Discovery Cove, our chill out day 🙂…awoken at 6:30am by a creepy little whisper of ‘morning, time to get up’…bloody hell Gray, your sprightly this time of day…mind you, he’d been sleeping since 10pm last night…up and ready for our chill day…but first, Alaska drop off to Deb and Chris…we’re very conscious of having Alaska around so much water.
Up and out of the hotel by 9am, and at the cove half hour later…bloody que for check in for the day was huge, took around 45mins to get into the park…never been like this before…Grayson got so fed up that he told us he wanted to go find another family to holiday with who were closer in the queue…anyways, it was our chill day so no stress about it…fortunately we made it in just in time for brekkie, great stuff…food is free all day, so start on the right foot.
Wetsuit pick-up…they fitted me as a small…bloody hell how did that happen…it was a little tight, but I’m stubborn and like showing off my figure so I was cool with it, and happy to struggle with having a higher pitched voice than normal all day…if you get what I mean. Only issue, how the hell was I going to get it off to go to the toilet 🙄
Tropical river to start once we’d fought past the whirlpool to start and a relaxing float around the park...don’t worry, Gray had a life vest and a float…on to see the fishies next in the reef area…bloody hell it was cold, which was probably a good thing since I could use the extra room in my skin tight wetsuit…good news...Grayson inherited Jordan’s fear of fish touching his feet and splashed around like a seal being attacked by a pod of Orca…he calmed down eventually and found courage to snorkel a little and point out all the fish he’d spotted…spoiler alert, I’m pretty sure he was bullshitting about seeing a shark swimming amongst us all.
Lunch time and back in the warm…decent food, made even better when you take advantage of the all you can eat style…think we took nearly 20 packets of salad dressing, and a shit ton of crisps to last us the week…it’s a Fletcher thing.
Back to the lazy river…stop off at aviary...fed birds, Grayson raging that the birds didn’t want his food, but was equally raging when the did take food from him…he had a fuckfull and palmed his half eaten bird food pot onto some random guy…’there you are, I’m going back in the water’ 😂…can see the good intent, but it was awkward as hell.
Next…Grayson decided to play a new game he’d made up called ‘Help me!! I’m drowning’…bloody hell mun…he’d just float along enjoying himself before faking a fall off the float and shouting ‘Help me!!! I’m drowning’ with a cheeky grin on his face…let’s cut that out right now kid, sure there’s a lesson to learn about crying wolf and I don’t intend for him to find out…little bugger, luckily the lifeguards found it funny…or maybe I should be concerned that they did nothing 🤔
Late afternoon I’d had enough and got out to dry off in the sun and take a few topless selfies…was awkward sad hell when random guys started stuffing dollar bills down my wetsuit...Gray, Jo and Paige refused to get out and decided to float back around the park, connected as a transformer style unit called ‘Craptimus Prime’…now there’s one to add to my transformers leg sleeve…I could use some new ink.
Finally managed to persuade the kids out of the water…few more bits and some pizza before we left to the mall…it was free after all.
This was when manic Grayson engaged…we drove to the mall and he didn’t stop spouting off the most random shit you’d ever heard…he was banging on about Mickey and Minnie’s ‘broken catch train’, which changed to the ‘loose gone train’ and how much he enjoyed it and then broke out in the most randomly ludicrous songs you’ll ever hear, insisting we clapped when he finished and would restart then if he was interrupted…I won’t repeat them, but be prepared for his new album dropping Christmas 2022….this kids got a big future.
Gray must have been proper psyched from the day as he engaged into full on knob mode and was acting like a kid on blue smarties all around the mall, hiding under benches in the shops, insisting ‘I’ve been good all day, so Incan be naughty now’…glad to know your self aware, but it don’t work like that I’m afraid bud…before finally chilling for a bit for a bite to eat.
Cheesecake factory for a bit of a bite to eat…just the one cheesecake to share...after all we’d fattened ourselves up all day and the calorie content in the cheesecakes made myself and Paige hate ourselves for thinking about getting a 10” cheesecake for ourselves…Cinnabon cheesecake of course and the obligatory selfie at the counter…fucking tourists…I even hate us.
Wonderworks (or the upside down house as Grayson called it) for a fun little activity for the evening…think techniquest on speed (which seemed like a theme after the way Grayson had been acting)…some fun things to do like douse your arm in a bucket of ice cold water…you can really impress your mates by inflicting frostbite on yourself…ah I’m just bitter though because I was out done by Jordan lasting over a minute in the bucket…she could have done longer I’m assured, but she just didn’t want to…yeah ok 🙄
Bed of nails next, Jordan and Paige jumped on, but I didn’t fancy a contracting a blood bourne virus this holiday so gave it a miss…little potter around before we found laser quest…a 4 way free for all where we were sure to let Grayson win right? Like fuck…whilst I did the honourable thing and protected him…Paige and Jordan gleefully racked up their points by taking advantage of his inability to properly use the gun...poor thing…BTW..am I painting a picture as the loving, doting father protecting my innocent son against the 2 witches? Yeah? GOOD!!! In reality it was a lost cause and they hammered my score, so I should have done the same…NO MERCY!!!
Anyways, fun few hours there, and Grayson even conned more money out of his aunt.
Done by 9:30? Far to early to retire to bed…off to Walmart again then…coffee here? Nah but bugger it, let’s buy some more Cinnabon milkshakes and random shit we don’t need…delightful…Paige held up the self service by getting rid of all her change…it was a lot of change since we’re quite useless at dealing with foreign currency.
Back to hotel to pick up Alaska and get ready for bed, but not before Grayson entered a new phase of crazy…the quizmaster…out of nowhere, this voice of a game show host appeared from Grayson, like the spirit of Bruce Forsyth had possessed him, and we all entered into a math quiz…we were all getting quite competitive until we realised that Grayson didn’t actually know the answers to his questions and was constantly awarding us all correct answers…bloody pointless 😂…but he’s funny as hell….’that answer is Correct’.
Picked up loo loo and off to bed ready for Animal Kingdom tomorrow…must be up early to book Flight of Passage under strict instructions from Deb (ahh see some more mentions tonight).
Side note…good thing I had such a nice day, as I found out that the only reason we booked tickets and fastpass for Busch Gardens was to ride Iron Gwazi, and that not it was down until the day after our visit…Tamping, Raging, Paiging mun…genuinely heartbroken like, may have to go back to Islands instead and ride Velocicoater again to ease my pain (I love that ride btw).
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