Beep Beep Beep, BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. What the? Its 3.30am and we are awake anyway but what is that infernal racket. Remember we said last night that we were close to the dining hall well here comes breakfast. The noise outside is the catering truck backing up to deliver today's fresh foods.
Well we are awake anyway so we may as well have a cup of tea (brought with us as your tea is a bit weak for my taste) hmmm now I feel better as it is so early we go back to bed to snooze for a while the lorry has gone by now.
A little later we are back up and set for round two of tea. At this point I venture into the bathroom, quickly to return announcing to Joe "there is a beetle in the bathroom" off he goes for inspection armed with a tuppleware container. He emerges to inform me that was no beetle it is a cockroach which is now in the container and ready for disposal.
We decide on capture and release for the little creature who will now been known as Cyril. I am now hoping that he hasn't informed his little friends to his whereabouts and we don't get his family coming to look for him.
We turn on the TV and the weather channel to see what we are going to get in the way of weather for the rest of the week. Yea it's gonna be hot.
During the early morning tea we have now decided that we want to go and do the Harry Potter ride at Universal (I can hear you all hissing at the screen you know) and so we need to go to the morning briefing at Riverside as Virgin Holidays do a deal that you get in one hour early just like the guys that stay at the Universal hotels.
As we get ready to move Cyril stays in his capture pot and as we go out the door he is now ready for his big adventure.
Half way between French Quarter and Riverside he is given his freedom, so long hope we don't see you again.
Tickets purchased we are of to Universal tomorrow morning. While we are here we decide to have some Hot Chocolate and a warm cinnamon bun yumm. OH NO cinnamon buns are all gone, never mind there is a tasty looking apple cobbler with my name on it. We wander slowly back the way we came and head back to the room to pick up the camera before heading out to Magic Kingdom.
Car is parked and we walk in towards the TTC then it's down to the Ferry. I can see Cinderella's Castle that's it I'm all a flutter.
Joe takes a picture of the Grand Floridan on the way across using his new lens.
Through the gates we are here at last. First stop the candy store, how we love the smell in this place and it is always the first place we enter when we arrive at the park. Up main street slowly, there are a few things covered with tarps including the Main Street Bakery which is a bit of a shame because this means you can not get a good picture of the castle and there is a crane at the side of the castle as they are painting the tiles on the towers so no pics. Into tomorrowland we fastpass Buzz and head to the TTA. When we finish we wander towards Fantasyland and get our first glimpse of the Beast's castle. It is looking good and we are looking forward to all the new bits that will probably be up and running next year.
We head on down to the Mansion and see the new queue for the first time. Looks good but make sure you have your hand sanitizer with you if you want to play, after the mansion we wander back to Buzz for our fastpass time. Back through fantasyland again and stand to watch the victims that are on Splash Mountain the splashing seems to be quite intense today so we watch a few people getting soaked and then wander on through to Pirates. After that it is quite late in the afternoon so decide to go to the Grand Floridan for lunch, we are on the dining plan but only quick service so are not sure if they will have anything or not.
Down at the front of the park and head towards the monorail, then we see the boat.
After the little boat ride we wander round the foyer for a look at how the other half live. Joe spy's this and has to take a picture of it you know how he loves things at strange angles (if you don't you will by the end of this report) and takes it from immediately below.
If you haven't tried the quick service here it is really good. We both had sandwiches and yoghurt's but the sandwiches were way to big so we could only manage on each and we pack the other in our bag to munch on later.
Back outside we catch the boat again which takes us on the rest of the trip over to the poly and then back to the launch dock at the Kingdom. Inside we wander back up Main Street and head towards adventureland where Joe takes a picture of the new bridge, the last time we were here this was closed for refurbishment. I liked the old one but this is less steep better for wheelchairs I assume.
We meander around for a little while longer and then decide to head back to the hotel before wishes as we are a little tired and we have an early start tomorrow morning.