Day 1 in Disney

Day 1

On our way in to Manchester airport, Mickey Mouse called to wishes us a happy vacation! The flight was a flight. We took the Magical Express to the Grand Floridian. It was noon and our room was not ready yet. We wandered the hotel doing some shopping, looking at the pool and reminiscing about the wedding pavilion which we could see from the beach. We have lunch in the grill and waited from our room to be ready in the lobby; and waited and waited. The front desk said they had a room that faced the castle head on but had to queen size bed opposed to the room we were assigned that had a view of space mountain and a king size bed. I didn’t think Rick would like that, but after another hour of wait, he just wanted a room. We had a very nice bellman named Jerry help us with the luggage. He’s been working there for 21 years! We certainly did have a wonderful view of the castle, space mountain and the monorail.
We headed to Downtown Disney to see La Nouba, the Cirque de Soleil show. It was a bizarre show. They had trapeze artists, clowns, and acrobats with weird sets, lighting and music. I loved the little Chinese girl who use these sort of yo yos and perform tricks. I didn’t like the BMX bikers who would come racing at you and then stop inches form your head with a screech! Don’t ever sit on the corner back row!
T-Rex was new restaurant that Rick wanted to check out. It has animatronic dinosaurs throughout the restaurant. Every 20 minutes there was a meteor shower where the dinosaurs moved and screamed.
After that we did some quick shopping and made it home in time to see the Wishes fireworks show from the magic Kingdom from our balcony. What could be better?