July 4...new Disney masks and Trex
We walked over to Disney Springs...I can't believe how close we are from our room! The temperature checks take only a few seconds and despite the day that I felt a bit hot after the sunny walk over my temp was still perfectly fine.
Yesterday when we walked over to our Paddlefish reservation the line for Disney make was very long. Today we arrived at 10:35 and there was no one in the line so we thought it was a good time to go ahead and grab some masks. I've heard that they are running small so let me give you a bit of a run down. We bought 4 masks...3 different patterns .... All 4 size large. And each design is a different size "large". Take a look...
My husband and son got the Star Wars on the left...I got Mine Mouse in the middle and My daughter for the Pixar one on the right. All three are a size large and all are different sizes. The Star Wars is the smallest, and the Pixar is the largest. Of course, I understand no refunds or exchanges on the masks but honestly maybe they should at least be the same size! What the heck?
After trying on all of our masks and complaining about the sizing we were off to our lunch at TREX! We haven't eaten here in quite some time. We have a Rainforest about an hour away at home and tend to stop in there about once a year so we decided to go for TREX today.
I get cc rewards that give us the Option of Landrys gift cards so I decided it would be a great place to go on the holiday where our Tables In Wonderland card isn't good. ( There is a DVC discount though). I must say that the distance between the tables was excellent and our server was outstanding! We were seated in the ice cave so the coloring of my pictures are all blue! Haha!
DH got the shrimp alfredo and actually said it was very good and just what he was hungry for! DS had a kids meal pasta with alfredo...right up his alley! DD had the chicken sandwich and she loved it and I had the trio and it was delicious. I was fearful that the slurry steak would be overdone or stringy but it was perfectly fine medium just like I ordered!
We also had to have some drinks...a beer, a
red, white and blue margarita and a strawberry lemonade. My margarita was wonderful and refreshing and DD'S lemonade was scrumptious! I didn't rate the beer.
We walked back to Saratoga and saw something out in the lake. At first we thought maybe it was a snake that we saw but it ended up to be 4 very playful otters! There were adorable!
We let our food settle a bit while we watched some Disney Mickey Mode cartoons and then lathered up in sunscreen and skipped of to the pool. The kids wanted a slide so went to the High Rock Spring pool...holy moly wad it crowded. That was not a place I felt comfortable at all. Not like Vero at all...it was a free for all! We liked at the line for the slide and the kids were pulled one on top of eachother. We walked out and decided to check out the Paddock pool which was crowded but we found 2 chairs in an out of the way place and found a spot in the pool that was a good distance from others. There wasn't a line of more than 4 or 5 people for the slide either. We enjoyed the slide and the pool for quite awhile and the longer we stayed the more the pool emptied out so it became enjoyable. Soon a storm was rolling in and we had a bit of a walk back to our room so we decided to head back. On our walk back we heard the first tim of thunder and the high winds nearly blew of my hat! Just as we got back to the room the skies opened up... Time for that daily Florida storm!
We decided that since we are not going to Savannah we are going to switch to a studio at OKW for our Additional night. I duct all about keeping this room and maybe I should have but the OKW studio is only 14 points.
It's still quite cloudy but the rain has now stopped and we are going to leave for Disney Springs again for our 6:15 boathouse reservation.