Right now it feels like I never left but when I got home yesterday it felt like I had been gone forever. I guess all of my PTO has been used to go back to Philadelphia so I’d leave home to go home. However this time I actually went away which was nice. The trip was great. We got there Saturday night and got the trip started on a great note; using our dining plan. This thing turned out to be the most incredible thing ever. Apparently it only cost us $60 a couple for the entire trip however our first meal came to $100. This seemed to be the pattern. We must have had at least 6 meals that came to almost $100 a couple and had to spend well over $700 on food just from the $60 meal plan. We gotta add up all the receipts to see how great it was, but it was great. After dinner we played some mini golf. It was the first time I had done that in years. Taylor won, beating up Kristin along the way, but we both beat Chris who was on his home turf and should be ashamed of himself.
The next day we hit up the Magic Kingdom and ate a Winnie the Pooh buffet breakfast. But man was it was a scorcher out there. It was pretty hard to take. I mean the temperature really escalated quickly. It got out of hand. Don’t go on Stitch’s Great Escape. It’s nasty. To beat the heat, we headed back to the resort pool, then went to Epcot and the San Angel Inn for dinner followed by the Illuminations fireworks and laser show.
Monday was Steph’s birthday. We went to Blizzard Beach. It was better than I remembered and there were some pretty good slides there. After the park we went back to the hotel, took a nap, then headed to MGM for some rides and dinner at the always fun Prime Time Cafe where our waiter made everyone feel good about their lives with his wonderfully down take on his.
Tuesday was a crazy food day. We started the day with the ‘Ohana’s Best Friends Breakfast with Lilo & Stitch. Awesome. Then we went to Epcot, killed that guy in like 10 hours, during which we ate lunch at the Coral Reef. That night we were tired so we chilled at the hotel.
Wednesday was…. boy this is hard to remember. I think it was a trip to Typhoon Lagoon. Don’t go there if you have to choose between it and Blizzard Beach. I went to Typhoon Lagoon when I was 9 and remembered it being awesome and went to Blizzard Beach when I was 14 and remembered Typhoon Lagoon being awesomer, however I was wrong. Unless you want to spend all day in the wave pool with kids flying at you from every direction, I would hit up Blizzard Beach twice. After being disappointed by that place and quickly running out of things to do, Kristin and I hit up the Animal Kingdom for a short while and then met Steph and Taylor for dinner at the Disney’s Spirit of Aloha Show which is an outdoor luau all you can eat… and drink!… feast. Unfortunately it was all you can drink Bud, but it was all still good. Ribs. Mmmmmmm. After dinner we headed over to Downtown Disney to spend a lot of money on souvenirs and to not drink because I was lucky to not be passing out from exhaustion.
Thursday… this isn’t getting any easier. Oh yes, Thursday we ran to the Animal Kingdom as quick as we could to knock out the important stuff. For me that meant nothing because I apparently have female reproductive organs. After that we went back to Downtown Disney to try and ride the speed boats. Chris was going to hook us up because that’s where he works but it was too damned hot to go out on the lake so we had lunch at Earl of Sandwich which I would recommend to anyone because it was cheap and really good, and then for the first time, got caught in the rain. It was pouring. But we got stuck in the best Disney store in town, World Of Disney so it gave us a chance to spend more money. Finally the rain stopped and we made it back to the hotel. I napped for like 2 hours because I was hurting, then Kristin and I ran to MGM to catch Fantasmic! which was probably the best show I saw down there.
Friday was our last day. So upsetting. We spent the whole day at the Magic Kingdom because that’s how it should be done. We had an early impromptu lunch at Tony’s Town Square. $100 lunches are great. This wasn’t the first of the week. We spent a little more time there before getting caught in the rain a 2nd time. This time though it was actually a pain. I can’t complain though, only getting screwed by the rain 1 time in Disney in August is impressive. We made it back, napped a little, then headed back to the MK for what is apparently the hardest reservation to make in Disney, Cinderella’s Royal Table for dinner. I had the Lamb. It was good. We justly finished the night with the Haunted Mansion, then watched the SpectroMagic show which I would probably skip in the future and then finally the biggest fireworks spectacular of them all, Wishes Nighttime Spectacular. After that, it was time to go to sleep for the last time in Disney.
Saturday was a depressing day. So we decided not to make it that way. We ate doughnuts for breakfast and went to MGM to use up our 7th Magic Our Way day. And ate a lot of junk food. For free. Ice cream cookie sandwiches and milk shakes. After that we went home. It stunk. The end.
And yes, the trip was as exhausting as this post was. I hope I covered everything; I’m sure it didn’t. But I do hope what I wrote is accurate. And I hope you didn’t read the whole thing. It was for me. I probably should have told you that in the beginning. I hope there aren’t a lot of typos in this. It’s too long and I don’t feel like checking it all that much. Don’t mind me, this post took like an hour over two days to write.
I’m currently watching: How I Met Your Mother