Thats us been home for a few days- sorry for my lack of reports- I just didn't seem to have time this year! But thought I would give a quick rundown on our trip.
We travelled with Virgin from Manchester to MCO and all went well with the flight etc, we hired a Dodge Caravan and it fitted the 7 of us and 5 large cases and various hand luggage- was bit of a squeeze with all that it but no real hardship.
Arrived at Emerald Island and the villa was lovely- could have done with more sunloungers as only 2 and the putside table only fitted 4 but we managed.

Out first morning was spent at Celebration for breakfast- eggs Benedict at Market St Cafe - yum and a wander round the lake after- perfect start to the holiday.

We did all the parks as usual- I had planned them using the a park planner thing I found on the net which tells you what parks busy on whats days etc and tried to go only on "green" days. The parks were however still very busy( i don't ever want to see another summer camp/school group from Brazil again!!) as would be for this time of year but we all still enjoyed them- As ever Busch was our favourite- it was much quieter and it was by far everyone's favourite- great value for money with far more coasters than all the others.

It was my cousin's 40th the first week - so we decorated the villa and woke her up with champagne. Later we went to Manny's (our first time) and I got them to bring a cake out at the end so she enjoyed her day. We all enjoyed Manny's kids loved being able to draw on the tablecloth and not a peep was heard from them the whole time we were there.
Loved the salad and all the adults had steak and said it was fab- I opted for the coconut shrimp and it wasn't very nice as compared the Bahama Breeze but nevertheless enjoyed the Manny experience.
We did tell her we had booked her onto the sky coaster at Old Town but she wasn't falling for it!!

We had a lot of thunderstorms but nothing that stopped us doing anything. Apart from pulling the kids out the pool a few times-they weren't impressed!

I hit Premium Outlets quite heavily this year- oops!!But as not palnning another trip for a few years it had to be done(thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it)

Our flight home was on a Virgin Jumbo and was a bit crap it had the old entertainment system(pants) and food was awful. One drink offered etc. Then taxi to hotel and drive back up to Scotland- arrived home at 5pm and was working at 7.30am the next
day- not good!!

Anyway I feel much better after the weekend- just wish the weather here was a bit warmer!!!