Ah, Cinderella's Royal Table. CRT. Disney's most beautiful ripoff. I'd hesitated going there on EVERY trip. This time we went, and we went all out.
We knew we were gonna be silly - might as well be ridiculous. For starters we wore our matching blue tiedye WDW shirts.
I think we went shopping that morning, anyhow we got to the Poly around 1pm for a lunch at Kona. Then we took the monorail over to MK. Our CRT ressie was at 9.30pm so we had plenty of time to play around before that!
First things first, I wanted to get my hair cut at the Harmony Barber Shop. There was only 1 guy in the shop so they were able to cut my hair right away. Of course I wanted sparklies too. The barber told me to forego the colored gel, because it was probably going to rain that day. So we just got the pixie dust. Yep Grumpy got pixiedusted too !!!
We only made it to Casey's when the skies opened, and it started raining cats, dogs, and ducks.
It wouldn't stop !!! We were under there for over an hour. A Moroccan lady was talking to us in French about all that was wrong with the US, and I really wanted to tell her off but I also didn't want to get soaked. As soon as the rain calmed down a bit, we were outta there.
On the way to get Splash Mountain FPs we met Cowboy Goofy, who seemed to like Grumpy's pixie dust.
Everyone was looking at us weird with that stuff on our heads. I bet they were wondering if a bag of confetti exploded on us. Doesn't matter, we liked it. We did our usual rides, a bit of shopping, Grumpy dragged me to HOP again, then I dragged her to Tomorrowland where she BEAT ME at Buzz Lightyear!!!!!!!
WHAT is happening to this world ????
It started to get dark and people would tell us our hair was cute - guess it looks better in the dark. Come to think of it,
I always look better in the dark. Wayyy dark. With a lot of fog.
Got Grumpy on the teacups !!!! I spinned like a lunatic again. Then we walked to the castle for our ADR but we were too early. I'd laughed so hard on the teacups I needed a bathroom, pronto. The lady minding the ropes at the castle told me to walk "straight that way".
"I'll try, but I just got off the teacups, so I can't promise anything for the walking straight part."
While waiting for our ADR time to come, Grumpy and I discussed princesses.
"She's the sleeping one right ?"
"Nah that's Snow White."
"No, there's a pink one that sleeps!"
"Cinderella isn't pink she's blue. Sleeping Beauty is the pink sleeping one."
"So what does this one do??"
"I dunno. She got mice."
"Mice ? What for ???"
"She's the one with the shoe."
"I don't think there's a Princess shoe saleswoman."
"NO, she loses her shoe!!"
"And the mice pick it up?!"
"Don't think so. Oh and she has stepdaughters too and they make her do all the housework."
"OOOOOOOH I get it, she's not the SLEEPING one, she's the SWEEPING one!!!"
The girl waved at me - it was time to go !!!!
Pretty castle entrance.
You enter the castle and Cinderella is there to take your pic. I didn't want to have my picture taken but Grumpy forced me! She has that pic somewhere. I look evil in it. We said good evening to Cinderella and thanked her for having us for supper. And then I couldn't resist.
"So anyway, Cinderella, do you still sweep ?"
Kudos to Cinderella, she was only surprised for a couple seconds - I saw the HUH? in her eyes - then she replied "Oh no, I have people to do that for me now."
Alriiiiiight Cindy! Good for you !!
We were told to leave the princess alone and go upstairs. I have to admit the dining room is beautiful, very fancy. We were sitting at a round table in the middlle of the room but didn't mind. Grumpy had her eye on a little girl's wand as soon as she got seated.
"I want one !! I want one!!!!"
She wouldn't stop, it was ridiculous. I tried to explain to her that they were for the children (to which she replied I AM A CHILD and it scared me, I don't need my mom going all Michael Jackson on me).
Then one of the waitresses approached the table and handed a wand to my 61 year old Grumpy.
"I saw you looking at them, I could tell you wanted one really bad!!"
I got one too !! Grumpy was in heaven. Here she is before/after (it's a video, click to see).
The show with the mice and fairy godmother was cute.
We saw Wishes from inside the castle and it was magical. All in all, silly tshirts and ridiculous hair and sweeping princess and everything, I don't regret going to CRT. I'm glad we got to experience it. It was, honestly, the highlight of our trip.
That's about it for our Disney trip. The rest was uneventful. Grumpy spent a lot of time at the Dig Site. I went to Hollywood Studios by myself one day to ride TOT a couple times and take pictures.
Grumpy & I came back another night for Fantasmic,another ride on TOT, and dinner at SciFi.
We spent a lot of time enjoying the grounds and pool at CSR.
Our last morning we had time to kill and went for brunch at Boma, then we stayed four hours at AKL watching the animals, looking at everything in their gift shop, and watching more animals. I could spend a day at AKL without a room and not get bored.
Then it was time to leave Disney and head over to the Holiday Inn on Kirkman Rd. We got there around 4. I had chosen flights with a long layover for Jessi & Alex, they were not supposed to get there until 8pm.
At 6, a knock on our hotel room door. I was in the bathtub enjoying a long soak with a Basin bath bomb so I told Grumpy to go open. And who was it ?? Jessi and Alex ! They'd managed to make the early flight, which meant actually going to the American Airlines desk and ask to wait standby. Wow. I was floored. Jessi told Alex that she wanted to do that so that I could see she was not stupid and helpless. Hey I never called her stupid and helpless. I call her plenty of things but not those two ! Hmpf.
Anyway they got there early and it was a nice surprise. We went to dinner that night and the next day the three of us, Jessi, Alex and I, decided to go to Wonderworks.
Here's the girls waiting at the trolley stop
WonderWorks !
Alex on the Bed of Nails - she said it was relaxing
Alex in the spacesuit !
We had a good time. Wonderworks isn't really my cuppa tea but it was fun and kept us busy for a few hours.
That night I booked a last-minute trip for Alex at the NASA and she loved it. We had gone to the Visitor's bureau which is right accross the street from our hotel and they'd told us we couldn't book a tour for the next day, it was too late. But I found GATOR TOURS online and they had no problem booking her. They can even pick you up from your hotel for an small fee.
Alex and I have one thing in commun, we are both insomniacs. But while Alex will slowly go down, I tend to crash hard.
We had planned on all going together at the Outlets while Alex was at NASA, but sometime in the early hours of the morning I crashed. My family knows better than to wake me up when that happens. They closed the door to the bedroom (we had a suite), put the do not disturb sign on the handle and went to Seaworld.
I wasn't even awake yet when they came back. Apparently Jessica insisted on doing Wild Artic, the simulator at the polar bear area of SW. She felt fine on the ride but when they got out, she was so lightheaded and sick she threw up and they had to leave. We finally figured out that's what got her so sick the year before after MGM : she can't do simulators anymore. The sudden moves makes her blood pressure go way high, and the visual effetcs trigger her migraines.
So they left. They did manage to see Believe and Horizons before that, so at least they didn't miss on everything, but she still didn't get to see the sea lions show.
The next day we left Orlando and flew to Ft Lauderdale. Jess started getting nasty at the baggage claim and I decided to take the bull by its horns right there - no way was I putting up with the kind of crap she pulled on the last trip. I, Grumpy AND Alex made it very clear to her that if she was going to act that way, we would leave her behind. She sulked, but that was the first
AND LAST nasty episode of the vacation.
So, I'm confident that this month-long trip will be fine. We know to avoid certain things that make her sick. We know we can split and do different things if we get on each other's nerves. I think we'll be okay
And if we're not, at least I'll have another fun TR to write !!!!
I'm looking forward to hearing all about it when you return home.
. Have a great time!
I found you again. 
Love to read your postings. Can't wait to hear about this trip now. 
