Thursday 18th Sept
We have fog this morning. Real live thick fog. Can`t see a thing out the window as the sun comes up at all. We are all strangely wide awake this morning and hear the early birds heading off for EE while we get dressed. People always ask us why we don`t even just once get up for EE.....my answer is always the same......Why? There`s no need. We have all the time in the world, although it is a shock how long we`ve been here already. So showered and dressed we head up for our usual breakfast. It`s quite busy today and a lot of Brits too. We don`t plan to hang around but as usual we get chatting to staff and other guests too so it`s well after 9 by the time we leave to walk to the park. We don`t mind as I genuinely enjoy getting to know new people, or just chat to ones I do.
The fog is gone and we have a very humid heat today and it`s blisteringly hot.....worst humidity I think we have ever felt today, so we walk slowly. As we get to the gates it`s really not busy at all. We actually walk through the gift shop as we are really feeling the heat today........think we will be really taking our time round the park. We wander round to our usual first hit The Hulk, I take out my camera as the place is practically deserted, I take loads of pics but the humidity has made my camera fog up.........
I love The Hulk........but it can be a bit of a headbasher, so I only ride it twice and leave them to ride some more.....doesn`t seem to affect them like it does me.......so I take some more pictures, there`s a few more people around now so no park to ourselves today........even sitting in the shade today I can feel this heat sizzle my skin......but I wait all year for this heat so I daren`t complain or I`ll get in trouble.....lol.......
They have a few more goes then we walk round to Doom. We love this ride......I know many people think it`s a poor ride as in it`s too short, but we love the thrill of waiting to get shot up in the air.....and the feeling of exhileration as you are propelled out of your seat at the top is soooooo much fun......didn`t think that the first time I rode it though
But I came to love it immediately after that!! It`s the only ride my husband get`s a bit nervous on strangely, but he wouldn`t miss it out. We go on about 5 or 6 times and on one of them we are just about to be propelled when we hear a TM voice tell someone to put away the go-pro.......we think uh oh......they are asked 3 times to put it away properly, then the person operating the ride tells him if he doesn`t put it away he will be removed.........so we are again sat waiting to go, he must have put it away as we were soon catapulted up in the air again. It`s such a shame some people don`t think the rules apply to them and can do what they like. Now we head round to SM, get some water and walk slowly round to JP..........
We get some more water then go on JP.........there`s no queue again today so it`s sit where you like really. We talk DS into going on with us......he hates getting soaked and always seems to attract it somehow.......so we go about 6 times and don`t get that wet apart from the last 2 goes....where I get soaked twice, then the last ride.....DS gets almost whooshed away with amount of water that gets plunged on to him.......I nearly choke with laughter at his face.......lol........it`s hard to tell but you could have just wrung him out..........
It always makes me smile when I see people say oh you don`t get wet on JP.......er, yes you can!! We decide we have had enough of JP today.......it`s a bit busier in the park now as we head round to FJ.........I don`t go on it today as my head was bashed enough on Hulk this morning so I head round to the bathroom then again go and sit beside the Talking Fountain. This is something you really must do if you haven`t already.......there are many people who voice the Fountain and they are all very funny, I can imagine them being very acerbically funny in real life, but they have to be careful and make sure the slightly adult comments go over little ones heads...it usually does. Today as I was sitting, drinking more water.....I`m being very good today and buying a bottle of water every time I stop, and this man walks up to the front of the fountain and starts to wash his hair.......The Fountain was astounded and told him he wasn`t a public bathroom and tried to communicate with the man, but he ignored any banter that was being fired at him and walked off........fake incandescence followed from The Fountain. I was howling with laughter as he was so funny. I honestly could sit there for hours, if it wasn`t for the fact I was sitting on a rock......after a while it does become uncomfortable!!!!
My two appear at this point having done FJ and DD a couple of times, it`s too early for lunch so Tom says he would like to see Poseidon`s Fury. Now, I thought we had done this, but they say no.......so we go in and I truly have no desire to see it, but it`s hot and I want to be inside, not that I say that of course
So we queue inside in the non queue as in there`s no-one there........a few people come in behind us and we wait around 20 minutes for the show to start.
What a load of rubbish!!! And we had flash photographers again, despite being told not to.......anyways, the water part at the end was good but overall I would not waste that time again going back in there. I think it`s something you should do once though as some people seemed to enjoy it. But not for me, I wouldn`t miss it if it gets removed in a revamp of the area.
Now it`s lunch time, well it`s only just midday but we are hot.......as we are at Mythos we decide to eat here again......not a trial at all, we really enjoy it in here. It looks fairly busy, and we have a 10 minute wait till we are shown to a table. One thing we never do is make reservations, ever and have no intention of doing so. That`s too much like planning for us....... The girl remembers us from previous day and shows us to a table by the window. We realise in all out visits in here, we have never sat by the window. It`s nice. She tells us we have Mr Pepper serving us again, real name Robert, but he is super nice and a real character. He comes over and immediately asks Kyle if he is having the non alcoholic strawberry daiquiri again....what a memory this guy has. He is having that, and we have sprite. We always say we`ll have a cocktail or a beer during the day, but it`s so hot the last thing we want is alcohol.....plus if I drink at lunch I`m ready to sleep an hour later!!!
Kyle had the cheese pizza, Tom had the spicy one and I had Asian Chicken Salad which was gorgeous, second nicest asian chicken salad I ever ate, Cheesecake Factory was the best one. Kyle orders the flourless chocolate again........Tom wants to share it this time........I think that`s a no........
Now at this point, I am beyond freezing, yep, I`m actually shivering......so I do what lizards do, or so I`m told....I head out to the sunshine and heat.......the door is just beside us so I tell them to come out when they`re finished. The heat hits me like a wall of fire, but it`s glorious after being cold. I do like air conditioning in restaurants but today it was just a bit much......so I bask in the sunshine.....ironically beside a little lizard like gecko........
We head round to do trolley train and cat in the hat, why we do cith I don`t know as it`s just weird to us, not being brought up with it I suppose, well I think it`s weird anyway. But it`s such a beautiful area, you can`t help be impressed with the way it brightens up even a dull day, it is a very colorful place!!!
We head back to the hotel now, someone told us there`s going to be a storm, although looking at this you would never know!! The landscaping around Universal and the resorts is so beautiful I always try and take notice of it every time
We get back to our room and we all get showered and think about what we might want to do later tonight. We think if it`s not raining we`ll have a pool night. So it`s fairly early still, but we can see the weather coming in so we head up to the lounge and get a prime window seat and coffee and just watch it. It`s a real corker of a storm amazing lightning for daytime and very loud thunder, the likes of we just don`t get in the UK. We do get it, just not like here. We watch it dance across the sky in total awe for ages, then it just starts to deplete a bit. We love watching a good old fashioned Orlando storm.
We have some wine now as it`s "happy hour"....when we hear the older woman from the other night who was a bit annoying start banging on about Scottish people. Now I think everyone is entitled to their opinion but it was aimed at us........quite pathetic really.....but I stood up and spoke to the couple who she was speaking to, to say goodbye to them. She was so rude and kept banging on had we voted, did we miss the vote. Now Scotland was having their Independence vote that day. We haven`t lived in Scotland for 20 years so we didn`t get a vote anyway, but she didn`t know that. I just ignored her to be honest and carried on a conversation with the other couple whomlived quite near us by chance. Her husband did look uncomfortable though. I just thought, why do people have to be so challenging
We then headed out after saying our goodbyes and decided as the storm had gone and the sun had come out, we would have our pool night after all. We got some loungers and sat by the poolside. The movie was Iron Man, again, but hey Robert Downey Junior is very watchable
It`s such a lovely night, humidity has gone......it`s just hot. We order a couple of cocktails each and we share the beef wrap and fries as it`s huge.....and gorgeous.....I ask them to leave out the mushrooms and have extra onions as we both love onions.....and it`s perfect. Kyle goes and gets his chocolate dessert from Jake`s........as soon as he walks in the girl smiles at him and asks if it`s the usual......lol..........
We sit till they blow the whistle tonight. We wander in and out the pool all night and we got chatting to a few people which was nice. I must admit I was glad when it was time to go up as I had started to get cold, and I get so teased whenever I say I`m cold in Florida. But we are all tired tonight, so no tv just straight to bed and the knowledge that finally, tomorrow is the opening night of HHN..........can`t wait for that.
I had seen the teeshirts with Myers face on but hadn`t spotted the one mask for sale.....they seen it and sent me on a wild goose chase while Kyle put the mask on and hid........ha bloomin ha.........he wanted to buy it, well you had to order it I think it was around $80 but I told him if he bought it he wasn`t coming home with us........he didn`t order it. He did however buy the teeshirt with Michael`s face on it. Lovely.
re the MM mask & the tableside 'preaching' @ Smokey Bones. Good for you to try & educate her parents.
lol at you licking the pages......good luck with the diet 
. That was one I had on our to-do list for May. Perhaps we will look at something at CityWalk instead ..... or Smokey Bones 
. My meatatarian man would love those ribs....or the brisket....or a steak....or maybe some of each? 
