As you can probably tell the boys we're happy about that ride selection so they got to pick the next ride and got even with their dad by taking us on a spin on the Tea Cups and spun extra hard. next up we walked up to SDMT and the wait wasn't too bad so we rode it to see if it was much different at night and we all said not so much.
The trip my kids could do Tea Cups on their own was the day I bowed out forever. As young adults my kids no longer ride the Tea Cups. When they have kids someday I wonder if they will.
Snakes why does it always have to be snakes. They seemed to be everywhere. about 3 to 4 feet long black and YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't care that the CM said they were harmless and kept the rodent population down I was done!!!!!!!!
View attachment 159724 View attachment 159727 So off to Blizzard Beach and it was ok not great, even the boys weren't overly impressed.
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Funny, I've never seen a snake while mini golfing. Have not done golf the last two trips. Wonder if Disney with budget cuts last several years cut back on snake and alligator patrol.
We just love Blizzard. Last trip we did Typhoon. We all agreed we prefer and love Blizzard. I saw they've topped Volcano at Uni, I can't wait. Love waterparks.
Jim and I set out to check out the Nomad Lounge. I got the veggie spring roll and a Night Monkey which was good a bit different but not bad
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One of my sadnesses. We were going to Nomad, it was on the list. We did rope drop at AK and the couple things we wanted to do at AK but it was so freak'n hot and humid I could not justify the walk back to Nomad with the humidity. We headed to Springs instead and then to EMH later at the MK.
Next up it was time to take the train or as my dh call it a moving bench(he's a bit upset about the removal of benches) to Rafiki's Planet watch and get a few cute pics, some A/C and see a snake we didn't mind seeing
View attachment 159806 View attachment 159807 View attachment 159808 But seriously Nick and Judy need to do a M&G there!
The last time I did the train was in 2012 when I went down to visit my DS and deemed it would be another 15 years before I did that again. My DS couldn't believe I chose to do that while he was working. Anywhooo ... they took out the benches???? What do they do herd you into the box cars like cattle?
From there it was onto Hall of Presidents
View attachment 159831 View attachment 159835 I like that the first ladies weren't forgotten
The ladies of the White House have been some amazing women over time, a few duds here and there but in fairness there have been some dud Presidents too. Glad they acknowledge something about them.
It was then time for bit of shopping we went to the store with the kitchen items in Liberty Square and then Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe. I was so proud of myself! I didn't buy anything.
View attachment 159854After that I went to the Tangled area. It's well done but it's a bathroom for heaven's sake. Rapunzel deserves so much better
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In every Christmas shop they are now burning this God awful incense that neither my DD or I can breathe through. Sadly our Christmas Shoppe visits are over until they knock it off.
And yep, the theming of Tangled is awesome, wasted on a Potty stop.
We then headed to the hub and saw Move it! Shake it! Dance party
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Dear Lord Move It works on me and my whole families last nerve. It can move on to another park.
We did a bit of window shopping on Main Street and ran into the mayor who is a wonderful gentleman and very funny. He saw my ds' birthday button sang happy birthday and gave him a card that entitled him to get on the back of any line in the MK.
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Wow! Too fun. Great memory.
I was hoping for a nice ride and it was we saw some people on a fishing tour, the breeze was nice all in all a nice ride over and then right before we got to WL there it was in the water another yucky snake and this one had a triangle shaped head. YUCK and stay away far, far away! I'm glad we were a bit early so we had some time to look around and steady my nerves.
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Wow! More snakes? We made it through an entire trip without a snake or alligator sighting. Though the trip before at POR my DD and I did have a snake slither out on the main walk around the river right before us. We were a bit stunned.
The gluten free corn bread was pretty good but a bit too sweet but the guys did not like the beans. They could tell they were canned and doctored up, note to self do not make home made baked beans just before going to Disney. Just a little FYI I soak beans and then cook them in the oven on low for hours. The quinoa cakes were excellent and Chef Philippe was nice enough to give me the recipe. Both glasses of wine were nice.
View attachment 159914 View attachment 159915 View attachment 159916 View attachment 159918 Because of our allergies they seated us in the quiet section but with a full view of all the goings on and our waiter sang the funniest way off key version of Happy Birthday to my ds All in all it was fun
Disney is leaning now heavily to the sweet dishes and I am not amused. I like savory. I am confused about allergies and moving you guys off to the side. We didn't have that happen with DD being flagged. What's up with that?
Up to page 10. Getting there
am on July 30th. We sang happy birthday to my little guy while driving down the street on our way to Disney. I'm a very mean mommy who made my baby spend his birthday in the car. Any way it was smooth sailing until half way through Virginia where we hit rain and traffic all the way to the North Carolina border. It was bad enough we worried a bit about making it to our hotel for the first night but once we hit NC the skies cleared and so did the traffic
and we made it to Florida
to take the obligitory first Florida picture of the boys. With a bit of luck and excitement we made it to Ormond Beach to get a good night's sleep.
