The last min bargain - Day 9 AK & MK

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Woke up at 8am this morning, think I was worried about sleeping too late as we had made plans to meet Hayley and Gareth. I got dressed and nagged Sy to get up and get dressed while I skyped home. We finally left the hotel by 9:30am, too late to stop for breakfast - I hate keeping people waiting. So we decided to get a pastry from the little cart outside AK.



I spotted Hayley and Gareth waiting so went over to them, while Sy grabbed the parties.

First stop was the Safari, while the animals were hopefully out They were out, we saw lots of animals, some we have never seen before on the safari! We even saw the lions moving - who knew they moved?! For a few years I thought they were a bit like the baby elephant - fake but now I have proof!! Its kinda hard to see the lioness, I took the picture quickly before she lay down again lol.











We then walked to Everest, I wanted to make the most of Hayley being there, and let her go on with Sy, while me and Gareth waited in the shade, we both suffer motion sickness. It got him out of riding too - or at least helped him not to feel too guilty about making Hayley ride on her own

I then suggested Dinosaur and everyone said yes... so off we go and just as we get to the front Hayley and Gareth confess they don’t actually like this ride, oops! We didn’t have to ride, they should have said. We asked for the front row so at least we weren’t thrown about quite so much.



In the shop afterwards Sy bought a t-shirt that he had been eyeing up the other day.



We then went to Restaurantasauras as we hadn’t had much for breakfast. Sy and I shared chicken nuggets and drink, poor Hayley and Gareth just waited for us.



After eating we decided to head back to BLT to get out of the sun a bit, it was such a hot day! Clear blue skies and no breeze. We hung out in the room a bit with Matt and Sue, Harry was having a nap. Matt facetimed Nicola while we were there so we could all say hello Sue had just brought some new hair straighteners and was testing them out so I offered to do the back for her - its always a nightmare trying to straighten the back of your hair, well it is for me anyhow They were brilliant straighteners, took the curls out right away. Might have to ask Sue which ones they were for me.

We then walked over to Magic Kingdom, it was much better today - but it was still packed. We went to Fantasyland first and rode the Little Mermaid.





We then went to see Enchanted tales with Belle but the queue was too long. We went on It’s a Small World instead.





We then went into Tomorrowland and rode Buzz, we let the boys ride together while Hayley took me on and showed me where all the big scoring targets are (of which I promptly forgot )



Look at the concentration on the boys faces

 

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It was so hot so we decided to get on the People Mover for the breeze as you whip round.





We were in for a treat though as Space mountain had broken down and they had all the lights on trying to fix it! I took LOADS of pictures.







We then got a drink from the Ice Cream shop and made our way to Pirates just in time for it to break down so we decided to ride Jungle cruise instead. Our skipper was a girl called Pat, she was funny but not as good as the guy the other day.









By now time was getting on and we were heading to Ohana for dinner so that’s where we headed. We went to get on the little boat and as we were walking over some people ran round us and in front of us, but hey, we’re on holiday so what do we care? Until just as we reached the boat we were told it was now full and we would have to wait for the next humph, slithly more cross with them now. Thanks for pushing in, I hope you felt guilty! We decided to get the monorail rather than wait in case we missed the ADR time. We got there at 5pm, the ADR time wasn’t until 5:20pm so we checked in and went to grab a drink. Just as I went to the bathroom the buzzer went off, Doh! Hayley came to grab me and we were led to our table right by a window. It was really nice Our server was called Joe and a little bit strange, good though he took our drinks ordered and before we could blink our tables was full of food haha. The bread came as we sat down, then salad, then noodles and stir fried veg, then pork dumplings and chicken wings, then sauces and the chicken on skewers came. It was a bit of an overload all at once! It didn’t matter though. Hayley was sure to say really loudly about me only eating the chicken so to make sure I take enough and sure enough our server kept bringing chicken for me afterwards thanks Hayley Sy and Hayley were all about the shimp, I swear the server put more than a whole skewer on Hayley’s plate at one point! The food was all so good. I skipped the dessert as I hate bananas and coconut but had some of the ice cream.

Here are a few pictures of the evening.













I think Sy and Hayley enjoyed the shimp as this was their plate of shells and tails...





After dinner we got the monorail back to the Contemporary and waddled back to the car, we said goodbye at the lifts and thanked them for the fab day.

We then went back to the hotel and just chilled out watching some TV. We got back at about 8pm and stayed awake till about 10:30pm.