Tuesday September 7th, Part Four.
We left off with me skipping out of Hollywood Studios due to my THIRD consecutive Toy Story Mania win. Marc was a little less enthusiastic as we headed to Pop's bus stop. We also had delightful slushie cokes from the stand near Toy Story Mania. DELICIOUS! As a lot of you know, I had to give up soda after my surgery. All carbonated beverages actually so it was SUCH A TREAT to have the taste of soda in my mouth. Before surgery I was a soda junkie, it's probably been the hardest thing to give up during this weight loss process.
We walked very quickly because a bus was waiting! I didn't think we'd make it but the nice bus driver must have spotted us because she waited.
We arrived back at Pop very quickly, headed to the room to change into our bathing suits and headed to the Computer Pool. We swam longer then we did the previous afternoon, no clouds were threatening us this day. I enjoyed our swim, I just wish the pools at Pop offered more shade around the deck and such.
The day before we had made a dinner reservation. We decided that if it was going to rain during the evening again, it would be better to spend time at an ADR then getting soaked in a park. My notes say that we left for our ADR around 4ish.
I totally had a yellow walkman back in the day.
We took a bus to Magic Kingdom.
Have you figured out where we were going yet?
We then had to take a boat to a resort.
Do you know yet?
There were two boat captains waiting at the dock to relieve some other captains and they were quite lively and entertaining. We had to wait about 10 or so minutes for the next boat.
We were dropped off at the dock of.....The Grand Floridian!!
I was super excited. I had never been to the Grand Floridian so I was eager to check it out.
I thought I would feel out of place at the GF, but I didn't! I could totally see myself staying there someday. It was really lovely.
We went upstairs and checked out one of the shops and found the perfect shirt for Jen's husband, Phillip! If only he would actually wear it!
Our ADR was at The Grand Floridian Cafe. We were early but they sat us very quickly. It is a huge place!!
I made the mistake of having some bread before my meal arrived. Oy. I was a little sick in the bathroom but luckily I had ordered soup for dinner so after that one mis-step with the bread, I was good to go.
My French Onion Soup.
Marc ordered the soup of the day, Cauliflower Gouda Soup.
We also ordered a side of the parmesean frites. YUM! They were very, very good.
Our meal was quite delicious and we really wanted dessert but just couldn't fit it in. We were way too full.
Of course, since we had booked this meal to avoid the rain, it was perfectly nice outside. We headed back to the GF boat dock and decided to head to Magic Kingdom.
We arrived at Magic Kingdom right around 6:30PM. We first journeyed to Haunted Mansion. Next we went on Big Thunder Mountain, we walked right on both rides. It was awesome. There was barely anyone at the park.
I almost went on Splash Mountain with Marc but I just wasn't brave enough. I waited for him to come down the mountain though on the little bridge. I will tell you at one point I was completely horrified because the ride stopped and you could just the front of a log waiting to go over the mountain. If I had been on that boat, I would have flipped completely out!!
A very blurry picture of Marc.
After Splash, we decided to ride Pirates. We had a boat all to ourselves! It was very cool. I really couldn't believe how little people were at Magic Kingdom. I think they were open until 9PM that night but still, barely anyone was there.
I was on a mission after our ride on Pirates. Slushie Cokes!! I will admit that I lost count on how many slushie cokes I had on vacation. The soda addict in me was ignited! I'm proud to say I haven't had soda since vacation though.
We headed out of the park with our cokes in hand. We had a minimal wait for a bus and before we knew it were back at Pop for our last night.
I took a picture of my pin trades for the day and also of the Casey pin I bought the previous day.
Coming up...
A Melancholy Magic Kingdom Morning.
Edited to Add::
Check out this wonderful PTR by LAH LAH. I'm kicking butt in her trivia game! Hehehe.
Oh-So-Clever-Title-So-You-Check-It-Out *Dec 2010*
for having a great meal at one of your favorite restaurants!!! Both of your food looked delicious and how wonderful of Marc to recreate the polenta for you at home (seriously is there a way we can get him on Master Chef?!!)
TSM....you had some terrific scores!! 
And grrrr to the woman behind you...glad she got left behind!!!! 
I'm excited for the DVD too! 
Great day so far---I just can't wait to hear more!
It was one of my better meals too.
There is still time...
