The mad girlie spur of the moment trip - the report! COMPLETE

We got there in the end and that's all that matters

I think we were running on adrenaline lol

Ah Mandy is was soooooooo loooooooong, but of course sooooo worth it

I haven't done an indirect flight since I was a teen with my parents, I'm not sure how quickly I want to do one again. The savings would have to be huge to tempt me

Ahhh the multiple trips comes from having no kids yet (no drain on funds hahaha), and me having a job where I can bump up the hours when I need to so I can pay for stuff

It was quite a fav, the damn wifi kept dropping but I just kept calling back

BCV was soooo nice. I'm already wondering when we can add on DVC so we can stay there hahaha

Ahhh he was pleased too. I did have such a fab time in disney but it just wasn't the same without him I missed him sooooooooooooooooooooo much.

Will be working on more ASAP away from home for a few days at a funeral Actually I didn't know how or where to post or even if I should post about it, but the couple we went away with in 2012 (we went with both sets of parents and old friends of Sy's parents, Steve and Jude). Steve had non Hodgkin's lymphoma and they were trying to visit all the places he wanted before he left us. Well sadly Steve lost his battle fairly suddenly last week his funeral is tomorrow so we have travelled up to Manchester with all the family to say goodbye to him. Lovely friend Ruth is staying at ours to look after little sod Wilbur the cat.

Ahhh thank you, this will probably make you sad now... But it's gone in the bin! It was on it's last legs and the covering was coming off at all the corners etc, it's done me well though, I've had it since valentines day last year and used it every day since. It came from the disney store uk, I still use the matching purse though for all my money

Yeah those fries were wrong! It wasn't good to have with a savoury chicken burger lol Ariel didn't just look creepy, she WAS Creepy! It was a really awkward meet and greet lol
Thanks for reading Hun! How long till you go now??

Thanks Kris, I think he had a great time, I hope he did!
Will be wearing red tomorrow and saying goodbye. X

Day 2 Epcot

Woke up fairly early again but we took it a bit easy as we had to check out of BCV today due to DVC availability we had 2 nights BCV, one night BWV and then the last 4 nights at AKL.
We packed up all our bits and pieces, showered and got dressed and then called down to bell services to come pick up our bags and take them to BWV for us.

We then left our room and headed over to Epcot. It's so easy to walk to Epcot from where we were!
We were at the gates in about 3 minutes. We walked in and made our way to France for breakfast I grabbed a croissant but jenny had a granola yoghurt for breakfast back in the room so she didn't get anything. The smell in the bakery is so authentic, it's just like being in a real French bakery. The staff were just as miserable too

We then made our way to future world, stopping on the way for a few pictures while there was no one around (that part was awesome too, having hardly anyone there).

First up was our reservation for Test Track, the way it worked out Jen and I had a screen each so we designed a car each. I can't remember who's came in first place but it was fun to be able to do our own.

My car

Jen's car

Those were both hideous beasts weren't they? LOL

We then made our way over to the seas and nemo which was a walk on. We walked around for a little while and watched some dolphin training before heading back out into the sunshine (gotta make the most of it compared to back home!)

We grabbed a drink and sat for a min, Jen grabbed a quick tobacco stop before making our way into the land pavilion.

The queue for soarin' was too long to get a return time on the DAS so we just went to use our fast passes on living with the land. I really love this boat ride, I know I've said it before, I can remember the first time I found it - on our honeymoon. I was blown away by it, seeing everything growing outside. I'm obviously easily pleased (those who know me will serious doubt that statement haha).

We then made our way over to Teppan Edo for our lunch ADR. We stopped at a few places on the way over for Jen to get some drinks of the alcoholic kind. We had a short wait before our ADR time so Jen went off for a cigarette break while I went round the shop, Jen had also grabbed a hot saki from the bar opposite the check In Podium where we checked in. We were given a buzzer that went off before we reached the top of the stairs so we went right in and were seated with 1 other family. Jenny skipped a drink as she still had the saki she bought downstairs, she had intended on drinking it first but the buzzer had gone off so quickly so she didn't get chance. I ordered a diet coke. Jenny ordered the shrimp while i decided on, wait for it..... chicken! What a shocker there eh?
Someone at our table either had an allergy or was vegetarian as someone came out to speak to them about cross contamination and asked if they would like their food cooked out back but they declined.

The show and the food was as always, delicious.

We got a few pictures outside before heading off to meet vettelover and mrs vettelover by the funnel cake stand in the American pavilion.

We were a little early so Jen went off to have a cigarette. I wasn't alone for long though as the vettes soon arrived and we got chatting right away. Jen came back with more drink and said hello. We were chatting about life, disney and escaping the cold back home when a CM needed to get in the gate we were stood in front of so we moved but she couldn't jiggle the gate open so lovely Mr vettelover helped get it open and off she went inside. A few minutes later though she came back out with a funnel cake for us to say thank you! How sweet is that?! Not ones to turn down funnel cake we gladly accepted

We made our way inside the American counter service and grabbed a soft drink and a seat. We chatted for quite a while longer but the time did come that we would have to leave so we could check into the boardwalk. It was about 4:30pm by the time we said our goodbyes.

We hot stepped over to the international gateway and made our way over to the boardwalk to get checked in. Check in was easy and smooth and we were soon on the way to our room.
The room was gorgeous, I'd be very happy staying here again. Though I'm not sure I'd call what we had, a water view, I mean you could just about see water through the trees if you leaned over the balcony... But it was just 1 night after all.

Jenny's bag even matched the decor...

We called for the bags as soon as we were in the room but they took ages to come. When they did arrive we quickly got changed and headed down to the pool, sadly it was getting past the warmer part of the way by now but we did enjoy the swim.

Jen tried out the slide but I was worried about getting my hair wet and it takes hours to wash and dry, Jen went under at the end so I'm glad I didn't go lol. She didn't seem too sad though...

We did try out the hot tub too but my sunburn was burning when we tried. Jen got another cocktail at the bar and I got my resort mug filled before heading back up to the room to get changed.

Once we were changed we headed back to Epcot. We snacked on a few things round world showcase and Jen got more drinks. I then took a bit poorly but managed to make it to illuminations, though when it was on Jen disappeared to get more drinks.

Waiting for illuminations

The plan had been that we would go to jellyrolls after but I wasn't feeling it. My friend James was going to come too so he offered to take jenny and I would stay back at the room. He came up to meet us in our room and I gave him a talking to about looking after her as she was quite drunk and I was worried about her but he promised he would... They discussed going offsite to Orlando as James lives there and knows the best places to go but I found out the next day that they had just gone to jellyrolls.

I skyped Sy and then put my head down. I did find it hard to sleep cause I was worried about Jen but she is a grown woman so I needn't have worried really, I think I've kinda always worried about her through the years as she's a couple of years younger than me I've sort of adopted that role lol.
The sleep didn't last long though, I first woke up at 1:45am and Jen wasn't back. I tossed and turned for a bit before falling back to sleep... And then woke up at 4:45 but she still wasn't back. I tried calling her, texting, Facebook... All with no reply. I called and text James with no reply. I even asked on fb if anyone else had heard from her but no one had. As it was the was fine and she was in the boardwalk, but the last I heard was her and James talking about leaving disney and jen was a bit merry (read a lot merry), plus you know what it's like in the middle of the night, your mind goes into overdrive! I called Sy and he had spoken to her at 1:45am as he had been trying to get hold of me earlier in the evening but I hadn't seen my phone so then messaged her.

So as you can imagine I didn't sleep after that, in fact I got up and packed all of our things up ready for check out.....

Tomorrow, AK and HS.

Day 3 AK

So I left you kinda already started on day 3, Jen was missing and I was panicking.

I didn't really know what to do as we were due to check out and I still couldn't get hold of Jen, so I took an outfit out of the bag for her along with her sun cream and some comfy shoes. Just as I was about to call bell services Jen called me. She was on her way up in the lift. I was very relieved!

When she got back in the room she said she hadn't left Disney and was only 2 floors below us, so I was worrying over nothing. She got changed and re packed her things, unfortunately we didn't realise at the time but she left all of her money in the room. She did say later on that she shouldn't rush like she had that morning again as that's what happens when you don't check properly.... The money had been packed in her case but then she took it out while changing to get some cash to take out with her today.

We called bell services and they came to get our bags and transport them over to AKL where we would be spending our last 4 nights. After the night before and the stress I had got myself into I had a dodgy stomach, I kept having to dash to the bathroom - a theme which continued for the rest of the day

Unfortunately for me it would turn out, a few people who had read my public post on Facebook asking if anyone had heard from Jen had replied with not too supporting replies, which Jen read and wasn't happy about, I think she then realised how worried I was and felt bad too. But either way it started the day off with a really awkward atmosphere which didn't really lift the whole day. We headed down to the boardwalk bakery but the queue was huge so I just got my drink filled and we headed to the bus stop to wait for the bus to AK...

It was here that we met the beautiful Nico ahhhhh the beautiful Nico *swoon* he was the CM at the bus stop chatting to everyone, telling awful jokes and just being generally awesome. I am totally useless around pretty men and go to mush, he tried to talk to me and I think I uttered something along the lines of 'um er yer hehehe' and then proceeded to go bright red. Awesome Robyn!

After what felt like an age to my awkward 13 year old self our bus arrived and we were at AK by 10.

We hadn't got any breakfast so we headed over towards the safari I grabbed a pastry on the way along with a frozen jungle juice, which was actually frozen today as the last time I had one it was barely cold!

There was lots of animal movement I the safari today, sadly no lion movement. For years I swore those were fake cause they never moved till one time I saw the lioness waking around. I'll spare you the many pics I took of the animals, I'll just include a few

After the safari we stopped for jenny to get some edemame beans. We then rode Everest and I was reminded why I don't like it lol, the backwards bit really makes me feel sick!

We then headed to Dinoland and played a few games.

I won a toy on the water shooting thingy game (yes, that is the official name!)

AK was really rammed today, we had an ADR at yak and yeti which we were trying to wait around for but between the crowds, the heat and my dodgy stomach we decided to head to guest services to ask if we could change it to another day. They took pity on me and let me change the reservation without the charge. Yay!

On the way out we spotted my friend Jackie on her way in, we did warn her about the crowds but as she was on a solo trip it wasn't so bad, 1 person can nip in and out of the crowds much easier. We did arrange to meet later in the day at Hollywood studios for fantasmic.

We waited first in line for the bus to AKL, it arrived about 10 minutes later and we were soon checking in to AKL jambo house.

We arrived at AKL about 2pm so our room wasn't ready yet. I asked the lady on reception if she could tell whereabouts ish our room was and from that I Guessed our room number. We were in a standard view and not near the pool, I knew where all the downgraded savanna rooms were and i was right with the room I guessed

I think this pic was taken round AKL, I'm having trouble placing it so i'm sticking it in here lol

I was hungry about now so I went to mara while Jen went to get changed into swimming stuff (I had cleverly brought our swimming stuff with us after our wait for the bags in BWV). We then switched and I got changed and we met up by the pool. First stop was a secluded hot tub, though after about 5 mins we were turfed out as the chlorine levels were too high and we then made our way over to the other tub behind the kids slide, right by the smoking area (yay for Jen, boo for me as the smell kept wafting over).

After a swim and a chill on the loungers i went to see if our room was ready, it was! So I text jen the number and how to get there and headed up to the room to call for the bags.

When the bags came we did a bit of unpacking and that's when Jen realised her money was missing. She called the front desk and they said something had been left in our room but that they couldn't tell us what, so they were sending it right over to AKL for us. We quickly got changed and the mood which had picked up slightly had gone down again. We went to the front desk and asked, the guy went out the back and didn't seem to come back but there was a CM waiting beside us, so when the guy came back looking despondent he stepped forward and asked if we were waiting for something from BWV, and asked us to describe what it was that we were waiting for. He then handed over the money. Jen thinks some was taken out of it but she was just glad to get it back even if it wasn't all there.

Feeling very relieved we headed out to the bus stop and waited for the bus to HS.

Once we got to HS we headed to the great movie ride but we were about 15 mins too early so we watched mulch sweat and shears. When we did get to the ride it was down so we then walked to TSM to get a return time on the DAS card. We then went in search of a corn dog for jen but all the places that serve them were shut

We walked by star tours to see what the queue was like, only 20 mins but Jen thought that was still too long so we skipped by and carried on our search for food. We ended up at fairfax fare where jen got a kids meal but I wasn't hungry after eating at the mara.

It was then time to ride TSM so off we went. Both got a Beaver again dammit.

We then grabbed a seat near one mans dream and waited for Jackie as she was heading towards us.

Jen and I had fast passes for tot but I still wasn't feeling great so I have my band to Jackie and they rode together whole I waited at the exit. We then got in the queue for fantasmic. Jen went off for a cigarette and came to find us later. We managed to score a spot right in the centre, probably the best seats i have ever had!

The wait for the show went by quickly as we were chatting away, we grabbed some drinks and Jen got a chilli cup thing... she said it looks a lot better than it tasted and a fair amount went in the bin sadly.

Once the show started I noticed the 'Glow with the Show' ears, unfortunately they were few and far between, i'm sure they would look brilliant if everyone had them on.

After Fantasmic we waited for the crowds to disappear before heading out to the exit all together. Just as we got to our bus stop a bus arrived so we said a rather hasty goodbye to Jackie and hopped on. We did make plans that we would meet up again before we all went home though as we all were all leaving on the same day.

We were back at AKL just after 11pm, we grabbed a few drinks at the vending machine on the way to the room and were in bed by midnight.

Day 4

We planned to visit a waterpark today but we woke up to really dark clouds outside booo! So thinking better of it we decide to head to DTD to do some SHOPPING! We got dressed and headed down to the Mara for some breakfast before heading out to the bus stop.

The bus came after a short time and we were off. The bus seemed to take FOREVER, but finally we were at the Marketplace. We shopped for an hour or so. I am pretty okay with skipping DTD, especially with all of the works going on but Jen really wanted to hit the shops, unfortunately she didn't find anything she wanted to buy though I more than made up for it and had all of my shopping bags delivered back to the resort (which turned out to be a good thing later as the rain came). I lost Jen in World of Disney, I searched all round but she had found a spot outside and was eating a corndog.

The rain had started now so we decided to make an exit and head to HS to watch Beauty and the Beast, a must for both us big girls

We decided to get on the bus to Swan and Dolphin and get the boat from there so we got in line for the bus. Just as the bus arrived a really loud family came up and tried to rush on the bus in front of everyone who had been waiting. They were told to wait to get the scooters on first, they then ran up the ramp and were told to get off again - and this was the parents! The kids were waiting off the bus in line Wow.

We were dropped off at S&D and the heavens really had opened up now We wade our way through the resort and out to the boat dock - I have to say I wasn't impressed with the hotel itself, I didn't think it was anything special. I cant remember which hotel we walked through though, which I guess says a lot! It was the first drop off anyhow.

We were, surprisingly enough, the only people waiting for the boat. The rain was hammering down now We were poncho'd up and making the best but I would be lying if I said it didn't affect us, we were both getting really cold.

We didn't have to wait long for the boat and we were soon making our way inside the gates at HS. First stop was starring rolls for me to get a napoleon, then to get Jen and ice cream, and then we got our spots for the show.

The show as always was amazing I would be so sad to see it go but I do agree that it kinda doesn't fit here anymore.

Afterwards we head back out to the boat and back to Epcot as we had Fastpass+ arranged. This probably wasn't the best idea as we were half way round world showcase and the sky was falling*

*note that the sky wasn't really falling, it just felt like it cause of the sheer amount of rain.

We stopped at a few booths for Jen to get some drinks, including the Dole stand for me to get a dole whip and Jen to get a rum version.

We also swung by the UK pavilion to see my friend Ann Marie hard at work

We found this little lady hiding inside too!

Given the rain was still bucketing down, we were cold and the ponchos were no longer helping, we decided to cut and run. We changed our plans around - we were due to go to Sanaa the following night followed by drinks at TOTWL but I changed the reservation to tonight instead.

Outside the bus queue for AKL was HUGE so we hopped in a taxi. The taxi driver took us the long way though assuming I didn't know where we were or where we were going. I did call him up on it and had a go, he came up with some lame excuse that he didn't like to go the other way as there were more traffic lights... I didn't buy it I'm afraid so he didn't get much of a tip from me.

Back at the hotel we showered and changed ready for Sanaa. We took a few pics before heading out front to catch the bus over to Kidani.

We were half an hour early for our ADR but we were seated right away.

Some pics from dinner.

Jen with her nice cocktail

Me with my diet coke lol

We had a fabulous meal and a great server which was novel as the last few have been a bit rubbish here

Outside we hopped in a taxi over to BLT (not the same driver and we were there quicker then the driver from Epcot even though its further away!). We checked in downstairs and were taken up to the lounge by a lady from Belize. The rain had died off by now luckily. We ordered a few cocktails at the bar (mocktail for me!) and sat drinking them at the bar for a while.

We then headed out to watch the fireworks, Jen was very impressed

We didn't stay long after the fireworks as we were both so tired and still a little cold. We grabbed another taxi back to AKL.

Bed as soon as we were back at the hotel.

I really love the Naan breads, it doesn't show it on the menu but you can order them on their own without having to buy the whole bread service (we did that once but it was a lot of food for just 2 of us plus our mains).

I am in LOVE with the butter chicken, it tastes out of this world amazing!!