The last min bargain - Day 11 HS

[RobynPrincess]

We woke up at 9am this morning and Skyped home without getting out of bed. Sy wanted a proper breakfast this morning so we got dressed and headed to Denny’s. I just had to take a picture of the sign outside, just for Hayley.



We were seated right away as the place was pretty much empty. Our server looked like a guy who served us in IHOP in 2011, I didn’t say anything to Sy but later on Sy mentioned it to me and I asked him, it was the very same guy. He is actually the very same guy who put me off IHOP as he was so useless, and guess what? I don’t really like Denny’s anymore either LOL.

They had a special menu all about bacon, Hayley would love it



I cant remember what we ordered, it was okay. It was served without a smile by our rubbish server. We paid and left.





We decided to head to HS as we hadn’t spent that much time there on this trip. We parked up at about 11am and headed inside, taking our time we stopped to watch some of the street actors and I found it hilarious when they were picking on Sy. We happened to be sat outside one of the shops that was painted in exactly the same colour as his polo shirt which they ribbed him about apparently not many men could carry off that colour either hehehe. It was really sweet that they remembered us later in the day, just as we were leaving the park and they were coming back out again, they thanked us for coming haha.





We snapped this walking round, hmmm... wonder why that might be haha



We decided to head to the Backlot Tour first. On the way there a lady came over to ask if I was on the DIBB, she recognized me I forget her screen name but her name is Debbie, she was there with her hubby and her daughter I think? For a special birthday, they were off on a cruise after Orlando. We said goodbye and headed to the Backlot, and it so happens that they end up there too, and are sat in the row behind us on the tram. We had another natter before the ride started.





A few pictures from the tour.







After the tour I was happy to see that they had changed the exhibition from the old costumes, I had seen them a few times. I was even happier to see these on display...





The Sound Of Music is one of my favourite films, these are the puppets from the show Maria and the children put on for their father and the baroness.

We then met up Matt and Sue outside Toy Story Mania. They had been earlier in the day to meet Buzz & Woody but the queue was over an hour long and we had seen that it was only 20 mins (or it could have been 30, I don’t remember now) so they ran over to jump in the queue quick, Sue came to ride TSM with us as she hadn’t really been on anything yet while Matt queued with Harry.

I came last at TSM, Sy was way ahead but Sue only just beat me - I think she took it easy on me cause she felt sorry for me hahaha We said goodbye to Sue and she joined Matt and Harry in the queue to meet Buzz and Woody and we went off to get a Napoleon (me) and a sandwich (Sy) from starring rolls.

Sy just *loves* this picture

 

[RobynPrincess]

We then head off to watch Beauty and the Beast. I’m so sad that this might be going, I know its only rumors for now but even so, its amazing!







Afterwards we headed out to the car and back to the hotel for a swim. We heard these guys before we saw them, so much for the relaxing swim!



We swam for a little while before I got bored and the rumbly in my tumbly got too much to bare we quickly dressed and headed out for food. We decided on Outback, but not the one along the 192 this time, we decided to go to the one by the premium outlet as it was closer.

We had the same to eat as usual, steak and coconut shrimp for Sy, and chicken, bacon swiss for me. Sy had a beer and I decided to push the boat out and have a Wallerby Darned, only it was happy hour so out came 2! Whoops! This is my favourite cocktail in the world, you can probably tell I’m not a big drinker so 2 cocktails was a lot for me.









Feeling full and happy we head back to HS. We wandered in a few of the shops, I had been asked to get so much stuff for people I tried to get as much of it as I could here as I wasn’t sure when we would get chance to look again, it was nearing the end of our trip after all We then went to the Muppets 4D



Look what I found





I told Sy to lift the mat up and I swear he thought I’d lost the plot. LOL







The show was about ¼ full and we were told to sit where we liked. We sat about 2/3 way back and had no one behind us for 3 rows, and then there were 2 women with 2 girls on their knees, one asleep. The women talked ALL the way through. All. The. Way. Through. It was driving me nuts. I must have turned round 5 times to glare in the hope they would shut up, they were giggling and chatting. I probably got too annoyed about it than I should have done, but I love the Muppets, I wanted to hear it!

We were going to watch Fantasmic but decided against it in the end and decided to head to the Poly to watch Wishes on the beach and grab a Dole Whip.





If you haven’t seen Wishes from the Poly beach then you haven’t lived its wonderful. During the last few days we had been on the lookout for the picture I’d seen in the art shop along Main Street but hadn’t been able to find it anywhere so the idea was after wishes we were going to get the boat over to Magic Kingdom to get it. We queued up for the boat, along with masses of cockroaches, and after what felt like a lifetime (when you’re stood with cockroaches) we boarded, us and some of cockroaches. Can you tell I don’t like cockroaches by any chance? It was NOT a pleasant journey as I was neurotic about them being on me, there were quite a few of them on the floor.

We got to MK and saw the masses of people coming out of the park even though it was open late that evening, and changed our minds - it’s no fun trying to fight your way against the masses. So we stayed on the boat and headed back again.

We went back out to grab the car and headed back to the hotel. In bed by 11:30pm.