Monday June 24th 2024

On the positive side, today was a warm sunny day. The down side was the high humidity and the changing prospect of thunderstorms throughout the day. At one point in the middle of the afternoon the forecast showed the chance of rain for the remainder of the day at zero. That was overly optimistic. A line of strong thunderstorms arrived from the west around 8:30 in the evening.

With the rain seemingly under control I planned to spend the evening at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. It took about an hour to get from my RV home to the main gate. It has been taking from half an hour to a forty five minutes. Tonight I caught a lot of traffic getting to Walt Disney World and then getting across the Seven Seas Lagoon to the park from the parking lot at the Ticket and Transportation center took extra time as well.

The park wasn’t extremely busy, but it was hot. Outside queues in the sun were a no go for me. I walked up the west side of the park through Adventure Land into Frontier Land. The wait times at Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean were long, so I continued walking right by. My first stop turned out to be dinner at Columbia Harbor House. The menu has changed since my last visit. The fried shrimp I had was a new menu item. It was OK, but I probably won’t order it again. To make up for the fried shrimp I got a Hot Fudge Brownie Sunday in Tomorrow Land.

After a ride on the Tomorrow Land Transit Authority People Mover and a visit to the Mickey’s Philharmagic show I spotted a big dark cloud with lightening flashes on the western horizon. I made the decision to head for home. I could skip from indoor attraction to indoor attraction, but in an electrical storm the evening fireworks were probably not going to happen.

I got home by 8:30 with the rain associated with the line of storms just starting. It got progressively worse over the next hour. The lightening was really impressive (scary) and the sound of rain on the roof was intense.