Technical
issues and work got in the way of resolving said issues, so the last blog wasn’t
complete when published, so here we go again to get it out there!
Day Four.
Four hours
sleep (best night in ages) I mean I still feel like crap, but I feel better
than yesterday! A light breakfast, for once I’m not so hungry first thing on
holiday, I will probably suffer and then gorge later, ( I didn’t) then off to
the Magic Kingdom to meet some Princess’s, I made sure I was filled up with
painkillers and smeared painkilling cream over both knees and my hip (I really
am falling apart). Transport sorted we headed off to the wife’s happiest place
on earth (me I’m a bit meh) I’m on holiday, I’m with the wife and I’m not being
grumpy for once, the wife was so happy there was water leaking from her eyes,
probably because I was with her, funny that, we saw a parade, we did some
shopping it was decided not by me, I simply went with the flow, we did all that
with time to spare and we were at the designated place for our lunch, but we
had an hour to kill before hand so it was decided to go on a ride, I have
wanted to have a look at this particular ride ( I don’t normally do rides) it’s a kids ride
(go sue me) its one of the original rides from when the park opened, I agreed
with gritted teeth, the wait for the ride was about twenty five minutes (it’s
normally around ninety minutes) oh go on then and as soon as we joined the queue
it ground to a halt, now I have issues walking but standing still absolutely
kills me, we were getting close to the front but I was in total agony and my
hip had joined in at this point, I was ready just to quit the line (not as easy
as it seems) and we were getting closer to our time slot for lunch even the
pain in my knees and hip couldn’t hide the growls from my now starving stomach,
all of a sudden there was a surge and we were on the ride, sweeping over the London
rooftops of Edwardian London (allegedly I say allegedly because it was
virtually pitch black) , three minutes later the ride was over, and the thought
that popped into my head was “I have waited twenty nine years to do that parcel
of shit”! It was crap it was old it was dark! To be honest I had seen a few
vlogs showing the same ride at Tokyo Disney and that is mind blowing, and not
simply because of the language barrier, state of the art production compared to
a 1971 relic, no comparison, sorry chaps but you have to up your game especially
for the money that you charge to get in the parks (the most expensive place on
earth not magical).
Thankfully I
wasn’t allowed to be grumpy, I was dragged to the castle to have lunch with
some Disney Princess’s, yes it was expensive, yes it’s meant for small kids,
however even I enjoyed it, the meal was fab, the staff were just as good and
the cast were great, would I have done it by myself, no I wouldn’t, but it
brought a smile to the wife’s face which in reality is what the holiday was all
about. The wife had some pictures taken ( I have the face for radio) and I needed
some more painkillers the wait for the ride had wiped me out, I was beyond suffering
at this point, we slowly made our way back to the resort and had a very quiet
night, apart from the Peter Pan ride it had indeed been a great day, well it
was until we went for supper, we both had separate meals towards the end of
service and they were both foul, the worst meal in over thirty years of going
to the USA, I know it’s a budget resort but the food is usually spot on, this wasn’t,
we both ditched it after a couple of mouthfuls, there were plenty of people
around us having the same thing, and they were enjoying it, but it didn’t do it
for our tastebuds we departed to go to bed and a sad end to a really pleasant
day!
Day Five.
Another day
and another day of being up at three o clock in the morning, when I go to bed I
fall asleep ok, but once I’m awake that’s it I’m awake, I simply can not go
back to sleep! It’s starting to get a bit boring now, we headed off to
breakfast hungry and nervous but we needn’t have worried as the breakfast was
bloody lovely, I needed something substantial a lovely omelette and tatter tots,
the wife went with her usual Pancakes and bacon with lots of syrup, the food
was back on track.
Fed and
watered we were intending to have a lazy day (by our standards) we intended to
go visit the “nice” hotels (meaning the ones we simply cannot afford) we
bounced between a couple (they were all nice) but the day didn’t end well as I lost
a very expensive jumper that I had bought for the wife, I was as sick as a pig
as I got to where I thought I had lost it, my stomach sunk as I knew it wasn’t there,
and that is why we can’t have nice things, I knew where I had lost it, I had put
the bags down to pay for something and simply hadn’t picked up the biggest and
most expensive bag that I bought all holiday, the staff were fantastic (thank
you Tess and Wanda who went above and beyond the call of duty you don’t
normally get outside of Disney) I simply can not sing their praises high enough,
Wanda was even able to wangle a free replacement for me, phew I was going to
have to buy it again, so that was a bad ending to another pleasant day, was
this setting the tone of the holiday and would the wife let me carry anymore
bags for the rest of the holiday? Of course she was, under strict supervision
of course, what did you think that she was going to carry them lol!
Day Six.
Up early as
usual, but my head was in a better frame of mind when I knew that the whole
might of the Disney Corporation were looking for the wife’s jumper and if they didn’t find it they were going
supply one free of charge, a quick breakfast (the same as yesterday) and then
off to Universal Studio’s let’s see how today goes, the ride there was smooth
even though there was loads of traffic.
We enjoyed
a good day in the park, I couldn’t walk so we got a mobility scooter for both
of us (HOW MUCH????????) the wife has a bad back, I don’t know how she copes at
the best of times. It was busy, we were going to the new park later in the week
this was the two old parks that’s why we got the scooter, we knew we could do
it, but we were sensible enough to know we couldn’t walk it, I wanted to buy a new
hat and I found one I liked, I thought I would buy it on the way out, I should
have bought it there and then when we went back there was plenty of hats just
none my size….bugger! for lunch we went to Krusty Burger and had you guessed a
burger and a bloody huge pink donut between us, as always I watched the weather
forecast and it claimed that it was going to rain at three o clock, and at one
minute past three it rained for fourteen minutes we were both as wet as an
otters pocket!
We headed
back to the pick up point and had a great drive back, both showered and then
walked back slowly to the canteen and I got one of my favourite meals of the
holiday meatloaf (no not the singer) with veg, I try and have this at least
once every holiday, the wife fancied an ice cream (I was a good boy, I didn’t
but I did give her the money for it, but when she got to the till the manager
said “that’s on me” a simple act of kindness, I watched it on other nights when
he was on the till he did it a number of times and not just to females, people of
both sexes of all ages, a simple but you could see the joy it brought to the
people receiving them.
Spring
comes to the USA tomorrow as the clocks go forward, the wife is already in bed
asleep, I’ll be going as soon as I finish my notes for this blog, this wasn’t the
perfect day but it was a better one, that’s all I can ask for. Sunday tomorrow,
let’s go to a mall and go crazy (I must not buy vinyl, I must not buy vinyl, I must
not buy vin…. ooooooh) ah who cares I’m on holiday, let’s see what happens, Tee
hee!
