This weekend I went to DE. Saturday there was an event at Cecil, which is the track that Z races at. We were standing by where the cars do their burnouts and launch from - lot of smoke and noise. Bees and hornets galore, all over us! There weren't even any trash barrels close by! Z thought the smoke and noise would keep them away, but apparently the call of my perfume was stronger than the smoke. Note to self - no more perfume to the race track. We watched for a while, then went to sit in the stands. More bees. One of the cars wrecked, was a little scary watching the guy crawl out of his wrecked car and collapse on the ground. Luckily he was okay. Z then had to work for a little bit, but all worked out, thank goodness.
Saturday night we went down to the Pike Creek car show. The Chevelle is usually the center of attention, this was no different.
We went to dinner with his parents Saturday night, which was a lot of fun.
Sunday we drove to a couple potential reception sites, one looks more promising than the other, we'll see! Then was dinner with some friends, always a good time. And yup, there was a wasp at our table. He didn't last long. I love three day weekends!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Halloween Party, anyone?
Thursday we didn't hit the Magic Kingdom until 6pm. We had our Halloween Party tickets, and we were expecting not too many people. We took the monorail in and there were a lot of people. But as the night went out it really thinned out, I think the longest we waited for a ride was Dumbo, maybe 10 minutes. That parade was really cool, it was started by the Headless Horseman. Fireworks were great too, and we watched the whole show this time! Right in front of the castle. We stayed until 11:00.
Friday back to Animal Kingdom! We only did 3 things, then bought this adorable Mickey popcorn bucket. And of course ate most of the popcorn.
Saturday we were planning on leaving at 8am, but were 8 minutes late, which was my fault, of course! But we made it home safe, arrived at Z's house a little before midnight.
Friday back to Animal Kingdom! We only did 3 things, then bought this adorable Mickey popcorn bucket. And of course ate most of the popcorn.
Saturday we were planning on leaving at 8am, but were 8 minutes late, which was my fault, of course! But we made it home safe, arrived at Z's house a little before midnight.
EPCOT baby!
Tuesday and Wednesday we hit EPCOT. We hadn't done very much Tuesday when the sky started looking rather ominous. We started heading back and were headed into Figment when the wind pushed us in the door. After the ride they wouldn't let us out, "for our own safety". Huge thunderstorm, massive rainshowers. The store on the way out was packed, people sitting everywhere. After about 45 minutes, the rain had not let up much and we needed to get back for our dinner reservations. We purchased two Disney ponchos and headed out. And this Z, is why we brought back up shoes!
We made it back to the Caribbean and got cleaned up, then headed over to Gaylord Palms to meet my parents and J&B. Another excellent buffet there! Having never been there we didn't really know where to park and ended up parking at the conference center and parading through the hotel to get to the buffet. Oops. Still raining, but we had our trusty Mickey umbrella!
Dinner was yummy, they had a pasta station, which I had never seen before. We ate way too much, as always.
After dinner it had finally stopped raining. We headed up to the Orlando airport to exchange rental cars. Remember the leak? It didn't stop, and the car was smelling none too pleasant. We were able to exchange our leaky Impala for a Hyundai something-or-other with XM radio. Hair Nation, here we come! On the way back we stopped at a huge mall with an M&M World store. Also we stopped at a couple of jewelers looking for a ring guard for my ring - they didn't have one, but Claire's did, and for around $5! Success! Now my ring is on the correct finger!
Wednesday we went back to EPCOT, and did the few rides we missed the day before. On Spaceship Earth I was supposed to pick on the map of the country where we live, and I accidentally picked some country in China that we had never heard of. Leave it to me. Apparently my sense of direction is worse than we knew!
Back to Boma that night for dinner. Zebra puffs, ummmmm! Dinner was yummy, I was even able to find my way back to the table with no help. I have been known to get lost at buffets trying to find my table.
After dinner we went mini golfing at Winter-Summer Land. Also a first visit! There were two sides, winter and summer - the guy asked which we wanted and right away I said "winter". Sorry Z, jumped in on that one! It was really cute, there were even Christmas songs playing! I'm blaming my need to sing along for me losing by 10 points, or however golf is scored. Because it can't be for my lack of talent, unh uh, no way.
We made it back to the Caribbean and got cleaned up, then headed over to Gaylord Palms to meet my parents and J&B. Another excellent buffet there! Having never been there we didn't really know where to park and ended up parking at the conference center and parading through the hotel to get to the buffet. Oops. Still raining, but we had our trusty Mickey umbrella!
Dinner was yummy, they had a pasta station, which I had never seen before. We ate way too much, as always.
After dinner it had finally stopped raining. We headed up to the Orlando airport to exchange rental cars. Remember the leak? It didn't stop, and the car was smelling none too pleasant. We were able to exchange our leaky Impala for a Hyundai something-or-other with XM radio. Hair Nation, here we come! On the way back we stopped at a huge mall with an M&M World store. Also we stopped at a couple of jewelers looking for a ring guard for my ring - they didn't have one, but Claire's did, and for around $5! Success! Now my ring is on the correct finger!
Wednesday we went back to EPCOT, and did the few rides we missed the day before. On Spaceship Earth I was supposed to pick on the map of the country where we live, and I accidentally picked some country in China that we had never heard of. Leave it to me. Apparently my sense of direction is worse than we knew!
Back to Boma that night for dinner. Zebra puffs, ummmmm! Dinner was yummy, I was even able to find my way back to the table with no help. I have been known to get lost at buffets trying to find my table.
After dinner we went mini golfing at Winter-Summer Land. Also a first visit! There were two sides, winter and summer - the guy asked which we wanted and right away I said "winter". Sorry Z, jumped in on that one! It was really cute, there were even Christmas songs playing! I'm blaming my need to sing along for me losing by 10 points, or however golf is scored. Because it can't be for my lack of talent, unh uh, no way.
Happiest Place on Earth
Sunday found us back at the Magic Kingdom. We were there for a lot of hours, and I think Z got a little Disney'd out. But he was a good sport about it. Mostly. :) There weren't too many rides that we did not do, some more than once. Alas, rain found us again that night. We got some ice cream and sat for a bit, hoping it would go away. This was during Extra Magic Hours. We didn't stay that long into them, we both had had enough fun for the day.
Monday we went over to the Hollywood Studios. Another fun day, another buffet! We had lunch reservations at Hollywood & Vine. We headed over early to see if they could seat us before our reservation so we could see the stunt show. We checked in early, the hostess told us it should be about 15 minutes. 25 minutes later Z checked to see where we were on the list. She then explained that because we were early and so many other people had reservations we would be sat at 1:00. Not clear on why she hadn't told us when we checked in. But all was good, it was maybe 4 minutes after that they called us in. Lunch was good, we were the only people in there without kids. It was a character meal, but I don't really know who the characters were. There was a lot of dancing and singing, very entertaining!
We were able to see the car stunt show, thank goodness! We made it over right when it was starting. I had never seen it before. Z hadn't either, he hadn't been to the Studio until now.
Monday we went over to the Hollywood Studios. Another fun day, another buffet! We had lunch reservations at Hollywood & Vine. We headed over early to see if they could seat us before our reservation so we could see the stunt show. We checked in early, the hostess told us it should be about 15 minutes. 25 minutes later Z checked to see where we were on the list. She then explained that because we were early and so many other people had reservations we would be sat at 1:00. Not clear on why she hadn't told us when we checked in. But all was good, it was maybe 4 minutes after that they called us in. Lunch was good, we were the only people in there without kids. It was a character meal, but I don't really know who the characters were. There was a lot of dancing and singing, very entertaining!
We were able to see the car stunt show, thank goodness! We made it over right when it was starting. I had never seen it before. Z hadn't either, he hadn't been to the Studio until now.
Lions and Tigers and .... Monkeys?
Saturday morning at 8:30 we had breakfast reservations at Boma over at the Disney Animal Kingdom Lodge (aka DAK Lodge). My parents and their friends would be joining us. We made it over there without any wrong turns! We found our party waiting for us and shared our exciting news! Everyone was thrilled! Our meals were delicious, as always. After we ate Z, my parents and I headed over to the Animal Kingdom.
We headed right for the Safari, my favorite. We did Dinosaur, A Bug's Life, and then the Safari again. Turns out September and May are Love Bug months - never heard of a Love Bug? AKA the two headed bug. I don't know if this is true, but we heard they were a college experiment to get rid of mosquitoes. They apparently escaped, and now FL is flooded with them twice a year. They are attracted to white. Little did I know, I wore white capris, white t-shirt, white sneakers and socks. Bug Magnet. Oh well. I learned real quick.
After the Animal Kingdom we headed to Old Town to meet some friends. L&D & A&D met us over there. Old Town Saturday nights host car shows. It was quite interesting - next to the car show there was a bungee jumping stand that went WAY up into the air. It started by hauling the person up to the top and then swinging them down. Not so much for me. There weren't really a lot of cars, maybe because of the Love Bugs (who also like white cars).
After the slightly disappointing car show we went to eat, I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but it was good! Like a Texas Roadhouse. Everyone else lived about an hour away, so it wasn't a very late night. Back to the hotel!
We headed right for the Safari, my favorite. We did Dinosaur, A Bug's Life, and then the Safari again. Turns out September and May are Love Bug months - never heard of a Love Bug? AKA the two headed bug. I don't know if this is true, but we heard they were a college experiment to get rid of mosquitoes. They apparently escaped, and now FL is flooded with them twice a year. They are attracted to white. Little did I know, I wore white capris, white t-shirt, white sneakers and socks. Bug Magnet. Oh well. I learned real quick.
After the Animal Kingdom we headed to Old Town to meet some friends. L&D & A&D met us over there. Old Town Saturday nights host car shows. It was quite interesting - next to the car show there was a bungee jumping stand that went WAY up into the air. It started by hauling the person up to the top and then swinging them down. Not so much for me. There weren't really a lot of cars, maybe because of the Love Bugs (who also like white cars).
After the slightly disappointing car show we went to eat, I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but it was good! Like a Texas Roadhouse. Everyone else lived about an hour away, so it wasn't a very late night. Back to the hotel!
What Are You Celebrating?
We were 15 miles away when the rain started. Rain + Florida = traffic. At least we were close, so we didn't lose that much time.
We arrived safely at the Caribbean Beach Resort and checked in, which went quickly. Paying ahead of time seems to help a lot! We had reserved a king size bed, which are only in the preferred rooms, meaning a room with a view. When we were checking in I asked if we could be in Barbados, Aruba or Jamaica. Aruba it was! We drove over to our building, Aruba #54, room 13. We found we were 3 rooms from the pool, our view was the lake and food area, the beach was 15 steps away. We could not have asked for a better room. We lugged all our stuff to the room and drove over to the food area, Old Port Royale. Z had real food, I had cheesecake. We bought our Disney mugs, which were good for drinks all week at our resort.
It was still sprinkling a little bit, but we braved it out and headed over to the Magic Kingdom for the parade. We didn't bring snaps, I didn't want to ruin the camera to get blurry pictures. We made it over (after making a wrong turn) and parked, took the tram to the ferry boat, and made it to Main Street USA with 7 minutes to spare. The parade was awesome, worth the wait. Rain was light, easy to ignore in the happiest place on earth.
After the parade I dragged Z over to the Haunted Mansion. On the way we passed a Disney photographer in front of the castle, Z asked if I wanted to have our picture taken, I said "Nah, it won't come out at night". (This will come into play later). After the Haunted Mansion, we started heading back to Main Street for the fireworks. I had forgotten how they block areas off during the fireworks, so we ended up watching from behind Cinderella's Castle. Halfway through the fireworks Z asked me if I would carry something for him, I said "sure"; he gets down on one knee with a ring and proposes! It was amazing, he could not have picked a better spot! The funny part was, nobody around us seemed to see what was going on! Of course I said yes!
After that I floated out of the park on my cloud and we went back to the hotel. At that point I had been awake for 23 hours and was wiped out, exhausted, too tired to do anything. Except stare at my new bling!
We arrived safely at the Caribbean Beach Resort and checked in, which went quickly. Paying ahead of time seems to help a lot! We had reserved a king size bed, which are only in the preferred rooms, meaning a room with a view. When we were checking in I asked if we could be in Barbados, Aruba or Jamaica. Aruba it was! We drove over to our building, Aruba #54, room 13. We found we were 3 rooms from the pool, our view was the lake and food area, the beach was 15 steps away. We could not have asked for a better room. We lugged all our stuff to the room and drove over to the food area, Old Port Royale. Z had real food, I had cheesecake. We bought our Disney mugs, which were good for drinks all week at our resort.
It was still sprinkling a little bit, but we braved it out and headed over to the Magic Kingdom for the parade. We didn't bring snaps, I didn't want to ruin the camera to get blurry pictures. We made it over (after making a wrong turn) and parked, took the tram to the ferry boat, and made it to Main Street USA with 7 minutes to spare. The parade was awesome, worth the wait. Rain was light, easy to ignore in the happiest place on earth.
After the parade I dragged Z over to the Haunted Mansion. On the way we passed a Disney photographer in front of the castle, Z asked if I wanted to have our picture taken, I said "Nah, it won't come out at night". (This will come into play later). After the Haunted Mansion, we started heading back to Main Street for the fireworks. I had forgotten how they block areas off during the fireworks, so we ended up watching from behind Cinderella's Castle. Halfway through the fireworks Z asked me if I would carry something for him, I said "sure"; he gets down on one knee with a ring and proposes! It was amazing, he could not have picked a better spot! The funny part was, nobody around us seemed to see what was going on! Of course I said yes!
After that I floated out of the park on my cloud and we went back to the hotel. At that point I had been awake for 23 hours and was wiped out, exhausted, too tired to do anything. Except stare at my new bling!
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