Day Five: Ohana means trouble!

After our late night at MNSSHP, we planned a bit of a sleep in for Wednesday. Our park for the day was Animal Kingdom, and we had extra magic evening hours there, so we scored a great breakfast, er make that brunch, ressie's for Ohana at the Polynesian Resort. This was my first time to set foot at the Poly, having never gotten any closer than the monorail, so I was very excited. See, the Poly is my lotto resort. It's were we will stay when we win the lotto. Well, until we sign the Vacation Club papers, anyway!

We parked easily and strolled into the front doors around 11 am for our 11:20 ressies. The walkway was beautiful and plenty of people were stopping to take their pictures near the waterfall. We bypassed photos and headed upstairs to Ohana to check in at the restaurant's podium. They checked us in and gave us all pink and white leis. They were much prettier than the crappy plastic ones we wore the night before at the Halloween Party. Then, they took our pictures in front of tiki masks, and Hoot thought they were fantastic. Then, DH took Hoot and strolled into one of the gift shops while we waited for our table. In this shop, a small Etch-a-Sketch was purchased.

Finally seated, our server brought us a basket of breakfast bread, which was kind of like a Cinnamon roll meets pineapple upside down cake, and some of their special juice blend containing mango and papaya and whatever. I think I was the only one who really liked the juice. He explained how everything was served family style and that it was all you can eat. Blissfully, he also brought us some coffee. Later, he brought out a giant skillet with scrambled eggs (they add half and half, and it is truly sinful) large sausages Hoot kept calling hot dogs, fried potatoes with caramelized onions and scallions, and the obligatory Mickey shaped waffles. It was all very good.

Hoot is not a stranger to character meals. He knows how it works and he kept one eye glued to Stitch as he made his way closer. When it got to be his turn, he was quivering with delight.


As Stitch came up to the table, Hoot held out his new toy to show him.

So, Stitch being Stitch, he immediately snatched it!

Which lead to a lovely, enchanting moment when Stitch, seeing our waiter approaching, decided to give it back to Hoot. After we explained to Stitch that Hoot was a troublemaker just like him, he showed us how to keep him under wraps!

Our next visitor to the table was Lilo. Hoot suddenly became very shy and quiet. He wouldn't get up to give her a hug, in fact, he wouldn't get close to her at all. He finally got brave enough to show her his new toy. She seemed quite taken by it. Right after Lilo left, there was a parade around the restaurant. They played Hawaiian Rollercoaster Ride from the movie soundtrack and passed out morroccas to all the kids to shake as they marched. I took Hoot on this parade, and it was a lot of fun. However, shy Hoot was still there! Man, I gotta get this kid into some preschool!

Back at the table, Pluto came around to play. We offered him sausages, but our waiter had told us to make sure we didn't feed the dog any table scraps. Sorry Pluto!

Somehow, the idea of a "stinky dog" had gotten stuck in Hoot's head, so he said something to Pluto about it and Pluto went mad sniffing the boy over!
Mickey came by shortly after Pluto, and was a big hit as always. Instead of the new toy, Hoot showed Mickey one of his new toy buses, that are designed to look just like the buses used at WDW. They played around, and something, I still don't know for sure, just cracked them up!
After Mickey finished playing around with Hoot, he took an extra minute to pose with DH. It's a shame that fun loving attitude didn't last the entire trip. I've been a good DW and editing out the petty nasty stuff. However, you can always look back at the prior post of him giving off nasty vibes at my Granny's house!
We never did get to see the pictures that were taken when we came into the restaurant. We asked one of the photo people about them, and they muttered something about phoning in, told us they'd be right back, and then didn't. We eventually gave up and left. After all, we had a date with some wildlife over at Animal Kingdom!

Here's an observation that I made while basking at the Poly. They have two ply toilet paper in the lobby. Let me tell you, they don't have two ply over at the Pop! We kept laughing and ranking resorts. Someday, I wanna stay at a two ply!

Up Next: Day Five: How many hills can there be at Animal Kingdom, or Straw hat wearing fat lady pushes same in wheelchair!