torsie24
Mummy to a perfect princess.
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Day 13
Today was meant to be 8am at CP. We set the alarm before going to sleep, and when I woke in the morning and I could see a glimpse of sun coming through the curtains my first thought was a word I can't post on this board!
It was 7.55am!
I woke up Jack with a rude word and then phoned Disney Dining to see if we could get an 8am tomorrow (our last day) No luck.
I apologised profusely to the lady and I think she felt quite sorry for me as I was still half asleep and couldn't get my words out in the right order!
We then saw a light on our phone which meant the intercom was on, and that we had a message from a lovely lady at front desk saying our phone was engaged when stitch and mickey tried to wake us up.
Turns out when Jack set the wake up call he'd used speaker phone and it hadn't been turned off properly.
I was pretty upset but poor Jack felt guilty for hours! I knew we'd be back for the wedding soon, so it wasn't too bad, I just felt worse for not using the space when someone else might have really needed it that day!
Drama over we got up and washed and ready and headed out to the MK anyway.
We didn't arrive too late after rope drop. We checked out everything in the Emporium, and I was very amused to see the Mayor in there chatting to people, what a nice touch! I was too nervous to go say 'hi' but I wish I had!
Our first ride of the day was:
Followed by rides on Splash and BTM and then finally onto my I-must-ride-each-tripbut-Jack-isn't-a-fan ride. The paddleboat! I'm not sure why Jack doesn't like it as much as me! I find it so charming and Disney, maybe it's because my Mum likes it so much and when she took me to DLRP when I was younger we rode everyday.
It's funny, when you're used to the Disneyland Paris Phantom Manor:
The first time you see Haunted Mansion you think"that's not scary looking" but it really grew on us! (As you can tell by the amount of photos we took!)
After the boat ride we headed over to Fantasyland as I was desperate to re-ride Philharmagic. First of all we grabbed FPs for Pooh as I wanted to play with the smoke ring again! On the way over I said to Jack "we haven't got any surprise fastpasses yet" and guess what happened when we got our Pooh ones! Philharmagic FPs! I was super excited as it's my favourite ride and they are great for my scrapbook! (There wasn't a line, so we got to keep them.)
We enjoyed Philharmagic again, I could go on like 10 times a day!
Afterwards I bought a pin (each trip I buy a favourite ride pin, and a resort pin of where we stayed), we had a quick drink break, and then it was pooh time!
I was super excited as we got a hunny pot to ourselves so I could really attack that smoke ring without feeling guilty for ruing somebody elses ride enjoyment. (I know, it's weird, but for some reason I love it!) So we get to the heffalump part, I get super excited, there is the "hoof" of the ring blowy guy - but no smoke!!!!
Jack found this very amusing, and although I was slight disappointed we both had a lot of fun!
On through to Discoveryland next where I was keen to see Monsters Inc but Jack wasn't convinced. There wasn't much of a wait, so I won, and we both really loved it!
Also while in line we took the "photo of Torsie by a small door" of the trip (we do this every vacation, it started in Poland where there was a tiny door in a castle we were in and Jack found it hilarious and since we've found small doors on every trip we've taken.)
A family in line with us obviously thought it was something from the movie as we were both so excited over the tiny door so they then all took turns posing by it!
Once we were done with the comedy we headed back to Main Street as it was getting close to parade time and we wanted a good spot.
When we got to the hub the Dream along with Mickey show was on, so we watched that for a while until. I don't like the blinky eyes!
We headed down Main Street looking for a space, but all the ones in the shade were taken. Luckily we found two seats up in the station, which was a great spot!
Pretty soon it was parade time!
We thought it was a great parade, and we knew the song already so we enjoyed singing along.
Sadly my camera ran out of battery so that was all the photos I had for the day!
Once the parade was over we headed out of the park and got the boat over to the Floridian. I wanted to see our reception location as we'd decided for certain that was the one, but sadly when we got there a convention was sing it, so we could only admire it a little from the outside. I also got to meet the super friendly, famous greeter man from the GF, but no photo! Drn camera!
I was so excited to see him and we had a great chat about the car outside. I wish we could have it as our wedding car!
We walked along to the wedding pavillion to have another look. When we got there I was happy to see no wedding were taking place that day and we popped in to Francs to ask if it was OK to go have another look. The lady on reception remembered us from our planning session and told us to take all the time we needed. Once again we weren't quite ready for how beautiful it is, I took a little video, and we both got a little choked up!
Afterwards we walked the path to the Poly and carried on walking to the TTC as I wanted to ride the EPCOT monorail through the park. We almost missed a train but the nice conductor held the doors for us and we got an entire carriage to ourselves as it was a really quiet time of day!
I saw a gator from the monorail, Jack was very jealous! And we both loved seeing Futureworld from above.
When we were done we headed over to the bus stop and waited for an AKL bus. (We like EPCOT as AKL is the first bus stop that you get to when walking!)
Pretty soon we were back at the resort and had time for a quick relax in the hottub and some Pibb Xtra before it was time to get all dressed up for our romantic meal of the trip - Jiko!
We checked in and had to wait for 5-10 minutes at the bar. Once we were seated we browsed the menus and were brought some really really delicious curried ginger soup to have while we decided. It was delicious and both us and the ladies next to us asked if we could order it, but we couldn't! I think it might have been amde for Boma, or sommething new the chef was trying?
We shared a BBQ flatbread to start, which was delicious!
For our main I had the Swahili Curry shrimp with coconut rice. Mmm, it was the best meal I'd had all trip! I love big prawns, and the veg was so fresh and lovely. It was the perfect meal for me!
Jack had the Halibut which he loved!
For once I has room for dessert!! I had the pistachio creme brulee! YUM! (I think Jack was sad I ate it all!) And as he can never turn down cheesecake, he had the Tanzanian chocolate cheesecake. His rating? Great as it's a cheesecake, but not as good as some of the other cheesecakes of the trip.
We really really enjoyed our meal, and had a lovely relaxing night. It was nice to have a slow down but still enjoy great food. Not having to leave the resort makes a real difference I think.
Up next: Our last full Disney day!
Today was meant to be 8am at CP. We set the alarm before going to sleep, and when I woke in the morning and I could see a glimpse of sun coming through the curtains my first thought was a word I can't post on this board!
It was 7.55am!
I woke up Jack with a rude word and then phoned Disney Dining to see if we could get an 8am tomorrow (our last day) No luck.
I apologised profusely to the lady and I think she felt quite sorry for me as I was still half asleep and couldn't get my words out in the right order!We then saw a light on our phone which meant the intercom was on, and that we had a message from a lovely lady at front desk saying our phone was engaged when stitch and mickey tried to wake us up.
Turns out when Jack set the wake up call he'd used speaker phone and it hadn't been turned off properly.
I was pretty upset but poor Jack felt guilty for hours! I knew we'd be back for the wedding soon, so it wasn't too bad, I just felt worse for not using the space when someone else might have really needed it that day!
Drama over we got up and washed and ready and headed out to the MK anyway.
We didn't arrive too late after rope drop. We checked out everything in the Emporium, and I was very amused to see the Mayor in there chatting to people, what a nice touch! I was too nervous to go say 'hi' but I wish I had!
Our first ride of the day was:
Followed by rides on Splash and BTM and then finally onto my I-must-ride-each-tripbut-Jack-isn't-a-fan ride. The paddleboat! I'm not sure why Jack doesn't like it as much as me! I find it so charming and Disney, maybe it's because my Mum likes it so much and when she took me to DLRP when I was younger we rode everyday.
It's funny, when you're used to the Disneyland Paris Phantom Manor:
The first time you see Haunted Mansion you think"that's not scary looking" but it really grew on us! (As you can tell by the amount of photos we took!)
After the boat ride we headed over to Fantasyland as I was desperate to re-ride Philharmagic. First of all we grabbed FPs for Pooh as I wanted to play with the smoke ring again! On the way over I said to Jack "we haven't got any surprise fastpasses yet" and guess what happened when we got our Pooh ones! Philharmagic FPs! I was super excited as it's my favourite ride and they are great for my scrapbook! (There wasn't a line, so we got to keep them.)
We enjoyed Philharmagic again, I could go on like 10 times a day!
Afterwards I bought a pin (each trip I buy a favourite ride pin, and a resort pin of where we stayed), we had a quick drink break, and then it was pooh time!
I was super excited as we got a hunny pot to ourselves so I could really attack that smoke ring without feeling guilty for ruing somebody elses ride enjoyment. (I know, it's weird, but for some reason I love it!) So we get to the heffalump part, I get super excited, there is the "hoof" of the ring blowy guy - but no smoke!!!!
Jack found this very amusing, and although I was slight disappointed we both had a lot of fun!On through to Discoveryland next where I was keen to see Monsters Inc but Jack wasn't convinced. There wasn't much of a wait, so I won, and we both really loved it!
Also while in line we took the "photo of Torsie by a small door" of the trip (we do this every vacation, it started in Poland where there was a tiny door in a castle we were in and Jack found it hilarious and since we've found small doors on every trip we've taken.)
A family in line with us obviously thought it was something from the movie as we were both so excited over the tiny door so they then all took turns posing by it!
Once we were done with the comedy we headed back to Main Street as it was getting close to parade time and we wanted a good spot.
When we got to the hub the Dream along with Mickey show was on, so we watched that for a while until. I don't like the blinky eyes!
We headed down Main Street looking for a space, but all the ones in the shade were taken. Luckily we found two seats up in the station, which was a great spot!
Pretty soon it was parade time!
We thought it was a great parade, and we knew the song already so we enjoyed singing along.
Sadly my camera ran out of battery so that was all the photos I had for the day!
Once the parade was over we headed out of the park and got the boat over to the Floridian. I wanted to see our reception location as we'd decided for certain that was the one, but sadly when we got there a convention was sing it, so we could only admire it a little from the outside. I also got to meet the super friendly, famous greeter man from the GF, but no photo! Drn camera!
I was so excited to see him and we had a great chat about the car outside. I wish we could have it as our wedding car!
We walked along to the wedding pavillion to have another look. When we got there I was happy to see no wedding were taking place that day and we popped in to Francs to ask if it was OK to go have another look. The lady on reception remembered us from our planning session and told us to take all the time we needed. Once again we weren't quite ready for how beautiful it is, I took a little video, and we both got a little choked up!
Afterwards we walked the path to the Poly and carried on walking to the TTC as I wanted to ride the EPCOT monorail through the park. We almost missed a train but the nice conductor held the doors for us and we got an entire carriage to ourselves as it was a really quiet time of day!
I saw a gator from the monorail, Jack was very jealous! And we both loved seeing Futureworld from above.
When we were done we headed over to the bus stop and waited for an AKL bus. (We like EPCOT as AKL is the first bus stop that you get to when walking!)
Pretty soon we were back at the resort and had time for a quick relax in the hottub and some Pibb Xtra before it was time to get all dressed up for our romantic meal of the trip - Jiko!
We checked in and had to wait for 5-10 minutes at the bar. Once we were seated we browsed the menus and were brought some really really delicious curried ginger soup to have while we decided. It was delicious and both us and the ladies next to us asked if we could order it, but we couldn't! I think it might have been amde for Boma, or sommething new the chef was trying?
We shared a BBQ flatbread to start, which was delicious!
For our main I had the Swahili Curry shrimp with coconut rice. Mmm, it was the best meal I'd had all trip! I love big prawns, and the veg was so fresh and lovely. It was the perfect meal for me!
Jack had the Halibut which he loved!
For once I has room for dessert!! I had the pistachio creme brulee! YUM! (I think Jack was sad I ate it all!) And as he can never turn down cheesecake, he had the Tanzanian chocolate cheesecake. His rating? Great as it's a cheesecake, but not as good as some of the other cheesecakes of the trip.
We really really enjoyed our meal, and had a lovely relaxing night. It was nice to have a slow down but still enjoy great food. Not having to leave the resort makes a real difference I think.
Up next: Our last full Disney day!
