Sarah always gets the boring days to blog, so of course today I'm doing it. Alan will probably want to add his comments and they will be in red.
With two days left in Orlando, we had a choice to make. It was either Disney MGM Studios or Busch Gardens in Tampa. We decided to leave it until this morning as the weather forecast has been anything but reliable. So this morning we woke up to clear skies with an ominous report of storms so we decided to go to Disney's MGM Studios. The people we met in the pool the other night indicated we would be there all day but from our quick look at the map provided in our hotel room, we doubted we would be there very long. There's precious little to do at that place.
We arrived just after opening, only to discover that the one thing Alan wanted to see/ride, the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith was closed for refurbishment. Of course he was bitterly disappointed and demanding his money back when he found that it was closed. Disappointed and sulking about it, yes, demanding my money back, no. We then wandered around to the Star Tours - the ultimate Star Wars thrill ride. As soon as we walked in I had deja vu. There was C3PO and I had a flashback to Disneyland with Alan being a dork behind him. Oh great, we were having a bad start to the day. I don't like this ride at all. It was OK this time, I kept my eyes shut the entire time.
We then moved around to the backlot tour. Oh that was funny. We had a backlot to nothing considering it isn't an actual working studio. The one cool thing was Catastrophe Canyon where there was an earthquake, a tanker explosion and a flood.
After disembarking the very exciting tour, we found ourselves on The Great Movie Ride which isn't really a ride and it certainly wasn't great. You go behind the silver screen to witness great movie moments captured in time with thrilling film clips and lifelike Audio-Animatronics figures (their words not mine). At least it killed 20 minutes while we were waiting for other more fun stuff to begin.
From there we went to the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular which was the best thing we saw all day. The stunts were very impressive and spread over three separate scenes. A lot of action, explosions etc. It was so much better than the Sinbad stunt show we had seen yesterday.
There wasn't anything else to do except wait another hour for the Lights, Motor, Action Extreme Stunt Show and Alan had had enough. We started our walk back to the car and it started to rain lightly. Within 30 seconds of us getting into the car, it started to pour. We couldn't have timed it better. That's right, it was my weather predicting skill which made us leave the park at that moment.
By this time it was around 1.30pm and we thought we'd return to the room for an early afternoon nap. However, we had to make one stop first at the local flea market to get another suitcase. No, we haven't been buying up at the shops. We have a mexican rug, the 2 blankets from Anaheim Angels, Sarah's wedding shoes, 3 stuffed animals we won in Vegas, I've bought a couple of shirts and we've got about 10 magnets, but that's about it so far. No wonder we need another suitcase. My suitcase is still only 3/4 full. The maximum amount luggage can weigh here is 50lbs per bag, with a maximum of 100lbs per person. In Australia we are allowed 77lbs in one bag. When we flew from Las Vegas to Orlando we had to unload a number of items from our luggage and put it in our hand luggage so we weren't fined US$80 for the heavy bag. So we bought a nice little bag today for $25.
Unfortunately housekeeping hadn't yet gotten to our room yet so napping was out of the question. We did a load of washing and Alan managed to lock us out of our room. Clever isn't he! Well I didn't see Sarah picking up our room key and taking it with us either. Thankfully housekeeping let us back in. She then wanted the room so we thought we'd head out and play a round of mini golf. But before leaving the hotel we stopped in at the games room and found many credits in the machines. It took us about an hour to empty the credits and then we returned to the room for our nap. There's something odd going on down in that games room. We haven't had to pay for a single game yet. If only we could walk in and find the air hockey table going.
We awoke about 5.30pm starving and decided to give a place a go that we had seen heavily advertised, Olive Garden, an Italian restaurant. They have an endless pasta bowl for $8.95 which we thought we'd try, that was until we saw the menu. Yum! We had different things and really enjoyed our meal. We were initially surprised to find that every chair in the restaurant has wheels but after eating we realised it is so the staff can wheel you out to the car because you eat so much you can't get up. We've eaten at a number of places where there is a lot of food but they don't come close to this place. We will definitely be trying another Olive Garden before coming home. The food was absolutely excellent and the service was very good too.
So here we are, two more sleeps left before we leave Orlando and head to Washington DC. We heard this week that our application for a tour of the White House had been denied. We thought that would be the case. We didn't find a very friendly response to our request made of the Australian Embassy back in April.
Trivia for the day: The weather around here rolls in really quickly. One minute it's blue skies for miles and then the next there's dark clouds everywhere and it's bucketing down.
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