Day 12 Character Breakfast

Had to almost drag the boys from their beds this morning, I think we are actually wearing them out? We left at 8.45 giving us an hour to do the 20 min journey however, we got lost as the Four Seasons Hotel is not marked on the directions boards until you are nearly on top of it. Finally, we found it with a few minutes to spare but it took a couple of tours around the hotel trying to park the cars, then we realised that you have to drive to the lobby and its valet parking only.  They didn’t have both our bookings but no problem they found us a table for 8 outside the restaurant on a semi-covered terrace. Goofy, Mickey and Minnie were around all the time, going from tablee to table for photos but as it was Buffet Breakfast it was difficult to get us all together for photos – up and down, in and out of the restaurant – not quite a relazing breakfast I had envisaged.                                           

A couple of hours later, all photos were done and us all stuffed with food we asked for the bill. For 8 of us it was over 400$ and they put a 48$ service charge on too.  It was serve yourself? Although the waiters did bring us tea, coffee and juices we felt it was a bit steep!  Oh well tomorrow we are going to an International Drive all day breakfast and will compare it with the 5 star hotel breakfast… watch this space for the results.

The boys choice of park was SeaWorld but we only had tickets for 6 of us as Bob and Frank had played golf on the day we went to Discovery Cove to swim with the dolphins and that entrance also allowed entrance to SeaWorld. Frank really wanted to go but it was 80$ for just 1 day, I wasnt worried about going (quite fancied a restful day actually) so I gave him my ticket and Bob and I went back to the villa to read and write up some more of the blog.  The family called at 8pm after having a wonderful day in SeaWorld and being the last to leave after the park had closed, to say they wanted to go to Magic Kingdom for the fireworks at 9pm so could Bob and I meet them there.  We jumped into the car and drove to the park, jumped on the train and were there in no time.  The park was busy but the rain had started to fall and some people were leaving.  The fireworks started and wow they were worth it. 

It did take us 1.5 hrs to get home as everyone was leaving after the fireworks. Apparently Disney spends around 42,000$ every night on fireworks in all their parks.

SeaWorld blog to follow …