Disney Debbie
<font color=deeppink>Survivor<br><font color=blue>
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2000
First Afternoon Sunday May 20th
After actually getting in our room, DD and I went to pool for an hour and let DH have a nap! We went to Universal around 5:00. Went straight to Hanna Barbera an old favorite then on to Twister DD had seen but DH and I hadnt. It was interesting, but we werent as impressed as DD had been! Then went to Kongfrontation. DD hadnt seen it since she was 7 and she spent most of that time under my arm!! It was better then I remembered but we had a very good driver who really got into it. That makes a huge difference on shows like that! Skipped over Earthquake and Jaws and went to Men in Black. It was cute but its pretty much the same as Buzz Lightyear to me! And not as cute! From there we went to ET last time we rode that it kept breaking down and we waited TWO HOURS!!! Id never do that now but DD was little and just dying to see it then! Anyway we walked right on. I was very embarrassed that the bicycle seat was too small for me to sit in comfortably! (See my CB posts Im joining Weight Watchers next Tuesday!! ) The attendant saw me trying to sit down and was VERY sweet. I told her my butt was too big to sit comfortably and she asked me if Id rather sit on the bench seat in the back. I told her I guess so. She said, Your comfort and enjoyment is whats most important to us I wish Id gotten her name she was very kind. After ET it was closing time 7:00 but as you see we did 5 rides in two hours! FOTL was awesome!! (Have I mentioned that yet
)?
We left the park and went to Margaritaville. They had a 35-minute wait so we went to the bar not the volcano bar but the one next to the souvenir shop. Alexander the bar tender there was very entertaining! I had a couple of frozen Margaritas (what else when in Rome!!), DH had the first beers hes had in ages and Alexander fixed DD a virgin strawberry colada that was wonderful. There was a man and woman walking around on stilts making balloon animals, parrot head hats and weird little connecting balloon things for the table of 4 next to us that they wore on their head! It was really a lot of fun. I had the coconut shrimp, DH the Cheeseburger in Paradise and DD the chicken quesadillas. We were all quite happy with our meals! Our waitress was very good and efficient. We watched the roadies set the stage for the band that apparently started at 10:00 I mean they must have been setting it up for 1 ½ hours!!! But we were too tired to stay wed left Ocala at 7:20 after neither DH nor I getting more then 5 hours of sleep! Went back to the room to those fantastic beds and slept like babies!!!
More to come!!
Plusses
Very nice staff. Everyone was very friendly and as I said the girl on ET was a real sweetie.
I hadnt been in Universal in 8 years. It seems to be much more finished now and is very, very pretty. I was very impressed with it and didnt consider it as second to MGM like I did 8 years ago.
Have I mentioned how WONDERFUL FOTL is?
Minuses - NONE!!
After actually getting in our room, DD and I went to pool for an hour and let DH have a nap! We went to Universal around 5:00. Went straight to Hanna Barbera an old favorite then on to Twister DD had seen but DH and I hadnt. It was interesting, but we werent as impressed as DD had been! Then went to Kongfrontation. DD hadnt seen it since she was 7 and she spent most of that time under my arm!! It was better then I remembered but we had a very good driver who really got into it. That makes a huge difference on shows like that! Skipped over Earthquake and Jaws and went to Men in Black. It was cute but its pretty much the same as Buzz Lightyear to me! And not as cute! From there we went to ET last time we rode that it kept breaking down and we waited TWO HOURS!!! Id never do that now but DD was little and just dying to see it then! Anyway we walked right on. I was very embarrassed that the bicycle seat was too small for me to sit in comfortably! (See my CB posts Im joining Weight Watchers next Tuesday!! ) The attendant saw me trying to sit down and was VERY sweet. I told her my butt was too big to sit comfortably and she asked me if Id rather sit on the bench seat in the back. I told her I guess so. She said, Your comfort and enjoyment is whats most important to us I wish Id gotten her name she was very kind. After ET it was closing time 7:00 but as you see we did 5 rides in two hours! FOTL was awesome!! (Have I mentioned that yet
)? We left the park and went to Margaritaville. They had a 35-minute wait so we went to the bar not the volcano bar but the one next to the souvenir shop. Alexander the bar tender there was very entertaining! I had a couple of frozen Margaritas (what else when in Rome!!), DH had the first beers hes had in ages and Alexander fixed DD a virgin strawberry colada that was wonderful. There was a man and woman walking around on stilts making balloon animals, parrot head hats and weird little connecting balloon things for the table of 4 next to us that they wore on their head! It was really a lot of fun. I had the coconut shrimp, DH the Cheeseburger in Paradise and DD the chicken quesadillas. We were all quite happy with our meals! Our waitress was very good and efficient. We watched the roadies set the stage for the band that apparently started at 10:00 I mean they must have been setting it up for 1 ½ hours!!! But we were too tired to stay wed left Ocala at 7:20 after neither DH nor I getting more then 5 hours of sleep! Went back to the room to those fantastic beds and slept like babies!!!
More to come!!
Plusses
Very nice staff. Everyone was very friendly and as I said the girl on ET was a real sweetie.
I hadnt been in Universal in 8 years. It seems to be much more finished now and is very, very pretty. I was very impressed with it and didnt consider it as second to MGM like I did 8 years ago.
Have I mentioned how WONDERFUL FOTL is?
Minuses - NONE!!
