We decided to head out to Denny's for dinner - we went to the one near Crossroads, and yes, for the record, of course I had Moons over my Hammy, and yes, of course, Jake made his own Slam - we are both a bit predictable that way!
Having carefully gone to a Denny's near to Downtown, we then decided that we didn't want to go there after all, and so to avoid the traffic, we came back to BLT the back way (along 535 and all the way along Vista Blvd). Nicky and I decided to head up to the Top of the World (where we could look down on creation - well, Walt's anyway) and enjoy a drink or two, and after enjoying a beautiful sunset behind the castle, we ended up staying there for the fireworks as well. The boys joined us for a drink and the fireworks after they'd had another trip to the arcade.
Once we'd come back down to our room, the boys in the party decided that it was time to take advantage of EMH at MK, and so headed along the walkway to the park. When we got there, the show projected onto the castle walls was on, but the boys weren't to be distracted and it was straight over to Space Mountain to be hurtled around in the dark.
We checked with a cast member before joining the (advertised as 40 mins) line that both Splash and Big Thunder would be open in EMH, as it was about 10.40 by now and closing time for everyone else was 11pm. The cast member reassured us that they both would be and so we joined the line. As expected, it wasn't as long as expected, and we were on in about 25 mins.
The boys both whooped it up all the way around, obviously having a great time.
I was a little bit quieter in the back seat.
Once we had returned to earth, we hot-footed it over to Frontierland, only to discover that we had been spun a line by a poorly informed cast member, and actually Splash wasn't part of extra magic. So determined to at least achieve a mountain hat-trick of sorts, we proceeded to ride Big Thunder twice in a row!
Still with more energy to burn, despite it being getting on for midnight, to boys decided to have a couple more spins with Buzz, whilst I took just a few more pictures of the castle, just in case I hadn't got enough already (!), and the next time I saw them, they were enjoying a few late night snacks from the Main Street (Starbucks) bakery.
We decided to head for home, and by the time we got there, the packing fairy (Nicky) had done a pretty good job.
As a result, it was a pretty easy job to get up and out this morning, and at this point, the new map that we'd bought in our favourite travel bookshop near Covent Garden would have come in really useful - if only it wasn't still sat on the bookshelves in my study! Still, a quick consult of Google maps and we decided that the easy route was to take 192 all the way along to A1A and then head south until we got to the resort.
Route worked out fine - was just over 100 miles, and took about 2.5 hours, and we arrived here at Vero at about 1.30. Unfortunately our room wasn't ready until about 4.30, but we had some lunch, had a look around, the boys played some basketball, we sat on the porch and read for a while, the boys went to the arcade, and then we moved our stuff in to villa 1527. We are on the first floor (or second if you are American), and in my humble opinion have the best-placed villa in building 15, with a great ocean view.
We went out for a drive into Vero Beach this evening, but failed to find anything particularly interesting, so did our usual and popped in to Publix, and stocked up on provisions, and have just had a very nice tea in our villa. Nicky and I have just been along to reception and picked up a load of information about the area which Nicky is studying (maybe we should have done that before we went out earlier!).