sounds good doug, i've meaning to shoot you an email, been pretty swamped since we got back
last part........friday nov.2
we had 8:30am reservations for chef mickeys breakfast buffet which is at the contemporary resort, food was good......so was the mountain of bacon
they gave us "special" placemats for the honeymoon...
yes the tophat and ears were worn by me......this helps with getting the "honeymoon perks" which were random
honeymoon perk.....
after breakfast we headed over to the magic kingdom so michelle could "finish up" there, we rode the train, visited mickey and minnies house.....
again no one was there
after that we headed back to our resort so we could meet up with my suprise of a "special tour".
i was really blown away by what happened, michelle was about in tears when we were done so i'd say the suprise was a hit
at 1pm we were picked up by 2 executives in an airconditioned trailblazer, after introductions they gave us 2 neat little gift bags with some goodies, simple stuff but very cool. we were asked to not take any photos and we obliged and understood, they were worried they would "take some of the magic" away from our trip, we assured them that wasn't possible.
first stop was at the magic kingdom where we hopped on a 4 person golf car and headed to the tunnel system which covers the entire magic kingdom, it is also the core of the infrastructure of the magic kingdom, it was like an entire city underground.......they showed how everything is handled from emergencies to trash removal (which was really cool), at other parks you'll always see someone pulling a bin and emptying trash cans, at disney the trash is dropped into a conveyer system in a giant tube in the ceiling and it shoots out of the back of the park to a waste facility.
they also showed us some things which we aren't supposed to talk about.......so i'm not
after we got back in the trailblazer they took use behind the scenes of every park, their private nursery, water treatment plant (ALL water in the park is filtered through it, from the canals to the fountains), restoration facilities, and the coolest i though was the very fist building ever placed on the property which walt himself had lived in and was where it all began, it is currently being used by one of the many disney mantainance groups iirc.
michelle spotted one of the original submarines from "20,000 leages under the sea" which was dismantled long ago.....just sitting there in a lot
so all in all it was very cool and something the public never sees.
the 2 execs gave us 2 hours of their time and a peek into the unseen world at this giant park system, we were highly appreciative and a special thanks to those who were involved