Lizzy Lemon
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Monday 3rd August 2009
Caught a taxi to DTD to drop off the luggage. I think they opened at 8.15am. We arrived at approaching 8am and were quite a way down the queue, the staff were getting organised - very slowly. They looked ready to go but decided to stand around talking instead, eventually without a smile between them they started the proceedings. Fine end to the holiday, they looked as miserable as we felt at the thought of going home. VA had changed our seat allocation to bulkhead. We had been allocated three seats by a window and an aisle seat on the same row months ago by special needs department. I do like a window seat but the lady checking us in said at least we will have more leg room, which we did, it was nice being able to stand up and stretch our legs just in front of our seats but I found sleep impossible in these seats. At least in a window seat you can rest your head against the side of the plane. We went to look for a taxi to take us back to the Poly to leave the hand luggage at the hotel but couldn't find one so called Mears to come and pick us up at Disney Quest. We went to spend the rest of the morning at MK, we saw Pirate Tutorial, POTC ride, Jungle Cruise, Shake It parade and finally had lunch at Cosmic Rays.
Had our last photopass picture taken in front of the castle.
Ashley was starting to look really fed up and I'm afraid I got quite upset here, we'd had a lot of him keep wanting to stay in the room playing on his PSP all holiday, I couldn't believe him not making the most of our time in Florida, he had got another 5 weeks at home ahead of him to relax before returning to school. When Ashley has a miserable moment it's very hard to get him out of it and I'd just had enough and the tears started. I tried to hide in the back of a shop having a good feeling sorry for myself moment before venturing out, turned round and Ashley has disappeared. We'd got a couple of hours before our taxi was picking us up from the hotel and I'd got visions of searching MK frantically looking for him. He was hiding sheepishly in the shop, I didn't know whether to hug him or yell at him. I did neither just made my way to the monorail with the others following.
Our last sighting of MK.
Fetched a drink from Capt Cooks and sat and watched the boys have a swim.
It was so hot this afternoon even though they had nothing to change into for the journey home they dried so quickly they were fine.
I had kept a clean t-shirt to change into which I was thankful for as I didn't have a cooling dip in the pool. FL Tours picked us up promptly for our return journey to the airport and we were asking the driver where he went for his holidays and what the coast of Florida is like. If the boys didn't want to come to Disney again John and I were determined to find somewhere in Florida to go!
Arrived at the airport and went straight to the TV screens to see the flight was going to be on time.
Last look around the gift shops.
Wish we were going the other way.
Virginia Plain brought us home, we travelled on this one in 2007.
Passed some time having a coffee and Ashley with his Nintendo, happy that he's now got permission to play on it for hours.
On the plane - playing more games! The sunset was beautiful, someone would lift the window blind and flood the plane with the most beautiful colours and would promptly put it back down again. It seemed hardly anytime at all and the same thing happened with the sunrise. It's a truly wonderful sight from up there above the clouds.
Trying to do the impossible, sleep vertically!
I gave up in the end, luckily the journey passed quickly, I don't remember watching a film as nothing interesting was on, they were the same films as the outbound flight and nothing appealed. The one thing I can remember is an awful smell around the cabin not long before landing. They were serving breakfast and the staff came down one aisle handed Glen and Ashley a heated wrapped roll consisting of scrambled eggs and slice of processed ham, didn't come on a tray it was just handed to them. One sniff, one look and they handed them to me which I then handed to John who proceeded to eat both of them. Consequently when the stewardess came down the other aisle we refused ours. We were then served a coffee. I can't describe the smell, it was awful I thought someone had been taken ill. I work on a hospital ward and thought I was used to strange smells but that took some beating!!!! Arrived back to a rainy Manchester (does it ever stop raining there?) through immigration, bag pick up and on the way to pick up the car from the Radisson by 7.45am. Went slightly wrong on the journey back as they had set up a diversion on the motorway and we didn't follow it properly but got back on track and were back home by 9.30am. Seemed so strange to be arriving back home at the beginning of a day, started on the unpacking straight away, had a load in the washing maching before you could blink and passed the rest of the day in a haze before admitting defeat and heading to bed at 8pm. John had to be back at work for 5am the following morning. Back to normality with alarming speed. Thanks everyone for sticking with my reports, your kind comments have been much appreciated. Hopefully see you next year with a Florida coastal trippie.
Caught a taxi to DTD to drop off the luggage. I think they opened at 8.15am. We arrived at approaching 8am and were quite a way down the queue, the staff were getting organised - very slowly. They looked ready to go but decided to stand around talking instead, eventually without a smile between them they started the proceedings. Fine end to the holiday, they looked as miserable as we felt at the thought of going home. VA had changed our seat allocation to bulkhead. We had been allocated three seats by a window and an aisle seat on the same row months ago by special needs department. I do like a window seat but the lady checking us in said at least we will have more leg room, which we did, it was nice being able to stand up and stretch our legs just in front of our seats but I found sleep impossible in these seats. At least in a window seat you can rest your head against the side of the plane. We went to look for a taxi to take us back to the Poly to leave the hand luggage at the hotel but couldn't find one so called Mears to come and pick us up at Disney Quest. We went to spend the rest of the morning at MK, we saw Pirate Tutorial, POTC ride, Jungle Cruise, Shake It parade and finally had lunch at Cosmic Rays.
Had our last photopass picture taken in front of the castle.
Ashley was starting to look really fed up and I'm afraid I got quite upset here, we'd had a lot of him keep wanting to stay in the room playing on his PSP all holiday, I couldn't believe him not making the most of our time in Florida, he had got another 5 weeks at home ahead of him to relax before returning to school. When Ashley has a miserable moment it's very hard to get him out of it and I'd just had enough and the tears started. I tried to hide in the back of a shop having a good feeling sorry for myself moment before venturing out, turned round and Ashley has disappeared. We'd got a couple of hours before our taxi was picking us up from the hotel and I'd got visions of searching MK frantically looking for him. He was hiding sheepishly in the shop, I didn't know whether to hug him or yell at him. I did neither just made my way to the monorail with the others following.
Our last sighting of MK.
Fetched a drink from Capt Cooks and sat and watched the boys have a swim.
It was so hot this afternoon even though they had nothing to change into for the journey home they dried so quickly they were fine.
I had kept a clean t-shirt to change into which I was thankful for as I didn't have a cooling dip in the pool. FL Tours picked us up promptly for our return journey to the airport and we were asking the driver where he went for his holidays and what the coast of Florida is like. If the boys didn't want to come to Disney again John and I were determined to find somewhere in Florida to go!
Arrived at the airport and went straight to the TV screens to see the flight was going to be on time.
Last look around the gift shops.
Wish we were going the other way.
Virginia Plain brought us home, we travelled on this one in 2007.
Passed some time having a coffee and Ashley with his Nintendo, happy that he's now got permission to play on it for hours.
On the plane - playing more games! The sunset was beautiful, someone would lift the window blind and flood the plane with the most beautiful colours and would promptly put it back down again. It seemed hardly anytime at all and the same thing happened with the sunrise. It's a truly wonderful sight from up there above the clouds.
Trying to do the impossible, sleep vertically!
I gave up in the end, luckily the journey passed quickly, I don't remember watching a film as nothing interesting was on, they were the same films as the outbound flight and nothing appealed. The one thing I can remember is an awful smell around the cabin not long before landing. They were serving breakfast and the staff came down one aisle handed Glen and Ashley a heated wrapped roll consisting of scrambled eggs and slice of processed ham, didn't come on a tray it was just handed to them. One sniff, one look and they handed them to me which I then handed to John who proceeded to eat both of them. Consequently when the stewardess came down the other aisle we refused ours. We were then served a coffee. I can't describe the smell, it was awful I thought someone had been taken ill. I work on a hospital ward and thought I was used to strange smells but that took some beating!!!! Arrived back to a rainy Manchester (does it ever stop raining there?) through immigration, bag pick up and on the way to pick up the car from the Radisson by 7.45am. Went slightly wrong on the journey back as they had set up a diversion on the motorway and we didn't follow it properly but got back on track and were back home by 9.30am. Seemed so strange to be arriving back home at the beginning of a day, started on the unpacking straight away, had a load in the washing maching before you could blink and passed the rest of the day in a haze before admitting defeat and heading to bed at 8pm. John had to be back at work for 5am the following morning. Back to normality with alarming speed. Thanks everyone for sticking with my reports, your kind comments have been much appreciated. Hopefully see you next year with a Florida coastal trippie.
She is not coming with us next year.
I could really feel your disappointment there. The end of a holiday sucks. 
and roll on your next holiday. 
