As soon as I walked up to the bus stop a bus appeared. This would be a trend for me I never waited more than 10 minutes for a bus the entire trip at SSR or anywhere else. I headed back took a quick break and changed into my swim stuff. I planned on heading to the SSR pool but on the way down I walked past the bus stop and thought well hmm I could had to the water parks instead. I had my Key To the World card and Annual Pass on me anyway and a towel with me so when the Typhoon Lagoon bus pulled into the lot I detoured from my pool plan and decided to hit the water parks instead.

I arrived at Typhoon Lagoon and felt like a fish swimming upstream, tons of other guests were pouring out. Sweet I thought I will have the park to myself! So I found a spot quickly and hit the wave pool to cool off. Then it was off to the lazy river where I spent an hour just lounging and relaxing. It was busier than I am used to with kids swimming instead of being lazy but hey that happens. I just enjoyed floating around and people watching. After my spin in the lazy river I headed to Crush n Gusher but as I was getting in line clouds started rolling in. I thought uh oh. Then I saw it, snot it was going to storm. I jumped out of line and headed for my chair, threw on my cover up and made a dash for the exit. I was determined to beat the crowds to the bus and more importantly beat the rain! I walked over to the bus stop stood there about 2 minutes and up pulled the Saratoga bus. :dancing: I hopped on as rain started to sprinkle down. We waited a few minute the bus filled about halfway and off we went back to SSR. It sprinkled and we saw some lightening on the way back. It quit sprinkling about the time I was dropped off at my Congress Park stop. I headed to the room to relax a bit.

I found TV land on my tv and watched a few Everybody Loves Raymond shows, I just love that show. I headed out to the balcony with the laptop to work for a few minutes and watch another cloudy rainy storm blow in. It was in and gone before I was done checking my email. The weather in Florida amazes me, it shouldn’t because it’s the same thing here at home but without all the mountains in the way its easier to see the storm clouds coming in Florida.

I got ready to head to the parks for the evening and it hit me I was tired! Sleepy tired. I’m usually not like that but very little sleep the past night was taking its toll. As I walked toward the bus I thought I wonder how the food here is so I took the time to just stroll over to Artist’s Palette instead. I took a lot of picture along the way and fell more in love with Saratoga. My favorite walking spot was along the path that went by the lake (or lagoon) to Downtown Disney: Here are a few of my favorite:

 

This fountain was in the perfect spot to relax in the pool and stare off into Downtown Disney with the fountain  framed perfectly in the middle of the view but not blocking it. It was so relaxing to just float in the pool looking out past the fountain at the bustle of Downtown Disney.

 I finally arrived at the Springs pool, it was really neat. Nice and big with lots of space and the kids seem to be having a blast sliding on the slides.

 

Then I found my destination:

When I arrived at Artist’s Palette I was starved but there looked to be some good choices. I settled on the Smith Stack sandwich and got a side of mozzarella & tomato salad. I tried to opt out of chips with my sandwich (to save the $2 and I don’t eat chips very often) but the Cast Member said I had to take them. I was disappointed but knew that some Cast Members’s just didn’t get that and know how to do it. I asked her to ask someone and her co cashier said they couldn’t do that. Ok whatever I said ok just charge me and keep the chips, they seemed confused and said we can’t do that either.

I bagged up my food and headed to the room. It was a pleasant walk but could be long if you were in a hurry. On the way over I decided against getting a refillable mug. I have way to many of them and with that walk it wouldn’t be worth going over for one soda or two a day. I would say it was a 10-12 minute walk at a comfortable pace from Artist’s Palette back to my room.

Some more photos as the sun was setting on the walk back:

For some reason I didn’t bother to take any pictures of my food that night I must have been really sleepy. I ate relaxed in the room and ended up falling asleep about 10 o’clock to TVland reruns! I don’t go to bed that early at home and woke up thinking DH would never believe that I was the one falling asleep early in Disney! I decided that was ok since I was heading out for Rope Drop the next morning I needed my rest.

Up next its time for one of my favorite WDW traditions: the Toy Story Midway Mania Mad Morning Dash!