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[chriswol]

Another great day, Karen did you not do summit plummet? my husband is the only mad one in our family to do it we love the family raft ride. cant wait to go back to the water parks, and next year we will be going to Aquatica as well

 

[arieljasmine]

Really enjoying your trip reports, Karen, thanks for sharing. I love the pic of your daughter with her Goofy, so cute.

Laur's

 

[CHEK]

Another great day, Karen did you not do summit plummet? my husband is the only mad one in our family to do it we love the family raft ride. cant wait to go back to the water parks, and next year we will be going to Aquatica as well

NO I didn't!! , the chairlift was enough for me , but we did enjoy the family raft.

 

[florida sun]

Great reports., keep them coming

 

[princess jackson]

What happens if you ask for ketchup ?

 

[CHEK]

, just don't!! , unless you have children!

 

[CHEK]

DAY 5: MGM

So Today we don't quite make it for the opening, ah well the tiredness is starting to catch up!. 1st stop Fast Passes for RNRC, then we head over to watch Voyage of the little mermaid, I love this show and so do my DD's , we then make our way over to see the 1st showing of Beauty and The Beast at 10.45, we have great seats right in the middle and 4 rows from the front and luckily no one sat in front of my youngest DD so she had a great view! ,

we loved the pre show entertainment who's name I've completely forgotten , the show was fantastic as it always is, we now head to get Fast Passes for TOT, and make our way to RNRC we find somewhere for my Mum and youngest DD to sit and wait for us and off we go....none of us have ever riden this ride, my DH and Dad tried to a couple of years ago but once it was their turn the ride shut down due to a technical problem. So we're seated and ready to go, I'm sat with my Dad and my DH and DD are sat together, here goes!!!!!!, I'm sorry if any of you we're sat next to me cos I'm pretty sure you will have heard me screaming and I mean screaming, that was terrifying.....The G force was unbelievable, my DD disliked it too, pretty much like Everest when I turned to look at her and my DH, he was once again lifting her out of the car and she was clung to him and I mean clung to him, looking a funny shade of white.. ...A short while later we headed to see the High School Musical Pep, well both my DD's love this!, they have watched the DVD at least a dozen times and are both dancers so have learn't lots of dance's to these songs, so I thought that they would be straight up joining in....NO they wouldn't... ..they stood that far away i'm pretty sure they couldn't see anything.....Grab a quick bite to eat at the ABC Commissary and then decide to split up from my Mum and Dad for the afternoon, we head to get the girls their frozen drinks

and then make our way to Narnia, and then to Lights Motor Action by this time it was sooo HOT and the line to get in here was manic I've never seen anything like it, and then when they do let you in you are led to what's like an underground car park and held here again for at least 20mins that was almost unberable in that heat., eventually we're off to get seats and then wait and wait and wait until eveyones in!, anyway we did enjoy this show and it's something we've never done before.

Now for another show Indiana Jones, we've seen this before and always enjoy it and it didn't fail us this time either. So now we head over to meet up with my parents by the Sci Fi as we have ADR here, well I think we had the world's most miserable server in here tonight!, couldn't wait to get rid of us ....We weren't even shown the dessert menu food wasn't that wonderful either!. Oh I forgot to mention earlier we didn't do TOT!!, after RNRC we all decided that was enough for today...So now after our somewhat disappointing dinner we head over to Fantasmic and have a great time even before the show starts, my eldest DD was desperate to get the Mexican wave started as this is something my DH does each time we go to watch... with much encouragement from ourselves and the American family infront of us she does and before long the whole place is doing the mexican wave and she's sooo proud.

Tomorrow Animal Kingdom.

 

[arieljasmine]

A lovely day. I used to love the Sci-fi as it has such great theming, but I think the food has really gone off. How cool that your daughter started the wave?! I am totally impressed. Sorry that you guys didn't enjoy RNRC, I have been too chicken to try it!

Laur's

 

[irongirlof12]

I love the t-shirts your girls are wearing and their face paint - wow!

 

[CHEK]

I love the t-shirts your girls are wearing and their face paint - wow!

Thanks for your comment about their Tshirts!, this was them outside the rainforest cafe at Animal kingdom last June. And their face paints we're great but the quickest way to loose $24(something like that), It literally took the guy's who did them about 2 mins each. But hey we're on holiday

 

[chriswol]

sounds like another good day, i loved RNRC when i went on it, i dont suppose my DD will like it either when we go next year last time we missed seeing Fantasmic, dont ask me how so i cant wait to see it next year. did you all enjoy it?

 

[CHEK]

sounds like another good day, i loved RNRC when i went on it, i dont suppose my DD will like it either when we go next year last time we missed seeing Fantasmic, dont ask me how so i cant wait to see it next year. did you all enjoy it?

We LOVE Fantasmic , absolutely fantastic!!, how old is your DD? I only ask as the show is very loud!, but mine are 8 and 7(6 when we went) and they both loved it too.

 

[chriswol]

We LOVE Fantasmic , absolutely fantastic!!, how old is your DD? I only ask as the show is very loud!, but mine are 8 and 7(6 when we went) and they both loved it too.

my DD will be 9 when we go, so should be ok

 

[CHEK]

DAY 6: ANIMAL KINGDOM???

Well it was scheduled for today!! Instead we have a lie-in and decide on a shopping day!! of course that comes after the girls morning swim!! so we're off on our way to the Premium Outlets......, we split up from my Mum and Dad and arrange a meeting time and place, so we're under starter's orders and......we're off!!. 1st stop for us is Lunch we're all starving so we head inside and have a quick bite, but it was actually a longer lunch than anticipated, the Heaven's opened and I mean opened, we had an amazing thunderstorm and it bucketed it down, but who cares we headed out to shop, once I'd exchanged my VIP voucher for my discount booklet. The girls had great fun in the rain dodging from one dry spot to another. So we get to skechers DD's end up with a pair of trainers and a pair of flip flops each, now to timberland my DH's fave another pair of shoes, and then to Bass and I get a pair of shoes!! (get the picture) , did all the sportshops and seem to walk round for ages without actually buying anything else, we're done in and had enough of shopping. Tonight we have an ADR at the Whispering Canyon Cafe just after 6pm so we decide to make our way over there in the rain!!, well what can I say what a beautiful place, absolutely lovely, we we're all amazed by this hotel, only ever been in 1 other disney hotel that being the contemporary, and this was far more impressive, we park up and make our way in the pooring rain into the lobby and head over to the check in at the WCC, my DH's given the buzzer and within 5mins our tables ready!, We're seated by the window in the main area of the restaurant and introduced to our server Senor Dusty!!, who came throwing napkins and straws at the table.....what a welcome, we we're all taken a back for a mo! so drinks ordered and now to choose our meals???

, well my Mum ordered the roast chicken, my DH the skillet and both my dad & I ordered the chicken pasta which was lovely but very very fillin

g, we spoke to the chef whilst deciding what to order for my eldest DD as she has an Egg, Nut and Kiwi allergy!, she choose a chicken pasta meal eventually....and youngest DD a burger (no idea why!, doesn't really like them! ), and she didn't eat it either as you can see from the photo, much preffered her dad's corn on the cob

Well Senor Dust had great fun winding my Mum up ....1st,

and then this

, the children joined in with the hobby horse race around the restaurant with my Eldest leading the line!!, she was well impressed as the rest of the children we're told they could not overtake her

I can understand this restaurant not being to everyone's taste but we really enjoyed it, oh I nearly forgot to mention....Ketchup! , the girls did ask for it and yes they got at least 15 bottles brought to them but I didn't get a photo of it!, sorry, we have it video'd.....Anyway after a great meal, we leave and my DH bless him leaves us all standing in the shelter whilst he set's off to bring the car to us in the pooring rain......Back to the villa for another earlyish night ready for Busch Gardens tomorrow.

 

[irongirlof12]

what a great day, shopping and food with entertainment- you can't go wrong

 

[arieljasmine]

A lovely relaxing day. I need to get back to the Skechers shop for more trainers! WCC sounds like a lot of fun and the food looks lovely.

Laur's

 

[CHEK]

DAY 7: BUSCH GARDENS.

Well, we're up early around 7am and make our way to Tampa, arriving at Busch Garden car park just after 9am, get the car parked up quite near the front and luckily enough with some shade from a tree make our way on the tram and we enter a quiet looking park. 1st stop DH and I go on MONTU, never done this ride before and loved it then off to walk around the Edge of Africa to see the animals being fed, we saw the lions and the hyena's having their frozen cup drinks!!

now to see the Hippo's and the baby!! ah sooo cute, I love this viewing area it a great place for some wonderful photo's From there make our way on to the skyride which was a walk on, my DH & I take our youngest DD and our eldest DD gets on the next one with her grandparents, after we exit we head over to Rhino Ralley again no line?, last year we waited in sweltering heat for over 40 mins!!, but this time the water part of the ride isn't working(no problem I was the one who got wet last year!!) , before we board our jeep my eldest DD ask's if she can be the navigator?, YES she can, so we all board the jeep she's given a cushion to sit on to raise her up a bit, but it didn't, don't think she could actually see much, but she loved it nevertheless saw loads of animals today. Next we head over to Timbuktu eldest DD on DH go on scorpion whilst my youngest DD rides the smaller rides, I think this is a great area for the younger children, they have there own little theme park and they love it, no lines no waiting! Happy children They also ride cheetah chase both of them this time!. We now decide to head over to the Crown Colony Restaurant for lunch, this place is lovely and the food is GREAT!!, but unfortuanately tiredness starts to set in and the girls start to become rather annoying at the dinner table! neither of them ate their lunch and to be honest I wasn't feeling great So we decide to walk our lunch off and enter the Myombe Reserve and then make our way to watch the Mirage Canteen!....it was really HOT by now and the children we're finding it quite hard to keep concentration and to be honest this show was too old for them!. So we head over to watch the 4pm showing of Katonga for some much needed aircon .... but 1st we have to wait and wait for what seemed like an eternity for the doors to open, there we're 2 doors for the entrance and yes you guessed we we're stood by the one that wasn't opened!! , so the girls hot foot it in and choose seats almost on the stage, we enjoyed the show and the girls loved catching the butterflies that flew from the ceiling. By now the weather set's in just as we decide to make our way to the train station so that's delayed, the sky's turning a funny shade of grey so we decide to call it a day and make our way to guest relations to exchange our ticket to get our 2day free ticket, this took ages to do as the queue was quite long, we eventually make it to the front and within 5mins we have our tickets off to make our way back to the villa after a great but very exhausting day.

 

[CHEK]

Sorry there's no photo's today, having great problems with them today, As soon as I sort them I'll post a few.....

 

[irongirlof12]

sounds like a really long day, but great fun.

 

[arieljasmine]

A lovely day. I found Busch Gardens too hot when we visited - not enough places to get out of the sun.

Laur's