Benjamin returns from the slide, and Brandon and I sing him the song. He picks it up quickly, and soon we’re singing it over and over and over. And over.
There’s a restroom in our volcano!
Cinderella’s in our pool!
It turns out to be one of those tunes that sticks in our brains and we can’t stop singing, no matter how annoying it is to us and those around us.
The Sherman brothers would be proud.
While we’re in the pool it starts raining on and off, but there’s no lightning around. I am getting chilly, though.
In exploring the pool, I’m able to spot another bit of Disney magic. Back when we stayed at the Wilderness Lodge in ’03, I noted that the water flowing from the “hot spring” in the lobby and down through the courtyard doesn’t actually empty into the pool, even though it’s engineered to look as though the pool is part of the stream. The water actually flows under the pool and back out the other side, emerging from under a walkway.
The same illusion is accomplished here. The stream which begins in a spring near the Great House flows under a bridge before emptying into the pool – or so it seems. From the pool I can look under the bridge and tell that the water flowing is pumped up under the bridge, and is not the stream water. In other words, the stream water flows under one side of the bridge, and pool water flows out the other side. Pretty amazing, and yet another example of the extreme efforts Disney will make to create a realistic scene.
Okay, it’s only been about 45 minutes, but I’m getting colder, so after allowing the guys a couple more trips down the slide, we get out and begin to towel off.
Just then Becky and her mom walk up to visit with us and get pictures of us swimming. Oops. Too late. And I’m not getting back in!
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