August 10 - Typhoon Lagoon & MGM

Ah, a lovely day to spend wet. We took off for Typhoon Lagoon around 8:30 and managed to get in on early magic hours ahead of the mad dash. Found a place to plunk our towels and then headed out to the lazy river; who wants to walk when you can ride? After half a loop, we got off and went over to Crush'n Gusher, a water slide roller coaster. Well it was fun and especially more fun if you managed to stop your bum from dragging on the bumps! We did two different runs then my legs didn't want to go up the stairs again.

From there we tried a few of the normal type Storm Slides. They were most fun as well. Then onto the family raft ride, then a single raft ride. Back to the lazy river to get back to our starting point and then we headed out to the wave pool. Well, what a good way to learn how to ride waves, if you got the rhythm. It took me a bit, plus several dunkings before I managed to get it right. Then after a while a huge surf wave came out and just about threw me to the bottom, gotta learn how to ride those things too! We went to our chairs and dried off a bit and then decided 3 hours at a waterpark was plenty.

Went back to the room and showered then headed out to one of the outlet malls we hadn't been to in Orlando. Got a few more Disney souvenirs and tried to find some shoes I really wanted but had no luck with my size, rats. Also had a bit of lunch too.

Got back to the room and had a bit of a rest, watched lots of news about the terrorist plane plot and decided what we were going to be able to bring in our carryons on Saturday.
We left the room around 6:30 and went to MGM with the thoughts of riding coaster one more time and then going over to the Magic Kingdom for fireworks and food. Well, one of Brynna's co-workers, Jimmy, gave us several rider switch passes so we ended up on coaster 3 times for me and 2 times for Gary (he'd had enough). It was fun spotting Brynna at the different positions, even took a photo of her. She was most excited that she'd seen Joey Fatone, checked his harness twice! (Member of N'Sync). Brynna also gave us a pass for Tower of Terror which we did do and then we left the park around 9. Decided we didn't want to rush over to MK so we went to Downtown Disney instead and tried Earl of Sandwich for a late meal. Yum, they have the best sandwiches, definitely worth trying another time. We then walked around DD for a bit, then headed back to the room for some much needed sleep!