Day 3 - Sunday 13th September Continued
From the marina we headed over the lobby of the Grand Floridian where we met up with our Mum's and my sister. We were also meeting some friends who had travelled out for the wedding who had come with their family. In total there were 13 of us.
Of all the dining that we had booked afternoon tes was by far the most painful. Because of our group size we couldn't make a reservation through the normal process we had to call the location to be booked in. Now I called... and called... and callled and no one ever answered the phone, it was a nightmare. When I finally did speak to someone after insiting at the front desk that I spreak to someone, she took a few details and said she would check but she never got back in touch which I was very frustrated about.
I was a little nervous that they wouldn't have booked us in and the podium staff at the Garden View lounge can often be quite grumpy and abrupt. Luckily though everything was fine and we were shown to three tables next to each other. For most of us we had been here before and new what to expect, my firends on the other hand didn't so when they got their tea sandwiches it wasn't quite what the expected. Overall it was a pleasant afternoon and everyone enjoyed themseleves. I would certainly recommend this place, it's very civilised and great excuse to eat scones, cakes and trifle.
This is Karen my best friend from work and her boyfriend Jon
Our lovely server
Following this everyone was going their own way, Claire and Daniel were meeting with other friends, Karen and Jon were heading to the Magic Kingdom and our mum's were going to go back to the hotel. We arranged to meet our Mum's at Hollywood Studios later and we went with Karen and her family into the Magic Kingdom.
It was Karen's first visit so she was really excited. I went grabbed some first visit buttons for them which she loved.
We went on a few rides with them for an hour or so and then left them to enjoy the park on their own.
It was around 5ish now so we headed back to the poly to collect the car and we drove over to the Studios. We had a wander and went on a couple of things before we met our Mum's. I completely forget exactly what we did as I have no pictures from this evening at all. When we met up with our Mum's we went into American Idol for the last showing of the day and then went to see Fantasmic.
It's a bit disappointing that they have cut the number of showings for this, as we went in they were calling standing room only. We ignored this and proceeded to the frint and centre of the amphitheater, we always sit at the front and never have problems finding seats, this night was no different. The show was great as usual!
After this we were quite tired, it had been a long day so we dropped our Mum's back at Pop Century and headed back to Port Orleans where we grabbed some food and went to bed!!!!
I was really pleased with how it was working out with the whole group. No one felt pressured to stick together and everyone was doing their own thing which I had been really worried about, I did not want to try and organise a group for a whole week. The planned activities were working out great so far!
Was going through some serious withdrawl
oh well!
). I loved every bit of it, and was wondering if it was ever completed, maybe somewhere else ? Thanks !
