 I
took a tour around this area and snapped a jillion pictures. I'll
put
together a slideshow for the site after we get home and settled a
bit.
I'll include a few good shots here in the report as well.
As far as
the room goes, they took our cell number and were supposed to call when
the room was ready. 4pm is the official check in time, but no
call by
3:30. I decided to call and check and surprise - after being
chided
that checkin was 4 pm, the room WAS already ready! Figures!
Back to check in to have the keys cut and wait in line again. Not
thrilled with this process and I'd have to classify the response I got
when I asked why they didn't just give you the keys first and encode
the room when ready as a bit snippy. (and I asked nice, really I
did!). Both Disney and Universal hotels give you the key for
charging
and identification and you can just call for the room number when
ready. NICK doesn't do it that way, and the others do it in a
non-standard manor. OOOOKKKKKKAAAAAYYYYYY, glad I asked!
:-/
Anyway - got the keys, and the refrigerated items. Had to go back
out
the the Bell Services desk and they said they would send the bags right
up.
 Off to move the car around to our building - which is
building 7 with a
pool view. I had gotten a good deal on a two bedroom suite.
The girls
REALLY wanted their own bedroom with the themeing and with the 25% off
discount I was willing to get one! ($187 per night). Still
a lot, but
its only two nights and we've already established these kids are
spoiled hotel snobs! :-D Oh, and at checkin
they also asked for a
character preference. Ours love all the Nick shows, so any would
be
fun. I guess Sponge Bob is the number one request (by far) and
its to
the point that its an extra $25 to get a Sponge Bob room!
:-O Yikes!
 Brinn said she hoped it was Danny Phantom. We all
enjoy that show, and
we open the door and what do you know? Danny Phantom it is!
:-D How
lucky are we? I didn't even mention that one at check in!
The room is
great. Clean, great location - pool view. Lots of pool
noise, but we
don't mind. GREAT view, and you can see what is going on so you
can
run down anytime. Short walk to the mall area and just very
central.
Nice! Oh, and we are on the fifth floor, so the view is
good from up
here.
At around 4:30 we heard more announcements by the pool. Seemed it
was
time for a 'mass sliming'. There is a huge bucket at the top of
the
slide structure and it was filled with green slime water! They
dumped
it all on about 150 screaming participants which was really quite
amusing to watch! The girls ran down to get a bit of slime
themselves
since it took a couple more refills of the bucket to clear it all
out!
;-) We'll have to make sure we don't miss this tomorrow!
 After that we got ready and went to the Mall for
Dinner. Kids eat free
in a couple places and we chose the Nick Café. Tonight was
a seafood
buffet for $22.95 (adults) and kids can eat from the buffet free.
Kristen ordered off the menu and the girls and I enjoyed the
buffet.
Lots of choices they liked and I enjoyed the prime rib, pasta to order,
and crab legs a great deal. There were also desserts
which were
good as well. Good choice and may head back there Saturday night
as
well.
After that we grabbed the car and headed to the Prime Outlets. We
had
great success at he Character Wearhouse store (Disney owned discount
merchandise from the parks) and found things such as a couple shirts
for me, a Tinkerbelle costume for Brinn (guess the mexican outfit is
going back…) which was originaly $85 for $30. A Daisy Duck pillow
ball
stuffed animal thing Brinn has been looking for all week for $9 instead
of the original $19 and many other things. That additional
suitcase is
a MUST! Maddy found several things she wanted including a brother
bear
CD, a Pluto stuffed animal and a couple shirts. Definitely worth
the
trip. We hit a few other stores and then headed back.
Traffic was horrendous on International Drive though, (at 9:45 at
night!) and I missed the onramp for I-4. Had to circle around
Universal to get on I-4 a bit farther out and then we finally got
home. NO PARKING spots to be found anywhere near our building,
and we
ended up way at the other end of the complex. Oh well, at least
there
was a spot someplace! Off to watch some TV in their bunk
beds, and
listen to the new CD. We all crashed by about midnight and look
forward to another pool day tomorrow! |
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Today we leave Villas at the Wilderness Lodge and head on
off to the Nickelodeon Hotel. So we slept in quite late and then
finished up our packing and headed down to the Roaring Fork to use up
the rest of our Meal plan credits. We ended up with a few extra
snacks that we used for water and some other treats for later.
Breakfast at Roaring Fork has several good choices including a
breakfast plate with scrambled eggs, bacon or sausage, hashbrowns and a
biscuit. They also had breakfast sandwiches, pancakes, etc.
The Bellman was very helpful and even gave me directions
to Nick Hotel! ;-) Found it pretty easily (yea!) and pulled
in to the check in area. The line was not too long,
but (as I expected seeing as it was around noon) the room was not yet
ready. No problem. We had our swim bag packed and ready to
go! They nicely stored all our bags in Bell Services, and they
even placed our cold items in refrigeration for us (we only had a small
bag of 'must keep cold' items) Of course, it was all in a Disney
World bag! :-D 
There are activities going on throughout the day, and
they do some fun Nick type games where the kids are chosen from the
pool and can participate in the games to get the chance to sit on the
Slimeilator! Fun! Brinn took off for the slides during the
games. NO desire to be slimed for her! ;-) Maddy
tried to be picked, but only half heartedly. She isn't big on
being in front of everyone either. But we had fun watching.
They played various games… Fill a bucket with sponges in your
pants. Squeeze a lemon into a cup attached to your head and Slide
through a piece of material quickly as a team. The winners of
each game sat on the slimeilator and after all was done they were all
slimed together! Fun! (for them!) :-D