Family Matters

Once again Paige and I spent time with our adoptive families. First it was Paige's mum and her friend's turn to visit. Beth and Debbie used to live close, but now regularly take the time to meet halfway. Paige and I have decided to do the same thing once we part for Kentucky and Australia. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean will be our halfway. 

    With my newly met adopted family members (and my fellow Aussie Pizza Planetear, Alex) I went Downtown. I had a delicious milkshake, but also regretfully consumed the glacé cherry on top. Those things are equally disgusting all over the world.

    The next day it was time to tackle the Magic Kingdom with a few fast passes. It was a real battle through the crowds on the monorail. 

 I DFEMed for lunch. 

We watched the Festival of Fantasy Parade accompanied by Florida's famous sun rays. 

Then we shook our tail feathers and conga lined our way through the Move It, Shake It and various other verbs parade. 

I ate some beastly lamb for dinner, followed by dessert that was a real beauty. 

Somewhere along the way Paige's mum provided us with further DFEM opportunities.

Mr Vader viewed with disgust while also hypocritically holding onto his own dessert. 

For the final meal with my adopted family we went to Via Napoli at faux Italy. I, of course had to compare the pizza to Pizza Planet's. 

Just for the record Pizza Planet pizza is best. That's primarily because you have the privilege of potentially seeing me when you purchase your pizza at our fine establishment. Who doesn't love a side of Australian charm with their meal?

A week later it was Paige's turn to spend time with her adopted family. Alicia and Carlos were back and wanted to dine at the Boardwalk. 

Paige and I hadn't sampled the cuisine at the Flying Fish and tried our luck. We were in at the Chef's table. 

    Upon glancing at the menu Carlos decided he "wasn't hungry" and the rest of us realised it was one of those fill up on free carbs, order an appetiser and splash out on free water kind of places. When they present your free beverages in fancy glassware you know the place wasn't designed for CPs. They didn't give a flying fish what they charged us. 

    Another glance at the menu also saw an offering of the Chef's Special Thunder. Alicia and I both thought there must be an abundance of flatulence problems in the kitchen if they are so eager to share it with the patrons. 

    For a brief moment we felt like we had all experienced some kind of Honey I Shrunk The Kids shrink ray. 

Once we had all returned to normal size we dropped Paige home and then set out for Downtown Disney. So did everyone else. We gave up on that idea and hit up Uno. They don't just have tables for one there. 

Carlos was suddenly hungry enough to down a steak. Alicia and I decided to DFEM. I told the waiter I was on a weird dessert diet. He laughed like he thought I was joking. 

We were so keen to start our meal we had to take our foodie photos simultaneously. 

It was a head to head battle as we shared

and then inspected our food. 

Stay tuned for bunches of photos of me with flowers at the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival.