WDW Trippie day 21...last day :( but DD finally does it all!!!

[traceycooper]

day 0 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1939665
day 1 - lost!!!
day 2 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1946098
day 3 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1948616
day 4 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1952465
day 5 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1955145
day 6 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1957412
day 7 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1961474
day 8 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1964682
day 9 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1968588
day 10 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1981645
day 11 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1983754
day 12 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1986039
day 13http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1986956
day 14 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1995314
day 15 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2016605
day 16 http://www.disboards.com/showthread....8#post29604558
day 17 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2057079
Day 18 http://www.disboards.com/showthread....7#post29648827
day 19 http://www.disboards.com/showthread....6#post29671856
day 20 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2064547
day 21 http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=29886974#post29886974

Sunday 24th August

Our last day - town car picking us up at 2.15pm
The sun was shining today!!! We got up bright & early at 7am to make the most of it!
We had the breakfast bufett in the Islands dining room - it was verynice
jumped in the pool then headed back to the room for a shower & finished off the packing, we then checked out and stored our luggage & headed over to IOA

Now you may remember that DD reached the milestone of riding her 1st upside down rollercoaster yesterday (Kraken)
today this girl was up for anything!!!
we all did Hulk - she loved it! & we all did duelling dragons - and guess what?? - she loved it too!!
also did jurassic park & spidermaWe went to NBC for lunch
me - bbq chk pizza - ok
DD - pot roast
DH - chk ceaser salad

We went back to RPR & chilled in the orchid court lounge till the car arrived
We arrived at the airport around 2.45pm - wanted to get their early to get decent seats for our 6.15pm flight - to be told our flight was delayed by 4 hours!! & was now not leaving till 10pm

we wandered around the shops till it was time to go I was major depressed by now! The flight was ok a bit bumpy but not bad enough to make me go into panic mode! i did only manage a couple of hours sleep though! DH slept all the way!! a goodthing as we had a 2 hr drive when we landed!
I watched 'Only In Vegas' & 'Maid Of Honour' both good.

We landed at 10.45am & headed towards a riduculously HUGE line to get through passport control!! This depressed me even more - yep we're back in the UK!!
To be fair it did move quicker than i thought it would & our cases were off the plane & picked up straight away,....but not good to a depressed to be home, had no sleep & jet lagged WDW fan!!!

We headed to Radisson to pick up the car - a very simple & east process & after DH had check the mileage, tyres, boot & anything else he could think of -we headed home. We took the motorway route back (if any of you can remember waaayyy back to day 0 - the new sat nav took us all over the place when we drove out!!) this route was MUCH better.

picked up the cat - DD hapy
spent the rest of the day unpacking, & watching tv in the evening, managed to stay up till 10.30pm then went to bed - couldnt sleep! wake up at 11.30 am the next day.......

so thats it - i cant believe i managed to finish my TR!!

This was the holiday that had the most things go wrong but we still had a great time, we never claimed back on the insurance for DD's trip to the Dr (just never got round to it!!)

Even though it kills me to say it - i think i enjoyed Universal & RPR more than WDW!!even though we did have lousy weather! The staff were much more friendly & i Loved the hotel.
That said i will go back to WDW, if we can afford moderate or deluxe i would do that over pop - it was a little crowded for me & many people abusing the system regarding use of wheelchairs & motorised thingy's!! but worth the money.

so now i patiently await the 2010 brochures so i can plan away!
Thanks to everyone who read & commented - i have really enjoyed writing this & its helped to keep the memories alive...till the next one....

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[Snowy-girls]

Thank you so much for sharing you're holiday,i have really enjoyed it+i love the photopass piccie at the end.x.

 

[natalielongstaff]

Great reports, thanks for posting them

 

[mandymouse]

Thanks for sharing your great trip report Tracey. You were so lucky to be in Orlando for 3 weeks, and you certainly made the most of Tropical Storm Fay (I don't think I'll ever forget all that rain - it was unbelivable)

I'm so pleased that your DD enjoyed all the big rollercoasters too

Have fun planning your next trip, and thanks again for sharing this one with us

 

[tennisfan]

Great report, with fab photos. Thanks for sharing

 

[mark&sue]

I really enjoyed reading all your trip reports. Hope you have fun planning your next one in 2010.


susan

 

[sandshal]

Thank you for sharing ... great report! Tropical Storm Fay rained on our parade too .... hope you start planning your next real soon.

Sharon

 

[florida sun]

Lovely reports really enjoyed reading them, thank you for sharing

 

[wicket2005]

Thanks so much for sharing. I love the Universal parks/hotels too. Thomas Cook Signature brochure is out now, I think it goes up to August 2010.