After a relaxing hour or so it was soon time to get ready for our 18:15 reservation at Cafe Mickey.
Livvy was excited to wear her new Minnie Mouse costume I'd bought in the 20% off
Disney Store sale before we left:
We took our first walk through the village and felt that the atmosphere was great with all the Irish music being piped through for St. Paddy's Day.
We made it to Cafe Mickey just before 6.15 and luckily the queue wasn't too long as within 5/10 we were being shown to our table in the outside canopy area.
I decided to have a pizza, Mum went to the vegetarian Lasagne and Livvy for the Kid's pizza. As soon as we'd ordered I'd realised I had left my shareholder's certificate in the room!
Cue a mad panic dash to the hotel and back to pick it up.
While I was away, Olivia was visited by Donald & Goofy
By the time I had got back my Mum & Olivia already had their food, but mine was nowhere to be seen. Apparently the waitress had said she'd hold it back until I was back. Now, in theory, this is a nice idea. But once I was back it took 20 minutes for my pizza to come out and by this time my Mum & Olivia had done with their meals!
Think I would have just preferred a cold pizza to eating on my own!
While I was eating my food, the main man came over to our table
Mickey was brilliant, making heart signs and kisses with Olivia as she was dressed as Minnie. Then afterwards he pretended to try and escape through the fire escape next to us, much to the delight of the kids watching from outside!
While I was still eating my pizza, Olivia's pudding was brought out. So it was just as well that Mum & I weren't planning on ordering any desserts!
Livvy didn't like her pudding much, so I "helped" her out with it! It was very, very rich but quite delicious!
Overall, I wasn't overly impressed with the meal and definitely won't be choosing pizza again. The base was dry and hard and the topping was slimy - a bit like eating slugs on concrete!
We paid up and heading back out into the village and then onwards into the park for some nighttime fun!
Olivia and I went on Star Tours while Mum popped back to the room. It's one of our favourite rides but isn't much fun after polishing off a big rich chocolate pudding!
Felt slightly delicate afterwards.
We then decided to head over to Phantom Manor to get in one more ride before it shut for maintenance. The queue was only 5 minutes long so we were on before we knew it. I do just love this ride and was quite sad we only got to ride it twice on this trip.
After we got off I had a panicked phone call from Mum, she couldn't get back into the park as we had her park ticket!
I didn't realise she had put them all in my bag!
So we headed back to the entrance to head her ticket over. I wish I had taken a picture of her as she looked like a prisoner stood behind the bars of the park gates!
Once reunited, we had a go on Pirates of the Carribean before making our way back through the park to Buzz. The queue for buzz was 20 minutes long and meant that by the time we finished our ride we had just 10 minutes to wait until the St. Patrick's Day Fireworks. So we headed over and found a great spot on the curb around the hub and watched these and Dreams.
I didn't take any photos this night as I was holding Olivia up to see but we all really enjoyed the fireworks and of course Dreams.
We then headed out of the park along with everyone else and was very grateful to be able to be back in the hotel within 5 minutes rather than having to pile onto one of the buses.
I tucked Olivia into bed and she was asleep within minutes, so I took the opportunity to have a shower and try out the dressing gown, slippers & shower cap!
It was then time for me to join Olivia in the land of nod - after my restless night sleep in the travelodge and a full day of travels and adventure I was out like a light and slept like a baby all night long!
Lovely touches from the hotel for the Birthday's too!
