Day 16: Orlando [WaterWorld]

Grant...  Part1:  woke this morning (Sunday) to see the rain continuing to fall and learn we'd had FIVE inches since we arrived.  Jo has just gone to the front desk to ask what people do around here on rainy days like this!  Perhaps we'll visit a shopping mall and cinema today.  We need to buy another travel bag anyhow.  Our original bags are now all chockers.
...more later...

Jo....Part 2:  Once we got organised we went to Downtown Disney, another of Disney's areas designed to entice you into parting company with your money!  We could actually see some blue sky between the clouds, the wind was blustery and the air warm and humid - but who cared as long as it wasn't raining!!!!!
Had a late lunch (we are getting better at ordering meals whereby we order only 3 or 4 between us) and then the boys went to the movies to see Hugh Hunk Jackman's new movie called Real Steel (they thought it was really good).  Lucy and I hit the souvenir shops.  You know the Disney shops really are magical!  You go in the only door you can see to what you think is a normal sized shop, and once inside you are amazed at just how enormous the shop really is, and lose count at 1000 of the number of Disney products that are there for you to buy.  Nevertheless Lucy and I did pretty well and before you knew it 90 minutes had passed before we left the first shop........
Movie and shopping over we went to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner, an expensive but well worth it exercise.  Grant and I both had a steak, the first since leaving home, and for dessert we all shared a dish called a Volcano (the photo will explain).  In this cafe the lights dim every half hour and there is 30 sec or so of decent thunder, followed by the animal models 'coming to life'.  The whole ceiling is covered in forest vine, we kept telling Grant we could see the (fake) moving snake above him, which had him nervously glancing up fairly regularly.  I ran into a friend of mine from gym while there, the first person from home that we have met along the way!
Grant is currently in the resort laundry waiting for the dryer to finish tumbling our sneakers around.  They are too wet still for us to be able to wear them tomorrow when we will hopefully go to our next park.  The forecast is for a 40% chance of rain, the radar looks ok but we will have to look again in the morning.
Hope all are well and that the Bathurst fans are all happy.
xx

Tom...
Just want to add that when Dad, Zac and I went into the cinema we sat in a back row, but soon realised that Zac couldn't see over the chair in front of him, because they were so big! We moved forward so Zac could see the bottom half of the screen.