All Hail Magic Kingdom

We have vacationed in Florida for five summers and we have become familiar with the daily rain showers. The humidity rises all morning until mid afternoon when the humidity is thick enough to swim through. Then the skies open up and it rains hard for thirty minutes. Once the humidity is washed out of the air, the clouds go away and the sun returns.

What we aren't used to is back to back days with huge storms.

We were in the Magic Kingdom passing the mine train when I overheard a voice on a speaker recommending everyone move indoors and seek shelter. Apparently the approaching black skies were bringing nickle size hail! And you know what all these warnings mean? Yep! Time for one more ride!

We hopped onto the Winnie the Poo ride. At the end, the ride dumps passengers off at a gift shop. The problem was that no one wanted to leave the gift shop and go into the storm. A steady flow of exiting riders was filling the store and raising tempers. People were yelling at each other as room to move became a premium.

Then, as if out of a Hollywood movie, a five hundred proud women drives her golf cart sized scooter into the gift shop in attempt to get out of the rain. This scooter was huge with a roof and steering wheel. And she was knocking over display stands and running people down until her cart couldn't go any further into the store.

By then, we had our rain ponchos on and I suggested we get out of the store before things became ugly... Uglier. We passed by the wreckage and slipped behind the golf cart to make our exit.

We entered the storm with blistering rain whipping our face and we ran to the Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe.

The cafe was packed with others who had escaped the weather. The place was packed and had the raunchy smell of humanity. A wet and hot and sticky smell. Adding to the aroma? There was a guy sitting on the floor and when he stood up he ripped a fart that was so loud I swear I hear an echo and saw two small children downwind get knocked off their feet.

We found some wall space and broke out a picnic on the floor to pass the time.

Eventually the storm calmed down enough to allow us to leave Cosmic Ray's and enjoy the rest of the park. It was a wild time at the Magic Kingdom today!