Four Brits hit the world the TR! ~~~Completed 28/11~~~

At last I have finally caught up

I love your DD's joke (bless her)

It sounds like you were having a fab time, and your photos are great too :thumbsup2
Thanks Mandy :goodvibes

Brilliant time at BB Eewwww about you eye!
I know it wasn't very nice :scared:

Oww your eye sounds sore Jo, so glad you have now got it all sorted and it healing well:goodvibes Great day and lovely photos:goodvibes
Thanks Sue :)

another great day :)

i never buy something when i first see it....in case i might find it cheaper :rotfl2:
Thanks Nat and actually I always do that too and normally can't fine it cheaper just wasted several hours :rotfl2:
 
We dried off and headed to the Winter-Summer Land Mini Golf, we’d already played the Sand course earlier in the holiday so snow Course here we come :yay:


This was the easiest of all the courses and as normal we had tons of fun, the girls loved being squirted on one of the holes when you got the ball out, they even volunteered to retrieve my ball too :rotfl2: The themeing at all the courses is just great!

We played the snow course and I had 6 holes in 1 :yay: DH had 9 though!!!!! The girls both had 2 :thumbsup2

So scores.........

Par 56
Ellie 46
Jess 45
Me 33
David 31!!!!!

Yep beaten again, that’s all 3 times :sad2: Well as we’re leaving you know they have the best score of the day on a chalk board well guess who saw that they were the best of the day, yep David so he asked if he could put his name up :rotfl2: That made his day and he even joked how he wanted to go back later to see if he was still the leader, I wouldn’t have put it past him either, but thankfully we were just too busy :rotfl:




So all golfed out we catch the bus home about 12.30pm, we showered and just chilled for a while, the girls played on their new DS games and I read a bit, not sure what David did :rotfl2:


We decided to catch an Epcot bus around 2pm and as I wanted to stop by the front desk, pay off some charges etc, we agreed that they would catch the nearest to 2pm Epcot bus and I would only get on if I saw them! Well OMG it was hot today, when I got to the stop of course an Epcot bus just arrived and they weren’t on it :mad: I almost melted waiting for them, even under the shade of the mod bus stop ;) About 20 minutes later they finally arrive and we were off.


The rain clouds were coming, oh side note we had been incredibly lucky so far having only had a tiny bit of rain in the 11 days we’d been there :thumbsup2 As we get closer to Epcot it got blacker and blacker so the girls get ready for our arrival, look how Ellie just has to get in the photos :rotfl2:

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As we arrive the rain really starts coming down but we have a date in Canada, so ponchos on and we’re on our mission. We arrive right on time and quickly check in, we get seated in Yukon right at the back of the restaurant, now I’d read that the tables were really close together in here but we didn’t think they were that much closer than other places :confused3


Our waiter explained all about where we were sat, sorry don’t remember any of it and that we could have smoothies or speciality drinks with the DDP but no refills. The girls both order some watermelon thing and I had a strawberry smoothie, David being adventurous had coke :lmao:


For entrée Jess and I had the tomato stack, it was OK, David had the shrimp again OK and Ellie had a garden salad, she still says the Spoodles one was by far the best, she became somewhat of an expert in the garden salad department :lmao: But we weren’t here for starters were we, oh no bring us the steak, well except my youngest DD who *gasp* doesn’t like steak :faint: Oh well saves me some money!!!!!


We all (except Ells) ordered the Grilled 5-Oz. Filet Mignon served over cream cheese mashed potatoes, finished with a roasted garlic demi glace, Jess ordered the sauce on the side though and oh my :faint: the steak just melted in your mouth it was the best steak we’d ever had, words simply can’t describe how wonderful this steak was :cloud9: Ellie ordered Hot Dog and said that was good too!


Dessert was surprise, surprise an ice-cream sundae for Ellie, I’m surprised she didn’t end up looking like a sundae :rotfl: Jess and I both had Smores which were not what I was expecting at all, they were basically 2 thick chewy cookies sandwiched with vanilla ice-cream with a big marshmallow sticking out the top, yummy though even though I did give my marshmallow to Ellie! David had the chocolate moose and said that was good too!

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We handed over our KTTW cards and paid 4 TS credits, don’t you just love the free DDP :yay: So overall opinion, well David wants to eat here every night next trip, so I assume he liked it :lmao:
 
It was still chucking it down so we decided to go for a trip on the monorail, no front seat again, here’s a photo David took whilst waiting.

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As the weather was so horrid we decided that MK would be empty and it was :yay: We headed straight to our favourite Buzz and walked straight on 3 times in a row, one time Ellie wiped the floor with us with a score of 277,900! We then walked onto the people mover, I said to the girls that they must listen for paging Tom Morrow, so about 1 minute after it happened Ellie goes so when are they announcing it? Yep she listens well!!!! The rain was really coming down now so we couldn’t go far so where do we go? Yep Buzz again :rotfl2: I then put my foot down and much to their disgust I said no more Buzz. We went in search of a funnel cake but somehow just couldn’t find the shop so walked onto Philarmagic instead, well you have to don’t you :rotfl:


Now the thunder and lightening started and it was right on top of us, the rain was lashing down and the lightening was almost constant, we were stranded in the Philarmagic shop for at least 15 minutes, didn’t buy anything though :lmao: Before we dashed to IASW as it was a long ride and well it was better than being in the rain!!!!! Again we got stuck at the end of the ride, we gradually dashed between lots of shops, over all we were stuck for probably 45 minutes and they were closing the park for the P&PP, I felt so sorry for all those people coming to that, some of them were in big fancy costumes too!

The rain eased slightly so we made a wish in the fountain, finally found the funnel cakes and as we were all wet the sugar completely covered us :rotfl2: We were back on the CSR bus by 7.10pm.


David got off at our stop to get the mugs whilst the girls and I headed to the main stop and PM. The girls surprisingly got cheeseburgers and David and I shared a Chinese combo, OMG this was enormous. Again we just got croissants for tomorrow’s breakfast. The rain was still pouring and the internal shuttle golf cart was full but the nice CM said he’d come right back and get us. The girls thought it was pretty neat going on this in the dark and with all the covers down. It was straight to sleep for my 3 angels whilst I sorted out some candy for our DIS meet tomorrow. This only took me a few minutes but look what I found.

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Tired or what :rotfl2: I did take one of David fast asleep too but thought I’d spare you that one!!!!
 
Major TR change, David was just reading the golf scores and apparently they were the wrong ones, whoops, he still beat me though!

We played the snow course and I had 6 holes in 1 :yay: DH had 9 though!!!!! The girls both had 2 :thumbsup2

So scores.........

Par 56
Ellie 46
Jess 45
Me 33
David 31!!!!!
 
Am enjoying your reports Jo ! Even in the rain Florida is magical !!!
Thanks Sue, us mad Brits don't mind a bit of ran do we :rotfl2:

:rotfl2: ive got a cute piccie of my two fast asleep after a busy day in the parks !
Don't they all look such angels when they're fast asleep :rotfl2:

Love that last piccie :)
Thanks Kaylee :goodvibes

Great day Jo and love the piccie of the Sleeping Beauties:goodvibes
Awww thanks Sue :)
 
OMG Jo, your Disney history is so similar to ours (we are a family of 5, our girls were 11, 7 and 4 on first trip, 17, 14 and 10 on our third last Christmas). We went on our fisrt trip to POR, and loved it, I did a ton of planning on Deb Wills Site so we made good use of the holiday!! Found the DIS boards after our return and spent far too many hours dreaming of going back, which due to amazing flight deals we did the following year, to HRH, and Cornonado Springs!! Since then DH has never come off the golf course so for our last trip we returned to our first love, yep POR (with DDP but only 5 nights, then Villa then Dolphin for NY), book him plenty of golf and we all enjoy Fantasia Gardens and I was extremely cross to lose by 2 shots.....or something similar!!

It would be great to have free DDP, but there is no way I could stand August heat to get it!!

Where did we eat on DDP? Spoodles, Le Cellier twice, Kona Cafe........ and that steak at Le Cellier, it melts in the mouth you know!!

Unfortunately I have only just found your reports, somehow I have to try and read and find all the days!! Keep up the good work, it's taken me 10 months to finish mine this time!!:surfweb:
 
Thanks for reading Fiona, we're back to POR again next year, just can't keep away and DH had requested Le C at least twice :rotfl2:

This report has all my days in it so easy to find :goodvibes
 
Firstly David’s account of today! (BTW remember he's a PGA Pro!)


Got a cab from CSR at about 7.40am arriving at Magnolia about 8am ready for our 9am tee off. After paying and getting my rental clubs, which were Titleist and a Scottie Cameron putter, in the Pro shop I found Waldo and Andy. (DisneyLand_Mama’s DH and Dad) We made our way to the putting green, overlooking the course, which was very misty after the previous nights storm. Coming out of the mist there was a group of birds which we found out were turkeys, I thought these were the only Turkeys I would see today, I didn’t realise I’d be playing with 3 of them for 5 hours ;) :rotfl2:


I noticed a cart with a set of clubs and a lot of boxes of golf balls, these turned out to be Tony (LL’s DH) my playing partner! I thought he must be a good player to buy such expensive balls!!!!!


A fun time was had by all BUT………….


Upon finishing the 9th hole Waldo was convinced he knew the way to the 10th tee, he set off in totally the opposite direction to Tony and I only to have gone the wrong way! As we finished playing our shots Andy and Waldo reappeared making out they’d gone to find the bathroom, yeah of course :lmao:


After about 5 holes a new rule was brought into play that the highest score that you were allowed to get on a hole was double the Par. This was a bit unfair on Tony on the 12th when he made the only Par (excluding me) and the other 2 lost 2 balls each on a par 3 and both declared they’d made 6’s :rotfl:



Tony’s greatest achievement was on the 18th when he found a ball in the rough, this enabled him to actually finish the round as he’d lost the $60 worth of balls he’d bought :eek:



Waldo put his bad golf down to the fact that he didn’t have his trusty 7 wood, Tony preferred to hit into the water rather than on to the fairways and Andy well he just stood the wrong way round ;) :rotfl2:



Maybe it would have been better to play with the other Turkeys as they were the only birdies we saw all day :rotfl2:


All that’s been said though I can’t wait for our rematch :thumbsup2
 
ROTFLOLAPMP :rotfl2:

I am going to have to train DH on his blow by blow golf telling skills!! I notice there was no mention of scores, was that to protect those with more balls than sense?:rotfl2: :lmao: :lmao:
 
Caught up again, Jo, thanks for sharing your lovely trip reports. Hope your eye was not too painful, it sounds really nasty. We did Le Cellier for the first time this year and loved it - I had the same dessert as you and my hubby had the same as your hubby! It wouldn't be Florida if you didn't get stuck in at least one thunderstorm!

Laur's princess:
 
As you know David had gone off to play golf this morning and the girls and I were off to meet some friends for a swim. I also had a look at how many DDP credits we had left seeing that we were going home in 2 days and we had 2TS, 14CS and 26SC’s left :faint: we needed to get eating!!!!


The girls and I caught a bus to DTD where we were going to meet DisneylandMama (T) and her children Maddie and Evan. We had a wonderful bus driver who said that as we were the only ones on the bus that she was our own personal chauffer and she would take us exactly where we wanted to go! She chatted the whole trip and even bypassed TL so we got to DTD with tons of time to spare. As she was so kind I gave her a Cadbury’s chocolate bar which I had with me (In an insulated bag with ice in as I had bought all the kiddies some English sweeties!) and she was very grateful :)


As we were so early the girls and I went for a wander around DTD before heading back. We found that T was already there and the girls were so excited about meeting Maddie and Evan again. We waited and waited for a SSR bus (the boats weren’t running yet!) but none came so I had the bright idea that we could walk, well it wasn’t very far was it! :lmao: Now I know this is Florida in August but it seemed like a good idea at the time, until we went the wrong way :headache: Then poor old Jess got attacked by a falling tree cone which landed on her shoulder and made quite a mark!!!!


After walking for quite a while we worked out that we were lost :eek: So we asked a nice man for directions, well he was from the North of England and T just didn’t have a clue what he was saying it was hilarious but luckily I understood and we soon found the pool :rotfl2:


When we arrived I spotted someone in a lime green swimsuit it just had to be Lauralee131 (LL) and it was :yay: There were wet hugs all round, Michael her DS was such a sweetie and the kids all soon jumped in, swimming, sliding etc. We commandeered a row of loungers and jumped in too, well we had to cool off after our little walk didn’t we!!!!

T was a bit worried about Maddie and Evan not having life vests on so her and LL went off to get some leaving me in charge of 5 kids :eek: This really showed how close we had all become chatting on the DIS boards that they felt comfortable enough leaving their kids with me! OMG I needed eyes in the back of my head though, we stayed in the very shallow end and luckily Jess loves kids and helped a lot. Especially when the boys tried to go deeper!!!! Evan did get worried for a few minutes wanting his Mummy and he gave me such a lovely cuddle he was so sweet! After what seemed ages, I now discover they may have stopped for a sneaky smoke, they returned with vests so we could all relax!

We were also meeting PrincessV (V) who was checking into SSR that morning with her son Leo and Mum. Well we waited and waited and waited some more :rolleyes1 Finally she arrived and she got very wet as we all clambered out of the pool to give her a hug too :rotfl2: Her Mum was such a sweetie and very understanding of her meeting up with mad internet friends!

Here are some photos.

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Yep that’s Maddie under the water :rotfl:


Soon we were all hungry, plus I had some CS credits to use up ;) The girls and I actually got our own meals today instead of sharing :faint: From what I remember the food was reasonable but poor LL waited forever for her food as she had saved the table for us, sorry LL didn’t realise you did that, so we had all finished eaten eating way before she even got hers! We all laughed at V when she got her camera out for the food porn shots, a true DISer hey :rotfl2:


The kids being silly!

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We’d had such a lovely time but I’d promised the girls a bit of shopping in DTD and we then had to get ready for tonight’s big Lapulapozza meet so T, the kids and I caught the boat to DTD. Now if you don’t know, T is famous on the DIS for her “What not to wear” photos and OMG did we wish we had had our camera handy on the boat, there was a lady who looked incredibly scary she had big dark outlined lips, big hair and bright orange nails, I kept looking over at T dying to say something and trying not to laugh :rotfl2:


Our first stop was Goofys and I let the girls spend 7 SC’s each, they thought this was wonderful and spent ages choosing exactly what to buy. I bought 3 pieces of fudge, cookies & cream, pineapple (strange I know but delicious) and vanilla, I didn’t finish it all until I was back in the UK! T was busy making pretzel rods or something and Evan had fallen asleep so we said our goodbyes until later! The girls and I did a bit more shopping, again looking for David’s cap but they still didn’t have it :eek: It was now about 3.30pm so we did a quick dash back to CSR to get ready for tonight!



We get back to CSR where we go for a lovely swim, we catch up with David who tells us all about his golf game and what a ummm fun time he had :rotfl2:

Suddenly we’re running late goodness knows where the time went so we do a quick dash through the showers and try and make ourselves pretty before catching a bus to MK.

When we arrive an almighty storm suddenly starts, the wind is howling and the rain is absolutely chucking it down, guess who for the first time in 12 days didn’t have the ponchos with her, yep we were stranded :eek:

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We literally just stood there watching it pour down, every time we contemplated making a run for it the rain got even worse! The bus shelter was getting more and more crowded as buses were dropping guests off and we weren’t the only ones without ponchos!
 
Suddenly David spots T making her way through the crowds, she was with another lady who I assumed to be Kristi (sorul82? Or S’Late to her friends) I introduced myself and gave her a big old hug, she seemed as lovely in person as on the DIS and her accent was oh so cute and just as she said it would be she sounded just like Joy from my name is Earl :goodvibes

Now T had come prepared, yes it was due to a mislaid backpack by her DH, thanks Andy, but it meant she had 2 ponchos and an umbrella :yay: So Ellie ducked under T’s poncho T even made a hole for Ellie’s head :rotfl: whilst Jess and I shared the umbrella, poor old David just had to brave it.

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We must have looked such a sight and we couldn’t stop laughing, we even had to take our shoes off as the water was just so deep, luckily that Floridian rain is nice and warm.

We made it to the monorail pretty damp but we’d made it in one piece :yay: It didn’t take long for the monorail to arrive and we were off. First stop was the Contemporary where David and the girls were dining with Mickey so they jumped off.

Quick Chef Mickey’s review……

They all had a great time, David said the food was good but not great but the characters is what you go for and they were good fun so that’s all that really matters! The other day I was reading a TR about CM’s and they had a photo of all the desserts and I said to Jess oooh did you try the MM oreo chocolate dessert, she replied what? Looked at the photo and would you believe they totally missed the whole dessert area :faint: Knowing my kids they were only focused on the ice-cream machine and didn’t see anything else :rotfl:

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OK I really don’t know how to write this next bit, this evening has already been written about several times by such fantastic writers so if you want the funny versions check out these links!!!! Also thanks girls I pinched some of your photos!!!!

Tracy's part 1

Tracy's part 2

V's

LL's

So I'd dumped my family at the Contemporary and I was left with 2 mad wet women on the monorail. We arrived safely (haven’t been murdered yet ;)) at the Poly and OMG I think the whole of WDW were there that night the place was heaving! T quickly checked us in and we found LL and V by the bar already drinking :rolleyes1

Our buzzer went off pretty quickly and we were shown to our table, well via the dessert area, I didn’t need to see it though thanks to the food porn thread :rotfl2: We were sat at a nice big round table in the GASP centre of the room, OMG do they not realise they should hide us all in the corner :lmao:

Now the bit where I felt really guilty, everyone had brought such gorgeous presents for each other, literally big bulging gift bags, except me I gave them a chocolate orange :rotfl2: Ladies thank you so much for my very unexpected pressies and please warn me if you’re going to do it again!!!!!

Me and S’Late still holding her goodie bag!
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Our waiter came and took our drinks order, ummm what do they order do you think? Yep Lapu’s all round, well except me I’d heard they have coconut (which now I’m told they don’t) in which I don’t like! But as I’m such a lightweight with alcohol I just got a pink lemonade, sorry girls I know I was a let down, but hey someone needed to keep an eye on you all :lmao:

So soon our table was festooned with the first batch of those pretty pineapples, we were on a mission. You see many months previous when we were planning this little get together T typed that she would buy someone 21 Lapu’s instead of 2 and we never let her live it down and that was tonight’s goal 21 empty pineapples and with me not drinking them, well that was a lot of Lapu’s each :rotfl:

We all ordered, I know I had the sticky wings for appetiser and LL thought it was so funny that I ate them with a knife and fork rather than just pick them up like she did, well I’m obviously more lady like ;) :rotfl2: I do know that the pineapples were now empty so more were ordered, we (I mean they) were making a good start!!!!

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We were all having such a fun time, can’t remember WTH we spoke about but there were tons of laughs and strangely those laughs got louder and louder, not sure why :confused3 At one point S’Late showed us her party trick of tying a cherry stem into a knot and wow it was a really cool trick that everyone had to have a go too. We were getting some very strange looks by now!!!

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Our main course soon came, so quickly in fact that our starters hadn’t been cleared away, do you think they were already trying to get rid of us? :lmao: I had the prime rib which as I expected was so gorgeous very tender :love:

I think about now there were cry’s of empty Lapu’s, not sure who from :confused: :rotfl:

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Somewhere around now T’s mobile went off and it was DM (Disneyolic) phoning from NY the phone was soon passed to me and it was so great to hear her voice, even though it was a funny old conversation as it was so loud and I couldn’t hear her very well, maybe that’s why I couldn’t really hear an accent ;) Anyway it was great another DISer could share our night!

Dessert time now and I had the oh so yummy white chocolate cheesecake, not sure what the others had they were too busy emptying pineapples :rotfl2:

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Oh at some point my darling husband, who I think by now had worked out that these crazy ladies weren’t axe murderers, came into the Poly, see he didn’t want me walking back to our CSR room alone late at night so he was going to wait to escort me home :love: Well he had the camera so he came to give it to me, also in all the rain excitement I had Ellie’s DS, they were prepared for a wait you see. But David being David he just kinda sneaked in gave me my camera and vanished again, so LL yes he was there :rotfl2:

The girls were now asking for more drinks and :faint: the Poly had run out of pineapples, I know how? And more importantly how on earth would we get to our 21 goal???? They had literally drunk the poly dry of pineapples. How’d that happen? Didn’t they know our aim for the night????

Our poor waiter was getting it from all sides about the pineapples, there were suggestions of pitchers so they could be refilled but apparently that would be unsanitary :confused: surely if you filled your own pineapple and only you drunk it then it would be fine??? Eventually the manager came out, oh whilst all this was going on a lady at a nearby table was really staring at us and the pineapples so LL turned around and gave her a big old wave, OMG I nearly died, I think she was just jealous, sheesh we weren’t being rude or anything just being happy! So the manager stood there explaining about the pineapple situation again and somehow it was agreed that the bar would make up more LapuLapu’s but in tikiman glasses. There was also an understanding that we could keep the special glasses if we vacated our table, now I think they really did want to get rid of us :rotfl:

So we settled up and did what we were told for once taking the tikiman glasses with us (well 4 glasses I didn’t get one!) on our way out we spotted another DISer Lisa (Castillomom) and gave her a big wave!
 

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