Happy fortieth birthday Huffle

18 years ago I met a boy with a rucksack (he still has that same bag) who appeared at the Sports and Social Club activities at work around the same time as I joined. We both worked for the same company but in different offices. He was just 22 then and still lived at home with his Mum and Dad (Grandma and Grandad) ahhhhhhh. Who'd have thought that funny 22 year old would be 40 today and be my husband and father of my two silly boys.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUFFLE

I HOPE THIS HOLIDAY HAS BEEN EVERYTHING THAT YOU WISHED FOR

Today we had breakfast in the house and headed out for Hollywood Studios. Small wore his Star Wars tee-shirt especially. Both boys were tied and fractious this morning and fights started out before breakfast.

Hollywood Studios was on the schedule for today. It was really busy there today but very cool. Our first ride (and FastPass was Star Tours). We liked this one so much we went on three more times later in the day.

Muppets 3D was a nice relaxing sit in a theatre and our favourite characters were the two old men who said 'look at that man in the goofy mask, oh sorry madam'. We queued up to see Phineus and Ferb who were brilliant. They were high fiving and comparing their shorts and then one of them stole Smallest's hat. We liked them. I snuck to see Lightning MacQueen and Mater but was told off for photographing other people's kids (I wasn't, I was zooming in on the characters).

We queued for ages to see the Great Movie Trail only to realise we were going to miss the stunt show so we dodged the queue and went and sat in a very cold outside arena and watched a really good stunt show. It was all about cars and driving. There was a lot of noise and screaching of tyres and fire. But it was very cold!

We walked through The Toy Story Mania and met a couple of the green soldiers who stopped to high five us, salute and let us take photos.

Another one of Huffle's FastPasses was The Aerosmith Rock n Roll Roller Coaster. Once again I was put on the ride without really knowing anything about it. We watched the car in front speed off at a great pace and before I could argue that it looked a bit too fast, we were in. I don't know why but I loved this ride. It was extremely fast paced, looping, twisty turny and loud. I held Small's hand throughout the ride but stopped squeezing him soon after it started. I could have easily gone on it again. Small said he loved it, Smallest said he hated it but ten minutes later wanted to go on it again and Huffle said it was suprisingly really good.

We wandered around taking photos and had our second, third and fourth ride on Star Tours. Each one was slightly different. Huffle got chosen as the Rebel Spy twice and had his photo on the screen. He also wore his Birthday badge and got almost 40 wishes from the cast members.

We called it a day and went and met MrGator, Truly Scrimotious and Madam Courvoisier for dinner at a Brewery Pub.

I tried the pubs own beer in an apricot flavour which was lovely (in fact I had two). It was lovely catching up with everyone as it has been three years since we saw MrGator and Truly Scrumotious and three and a half years (when we left England for Canada) since we saw Madam Courvoisier. We had a great dinner and the waitresses came out with a small cake dessert (Sorted by Madam Courvoisier) for Huffle and we all sang to him.

Everyone came back to ours afterwards and the boys played Pool, Air Hockey and Table Football with MrG and TS before we had a cup of tea.

We managed to get the kids to bed eventually (very late for them) and our visitors left.

 

 

Posted with Blogsy