Wednesday 9th November.

Todays Weather - 82F (27c)

So as expected we were awake bright and early - I think I was wide awake from 5.30am due to my body clock still thinking it was 10.30. Lauren came into us around 6.30.

We asked her what she wanted to do today and we knew what the response would have been - she wanted to try out the pool!! To be honest though we were hoping she would say that because we were still pretty tired after the journey the day before and we also needed to make the trip to Wal-Mart for supplies so a day by the pool suited us.

We did the Wal-Mart trip first - luckily it was just up the road so we didn't have far to go to find it.

Hmmmm what an experience it was shopping there - firstly it's HUGE .. absolutely massive, they sell everything! But we set about finding our way around the food asiles. Secondly we were so surprised with what we saw - everything they sell was from a cardboard box .. mashed potatoes come from a box, cakes, cookies, biscuits come from a box, cereals with no amount of colourings, sugar & god knows what else added to hype a child up for the day, hundreds of different types of cereal bars, gallons on Sunny D (which I believe was banned in the uk), sausages with added chicken ... why would you want chicken in your sausages. No wonder people over here are seriously overweight :-o we had to actually hunt out and search for stuff we wanted, healthy things, ingredients so I could make things from scratch rather then it being already cooked/processed. Also another thing I did notice were the prices - the non food stuffs like clothing, home, electrical weren't too bad but food was more expensive than I thought it would have been. We were in the queue and the family in front of us had 4 boys and they must have bought about 20 boxes of cereal bars with added colourings - they give this stuff to their kids for breakfast??!!

Anyway Wal-Mart done we headed back to go to the pool. It's gorgeous - really nice and big with plenty of seating & a pool side bar. There is a huge pirate ship with a log flume which Lauren is desperate to try but as of yet only goes up the stairs and a few minutes later comes back down again lol - I know what wil happen - towards the end of the holiday she'll try it and will love it.

At one point we did laugh - Lauren was stood talking to us and I saw something pretty large flying up to her .. only problem is I didn't see it fly past her - next minute a huge shriek from Lauren as she noticed a rather large grasshopper had landed on her .... she panicked and flicked it off and it landed on me - I tried to get it off and put on the table but just as I did it flew off right onto Steve's nose! Poor thing then jumped into the pool but a boy fished it out and put it on the pool side.

After about an hour of being down there Lauren made a friend - a girl her age who had only arrived the day before us from England - they hit it off really well and spent about 4/5 hours in the pool playing together.

Coming up in the next blog Magic Kingdom.