Day 10 - Typhoon Lagoon and visiting our cruise buddies Bill and Alison - Friday 6th June

Day 10 - Friday 6^th June

Typhoon Lagoon and meeting up with Bill and Alison

 

 

Looking good the young Anderson’s in the back of the car all ready for the waterpark and both in their car seats!  Clunk click every trip!

 

Here we go, woop woop!!

 

We have made it to Typhoon Lagoon, let’s see what rides and slides there are inside

 

Oh yeah!!

 

We certainly feel we are pirates and on a treasure island

 

Lazy River

 

The surf pool where the waves are 6ft tall, wow and it is North America’s largest wave pool

So there wasn’t much viewing or picture taking opportunities around the park so I will let you know what we did but sorry no pics!

First ride we went on was Gangplank Falls which was a family raft ride atleast Disney parks have water sprayed onto the sidewalks and fans for where we were standing but we didn’t hang about for long in the queues so that was good.  Gangplank falls was okay but we went over a bump and banged into a jutty out bit which was supposed to spin you around but I was just at the wrong spot and it banged my booty instead :o( 

Oh well onto the next ride so we headed to Storm Slides three body slides hurtling down the mountainside with a big splash at the end, Amy enjoyed this one as it was fast!

We headed to the Crush ‘N’ Gusher roller coaster raft rides, never experienced a roller coaster raft ride before so let’s see what this is all about!  So you can go on a single, double or triple tube so we went triple as the queue was really short.  Poor Colly was our Macho man carrying the tube up the several flights of stairs!  You could then chose what slide to go onto so with a triple tube we could choose from Pineapple Plunger or Coconut Crusher.  We went Pineapple Plunger first, we are in position and the last thing the attendant says ‘make sure your bottom is up!’  You get launched from the top on a travelator thing and boy it had steep hills and fast corners, wow that was cool!  Colin wasn’t so sure as he hit his booty this time, he never heard the attendant say to lift your bottom.  We go round and queue again as there are only 2 people in front of us for the triple tubes!  When you come out of the water then you hand the next in line your tube so this shouldn’t take long for our turn.  We climbed up again to go on the Coconut Crusher the male attendant never reminded us to lift our bottoms so Amy banged her booty this time!  But the slide was just as fast and steep inclines and declines, coooool!!!  We came off the slide and there is only a small queue again so back round we go and our muscle man is back in action lifting the triple tube above his head this time, Macho, Macho Man (I am singing as I am typing!) on the Pineapple Plunger, the attendant says ‘lift your booty!’ everyone remembers and we all enjoy the ride wow sometimes we get up so high and such a steep hill jump I feel that we are coming off the tube, woweeeeeeeeeeeee!!  Down we go and there is no-one to hand our tube to as there are no triple riders but there is a massive queue for the single and double tubes so the guy let’s us go on again without going all the way round the exit and entrance, wow here we go again on Coconut Crusher!!  Yeehah!!!  Okay that is enough now!!!  We’ve had fun but enough is enough!!  NEXT SLIDE PLEASE :O)

We jumped onto the Lazy River Castaway Creek and got off at the next set of slides.  Keelhaul Falls a scenic and swift ride down Mount Mayday single tube this time!  I am first on, Amy then Colin a good twisty turning ride.  Next slide is Mayday Falls single tube again down rapids and bumps on the parks highest and longest single tube ride!!  Cool ride, all of us enjoyed those two rides. 

The final thing for us to do is go in the Typhoon Lagoon Surf Pool and experience the 6ft waves!!  Colin goes off to do the Humunga Kowabunga near-vertical five storey body slide in the dark, eeeek!  No thanks to Amy and I but I’m not so sure of the 6ft waves that are supposed to be coming!!!  Ok so the waves only come every half an hour and we must have only just missed them so we wait it felt like an eternity but by the time Colin comes back we are 10 minutes away from getting wave blasted!!  And boy did we got blasted by the wave, Colin was standing and got tossed around so much it made him do a somersault and I held onto Amy for dear life and we got pushed back and ducked under, wowee!!  But we made it out the other side, Amy thought it was awesome I wasn’t so sure the power in that wave was scary!  Amy wanted to hang around for some more but we needed to get some lunch before meeting up with our cruise buddies Bill and Alison.

 

 

We stopped at the Leaning Palms Snack bar and sat outside watching the wave pool over lunch.  Instead of seagulls at lunch we have another type of bird trying to beg, borrow and steal food from us as well as a squirrel scuttling about too! 

 

The towels have been collected so that is us done at the final water park of our Florida trip!  We have enjoyed Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon but wasn’t so keen on Wet N Wild!

 

Oh boy glad we came early as we would not have wanted to wait in a queue of 45 minutes!

 

Three Happy Faces JJJ

 

Amy checking out the wave pool

 

Cool!

 

The welcome I forgot to photograph on the way in, I was just too excited I forgot hee hee!

 

Funny hairstyle Amy must have been that 6ft wave ha ha!

 

We headed home to get changed and then headed over to Bill and Alison’s house our cruise buddies

 

Bill took Colin golfing for 9 holes to Hunter’s Creek, Bill’s local course

 

 

 

Good swing Colly!

 

Bill on the golf course

 

 

So whilst the boys were playing golf the girls were on a mission to try and find a sticker for Amy’s suitcase!  Alison was fab and took us round 3 differing stores but we only found a small American flag sticker in a pack of stickers for 4^th July celebrations!  Amy, Colin and I will continue the hunt another day before we leave Orlando!!  The girls returned to the house and had a dip in the pool, or should I say a lovely warm pool like having a lovely bath.  The boys came home and joined us in the pool and then my goodness we had a feast from Bill and Alison.  We had an absolutely lovely afternoon/evening with great food and great company!  Thanks Bill and Alison for inviting us into your home and catering for all our needs during our visit. 

 

 

 

 Oh I am so glad that I am not the only one that sets up the camera to take a picture, thanks Bill and Alison for sending the photo on to us!

 

 

Amy lasted well today but as soon as we got in the car she was zonked and using Yorkie as a pillow!!!

Well what a fun packed day we had at the waterpark and also catching up with our cruise buddies Bill and Alison.  I am sure our paths will meet again at some point in the future but until then guys, look after each other and we will keep in touch XXX