Well we are back and I just wanted to say thanks for all your hints and tips.
Bahama Bay resort was great accomodation apart from the lack of decent food onsite.
DDs loved Seaworld and Busch Gardens especially the baby hippo and the dolphins. Found the dolphin show much more "wow" than shamu actually which was full of patriotic tributes to US service personnel.
Went to Gatorland which we found a bit crass, especially the 'play fighting' using chickens as boxing gloves in one of the shows... eeeuuw! and the Very very sad looking bear in a teeny enclosure. the gators were interesting tho and we fed them from close up which was fab.
Also went to Cirque du Soleil at downtown disney which was amazing.
LOTS of shopping at various outlets and Malls, 'twas so good we bought an extra case!
I have to say tho the food was a real problem, especially anything which didnt involve deep frying, or HUGE portions. Our best meak was at Tony Romas, and the worst by far was at Ponderosa. Breakfasts were best at Sizzler or Cracker Barrel, although atleast we could get fruit at Sizzler which was better for us. Golden Corral was ok if you picked the best bits and left the deepfried cheese sandwiches and southern fried everything.... do I sound like a food snob? I dont mean to! Oh and we had one obscen meal at Maggianos on I drive which we ordered half portions. A half starter portion of garlic bread was 12 pieces which were enormous and my half portion of pasta could probably have fed a small family for3 days I kid you not.. we barely made an impression in our meals, which was embarrasing and depressing at the thought of wasting so much and how obscene it was.
On the whole a good holiday apart from the food! but what did we expect !!!!!
We had 3 hours of turbulence on the way home which was awful, but atleast my dds slept unlike the poor mother whose 2 children screamed for the whole 7 hours... if you are a MNer I really felt for you.
Sunchowder, sorry we didnt catch up with you, I took your number but we ran out of days!