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SpottyDog
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Four Go Wild In Florida
Previous drivel
1.The Plan and The Flight
2.We get off the plane
3.Discovery Cove
4."Walk this w..a...yyy!" MGM & Reflections
5.An unusually quiet day- Universal & Jungle Jims
6.Where's the Plan? !! (EPCOT)
7.The safe key incident
7 ½ .MGM
7 ¾ . Reflections With Janice
8. SeaWorld
9 . "Oh, what a Circus!"
Day 9 Another day; another Early Entry
PLAN Magic Kingdom then River Country then back to MK
CHANGES TO PLAN RC down for re-hab so quit MK lunchtime, find Wal-Mart then head for Wet N Wild. Islands of Adventure for the evening.
MISSED FROM PLAN TO DATE - Pleasure Island , Blizzard Beach, Wet n Wild, Downtown Disney, Fantasmic, IoA, Seaworld (Clyde & Seamore,Pets on Stage) & Wal-Mart.
So Stranger, here we are. Its 5.50am, the alarm is set for 6am and the family snore with no regard to tempo or harmony.
The phone rings 6.00am prompt and I shake me little angel
Do you want to talk to Mickey, Pet?
NO! .shes not at her best today then!
I shove Valerie in the back and tell her to get it. She smiles, nods her head, puts down the phone and asks where her coffee is. I trundle off to the food court and bring back the two coffees. Of course I drink both coz Vs back into her deep kip. Ho Hum!
I manage to get them up at 6.55 and were out for the bus to MK at 7.20. The fact were at the front of the line tells me weve just missed one. Only 5 minutes and theres another one along and were pressing through the gates of MK at 7.40.
Straight to Fantasyland and were off on Pooh again. Once more without queuing then off to Snow White. After waving to Dopey, we pop over to see Peter Pan and his Flight. Now the biggy. Will the two with street cred to lose take a ride on IASW with Mam and Dad? Julie agreed as it might be good (wed seen things wed missed in 99 and they were so cute) and Gaz pondered, looked up and down Fantasyland in case there were any mates from Spennymoor watching, and said Suppose so. Me and V liked it, J said it was better than last time and Gazs face was as much a picture of embarrassment as it was way back then.
Off to Tomorrowland and the three that arent me rode Buzz while I went to see if they could get the Teleportation thingy working properly this time on Alien Encounter. They couldnt and a man in the back row got his head bitten off again!
Had to wait 30 minutes to get terrified in the dark (not used to this queuing lark) and when I came out V was sitting on her own outside Buzz. Thinking she was lost, I tried to avoid her but she saw me before I could duck behind a trashcan. The kids had gone to ride Buzz another two times and she thought shed sit in the shade and wait for me in case I got lost!
Back over to Fantasyland and we took in the Legend of the Lion King Show. Had forgotten that the pre show was the bit standing up and got a pleasant surprise when the doors opened and we got the chance to sit down. I like the way Disney intermingle the Cinema sections with puppetry. Like Mermaid, maybe one for the littluns and girls J loves it. We just love the Lion King so a vote from me and V too. Not sure Gazzs getting the most from his holiday all hunched shoulders and Can we go yet, Dad.
Frontierland, Son youll have fun there. The boys stride quickened and we were quickly leaving his Mam behind so had to slow down, grab her by the hand, and drag her into the pace of someone not 85 year old!
We stopped at Splash to get 4 Fastpasses for me and the boy after Big Thunder Mountain. I tried one last time to get Julie to give this a go shell love it once shes on it. With the promise of buying her Brer Fox after me and the boy do Splash (not tempting me luck suggesting she should try Splash!) she agreed and we headed up the path for BTMR. Wed sat V down on a bench by the Well so she could watch as we screamed our way passed her. Assuming she didnt walk round the well, she shouldnt get lost there. I figured the best place for J was at the front as it wouldnt be so fast there. We let one train go as our turn would have put us at the back G was well sick. We got in the next train and I sat holding me little Princess tight for comfort and support. As soon as we were off she tightened up. The ratchet noise as the train gets pulled up the inside cavern was scaring our J witless. Oh well done, Dad. Another roaring success this one! I could feel her terror as she tensed all her little body when the funnel got to the top of the hill and disappeared from view as it plummeted to the bottom of what to her seemed like a drop to catastrophe. I sensed by the way she pushed me away from her and held her little hands in the air that she was warming to this ride!
Wheeeee!!!!! We twisted and turned and rocked and bumped our way round the track. We even saw V still sitting where wed left her and someone had shown her how to use our Camcorder so Ive got a nice footage of us on that one.
Well that had been a success.
See, worth the bribe of the Beanie wasnt it? J ran off the ride and back to Mam. Excited to tell her how brave shed been? Not on your life, she had her hand out for the $2 V had added to me bribe to get her on the thing! Then Gaz was in his pocket and handing over the $1 bill hed been sucked into in her Ill do anything for shopping scam.
Me and the boy did Splash twice in quick succession, thanks to FP and J was clutching her latest Beanie as we came through the shop.
Pirates next and we had to wait 30 minutes. Thats an hour Ive stood this morning!
12.00 and were hungry so we headed for The Diamond Horseshoe Saloon. We love it here and looked forward to the sit down and a sandwich. Coz it was right on show time, we couldnt get a seat and V and the kids didnt fancy standing. I sent them off to get turkey Legs as a backup plan (see- flexible and efficient) while I videoed the Singing Cowboy. I quickly found Gaz and V&J were right beside him, where Id told them to stand.
Got me Turkey Leg and we ate them as we exited the park. I threw mine away awful, greasy things they are but V, G & J loved theirs and were still gnawing on the bones half an hour later. I thought wed have to let the bus that was in go, as they were still ripping away at the fleshy foul like Backwoodsmen, but the kind lady bus driver said they could eat them on the bus so we got on. I taped the whole journey from MK to ASMu coz Im sad. V&J were still eating their turkeys when we got off the bus!
Straight to the car and we were at last goin to find this Wonderland that is Wal-Mart. While waiting for the others to wake up this morning, Id had the brainwave of locating the store by looking the address up in the phone book have you seen the size of them phone books ?!!! Cross referencing the address with me selection of maps, I quickly found the one that was in the opposite direction on the 192 to the way Id been driving the other night! So off we set along Osceola, into Kiss Old Town left onto the 192 then drive till you see the biggest superstore ever!
Thanks to me navigational skills, we were soon there and entering this multilane shopping extravaganza. We were immediately impressed with the sheer size and floor plan of the place. To keep us focused, and V from spending, we had a plan! We were after towels, pool shoes, walkie-talkies , tapes and batteries- and nothing else oh, except beer, nearly forgot.
$189 later, mission accomplished and only four lollies and three Crunchy Snickers over in our shopping not bad. The three Snickers were a treat for not hassling me when they wanted to go down unauthorised aisles.
Back to the plan now and off to WetNWild via John Young Parkway. I trusted V with the camcorder again and have some footage of Orlando roads to add to me Well not go round to Dave and Valerie tonight or theyll put one of them videos on again collection. Ah, the bliss of a visitor free home! Surprised how easy we found our way we actually spotted the other Wal-Mart en-route. Typical, none to be seen the other night now two come together!
We were in WNW for 3.30 and me and V took the chance for our first real sit down of the holiday, while G & J ran around on all the slides. I wanted to play on the slides too but the lure of me new walkie-talkies was too much. Anyway, me feet were givin me awful gyp. The gel heel cushions Id bought to ease the pain of the initial blisters had lifted me feet too high in the shoe. Now the resultant rubbing against the back of the shoe had caused more blisters poor me!
We left WNW as it closed and headed for IoA. I was immediately impressed that me car park fee ($5) saved me the $7 fee at US/IoA.
[Note in TightMans diary for next time drive to WNW, buy parking ticket then head straight to US/IoA and save $2 every time.]
We loved the overall image of Islands of Adventure as soon as we entered the park and we set off for Seuss Landing.
There was a 30 minute wait for Cat in the Hat and Gaz was suffering another of his migraines he should have been a woman! Me and J went to ride and sent V & G to the first aid post for aspirin. We were on the ride in only 7 minutes and loved it. G & V were coming back from the first aid post when we came out the CitH I knew coz I called them on me new WTs. I sat with the boy with the sore head and no sense of humour while V & J rode CitH together too swirly for V wimp.
There was a 40 minute wait posted on 1 Fish 2 Fish and, judging by the line, this was accurate so we decided to miss the rides for tonight. Gaz wasnt happy, so no ride buddy for me and me feet were killing me. We hobbled round to get the feel of the place and left around 7ish to go to Belz.
If you remember, Gaz hadnt got to go into the Levi shop the other night so we headed there first. A shirt and 2 Ts for him and a T shirt for Dad (well I dont like to be missed out) and then we headed for the other Mall. There was a tent sale in between them and we thought to pass them by as it all looked like cheap tat. But Dad, theyve got Adidas and Nike ! My, he perked up quick enough. Another couple of Ts for him and his sister and we moved on.
Disney Character Warehouse next to stock up on 2000 pins for Julie to swap the CMs werent bothered how many she swapped. V treated herself to a Mickey in Safari suit pin for her hat coz its her favourite costume. We left Belz at 9.15 and decided to find a Perkins to try something different.
Intl Drive was murder two sets of roadworks and it seemed to take forever but we eventually pulled into Perkins at about 10ish. We agreed to use the i4 or JYP/Osceola routes from now on.
We all fancied seafood tonight so ordered 2x Captains Catch (D&J)- shrimp,cod,clams,onion rings,fries and dips and 2x SeaFood Platter (V&G) cod,fries,coleslaw and mayo. They were all very nice well cooked and presented and loads on the plates. We had 2x banana and cream pie (D&G),Lemon Meringue (V) and ice cream (J) for desert. The bill with drinks was $48 which we thought was very reasonable and agreed to do Perkins again.
We headed home for 11.30 and the three snorers were back to their unique sound within minutes. I sat up with a Bud and checked through me notes so far.
Its 12.15 now, Stranger and Im tired for some reason so Ill bid you goodnight. I hope something funny or disastrous happens tomorrow or Ill be losing even you me loyal Ill read anything Dave ,in the hope you split your head open or something friend.
Previous drivel
1.The Plan and The Flight
2.We get off the plane
3.Discovery Cove
4."Walk this w..a...yyy!" MGM & Reflections
5.An unusually quiet day- Universal & Jungle Jims
6.Where's the Plan? !! (EPCOT)
7.The safe key incident
7 ½ .MGM
7 ¾ . Reflections With Janice
8. SeaWorld
9 . "Oh, what a Circus!"
Day 9 Another day; another Early Entry
PLAN Magic Kingdom then River Country then back to MK
CHANGES TO PLAN RC down for re-hab so quit MK lunchtime, find Wal-Mart then head for Wet N Wild. Islands of Adventure for the evening.
MISSED FROM PLAN TO DATE - Pleasure Island , Blizzard Beach, Wet n Wild, Downtown Disney, Fantasmic, IoA, Seaworld (Clyde & Seamore,Pets on Stage) & Wal-Mart.
So Stranger, here we are. Its 5.50am, the alarm is set for 6am and the family snore with no regard to tempo or harmony.
The phone rings 6.00am prompt and I shake me little angel
Do you want to talk to Mickey, Pet?
NO! .shes not at her best today then!
I shove Valerie in the back and tell her to get it. She smiles, nods her head, puts down the phone and asks where her coffee is. I trundle off to the food court and bring back the two coffees. Of course I drink both coz Vs back into her deep kip. Ho Hum!
I manage to get them up at 6.55 and were out for the bus to MK at 7.20. The fact were at the front of the line tells me weve just missed one. Only 5 minutes and theres another one along and were pressing through the gates of MK at 7.40.
Straight to Fantasyland and were off on Pooh again. Once more without queuing then off to Snow White. After waving to Dopey, we pop over to see Peter Pan and his Flight. Now the biggy. Will the two with street cred to lose take a ride on IASW with Mam and Dad? Julie agreed as it might be good (wed seen things wed missed in 99 and they were so cute) and Gaz pondered, looked up and down Fantasyland in case there were any mates from Spennymoor watching, and said Suppose so. Me and V liked it, J said it was better than last time and Gazs face was as much a picture of embarrassment as it was way back then.
Off to Tomorrowland and the three that arent me rode Buzz while I went to see if they could get the Teleportation thingy working properly this time on Alien Encounter. They couldnt and a man in the back row got his head bitten off again!
Had to wait 30 minutes to get terrified in the dark (not used to this queuing lark) and when I came out V was sitting on her own outside Buzz. Thinking she was lost, I tried to avoid her but she saw me before I could duck behind a trashcan. The kids had gone to ride Buzz another two times and she thought shed sit in the shade and wait for me in case I got lost!
Back over to Fantasyland and we took in the Legend of the Lion King Show. Had forgotten that the pre show was the bit standing up and got a pleasant surprise when the doors opened and we got the chance to sit down. I like the way Disney intermingle the Cinema sections with puppetry. Like Mermaid, maybe one for the littluns and girls J loves it. We just love the Lion King so a vote from me and V too. Not sure Gazzs getting the most from his holiday all hunched shoulders and Can we go yet, Dad.
Frontierland, Son youll have fun there. The boys stride quickened and we were quickly leaving his Mam behind so had to slow down, grab her by the hand, and drag her into the pace of someone not 85 year old!
We stopped at Splash to get 4 Fastpasses for me and the boy after Big Thunder Mountain. I tried one last time to get Julie to give this a go shell love it once shes on it. With the promise of buying her Brer Fox after me and the boy do Splash (not tempting me luck suggesting she should try Splash!) she agreed and we headed up the path for BTMR. Wed sat V down on a bench by the Well so she could watch as we screamed our way passed her. Assuming she didnt walk round the well, she shouldnt get lost there. I figured the best place for J was at the front as it wouldnt be so fast there. We let one train go as our turn would have put us at the back G was well sick. We got in the next train and I sat holding me little Princess tight for comfort and support. As soon as we were off she tightened up. The ratchet noise as the train gets pulled up the inside cavern was scaring our J witless. Oh well done, Dad. Another roaring success this one! I could feel her terror as she tensed all her little body when the funnel got to the top of the hill and disappeared from view as it plummeted to the bottom of what to her seemed like a drop to catastrophe. I sensed by the way she pushed me away from her and held her little hands in the air that she was warming to this ride!
Wheeeee!!!!! We twisted and turned and rocked and bumped our way round the track. We even saw V still sitting where wed left her and someone had shown her how to use our Camcorder so Ive got a nice footage of us on that one.
Well that had been a success.
See, worth the bribe of the Beanie wasnt it? J ran off the ride and back to Mam. Excited to tell her how brave shed been? Not on your life, she had her hand out for the $2 V had added to me bribe to get her on the thing! Then Gaz was in his pocket and handing over the $1 bill hed been sucked into in her Ill do anything for shopping scam.
Me and the boy did Splash twice in quick succession, thanks to FP and J was clutching her latest Beanie as we came through the shop.
Pirates next and we had to wait 30 minutes. Thats an hour Ive stood this morning!
12.00 and were hungry so we headed for The Diamond Horseshoe Saloon. We love it here and looked forward to the sit down and a sandwich. Coz it was right on show time, we couldnt get a seat and V and the kids didnt fancy standing. I sent them off to get turkey Legs as a backup plan (see- flexible and efficient) while I videoed the Singing Cowboy. I quickly found Gaz and V&J were right beside him, where Id told them to stand.
Got me Turkey Leg and we ate them as we exited the park. I threw mine away awful, greasy things they are but V, G & J loved theirs and were still gnawing on the bones half an hour later. I thought wed have to let the bus that was in go, as they were still ripping away at the fleshy foul like Backwoodsmen, but the kind lady bus driver said they could eat them on the bus so we got on. I taped the whole journey from MK to ASMu coz Im sad. V&J were still eating their turkeys when we got off the bus!
Straight to the car and we were at last goin to find this Wonderland that is Wal-Mart. While waiting for the others to wake up this morning, Id had the brainwave of locating the store by looking the address up in the phone book have you seen the size of them phone books ?!!! Cross referencing the address with me selection of maps, I quickly found the one that was in the opposite direction on the 192 to the way Id been driving the other night! So off we set along Osceola, into Kiss Old Town left onto the 192 then drive till you see the biggest superstore ever!
Thanks to me navigational skills, we were soon there and entering this multilane shopping extravaganza. We were immediately impressed with the sheer size and floor plan of the place. To keep us focused, and V from spending, we had a plan! We were after towels, pool shoes, walkie-talkies , tapes and batteries- and nothing else oh, except beer, nearly forgot.
$189 later, mission accomplished and only four lollies and three Crunchy Snickers over in our shopping not bad. The three Snickers were a treat for not hassling me when they wanted to go down unauthorised aisles.
Back to the plan now and off to WetNWild via John Young Parkway. I trusted V with the camcorder again and have some footage of Orlando roads to add to me Well not go round to Dave and Valerie tonight or theyll put one of them videos on again collection. Ah, the bliss of a visitor free home! Surprised how easy we found our way we actually spotted the other Wal-Mart en-route. Typical, none to be seen the other night now two come together!
We were in WNW for 3.30 and me and V took the chance for our first real sit down of the holiday, while G & J ran around on all the slides. I wanted to play on the slides too but the lure of me new walkie-talkies was too much. Anyway, me feet were givin me awful gyp. The gel heel cushions Id bought to ease the pain of the initial blisters had lifted me feet too high in the shoe. Now the resultant rubbing against the back of the shoe had caused more blisters poor me!
We left WNW as it closed and headed for IoA. I was immediately impressed that me car park fee ($5) saved me the $7 fee at US/IoA.
[Note in TightMans diary for next time drive to WNW, buy parking ticket then head straight to US/IoA and save $2 every time.]
We loved the overall image of Islands of Adventure as soon as we entered the park and we set off for Seuss Landing.
There was a 30 minute wait for Cat in the Hat and Gaz was suffering another of his migraines he should have been a woman! Me and J went to ride and sent V & G to the first aid post for aspirin. We were on the ride in only 7 minutes and loved it. G & V were coming back from the first aid post when we came out the CitH I knew coz I called them on me new WTs. I sat with the boy with the sore head and no sense of humour while V & J rode CitH together too swirly for V wimp.
There was a 40 minute wait posted on 1 Fish 2 Fish and, judging by the line, this was accurate so we decided to miss the rides for tonight. Gaz wasnt happy, so no ride buddy for me and me feet were killing me. We hobbled round to get the feel of the place and left around 7ish to go to Belz.
If you remember, Gaz hadnt got to go into the Levi shop the other night so we headed there first. A shirt and 2 Ts for him and a T shirt for Dad (well I dont like to be missed out) and then we headed for the other Mall. There was a tent sale in between them and we thought to pass them by as it all looked like cheap tat. But Dad, theyve got Adidas and Nike ! My, he perked up quick enough. Another couple of Ts for him and his sister and we moved on.
Disney Character Warehouse next to stock up on 2000 pins for Julie to swap the CMs werent bothered how many she swapped. V treated herself to a Mickey in Safari suit pin for her hat coz its her favourite costume. We left Belz at 9.15 and decided to find a Perkins to try something different.
Intl Drive was murder two sets of roadworks and it seemed to take forever but we eventually pulled into Perkins at about 10ish. We agreed to use the i4 or JYP/Osceola routes from now on.
We all fancied seafood tonight so ordered 2x Captains Catch (D&J)- shrimp,cod,clams,onion rings,fries and dips and 2x SeaFood Platter (V&G) cod,fries,coleslaw and mayo. They were all very nice well cooked and presented and loads on the plates. We had 2x banana and cream pie (D&G),Lemon Meringue (V) and ice cream (J) for desert. The bill with drinks was $48 which we thought was very reasonable and agreed to do Perkins again.
We headed home for 11.30 and the three snorers were back to their unique sound within minutes. I sat up with a Bud and checked through me notes so far.
Its 12.15 now, Stranger and Im tired for some reason so Ill bid you goodnight. I hope something funny or disastrous happens tomorrow or Ill be losing even you me loyal Ill read anything Dave ,in the hope you split your head open or something friend.
