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It all started when I was at Technoid's house at midnight. He was playing some of his midi files when I asked him if he thought he could drive for six and a half hours. He said he could do it, so we piled everything in the van and left at 12:30 AM.

We picked up his friend, Wayne, and got to the entrance of Walt Disney World at 6:30 AM. We ate breakfast and then around 9:00 decided to check-in at the Caribbean Resort. Originally all we could get was a water-view room for three nights, and then we'd have to move to another room for the last night. But when we got there, our "front-desk representative" told us that there was a room available for all four nights and it wouldn't be the lake-view room... so that saved us some money. Plus, she said that it was already available and we could go ahead to the room. We were located in Aruba, which was undergoing some "rehab" and so we received coupons for a free breakfast/lunch/dinner at the Caribbean food court. Wayne and I bought our tickets (Technoid has an annual pass) and a ticket for Pleasure Island for the last night.

We put our things in the room and we figured that since Disney/MGM Studios was small (relatively speaking), we'd go there.
Since this wouldn't be the only day we would be at Disney/MGM Studios, I didn't take many pictures, but I did manage to snap a shot of this "Hidden Minnie" at the Great Movie Ride. The Guide was kind enough to point it out to me, and also mentioned that there was also a "Hidden Goofy" somewhere as well, which we both could not find. Can you see the Minnie silhouette? This picture was taken at the loading area, where a mural of 30's Hollywood is depicted.

There is a popular "Hidden Mickey" located in the gangster portion of the ride, where the second group gets "hijacked." If you look back and up in the window, you'll see the profile of the famous mouse... I did manage to take a picture of it, but it wasn't developed, but when I do get it developed, I'll have it here...

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Later that evening, we toured around Downtown Disney, hoping to find a place to eat. The Rainforest Cafe was jam packed, as was Planet Hollywood (a 15 minute wait in a line to make reservations and then a 90 minute wait to be seated), but on the West Side, I found Bongos, the restaurant owned by singer Gloria Estefan, to have a very short wait, just 10 minutes in the line to make reservations and another 15 minutes to be seated, however the pager buzzed me only after 2 minutes. The Cuban food there was excellent! After dinner, we went back to the room and Mo finally got there and we all retired early for the busy day tomorrow.

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