DAY 5 - Can we sort out the mother of the groom outfit problem? And a trip to Epcot
Another day another cancelled ADR!
We had lunch booked at Le Celler today, I was really looking forward to this as I really wanted to try their famous soup. But Darren's mum wanted to get to the shops as soon as they opened at 12. This did upset me a bit but I had given up on this holiday ever going to plan so I didn't say anything about it. Hay I had already been as Disney for three days and only seen one parade, and I love the parades! Our parents not understanding the whole ADR system said we could just book a table for another day, I knew there was no chance of getting in there now and we did try quite a bit to get a table in there.
So instead we decided to take them to downtown Disney in the morning and get a taxi from there to the shops.
First we walked around the hotel to see if the boats were running to downtown, they didn't start until 11 am so we decided to get a taxi in the end just to get there a bit quicker.
We took some photos around the hotel as we went.
We got to downtown before the shops opened so took some more photos.
I think we went in every shop in the market place. I was mentally noting all the items that I wanted to buy but never got time to in the end, another reason to go back to Disney. We had to keep an eye on my mums spending, she is terrible with different currency and normally ends up spending most of her budget in the first few days. Mick had her on a daily spending limit. :laugh3:
We got some lunch before we left at Earl of Sandwich to make sure we had full stomachs for our big shopping trip.
We had decided to go to The Mall At Millenia as we thought that would be the best bet to get a new mother of the groom outfit from.
The Taxi driver took us to Macys first. This was the best thing he could have done Macys is fantastic it was just full of evening dresses and Darren's mum managed to find a dress she liked in about 30 minutes. I also found a nice dress which we got for a friends wedding in November. Because of how much the taxi cost to get here, over $50, we decided to stay for a bit longer as I know we wouldn't come back here during this trip and I really wanted to visit Abercrombie.
First we found Tiffany & Co, love Tiffanys silver so Darren treated me to a necklace that I have had my eye on for over two years that matched my bracelet. He wanted to buy me some other items in there but I wouldn't let him as I didn't want to waste our hard earned money we still had the wedding day that we had to have money for.
We then found Abercrombie, Darren isn't very big on designers and didn't know what this shop was. I told him to just get some t-shirts as we only have one of these shops in England and it is very expensive and that everyone at home would be jealous. I picked up lots of items for Darren and a few t-shirts and jumpers for me we ended up coming out with four bags full to the brim!
After our big shop we decided to call it a day and head back to the hotel.
Mine and Darren's plan for the day was to head over to Epcot, I wanted to look around world showcase as I have never really enjoyed Epcot before and now that I was older I thought I would appreciate it more.
We finally got to Epcot at about 4pm
All of the big rides had major queues so we skipped them as I didn't want to waste what little time we had there in line, all of the fast passes had gone. We went to the Ellen energy show, Darren found this quite boring but I love it, I think the dinosaurs are amazing. We also went in spaceship earth which we both really enjoyed, I wanted to go to Nemo before we went to the showcase so we made our way there. At that point the heavens opened and we ended up standing under cover for over an hour and a half looking at this
The rain wasn't going to let up so we ran over to Nemo stopping to take a photo on the way
I loved Nemo, I thought it was very cleaver defiantly one of my favorites.
It was still raining when we had stopped looking around at all the fish, we totally missed the dolphins, but we wasn't going to give up so we walked to Canada picking up some ponchos on the way. But the rain wouldn't give up and it was getting heavy again so we called it a day as I was cold and hungry. I was also a bit tired as I had woke up at 5 am, this was something I did a lot on the first few days which my mum put down to excitement.
We jumped in a Taxi back to the hotel and ordered a Pizza. Darren went back to the room to pick up our refillable cups. When he was up there Talisa come out of her room in a fluster. She had stayed at the hotel all day and was on her own, my brother was at Epcot with Anya and Caitlin and our parents were at the riverside food court. She had some up in red bumps and didn't know what it was, it was heat rash Darren told her to get in a cold shower to cool off and we would check on her in a bit.
We took the pizza up to the room, by this time Talisa was out of the shower and her skin had calmed down, so she came into our room and had dinner with us, the incredibles were on so we watched that. Jason, Anya and Caitlin also came in and joined us, they also got stuck in the rain at Epcot. They left Caitlin with us whilst they went to get some food. After everyone had eaten we all called it a night.
Coming up our water park day and another attempt at Epcot.
