I'm trying, girls, I really am, about updating on a more regular basis. Between my hands/wrists being swollen and painful and the little grey raincloud that seems to have lodged itself over my head, I'm struggling. With everything lately.
Onto Day Three! Sunday, May 6th.
We slept in a little bit (9-ish maybe?) before heading to the bus stop to go to MK for half the day. (Epcot for an early dinner, since I figured we'd go to bed a bit earlier, due to the MK and Epcot photo shoots the next morning)
There's only a handful of the Photo Pass pictures that I actually don't mind, and thankfully, this one has us in our bride and groom ears.
We headed to Haunted Mansion first, since it's on my must-do list, then went over to ride PotC, as that's Doug's must-ride. Little to no waiting on either of them - yay!
There was definitely some rumbly in the tumbly at this point, so since Tortuga Tavern was so nearby... plus, it was on my mental "we should eat here for QS meals" list. (See, Kristen can be less OCD and more go-with-the-flow if she really tries!) We both had the Taco Salad, which was surprisingly good, and split two different desserts (the chocolate cake (you know, the one that's everywhere) and the cookies 'n cream gelato - yum!)
At this point, it was about 12:30, and the DIS Bride meet-up was at 1, so we started making our way slowly towards the Dole Whip area. I passed by a girl who looked really familiar, so I stopped and turned towards where she was walking. And Jennifer (jlocmac) was doing the same thing.
We soon met up with Broghan (BroghanTaylor), Andrea (Belle2211), Sarah (Sizzle), Norma (roxysmum123), Deena (LuvLuvLuv), Morgan (CDsSleepingBeauty), and Courtney (I can't find your DISname!). For a girl who tends to be shy and awkward, I was comfortable from the start. (This makes me all the more excited for the February meet up!) The guys were on picture-duty and of the ones Doug took, these two have everyone looking in the same direction.
(From left to right: Sarah, Morgan, Deena, Jennifer, Norma, me, Broghan, Courtney, and Andrea)
We all migrated over to Tortuga Tavern for some shade and air conditioning, which was much needed by this point!
Doug and I headed back to the hotel for a nap around 2 or so. His CPAP machine wouldn't arrive until Monday morning, so neither of us had been sleeping well. Our planner, Karen, called around 3:30, to let me know the time that we'd be picked up for the parks photo shoot, since that information was saved on my computer, and not with me. (Again, blaming my mother's stressing and craziness on forgetting to print that out!
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Dinner reservations were for 5:45 at Via Napoli, so after a quick change, we made our way over to Epcot. Of course, despite the time, there was the obligatory stopover at Club Cool. (I'm so sad that the entire time we were there, all of the machines were out of the Mexico drink, which is my favorite) We ran into Sarah and Brandon again, somewhere near Norway, but couldn't stop to chat for too long.
Got to VN, where it was mobbed inside. We were given the vibrate-y thingie, and probably waited about ten minutes before it went off. We were seated - and holy moly, it's freakin' noisy in there! Pretty, but noisy.
After hearing Jackie's rave reviews, I had added this one in at the last minute... especially since it's known for pizza, I knew Doug would enjoy it. (I tease him that he's secretly a Ninja Turtle
) He had the pepperoni pizza, while I had the margherita. They were both AWESOME. I'm generally not a thin crust kind of girl, but I LOVED the crust. Doug was wishing that they'd deliver... not just to the hotel, but up to New Bedford. For dessert, I went with the Torta di "Mamma Rosario" (apple cake with almond sorbetto) and Doug had the tiramisu. I kinda wish I had ordered the tiramisu instead. The apple cake was good, but not as good as that.
Originally I had planned on heading back to the hotel after dinner, since Beaute Speciale would be there at 4am for my hair and makeup, but Doug convinced me that I'd be fine on five hours of sleep.
We wandered through the WS as a rainstorm was clearly moving in...
(I like this one because you can see, on the far left, the rain that was falling elsewhere)
(Jackie, do you feel that the lens flare thingie in the clouds kinda looks like a Dharma logo?
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At this point, the raindrops were getting larger and the wind was picking up. We went and sat under some umbrellas outside of the America pavilion, and all was well for the time being. Then the rain was pouring down and the wind was gusting, causing the rain to be horizontal, at which point I yelled to Doug that I was going inside because my shirt was soaked through. (Thank goodness I wasn't wearing the white Bride tank top!) He gave in about a minute later, joining me in the puddles inside the Liberty Inn. Five minutes later, the sun was back out and I had sufficiently wrung out my shirt enough.
And we had a nice rainbow after
More topiary action -
The bonsai trees near China -
When we had passed by the Italy pavilion before the storm, a cast member with a clipboard saw our Just Married pins, and asked if we were staying for the fireworks. I let Doug decide and he said yes, so the CM took down our names and told us to come back to that area for Illuminations, and we'd have a reserved spot.
. Dinner sounds nice and yummy. Hey, at least you have people wantin to sit with you and not the opposite!! Hahaha
(drooling)
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