I've been a little slack in mentioning the "loot" that was bought home in our multitude of bags, but it is difficult to quantify. But here goes, and sorry for not being too specific, but there was alot.
We bought watches, T-shirts, nice shirts, hats (both silly and normal, although do you class an Indiana Jones hat as normal?
), jeans, shoes, jackets, jumpers, beanies, shorts, cups, glasses, coffee mugs, key rings, pens, scrapbooking stuff, albums, a lense (Sigma 17-70mm f2.8-4.5), photos, frames, CDs, a DL map, prints (we saw the original artwork at Downtown at WDW and it was very impressive), books. That was for us.
For gifts we bought shirts, jumpers, keyrings, pens, crystal ornaments, glass ornaments, timber ornaments, frames, clocks, prints, and I think that's all I can remember.
It's hard to pick special items, because everything is special. Our watches are special (Ros and I got the Citizen Eco Drive and Em got a timeworks one), the coffee mug is a thermal for me with a picture of Yoda wearing mickey ears standing under the 40" ride sign with the caption "Judge me by my size do you?" (I liked this). The prints are fantastic. Shirts and stuff we got from the cruise, souvenir glasses from the cruise and other restaurants. The DL map is the same type as my '50s version but obviously current and I plan to have them mounted together somehow which I reckon will be a great touch. I was glad to see they still make them.
We bought Ros' father a pen from NASA that is a space pen that apparently can write EVERYWHERE and we tested it and it's pretty good. It was the limited edition Apollo 11 pen.
For those of you into crystal, here is yet another incentive to go on a cruise. Grand Cayman has a Swarovski shop that is well stocked. At Grand Cayman you don't pay any tax, so straight away things are cheaper, but swarovski in this shop was cheaper still than the US (which is much cheaper than here by nearly half sometimes), so it was a double saving. We bought my parents some Bambi characters to complete their Bambi collection.
That's it, once we started unpacking, we found things that we were surprised we bought. But as we all know buying stuff is half the fun of being there isn't it?
There was one thing that we were disappointed with and that is that it is difficult to find things now specific to where you are. For example, we bought very little from Universal because not much had Universal Orlando on it, it was just Universal Studios and obviously common across all parks. Same with Sea World and even alot of the Disney stuff. When we buy things we like to identify on the thing where we got it so alot of the times we would walk away from something that may have been nice, but was too generic. I think this a failing in the globalisation of brands. Disney Parks just doesn't cut it with me unfortunately, I want to see Walt Disney World (or Epcot, Hollywood Studios etc) or Disneyland etc.
2023 Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Lines - Disney Wish. Going to be awesome to be back!