Tuesday, November 27, 2012
The Final Countdown
29 Aug 2012
The success of any holiday can be easily judged by how much you don't want to go home, and whether you wish you could stay where you are for ever. For me, on your typical two week sun, sea, sand and errmm, sangria holiday, I have a great time for ten days but am quite happy to go home by the time the final day arrives. You're craving a decent cup of tea, a Naga curry and any meal that doesn't come with chips. With every holiday I've ever been on to Florida however, I've had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the airport to make me leave, and I've then have been depressed for months after. This holiday will be no exception. I've spent three weeks with the people I love more than anyone else in the world, in the place I love more than anywhere else and had the best time I've ever had - ever. This is going to be a right bugger... :-(
We reach the final day and we're determined to go out with a bang. Some of the gang are up at Dawn's crack and out photographing the local wildlife, including woodpeckers, dragonflies and spiders. It's only revealed to us much later that the funny looking spider Conor was prodding in its web to "get a better picture" was, in fact a Latrodectus Geometricus, or the Brown Widow......a spider with venom twice as potent as a Black Widow - seriously, only Conor Morris......
With Master Morris somehow having managed to not get himself hospitalised, we decided on Hollywood Studios for our final day. We just have to do Star Tours again, the best ride, or maybe the most surprising, of the holiday. And it surprises us again, by being a completely different film from last time, so a whole new ride! When we crash and the front of another ship punches through our windshield and stops millimetres from our noses we're all screaming and laughing at the same time. Absolute classic.
We also make a second trip on the Rock 'n' Rolla but due to back issues for some of our party it's only Shark Bait, Coaster Buddy and myself who go 0-60 in two seconds again, which of course is equal to big grins all round.
We also manage an excellent Stunt man challenge show, all explosions, back to front car stunts and blokes on fire - what's not to like?
Muppets 3D gets another visit and is still excellent, and we actually queue up for the best photo opportunity of the holiday so far with Tigger and Eyore. Seriously, this is better than meeting royalty. Expect to see this picture on a fridge near you soon.
We head home for a last swim in the pool and then off for our last night in my favourite place in the world - Celebration - and another meal in the Tavern. We manage to stuff down large steaks and copious amounts of booze but, to be honest, our hearts aren't in it, with it being the real final night and all. We've had an amazing time here, and I know we're all thinking the same thing - will we ever make it back here again as the same group of friends in the future? Three years is a long time. All I know is that I've had the best holiday of my life, with the best friends anyone could hope for, and if we ever all make it back here together it will be a massive bonus which will no doubt top this one for fun, but if not, what an amazing bunch of memories this holiday has given us all to enjoy for years to come. We head home tired, but full of brilliant memories, and if this is the last time we manage to do this together, it's always going to be something we never forget. It's really been a blast.
The success of any holiday can be easily judged by how much you don't want to go home, and whether you wish you could stay where you are for ever. For me, on your typical two week sun, sea, sand and errmm, sangria holiday, I have a great time for ten days but am quite happy to go home by the time the final day arrives. You're craving a decent cup of tea, a Naga curry and any meal that doesn't come with chips. With every holiday I've ever been on to Florida however, I've had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the airport to make me leave, and I've then have been depressed for months after. This holiday will be no exception. I've spent three weeks with the people I love more than anyone else in the world, in the place I love more than anywhere else and had the best time I've ever had - ever. This is going to be a right bugger... :-(
We reach the final day and we're determined to go out with a bang. Some of the gang are up at Dawn's crack and out photographing the local wildlife, including woodpeckers, dragonflies and spiders. It's only revealed to us much later that the funny looking spider Conor was prodding in its web to "get a better picture" was, in fact a Latrodectus Geometricus, or the Brown Widow......a spider with venom twice as potent as a Black Widow - seriously, only Conor Morris......
With Master Morris somehow having managed to not get himself hospitalised, we decided on Hollywood Studios for our final day. We just have to do Star Tours again, the best ride, or maybe the most surprising, of the holiday. And it surprises us again, by being a completely different film from last time, so a whole new ride! When we crash and the front of another ship punches through our windshield and stops millimetres from our noses we're all screaming and laughing at the same time. Absolute classic.
We also make a second trip on the Rock 'n' Rolla but due to back issues for some of our party it's only Shark Bait, Coaster Buddy and myself who go 0-60 in two seconds again, which of course is equal to big grins all round.
We also manage an excellent Stunt man challenge show, all explosions, back to front car stunts and blokes on fire - what's not to like?
Muppets 3D gets another visit and is still excellent, and we actually queue up for the best photo opportunity of the holiday so far with Tigger and Eyore. Seriously, this is better than meeting royalty. Expect to see this picture on a fridge near you soon.
We head home for a last swim in the pool and then off for our last night in my favourite place in the world - Celebration - and another meal in the Tavern. We manage to stuff down large steaks and copious amounts of booze but, to be honest, our hearts aren't in it, with it being the real final night and all. We've had an amazing time here, and I know we're all thinking the same thing - will we ever make it back here again as the same group of friends in the future? Three years is a long time. All I know is that I've had the best holiday of my life, with the best friends anyone could hope for, and if we ever all make it back here together it will be a massive bonus which will no doubt top this one for fun, but if not, what an amazing bunch of memories this holiday has given us all to enjoy for years to come. We head home tired, but full of brilliant memories, and if this is the last time we manage to do this together, it's always going to be something we never forget. It's really been a blast.
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