Thursday, August 16, 2012
Return to type
The revenge cast upon me and my coaster buddy COF has taken the form of a stinking cold, both of us feeling like shit probably due to walking in and out of air conditioning to 90F whilst in soaking wet clothes. Nice....
With a morning of rest to get over a night of large steaks, a run was in order, but unfortunately proved Armadillo free, with only 747 sized Dragonflies to keep me company on my way. I really have never seen so many of the huge buggers, but bright pink ones? Everyday there's a highlight here!
It was then off to Epcot for an afternoon wandering round before dinner in a Moroccan restaurant and firework display over the World Showcase Lagoon. Things were all going smoothly till the Holiday Curse of Conor Morris struck again. Having lost sunglasses, swimming googles, A DS and various hats last time around, he actually managed to top it by succeeding in losing his bag and all it's contents including a rather expensive Canon camera. To say Morris senior was not best pleased is an understatement.
Having then wasted the best part of 90 minutes with guest relations in an attempt to retrieve said bag, we were a bit short of time for visiting the various countries of the World Showcase before our dinner date. This meant we were unfortunately unable to visit Germany, France and Canada. Oh woe was us......
Having had dinner in these Theme Park "themed" restaurants before (most memorably in Cinderella's Castle, a meal so vile it even had marmalade on the roast potatoes) I was not holding out much hope for the Marrakesh Restaurant and it's belly dancing accompanied supper....
Lucky we were pleasently surprised and some top tucker was had all round. The size of the Lamb Shank and couscous will live long in the memory... After all this action, it was time for the main event, and it's one of the things Disney are always top of the class at - Explosions. The huge fireworks, laser and light show, all reflected in the enormous lake was rather spectacular - even good enough to take my mind off how lousy I was feeling, and rather rescued a day that for a while there looked like it was going off the rails...
It was then off to Epcot for an afternoon wandering round before dinner in a Moroccan restaurant and firework display over the World Showcase Lagoon. Things were all going smoothly till the Holiday Curse of Conor Morris struck again. Having lost sunglasses, swimming googles, A DS and various hats last time around, he actually managed to top it by succeeding in losing his bag and all it's contents including a rather expensive Canon camera. To say Morris senior was not best pleased is an understatement.
Having then wasted the best part of 90 minutes with guest relations in an attempt to retrieve said bag, we were a bit short of time for visiting the various countries of the World Showcase before our dinner date. This meant we were unfortunately unable to visit Germany, France and Canada. Oh woe was us......
Having had dinner in these Theme Park "themed" restaurants before (most memorably in Cinderella's Castle, a meal so vile it even had marmalade on the roast potatoes) I was not holding out much hope for the Marrakesh Restaurant and it's belly dancing accompanied supper....
Lucky we were pleasently surprised and some top tucker was had all round. The size of the Lamb Shank and couscous will live long in the memory... After all this action, it was time for the main event, and it's one of the things Disney are always top of the class at - Explosions. The huge fireworks, laser and light show, all reflected in the enormous lake was rather spectacular - even good enough to take my mind off how lousy I was feeling, and rather rescued a day that for a while there looked like it was going off the rails...
# posted by Bucko! @ 7:52 PM 
