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19 Oct 14, 03:48 PM |
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Disney, Finally here we come and the Grandkid's still don't know Sshh- Sept 2014 Day 3 Gatorland
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Day 2 Magic Kingdom part 2 Day 3 Gatorland and my 50th Birthday So as it was my birthday we decided to get up when we wanted, however as usual everyone was up again before me (well it was my birthday! ), I eventually got up at around 9am and made my way downstairs where everyone started singing happy birthday to me. They had also got me a birthday cake which I have since found out had been in one of the fridges in the Villa since Friday, they had hidden it in the wine fridge and then they put cans of beers in front of it. They had lit all the candle (no they didn't put all 50 on there) so I managed to blow them all out, soon after this bacon sandwiches and a lovely hot cup of tea followed. As usual we cleaned away and turned the dishwasher on and then headed off out towards Gatorland. When we arrived we knew it was going to be another hot day and headed to the kiosk to pay to get in, the young lady asked if there was anyone over 55 years old and anyone that was a service man or had been in the services to this my husband answered yes to both, this resulted in him getting free entry (wish we had the same respect for our service men and women as the American do) we then paid to get in, we also paid a bit extra as 6 of us had decided we would like to feed the Alligators. We then made our way into the park. Now I am going to apologise again for the amount of photo's as again this was the first time we had been here and these are both mine and my husband's photo's. We took a very slow walk around the park one because of the heat and another was my knee's again. It was great just taking your time with no queues to worry about. We stopped to see the Alligator wrestling show then started to make our way to where we were going to be feeding the Alligators. Once we had all been told what to do the lady called out the names of those going first. We were in the first group so made our way into the area where we would feed the Alligators. We had to put a glove on 1 of our hands and then 1 at a time pick a piece of meat up and throw it at the Alligators, we all did this 3 times and then it was picture time. I had my picture with Hannah and Aiden. The man in charge asked me to get down on my knees and to this I replied as long as you are there to pick me up, he laugh and thought I was joking he soon found out I really needed help, anyway the kids knelt down beside me and we then had our picture taken. Steve, Stacey and Ben then followed, Continue below
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January 2006 & 2009 Paradise Cove September 2014 - Bella Vida January 2016 - Compass Bay 2nd Honeymoon February 2019 - Eagle point South. Disney, Finally here we come and the Grandkid's still don't know Sshhhh- September 2014 Time to say Good-bye... January 2016 Edited at 09:18 PM. |
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19 Oct 14, 04:03 PM |
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After this we went around to get a drink, we all decided to have slush puppies which we all really enjoyed and then I took a few pictures of them with their different coloured tongues.
Loved this one with Lorna pulling face behind Louise. Steve took this picture of me and say's it is one of his favourite's of me. Really cannot understand why? We carried on walking around taking lots of pictures, while I took a little break I enjoyed a little chat with this little animal, we were having a lovely chat but then a few people decided to come over so off he went. We then carried on making our way around and listened to a couple of gators that wanted to be very vocal, we then made our way to pick up our pictures and headed out of the park. This is one of the photo's my children took as they thought it was sweet. My 50th birthday meal below
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January 2006 & 2009 Paradise Cove September 2014 - Bella Vida January 2016 - Compass Bay 2nd Honeymoon February 2019 - Eagle point South. Disney, Finally here we come and the Grandkid's still don't know Sshhhh- September 2014 Time to say Good-bye... January 2016 Edited at 04:26 PM. |
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19 Oct 14, 04:20 PM |
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There was no time to go in the pool today as we were going out for my birthday meal. Once everyone had had their showers we were back out and heading for the Polynesian hotel. We were heading for Ohana's, there is a lot of work going on at this hotel at the moment but we had a lovely welcome, they showed us where to go and we made our way to wait in the lounge, we were given a pager and waited for this to go off, we had to wait about half an hour but that was partly because we arrived early.
So this is where we sat very close to the fires where they were cooking the food. Sorry this is the only picture of the food I took, must try harder next time to take more food pictures. Louise wasn't feeling too good after a while we think it had something to do with the heat from the fires as as soon as we left she was fine. I decided to have a special drink for my birthday, well you have too needless to say you can tell what I thought of it by the look on my face. lol We were seated and the waitress explained to us what would happen she then took our drinks orders and then we waited for the meal to start. Everyone really enjoyed themselves, the kids even had a race around the restaurant with coconuts and what looked like hockey sticks. Once everyone had eaten their dinner we then had pudding brought to us and I had a little cup cake brought out for my birthday which I thought was really lovely. Once finished we paid the bill which when we got home I checked my bank statement and it showed the exchange rate so for 10 of us it came to £278 roughly. I thought it would be a lot more than this so was very pleased. We then made our way back to the beast and then headed off back to the villa. Once home the kids went off to bed and they were closely followed by Ben and Stacey. Louise, Steve and I had a cup of tea and then headed off up to bed and we were all in bed by 10.30pm. Day 4 IOA
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January 2006 & 2009 Paradise Cove September 2014 - Bella Vida January 2016 - Compass Bay 2nd Honeymoon February 2019 - Eagle point South. Disney, Finally here we come and the Grandkid's still don't know Sshhhh- September 2014 Time to say Good-bye... January 2016 Edited at 09:19 PM. |
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19 Oct 14, 05:28 PM |
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Great day, happy birthday x
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19 Oct 14, 06:51 PM |
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19 Oct 14, 08:30 PM |
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I love your photos, it is nice to see other families take goofy photos of Slush Puppy tongue and such too !
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19 Oct 14, 08:46 PM |
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Thanks, kids have loads on their camera's but I haven't got them all. Was really funny though, normally we tell them not to poke their tongues out but on this occassion it was fun.
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19 Oct 14, 10:10 PM |
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Sounds like you all had a lovely day.
Great pics of you all, thanks for sharing your special day
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19 Oct 14, 10:17 PM |
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Lovely report and pictures, what an epic fiftieth birthday you had, truly unforgettable.
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19 Oct 14, 11:28 PM |
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Thank-you for reading and this is the best place to share your special moments.
Thank Cuxi, It was a great fiftieth and I shall always remember it. Sorry only got to put one day on this weekend but I have now got all the pictures sorted just need to write up each days reports, still aiming on getting it finish before you go.
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