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[Jillybean]

Friday, June 5 Day Two Part Four

After our wonderful meal at FFC, Thom wanted to go back to the room to change shoes, so he took Maddie with him while Mary Devall and I took the BW bus to MK. Travis and I had been trading texts so Mary Devall and I were easily able to find Travis and Joey across from the Country Bear Jamboree. Molly showed up soon and hello hugs were exchanged all around.

We managed to fill the time waiting for Spectro with lots of chatting. Shortly before Spectro made it down to our end of the route, a CM took about half of our space for a couple of wheelchairs but we managed to make it work by some people sitting down and the rest of us scrunching in together.

Joey was quick to point out the first “clowns” (or whatever they were ) on the lead float and they pretty much whigged me out. I had never seen the beginning of Spectro, so it was interesting to see what I had been missing all this time. About halfway during the parade, I looked down to see Matt and his daughter, Allie, kneeling beside us. Somehow, they had managed to sneak in through the crowds and we had a quick introduction since talking was pretty much out of the question at this point with the music and the crowds.

Once Spectro was over, Mary Devall and I thought about heading out to try and hook up with Thom and Maddie who had been keeping me up with their antics via text messaging before and during Spectro. They had managed to ride Barnstormer and Haunted Mansion while waiting on us, so they had been the busy bees. Thom had decided against joining us at Spectro because he assumed correctly that no one probably wanted to listen to Maddie asking approximately 1000 times “can we gooooo now?”

As I stated, Mary Devall and I thought about trying to find Thom and Maddie, but instead figured we would be better off sticking with the Crankies, Matt and Allie and letting Thom and Maddie find us. So . . . we caught up with the gang and then all decided to head for PotC. I sent Thom a quick text telling him where to locate us.

By the time that everyone finished up with a bathroom break, Thom and Maddie (who was a little cranky herself ) joined us. Thom thought about taking her back to the room at that point, but decided to at least stay for one ride. PotC was pretty much a walk on, so we were soon in a boat and off on our adventure.

Once again, a cannonball blast hit me from behind, but this time it actually blew my hair forward. I’m starting to think that one of those pirates has it out for me, but at least Joey got a good laugh out of it.

After the ride, Thom and Maddie bid adieu to the group since she was almost asleep by this point. We headed in the direction of BTMRR and then Matt and Allie decided to leave us (apparently Matt had been up a bit late the night before ).

After saying goodbye, our suddenly smaller party of five wound itself through the stalls and had a fantastic wildest ride in the west! When we came out, Mary Devall immediately stated that she wanted to ride again, so Travis and I went with her while Molly and Joey (mysteriously ) opted not to. We quickly wound ourselves through the stalls again, but the CM mixed up our threesome and had Travis waiting for the next train.

Mary Devall and I waved goodbye to him and had a blast twisting and turning through the mountains. When we came outside after the ride, we were still on our BTMRR high and ran up to Molly and Joey just babbling away. I was just about to tell them about Travis being on the train behind us when I glanced to the left to see what rude individual was not only in our personal space, but was listening intently to what we were saying. Thus came the shock of my life . . .

None other than Princess Sharon was just casually sitting against a railing smiling at us! After a second of simply not being able to make any response, I screamed and wrapped her in a big hug. As Mary Devall took her turn at hugs (and I have to add here that her face absolutely lit up when she sat sight on Sharon ), I started spurting out random, half complete questions “What the? How the? When?”

And Molly, Travis, and Joey just sat back with big Cheshire grins on their faces . . . and maybe a tear came to their eyes (but probably not ). They had been “in” on the entire thing and had plotted to meet up with Sharon to surprise Mary Devall and me.

After the shock wore off a bit and I was able to actually walk, we started strolling. As we walked, I discovered that Sharon had planned this surprise for months and was only down for the weekend, but was returning at her regularly scheduled time next weekend. She was staying at the WL, so she had plans to surprise Karen and Zack the next morning upon their arrival. Oh, but this woman was having fun!

Since we were in the area, Molly and Joey decided to go to Country Bear Jamboree while the rest of us took a bathroom break and then chatted away. Once they returned, we moved on to the Jungle Cruise with a skipper so loud and bad that she was comical. I had the best time watching Molly and Joey roll their eyes while the rest of us tried to not to snort with laughter.

We had officially worn out Molly, Travis and Joey, so we said to them with less than 30 minutes left of EMH. Mary Devall decided that she wanted to race cars with Ms. Sharon, so off we went to stand in a fairly short line. After a loop around the track, we parked our cars and headed for Main Street.

We closed down MK and said to Sharon as she took off for the boat dock and we headed in the direction of the buses. Mary Devall and I were both on cloud 9 after our grand surprise from Sharon (and to Molly, Travis and Joey for helping her to pull it off) and we knew that tomorrow would only get better when we would see not only Sharon again, but Karen and Zack too!

Up next . . . they're here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bethf]

Great update! Love how Sharon was able to surprise you all!!!

[Colexis Mom]

What a great night!! More please!

[mom2twingirlies]

Quite the surpriser that Sharon. She has already surprised Karen on the other TR. Now I am going to have to keep track of the time lines in both TR's

[buzzspal2]

What a great suprise.

[mcc0313]

What a great night but what a wonderful surprise. I knew that she had surprised you with the help of Joey, Travis and Molly's help from the "love" updates but I did not know where or how...what a great way to surrpise you, and I can just see you turning to see who was standing over your shoulder and then to find Sharon...it must have been amazing and I am sure Sharon was thoroughly delighted in your reaction.

Can't wait to hear more....

[vfair]

So cool! Great job Molly, Travis and Joey in the conspiracy!

[disneydreamer33]

What a great surprise from Sharon. Sounded like a great evening EMH at MK.

[Grammy Grumpy]

What a cool surprise!!!! Wish someone had grabbed a video of it 'cuz I'm sure it would have been a candidate for the $10K on AFV!

More please!!!

[goofysdtr]

Very of Sharon to surprise you! And Molly, Trav & Joey for helping!

[mpwife153]

What a great surprise! That Sharon sure is a sneaky one Can't wait to hear more!

[Cam22]

What loads of fun you all had at MK EMH! How cool of Princess Sharon to surprise you with the help of a trusty trio!

[mousestruck]

What a fantastic surprise!

[Luvsun]

Poor Maddie.....she missed the big surprise! That sneaky Princess Sharon!
What a fun night at the MK!
I love that you rode BTMRR back to back! That is the best!

[KandJluvdisney]

great update jill
what a great surprise
glad she was able to really surprise you
hurry back with more please