We've made it to the hotel finally, was a long, long drive. Really hot today, the rain only lasted about 30 minutes of our drive. We both actually noticed a point just after Atlanta that the temperature shot up. It felt as if one of us had accidentally turned on the heater in the car and we actually checked to make sure that didn't happen! But sure enough, it was the good old humid heat kicking in. It wasn't really all that bad but we were sure happy to see the hotel. They really start in on you the moment you get here with the time share thing, but for $28 a night for 4 nights, I'm not complaining. The room is actually really nice too! The GPS worked great today by the way. 
Once we're settled in here, we're off to MK. 
I'll be doing updates every day that we're here at this hotel, so talk to you all soon!
So the monorail is temporarily shut down while they investigate and fix things. Poor guy, I hope they build some sort of memorial to him. Being Disney, I'm sure they will.
Then it was off to Pirates. We were in the back row and directly in front of us was this woman who wouldn't stop taking flash pictures. I had turned around to look at something and turned back just in time to get a direct flash to the face. 
She said sorry and then did it 30 seconds later! I was determined not to get annoyed at the start of our WDW trip, so I just let it ride. 
I had a coke and Tammy had a chocolate milk. The bill came to $19.98. I must be out of practice, because I forgot to take pictures of this meal! Don't worry, we'll be eating there again and I'm not forgetting twice! At the end of the night, we watched Spectromagic, which was nice, because it wasn't running during our last trip. They were fixing the bridge. The ferry was incredibly crowded on the way out. I did get some pictures, but I'll have to wait until we get home to post them. We got back to the hotel and I went to try and find some food. The onsite Pizza Hut was closed, as were most of the places nearby. I ended up getting drinks at the Walgreens next door and that's it. I guess we'll do better tomorrow night, as we're going to Epcot and we'll be back before all these places close. Think I'll head to sleep now, have a great night all, or day if that's when you read this! 
Sounds like a great trip so far...and you passed right by my house (literally, within about 5-8 miles of my house!) when you drove down I-75 through middle Georgia...darn, I should have waved as you drove by!
Jealous that you and some of the other July DISers are already there...but it's getting me more and more excited about our trip...less than 2 weeks to go!
Glad your trip is almost here. For me, the weeks leading up to the trip are almost as good as the trip itself! Anticipation is wonderful. 
We headed to Soarin to grab some fast-passes. Then we rode Living with the Land. Definitely not the first ride I would have thought we'd ride, but I do like it and the wait time was only 5 minutes. Throughout the day we went on Test Track, Gran Fiesta Tour, Ellens Energy Adventure, Spaceship Earth, O' Canada and of course, Soarin. The Brazillian tour groups were absolutely everywhere! Loud as ever and they frequently were blocking the entire walkway. Heading down to Soarin, we were met by an entire group coming straight for us. I guess they expected me to step to the side and let them all go through, but I've always believed that if you're part of a group, you make room for people coming the other way. So Tammy, knowing how stubborn I am got behind me and I cleared a path! We also had some frozen lemonaid and popcorn. I don't know what it is, but Disney makes the best popcorn! 
We actually left at 7:30, because both of us were wiped out. We stopped off at Downtown Disney to grab some sandwiches from Earl of Sandwich, which is one our absolute favorite places. Tammy had the Hawaiian BBQ and I had the Full Montague. Best sandwiches in the world! We headed back to the hotel and I was thinking of grabbing a Corona from the bar here, which would have cost me about $4, when it occurred to me that Walgreens sells alcohol. When I'm at WDW, I have one Corona a night. I don't tend to drink much at home, but I've kind of made a tradition of a bedtime beer here. 
So a case of 12 bottles of Corona at Walgreens is only $15! Saving me a nice $33.
Better start warning DH to pack his manners! Glad you're having fun, and I'm sure you'll get your Disney legs soon!
Great stuff! I was sooooo excited to hear about the tour groups.
We of course said yes! So she took us into the main area and off to the side where there was a little room. We met two other guests who had also been selected. We had to put our valuables in a locker and put on rain slickers, pants and rubber boots. Tammy was the engineer, I was the captain and the other two were the crew. Tammy got absolutely soaked and I got a nice blast of water as well. Tammy was in the spot where they let a ton of water go down the ramp into the room she sat in. I was on the PT boat, steering, looking for enemy planes with the binoculars and phoning my engineer! The crew were on the boat rolling around and dodging the gunfire. It was a lot of fun and we looked pretty good when they showed us the movie after. 
So yeah, because we didn't want to get a few droplets of water on us from the front row, we ended up getting soaked way worse than ever! 
We did leave the parks early, but we're going to be headed back somewhere tonight. We needed to get into some dry clothes, as we forgot to bring our ponchos to the park and were pretty much wet/damp all day. Anyway, I'm off to figure out what we're doing tonight. 
We were shocked and saddened to see the accident on CNN the next morning, we said a special prayer for this young man and his family
We don't usually drink very often either but last year we had Baileys almost everynight. Yum Yum. So sad.
Then, we headed into one of the giftshops next door. It was kind of strange, with all the stuffed alligator heads and bottled baby shark lamps. The items inside certainly weren't discounted nearly as much as they tried to make it seem. We ended up only buying some postcards. Big spenders we are! So as we headed towards WDW, it really started pouring and the skies were pretty much solid grey, which made it look like it would last a long, long time, not like the usual 15 minute downpours. So I went right by the exit and continued on until we found one of the outlet malls. This made Tammy pretty happy, as she had no idea what I was up to! We went to a lot of different stores and again, the prices were not only the same as everywhere else, the electronics stores were even more expensive than what I would pay in Winnipeg for any of the items. 
The exception to this was the Disney outlet, which was pretty good. We bought a Precious Moments boy and girl wearing Mickey ears and playing instruments for $32.99. The same figurine was $75 at home! We saw a lot of other things that we'll likely pick up later as well. We then went back to the hotel and waited for the other family members to arrive. They arrived and we all went to Cici's Pizza buffet, which was not bad at all. First time I've ever tried Macaroni and Cheese pizza! Or Hotsauce and chicken, or Spinach and Cheese pizza! I actually liked them all. I think I ate about 15 slices! We then decided to head to Downtown Disney, other than Tim, who decided that he'd had enough traveling for the day and stayed behind to watch Stacy on the Disney Channel! It was crowded but still a lot of fun. We started at West-side and ended at the Marketplace, then took a water taxi back to the West-side and went back to the hotel. Tomorrow, we're off to check into Pop Century and Epcot! Good night all!
Hello all! Just popping in quickly while I have some free wi-fi access. Vacation is going great, got tons of pictures and I've got a lot of notes to write up once I get home. Hope you're all doing well!
