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Day 25 – Tuesday 9th October 2007 Blizzard Beach Water Park Fun day at Blizzard Beach Water Park today, thankfully it doesn’t open till 10am so we got a slight sleep in. After our first water park experience we knew the importance of finding a good base camp early, so we’d studied the map the night before and picked a place near the ‘pre-teen area’, also near food & toilets, got there as the gates opened and reserved several lounge chairs in a nice shady spot. We rode just about every water ride in the place, yet another huge park. All enjoyed ‘teamboat springs’ a really long ride where we all sat in this big round raft and flew down a rapid like slide. Did a couple of circuits on the huge lazy river that went round the whole park. Lauren was a great ‘motor’ on that, she’d hop down and push my float along (and manoeuvred me out of the way from any water sprays along the route). There was also a wave pool that we enjoyed floating around in, and near our lounge chairs there was a great area with a flying fox over the water and a rope type course where they balanced on ‘icebergs’ while hanging onto the rope. We finished the day with their biggest ride, the ‘summit plummet’ a 120 foot vertical free falling body slide……wow it was a complete drop, powering you down. You actually caught a chairlift up to it, and from the top we could see all the other Disney ‘worlds’ and half of Florida it seemed! The ride times your speed, Brayden and Zander clocked the fastest descent at 53 miles/hr, most of us were 52 mph….all of us has massive wedgies at the end! Afternoon tea was spectacular, bought a ‘garbage pail’ dessert to share, which was a huge ice cream/cake/hot chocolate fudge sauce concoction that was served in a beach bucket, quite spectacular. I’ve loaded a photo of the desserts, also note Michael’s hair-raising look (thankfully one we only see in water parks) Luckily the park closes at 5pm, so wasn’t a late night. We headed back to our resort for home made burritos and tacos. Kids finally got to start putting their scrapbooks together. They each have a plastic sleeve/slip in binder, we’ve been saving brochures and park maps of all the places we’ve been, as well as other things they’ve collected on the way that they can keep as their memento of the trip. Had a big session tonight of putting all the brochures/trinkets/drawings etc in the right order, they really enjoyed the time and the reminder of what we’ve done and were proudly showing them off to us. Must tell you this story, Michael Lucas at the shops last week spoke to someone who described Orlando as being ‘in drought’. He attempted to explain to them that back in Australia we use the word drought to refer to complete lack of rain, not the rain every day that occurs here (we think today was actually our first day where it didn’t rain)! I thought Michael L must somehow have misunderstood the guy, but sure enough on the local news the other night the newsreader turns to the meteorologist and says ‘so Dan, are we still in drought’ to which he replies ‘oh yes, even though we’ve had rain every day, we still could do with a good 5 inch soaking downpour’…….my goodness, these people need to come to Wagga to see what a real drought is. Must go, heading to Downtown Disney tomorrow, the mega shopping area and also home of Disney Quest, the game type area. Think Dave, Michael, Zander, Brayden & Hayley will go to Quest, Lori-Lee, Lauren, Tara and I will shop and then probably go to their resort for another swim. |