[cinderbella]

Whooohoo!!
Is that Miss Caisley with all the hair in that picture?!?!?! I can't wait to see new pictures of your kiddos...I don't think I can wait so I am going to check out your myspace!

[Erin]

Thanks for the guys!! Bella - that is Miss Caisley with the hair! She finally grew some! LOL!

[Erin]

So, our first day we had to stop at the Orlando Harley dealership so Matt could spread his drool on the Orlando Harleys, too. (It's not enough that his drool is on the exact same models in Daytona Beach and St. Augustine, right?!)

It's a cool dealership, though. The people are very nice and apparently super accustomed to grown men drooling.

He did buy two Harley shirts, which was enough to keep him happy the entire time we were in Orlando.



You can't see it in the picture, but he is definitely drooling...

[Cavey]

Wait a second. What happened to get you free tickets at IOA?

[Erin]

Then we went to Bruno's for dinner as previously mentioned.


Bruno has definitely got to be affiliated in some way to the mob, but you can't tell by just being a patron in his fine establishment. You have to talk to him.

He was all like "you come in'a and'a have-a the seat-a!"


"You order-a white pie, and you like-a wid de a spinach-a, yes?!"

It was very cool. I have a crush on him and may marry him some day.


Sissy and I did have the white pie with spinach and garlic. It was yum.





Matt, Mikie and Miss Caisley had Pepperoni and Salami Pizza.



Sissy and I also had tiramisu.


The prices are reasonable and the food was really good. Matt and Sissy also had ceasar salads, which came with homemade dressing. My tossed salad was better, though. Garlic rolls were also served. They were supah-good.


I didn't get any pictures with Bruno, because I suspect he is in the witness protection program.

[Erin]

Miss Caisley feels extremely awesome and stellar, cuz she gets a giant large like the rest of the group.

[Erin]

Mikie wishes he was part of the witness protection program, too.

[Erin]

Sissy thinks Tiramisu is what makes the world go round.

I agree with her.

[Erin]

Originally Posted by Cavey

Wait a second. What happened to get you free tickets at IOA?

We received free 2 park/1 day tickets because that is what we bought the first time we went (The day we had to complain.)

We went and it was Mardi Gras. Everything was fine all day, but all the sudden at the end we were in the middle of a massive drunken stupor.

When there is a massive drunken stupor and one tiny exit, things can get a little out of hand.

There we were, with our stroller at said tiny exit, when the employee BLOCKED off the stroller exit on one side and told us we have to go to the OTHER side to get out.

That would normally not be a problem, except we are BLOCKED in. NO one can move. There is a big, giant, sweaty guy PUSHING into me from behind (trying to get out of a place that is blocked off!). When I calmly tell employee that there is no way I can even back up (not even a SPACE between me and anyone else!) and there is certainly no way I can cut across a very large sea of drunken people who are going one direction, he SHRUGS his shoulders at me.

So, I'm stuck. Not just me, but me and 6 children, 1 angry husband and two very impatient grandparents who are now outside of the gate.

I ask again, can you please just let the stroller through (half of my party is outside the exit now, because they get to go through the turnstyles) and he says no. I have to wait and get across.

So, Matt lifts the stroller over the blocked thing and we go. In the process of that, Caisley's leg gets kind of hung up and she gets a little scrape. No big deal, but I was irate. The guy does NOTHING to even help the situation.

It would of been no problem if there wasn't an extremely large crowd of people pressing INTO us.

So, we went to guest services and explained what happened and for the inconvenience we were given free tickets to replace what we paid to get in.

[Erin]

All through dinner Miss Caisley wanted to know where the rides were at.

I tried explaining several times that there were not going to be rides until tomorrow, but she just wasn't comprehending my words.

So, we decided we'd go ride the monorail around Epcot and check out the ball sans wand and see the Flower and Garden festival stuff.

It was SOOOO empty! Where IS everyone? (We are so jonesin' for a WDW trip, yo!)

We parked at the Contemporary so we could play in the arcade for a while, too.


Construction of new DVC wing. I think it's gonna look more streamlined than the old buildings!



The new 4th floor stuff is really cool. It was under construction in November. It looks great! There's Sissy and me.



Mickey Ears are better than regular ears. No matter what.

[Erin]

More Mickey Ear shots, this time from the Monorail floor. (What floor is that?)

[Erin]

So, then we boarded the monorail.

Destination: Epcot loop by way of TTC.

Look how grown up my son is!

[Erin]

We did a family vote and we like it without the wand 4 to 1. Miss Caisley prefers the glittery stuff.

[Erin]

Here are a few pictures from the Flower and Garden Festival, as seen from the monorail loop.

[Erin]

Barren EPCOT parking lot.

Wait time for Test Track was 25 minutes at 5:30 p.m. That seems indicative of a low crowd level to me. Is mid-May the new October?