Honeymoon Day 1
Thurs 5th June 2014
we didn't set the alarm, just woke up and chilled for a little before going downstairs for the bus. We caught the bus to the Magic Kingdom then walked over to the contemporary hotel. My mum and dad had booked us a parasailling session as a wedding gift.
It was comforting being at the contemporary and remembering the great time we had there the day before made me smile. We had breakfast/lunch at the contempo cafe, nothing exciting just burger and fries, but its what we like. We then went downstairs and out to the pool area. We checked in for our parasailling and since we were a hour early we grabbed frozen cocktails and relaxed near the dock.
soon it was parasailling time. We were on the boat with 2 members of staff and another group a brother and a sister. They went over all the safety precautions etc and what to do what not to do and the brother and sister went first. Then it was our turn. The view was amazing from up so high and there was so much you could see. It always gave a perspective of just how spread out walt disney world is. I could see several of the hotels and i was suprised to be able to see all 4 theme parks as well as our hotel
but the views into the magic kingdom were my favourite.
eventually it was over, and we were back on the boat and back on solid ground on the dock. We then decided to go look at the shops. We bought a few small things and while at the desk paying there was a guy training up what i assume were college programme students. He was explaining the pin trading to them when he noticed us (and i'm assuming our just married badges). He asked us to wait a minute and said he had someone on the phone for us. After a moment he put the speaker phone on and out came a special message for us, from mickey and minnie! Disney magic at its best! its something you don't hear about very often nowadays.
While in the shop we decided that we should spend the rest of the day at epcot, then we could watch the fireworks and it wouldn't take long to head back to the hotel. We caught the monorail to TTC then switched monorails to epcot. I love how the monorail loops through epcot before stopping at the station to allow us off. We got off the monorail and of course spaceship earth is the first thing you see. I told Rich we were going on it. I knew it would bore him to death but I wanted him to experience everything once. So our first ride as a married couple turned out to be spaceship earth. Yeah its a little boring but it was nice to cuddle up in the little booth cars and just take it all in.
Rich looks bored already
Next we headed to mission space and test track. After spaceship earth i had to give Rich a bit of an adrenaline rush, even if it was only to disney's standards. So we went for mission space first. I made a point of not telling him much about either of the rides apart from you go in a spaceship and you design a car and test it out. I wanted him to form his own opinions of things. Turns out he thought both were great!
We then went over to the innoventions pavillion and got some fast passes. There wasn't much left. We ended up not even using the fastpasses we had. I hated that i spent the whole time watching the clock because of the fastpasses and in the end as our first time approached and we were no where near where we needed to be I decided to just forget about them. So we explored world showcase at our own pace starting off in canada then working our way around. we spent quite a lot of time in the UK pavillion. while i dont think this is anywhere near a representation of our country but more just a representation of england in the olden days, it was nice to explore it as this was something i hadn't really done before. We stopped in the rose and crown pub for a drink. thats another thing i'd never done was eat or drink in that pub.
imagine that we left britain and came all the way to florida to have a drink in a british pub lol! So after our drink we carried on around world showcase exploring the countries. We stopped in America for something to eat. We carried on and waited in a 40min queue for Maelstrom! normally i wouldn't wait that long for maelstrom but Rich had never been on it so we waited.
I'm pleased we waited in line and rode maelstrom since it'll be frozen by the next time we visit. After that we continued around world showcase and then onto the land area of the park. I wanted to do captain EO. i'd never done it and i recently heard that michael jackson was in it. I'm a fan so i fancied seeing it. but it was not to be as it was too late in the day and this area was closed. I'll live without seeing it. So we went to finding nemo. Again it was nice to get onto the clam and cuddle up for this slow ride. We then spent ages in the aquarium and visited turtle talk. This was another first for me and i must admit we found it hilarious!
As it was growing dark when we left nemo, we walked back towards world showcase to look for a spot to watch the fireworks. We got ice creams and found a space to wait, we started on the popcorn while we waited and soon the fireworks began. It was nice sitting watching them, i still prefer wishes though.
Once the fireworks were over we caught the boat back to the swan and went back to our room for the night.
Families were meant to be at seaworld and shopping today. It turns out for the next few days my family and Richard's family didn't really speak or spend any time together. With me and Rich in disney my family continued to be up in the morning as planned and left the villa to go wherever was planned but richard's side of the family didn't do the same. apparently there were several reasons each day why they weren't ready to leave. they would then promise to get in touch when they did make it to the park, but this never happened. I don't know if it was the early morning and the on the go pace of the holiday that was getting to them or that they didnt want to spend anymore time as a big group or maybe there was something else. while we stayed in the villas Rich stayed in the villa with my family so he could be with me. Maybe at the start of the holiday Richards family got up each day because he was with us and they wanted to spend time with him or because they weren't sure where they were going and it was all new. But by this stage they were more familar with everything and where now going to places they had been before. whatever the reason what happened happened and while i was kind of aware of what was happening (via texts with my mum) we just left them to it and got on with enjoying our honeymoon together.