ride and she doesn’t even move. I point out to her on the way through the Image Works the
pictures on the floor that she loved when she was five. She gives me a quick “no
thanks” and blows on by. But she is checking every computer station throughout to find one
open. This is something new at 10, we now have to wait in line to basically photo-shop our
portrait, and that “Hey, look over here” stuff that sometimes works with the
5-year-olds just isn’t going to cut it. We go down to the Land to check the
standby time for Soarin’ and it’s 90 minutes, so she’d like to go down to
Spaceship Earth now. We show her the ‘Crush’ building on the way, and she’s quick to say
“Oh yeah, let’s do that.” (Okay, so it does work
sometimes.) While she’s getting her
picture taken in front of Nemo, I’m noticing the sign on the construction wall pointing to the
entrance, and of course it’s doing it with an arrow made of fish, just like in the movie.
Inside, on our way back to the dolphins, we get hung up by the fish tanks where they have the
little Nemo and Dory fish. And since there’s a computer in this room with an ocean
knowledge kind of puzzle, we’ll stay here a while. We’re not only checking out
the fish in all the tanks, but we’re completely reading every sign. Cool! At the tank full of
live shrimp, she looks at the mass of legs on each and says “Ew, to think I eat
them.” It’s 6:00, and Elysia has
suddenly decided “Let’s do something else.” So
we’re on our way up to Norway for dinner. [I can
picture her in a couple years wearing the t-shirt I just saw on a teenage girl –
“If all else fails, good thing I’m hot.”] We check to
see if there are any fish under the bridge
to World Showcase, and there are not only fish but a quite sizeable turtle. Lisi pulls
some animal crackers out of her fanny pack and breaks off some little pieces, and the
fish are going nuts over them. It’s a target game now, as she’s trying to get some
close enough to the turtle so that he can get them before the fish do. When Elysia was here at age 5, we
had dinner in the San Angel restaurant and she kept wanting to climb the pyramid
that’s on the other side of the boat ride. I don’t know if
she remembers that or not, but as we
approach the Mexico pavilion she notices the ‘steps’ built all the way up the side of
the building and asks “Are you allowed to climb those?” It’s comforting to know that
some things don’t change. As soon as we walk inside the building, “I think I remember
this, let’s do the boat ride.” At the Princess Storybook Dinner,
she’s very excited to see Ariel when we go in. She didn’t see anything on the
menu outside that she’s excited about though. There was hardly anything she would eat when
she was 5, but that’s mostly gone away. After looking carefully over every item
on the appetizer table, she comes back with about 37 peel-and-eat shrimp, legs and all.
And then orders a hot dog off the kids menu. Sort of surf and turf junior. Laurie has
some kind of chicken and pasta dish that she says is very good, and I have venison stew, also
delicious. My meal includes the never-before-eaten rutabaga mash, which I had guessed
might be a lot like turnip. Unfortunately, I was correct. A girl comes over to our table and
tells us the picture they took with Ariel on the way in is $31.95, if we’d like to
purchase it. We thank her for the info, and she continues on to the other tables. Elysia
didn’t quite catch the whole conversation and asks us what she said. When we get to the part about
the price, she practically does a spit-take and says “Well, if it was with Belle,
that’d be one thing.” None of the desserts sound good to her – she wants no part of
chocolate mousse or rice cream or loganberry cheesecake. But I wonder if she maybe isn’t
aware of the subtle differences between ‘mousse’ and
‘moose’, because she ends up eating all of
the mousse that was on the tray and we end up getting another that she polishes off as
well. She really wants to check out that
Viking ship we saw on our way in, but it’s roped off for some reason. We have to do
‘something’ between now (8:15) and Illuminations so we’ll ride the Maelstrom. It
doesn’t receive much comment. Illuminations does though, including “It’s
beautiful. The lasers on the smoke make everything else stand out and even more beautiful.” [To
quote from her trip at 5, “I’m not even going to close my
eyes, it’s so beautiful.”]
The lights on the buildings are very nice, too. When the globe is making its way out into the center
of the lagoon, she says “Just think, a few hours ago we were hovering over that.” It
takes a little further conversation to realize she’s talking about our air flight over the
earth. And you thought boys were more spatially aware! We’ve only been here half a
day, but she’s already begun developing her skills at outwalking the crowd, making sure
we’re right behind her while she threads her way through various lumps in the
throng. One thing I notice that’s different in August from our trips at other times of the
year – there’s an awful lot of sweat in the bus stop line at the end of a long hot day. And
having just said that into the mini-recorder on which I keep these notes, I become aware of
another feature of being 10 – we’re only in our first day and I’ve already heard
her say “oh, be quiet” about 38 times. 39. Day
2, Magic Kingdom Elysia is not a morning person, and
when we get her up to make rope drop at Magic Kingdom she says “We’re
not going to do this every morning, are we?” Well, given a choice between that and every line
being long, yes. As we’re getting ready to leave the room, she says “Okay,
let’s Christmas Tree up!” That’s a reference to a
comment she made last night about how we looked
carrying our water bottle strap, fan sprayer, and fanny pack. We pick up a times guide on the way
in the park, even though we rarely use one here. Although she told us last night
that Belle was her favorite, when we show her the times for Belle’s Story Hour she
says she’d rather just do rides today. That’s what you do when you’re 10. We make rope
drop in Adventureland, although Fantasyland and Tomorrowland have already been open
for Early Entry for an hour. With everyone else seemingly distracted, we only have
about twenty people ahead of us going into Splash Mountain, so it’s obviously a
walk-on. Ever the one to not hurt
anyone’s feelings, Elysia tells us that she’ll ride with
Grandma on the first ride and then take
turns with us. She remembers liking Splash Mountain and her head is on a swivel throughout
the ride, remembering some things and enjoying them all. My personal favorite part, the
water jets, is running today for the first time in about the last eight, so that’s
very cool. As we start down the big drop, Grandma puts her hands up in the air and Lisi does
too, for as long as it takes to get your picture taken, then they’re back down and
she’s holding on for dear life. There’s still no line when we
get out, but after a little thought she decides we should go over to Big Thunder Mountain
Railroad instead of back-to-back Splashes. She’s picked up the rhythm of the early morning
movement, walking about 30 feet in front of us and waiting for us when she gets to the
line. We do make back-to-back trips on Big Thunder, the second time with Lisi by
herself in the last seat, screaming and giggling all the way. Part of that is probably from
watching her grandmother in the seat in front, holding her arms up the whole time and sliding
back and forth in the seat on every turn. Hard for me to tell sometimes who’s ten. It’s 9:55 when we get around
to the other side of the park and there’s only a 20-minute wait for Space Mountain so
we’re going to get FPs and go on. I’d call it a walk-on because we never stop walking until
we’re through the turnstiles, which still makes it 10 minutes because it’s so far
away. I swear sometimes that the back exit must let you out in the Contemporary. On the bus
this morning, Lisi had been taking inventory of this attraction, wondering how fast it
is (35 mph max), how many drops (numerous), any upside downs (no), etc. She’s
a little concerned about the seating arrangements as we watch the cars overhead while in
the queue, and we think she’s thinking you might ride one per car. We describe the 1x3
arrangement to her, and she says “okay, as long as we’re together, I’m
fine.” She likes the ride but isn’t overly impressed,
because it doesn’t seem to her like there are as many
‘jumps’ as there are on Big Thunder. Since she wasn’t very
impressed, Laurie asks her if we should give our Fast Passes to somebody else, to which we get an
emphatic “NO.” Things work out fantastic for riding Buzz Lightyear now, because since
Lisi rode the last ride with me, she gets to ride with Grandma this time and I get my own
Buzzmobile. Ha! I was given instructions to get the car ahead of them so I could
take a picture, but when the ride stops briefly in the first room I realize they’re about
seven cars behind me because they had loaded a party from the other side. Lisi thinks her
21,000 is “very respectable for my first time” (that she remembers). [We’ve brought the kids when
they were 5, we’re taking our first trip with a 10-year-old now, and Laurie’s already
talking about how things might work when we bring them at 15. Good Lord, to think I created
this monster when I brought her here for our honeymoon!!] On our way back to Fantasyland,
we’re just in time for Belle’s Story Hour, which she liked okay when she was 5 but
hadn’t been overly excited about. Laurie asks if she wants to get Belle’s autograph,
apparently forgetting that “I already got it yesterday!”
There’s a big line at the Pooh ride, so
Elysia wants to use our FPs for Space Mountain now. Why not. So we take the shortcut back
through Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café and watch the Indy Speedway for a bit while the
girls have a drink. (Wink, wink.) Despite the fact that the line for the Speedway is only
15 minutes, we overhear a 6-year-old girl telling her dad “The fast pass lane would
definitely benefit us today.” As we get down to Space Mountain, Lisi proclaims “I
call front,” so the anxiety is clearly gone. This time in the queue she’s checking out the
pictures flying across the ceiling and walls and watching the cars go around. She can’t
explain why, but she likes this second trip much better than the first, there are a LOT more quick
drops and turns ;-) We’re on our way to lunch at
Tony’s Town Square now, but not before we pick up another set of Fast Passes to use
this evening. (It took her no time at all to agree with that suggestion.) The hostess asks us if
we’d like to sit outside or inside, and though I think we’d get a table much quicker
outside, we defer to Elysia, who prefers inside. Just to take advantage of her week-long
flirt with independence, she has selected a chair in the waiting area that’s about 20
feet from the bench where we’re sitting. When she was 5, she wouldn’t
eat anything except hot dogs, mac and cheese, and fruit. And now Laurie’s ordered some
disgustingly slimy seafood appetizer and Elysia’s reaching over to scoop some slime
out with part of the shell. She tells me “It’s just like Gaston, all mussels.”
I’ll tell you, it was a lot easier watching her eat the mac and
cheese. Of all the options for our route to
Typhoon Lagoon, Elysia thinks a boat to the Grand Floridian and a bus to the park
sounds best. Our boat gets there very quickly, but the boat dock is a long, long, long way from
the front of the resort. Not only are the rooms out there a lot farther from the stuff
than the rooms at Pop Century, Laurie notes that we can stay 8 nights at Pop for the cost
of a night single night here. Lisi’s been hearing a lot
about Chrush’n’Gusher, so we have to go check that out first thing. Think roller coaster, on
your butt, in the water. Okay, you’re actually on a tube, but as the British mom-dad-son
group ahead of us in line on the way to their third run tells us, “when they tell you
to keep your bum up, that’s very good advice if you don’t want a very rough ride.” She
likes it a lot, but after one trip she’s ready for a trip around the lazy river. Until we walk over
the bridge and see the park out in front of us. “Ooh. I see the wave pool, I see those
rides up there I don’t know what they’re called, and I see the Lazy River. The choices are
harder now.” But we settle on the Lazy River, and all love it as usual. Then we spend quite a while in the
wave pool. Now this girl knows how to swim, and she wants to know how far out she
should go before the wave comes. I tell her that if she goes out to where it’s up to
her waist, the wave will come over her head. “Then that’s where I want to be.” For
about three waves. And then she works her way out to where it’s up to her neck when
she’s on her tiptoes before the wave comes in. As usual, I manage to get my knee
twisted with a wave, so I bail and let the girls play a while longer. After a few more
waves, it’s time for some rides and she wants to check out the kiddie section first. Once.
Then it’s time for some real slides. Twice on the raft ride is enough for Laurie, but
Elysia wonders if she can go back up and take another run by herself. Soitenly! Then one and
a half times around the river and back to the wave pool for several more
self-inflicted dunkings. We go back to Pop to clean up and
change and head back over to Magic Kingdom. The girls have a light dinner at
Casey’s, but I don’t feel much like eating. There’s considerably more food in this
dining plan than we’re used to eating. We go down into Adventureland to check out the new
pirate ride, which is very enjoyable. On the way out we shop our way out into the plaza.
Our girl’s quite the bargain shopper, which is a pretty hard job at Disney. She
comes out of the shop with a little bag, stuffing change into her pocket, saying “Hey,
I got Nya!” After a quick ride on Aladdin’s Magic Carpets, I have thoughts of Country Bears
and Haunted Mansions and Tiki Rooms, but the girls outvote me and we’re staking
out a spot at the rope for the Spectro-Magic parade. Which turns out to be a good choice,
because Lisi is completely engrossed, from beginning to end. Still not feeling good, I leave the
park early and catch the fireworks from the bus station, while the girls watch them from
Main St. near the bakery. When the girls get out, they get on one of the two Pop Century
buses that pull up, and manage to get the cool bus driver. The first thing he asks is
if any of the children on the bus have birthdays within the next week or two. Laurie
volunteers that there is, and he asks for the name.
“Elysia.” This was worth two special treats
– everybody on the bus sings Happy Birthday to her (which, according to the
driver’s rules, includes saying “cha cha cha” after
every HB), … [during which Elysia scolds Laurie
with “How dare you!”] … and at the end of the ride after everyone gets off, Laurie
gets to take a picture of Lisi in the driver’s seat of the bus with the driver, and she gets a
Junior Driver’s License Certificate. So now Laurie’s awesome again. (Which she knew all
along ;-) After the singing, they play trivia where they find out that the current #1
attraction at WDW is Expedition Everest, #3 is Tower of Terror, Splash Mountain is down to
#10, and Soarin’ is # 2. [Reminds me of the time the cm running Aladdin thanked us all
for riding the 18th most popular
attraction at Magic Kingdom.] Elysia thinks it’s
hilarious that the driver says that EPCOT stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired. Back at the room, I discover
another big difference with 10-year-olds, at least the girls – they can put their pajamas on over
their shirt and then take the shirt off from underneath. I thought that was tremendously
sexy when Jennifer Beals did it in Flashdance, but now Laurie informs me it’s just
something girls do when they’re too lazy to go to the bathroom to change. Mythbusters
strikes again. Day
3, Animal Kingdom We don’t hear too much
complaint about getting up early this morning, since we’re taking an Expedition to Everest and
Elysia’s been very much looking forward to that. The girls showered last night, so
we’re under thirty minutes from rollout to bus. We make our 8:30 appointment at
Donald’s Breakfastsaurus, but we’re way out at the last table in the last room, so we
don’t really get to see all the characters before Lisi decides that we might want to get over to
the expedition now and get autographs later. She’s reminding us of some ride she
definitely wants to go on this time. She doesn’t know what it’s called, but her mom
wouldn’t let her ride it because even though she was tall enough, nobody else was. We think
it’s either Dinosaur or (more likely) Primeval Whirl. When we get back to Expedition
Everest, the standby line is huge – there’s even a 10- minute wait at the Fast Pass
machines. So we get our FPs and walk back over to Primeval Whirl, which is a walk-on.
Elysia enjoys the ride, but thinks we got pretty beat up there. We go down to Dinosaur,
but it’s down at the moment so that may have to wait for another trip. She has her first
pin-trading of the day, with cm Stan at the entrance to the Boneyard, giving up something
she wasn’t crazy about for a ‘really cool’ Mickey pin. She thinks it’s kind of neat
that you don’t have to take your shoes off to enjoy the Boneyard (yes, she’s had more
than a few meals at McDonald’s and Burger King). Five minutes of that is about enough
though. We’ve got 15 minutes left until our FP, so I assume one more Whirl should do it.
Oops, it turns out the time-killing ride of choice for Elysia is called Chester and
Hester’s Dinosaur Treasures. This shopping is killing me. It’s 9:59 on Saturday as we
enter the FP return line for what will be the back car of Expedition Everest. We all LOVE it.
Elysia want to ride again right away but the standby line is still quite long,
so we’re going to try the single riders line. She really, really wants to ride again and
doesn’t want to wait that long, but she’s not so sure about riding by herself. Quite an
internal struggle. She finally decides it will work, with Grandma going first, then her, then
me. There’s a really good meet-up spot here, by the ride photo display, so she knows
Laurie will be waiting for her there when she gets off the ride. We heard somebody
planning to meet up “out in front,” which is one of those things that sounds good until you
realize that there’s about a hundred yards of “out
front” and half a million people in it.
The single rider line turns out to be about 30 minutes itself. All goes well, and she
loves the ride again. We get another FP on the way out, and though the return time on the pass
is 1:10, it says we can get another pass at 11:15. We ask her about the walking tours,
and she says “Sure, why not.” I tell her that it’s
just that it’s a fair amount of
walking and she suggests that we could get a stroller. When I ask her “For who?”, we
decide we won’t be doing the trails. We mosey over to the Safari and at 11:10, there’s a
50-minute standby line and the Fast Pass machine is giving out times for 11:40. So we’re
just going to hang around for 5 minutes and get FPs. With a half hour to kill, we decide to
take the train over to Rafiki’s Planet Watch. Lisi’s very impressed with the cages backstage
on the safari. Five minutes in the petting zoo, a bathroom break, a quick trip past
the veterinary and training exhibits, and then a quiet rest in the nicely air-conditioned
sounds of the Rain Forest booth. Not only is this the first grandchild who could actually
hang in there for all the sounds, we actually listen to the whole program 1.8 times.
She’s really impressed with how it seems the animals are right behind you. We come back and use our FPs on the
safari, and she enjoys that very much. She had wanted to sit on the outside of the
ride vehicle, but I tell her she’ll like the inside better. She’s a little pouty at
first, but it isn’t long before her little butt is sliding back
and forth between us from one side of the bus
to the other, checking out the animals on both sides, and she acknowledges that the
inside is indeed better. It’s 2:00 now and time for
our afternoon downpour. After a potty break, we decide it must be time for a little chocolate
and carrot cake over at the Tusker House. Of course there isn’t a table to be
found, what with the storm. So while Laurie is getting the dessert, Elysia and I are wandering
the dining room like vultures, trying to assess who has the least chicken left on their
bones and is thus closest to giving up their table to us. We finally do score a table, and as
we finish our cake we’re amused by the new group of vultures watching our progress. Laurie’s knee doesn’t
want her to walk all the way back over to Expedition Everest, so we’re going to wander back
down by the tip board in the middle of the park and give up our Fast Passes. We put Elysia in
charge of picking out 3 people to give them to, which she readily accepts, but wants me
to talk to them. The first group she picks is from Britain, but when I ask them if
they’re going to ride again, Dad rolls his eyes and shakes his head and says “Not
today.” A little bit later she spots a guy and two daughters who look like they just entered the
park. They’re thrilled to get the passes, and Elysia is quite satisfied with her work. She enjoys the 3-D movie It’s
Tough to Be a Bug quite a bit, giggling throughout. After we leave the theater, I had thought
I was being quite discreet by going around a bush in the path to remove a wedgie, but I
realize it wasn’t as discreet as I thought when I hear her tell Laurie “Perhaps
it’s a cockroach.” It’s 2:35 so we’re going to
go over and catch the Lion King show, and maybe get
some autographs before and/or after. Elysia won’t quite admit it for some reason, but
she loves the Lion King show. It’s 3:40 when we come out, and she doesn’t
want to wait on any autographs, so we’re going to head back to the resort and the pool. There’s a store just outside
the gates of Animal Kingdom, and even though Elysia’s feet are ‘killing’ her (she
thought last night she had maybe sprained her ankle, and the night before that she thought she might
have arthritis), we spend a good 20 minutes to a half hour checking out everything in the
store. We were planning to swim when we got back but it’s starting to rain a
little and after lying on the bed for about a minute we all decide it is nap time. Lisi calls her dad and talks for
quite a while just outside the room. We can hear her end of the conversation through the
crack in the door, and you know how you have to find a way to nicely end the conversation
when you’re done? Hers is “I better go, I’m talking during nap time.” By the time
our nap is over, it’s pouring out, so we put our ponchos on to go up to the food court for
supper. When we get back to the room it’s almost 7, so we decide to just call it a night. Day
4, MGM Studios It’s Sunday morning and
we’re headed to the Studios, despite Elysia’s stated
preference last night to just go shopping
today. On the way in, we’re still having an awful time getting her to walk with us –
she’s always either 15 feet ahead of us or 6 feet behind. She and I are headed to Tower of Terror
first thing while Laurie gets Fast Passes for Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster. She’s a
little apprehensive about the ride, though doing her best to conceal that. It’s cool that
first thing in the morning, the wait time shown for the standby line is 13 minutes. We get to see
something neat while waiting in the Boiler Room, a full crew has gone in to check all the
belts and such in an elevator that they’re apparently bringing on line. And the last step
of that process seems to be that two of the cm’s have to ride. I know, it’s a dirty
job … I’ve only ridden this once,
but I remember it being a bit longer ride before we’re in the elevator shaft than what it is.
Lisi is alternating between shock and a big grin. Our picture perfectly captures our
standard look, with her mouth and eyes wide, wide open and me looking over at her with a
big smile on my face. The Rock ‘n’ Roller
Coaster standby line says 10 minutes, but this is the first time
we’ve ever been shunted over into the
queue at the right of the last pre-pre-show room. That does give us a chance to look at
the variety of record players we’ve never seen here before. It’s pretty cool that
one of them is set up with an LP titled “9th Symphony in ETicket Major.” Lisi rides with
Laurie, and screams through pretty much all of the ride. We were thinking she might have
been really scared, but as the car pulls up to the concert hall she turns and says
“That’s IT?” The FPs Laurie got were for 9:50, so we
ask if she wants to get right back on and she
wastes no time in approving that plan. It’s 10:00 now and the standby line is up to 40
minutes already. She is loving the FP as we cruise by the crowd outside. As we’re
rounding the front of the building, she wonders if we’re going to be able to “speed by all
the people inside, too.” Alas, no. As we watch Aerosmith in the studio before the ride, I hear
her telling Laurie “That’s just hologrammed onto the wall.” Heh. She probably
thinks there’s no Easter Bunny, either. They’re just opening the
doors to the Little Mermaid when we get back there, so we decide to get in line and bail if
we don’t get into this show. We don’t, so we go down to see Drew Carey’s Sounds
Dangerous. We don’t usually see this attraction because, well, it’s pretty lame, and none of
the 5-year-olds we bring are too good at enjoying things in total darkness. But this was one of
the things Elysia had marked as a “1” on her pre-trip attraction list, so we have to go.
After we’re done, she sums up the show quite nicely by responding to the question
“So what did you think of Sounds Dangerous?” by saying simply “It
didn’t.” As we walk back towards the
Mermaid, we discover that there are several showings of Playhouse Disney Live at the ABC
Theater today, which would explain the massive crowd here in the park on a Sunday
morning. The line for the Great Movie Ride wraps around the end of the building.
Good thing that one was a “3” attraction. We’re still more than one
show away from getting into the Mermaid, so we go over to get a seat for the Beauty and the Beast
show. Elysia has a box of Nerds in her hand, and is busy enough with them that she
doesn’t even clap after the first song. But we notice that during the second song her hand is
in position for another pour but it doesn’t happen – she’s been hooked. After that
song, she puts the box down and applauds and is locked in for the rest of the show. Not all our plans work completely
smoothly. We’re just a couple minutes late for out 11:55 seating at Hollywood and Vine
when we discover that it’s really for 12:55. Yikes! We walk back to the Little Mermaid
again to discover the next show is at 12:50. At this point, we decide to cancel our
reservations and leave the park. The girls decide to shop their way back to the exit while I
go to the bus stop, and they end up meeting me out there at 12:50. We could have kept
our lunch reservations! Laurie reports that it’s just like Elysia’s amazing
recovery at Animal Kingdom when she was 5 and we were going to the pool. She’s been
dragging all morning, but when she hit the store she was rejuvenated. Everybody has their
own personal rejuvenator. After lunch at the food court, we
take a nice long nap until 4:30 and Elysia is ready for some pool time. Neither of us wants
to go, but I guess it’s my turn. Which allows me to discover another difference between
10-year-olds and 5-year-olds. After 30 minutes in the pool, she gets out and comes
over and I’m thinking “Hurray, we’re done,” but
she informs me “It’s tan
time.” Oh good lord. We have a big debate after our nap
as to what we’re going to do this evening. There were a number of A-list things we
didn’t get to at MGM, a lot of stuff at Magic Kingdom and Epcot, and she’s talking
about wanting to do a mask at the Kid Stops around the World Showcase. Oh, and she wants to go
to Blizzard Beach before we go. And we’ve got a day and a half after tonight. It
reminds me of the exchange between Sam Eagle and Kermit at the end of the Muppet
movie: “It’s a glorious three-hour production.” “You’ve got a minute
and a half!” These trips are just too short. We finally decide on Extra Magic Hours at Magic Kingdom
tonight and an Epcot morning. Our first stop is the Jungle
Cruise. The sign says 20 minutes, but as usual it’s about half that. The ride merits a thumbs up
from Elysia, though she correctly observes “there’s no real animals.” There are no
real jokes either, but that doesn’t stop us from riding it every trip. She excitedly calls out for
the Tiki Room next, it sounds like she remembers that from her other trips. She notices
there are no people in the lane right up front in the preshow, and tells us “I wish I was
handicapped.” Pause, pause. “Just for a minute.”
She’s got the hang of our seating choices
now. As she leads us into the theater, I tell her to pick the emptiest row and go all the way
down to the end by the exit. We smile as she picks our favorite row, the back one, but
she does it one better. When she gets to the end of the row, she goes down two more rows to
the seat that is absolutely closest to the exit door. And she also proves that she really
does appreciate the Disney touch as she points to the ‘windows’ and says
“Boy, it sure got dark outside fast.” She also points out
something we don’t remember noticing
before, that the clouds you see outside the ‘windows’ are moving. Given our options in the
neighborhood here, she’d like to see Pirates of the Caribbean again. It’s 7:30 and she
informs us on the way down that “This is my most caffeine time of day.” She’s
certainly bouncing off the walls tonight, though she’s had
nothing with caffeine in it since lunch.
There’s a 30 minute line winding out into the courtyard, which is something we haven’t seen
since we were there on a July afternoon on our honeymoon 12 years ago. It looks like a lot
of people are as anxious to see the new makeover as we were. We know the left lane
here’s a lot shorter than the right, so it really isn’t
much of a wait and she thoroughly enjoys the
ride again. We all agree that the Davy Jones curtain you go through at the beginning is
an awesome effect and the Capn’ Jack animatronics are eerily lifelike, but Laurie and
I are both a little disappointed with the final scene. While the girls are doing a bit
more shopping and I’m waiting out by the end of Pecos Bill’s, I discover what
10-year-old boys are like at Disney World. There’s one up in the grass on the wrong side of the
fence, squatting very quietly and looking intently at something. I don’t realize
what he’s doing until about five minutes later when he jumps back over the fence shouting
“I got him!!” and holding between his thumb and finger a two-inch-long lizard that
he’s apparently been stalking. The girls come out after a bit and Elysia’s found a gift for her
oldest sister, a Mickey’s Personal Digital Assistant. It must be really cool, because she says
“I hope she doesn’t like it.” She thinks for a few minutes about
going on Splash Mountain again, but with the crowd up on the bridge she figures the
line will be too long, so we go see the Country Bears. She’s really into the show,
one of the first ones clapping along with the music. She’s a little distracted at times because
she’s discovered the display on the back wall that runs the text of the show in reverse for
the special mirror glasses for the hearing-impaired. She’s trying to read it
backwards as it goes. Afterwards we have to put up with something I had never counted on.
There’s a running joke at the end of Turtle Talk with Crush, where Crush tells all the
kids to say “Dude” as often as they can for the rest of the day, their parents will love it.
We’ve escaped that, but now after seeing this show, we’re almost back to Fantasyland and
she’s still talking with a deep country accent, just like the ‘country bars’. We have dinner at the Columbia
Harbour House, and I discover another advantage the 10-year-olds have over the
5-year-olds – when they get all wound up and talking like a ‘country bar’, you can
send them off to get the utensils and condiments and such. “But I don’t know where they
are.” “They’re probably on the other side of that
wall right there, if you don’t find them in 15
minutes, I’ll look.” With the free dining plan we got,
there’s way more food than we usually eat,
particularly since each meal includes a dessert that we normally don’t get.
We’re all finished and trying to get Elysia to finish her
chocolate cake, but she wants to savor it.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, having dessert with every meal!” She really enjoys the Haunted
Mansion again, though I can see her focus has changed to trying to figure out how they make
things look the way they look. Peter Pan has quite a line, so we ride Small World. She
enjoys it quite a bit and is pointing out the various nationalities she can identify. At
the end though, she comes up with a comment I have to say I’ve never heard here
– “I wish I had half the clothes they have.”
I’m not sure whether the grass skirt or the
Dutch milkmaid’s dress caught her eye, but she’d apparently like to add something
to her wardrobe. [Drummers was my choice this trip of what to count to get me through the
ride sane. 21. ] Peter Pan’s still got a long
line, so we move on down to Mickey’s PhilharMagic. We’re just getting settled in our seats
when she spots that little one-inch-square fan unit between the chairs. “That better not
do anything.” When Donald puts Mickey’s hat on early in the show, she shakes her head and
says “Oh, that can’t be good.” Since there’s a
very small crowd here tonight, we stay
and watch the show again. As we’re down discovering
that the Peter Pan line is still too long, Laurie discovers that she doesn’t have her cell
phone. We assume it must have fallen during the show, and go back and wait outside the exit door
so we can slip in after the show and look under our seat. Elysia has her ear to the
door, keeping us apprised of the show’s progress.
“We’re only up to Little Mermaid.”
The show ends, we slip in the exit, and thank the nice man who’s holding it over his
head asking if anyone lost it. It’s 10:45 now and the park
seems packed. We decide it’s time to go, and run into a huge crowd at the bus stop. Two buses
are loading as we walk up and get in line, and we end up getting on the fourth bus after
that. There have to be at least six buses worth of people still in line when we pull away.
This driver gives us a fairly simple trivia question that has us stumped. He wants people to
think of ten animated Disney movies with one-word titles (not counting
computer-animated movies like Cars). We come up with five right away, and he helps us with a hint
gives us two more, but that was it. When you get tired of trying to think of them (which
may have already happened), the hint is below. The hint: five are from the
30’s to 50’s, and five are more modern. Old ones: Dumbo, Fantasia,
Cinderella, Bambi, and Pinocchio. New ones: Pocahontas, Hercules,
Aladdin, Mulan, and Tarzan. Day
5, EPCOT We’re at the EPCOT turnstiles
when they open, and manage to be in the second row of people at the rope in Innoventions
Plaza at 9:00. A cast member has pulled Laurie out of line and asked her if we’d
like to do a test run of a Kim Possible adventure they’re trialing. Knowing that Lisi is a
fan, it sounds perfect, can’t wait to see what it’s about. As we load the Soarin’ ride,
she’s right on the bubble as to whether she needs to use the center strap or not. I figure
she’ll want to be the ‘big girl’ and not use it, but
she immediately puts it through and
brightly says “Might as well, just in case.” A huge grin comes out as we fly through the
clouds. She spots some birds we hadn’t seen before, and we see for the first time the guys
doing the Australian rappel. Her hands are quite relaxed in her lap until we get out over
the fishing boat off the coast, when she grabs the arm rests for the rest of the ride. After the
ride, she declares it “amazing that we were just sitting in one place the whole time!” We get over to Test Track, and she
hasn’t ridden this before, so she’s secretly quite apprehensive. This becomes apparent
when we get into the queue and she blurts out “This isn’t the Single
Riders line, is it?” Big grins throughout the ride though, and as
we are going through the high-speed
section outside she laughingly screams “Grandma, I’m going to need your brush!!”
Our only 5-year-old who has even looked at the cars in the exit area was Gavin, who just HAD
to get his picture taken driving the Hummer. But Elysia is even shopping here. So
far, she’s picked out the concept car, a rust-colored Chevy Avalanche ($37,000 pickup
truck), and a $32,000 Buick Lucerne. Man, is she going to be disappointed down the
road when her first car is a 12-year-old Cavalier. Wait. Elysia isn’t the only
one dreaming here. Laurie has picked out a sweet little metallic blue Pontiac Solstice
two-seater. I think she’d buy it on the spot, if her ‘test drive’ hadn’t shown
she’s too short to see out the windshield. [Random observation -- As
we’re taking an ice cream break outside Innoventions, it occurs to me that 10-year-olds wear
considerably less of their food than 5-year-olds.] Now we do something that’s a
first for all three of us, Mission: SPACE. Laurie and I never quite managed to make
ourselves try this, but since they split it up into a wilder side and a milder side, we thought
we’d give it a shot and we like it. It’s a lot like Star Tours. It’s time to begin our Kim
Possible adventure, which begins with a brief survey and some paperwork upstairs at the Canada
pavilion. And a temporary $300 deposit on our credit card to cover the special cell
phone, our ‘communicator.’ It will give her video instructions, ask her multiple
choice questions regarding her results on the tasks, and automatically signal her when
we’re in proximity to our next location. As we get our mission instructions and leave with
our communicator, Elysia looks up with a big grin and says “This is gonna be
fun!” Our first instruction is to go to
the United Kingdom and talk to the toy soldier. “What should I say?” Well,
let’s go see what we see. As we get up to the UK, Laurie and I have to make a pit stop, and Lisi
is quite indignant. “Hey, I’m kind of on a mission here.” Well even Kim Possible
has to pee, sheesh! The toy soldier tells us
there’s a clue in the red phone booth. (It would have been cooler if he’d called it a telephone
box, but I bet not many American Kims would have a ‘clue’ what that is.) After we’ve
entered the secret code, a golf ball comes out, which we have to take back inside the
Sportsman’s Shoppe to run through the golf ball analyzer. After verification that our ball is
“authentic,” the analyzer tells us we have to find a shield
some where in the shop with two golf
clubs on it. We press a button and the shield flips around, revealing a four-symbol
code we have to remember. After entering the code, we get instructions to find the tea
caddy clerk at Twining’s and say “Danger is my cup of tea!” He hands Lisi a pack of
Indian Spiced Chai Tea. Her communicator instructs her to enter the name of the tea and
hold the package against the communicator so it can analyze it. It checks out, and
we’re told to search for a butterfly in a box in the garden. The butterfly has a rose on the
back of one wing and a crown on the back of the other, so we’re guessing we need to go
to the Rose & Crown pub. When we get in front of the pub, the communicator activates and
sends us to a window next to #3 Regency Street. Mission complete, head to France. Lisi gets a phone call from her
mom, and is quite excitedly telling her about the mission. “And right now, I’m
going over to France … Yeah!! … I’m at Magic
Kingdom … I mean Epcot … No …
Yeah … Yup! … I have a cell phone … No, I’m
talking to you on Grandma’s cell phone, the
fake cell phone is the secret communicator for our spy mission … I have to go, I have to
finish my mission.” Once we get into France, we’re sent to
the cinema to find a gargoyle. Next
stop are some statues in Souvenirs de France. Now we have to find the Procrastinator
Ray, and the first step is finding some books in the window at Plue et Palette. A clue
there leads us to an antique camera by the lagoon that we can look through to see the top
of the Eiffel Tower. This is serious stuff though, so before leaving the bookstore, she
rereads the clue twice to make sure we know exactly what it is we have to do. As soon as we approach the camera,
our comm tells us to push a button on the gray suitcase before looking in the
camera, and we see the Procrastinator Ray. (And also get our picture taken from the top of
the tower!) Next stop is the Parfumerie, but the sun is killing me at this point, so
I’m enjoying the shade while the girl spies hunt for L’Eau
du Lait. They spend quite a time
looking for it and finally do, but it’s not an easy task at all. And then they’re right back
with me, looking for a certain bench by a certain post in front of the French restaurant. When she
gets in the right spot, her comm sends her to La Casserole and she says “I
remember seeing that, I know right where it is!! Follow me.” We get back in front of that shop
and are instructed to make our way to the Imagination Pavilion. A cast member has to give us access
to Dr. Drakken’s secret lair upstairs. More forms await us there, and we enter our
secret code and drop our communicator into a special tube in order to blow up some evil
thing in the basement. Then we have to hit a series of buttons until we can get five red
X’s and blow something else up to foil Dr. Drakken’s evil plan. Lisi’s quite
excited about getting her Kim Possible pin, one only given to those completing the mission. (Fifty a
day, and we’re in week 3 of a five week trial, so sort of a limited edition at this point.) Since we still have Fast Passes for
Soarin’, we’ll have lunch at the Sunshine Food Fair. I still don’t really like the
food choices here, but Elysia remarks that they have a lot of very healthy things, and decides on two
hard-boiled eggs for lunch. And a ginormous piece of chocolate cake. Very pleasant
conversation here, going over our mission and all our other activities, and in generally
very good spirits on our next-to-the-last day. This time on Soarin’, she’s
decided not to do the “smaller aviator” loop on the belt,
but they make her use it. But the earlier fear is
gone, and she doesn’t use the hand rails for the entire trip. On our way out, we pick up
another set of Fast Passes for tonight. I thought we were going to
Spaceship Earth now, but someone did mention Mouse Gears this morning, so that will be
first. Shopping is fun (for some), Spaceship Earth is fun, and we’re headed back to the
pool. The girls want to swim in a different pool, so we get our mugs and head over to the
flower pool. Laurie spends about five minutes in the pool before finding a nice lounge chair,
putting her feet up, and relaxing with a phone conversation with her friend Miss
Charlotte. Lisi spends about 45 minutes though, before we all head in for a short nap. We’re on our way back to
Epcot now for dinner and more Soarin’ and the sky is black, so I think we’ll be using the
ponchos tonight. It’s 6:40 and Elysia is noticing the colored lights in the sidewalk entering the
Innoventions Plaza. Laurie tells her they look even cooler after dark, so she says
“Well remind me to come back this way after dark then.” The standby line says 75 minutes
and the cm in the Fast Pass line must have read the look on Lisi’s face, saying
“It’s only going to be about 10 minutes from right here, I
swear.” About two-thirds of the riders this
time are newbies, so that always makes it even more fun. As our trip ends and we
descend back to the floor, Lisi is applauding along with most the rest of the travelers. Our dinner in Italy is very tasty,
very noisy, and not especially magic. We hadn’t eaten there before, and our assessment is
that it’s high price for medium experience. One cool thing is that mid-meal, the entire
serving staff comes out to the dining room and sings the Italian national anthem. They
almost get a little bit rowdy, and I mention to the maitre’d who is standing next to us that if
I didn’t know better, I’d think they were football fans. [This was shortly after Italy had
beaten France in the World Cup.] He bends down to me and quietly says “Don’t
talk to me about football, I’m from France.” After a
half-hearted partial tour making masks at the
KidStops, we decide to beat the crowd out of the park, passing the big ball as
Illuminations is cranking up. That gets us a bus to ourselves, and it’s good to relax after a
long day, looking ahead to the end of our trip tomorrow. Day
6, Magic Kingdom We’ve packed all our luggage
and I’m taking it out to Guest Services to hold, while the girls are getting batteries for Pal
Mickey. Which they don’t get, because Lisi has just remembered that she needs to get
the earrings she promised herself our first night here. So I hold them a spot at the bus
stop, and we start our last day with a standing bus ride to Magic Kingdom. Laurie gets the batteries and Fast
Passes for Pooh, while Elysia and I ride the Indy Speedway. I thought she might pass
on this one at 10, but it was a definite yes. In the queue, she wonders aloud
“It’s not very crowded and there’s not much line, I
could probably have my own car,
couldn’t I?” Ah, didn’t think of that, nicely played.
She loves the ride, and I like it too
because it’s not crowded at all so I can just floor it until I’m in the shade of an
underpass and then sit there until the kid behind me comes around the previous corner and then I zoom
off to the next shade. (Of course, ‘zoom’ is a relative term.) When we get up to Pooh it’s a
walk-on, so we ride it twice. Elysia’s excited that the standby line for Snow White is 0
minutes. She has her Pal Mickey sitting beside her on the seat, under the lap bar.
She’s been rolling her eyes quite a bit this morning at his corny jokes. [Why can’t
Pinocchio play the guitar? No strings.] [Why is Captain Hook’s ship still sailing
across the sky? Because it’s going to Never-land.] On the
Peter Pan ride, it finally dawns on her.
“Hey, Mickey knows what ride we’re on!!” Small World again, which you
probably never thought of as a likely place for red carpet commentary. She points to one of
the dolls with some kind of pink dress on and says “I have a dress with that exact same
material.” [Laurie tells me it’s crinoline, what do I know.] Laurie messed me up at the
start of the ride by talking, so I broke my long string of passing time here by counting
something. We suggest Mickey’s PhilharMagic next, but she shrugs her shoulders and
says “Nah.” I think she’s in ride-only mode on our
last day. We were going to point out the cool
sayings on the Haunted Mansion tombstones, but the grass is so uncharacteristically
unkempt and tall that we can’t read most of them. We only have about a five minute wait
here, seems that the period right before Labor Day is a good time to come. She’s
ready now to recreate her favorite time on her trip with us when she was five. We’re
going to skip the Country Bears, go over and ride Splash and Big Thunder, and then get to the
most important attraction – feeding the ducks at Aunt Polly’s. [Pal Mickey: What do
I have for dessert when I go to the Haunted Mansion? Ice cream. No, I really do, I
scream.] On the way into Splash I get to see
something I’ve never seen before – Pal Mickey sliding down the banister. We get
the front two seats and Laurie maneuvers it while I’m not paying attention so that Lisi
is by herself on the left of the front seat and I’m on the right of the second seat with the
empty seat ahead of me, so of course I get soaked. I believe these girls plan these
things while they’re shopping. There’s a 20-minute line for Big Thunder extending outside the
building, so Elysia says “Let’s skip it.” Besides, Mickey told her he can’t ride
on Big Thunder, he’s not tall enough yet. We do get Fast Passes though. It’s lunch time at Pecos
Bill’s, and Elysia’s a little disappointed in Pal Mickey.
“He just wants to tell jokes, and
doesn’t say enough facts.” [If Brer Rabbit got married,
where would he go? On a Bunnymoon.]
(Cheer up kid, me and Mickey got a million of these.) After lunch, the girls decide to
give me a break on the civilized side of the Rivers of America while they go feed the
ducks. Only it turns out that there’s no duck food at Aunt Polly’s. Elysia wants to
explore the island anyway but Grandma’s feet say they don’t want to climb, so I’m
summoned to the island. Damn these cell phones. By the time I get there, they’ve begun a
rousing game of checkers on the dock, which now can’t be interrupted. We get to the old fort, where I let
Lisi run wild while I lounge on the dock in a very comfortable rocker. She returns
after a while to tell me that Pal Mickey has informed her there’s a secret escape
tunnel somewhere, but she can’t find it and wants me to help. I don’t tell her that this very
tunnel is the only place at Disney World that I’ve actually felt fear. I know it’s not
rational, but for a full-size adult (okay, just over full-size), there
are some darn tight spaces in here. I
briefly consider not being able to find it, but can’t bring myself to take something cool away
from her. We do find it, and it isn’t as fearful as I remember it, but on my list of
things to do at Disney World, I’d still put the secret tunnel right below chugging a 24-oz
Beverly. And to make matters worse, I’ve now lost my rocker, dagnap it. Well we’re down to the last
half hour of our trip, how do we spend it? With one quick ride on Big Thunder Mountain, ice
cream, and shopping our way down Main Street, of course. [Why does Goofy wear two
pairs of pants when he plays golf? Because he might get a hole in one.] It’s a
very comfortable and casual walk today, we haven’t been overheated and it’s not very
crowded at all. We’re out of the park by 1:00, Magical Express pickup at 1:40, and a 4:50
flight home. Elysia’s picked up our language, and is excited that security at the
airport is “a walk-on.” So how did this trip stack up with
our other one, you may ask? While our trip with 5- year-old Elysia pegged the
magical-ordinary meter, our trip with 10-year-old Elysia came close. The little of the edge is
off the magic, to be sure. Back then, we had this exchange as the torches around the lake
ignited before Illuminations: “Is that fire real, or fake?” “Real.” After a
15-second pause, “Is it supposed to be there?” Now
we’re hearing that Aerosmith is “just
hologrammed onto the wall.” On the other hand, it’s pretty
cool seeing the transformation from the
girl who was intimidated by the characters and would only eat grilled cheese sandwiches,
to the girl who’s slurping mussels and calling point on Space Mountain and riding in the
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