If I press the back button can we go to Orlando again?... last update 4/10

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Man that was a long flight! I think our flight to Hawaii took about the same amount of time.

Did you have to buy a seat for Angel, or did she (?) share it with you?

Was it torture seeing that ME bus in Orlando? I'm glad the hotel was able to switch your rooms- and it was fairly clean.

Thanks for all the great pics from Universal! What is Butterbeer? I've never heard of that. I think Juliana will like the Seuss section... we read those books all the time.

M&M world is cool huh? Did you goto the one in Times Square?

Your first step into MK was for MNSSHP???? AWESOME!!!!!!

How neat that you just happen to bump into the 'Hag' (as you would put it!) while you were dressed as Snow White!

I'm glad you had a great time at the party! I wish we went again this year.

Can't wait to hear more!

 

[petals]

Man that was a long flight! I think our flight to Hawaii took about the same amount of time.

Did you have to buy a seat for Angel, or did she (?) share it with you?

Was it torture seeing that ME bus in Orlando? I'm glad the hotel was able to switch your rooms- and it was fairly clean.

Thanks for all the great pics from Universal! What is Butterbeer? I've never heard of that. I think Juliana will like the Seuss section... we read those books all the time.

M&M world is cool huh? Did you goto the one in Times Square?

Your first step into MK was for MNSSHP???? AWESOME!!!!!!

How neat that you just happen to bump into the 'Hag' (as you would put it!) while you were dressed as Snow White!

I'm glad you had a great time at the party! I wish we went again this year.

Can't wait to hear more!

Angel's a he.. I dunno why lol! He hid in my carry on bag though and only came out when we were on the plane.

Butterbeer is one of the drinks mentioned in the Harry Potter books so it's now exclusively available in Hogsmeade in IOA! Seuss landing is cute. I was more into it this time than last time because the musical society I'm in did a Production of Seussical last April... I was a who! lol

M&M's world was brill we did go to the one in New York as well. It was huge!

Yeah MNSSHP was first disney day of the trip it was brill and we did nearly bump into the hag I wasn't looking for her and she was beside me and mam was like oh look at that so I lined up for pics lol!

 

[petals]

Haven't done one for a while so thought I'd throw in another day from our trip. This one is a very short report day though as it was rest day!

Day 4 we went shopping it was a "rest day" as such lol. We went to Premium outlets and I don't think we got alot there at all but Mam wanted to go to mass and there was a church there so it served two purposes.. I took some pics as well lol! I liked this the best.. Rest were inside the church.

When we got back to hotel that night we were both in need of catching up on sleep and tempers were flairing so not very good and then we had an unwanted visitor... Mid discussion a cockroach started to climb up the wall and well I ended up on the far end of the room in about 3 seconds shouting GET RID OF IT GET RID OF IT and didn't sleep much that night as I was afraid there was more in the room.. Big baby in fact got up and looked under everything and in every corner to make sure there wasn't and because it came from where I left my suitcase moved my suitcase... It was my fourth time in Florida and first time ever to see a cockroach and I do not like creepy crawlies so wasn't a happy chick going to bed that night...

 

[that's nice]

Rest days are key to recharge the batteries. We try to fit one or two into our trips.. key word TRY!

Sorry you got to see a Florida cockroach... I hate those things!

 

[petals]

Rest days are key to recharge the batteries. We try to fit one or two into our trips.. key word TRY!

Sorry you got to see a Florida cockroach... I hate those things!

Recharge batteries spend money on new clothes all the one

Yeah I totally freaked out.. First time I've seen a cockroach in Florida.. Lizards I can handle but creepies naw! Hate them! Mam had some sort of insect spray which she sprayed all around the door after that as well

 

[petals]

I haven't forgotten to finish this lol! Just been a bit busy and had to delete the pics off the computer as I make the holiday dvd... I'm only on day two of that though so when I finish day two I'll have the next pics back up which will be Seaworld.

In the meantime I got a photopass photo book with all my photos in it but on one page the pictures had been put in wrong. I contacted disney but they're basically not going to do anything which is disappointing but sure what can ya do.

Right now it's SNOWING but I got to go zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz as I'm working in 8 hours

 

[petals]

Tiggers looking a bit cold today... it's still SNOWING

 

[that's nice]

Tigger does seem a bit chilly! I'll be back to catch up when we get back from WDW!!!!!!

 

[petals]

will be back tomorrow to continue the trip report.. busy time in work and such and then I have a new baby nephew to make into a disney fan but Seaworld update tomorrow

 

[mymainmouse]

Looking forward to reading about Sea World!

 

[petals]

So as promised continuing with the trip report...

Day 5 we went to:

Again we took the iride as it was cheaper than the hotel bus to the park and we could come back whenever we wanted.
When we arrived I was very happy and over excited to see this dude standing getting pictures taken with guests:

I haven't seen him since I was like ten so of course ran over for a pic. Then picked up a shamu bowl of choc chip cookies before heading over to watch two of my favourite Sealions Clyde and Seamore:

Funny point in the show where they were trying to get Sealion to kind of scream as if he was afraid and Sealion just kept looking at them doing nothing... we all have off days I suppose!
Anyways after the show we went down to Sealion feeding area where there was one funny little fella making alot of noise about wanting fish:

I tend to do alot of wandering in parks like Seaworld where I don't want to do any of the rides so after the Sealion show went to check out the penguins, sharks and manatees:

Then went to see my favourites the dolphins there was loads of them around and coming over to the guests. I guess it was near their feeding time or something:

After petting the dolphins for a while we went to watch Blue Horizons show:

Then headed to Pets Ahoy where I got a little distracted as our video camera stopped working... film problem so I've no pics there
After the show we went off to try sort the video camera and found a shop with tapes to suit our camera so once that was all sorted we went wandering again. We went over to the stingrays as last time we were there we had hotdogs and fries there but they've changed their menu a bit so no fries this time.. Was funny there in 2008 my mum got french fries but picked up the salt and sugar things without her glasses and put sugar on the fries by mistake. Least we couldn't make same mistake this time. Anyways after feeding ourselves a little we went wandering again and I found this guy who I've never seen before:

I went to wild artic as well where one of the male beluga's was beinga lot naughty and well less said the better but got nice polar bear pic from my video

We saved the best show for last and of course went to see Shamu:

I wanted to cry at it though. They've had to cut so much out of the show and there was obvious new safety features added since the accident with the trainer it just made it a little bit sad.
After the show though I was delighted to finally find the underwater viewing area for the killer whales. I've searched for that every time we've gone and either ran out of time or just couldn't find it but this time found it and got piccies

I only actually spotted the little guy in the background of that second pic as I was editing it tonight. Thought it was cool though..
At that point the park was closed so we headed for the gates and picked up the souvenirs we wanted on the way and I snapped this pic which I thought was pretty cool:

When we got back to the hotel we decided to go for a walk up international drive to find somewhere to eat and went into Pizza Hut. Food was great but woah the waitress was seriously not a happy camper. I noticed one family had sat down ahead of us without the waitress inviting them to sit. They sat at a dirty table and the waitress saw them but instead of clearing their table she cleared the one behind her. The man asked her if she could clear the table they were at and she told him they should move to the table behind them. She then ignored them and wouldn't take their order. The got up to leave and the man started giving out to her about her attitude and she was like it's not my problem who in their right mind goes into any restaurant and choses to sit at a dirty table if you had of waited to be seated like you should have I would be more than happy to help you. I was kinda taken back by it as all he asked her to do was take away the dirty dishes so they could sit at that table which I would have thought was her job anyway?!
Anyways pizza hut aside we went shopping and to bed zzzzzzz

Next up Animal Kingdom

 

[mymainmouse]

Great update! Your pictures are awesome.

 

[petals]

Great update! Your pictures are awesome.

Thanks I tend to be a bit snap happy.. Ended up with something like 1900 pics after two weeks in America.

 

[petals]

I'm disgusted lol... Sketchers have opened a store in Dublin which means all my exclusive American shoes and boots are now for sale in Ireland lol... I'm messing with the disgust btw but on the plus side as well they're still like miles cheaper in america eg: boots I got for like 40 dollars are like 86 dollars over here and that's sale price plus my super childish but fantabulous twinkle toes are all only available in baby sizes over here

 

[mymainmouse]

Thanks I tend to be a bit snap happy.. Ended up with something like 1900 pics after two weeks in America.

You can never have enough pictures!

I'm disgusted lol... Sketchers have opened a store in Dublin which means all my exclusive American shoes and boots are now for sale in Ireland lol... I'm messing with the disgust btw but on the plus side as well they're still like miles cheaper in america eg: boots I got for like 40 dollars are like 86 dollars over here and that's sale price plus my super childish but fantabulous twinkle toes are all only available in baby sizes over here

I just bought a pair of Skechers this fall. I really like them. They are pretty comfortable. They are brown though so I am sure they aren't as fantabulous as yours are.

 

[petals]

I just bought a pair of Skechers this fall. I really like them. They are pretty comfortable. They are brown though so I am sure they aren't as fantabulous as yours are.

I buy the kids ones so they've got glitter and sparkly stuff on them lol! Big child really

 

[that's nice]

Love the pictures from SW!!!!!

We missed the sea lion show and I wish we went to see it. We LOVED Blue Horizons! Glad you got to see the stuffed Shamu... we got to see him (her?) too!!!!

 

[petals]

Love the pictures from SW!!!!!

We missed the sea lion show and I wish we went to see it. We LOVED Blue Horizons! Glad you got to see the stuffed Shamu... we got to see him (her?) too!!!!

We did sealions first and Shamu last so fit everything else in around it!

I think Shamu is male btw
Shamu is the coolest though but it made me so sad to see how many cut backs they had because of the accident with the trainer.

 

[petals]

Update Update lol! I'm a little slow with these (computer problems)
Anyways:
Day 6 was Animal Kingdom

We got the hotel bus which was 7 dollars round trip but left a little early. In the mornings you could leave at 8.15 or 12.30 and in evenings you could come back at 6.30, 9.30 or 10.30 so we left on the earlier bus for disney. The hotel bus would drop off at Epcot only so we then had to get a disney bus to wherever we wanted to go.
But by 9.30 we had arrived here:

We had no real plan so while we were deciding we just rambled some of the stores we came across and I took pics as usual:

Then we decided to get breakfast before we actually went any where so after asking a cast members advice we went off to Pizzafari. It was fairly quiet that early in the morning so didn't take long to get the food. I got the breakfast with Sausage and took a food pic :O

The food was decent and not to pricey for disney either but my mam thought I was going a bit mad taking pics of food but I explained to her it's what the disers do and she didn't ask anymore questions.. I think she was sick of me going oh I read this on dis boards and that on dis boards and someone on dis said this was cool lol!
Anyways I took some pics of the inside of the restaurant because I thought it was pretty cool:

these dudes were all over the ceiling

Next up I decided it was time to go met some disney friends so we headed off to:

On the way we spotted Donald fishing but he wasn't having much luck that morning:

It was another hot hot day so mam decided to find a shaded bench to sit under while I went off in search of characters.
You may remember my Rose pen from earlier on in the thread I was using it as my autograph pen and it was proving a hit with some characters and others not so much.. It made poor little Meeko sneeze when I met him.
Donald on the other hand liked it and let on he was giving it back to me as a flower (this pic is from the photopass pics)

The longest character queue was for this dude:

but it was worth the wait and there was a guy going around entertaining the crowd picking random people and singing made up songs with their name in it so you didn't really notice the long wait.
This is one of my favourite pics from Animal Kingdom

 

[petals]

Meeting all the characters took about 2 hours which was really long but it was fun interacting with the characters so worth it maybe?!
Anyway after I found my mother again we taking a little detour through the gardens around the tree to see the plants and such beforeheaded for flights of wonder in Asia:

After that we decided it was time for disney treats and had one of these:

He was yummy but I felt bad eating Mickey's face lol! We spotted Baloo and King Louie then so were going to get more character pics but the CM closed the line as we got there and said Baloo had to go get ready for the parade that was two hours away!! On our stroll away from Baloo and towards Africa I spotted this in the trees:

I thought maybe some funny diser had left it there?? Was it you?

As we came into Africa these dudes were playing music and had people up dancing so we stayed to watch for a while

Before we headed for Kilimanjaro Safari. The queue for this wasn't long at all I think there was a 5 or 10 minute wait time but it was pretty much walk on as it moved really quickly... some pics:

Mam said to me look at the giraffe... I couldn't see it she said take a picture of that tree so i did and I found the giraffe in the picture. (I think the heat was going to my head lol)

Simba was out enjoying the sun:

and this dude was so close you could touch him:

After the safari we went off to explore the pangani forest trail and there was a little baby gorilla: