Going Downtown

Sarah had planned a tad more shopping for this morning as we ambled down to Downtown Disney. There was method in our madness as we knew that with all the construction work it was difficult to park there at the moment as Disney rebrand this area.  Yes there was a lot of work going on and I am sure it will look great when it is finished but we managed to park without too many problems at all.  Perhaps because we were there at about 10.30 just as some of the shops were opening.

We hadn't come to buy anything in particular so another time to chillax and walk along by the lake looking at the water taxis and all the other sights that I have read about.

 Cirque Du Soleil 

 House of Blues

 The Disney Balloon

 View Across the Lake

 Raglan Road

And more of these will be appearing on a street near you.

A lovely walk there this morning even with the hoardings up.  Sarah decided she loved the colour they were painted - a pastel green.

Finally we arrived at the shops where we needed to have a little splurge....... Basin to start with.  I bought some body cream here last year and it was lovely so bought a little more to top up supplies.  By the time we had finished sniffing and smelling and made our purchases we had two bored looking male folk with us.

Next stops was the Disney store.   I love looking around these.  They make our Disney stores look very poor indeed.  Daniel left the place with a mug in the design of Mickey's trousers....Sarah left with a t shirt and I left with another pin......just to add to my collection.  In the summer the Disney shops are always our place of refuge from the summer heat because of the air conditioning or at least that is what we tell each other...... Perhaps not so.

Ice cream at Ghiradelli's was next on the agenda.  This morning's choice was Sea Salted Caramel Sundae and a Butterscotch Sundae.

 You could actually taste the salt in the caramel - delicious and amazingly Sarah could hardly finish hers today which was a real surprise.
Well worth a visit!

After filling our faces another little walk was needed.

Straight across to the Lego Store where a few purchases of some Lego key rings were made. Nothing too expensive today as Sarah and Daniel have slightly grown out of the need for Lego but not too old to have a Lego key ring or two.  I do like the creatures outside of the store and love the dragon.

Time to go back to the villa for a swim and some lunch with our purchases so we meandered back around the lake.

 Some of the construction work going on along the lakeside.

Water taxis resumed today.

And soon enough we found our car and came back for our swim......... and a dip in the spa to warm ourselves up as there was a bit of a chill in the air today....

They still love playing in water - nothing changes.