The day after the wedding - Part One:
We both slept like logs. And luckily we both woke up at the same time. (I had this really unromantic vision of me waking up at about 5am still excited from the previous day, and Jack laying there sleeping, and me having to spend my first morning as a Mrs playing on my phone or something!) But that wasnt the case, we woke up at the same time, gushed about the previous day some more, and finally got up and showered and headed along to the Club Level lounge for breakfast.
The lounge at the GF Main Building is wonderful. Its on the third floor, above where Sandy Cove gift shop is, so it looks down into the lobby and down onto where the band play. J Theres a lot of seating by the windows that look out over the lagoon to the castle, but you can also walk completely around the balcony that circles the lobby and sit and look out onto the port cochere and monorail station, and down into the little garden at the front that has the Mary Poppins topiary.
Anyway, it was Jacks first CL visit during one of the food service times, and he was excited!! He fell in love with some of the little pastries there, I think they were little sticky pecan buns. I love the honey bread with cinnamon butter. MMmmm, it was delicious.
The morning it was pretty busy in the main seating area (theres only maybe 8 tables or so) so we went over to the other end and say and looked out onto the front and watched the monorails come and go. A few minutes after we sat down Mum and Dad appeared (there room was right by those front windows) so we had a little chat and they grabbed some breakfast and joined us.
After that we helped them pack up. I say helped more like I shoved my wedding dress into their spare case (I preferred it just went home than I kept it for 2 more weeks) and we also helped them out by keeping Dads fancy video camera and relieving them of the last of their dollars.
Dad had got loads out to spend on drinks for people at the wedding, but had then just charged it to his room, so we did pretty well out of that!
After that we headed back to the room, and they dropped their cases with us and then they checked out. We hadnt decided what we were going to do with the day yet, but Mum and Dad were going to visit MK for a few hours before they had to catch the ME, so we arranged to meet them back at our room about 30 minutes before leaving time.
Jack and I had a wander around the hotel, looked through the shops and I wanted to see what Gasparillas was like (disappointing I thought we didnt get anything) our plan for the day was to just be all married and lovey-dovey and enjoy the hotel as we only had 3 nights there.
Well....it turns out being able to see the castle at every turn has an effect on us....and it wasnt long before we were on the monorail!
Im afraid I didnt take anything with me other than tickets and room key, so no photos in this instalment.
On the monorail we were sat opposite an older couple who were very excited to hear we were newlyweds. So sweet.
Soon we were getting off and saying our goodbyes to them, and Jack and I both commented about how fun it was to be a married couple and talk to other married couples! We were part of a new club!! (losers!)
When we entered the park we got a tiny way down Main Street and the Trolley Dance started! I looove it, so we had to stop and watch. Half way through one of the males dancers spotted our badges and ran over to see my ring. He was so camp and was all like oooooh, how fabulous very sweet and funny!
After the show I had one thing that Jack had to see the new graveyard queue at HM! Of course Id been in the night before the wedding, but hed been busy chowing down at Boma so hadnt experienced it. But when we got to HM it wasnt open! We queued and rode anyway just in case the new effects at the end had opened, they hadnt but it was still fun.
The park was really busy, and we werent in a hurry to ride anything, so we just wandered the shops (I love that Christmas shop in Liberty Square, and the one with the kitchen stuff in it) all the wait times were very long, and it was very hot, so we headed over to Tomorrowland keeping our fingers crossed that the ever faithful TTA would be quiet as ever. We actually had to queue around the base a little, but in 5 or 10 minutes we were aboard, and whizzing through the sky Im always a little taken aback at how fast it goes when it starts.
On our previous trip in 2009 Space Mountain had been shut, so it was fun to ride through while the rockets were zooming about and people were screaming.
As we arrived back at the hub Jack spotted Mum and Dad walking below us on their way out of Carousel of Progress. I thought shouting would be a bit rude, so we just tried to keep them in sight and then speed walked up behind them and managed to catch up as they got to the bridge back to the Central Hub.
The Move It, Shake It street party was on, so it was pretty noisy, but they were headed over to BTM as when they entered the park theyd collected FPs which were almost ready (I had a little proud moment, theyd learned the WDW ways so well!) we left them to it as it was SO crowded, so we headed back down Main Street, stopping in the Ice Cream Parlor to grab some Butter Pecan Ice Cream for Jack, and a Vanilla Tofutti Root Beer float for me. YUM! I always had to wait a while for Tofutti, but to be able to have ice creams is so great to me that I dont mind.
We sat in the little snook half way down Main Street on the left and enjoyed our ice creams in the shade, before I dragged Jack in to look at the Dooney & Bourke bags and the Pandora charms! Luckily for him I didnt buy anything....yet.
After a browse we headed out of the park and got the boat back across to the GF. The monorails are more frequent, and took us right into the same building as our room - but the boat is just such a wonderful way to approach. We had an ADR at Narcoosees that night, but werent sure whether to go or not, so we spent a while reading the Menu, but there just wasnt anything we fancied. We also wandered and decided which building wed stay in in the future.....Id be happy in any around the second pool, but Jack sais only Main Building........think itll be a long wait until I return in that case!
We returned to the room, and called and cancelled Narcoosees, and then went out on the balcnony, took some photos:
And ate some of our wedding cake whilst admiring the view!
(The cake got a little bashed up trying to shove it into the fridge)
Next up......saying goodbye to my parents, and a very soggy evening!