Friday August 23rd 2024

I had an active day despite misinterpreting the weather forecast again. This morning the rain was forecast to start in the early afternoon and continue for a couple of hours. I planned to go grocery shopping during the rainy period and maybe to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in the evening. My plans held, but the weather didn’t.

The afternoon rain didn’t happen. I still went grocery shopping since I was in need of a few things. My grocery shopping habit has changed since I’ve been here long term. Rather than doing big grocery runs more than a week apart, I seem to be going more often and buying less. Today’s shopping was focused on getting fluids, pastries and some meats.

When I checked the online updated weather forecast after getting home from grocery shopping all of the rain was gone from the forecast. It looks like many other people thought going to Disney’s Hollywood Studios Friday evening. There were many people arriving at 4PM when I got to the gate. The wait times that were reasonable when I checked earlier in the afternoon were climbing rapidly. I walked around the park looking for reasonable wait times without any real success. Forty minutes for Toy Story Mania was the best I found.

After making the complete circuit of the park, I settled on watching the Frozen Ever After Singalong show. This is a fun retelling of the Frozen story with a lot of contemporary humor thrown in. It was a good show as usual. Once it was over and I returned to the outside sun, the western horizon was getting very dark. A quick recheck of the weather called for heavy rain for the seven, eight and nine o’clock hours.

My decision on where to eat was answered by the updated weather forecast. I ate at home. The drive home wasn’t fun. All of the traffic was compounded when the heavy rain began. Most of the time the traffic crawled slowly possible. In the one area that the traffic lessened, a sheriff car’s blue lights guarded an overturned SUV in the grassy gutter. Overall, it probably took three times the normal length of time to get home. A bit of an adventure for sure.