In Between Days

Up early so we could be up and out before the heat became unbearable. We got the first bus we can when our respective passes kick in at 9.30. It was nice to walk to Black Sheep before the city was too busy. We got cold brews and sat right under the industrial air con in there. We then walked up to Victoria Centre so Kev could go in the Works for those fake lego roses he wanted. 

While we were in there we spotted where the unit for Bath and Body Works will be. It's not opening until the autumn, but hopefully will have some of the Halloween candles in when it does fingers crossed. 

We nipped to Tesco, but they didn't have what we were looking for, leaving there we went to grab more cold drinks from Maccy Ds, I treated myself to a Mcflurry just a small one. We sat outside as that one very rarely has seats available inside. We had a quick look in TKMAXX before grabbing some lunch at KFC. I had one of their rice bowls. I hadn't realised you  could customise them by removing the ranch dressing ( I hate most dressings, but especially ranch) with that gone and choosing the vegetarian one it bought the carbs down and it was very tasty. We then made our way back to the bus, and home. 

Willow is being a clever girl in this heat, staying in her tower at the bottom where it is coolest. We bought her some of that new hydration food in pouches. She at least has half a pouch which is better than we thought She would. She does have a fair bit of water to be fair, but in these extreme temperatures it doesn't hurt to help her supplement her intake a bit. I know I've upped my 1.5 litre a day to 3 while it's hot. 

Kev watched England play in the evening while I read, he said they played abysmally, but then he isn't a big international football fan. He much prefers Premier league matches, He will still watch any match that on, but doesn't hold out much hope of us winning anything. 

We went to bed not long after, and I managed a couple of hours, but was back up at around 2am as I really struggle to sleep when its warm. We leave the fans on naturally, but I guess I'm not built for these temperatures. The thing is, as hot as it was in Florida they have always had great air con, sometimes almost too cold, and our resort rooms at French Quarter were perfect, the ac was easy to control and very quiet. I slept like a baby out there. Like they say, there ain't no tired like Disney tired. A day round the parks will wear you out, combine that with Jet lag and rope dropping parks and you will drift off quite easily. This time we also learned that rest days ( or part rest days in our case) are the way to go. Rope drop until just after lunch, go back to the Resort for an hour or so 

round the pool chill out then go back to the Park late afternoon/early evening. Especially when you are staying on property nipping in and out of parks and your resort is a breeze.