Laurafoster
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2005
Monday 18th December;
We woke up quite early – we were flying home today. We had been given a 2pm checkout which was great as the coach was picking us up at 2:15pm to go to the airport. We head out of our room to the concierge lounge to have breakfast. Our room was on the same floor which was nice. After we had eaten breakfast we headed to the Magic Kingdom for the last time. I couldn’t believe how crowded it was today! There were huge queues for every ride! We grabbed some fast passes for Buzz Lightyear and went off to do Space Mountain. Afterwards we got an ice cream on main street and sat down by the water to eat it. We then wandered through the shops on Main Street and headed back to the Grand Floridian. We had some snacks in the concierge lounge as I always get some lunch at the airport to kill time! We went back to the room – had a shower and got changed into something more comfy for travelling home in and headed downstairs to check out. Check out was quick and we left our case with Bell Services. We had about another hour before the coach would be picking us up so we decided to go and sit and have a drink outside by the marina.
It felt like no sooner had we sat down than it was time to leave! We picked up our case and went outside to wait for the coach – the coach turned up on time and we were soon on our way back to the airport. The queue at Check in was pretty empty and we got checked in really quickly. We had a walk through some of the shops before deciding to head through to departures! We got through pretty quickly and headed straight for the duty free shops! We picked up some Jack Daniels for my Dad and a Brandy for my mum and some more perfume for me! We paid for those and headed over to the other shop to get some snacks and bottles of water for on the flight and Gary picked up a couple of sports Magazines to read on the flight. By this time we were getting pretty hungry so we headed to the Outback Steakhouse for some lunch – this place does great Chicken Wings!! We got a seat looking out onto the runway and had a leisurely lunch and drink. It was getting on a bit and our check in had opened so we got the bill and the waitress had forgotten to put our drinks on it – so the good moral people that we are left her a nice tip and legged it!!
We went to the loo and picked up our duty free and got on the plane – we had a plane with the games so Gary was pleased! I was pleased as we had one of thoses rows of 2 at the back. The plane was pretty empty so we moved our stuff across and took up 2 rows of 4 at the back so we could both have a sleep on the way back! We ate our dinner and both fell asleep for several hours – I woke up just as they were serving the rather questionable breakfast – because of the wind our flight had been under 8 hours on the way back which was super! We got freshened up and we landed right on time!
We got through customs really quickly and I couldn’t believe my luck when our case was first off – we were out of the airport in no time and our taxi was ready waiting for us! We were home in about 2 hours and I thought great I can go to bed – Not So!!
When we got home we noticed that we had a big damp patch on the ceiling in our Dining Room – and through in the kitchen. We went upstairs and pulled back the laminate floor in the bathroom and noticed that the floor was all wet. A pipe from our shower had broken and had been leaking whilst we were away! So we had an exciting call to a Plumber and our insurance company before we could finally go to bed! A wet welcome back to reality!!
We woke up quite early – we were flying home today. We had been given a 2pm checkout which was great as the coach was picking us up at 2:15pm to go to the airport. We head out of our room to the concierge lounge to have breakfast. Our room was on the same floor which was nice. After we had eaten breakfast we headed to the Magic Kingdom for the last time. I couldn’t believe how crowded it was today! There were huge queues for every ride! We grabbed some fast passes for Buzz Lightyear and went off to do Space Mountain. Afterwards we got an ice cream on main street and sat down by the water to eat it. We then wandered through the shops on Main Street and headed back to the Grand Floridian. We had some snacks in the concierge lounge as I always get some lunch at the airport to kill time! We went back to the room – had a shower and got changed into something more comfy for travelling home in and headed downstairs to check out. Check out was quick and we left our case with Bell Services. We had about another hour before the coach would be picking us up so we decided to go and sit and have a drink outside by the marina.
It felt like no sooner had we sat down than it was time to leave! We picked up our case and went outside to wait for the coach – the coach turned up on time and we were soon on our way back to the airport. The queue at Check in was pretty empty and we got checked in really quickly. We had a walk through some of the shops before deciding to head through to departures! We got through pretty quickly and headed straight for the duty free shops! We picked up some Jack Daniels for my Dad and a Brandy for my mum and some more perfume for me! We paid for those and headed over to the other shop to get some snacks and bottles of water for on the flight and Gary picked up a couple of sports Magazines to read on the flight. By this time we were getting pretty hungry so we headed to the Outback Steakhouse for some lunch – this place does great Chicken Wings!! We got a seat looking out onto the runway and had a leisurely lunch and drink. It was getting on a bit and our check in had opened so we got the bill and the waitress had forgotten to put our drinks on it – so the good moral people that we are left her a nice tip and legged it!!
We went to the loo and picked up our duty free and got on the plane – we had a plane with the games so Gary was pleased! I was pleased as we had one of thoses rows of 2 at the back. The plane was pretty empty so we moved our stuff across and took up 2 rows of 4 at the back so we could both have a sleep on the way back! We ate our dinner and both fell asleep for several hours – I woke up just as they were serving the rather questionable breakfast – because of the wind our flight had been under 8 hours on the way back which was super! We got freshened up and we landed right on time!
We got through customs really quickly and I couldn’t believe my luck when our case was first off – we were out of the airport in no time and our taxi was ready waiting for us! We were home in about 2 hours and I thought great I can go to bed – Not So!!
When we got home we noticed that we had a big damp patch on the ceiling in our Dining Room – and through in the kitchen. We went upstairs and pulled back the laminate floor in the bathroom and noticed that the floor was all wet. A pipe from our shower had broken and had been leaking whilst we were away! So we had an exciting call to a Plumber and our insurance company before we could finally go to bed! A wet welcome back to reality!!
its was a lovely read and im looking forward to your next report
