oRLANDO TRIP DAY 10 -

JODY71

Earning My Ears
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IT WAS DRY WHEN WE POKED OUR HEADS OUT. FORECAST WAS RAIN (FOR A CHANGE...).THE NEWS WAS SAYING HOW THIS IS THE DRY SEASON AND THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN IS UNUSUAL. TYPICALLY IT OCCURS ON MY TWO WEEK HOLIDAY....
SHANE COULDN'T GET UP AS WE HAD SERIOUSLY WORE HIM OUT AND WE ENDED UP RUSHING AROUND TO MEET THE TRANSFER.
WE WERE HEADING OF FOR OUR SECOND TIME AT THE MAGIC KINGDOM TO DO THE THINGS WE HHAD MISSED BEFORE. IT WAS RAINING AT THIS POINT, WE GOT THERE AS THE PARK OPENED AND IT WAS QUIET.
sHANE AND RICH WERE THE ONLY ONES ON THE TEA CUPS AT THE TIME AND WITH THE RAIN GETTING HEAVIER WE RODE SPEEDWAY. I LET SHANE DRIVE SO WE GOT JOSTLED ALL OVER THE TRACK AND GOT VERY WET - THANK GOD FOR PONCHOS. EVEN THO MINE WAS LOOKING A LITTLE WORSE FOR WEAR. WE LOVED THE BUZZ LIGHTYEAR RIDE AND HAD TO BE RODE AGIAN, THE QUEUES WERE VERY SMALL SO BLASTING ALIENS IS WHAT WE DID. I WON'T MENTION MY SCORE AS IT ISN'T WORTH MENTIONING NEEDLESS TO SAY MY DS OF 6 BET ME....
RICH WENT AND DID SPACE MOUNTAIN WHILST IT WAS QUIET WHILST SHANE AND I DID THE SHOPS.
NOW TO MY FAVOURITE BIT AND OFF TO TOONTOWN, ITS WAY COOL THERE. WE VISITED MINNIES HOUSE BUT SHE WASN'T IN, PLUTO WAS IN THE GARDEN THO. THE RAIN HAD STOPPED NOW LUCKILY AND WAS WARMING UP NICELY. THEN TO SEE THE MAIN MAN HIMSELF MICKEY'S HOUSE. HE HAD DONE IT LOVELY BUT HE WASN'T HOME BUT IN THE JUDGING TENT SO WE DECIDED TO HAVE A GROUP SHOT WITH THE 3 OF US AND THE BIG SPOT ON MY NOSE... TYPICAL.
WE HAD FORGOTTEN TO PICK SHANES AUTOGRAPH BOOK UP WHILST RUSHING AROUND AND WE MET CHARACTERS HE HADN'T GOT SO I WAS ANNOYED SHANE WASN'T BOTHERED. I WONDER WHO IS THE BIG KID AFTER ALL.
BELLYS A CALLING SO WENT BACK TO TOMORROWLAND TO THE STARLIGHT CAFE WHICH OFFERED A BETTER RANGE OF FOOD. I HAD A CEASER SALD AND DIDN'T LIKE IT SO THAT GOT WASTED.
I HAVE BEEN LIKE IT ALL HOLIDAY I HAVE BEEN THAT HUNGRY AND JUST PICKED AT MY FOOD. NO MATTER I WILL SURVIVE.
WE WERE OF TO GO RIDE SPLASH MOUNTAIN AGAIN AS SHANE LOVED IT ON THERE BUT THE PARADE TIME WAS NEARING SO WE JUST WALKES SPENT A WHILE IN THE CHRISTMAS SHOP WHICH I HAVE TO SAY IS VERY LOVELY.
WE WERE LATE QUEUING BUT STILL GOT A VERY GOOD SPOT. THE PARADE WAS GREAT AND MOST OF THE DISNEY CHARACTERS WERE INVOLVED IN THIS ON , THE GREAT BIG ABUBLES THEY WERE IN SET IT OFF A TREAT - BREATH TAKING.
I SAT SPLASH OUT AS I HAD MADE THE MISTAKE OF SITTING DOWN AND COULDN'T GET UP AGAIN... IT STARTED TO RAIN AT THIS POINT. TIME TO HIT THE SHOPS FOR THE LAST IME AND GET WHAT I NEEDED... YES NEEDED, THE THINGS I COULDN'T GO HOME WITH...
MADE THE TRANSFER WITH PLENTY OF TIME TO SPARE.
IT WAS JUST A SUB FOR DINNER AS NONE US WANTED MUCH. I KEEP THINKING OF A NICE ROAST DINNER WITH VEGATABLES. WA THERE ANYWHERE OTHER THAN SUPERMARKETS THAT SOLD VEG COOKED TO EAT. WORRYED ABOUT SCURVY.....

DAY 11

THE PLAN WAS TO CATCH THE 8:30 TRANSFER TO SEA WORLD BUT WE DIDN'T GET UP IN TIME. I THINK WE ARE AL SHATTERED NOW. WE DIDN'T BOTHER RUSHING AS IT WAS ONLY A 10 MIN WALK FROM THE HOTEL ANYWAY.
THE SUN WAS SHINING ANS WAS EALLY HOT....YAY!!! WE HAD OUR BREAKFAST AT THE HOTEL, THE USUAL 2 SLICES OF TOAST. IT WAS BUSY WHEN WE ARRIVED THE SUN HAVING BROUGHT MOST PEOPLE OUT. WE WENT TO VISIT THE DOLHIN NUSERY FIRST AND THEN TO THE CLYDE AND SEYMORE SHOW. THE PRE WARM UP WAS A MIMIC AND HE WAS TAKING THE P**S OUT OF EVERYONE WALKING IN TO THE SEATS. HE WAS SO FUNNY. THE SHOW IN ITSELF IS A MUST SEE AND HAD EVERYONE IN STITCHES FORM START TO END. THE SUN WAS BEAMING DOWN HOT AND FIRCE BUT AFTER WHAT WE HAD WE DIDN'T COMPLAIN.
ONTO FEEDING THE SEA-LIONS. $3 FOR 4 FISH, SHANE HAD TO HAVE SOME, IT MAD A NICE VIDEO MOMENT.
WE SPOTTED JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS, IT DIDN'T LOOK THAT BAD SO WE WENT ON, IT DID SAY YOU GOT WET IT SHOULD OF READ SOAKED. INSIDE IT WAS NICE THEN THE BIG DIP AND SQIRTERS THEN INSIDE AND ANOTHER BIG WET DIP. I THOUGHT HERE WE GO AGAIN MY KNICKERS COULD OF BEEN WRUNG OUT. RICH GOT THE FULL FORCE AT THE FRONT AND FROM HEAD TO TOE WAS SOAKED AND SHANE WASN'T MUCH DRYER. LUCKILY IT WAS STILL HOT AND WE WOULD DRY QUICKER. RICH RODE THE KRAKEN TWICE WHILST SHANE AND I FILLED UP WITH POPCORN BEFORE RACING AROUND FOR THE DOLPHIN SHOW.
THAT WAS GOOD WITH AN ELEMENT OF SUPRISE , IF YOUV'E NOT SEEN IT I WON'T SPOIL IT FOR YOU. THE DOLPHINS WERE VERY GOOD. CONTINUING AROUND WAS DOLPHIN COVE, 26 DOLPHINS SWIMMING AROUND AND WERE TOUCHABLE. I MANAGED TO STROKE ANOTHER DOLPHIN SO WAS HAPPY, DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE THIS SECTION BUT TIME WAS PASSING BY, I HAD TO JUST VISIT THE UNDERWATER VIEWING BEFORE MOVING ON.
WE WERE THEN ON A MISSION TO FIND THE POLAR BEARS, WE GOT LOST AND FOUND THE EXIT. THE TROPICAL REEF WAS NICE WITH UNUSAUL FISHES IN THERE.
THE WILD ARTIC WAS WHERE THE POLAR BEARS WERE, FIRST IT WAS A SIMULATOR RIDE OR WALK THRU AS IF YOU WERE ACTUALLY VISITING THE ARTIC. YOU ENTERED A COLD ROOM THAT WAS DUSK AND TO A WHALE ENCLOSURE. THE POLAR BEAR WAS ASLEEP SO WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE HIM SWIM IN THE UNDERWATER TANK.
WE CAME ACROSS A SHOW ABOUT TO START PETS AHOY, WHICH COMPISED OF MAINLY HOUSEHOLD PETS AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD SHOW. THE ANIMALS WERE WELL TRAINED AND I WAS THINKING I COULDN'T GET MY CAT TO DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS ESPECIALLY NOT FOR A TREAT.
WE TOOK A LAST LOOK IN THE SHOP AND I GOT A T-SHIRT. WE WALKED BACK TO THE HOTEL IN THE DARK BUT IT WAS OKAY.
RICHARD FANCIED A CHINESE SO WE WENT TO RESTURANT NEXT TO THE HOTEL. IT WAS A VERY NICE PLACE AND THE MEALS WAS BIG AND PLENTIFUL AND VERY NICE.

DAY 12

THE PLAN WAS A DAY OFF TO GO SHOPPING BUT AFTER LISTENING TO THE WEATHER OUR PLANS CHANGED.
IT WAS GOING TO BE REALLY WET ON THE AFTERNOON AND EVEN WORSE TOMORROW WHICH WOULD OF BEN UNIVERSAL DAY.
WE DECIDED TO GO TO MGM STUDIOS TODAY INSTEAD. IT WAS SPITTING WITH RAIN WHEN WE LEFT. THE 9:10 COACH FINALLY CAME AT 9:50 AND IT WAS A DIFFERENT TRANSFER COACH WE USUALLY WENT ON. WE GOT TO EPCOT AND ONTO A COACH TO MGM.
WE HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST SHOW AS IT WAS GONNA START. WE WERE ENTERTAINED BY A MALE VOCAL FORSOME CALLED "FOUR FOR A DOLLAR", THEY WERE ACCAPELLA AND WERE VERY GOOD. THE SHOW WAS ONLY HALF AN HOUR SO OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF STORY WASN'T INCLUDED, BUT THE BITS THAT WERE WERE ENOUGHT TO GET THE JIST. IT WAS BEAUTIFULLY SANG AND PLAYED.
WE TRYING TO FIND SOMEWHERE FOR BREAKFAST BUT THE INDIANA SHOW AS GONNA START SO I GRABBED A PRETZEL AND MUNCHED ON THAT BETWEEN US. THIS WAS OUR FIRST ONE AND NOBODY REALLY LIKED THEM.
THE SHOW WAS GOOD AND KEPT SHANE ENTERTAINED. IT WAS NEARING LUNCH SO THAT WAS ANOTHER BREAKFAST LOST. WE ATE THE STUNT CAFE. IT WAS TYPICALLY A MC DONALD TYPR PLACE. I HAD THE KIDDIES LUCNH SO I ALSO HAD A KIIDIES LUNCH BOX. I AN USE IT FOR WORK AND NOONE WILL BAT AN EYELID COS THEY ALL KNOW ME.
IT WAS PROPER HARD HEAVY RAIN BY NOW, MY PONCHO WAS STILL HANGING IN THERE, I WAS THE ONE IN YELLOW AMONG THE 1000 OF OTHER PEOPLE.
WE WAS NEAR THE 3D MUPPET SHOW AND IT WAS DRY. DIDN'T THINK MUCH OF THAT ON REALLY NOT BEING A BIG MUPPET FAN.
SHANE WAS MYTHERING TO GO TO HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS PLAYGROUND, DESPITE THE RAIN A KID HAD TO DO WHAT A KID HAD TO DO BUT NOT LONG. IT FELT LIKE WERE SMALL IN AMONG THE GRASS AND BIG BUGS. WE VENTURED INTO A TUNNEL WITH SHANE AND HAD TO BEND VERY SMALL TO GET OUT. BIG KIDS NEED A LIMIT...
AS WE CAME OUT WE WERE BY THE BACKLOT TOUR SO WE DID THAT, THE RAIN WAS COMING DOWN AND I WAS WORRIED ABOUT MISSING THE PARADE. WE SAW SOME OLD FILM VECHILES AND HOUSES AND EXPERIENCED AN EARTHQUAKE. THE PARDE WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE HEAVY RAIN. KNEW WE SHOULD OF GONE SHOPPING TODAY......
RICH WENT AND RODE THE TOWER OF TERROR WHILST WE WAITED IN THE SHOP. THEN SHANE AND I WENT TO SEE THE LILTTLE MERMAID SHOW, THAT WAS LOVELY.
WE RACED AROUND THE CORNER TO DO WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONARE, BUT WE JUST MISSED IT. WE DID FINALLY GET IN FOR THE NEXT SHOWING. IT WAS GOOD FUN, AN ENGLISH LADY GOT FIRST GO...YAY!!! THE BOYS COPIED MY ANSWERS AS I AM THE BRAINIEST....
DUSK WAS FALLING AND RICH HADN'T DONE HIS ROCK AND ROLLER COASTER RIDE YET SO WE HIT THE SHOP AND WAITED AND WAITED. THE FANTASMIC SHOW WAS GONNA START SO WE LEFT HIM. IF HAD A BRAIN HE WOULD KNOW WHERE WERE. SHANE AND I GOT THERE AND WAITED IN A SPOT WHERE HE WOULD SEE US. WE THEN GOT MOVED AS WE WERN'T ALLOWED TO STAND AT THE BACK OF THE SEATS. SO KNOW I COULDN'T SEE A THING, THEN I SAW A STRUT THET BELONGED TO RICH WHICH WAS GOOD THING AS EVERYONE BY NOW WAS IN A PONCHO. THE SHOW WAS REAL GOOD WITH THE LAZERS BUT NOT VIDEOABLE ON MY CAMERA SO I WILL JUST HAVE TO REMEBER THAT ONE.
WE LEFT THEN TO GO TO DOWNTOWN DISNEY THE RAIN WAS LIGHTER AND I DISCARDED MY PONCHO WHICH HAD SEEN ITS LAST. NO SOONER AS I HAD DONE THIS THE RAIN TOOK ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN AND WAS CLOD AND WETTER. I GOT DRENCHED FOR THE BUS DROP OFF TO THE SHOPS AND I HAD TO BUY A NEW PONCHO. WE WERE GONNA TREAT OURSLVES TOA RAINFOREST DINNER. THERE WERE ONLY OUTSIDE SEATS WHEN WE GOT THERE, AND NOTHING ON THEMENU I LIKED, BUT RICH WAS SETTLED. I LEFT HIM AND SHANE AND I WENT ON THE SEARCH FOR BETTER FOOD. THE RAIN EVEN HEAVIER NOW WAS BOUNCING OFF THE FLOOR AND PUDDLES WERE LIKE PONDS EVERYWHERE. MY TRAINERS WERE SOAKED I JUS WANTED TO GO HOME. SHANE AND I WENT INTO THE BAKERY AND THEY SOLD SANDWICHES AND SALADS SO WE SETTLED FOR THAT. RICH WAS THE MEETING SPOT WHEN WE LEFT AND WE WENT TO FIND A TAXI. WE MUST OF SOAKED THE SEATS WITH THE PONCHOS. I WANTED TO GET DRY AND WARM.
 
Jody

I hope the rain didn't spoil too much of your holiday:( I love the Beauty and the Beast show - my favourite :D

Kaylee
 















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