Today was the first day of the North American Irish Dancing Championships at The Dolphin and two of the girls we were travelling with were competing, so Emily and I spent the morning watching the dancing. Alex picked up the hire car that we had organised the day before and took the boys to Disney's Wide World of Sports.
Around lunchtime Sammy joined us at the dancing and Alex and Harry drove out to Daytona Beach for the NASCAR race. There is an Australian driver doing NASCAR now, so their first stop was to buy No 47, Marcus Ambrose merchandise
then checked out the track
They were approached by a guy with a microphone who said they must be Australian because of the Ambrose t-shirts and he wanted to interview them. Harry ended up being interviewed on the big screen
and won these handset things to use during the race
They had a great time but it was a huge day and they didn't arrive back at the hotel until 2am!
Meanwhile, we were busy watching the dancing until about 3.30pm, then we caught a bus to the Magic Kingdom for our 4.30pm reservation at The Crystal Palace. I had been advised to book the early dinner so that we would be able to see the parade but when we arrived at the park we were told that the parade and/or fireworks may be cancelled due to the thunderstorms. We didn't really have time to ride anything before our reservation time, so we checked in early and joined the crowds waiting on the verandah. The wait wasn't too long though, and pretty soon we were seated and waiting to meet Pooh and friends.
Eeyore was first
followed by Tigger
and Pooh
and then we waited and waited and waited to see Piglet. He (she?) walked past us several times but wouldn't stop. We had long finished our meal and wanted to leave but we weren't going without meeting Piglet. I spoke to a cast member who promised Piglet would be with us soon but he did several more laps of the restaurant before he finally stopped at our table.
We finally had all of our autographs and photos so we headed out to our favourite part of the park - Tomorrowland
We saw Buzz Lightyear and joined the line to meet him, but then the kids said that it wasn't fair because Harry wasn't with us and he would be upset not to meet Buzz, so they voted to leave it for now and try to catch Buzz another time when we were all together. Unfortunately we never did get to meet Buzz.
We did Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress which was cute and turned out to be one of Sammy's favourites. But the weather was really bad by that stage and the rain was making us quite miserable. Nobody could tell us if the parade and fireworks would go ahead so we decided not to hang around and then be disappointed if they were cancelled, so we headed back to the resort where the kids relaxed and watched Disney Channel in the room while I did mountains of laundry.
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