Day 14 & 15 – Typhoon Lagoon, a last visit to Outback and Disney Springs
Due to travelling home the following day, we decided to have a relaxing day at Typhoon Lagoon for our last full day of the holiday.
As we normally travel to Orlando in October / November, either Typhoon Lagoon or Blizzard Beach are closed (alternate years) for refurbishment.
Unfortunately, 2017 fell that Blizzard Beach was closed and being the much better of the two parks, we were a little disappointed to be stuck with Typhoon Lagoon.
We hadn’t visited Typhoon Lagoon for over 10 years, but to be honest, not a lot had changed. The waves are really good fun but after visiting all the new attractions at Volcano Bay, we just found all the slides at Typhoon Lagoon really lame in comparison.
The weather was also quite overcast and I couldn’t help wishing that we had gone to a theme park instead as it was quite cold.
Nevertheless, we made the most of the day. We did all the rides and the boys spent most of the day in the waves.
After going home and doing a bit of packing, the boys had one last dip in the pool before we headed to our favourite restaurant, Outback. As always, the food was delicious.
The next morning, after packing up all of our luggage and loading the car, we took a few photographs of our home and car for the two weeks before heading to Disney Springs.
We had a wander around Disney Springs and visited the main Disney Store which was decked out for Christmas before arriving at Raglan Road Irish Pub for our 1pm reservation.
They have quite an extensive GF menu and both myself and Fin had beer battered cod in a gluten free batter with chips and tomato sauce which was delicious. It was so nice to have a change from the normal burger, steak and ribs options.
After our meal we visited Erin McKenna’s bakery which is just around the corner from Raglan Road.
Everything is gluten free and vegan and the choices were amazing! You can visit their website here.
We bought a few doughnuts and cookies and you would never have known they were gluten free. They were quite expensive but TOTALLY worth it.
Finally, we went to the Disney Photopass Studio and had our final photos added to our card. We only found out about this by chance and whilst they don’t have a huge array of backgrounds, they were a nice touch to finish off the holiday.
Sadly, it was then time to make our way back to the car and head to the airport.
It was an easy drive and the car drop off to Alamo was really straight forward. We were lucky enough to be chosen for premium security and flew through which was brilliant as the queues for the regular lines were huge.
The flight was on time and uneventful and we all slept on and off all flight after what had been a manic but amazing 15 days.
I can honestly say it was the best holiday of my life and as we touched down at Gatwick, I was absolutely devastated to be home.
Beth
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