Sue's SSR Weekend - Day 3 of 3

DAY 3 – Sunday 3/8/09
Who: Sue (50), DVC member
SB (51), Sexy Boyfriend

Plan: Animal Kingdom, Puck’s Express lunch, Drive home

Actual: Last night the clocks were turned forward an hour, so we
lost an hour of sleep. I’ll have to watch this and not book the same
weekend last year, as we get cheated out of an hour! SB was asleep
by 10 last night, which is very early for him. I followed within the
next hour and we both slept well.

To my surprise, he woke up early – the clock said 7:04 so it was 6:04
to our bodies. We talked about our options, and decided to do
breakfast instead of lunch and hit the road early. We’d done a lot
the last day and a half, and we hadn’t been home in a week. With me
working tomorrow I’m looking forward to getting home early enough to
do laundry & stuff.

We laid in bed with the balcony door open for a while, since it was so
nice outside. I love WDW when it’s just waking up & coming to life
for a new day! Perhaps when I’m back in April and May I’ll purposely
wake up at some ungodly early hour just to enjoy this.

Around 9 we brought our stuff to the car and drove over to the
Marketplace. The final 2 counter service credits were used at Earl of
Sandwich. Here they let you get dessert or chips even in the morning,
which is nice. It’s also a poor value for the credit, but at this
point we didn’t care. SB got the original with chips and a soda. I
got the caprese with a bottle of chocolate milk and a brownie. I
brought home all but half the caprese – I was snacking on other stuff
so didn’t have room for the brownie today.

After breakfast we walked over to Goofy’s Candy Co, which is nice and
quiet early in the morning. SB decided to be “good” and skip the
sweets, so that left me to be the pig of the family! I ordered 2
custom mickey mouse rice krispie things, both made the same. One will
go to someone at work tomorrow. They were out of crushed peanut
butter cups and had big reese’s pieces instead. The lady working said
she doubts they’ll get the peanut butter cups in again, since they
were more work to chop up. The menu cards already have them removed.
That’s a damn shame, as that was my favorite item to add!

I also got a m&m cup (chocolate) to use up the last snack credit, and
ate half of that during the ride home. For Chris I bought a package
of the Mickey-shaped coconut things (like a mounds bar except
chocolate only on one side) that he likes. He hasn’t had them in
years, so he should enjoy these (and us too <g>). With our shopping
done, we went back to the car and drove home. I absolutely hate
leaving here, especially when I’m just going home to do laundry &
unpack and have to go to work in the morning. I think I’m really cut
out for retirement living <g>!

In summary this trip was way too short but it was still excellent.
Our legs are still a little sore from all the walking, lol! Some of
the highlights include:

- so many white rhinos right next to the truck on the safari – it was
so cool seeing them up so close. We also learned they’re really WIDE
rhinos but someone didn’t hear it right and the name WHITE stuck.
- Dinner at Puck’s with Stefanie, with the waiter being so weird and
her acting like such a ditz over the kids’ chicken breast and her
allergies. She wasn’t doing it on purpose, which is why it was funny
afterwards.
- Soarin’ – always a favorite
- Toy Story Mania – great fun, and I beat him twice <g>
- Space Mountain one last time before the rehab
- Watching Wishes from the boat leaving the Magic Kingdom
- Saratoga Springs – others may hate it, but I love this resort.
- Weather was absolutely gorgeous this trip

This was the last trip for SB until our early October Food & Wine
Festival trip. I’ll be back for solo trips before then, with the
first one coming up in 46 days. Until next time – thanks for reading.

Sue/WDW1972
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