The last min bargain - Day 7 Epcot & HS

[RobynPrincess]

May the 4th...

We were woken up by Sy's alarm that he doesn't remember setting at 7:30am. You may remember what I said in my last post about being woken up...... hmmmmm. Sy was not in my good books this morning! I did manage to drop back off to sleep though but was then woken up at 8am by a coach in the car park constantly hooting its horn, I mean COME ON! What has a girl gotta do to get some sleep round here?! Eventually I went out and gestured at him** that I wasn’t happy, I didn’t shout or anything as he was inside a coach and unlikely to hear me, and I didn’t want to wake anyone else up if they weren’t already. He got my message though and didn’t do it again.

**please note that when I say gestured to him I mean that I waved my arms around a bit, not that I stuck my fingers up to him hahaha.

Gave up trying to sleep after that and instead lay in bed for a bit writing up trip notes for a while before getting dressed and deciding where to go today. The plan said IOA but it was pouring with rain still and lots of water rides are just no fun in the rain. So we settled on yet more Epcot! Sy wanted to get more stamps in the little passport thingy (I knew that thing was gonna come back and bite me in the ***!).

We got dressed and put the ponchos on in the room as we didn’t want to get soaking walking to the car, only they were still soaked from the day before - oh dear! We did leave them hanging up in the bathroom but they hadn’t really dried at all.

When we got to Epcot we walked round World Showcase and Sy got lots of stamps in his book, we spent a lot of time looking at the different topiaries. Here are a selection of them starting with the butterfly garden.

























When we were walking past England we noticed we were just about time to meet Mary Poppins! Yay! So we got in line - and we were in fact the first in line we waited for 5 mins and then a CM came out and spoken with a family who were behind us and said that they were the front of the queue and everyone had to get behind them, erm helloooooo, we were standing there way before them. They happily accepted knowing full well we had been there before them. Grrr! Ah well, we soon got over it Sy wasn’t happy about this stop as he isn’t really into character meets and it looked like it was about to rain so when Mary Poppins was 15 mins late he was getting even more annoyed and told me that we should leave it. I had never met her before though so there was no moving me Eventually someone came out though and took us inside, Mary didn’t want to come out in case it started raining (which it did about 15 mins later!).

Sy took pictures of me instead of getting in them.



We decided to try for a walk up at Teppan Edo when lunchtime came around, plus we wanted to get out of the rain And we were in luck! We were sat with a family for 4 and another couple. They were all great - talkative and friendly, though the children didn’t seem to talk at all and just play on their phones all through dinner. This is a bit of a pet hate of mine as I think its rude - rude to their parents, rude to the other diners and rude to the servers and chef. But enough of my ranting Our server was brilliant, my diet coke never got below half full. I ordered the chicken and Sy the steak and shrimp. As always we had a wonderful meal.









We declined dessert as Sy had already eyed up something outside from the food booth. Frushi - fruit sushi. He said it was AMAZING.

 

[RobynPrincess]

Once we were finished with dinner and frushi we walked towards the exit to get the monorail over to MK, we stopped on the way to ride figment and got some pictures of us playing afterwards.











We even made our own Figment



We then hopped on the monorail and got to MK just in time for the 3pm Parade! Yay.











Afterwards we headed for Monsters Inc laugh floor.



I made a huge mistake in there, oh the shame! They put the camera on a baby in the audience behind me but my shadow was on them so I tried to move out of the way so they could be seen properly, yep I was an idiot and moved right in the way :O so I was on the big screen! Nooo! I moved back pretty sharpish but it was too late, they moved the camera onto me and taunted me for my photobomb *the shame* they then picked on Sy though which made me feel slightly better, they went between the baby and him saying ‘before, after, before, after’ I thought this was so funny as I always wind Sy up saying he looks like a giant baby! Hehehehe. I still feel the shame of my mistake now though, I will never move in there again no matter if I’m in the way or not hahaha.

Once the colour had left my cheeks we went to ride Buzz. Sy won of course



We then headed out back to the hotel while the sun was out in the hope to do a bit of swimming and washing

Hayley, Gareth, Matt, Sue and Harry arrived yesterday and as it was May the 4th today Matt and Gareth were heading to HS to see the special star wars things. Hayley and Sue were doing the sensible thing of watching wishes from their room and having an early night. I was invited to go over and let Sy go off with the boys but as Sy didn’t really know either of them and never met them before he was a bit nervous to go on his own, so I went with the boys.

Wifi was total rubbish tonight, I could not get hold of Matt (Gareth didn’t have his phone) so we just got a spot for the fireworks and hoped to find them after. We waited an hour in front of the hat and DJ stage. It was very much an adult atmosphere here tonight and very, very busy. I wouldn’t have felt all that happy had I been here with young children, it was shoulder to shoulder. I was actually really thirsty but I knew we wouldn’t be able to get out from where we were or get back again so decided to wait till after the fireworks.





The fireworks were brilliant, now I am not into starwars, I have never seen the films and I have no interest to however they were seriously good fireworks even for someone who didn’t know half the music.



Once they were finished we dashed over to the American Idol steps so we could see above everyone and hopefully see Matt and Gareth and success! We did! We hot footed over to them and grabbed them before they could run away

We stood chatting for a bit while we waited for the area behind the hat to reopen so that we could run to Toy Story Mania as soon as it opened - okay if you know me then you know I don’t actually mean ‘run’ but walk fast (I don’t do running). Sy won out of the 4 of us and I came last (the only girl you see, the guys have that advantage over me) and we then made our way to Tower of Terror.



Gareth didn’t fancy riding so he waited outside. As we were in the queue I started feeling strange and a bit dizzy. By the time we got to ride I didn’t think it was a good idea, I was starting to feel quite sick, so the attendant took me round to the exit. I found Gareth and told him I was going in search of the bathroom, I felt like I did last year in Halloween Horror Night. I came out of the bathroom and the guys were all there. So we walked towards to exit, only I started to feel *really* sick at this point and had to go to the bathroom half way up the road in between the shops. I would go into the aircon bathroom and start to feel better and come back out to the heat and start to feel sick again. Gareth saw me popping in and out of the bathroom and went to get me a bottle of water - what a sweetie! (did I mention that I had never met him before?! What a first impression he must have had). To cut a long story short I was very sick in the bathroom and Sy went to get me a wheelchair to get me out as I was so dizzy while Matt and Gareth waited with me. Talk about knights in shining armor. I should have stayed with the girls but even so the guys took such good care of me, I was so embarrassed for the second time today. I don’t like being ill in front of other people.

Sy had explained to the guys with the wheelchairs what had happened so they said there would be no charge and they gave me a special chair that could be taken to the car, they told Sy just to leave it there and they would come and collect it later and not worry about returning it. Disney service at its best! Thank you Disney. I felt so much better sitting down. I don’t actually know how I would have walked out to the car without being sick as everytime I moved I wanted to be sick again. I have no idea what brought all this on, I can only think it was over tiredness and not enough to drink. So a note to everyone reading this, make sure you drink plenty while you’re in Florida!!

We got back to the hotel and I was in bed by half past midnight feeling rather sorry for myself