Okay, I'm finally caught up again! I feel so accomplished! (Until I look at my watch list and see how many more people's reports I have left to go, but we just won't think about that right now.)
Here’s the card he got me!
This is adorable. I'm sure you more than tolerate each other, but I'd absolutely get this for Nathan.
I woke up at 6:30am and Jamie woke up at around 7am (love that early jet lag!)
Yes! Not sure whether this is genuine or sarcastic or a little of both, but I think early jetlag is the best when you want to get up and go your first few days of vacation! We get this a little bit coming from eastern Canada because we're one hour ahead of Florida, but I bet it's a whole different level coming from the UK!
We had started to buy our regular tickets at the gate, but we were told it would only be an extra $90 for us BOTH to upgrade to Seasonal Annual Passes!
We’d travelled out to Orlando in January/February for the last 3 years so we just said we may as well try to plan our next trip for January 2021 and make use of the passes!
That would definitely save us money!
So exciting! We've been Universal annual passholders once and it was awesome! It really was the most economical option when we were going to be there on more than one trip in a year.
I messaged Universal to say that we had JUST bought annual passes in February, and now we weren’t allowed to travel to the States to use them, and asked if there was anything that could be done.
They were so amazing and accommodating, and said that next time we’re able to travel over there, we just need to go to guest services, and they will re-activate our annual passes for a fresh 11 months from that day!
How great is that!)
I wondered about this! Glad they were so accommodating and you'll be able to use your passes again.
We made up a really stupid secret four-way handshake that we all contributed 4 moves to.
We were all moving around in a circle and lassoing etc etc.
We must’ve looked crazy
So fun! And this gif is everything! One of my very favourite movies, and as a child I was desperate to learn to do this handshake and have someone to do it with. <3
This was SUCH a good ride!
I’m sure all of my previous trip reports have some kind of complaint about how many screen-based rides/simulators Universal was spending their money on.
I’m so glad they made a new classic coaster!
(Plus, they have the new Jurassic Park Velocicoaster on the way too!)
The accelerations were so fun, and the part where the track goes vertically up and then you immediately come straight back down really took me by surprise!
And the drop is great too!
I can’t figure out how it’s done!
Ok, that's a pretty great review! I just might have to try this! I was unsure whether I'd want to try to go on it because of my brain condition, but everything I hear about it sounds so good. I might just have to try it at least once and see how it goes. I'm sure it's different so it might be hard to compare, but how would you say it compares in intensity to other coasters/rides at the park? Like Gringotts, or The Mummy, etc.
But it was really funny, especially everyone attempting to do accents
Plus, I was the only person to correctly guess that Rob was the murderer, just sayin’
Then all six of us played some table football!
We played boys vs girls and the boys completely destroyed us
This is so cute! I love how much time you spent on this trip just spending quality time together and playing games and things
We left the house just after 8am, and got an Uber with a really funny driver!
She loved us and wanted us to live there with her
Hah! That's so cute!
She was really upset when we told her it was nearly impossible for Brits to move to the USA (without a job transfer or marriage)
Us too lady, us too.
I mean, I'm sure you're pretty attached to Hymie and all, but have you considered possibly marrying the Uber woman instead?
We had seen on MDE that Thunder Mountain was only a 5 minute wait so we thought we might try to hop on that real quick, but when we got there it wasn’t even open 
And it actually didn’t reopen all day.
And neither did Splash Mountain…
Oof! So sad! And I'm sure you're right that this played a role in how busy the rest of the park was. Two big headliner mountains down all day!
The lighting isn’t great but I love how they came out!
You're both so cute! I love your outfits -- very appropriate for a princess-themed breakfast/brunch.
(2021 comment: Remember when the castle was white like this?!
I love the new pink blue and gold look though!)
I love it, too!! The white/blue castle was pretty and classic, but I think the update looks so nice
I asked her to teach us how to do a princess pose, but she just said that being a princess comes from within, so I just stood there and looked like a goober.
Booo! Ok, lovely sentiment and all, but princesses also totally carry themselves a certain way at WDW, at least the classic ones like Cindy, and she absolutely could have used it as a little character bonding moment and given you all a sweet little pose to do together.
But I'm sure if you looked like a goober, you looked like a goober who had a princess within her.
Gosh you're all so precious I can hardly stand it!
I hope they all know that there’s nothing at the end of that line…
Any Emperor’s New Groove fans out there?
It’s probably one of my most quoted movies.
Mostly just this line
YES! Yes pick me! I'm an Emperor's New Groove fan!
That's super cute. We also quote this movie aaalllll the time! And we actually just watched it again a couple of nights ago. But years ago we had a discussion about how silly the silent "l" is at the beginning of "llama" so now whenever we quote lines from the movie that have the word "llama" in them we usually pronounce both L's, e.g. "Yay! I'm a lelama again!" or "A LELAMA? He's supposed to be dead!" etc.
even though Fran hates the song ‘Kiss The Girl’ because she thinks it’s creepy
Haha I have to kinda agree with Fran here! It's miiiilllllldly creepy. I mean sure, kiss the girl if you want, but also maybe read the room and make sure she's also into it, which I feel doesn't get enough emphasis in this song!
I feel like Ariel was also definitely into it, but still. If he's really so unsure, he could always ask first just to be safe. Sebastian needs a lesson in encouraging enthusiastic consent!
(I call all of those shops down that side of Main Street “The Emporium” since you can pretty much walk all the way through from one end to the other, but does each section have it’s own name?!
If each section has a name then that's news to me cuz I also call the whole thing on that side "The Emporium."
And I also bought him his favourite chocolate bar
Yummmmm
While Fran was till browsing I became very upset because my paper Starbucks straw got too soggy and broke
Note to self: Buy a metal straw!
Ohh nooooo! Good call thinking to bring a straw for a next time. I've heard somewhere that Joffrey's has the ones that are made of like bamboo or sugar cane or some kind of other plant-based material or something that don't get mushy and fall apart. Maybe raiding Joffrey's sneakily could be a back-up plan.
THIS was the line for the PeopleMover!
Oh my goodness! Wild.
Check out my BLACK nail polish under the UV light!
WHAAAT?? Crazy!
We headed over to the monorail to get back to the TTC, and we saw that the express line was huuuuge.
But thankfully the resort line contained approximately zero people.
So we got right on the resort monorail, back to the TTC!
This is suck a great little hack
The resort line takes a little longer, but if there's a big difference in the lines it's definitely still faster.
We freshened up, and at around 6pm we headed out to the AMF Kissimmee Bowling Lanes!
Lin and Ian had gotten us a deal of 2.5 hours of bowling with two drinks each.
Back home we have to pay per game of bowling, but having a time limit instead felt much more fun and freeing.
Such a fun idea! We haven't been bowling in ages. I like that they charge by the time you're there! Our places around here usually charge by game as well.
I got some mozzarella sticks and a pepperoni pizza, and I also had some of Jamie’s boneless wings
Yum! When on vacation
I had a really nice dress on, but sadly, as I mentioned, I had lobster arms from sitting out in the sun too long!
Owie!
We had to take the elevator all the way up to the top floor to get to Eleven.
Was it on the eleventh floor?
Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are the best couple, on screen and in real life
I haven't seen "A Quiet Place" yet because I'm a scaredy baby, but I still agree with this sentiment completely.
That would be horrible!
back to the DIS!! Thanks so much for the congrats! We're still a million miles away from having a wedding due to this gosh darn pandemic though 
so I'll have spent a third of my life with him haha!
nightmare! We're rebooked again for September 2022, 3rd time lucky! Thankfully everything is planned and booked (florist, cake, band etc etc etc) and SURELY covid restrictions will be fully over by then...... 
