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Old 15 Jul 19, 10:45 AM  
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Introducing two new princesses to WDW...offsite June 19.Day 3. Blizzard beach and T-Rex cafe

14th June

So I woke at 3.30 and again at 6.30. This is after not going to bed till 11.30. The kids and hubby are still asleep now at 7am so have had a good 10 hours already but I’m not going to wake them. They deserve a lie in. I’m just bored and really just wanna jump in a cold shower. Feels muggy this morning here.

Sat out on the patio? Not sure what to call it and there is a squirrel here to see me and a frog in the pool filter. It’s beautiful here. No idea how the frog has gotten inside I thought it was as all enclosed.




Hubby got up and after rescuing the frog which took more time than thought as he decided now was the best time to have another swim, the frog not hubby, we woke the girls, showered,dressed and had cereal on the patio. Would have been nice if I had of liked the cereal.
We got packed and ready.

We went off to blizzard beach. Got a good parking space near the front. Was really easy park. After getting a pog in the kids bit they played while I went to get a locker. It was $10 not the $15 that I originally thought. Back to the kids and we got some life jackets that were on a rack in the kids area.

First stop, my favourite, team boat springs. Oh my god those stairs. Nearly died when I got to the top. I’m not very fit and I hadn’t lost as much weight as I wanted. Kids absolutely loved it. They thought it was hilarious that I was going backwards and couldn’t see the drops so I was screaming a bit. We did this twice. My legs were burning already.

After this I wanted to go on the toboggan racers. Was so proud of Georgia going down it all by herself. She’s so little though she didn’t get far enough to the end and we had to rush back for her.

Kids said it was good but the best was the family ride. So back on it. My legs are gonna drop off. Was the most fun ride though I have to agree and it’s always been my favourite.

Kids went in the ski patrol slides but they were getting fed up of those so we went into cross country creek. We had two gos round. There were a few new rings like sears which were cool. And I did fit threw the middle so don’t know why I was worrying so much.

Kids had fun going round the lazy river trying to push me under the water falls. Definitely wasn’t the most relaxing river for me keeping an eye on them and Scarlett capsized her ring and I so misjudged a bit where there was bubbles to obviously make the river flow well it took my straight under. I hate getting water in my ears.

We bought a funnel cake. Used to be my favourite but for some reason don’t taste as good as I remember and got a coke. Did look at getting a massive donut as they look good but I think it was too big. We sat down for a bit drying off.

We decided we’d had enough so got our back to our villa
On the way out we saw goofy and kids loved this. There was no line either.

(wow this has taken me three days to write, note to self do not try to write in bed at night,eye lids go every time) kids wanted to into our pool so they jumped straight in after having snack. When on holiday we definitely tend to eat more rubbish rather than meals.

Saw something pass our villa, are they turkeys? They look a bit similar.

Hubby has decided we have to come back next year. This means cancelling our cruises to the Canary Islands and Mediterranean that are in school holidays in favour of coming back here during school and getting fined.
After all the times I have mentioned upgrading to annual passes after reading about them on dibb now he wants to listen.

We were going to t-Rex cafe tonight so I said I would call into the ticket centre and get a price.

All showered and ready to go. We parked in the strawberry car park. After talking to tickets centre they want $2160 total for upgrade. As we would get free parking then I think this would work out for the best but not sure and it’s a lot of money not to be sure. Decided to mull it over dinner.

Turned up at t-Rex cafe and they said it would be 1.5hour wait 😱 but I flashed my Landry card and voila we were in there in 10mins.


We had a pants table though not near any dinosaurs in the ice bit and I couldn’t see very well. We each had a drink of strawberry and cherry soda. I chose the crustaceans trio and hubby the Triassic trio. Kids weren’t that hungry so shared a shrimpkins kids meal with apple juice and I asked for an extra plate.

Kids we colouring the dinosaurs nicely and it took about 15/20mins for dinner to come but no plate so I asked if I could please have a spare plate. Sure the guy said. 7mins later and no plate. Georgia wanted some of the sweetcorn so I had to get up and ask a nearby server to get me one and he did super fast. The food was rubbish for the price. We had both got a quarter of a glass of drink left and he had asked if we wanted refills which we did. About 15mins into the meal when we were very nearly finished he came and asked again if we wanted refills and again we said yes (still no plate or meantion that we now had one) it then took a further 9mins for the drinks. By this time the kids had nearly finished and we were gonna leave. We asked for the bill which he fetched. I wanted to pay on my FairFX card. There had been a deal on the dibb and I basically got $2 to the £1.
He didn’t come back after 5mins I said to hubby to take girls to see dinosaurs so he did. Another 5 mins and still not back so I went to find someone. The took my card and someone else fetched it back.

The meal came to $53.31.
I wasn’t happy with the service so I left 10% tip in cash and told them why.
I get that they are super busy but so was the girl at cracker barrel and she was brilliant and she got the 20% she deserved. I also decided to give the lad that got me the plate $2. Wasn’t much was only like 3% but I did feel like I shouldn’t have had such a terrible service.

Next we decided to go to goofy candy company. Wanted some treats so I checked how much I had left on my FairFX card and it shows pending $61.31. But I’ve only used it for dinner just now? There should have been $11 just left.
Seems to me like they have somehow added on 15% tip when I had left $5 already cash.

We bought a crispy treat and cookie and went to have a look at ice creams at Ghirardelli but decided against it. Bought some very nice cinnamon peanuts.
I went back to t-Rex to query the price difference and they think that someone has put in the amount for another table. I think that’s strange that it was 31cents at the end of both these tables bills? Manager has said to give it a few days and the transaction will correct itself.

We decided to call it a day. Straight home and to bed. Everyone tired. It’s my birthday tomorrow. Getting old now. Tomorrow Hollywood studios and I think this will be my least favourite park

Spends

Locker $10
Coke $4.50
Funnel cake $8
T-Rex $60.31
Cookie & Krispy $10.10
Nuts $5.50

Total $98.41

Edited at 10:58 AM.
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Old 15 Jul 19, 07:22 PM  
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Old 16 Jul 19, 07:39 AM  
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T-Rex very poor.

If I get rubbish service like this I write on the bill why they aren't getting the full amount.
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Old 25 Jul 19, 06:30 PM  
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Ur girls are so cute. Love the way u dress them <3
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