Day 3, Monday August 10, 2009
So today was the day Queen and Jasmine were arriving. The girls were excited. They weret arriving until 2;30 or 3 pm depending on their flights and ME timing so we were heading to Blizzard Beach for the morning. We had never been to a water park in all our visits so we were all very excited. I had a much better sleep, I only woke up twice! We were up at 7 and had breakfast in the room (thank you Garden Grocer). I ran over to concierge to buy one child admission to the water park at 8 am. We had three admissions from Queen from a previous trip where there was an error. We left the room at 8:40 and the bus was just pulling up. We were so lucky with the busses. We were the only ones on the bus and then one other family got on. Blizzard Beach was the first stop. We were very excited. Theres nothing like going to a place you have been several times and doing something new. We made good use of our pre-ordered photopass here. We took pictures on the sleigh and with the snow family.
Our first time at BB!
How cute is she?
Love this picture of Snow White, so beautiful!
We headed to Pikes Peak and set up our bag with our towels on the chairs and Geodoc and Snow White went off to explore the bigger areas and Mini Montana and I stayed in the kids area. There was a photopass fellow there too and he got some cute shots of Mini Montana in the water fall. She had such a hoot here and then she found the tube ride. I highly recommend this ride as there is a lifeguard at the top that helps the child get on the tube and a lifeguard at the bottom that catches them and tells them to get off the tube. I got to sit in the shade in a chair and watch her having so much fun. I had a water camera that I still have to get developed so I took pictures of her with that and watched the geckos that were keeping me company. After a while Mini Montana decided we should do more so we headed to the lazy river. We were very close to an entrance with lots of tubes so we got Mini Montana into a child one and I put an adult one over my head so I could hold on to her tube easily. You know when you have no abdominal strength whatsoever tubes are not really relaxing because once youre in youre stuck! So we headed off down the lazy river and for the longest time we were the only ones in the river, it seemed. We had so much fun getting wet with the different waterfalls and such. After quite a while Mini Montana had had enough. Now I just had to remember where exactly we got on. Hmmm, no, that doesnt look familiar, maybe the next one? We played that game for a while and then there was a huge people jam and it turned out to be our entrance/exit spot yeah! We headed over to the wave pool and got her a tube but she was too little and the waves too big. She really didnt enjoy the waves. We found a photopass photographer and then headed back to our meeting spot. I still have to upload more of the photopass so I will do that later. I really want to get this installment up! I stopped for a frozen mocha and strawberry smoothie for the girls. They have no straws there because of the pools. Geodoc and Snow showed up very shortly after we arrived back and they had enjoyed a fun morning too. The kids were getting hungry so we left about 1140 and didnt have to wait for a bus! We had such a great time there we could have stayed all day! It was unfortunate that we didnt meet up so we could switch kids. Snow White had wanted to try some of the other slides and didnt get a chance to. We know we will be back! We were back at the resort by 11:55. We all showered and dressed and headed down to the Turf Club.
We had a lunch ADR at the Turf Club at 1 and 1:30. The 1:30 ressie I made last night thinking one oclock might make it too rushed for us. As it was we made it there by 1:10. I couldnt figure out how to cancel one of them, oops.
We were seated right away and I had my cell phone out because Queen and jasmine should have landed around 1:07. She was to text me when they were leaving on the ME bus and we would know they would be 30 min.
waiting for lunch
I believe Snow took this picture
Geodoc ordered the cheese and bacon burger,
The girls ordered the usual
I stepped out of my box and ordered the penne with garlic , shrimp, artichoke hearts, sundried tomatoes, and olives (yuck).
It was yummy! Queen texted at 1:30 they were on their way. This of course was just as lunch was arriving! Great timing that one has! Mini Montana had to use the facilities at 1:50 so we just headed out to the ME stop because I had strict instructions to take pictures of them coming off the bus. They were the first ones off the bus and then we headed back to the Turf Club.
There was no room for them according to the front desk staff so they went to Artists Palette for snacks and drinks. We hurried to eat our desserts so we could catch up with them. Geodoc had cheesecake, he said it was nice and light
The usual kids sundae.
and I had the BEST apple pie.
We all met up and went to the room.
They absolutely loved the room, and took lots of pictures. Then we all had a rest. I did two loads of laundry and tried to play on the internet. I had trouble with the connection for over an hour! What a waste of time. We were ready for dinner by 5:30, took the boat over and were at Downtown Disney by 6 pm.
Up next dinner at Raglan Road.
I haven't even bought winter clothes for my two yet. Super cute snowman though!
I'm hoping I can post with more regularity but it's still busy here. I think I may have taken on too many volunteer jobs as well as my own. I'll try my best. Don't want to let my followers down!
Your updates are great. The food at RR looks so yummy. That's one we haven't tried yet but we may have to add it to the list. 
Jasmine and I had two turkey dinners this year, one last night at my girlfriends and one tonight at Peg's....great dinners.
When I first started planning I was secretly hoping we could somehow afford staying there (I loved the idea of the savannah view rooms) but decided the extra $ was better spent on other things. I think I would still love it and the girls would too but DH is not into the captive animal thing...he prefers to see animals in their real wild, even though he does admit that Disney does a much better job with the animals' environment than most places.
