Monday 26th September
Two parks days on the trot, on a trip that was not supposed to include any WDW parks. Madness.
I was awake at my usual 5.30am and when 7am rolled around I was onto the app doing the required admin to have some fun. Cheers Chapek!
I secured a LL for Flights Of Passage and Genie+ for the day.
Around this time, after this vast expense, Louise informed me that she wasn’t feeling too well. After throwing objects around the room for a while in frustration, I left her in bed and wandered to the main building for some breakfast. I had some overnight oats and a coffee as my body is a temple. On my way to breakfast, I had taken a load of dirty washing (it was ours, not some random pile) and put them on to wash in the laundry.
On my way back to the room I stopped in to move everything over to the dryer. See, this is the sort of content you come here for. International laundry.
I went back to the room for an hour whilst that happened and Louise was up and dressed at least, but was in no shape to do a theme park. We would be having a much gentler day and you will be having slightly more boring content to read. Blame Louise. I was theme park ready at 5.30!
Despite being in no fit state to go to Animal Kingdom, Target it seemed was a different matter so we headed there. On our way there, the nursing home called about Mary who wasn’t doing too great and right about now we started to wonder if we may need to head home earlier than planned. The home assured us that was not the case for now so we went on with our day.
Target took another $100 off us for bits and we headed back to the resort pool. Somehow we found our way to a back entrance to POR, and we were promptly turned around as that was only for Cast Members we were politely told.
We did this for quite some time.
We chatted to folks back home via the internet, read, swam and relaxed trying not to think about the chunk of change I’d dropped on Flights Of Passage and Genie+.
Soon enough thoughts turned to eating and we failed to secure a booking for the Cheesecake Factory and didn’t want to risk the wait as it is always horrific. So instead, as this time we had no vegetarian Emily with us, we booked a table at the Outback.
We also had to pack for our move to Universal so we headed back to the room around 4.30 to do that and get ready. After showers and things we were out at 6.45 and headed to Formosa, our usual stomping ground on so many previous trips. The traffic was bad again, with it being a Monday and the back end of rush hour I suppose and we got there at 7.20 for our 7.30 booking. Look at us all early. I told you Louise wasn’t her normal self.
The Outback, it seemed was undergoing something of a facelift.
It would not, we hoped, affect their cooking abilities.
We were seated quickly and greeted with the excellent bread service that we had forgotten about. It had been a while since we’d been here.
That’s where it was, moments earlier.
We ordered –
Filet Mignon x 2.
Mine with a jacket spud….
Louise with mash….
The food was great, but bloody hell it was cold in the restaurant. I had come out in just a short-sleeved shirt and I was sat with two napkins over my arms to fight off hypothermia.
To help us warm up we onboarded more calories in the form of a rare dessert.
Carrot Cake for me
The Thunder from Down Under for Louise (not a euphemism)
To cap off this action-packed day we drove home and were in bed for 9pm. I worked out how to get Netflix on the telly and we managed one episode of Dahmer before sleep took us.
Till the next time…….
Mkingdon's Blog 
Sitting here is the cold and damp even a day doing nothing in Florida sounds like a dream come true.