2013: The Flood Before The Storm

We ate lunch at the house before heading to the Magic Kingdom. Linda bought a large jug for making lemonade. The jug has a spout that only works if a large cap on the top of the jug is opened. Someone (who will remain nameless (OK, it was me)) loosened the large opening and never resealed it. Linda went to put the jug back into the fridge. She grabbed the handle and swung it off the counter. The cover immediately popped off having the effect of dumping two gallons of lemon aid across the kitchen. It didn't just hit the floor. Oh no. Linda was in a swinging motion so she flooded the cabinet doors and everything all the way into the breakfast nook.

In my defense? I might have left it uncorked. But I didn't dump all two gallons on the floor! In my book, that was Linda's fault.

This is why you don't buy a vacation home and rent it out. You get idiots that will dump two gallons of lemonade all over the floor!

I heard Linda scream so I ran out of the bedroom and found myself standing in the lemonade flood. Two rolls of paper towels later and some severe ridicule from Linda, we now have the cleanest Lemony fresh smelling kitchen in the neighborhood!

With the flood cleaned, we headed to the Magic Kingdom. It was very hot and the park smelled of humanity. I did a quick calculation and discovered - just from farting alone - visitors to the Disney Wirld produce 88,000 liters of methane per day! That means if anyone ever lit a match at the wrong moment? There would be a crater in Florida visible from space! This is the smell we were regularly entertained with.

Finally it rained to cool everything off. We saw the storm in the horizon so we headed for Cosmic Rays to wait out the storm. Cosmic Ray's was within sight when giant rain drops started bombarding us. We ran the remaining distance while my oldest son warned us "Running will only make you wetter". We got to the door and... There was no door handle! There was no way to open the door! This was an exit only door. Are you kidding me? We had to run clear to the otherwise of this massive complex to find a door we could enter.

We were soaked, but at least we were in doors. It took about an hour for he storm to pass, afterwards temperatures dropped into the seventies and it was enjoyable. They park had cleared out due to the storm so we rode as many rides as possible until closing.

We are getting used to these storms. They come and they go. Lets just hope we don't get used to lemon aid floods. Hay! It wasn't my fault!