The last min bargain - Day 8 MK & DVC

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After yesterday’s ickiness I woke at 4am, took pain killers and nodded off again. I slept till 10am and took more pain killers. I was really annoyed with myself cause I had a message from Hayley asking us to breakfast with them and then MK if we wanted to join them, but that was ages ago. I messaged Hayley back but knew they would have no wifi so she probably wouldn’t get the message for a while. We got dressed anyway (slowly for me) and decided to head to MK in the hope of meeting up with them.

We valet parked at the Poly so that we could pop into Captain Cook’s to get some pastries - I had been eyeing them up when we came to get Dole Whip the other day. I had a croissant while Sy had a toasted bagel. We then walked down and got the boat over to MK.





Boy it was busy! I tried to log onto the wifi but it was playing up again grrrr. We wandered down a very busy main street and watched the Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it parade.









We then went in search of something to eat, we were early for lunch but those pastries didn’t really fill us up.

The queue for the Columbia harbor house was out of the door and snaking round outside. That was it, I was hot, I felt rough still and there were too many people - I wanted out!

We headed back out of the park via the monorail after staying a whopping 45 mins inside the park. I think this might have been the shortest time I have ever spent in a park lol. On the monorail we were trying to decide where to eat as we were getting really quite hungry now, and we thought we would try Sanaa for a walk up - if they couldn’t fit us in it was a quick drive to the 192 and lots of restaurants there. We were in luck though, they were half empty! We asked for Josh to be our server, he hasn’t actually served us before but he lives with our friend James (who works in Tony’s on main street) and we met him a few times last year, once being when they came over to our villa in AKL and he told me all about the different animals that were there. Being a server in Sanaa I guess they have to know all about the animals. He also told me a few funny stories, like when they brought in the new young zebra who couldn’t contain his excitement with all the new women around if you know what I mean hehehe


Josh was so pleased to see us, really made us feel welcome, a part of me was worried he might not recognize us a he must see so many different people but he knew right away. I guess we are pretty recognizable lol.

Sy decided to get a Tandoori chicken wrapped in a naan while I had spicy Durban chicken and butter chicken with rice and 1 naan bread. We so loved our food. Sy was sad he didn’t get the curries but he did really enjoy his meal. They have changed the recipe of the naan since we were here last year and they were even better! In fact they were so good I asked Josh to bring me out another Yep, I was being a heffer

 

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Once we had finished Josh brought over the dessert menu but we were too full. Sy was hankering for the rice pudding he had last year and loved but we just couldn’t fit it in. So we asked for the bill. The sweetie that Josh is though he said we couldn’t leave without a dessert so brought us out one anyway. I cant remember what it was though, he did tell us but all I remember is Sy loved it and I didn’t.



We paid and said goodbye and hoped to see him again before we left, if James would ever answer my blooming texts! He works 2 jobs so doesn’t get much time off.

We walked back up and started chatting to the DVC guide and told him we were booked in for a DVC tour later in the week but wondered if we could move it to today, after some calling round he was able to find a guide at the Boardwalk. We wanted to drive over but he insisted we get one of DVC cars over. While we waited for the DVC car he let me use his computer to see if Hayley had messaged me back, as the wifi still wasn’t working for me, she hadn’t but later on she said she was having the same problems as us with the wifi.

The car came and the very nice driver chatted to us all the way there. Once there we were greeted by a guy called Tim. We had the talk, if you have ever had one you know pretty much how it went, and if you haven’t you probably wouldn’t have the first idea what I was going on about We got all the prices and costs etc and went away again feeling a little deflated. We just didn’t click with him and felt he was spinning us a line half the time. If this had been the first time we had been into talk about DVC we probably would have decided not to buy, but we have done the tour before and done lots of research online.

We got dropped back to AKL for 5:30pm and picked our car up. We made our way back to the hotel with the idea of changing and having some pool time but as son as I walked in the door and my wifi came back I had millions of messages and emails from Hayley, she had been having the same trouble with Matt and was getting a complex as neither of us were getting back to her, oops! Blame Disney wifi I text her right back and she asked us over to theirs. So we quickly changed, grabbed the beers (and a load of washing, thanks guys for letting us use your machines!) and made our way there, glad to be able to ask them all about their DVC purchase to help us make up our mind whether to buy direct or resale.

We got there just as Matt, Sue and Harry got back too (they were sharing a 2 bed) I did feel a bit bad cause they had only just walked in from a busy day and had guests straight away. I shouldn’t have worried though as they made us just as welcome as Hayley and Gareth did and chatted to us about DVC for ages too - always good to have another perspective I’ve written in my notes, Harry is the cutest little boy ever, I think we might steal him hahaha! Watch out Matt and Sue

We stayed for hours chatting and watched wishes from their living room, ahhhhhhh! Perfect





We left shortly after the fireworks aware that we were more used to the time difference now but they had only been there a couple of days so might be knackered in the evenings, I still think it was about 11pm when I finally got Sy out the door - he can talk for hours. We hadn’t had any dinner so Sy wanted to stop by Steak and Shake, he had been talking about it with Gareth and Matt the night before and tonight and wanted to be in the gang and try one imagine if you will some kind of an initiation or something



He was very, very happy. He really enjoyed his first of what would become quite a few Steak and Shake meals I was starting to feel a bit sick again so didn’t want any food, I just needed to lay down so I didn’t get anything and we went back to the hotel for Sy to eat.

Once back at the hotel and lying down I started to feel a bit better and thus a bit hungry. My wonderful hubby that he is then suggested he go out and get me something while I stay in bed so that I didn’t start to feel poorly again. I know sometimes I moan about Sy and get annoyed with him, but he always looks after me and I should be far more grateful than I sometimes am He got me a McDonalds which I ate in bed. It was about midnight by the time we went to sleep.

Animal Kingdom tomorrow with Hayley & Gareth, we arranged it before we left their place tonight.