RobynPrincess
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First of all I must apologize for the lack of pictures today, I was too depressed to take pictures....
You may remember I packed all of our things last night so that we could have a bit of a lay in this morning. Hmmm, well that didnt go to play - housekeeping knocked on the door at 8:50 to ask when we would be leaving. Erm, check out isnt till 11am thanks so bugger off! I was so cross that we had been woken up As we were already packed we decided to check out right away, Sy let me go in on my own as I was so cross and wanted to speak to the manager, chicken 
The manager offered to give us a free late check out but we were packed and ready to go now so I declined.
So we headed to DTD to get the picture wed seen for Libby and Ben from the Art of Disney shop. We parked up and made a beeline for the shop, we were one of the first people through the door. Looked everywhere inside and would you believe it, they didnt have the picture! Noooooo this was not helping my mood today Cross that I had been woken up, cross they didnt have the picture and Sy wouldnt let me buy it when I saw it before, and depressed cause we were going home. Humph.
We had made a booking to chat to Hayley and Gareths guide in BLT yesterday for this morning so we headed right there. We were really early so Hayley asked us up to their room for a bit, they were also checking out today to head over to AKL. We hung about in their room for a bit with Matt and Sue before it was time to head down to meet the DVC guy.
I wont dwell on the talk with him too much other than to say he told us a few things I *knew* werent true and this REALLY put me off him. We walked away without buying.
We were meeting everyone for lunch today at Longhorns on the 192 so we headed there, we were a few minutes early but the restaurant only had a few tables on, so you would think that would be a problem but no, we werent allowed to sit at a table until most of the party was there. I totally understand this rule and think its a great idea so cut down on waiting times in busy periods, but when there are only 3 tables with people on?! Jobsworth springs to mind. Again though, this wasnt helping my mood
Once Hayley and Gareth arrived they sat us at a table for 4 with 2 small extenders on the ends of the table, bearing in mind there were 6 adults and a child. Hmmm... I have no idea why they did this when the place was EMPTY and stayed that way the whole time we were in there but hey ho. It was cosy We started to have a quick look over the menu when Matt, Sue and Harry arrived. Sue looked a bit pale and when I mentioned it she told us that they had just almost had an accident! Someone had completely cut them up and had Sue not had her wits about her they would have been in a nasty accident. Poor guys! Matt had hurt his shoulder, and Harry was upset too
Our server brought over some bread and came to take our orders. I had chicken tenders and Sy had a burger, everyone else had steak. I have no idea why Sy didnt have steak but he really enjoyed his burger anyhow so I guess it didnt matter, he was nevious when he saw the sizes of everyone elses steak though. My food was nice but by now the knots in my tummy were really bad and it was all I could do to force the food down
The lovely friends we have were telling me to change my flight home, Sy had to get back for work but I didnt so I could stay with them, I was wavering but I knew Sy would be sad going back on his own so I didnt He said he would be fine and tried to tell me to stay too (thanks hubs haha) but I couldnt do that to him Plus I missed my baby Wilbur
We asked for the bill paid up. We said a teary goodbye outside We have made some real true friends on this trip and we were sad to be leaving them.
The drive back to the airport seemed to take forever, I am not a fan of Sanford. Give me a huge immigration queue in MCO anyday I kinda dozed on the way there though I was in a right tizzy thinking we were going to be late. We finally go there and dropped the car back, as we dropped it off the women checking us back in asked how it was and what would we change about Alamo, I said drop the hard sell at the check in desk!! She said she will make a note of that, yeah of course they will stop that - pigs might fly too
We then hot footed it over to departures to find zero queue, woohoo! Our check in girl was lovely, sadly though there were no seats together worst nightmare this was just what I wanted to hear when I was getting myself so worked up She did give us seats one in front of the other though. We went straight to security and it was worlds away from the horrible check in at Gatwick! They guys were friendly, chatting to us about all sorts. I put my lipgloss in a clear bag (it was my only liquid) and they laughed and said put it back in my handbag. They didnt want me to take my iPad out of my bag either.
Once through we saw that our flight was delayed an hour, joy! We found a plug socket and Sy plugged his mobile in to charge while I got the ipad out and started surfing the net. There wasnt much in Sanford airport, we did notice a bar though with a bunch of British people at it with a jug of beer each. Yes, they were on our flight.
We sat there ages before going to get changed in the bathroom, we had packed warmer clothes for the flight in a hand luggage bag. Before long our flight was called and we went to wait by the gate, we were sat near the front again so knew we would be called last. Before anyone was let on some policemen frogmarched a man onto the plane :-/ Again this wasnt helping my nerves
We got on and found our seats, I was sat with a couple who remembered us from the flight 2 weeks before, I was chatting with them a fair bit - they have a timeshare in Orlando and booked some bargain last minute flights like us. They were on trip number 20 and flying back in September too.
The flight home was awful, as we took off the captain warned us that there would be a lot of turbulence so I quickly took some travel sickness tablets. He wasnt wrong the crew werent even allowed to move for 2 & ½ hours. The IFE wasnt even turned on for 1 & ½ so we just had to sit there. The boots over brand travel sickness tablets worked an absolute treat, I didnt even feel slightly queasy. The food was awful - even for plane food! I didnt eat it. There was also no choice from the 1st of May. The journey passed, it was a pretty crap flight with the food and turbulence and not being sat next to Sy, but it got us home safe.
When we got to Gatwick we were asked to stay seated while police came on board and took the guy who was marched on in Orlando off. There were police cars surrounding the plane, who knows what had gone on but they must have thought he might run as there ere so many of them. Once off we used the passport control booths and were very swiftly through and getting our bags. We called Sys parents and his dad soon left to pick us up. We didnt have to wait for long. I was so hungry by this point though as I hadnt eaten anything on board so we went through McDonalds drive through to get me a Bacon McMuffin, though I then ate more at Sys parents, another bacon roll I think.
We didnt stay too long, Sy got a shower while we were there and I got changed into some clean clothes and then made our way over to pick up my little baby! Awww I had missed him so much, but he obviously hadnt missed me as he wasnt bothered that I was there to pick him up at all Libby and Ben had been taking such good care of him that he didnt want to come home. I felt so bad that we didnt have a proper present for them (just a Disney tea towel) but told them that their main present was on its way (thanks Matt and Sue!) and to blame Sy I hope they liked it...
We didnt stay long as I wasnt sure how long I would be able to keep my eyes open for. Wilbur was a total pain in the bum all the way home, he meowed and clawed all the way it was raining and he was petrified of the windscreen wiper noise. Big wimp
An hour later we were back home with our baby, he was happy to be home I think we actually managed to stay awake until bedtime - seeing as I had no sleep on the flight I have no idea how that happened! We headed up to bed at about 9:30pm like zombies, but we were adamant we were going to beat the jet lag and staying up as late as possible was the best way
First of all I must apologize for the lack of pictures today, I was too depressed to take pictures....
You may remember I packed all of our things last night so that we could have a bit of a lay in this morning. Hmmm, well that didnt go to play - housekeeping knocked on the door at 8:50 to ask when we would be leaving. Erm, check out isnt till 11am thanks so bugger off! I was so cross that we had been woken up
As we were already packed we decided to check out right away, Sy let me go in on my own as I was so cross and wanted to speak to the manager, chicken The manager offered to give us a free late check out but we were packed and ready to go now so I declined. So we headed to DTD to get the picture wed seen for Libby and Ben from the Art of Disney shop. We parked up and made a beeline for the shop, we were one of the first people through the door. Looked everywhere inside and would you believe it, they didnt have the picture! Noooooo
this was not helping my mood today Cross that I had been woken up, cross they didnt have the picture and Sy wouldnt let me buy it when I saw it before, and depressed cause we were going home. Humph.We had made a booking to chat to Hayley and Gareths guide in BLT yesterday for this morning so we headed right there. We were really early so Hayley asked us up to their room for a bit, they were also checking out today to head over to AKL. We hung about in their room for a bit with Matt and Sue before it was time to head down to meet the DVC guy.
I wont dwell on the talk with him too much other than to say he told us a few things I *knew* werent true and this REALLY put me off him. We walked away without buying.
We were meeting everyone for lunch today at Longhorns on the 192 so we headed there, we were a few minutes early but the restaurant only had a few tables on, so you would think that would be a problem but no, we werent allowed to sit at a table until most of the party was there. I totally understand this rule and think its a great idea so cut down on waiting times in busy periods, but when there are only 3 tables with people on?! Jobsworth springs to mind. Again though, this wasnt helping my mood
Once Hayley and Gareth arrived they sat us at a table for 4 with 2 small extenders on the ends of the table, bearing in mind there were 6 adults and a child. Hmmm... I have no idea why they did this when the place was EMPTY and stayed that way the whole time we were in there but hey ho. It was cosy
We started to have a quick look over the menu when Matt, Sue and Harry arrived. Sue looked a bit pale and when I mentioned it she told us that they had just almost had an accident! Someone had completely cut them up and had Sue not had her wits about her they would have been in a nasty accident. Poor guys! Matt had hurt his shoulder, and Harry was upset too Our server brought over some bread and came to take our orders. I had chicken tenders and Sy had a burger, everyone else had steak. I have no idea why Sy didnt have steak but he really enjoyed his burger anyhow so I guess it didnt matter, he was nevious when he saw the sizes of everyone elses steak though. My food was nice but by now the knots in my tummy were really bad and it was all I could do to force the food down
The lovely friends we have were telling me to change my flight home, Sy had to get back for work but I didnt so I could stay with them, I was wavering but I knew Sy would be sad going back on his own so I didnt
He said he would be fine and tried to tell me to stay too (thanks hubs haha) but I couldnt do that to him Plus I missed my baby Wilbur We asked for the bill paid up. We said a teary goodbye outside
We have made some real true friends on this trip and we were sad to be leaving them. The drive back to the airport seemed to take forever, I am not a fan of Sanford. Give me a huge immigration queue in MCO anyday
I kinda dozed on the way there though I was in a right tizzy thinking we were going to be late. We finally go there and dropped the car back, as we dropped it off the women checking us back in asked how it was and what would we change about Alamo, I said drop the hard sell at the check in desk!! She said she will make a note of that, yeah of course they will stop that - pigs might fly too We then hot footed it over to departures to find zero queue, woohoo! Our check in girl was lovely, sadly though there were no seats together
worst nightmare this was just what I wanted to hear when I was getting myself so worked up She did give us seats one in front of the other though. We went straight to security and it was worlds away from the horrible check in at Gatwick! They guys were friendly, chatting to us about all sorts. I put my lipgloss in a clear bag (it was my only liquid) and they laughed and said put it back in my handbag. They didnt want me to take my iPad out of my bag either.Once through we saw that our flight was delayed an hour, joy! We found a plug socket and Sy plugged his mobile in to charge while I got the ipad out and started surfing the net. There wasnt much in Sanford airport, we did notice a bar though with a bunch of British people at it with a jug of beer each. Yes, they were on our flight.
We sat there ages before going to get changed in the bathroom, we had packed warmer clothes for the flight in a hand luggage bag. Before long our flight was called and we went to wait by the gate, we were sat near the front again so knew we would be called last. Before anyone was let on some policemen frogmarched a man onto the plane :-/ Again this wasnt helping my nerves
We got on and found our seats, I was sat with a couple who remembered us from the flight 2 weeks before, I was chatting with them a fair bit - they have a timeshare in Orlando and booked some bargain last minute flights like us. They were on trip number 20 and flying back in September too.
The flight home was awful, as we took off the captain warned us that there would be a lot of turbulence so I quickly took some travel sickness tablets. He wasnt wrong
the crew werent even allowed to move for 2 & ½ hours. The IFE wasnt even turned on for 1 & ½ so we just had to sit there. The boots over brand travel sickness tablets worked an absolute treat, I didnt even feel slightly queasy. The food was awful - even for plane food! I didnt eat it. There was also no choice from the 1st of May. The journey passed, it was a pretty crap flight with the food and turbulence and not being sat next to Sy, but it got us home safe.When we got to Gatwick we were asked to stay seated while police came on board and took the guy who was marched on in Orlando off. There were police cars surrounding the plane, who knows what had gone on but they must have thought he might run as there ere so many of them. Once off we used the passport control booths and were very swiftly through and getting our bags. We called Sys parents and his dad soon left to pick us up. We didnt have to wait for long. I was so hungry by this point though as I hadnt eaten anything on board so we went through McDonalds drive through to get me a Bacon McMuffin, though I then ate more at Sys parents, another bacon roll I think.
We didnt stay too long, Sy got a shower while we were there and I got changed into some clean clothes and then made our way over to pick up my little baby! Awww I had missed him so much, but he obviously hadnt missed me as he wasnt bothered that I was there to pick him up at all
Libby and Ben had been taking such good care of him that he didnt want to come home. I felt so bad that we didnt have a proper present for them (just a Disney tea towel) but told them that their main present was on its way (thanks Matt and Sue!) and to blame Sy I hope they liked it...We didnt stay long as I wasnt sure how long I would be able to keep my eyes open for. Wilbur was a total pain in the bum all the way home, he meowed and clawed all the way
it was raining and he was petrified of the windscreen wiper noise. Big wimp An hour later we were back home with our baby, he was happy to be home I think
we actually managed to stay awake until bedtime - seeing as I had no sleep on the flight I have no idea how that happened! We headed up to bed at about 9:30pm like zombies, but we were adamant we were going to beat the jet lag and staying up as late as possible was the best way 
