Blizzard beach (day 10)

Today was a different kind of active day. No theme parks for us, but Water parks and Miniature Golf.

Blizzard Beach is a lovely themed water park, where you feel like you’re swimming in the snow. We found nice seats in the shade, right off the swimming pool with waves (not big ones like in Typhoon lagoon) We swam around for a little and decided to explore the water park a bit more.

I have to admit, I’m not a huge fan of slides. I always get hurt for some reason. The worst was when I knocked myself into a concussion. This makes me a little wary, and I prefer the slower rides, like the lazy river. That was actually really nice. We went on one of the slides, but we skipped all the really steep ones.

Like John Pinette once said: “This is not a slide… my ass doesn’t touch the slide… it’s a drop.” I don’t do those.

Elora played around on the water playground, and I actually managed to get a bit of reading done for the first time. When it got too hot, we decided to get a snack. We had fried ice-cream for the first time. It was lovely, though it didn’t taste that ‘fried’. We got it for free too, because the ladies machine wasn’t working to charge it. So we saved a snack point… woot.  (In truth I felt almost guilty, because I’m a dork)

Around one thirty we had enough of the water park, and decided to go for another round of Miniature Golf. This time at Winter / Summerland, which was smaller than the Fantasia Gardens, but still very cute. We decided to go for Snow, instead of Sand (but we really want to do Sand next time) and went for another lesson of ‘how to be good at losing’ with Elora. I have to admit, it’s a little exhausting. I don’t know where she picked that attitude up? Also, I thought our child had more of a sense of humor. Oh well… Daan and I laughed plenty. I think onlookers thought we were insane… and they would be right.

Once we got back home we decided to go swimming in our own pool too, lol. Then it was time to get ready for dinner. Instead of taking the car, we took the boat to Downtown Disney, where we ate at the big river boat of Fulltone’s crab house.

The crab was really good, but the restaurant was just too chaotic. We didn’t get served for a long time, and then suddenly our main course came before the bread. It wasn’t very relaxed either, and I was glad to get out of there.

Our mission was to get some magnets for my whiteboard at Magnetron… only it turned out that shop was no longer there. We did have a nice walk, and the performers in Downtown were awesome. I especially loved the saxophone player. He had style.

On the way back to the hotel we met some nice people on the boat, and we chatted for a bit. Then it really was time to go to bed for Elora.