Love your purple cake...
I know it was wonderful to finally be home at RPR. I felt the same way when I barely made it to Cabana Bay due to Irma.
Finally made it home! What a nice surprise! That cake is calling me. I'm trying to be good for the next 2 weeks before we head to the Food & Wine Festival at Epcot. I loved the view we had the first time we stayed at RPR. It was of the river out front, Rip Ride Rocket, and at the edge, Hogwarts. It was amazing. You don't get such up close views like that at Disney or the other Universal hotels, except Volcano Bay and Cabana Bay. I know this report is going to make me long for Universal, which we won't be going to in 2 weeks. Our supply of peppermint toads is getting low, but I still have sherbet lemons. Can't wait to hear about HHN.
SUNDAY 17th SEPTEMBER
I had the weirdest dream last night......woke me with a start and I again had no clue where I was.......Tom was even more lost than me.......lol......I just got confused as to what hotel I was in........I do dream a lot and they are usually weird.......Tom claims never to remember his dreams and frequently wished I didn't remember mine as I have to regale him with every one I remember......lol.......
This sounds like me and my husband. I have very strande, vivid dreams. He almost never remembers his.
Hooray to be back in Orlando! The RPH staff seem to be extra nice. Glad they treated you so well
All caught up now. Spicy food and Chardonnay - we would get along just fine, Carole. I will have to try the Sonoma-Cutrer. I so enjoyed all the NYC pics. Looking forward to hear all about the Orlando portion.
Yay! Universal and HHN! That's a bummer that most of the houses weren't to your liking. I have heard really good things about Scarecrow though. I haven't heard a single person say they liked Hive. It just sounds weird. I have heard good things about the The Shining, but I think that's partly because it's such a good movie by an amazing director. It would have to be atrocious for people to not like it. Maybe next year I will take DS. He has really gotten in horror movies this year. I loved them as a kid, and I am just about the perfect age when Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Nightmare on Elm St came out.
I am actually sitting at home about to miss watching qualifying of the USGP in Austin in person. We have gone every year and usually go with out of town friends. They aren't here this year, and I decided to let DH take DS11. He rarely gets to go, because the seats are just so expensive. He's going to the race tomorrow too. His favorite driver is Kimi, whom he calls Mr. Popper Penguin I like Kimi too, mainly because of his "I could care less" attitude Who do you guys like? Are you more fans of a team or of drivers? We hope to see a European F1 GP some time or maybe Malaysia or Dubai. My dream would be Monaco, because of the history. We have only seen the ones at Indy and in Austin.
We love Margaritaville, mostly because of the drinks. I always get the coconut shrimp and key lime pie, which they rarely mess up. Actually, their key lime pie is some of the best I have ever had. I have to temper myself here, because the drinks are so good. We tend to go every time we visit Universal, but we always get the same stuff.
I am glad you mentioned Ash v Evil Dead -- my boyfriend LOVES the movies and TV show... I thought maybe we should go this year to HHN because of it, but we were so busy with other things, we didn't. Now I'm kind of glad!
On another note, I played in a tennis lesson with one of my friends, Trina, who is from Scotland. We were all talking in the lesson how we could listen to Trina talk forever. And, it was QUITE windy, so she let out quite a few curse words -- which from her just sound brilliant. LOL. Anyway, I now hear her voice when I read your posts.
Twelfth, the loud sandwich guy reminds me of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, who was modeled after a real restaurant owner. If you don't know what I'm talking about, immediately go now to youtube and look!
EXACTLY my thought the first time they visited! Classic Soup Nazi encounter. I knew someone would pick up on that right away.
Such a fun report.
Lovely pictures! I just noticed, for the first time after many trips, that the snowman is a Hufflepuff! My DD and I are both Hufflepuffs, so I'll have to get a picture there in December.
I really like Dr. Doom too, but no one else in my family does. I'm the only one who will ride hulk as well.