Luigi woke up bright and early the next morning, quite a contrast from the previous day, ready to take on another park.
"Hey, Mario! Are we ready? Where are we going today? MGM Studios? Animal Kingdom?"
"Actually…" Mario moaned, slowly getting out of bed, "I think we're going to a bit of a break today."
"HUH?"
"Peach wants to hang out at the hotel today. You know, use the pool, the tennis courts… all that stuff."
"But… But I wanna go to the theme parks…"
"Too bad. I think everyone else is already at the pool. Why don't we put on our swimsuits head on down?"
Luigi, still complaining about wanting to visit the parks, put on his swimming trunks and followed Mario down to the lobby and out the back, leading to a sandy beach by a large body of water… and the pool!
"Hey, all right!" Luigi shouted, "I'm gonna go swim by the beach!"
"Hold on, Luigi…" Mario interrupted, "the lagoon is for water sports only. If you want to swim, you have to go to the actual pool."
"Oh… Okay-dokie… Say, what are Wario and Waluigi doing over there?"
Out on the beach, Wario and Waluigi were building a sandcastle… Or, more specifically, Wario was sitting on a beach chair ordering Waluigi around.
"Hey! What are ya doin'?" Wario demanded, taking a sip of a tropical drink he was holding, "You call that a sandcastle?"
Waluigi looked up from his work.
"What? What's wrong? It is too a sandcastle! Look, I got the moat, the drawbridge, the castle walls, the towers…"
"Yeah, but how am I supposed to live in that thing?"
Waluigi just stared at him for a moment before leveling the sandcastle in one swift kick.
"You wanna life-sized sandcastle? You make it yourself, lard-butt!"
"Who are ya callin' lard-butt, twig twit?"
"Blubber boy!"
"Skinny stinker!"
"Fat face!"
"That's it! YARG!"
Wario lunged towards Waluigi, who simply side-stepped and watched as Wario somersaulted into the shallow water. Of course, Wario wasn't going to give up just like that. He got up and dived at Waluigi again, this time taking him down. Soon, the two of them were duking it out on the beach, much to the dismay of Mario and Luigi. The Mario Bros. simply did their best to ignore it and headed over to the pool area, where Peach and Daisy were waiting. The two princesses were sunbathing on lounge chairs beside the pool, with a small table in between them that had a small number of plates on it, which apparently once held their breakfasts. Not surprisingly, their swimsuits were the same colors of their normal outfits: Peach was wearing a pink bikini, and Daisy had a yellow one-piece.
"Hey, Peach!" Mario called out, "We're here! You wanna go in the pool?"
"No thanks, Mario," Peach replied, "I want to save my time in the water for when we go to Blizzard Beach. Besides, I'm working on my tan right now."
"Oh, that's too bad…" Luigi commented, "So… Uh… Daisy… Do you want to…"
"Sorry, Luigi," Daisy answered before Luigi even finished, "Peach is forcing me to sunbathe as well. She says I have to 'maintain the look of a princess' or something like that…"
"Hey, I never forced you to do anything!" Peach retorted.
"Uh-huh… You were threatening to chain me to the lounge chair."
"I did not!"
"Um, look, ladies…" Mario interrupted, "We'll just swim by ourselves until you're both done tanning or whatever and then we'll go onto the next activity."
"Sounds good to me," Peach responded.
And so, the two plumbers dived into the water and swam around for a little bit. The pool was a good size and had a waterslide, but besides that, there wasn't much too it.
"You know," Luigi began, "I was reading that the Yacht and Beach Club as a HUGE pool, with a long waterslide, a whirlpool, and other cool stuff!"
"Yep, I read that too," Mario agreed, "But I think Peach is right about waiting until we get to Blizzard Beach before we get too 'watered out'. Speaking of Peach, I wonder if they're done yet…"
Mario swam over to the two girls and, thankfully, saw Peach begin to get up.
"Oh, good. Peach, you're done…"
However, before Mario could finish, Peach turned over and began tanning her backside.
"Sigh… Never mind…"
Luigi, on the other hand, noticed something different. Since she was wearing a one-piece, which covered her back, Daisy had no reason to turn over. Instead, she got up quietly (hoping not to disturb Peach, who might 'demand' that she turn over anyway) and made her way out of the pool area.
"Hold on, Mario, I'll be right back…" Luigi muttered.
"What? Are you going to finally ask her out?"
Mario was met with a huge splash of water as a reply.
Daisy was walking down a path by the beach when she heard footsteps running up behind her. Turning around, she saw Luigi trying to catch up.
"Hey, Luigi! What's up?"
"Pant… Wheeze…" Luigi gasped, attempting to reclaim his breath, "I… I saw you walk off and I wanted to make sure you were alright."
"Oh, I'm fine. I just wanted to get up and move around for a while. If I laid there any longer, I might have burned up!"
"Heh, heh… Same here… sort of. If I was in that pool any longer, I probably would have turned into a giant prune!"
They exchanged a couple of friendly laughs before Daisy continued.
"So, you wanna do something together?"
At this point, Luigi was practically screaming "YES!" in his mind, but he remained outwardly quiet.
"Su… Sure… What do you want to do?"
"How about the paddleboats? I hear those are fun."
"Ok, let's-a go!"
It wasn't long before Luigi and Daisy were out on the lagoon in a paddleboat. As they paddled around, they caught great views of the two other hotels on the lagoon: The Polynesian and The Contemporary.
"Isn't this like those 2 vs. 2 minigames we always play whenever Mario throws a party?" Daisy asked, "You know: 'Spin the analog stick around to paddle your boat with your partner! First one to cross the finish line wins!'"
"Right…" Luigi answered. His mind was on other things at the moment. Deep down, he was finally starting to build up the courage to ask Daisy out. Swallowing a huge gulp, he turned to Daisy.
"So… Um… Daisy?... I was thinking… Do you want to---"
"DAISY!" Someone called out.
"Oh, snap… Peach must've finally found out I left! I guess we better head back. We'll pick this up some other time."
As they paddled back, Luigi was mentally smacking himself in the forehead. Why did everything have to be so complicated? Even when he wanted to ask Daisy out, he couldn't! When they reached the dock, Peach practically pulled Daisy out of the paddleboat.
"Whoa, Peach, calm down!" Daisy shouted, "I'm sorry I left you while you were still sunning yourself! I just figured that since I was wearing a…"
"Daisy, relax! That wasn't why I came over to get you, silly!" Peach giggled, "I got us reservations for a little trip to the spa! Massages… Facials… The works! Come on, I think it's about time you got a little pampering!"
Peach grabbed Daisy by the arm and dragged her off towards the spa, much to Daisy's dismay.
"Wait, what? But I don't want to go to a spa!" Daisy protested, "Help! I'm being forced to do something against my own will!"
Luigi chuckled at the slightly comical situation before it hit him again that he just lost his chance to ask Daisy out. He didn't get to mope long, however, before Mario came walking up, in his normal attire and holding a tennis racket.
"Hey, Luigi!" Mario called out, "You up for a quick match against the Wario Bros.?"
Out on the tennis courts Wario and Waluigi, still covered in sand from their beach brawl, were waiting for Mario and Luigi to come and begin the game.
"What's taking them so long, huh?" Wario whined, "Why bother breaking up our fight, which I was winning, by the way, and drag us over here if they aren't going to actually challenge us?"
"You were winning?" Waluigi retorted, "I had your head buried in the sand!"
"Oh yeah? I had you in a headlock and was forcing sand in your mouth!"
"But I stuffed sand down your pants!... Oh, here they are! Finally!"
Mario and Luigi, who was now wearing his standard clothes, came onto the court. Mario grabbed a tennis ball out of a huge barrel full of them and bounced it on the clay a couple of times.
"Okay-dokie, are we ready to play?" Mario asked, "No power shots in this game, just skill! First serve!"
Mario tossed the ball in the air and hit it with his racket, thus beginning the game. However, while the match was going on, everyone's favorite incompetent father/son duo, Bowser and Bowser Jr., were just off the court, ready to attempt to ruin things once again.
"Uh… Pop?" Bowser Jr. began, "Haven't we learned by now that using explosives hasn't been the brightest idea?"
"Perhaps…" Bowser answered, "But this time, we're only using one bob-omb, and we're gonna head for the hills as soon as we set it!"
Bowser pulled out two things for his latest plot: A single bob-omb, and a bucket of yellow paint.
"See that barrel of tennis balls inside the court, son?"
"Yep!"
"What I need you to do," Bowser began to explain while dunking the bob-omb in the yellow paint, making it look like a rather unconvincing tennis ball, "is to put this bob-omb in the very top of the barrel! That way, it will be the next 'ball' Mario will grab! Then, the next time he 'blows it' while playing, he'll do it literally! Ha ha ha!"
Suddenly, the tennis ball flew over the chain-link fence and continued to bounce for a few yards.
"DANG IT!" one could hear Wario shout, "Ok, second serve…"
"That's your chance, son!" Bowser exclaimed, "Go!"
Bowser Jr. grabbed the bob-omb 'tennis ball' and climbed quickly but undetected over the fence and into the court. Moving with speed that was quite the opposite of what his dad could achieve, the mischievous little brat sprinted over to the barrel of tennis balls and dropped the bob-omb in. He hid behind the barrel until Wario, much to his delight, grabbed the bob-omb and headed back to his side of the court. His mission completed, Bowser Jr. scampered back to his father.
"Ok, pop! He's got the fake!" Bowser Jr. declared, "What do we do now?"
"Simple, son…" Bowser began, "It's the only way we can make sure this plan won't backfire in our face… RUN!"
The dubious duo immediately ran off, leaving the Mario and Wario Bros. fate to the bob-omb.
"Ready to go down?" Wario taunted as he tossed the 'tennis ball' into the air, "'Cuz ready or not, here I come!"
Wario served the ball with all his might. It flew through the air like a missile which, in a sense, it was. However, right before it hit the ground, which would have certainly caused it to go off, Luigi dove and knocked it back into the air. Waluigi retaliated by using his long limbs to also return the ball before it struck the ground. Mario leaped into the air and smacked the ball hard in an attempt to 'spike' it into the ground before Wario or Waluigi could react.
"You think you're so clever, huh?" Wario sneered, "Power beats tactical any day! TAKE THIS!"
Wario swung his tennis racket like a baseball bat, striking the ball with such power, it flew high into the air and once again cleared the fence! This time, however, it didn't come back down in the immediate vicinity.
"Well, that's another point for us…" Mario commented, "So that means we win! We shut you guys out for the entire match!"
"Grr…" Waluigi growled, "This is all your fault, Wario! Thanks to your stupid obsession with power, we bombed the whole game!"
Bowser and Bowser Jr. were starting to slow down, believing they were far enough away from the tennis courts.
"So, pop," Bowser Jr. started, "Do you think all four brothers are 'bob-ombed' yet?"
"I don't know son," Bowser replied, "But I'm sure we'll know when we hear that all-too-familiar blast…"
Suddenly, something bounced off of Bowser's head, which then bounced off of Bowser Jr.'s head before finally landing on the ground. It didn't take them long before they realized what it was: The bob-omb tennis ball!
"Oh, shroom…" Bowser groaned.
"I still can't figure out what that huge explosion was a little while ago…" Luigi commented, "I hope everything's alright."
"Stop worrying, Luigi," Mario assured, "I'm sure it was just from one of the shows in the parks."
"You mean the parks that we should be visiting today?" Luigi asked sarcastically.
"Hey, I could care less about that explosion…" Wario grumbled, "What I want to know is why you want to keep humiliating us! Wasn't the tennis game enough?"
"Look, Walt Disney World has some of the best golf greens around," Mario explained, "Since we like to 'putter around' a lot in the Mushroom Kingdom, I figured it would be a good idea to play eighteen holes here, too."
"Yeah, but…" Waluigi protested, "Why drag us through it? I don't wanna play!"
"Well, we need a foursome…"
"What about us?" another voice suggested.
Mario turned around to see Peach and Daisy approaching the group.
"Oh, hey, welcome back!" Mario greeted, "So, how was your spa visit?"
Daisy shrugged, "It was a little better than I expected, I guess. It still isn't something I'd do on a regular basis like Peach keeps suggesting, but I'll admit, it was relaxing…"
"After we were done with our treatments," Peach continued, "We figured you would be out here on the golf greens, so we decided to head on over and join you!"
"Yeah, whatever," Wario grunted, "Does this mean I'm off the hook for playing?"
"I guess so…" Mario answered, "If both Peach and Daisy want to play, then you two don't have to."
"OH YEAH!" Waluigi cheered.
"Actually," Daisy interrupted, "Me and Luigi were in the middle of something before Peach dragged me off to get pampered, so I kinda want to finish our conversation."
"OH NO!" Waluigi cried.
"R-Really?..." Luigi shuttered.
"Uh-huh," Daisy nodded, "Come on, let's go."
Luigi and Daisy walked off, leaving Mario, Peach, Wario, and Waluigi to be the foursome that played golf.
"Well, what are we waiting 'fore'?" Mario rhetorically asked, "It's 'tee' time!"
"Ugh…" Wario gagged, "Another thing I hate about golf: Horrible puns!"
Despite the constant whining from the Wario Bros., the golf game went on pretty smoothly… Until Wario got his ball stuck in a peculiar-shaped sand trap.
"Grr…" Wario growled, "Stupid sand trap… What's with this thing lyin' in the middle of the fairway?"
Wario stormed into the sand trap and began to unsuccessfully attempt to make his way out of it. It was at this point Waluigi noticed the sand trap's odd shape.
"Hey, that's kinda weird…" Waluigi grumbled, "That thing is one giant circle with two smaller circles near the top… Huh?"
"Good job, Captain Obvious!" Wario shouted, "Now, how about helping me get out of this stupid thing?
"I know what it is!" Mario declared, "It's a giant hidden Mickey!"
"You're right, Mario!" Peach agreed, "If you stand on your tip-toes and look down on it, you can see it clearly!"
"Um, hello?" Wario interrupted, "Doesn't anyone care that I am stuck in the sand trap? Fine! I'll just get out of this thing myself!"
Wario then continued to try to get out, but once again, it was futile. Quickly growing frustrated, Wario began beating down on the golf ball in a pitiful attempt to hit it while screaming in incoherent gibberish. All he did succeed in doing was brining up a whole lot of sand. After his tantrum was over, the ball was still in the sand trap, but he did just so happen to dig in the shape of another Disney character inside the Mickey sand trap.
"Hmm… How fitting," Mario commented, "He made the impression of Donald Duck."
After the golf game, the group returned to the hotel lobby at about the same time Luigi and Daisy returned from their little walk.
"So, Luigi…" Mario began, "How was your time with Daisy? Did you finally---"
"Mario!" Luigi interjected, "Geez! Leave me alone! It was just an innocent walk! What did you expect?"
"Whoa, ok, sorry! Didn't mean to be rude! I respect your privacy, bro.!"
Mario and Luigi shook hands to show no hard feelings, and Mario went off with Peach, leaving Luigi to stand there by himself. Nervously, he looked back at Daisy.
Ok… Only a few more days until Victoria and Albert's... Geez, who'd-a thunk that someplace sickingly fancy would be where I'd have my first date?