Disney and Katie and Matt plus Chloe

My days off just keep getting better and better!! This week I was lucky to have a three day weekend too! So on Wednesday I went to the beach and to a baseball match with a lovely group if people. We hired a massive 8 seater car from the swan and dolphin hotel and Anna (aka mum) drive us to Walmart (for picnic stuff and nibbles) and to st Petersburg near Tampa to a lovely quiet white sand blue sea beach where we spent the afternoon sunbathing and swimming in the sea. There were a few too many real life fish in the sea for my liking, and Nathan swears he saw a few sting rays, but I don't know if that was to just make us girls squeal even more! But I got a little braver each time I went for a swim and by the end of the afternoon was able to walk in without looking at them and know they would swim away from me, but my god if they had touched my legs I would have been out of there and never going back into the sea again, hate fish! 

So after that, Mum drove us to the tropicana stadium where we went for a quick walk to the pier and then got a free shuttle to the stadium and went to find out seats for the baseball game, Yankees vs Tampa rays! It was awesome! We had really good seats, up really high but right in the middle and could sea everything. I bought two hot dogs, obvs, but everyone else bought form fingers and I kind of wish I bought only one hotdog so I could afford a form finger now. But maybe next time! Then Nathan (aka dad) dropped us home. I fell asleep in the back while the other kids made up horror stories, but mum and dad took good care of us and got us there and back very successfully, so will defiantly be doing another roadtrip like that again. 

Thursday was seaworld day. Katie and family picked me up from the Commons and we went straight to seaworld and spent the whole day there. It was seaworld joy. Went on all three rides and saw all the dolphin, sealion and shamu shows, and had a kids meal for lunch where my chicken nuggets and fries came in a shamu box :) we kept running into Matt, Wayne, Marie and James which was nice. Watched a couple of the shows with them and I sat in the wet splash zone for the shamu show next to them where Matt tried to use me as a human shield when shamu came around splashing everyone!! But we didn't get that wet for being sat in the front row, my map got drenched though hiding my face.  After seaworld it  was straight to downtown Disney for tea at Paradiso 37, my favourite, and we ate dinner sat outside next to a beautiful subset. Followed by a bit of shopping abusing Chloe's discount card to the max for the Prouses, happy days, Molly even got the stocking she wanted because yes, we went to the Christmas store! Felt so good to be in my fav store, havnt been in since I got here. And that us where I found my favourite item that I shall be buying once my 40% kicks in, a red velvet Christmas stocking with JOY written across the top in sparkles and the O is a mickey mouse shape. I had a heart attack and started panting when u saw it and the guy behind the register must have thought I was crazy but I don't care, can't wait to buy it. 

Friday was animal kingdom day with the Prouses, Kerry my favourite lady helped me get the whole family in for free on our main gate passes and we went on all the safaris and rides. We watched finding nemo the musical last and came outside to a lot if rain. So the Prouses went home to pack up the villa and me and Katie went to Epcot for the evening as animal kingdom closed at 5pm. We went on a few rides, I showed Katie where I work in the UK Pavillion and introduced her to some of my Dusney buddies, and then we went for tea in China via Mexico for a frozen margarita which was yummy!! Said goodbye to Katie and her family as they are off to the coast now for a week before going home, I went to visit Matt and co for the evening at their resort for a few beers on their balcony (outside corridor where they've put their chairs) love it. Loved seeing Katie and her family in Disney, was strange but magical to have Plymouth folk in my disney bubble! :)