It’s a rest day folks. By jove we needed one at this point. Our usual day two at Typhoon Lagoon (if you can remember that far back) was scuppered by some cooler weather so here it is now on day twelve.
Despite the tiredness, I was awake at 7am. There were showers and clothes put on and everyone was ready to go before we needed to. We got to the park at 10.25 and were through the gates at about 10.26. Volcano Bay could learn from that.
We had to pause at one of the shops as Freddie needed some new swimming shorts and whilst that was being done I impulsively went to see if any cabanas were left. In a rare stroke of good fortune that meant I could throw another few hundred dollars away, I got the last one and the folks behind me in the queue were very upset about that.
We were shown to our base camp by Ashlee who would be looking after us and we all settled in.
We filled up our refillables, dodging the customary swarm of wasps at the filling station. Louise and I relaxed while everyone else went off into the water. The weather was stunning today and it was lovely to do not much. It got so warm that Louise and I ventured into the lazy river for a lap to cool off.
That was pretty much the morning done until hunger brought everyone back to camp around 1pm.
We looked over the menu for lunch options and spectacularly over-ordered.
We went for the pizza and the chicken strips platter.
Both very, very tasty and we tried our best to clear as much as possible.
Once food was done, essential things were done to the little folks….
to allow a return to the water.
Louise took up a spot outside the cabana in the sun whilst I remained in the shade. Everyone else was off doing slides and stuff.
I took a brief dip in the wave pool to cool off and when I returned I found Rebecca and Dougie back with us. With it being nap time and Dougie’s need being slightly greater than mine I took him for a walk around the park in his stroller to get him to sleep.
Once he was away we went back to base and didn’t do a lot for the rest of the day. It was lovely.
Louise had a cocktail from Ashlee and around 5pm with the park closing everyone returned and dried off so that we could leave.
The journey home was weird. The Waze sat nav took us home through roads I had never seen in over forty years of going to Florida. The traffic was bobbins on almost all of them and it took an hour to get back to the villa. The route eventually brought us out onto the 192 up near Lindfields so I can only assume it was trying to spare us from some gruesome traffic on the 192.
There were more showers for all and more clothes before leaving again at 7.45 for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. As we drove along Funie Steed Road on our way to the 192 and then I4 I had to undertake an emergency stop for a rabbit that was skipping about in the middle of all the traffic. Doing that in a vehicle the size and weight of the thing we were in was no small feat and by some miracle, I managed to avoid the poor thing.
We double-checked on the way home when it was much quieter on the roads and there was no squished anything in that spot so it definitely got away.
It took 40 minutes to get to Lake Buena Vista and of course the restaurant was very busy.
We had a reservation though and we waited about ten minutes to be seated on an inside table. We started to read the menu and the bread service arrived and then the seater returned to explain we’d been put at the wrong table and would we mind moving?
We didn’t really but we’d just got Dougie into his high chair so it was a minor pain in the arse. The whole place was a bit chaotic this evening and the service overall suffered slightly because of that and this was an indication of that.
We were taken to a table outside which we didn’t mind at all having said at check-in we would take either.
Louise and I started with a Cheese and Spinach Dip
Tom and Rebecca a blurry Egg Roll Sampler
For Entrees, the boys had sliders
Louise and I shared the Nachos appetiser as our mains.
Rebecca had Orange Chicken
Tom, the Spicy Chicken Sandwich
There were a couple of milkshakes and wines and a slice of cheesecake to go (not each!) and it was a fairly pricey $240 for an off-site eatery. It was all fantastic food but as I said not the best service we’ve experienced here.
We called at Walgreens on the way home to restock on plasters and dressings for the injured feet amongst us and we were home and in bed by 11.30.
Till the next time……
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