Today has been the most eventful day so far! Which I guess isn't saying a lot since I've only been gone 4 days, but I am hoping that the rest of the trip goes a little smoother than today has. It started of great! We managed to sleep in a little bit and pack up our room and head off to the park for the last day without problems. We thought that since we had done almost every ride we would just spend our last day doing our favorites. We had yet to ride on Peter Pan because we didn't want to wait in line, but today we finally gave in and waited through a 45 minute line, but in the end it was worth it as we both really enjoyed it. We also went on Star Tours, Astro Blasters, Indiana Jones, Captain Eo, the Railway, and did lots of pointless wandering and people watching. I think that people watching may be one of our favorite Disney attractions because there are just so many peculiar people there. Captain Eo is by far the most odd rides at Disney. Its a 3D show of Michael Jackson as Captain Eo on a ship of elephants and other odd things trying to save someone from something and just before they are going to capture him, good old Michael defeats them with music by turning them into dancers. I wish I was making this up. We left the theater speechless - not in the good way. As we were leaving Disney to head back to our hotel to catch the shuttle, Steph decided to ruin the day by becoming sick. We aren't sure if it was too much sun or food poisoning or the side effects of Captain EO, but by the time we had made it through security and were ready to board the plane for Aus, Steph had decided that she was too ill to travel. However luck was on our side and because there were already too many people booked on the flight, they offered us a $500 voucher for another trip, meals and a hotel if we were willing to take tomorrows flight instead. That seemed like the best option and we figured that we could have a nice relaxing night, catch up on emails and sleep and enjoy not having to do anything. Sadly enough, those plans didn't last long. It took nearly 2 hours for them to print off all the vouchers and organize a hotel and shuttle for us. Because there is some sort of convention going on in town, there weren't very many rooms available and they ended up putting us up in the Days Inn Torrance. Describing this .....hotel (if you want to call it that...) is no easy feat. Pictures don't do it justice, but they will follow shortly. Stephs description of this haunted house is "Creepy, disgusting, flea-baggish nightmare, ................there aren't words to describe how gross this is." The stairs to our room are all rickety and the hallways look like a murder scene. The rooms only got worse. We had some trouble opening the doors, because the bed sticks out about half a foot into the door way. There are stains all over the carpet and beds and there are burn marks in the bathtub (?!). Steph was feeling very brave and was going to take a shower but that dream was also short lived because it doesn't work. The room has an interesting odor - a mix of smoke, stale feet and wet dog......or bowling alley smell according to Steph. We decided that the airport is looking like a fabulous odor free, murder free hang out and so we are waiting for out shuttle to come back to collect us so we can spend the next 17 hours being hobos in the airport. We are hoping that tomorrow they will feel bad for us and upgrade us to business class. We were already upgraded to economy plus, which my long long legs are very grateful for (Note the sarcasm Mum). So our plans for today look a little like this: Leave this scary place behind and avoid getting murdered, sleep in an airport for 17 hours (So much time for people watching!) and then 15 hours of coloring!!!!!!!! (Yes I brought a coloring book for the plane.)
Be jealous of my day.
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