One week to go until my "work" trip to Disney I'm getting excited for the most part; I mean, I'll be in Disney! Just.....you know, not MY way lol. I want to get at least one more July update done and then I'll fill you all in on what I should be doing down there!
We slept in a bit on July 6th after the later AH the night before. It also helped since Ricky's foot had swelled up a bit
Not that I was annoyed - well I kind of was, this was now the 3rd trip in a row with the kids that he had an appendage problem - although we knew about the first 2 going in so I can't really count them. But seriously, days away from being cleared after 1 year, 10 months, and 6 days of ACL recovery and now a freakin' swollen foot? *** man??
Anyhow we had a breakfast booked at the Wave for 10:30. Steve and I were ready before the kids and decided to walk outside around the grounds a bit:
I know I've walked by this before but for some reason I didn't remember it.
You can't be out here and not do this:
I wanted a picture of my teenage boys here, one in each ear................you can imagine how that suggestion went over later. We walked over to the outer buildings just to see how it felt to be in an outer building lol. The walk isn't bad at all!
We retrieved the boys and went to breakfast. Steve and I had breakfast here a couple years ago and thought it was great so I figured it'd be great again. We did have to wait about 20 minutes past our ADR time which was weird, the restaurant was only about a quarter full.
When we did get seated and had all chosen the buffet, this came to me:
Bay Lake Bloody Mary
St. Augustine Florida Cane Vodka and Bloody Mary mix garnished with Chorizo, Cheddar, and Olives
This was NOT GOOD. Not as gross as my chicken dish at Maya Grill but still on the gross scale. I'm somewhat new to Bloody Mary's as I've only been ordering them for about 18 months, but I know what I like and this wasn't it! It didn't have any tomato taste but tasted......chemically? And not in a good morning alcohol way. Last time we were here they still had bottomless mimosas which I partook of. After a few sips of this I went with soda instead.
The food wasn't as good as we'd remembered it either. Something I'd loved was the yogurt parfaits that included non healthy bits and pieces like chocolate drops and such and the variety they had wasn't there now. The eggs weren't as good and Steve didn't like the sweet potato pancakes this go'round. But here are a couple plate shots for you:
I believe this was Steve's - sweet potato pancake, cheesy potato casserole, eggs, Mickey waffle
and something I can't quite make out. Could be a quiche? Again not sure.
And one of mine:
My waffles were burned if you can't tell and while I was looking forward to this one type they had,, it didn't taste as good.. That raspberry pastry though was awesome! They had them at the HS EMH we did last year and I may have eaten 1 or 6.
The boys didn't think breakfast was all that either but hey, it fixed our hunger for the time being. Except for Ricky. He barely ate because he was a nervous wreck. Why you ask? Was it his foot? Well it was bothering him but the swelling was down and that wasn't it It had to do with what we were planning for AFTER breakfast that had him scared sh*$less.
What was THAT you ask?
Something we'd never done before!
Yes, we rented SeaRaycers! I'd wanted to do this for awhile now but nobody else was ever onboard (onboard; searaycers; boats lol). This time in an effort to introduce something new into our trip to keep the boys maybe wanting to come back I played this up, especially since we were staying somewhere we could rent them from.
It was very easy and quick. We filled out a form, paid - and got an AP discount - and got our crash lesson in driving these thangs! As you see Steve drove one and then the other was driven by none other than the one with the 3 month old driver's license:
He did great! But he was SO paranoid about being on the water he said he could barely eat
and I was afraid he'd freak out on the water and we were going to have to switch places Luckily neither happened and after about 8 minutes out there he was totally comfy!
Look what I could see
This was so much more fun than we thought it would be! There are 2 speeds slow and faster lol. Ricky quickly got comfortable with the faster speed. We went ALL over, as you'll see in my next picture overload post!