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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Disney--Our Last Day...

We woke up and had reservations at our favorite breakfast spot Chef Mickeys.

We said goodbye to Mickey and all his friends.

We went and spent all our "snacks" on food that the kids could have in their lunches at school. And we let the kids get some souvenirs. Then Frank and I had an appointment with the Time Share people. We really had such a great trip that we wanted to learn about the Time Share. Maybe we are suckers...but we truly had a magical time and I know we will be back. And we were excited to learn that there are tons of properties all around the world. We can go skiing, to Hawaii, we can use the time share anywhere. While we were talking with them, the kids went to "kids camp." They didn't want to leave when we came to pick them up. But it was time to go.
We got on the bus to head to the airport.

And then about 5 minutes into the bus ride Hadley looked like this...

Disney World blew us out of the water. We had no idea that it would be so much fun. There was something for everyone, no matter what your age. It was a great week of memories. We are already trying to figure out when we will get to go back again. Hopefully soon. :)

Disney World- Day 6

Our last Full day. We couldn't believe that the trip was almost over. We let everyone pick their favorite rides and we decided we would park hop to all of their favorites one last time. We started the morning in Hollywood Studios. Hadley's favorite pick was the new Toy Story Ride, and Gavin's pick was the Tower of Terror. He also wanted to ride Rockin' Roller coaster which we never had a chance to ride the first day because the line was too long. Soooo...those were the first we were going to hit. We caught the bus from our hotel and were at the park when it opened.

The boys ran to get fast passes for Toy Story and the girls and I headed to the Tower of Terror to get in line. The boys met us back and we didn't hardly have to wait long to do one last ride on the Tower of Terror.

That is the hotel that you to to the top of and then fall in the background. It was such a great ride.

Photographers are all over the place and we took advantage of our Photopass...this photographer wanted to put things in our pictures..she did balloons..

We had lunch at the Hop and Vine for Hadley. It has Disney Junior Characters that you get to meet while you eat.

Disney's Shake It Up was having a concert when we were done with lunch. We got front row and Ellie and Hadley went out to dance with them. My girls LOVE Shake It Up. :)

Before we left we did the Rockin' Roller coaster. It was another of our Favorites in all of Disney World. So much fun. Hadley and Ellie weren't tall enough so we had to do swap passes. The girls had fun getting Minnie Mouse Cheerleader tattoos while we swapped and rode. The ride goes 0 to 60 in 2.6 seconds and it blares Aerosmith music in your ear while you ride and do loops in the dark.

After we left Hollywood studios we headed back to Magic Kingdom for the Little Mermaid ride and Big Thunder Mountain.
It isn't a Morgan family Vacation without the jumping pictures. I thought in front of the castle would be fun.

Our photographer did another "magical" picture...

It started raining and the park just cleared. We weren't scared though. We ran into Gaston from Beauty and the Beast while walking around. He challenged Gavin to an arm wrestling match. Ha!

After leaving Magic Kingdom we took the boat to the Wilderness Lodge. We had dinner reservations at the show Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue.

We ate dinner and watched the show. It was a great way to end the trip.

We made it home just in time to watch the Alabama Football game and to see our last water show from our room.

Disney World- Day 5

Animal Kingdom was the fifth day. Once again we had breakfast reservations in the park before it opened.
We took a few pictures in front of the Tree of Life before the crowds came on our way to breakfast.

Then we headed to the Tusker House for breakfast. Another amazing meal to start our day. And we got to enjoy breakfast with Donald Duck and his friends again.

We were done with breakfast minutes before the park opened so we walked to the Safari ride and were the first Safari of the day---SCORE!! What a treat to ride in the jeep and see all the animals roaming around us. There were so many animals that our zoo does not have, and to have them so close was a fun experience.

After the Safari, we wasted no time to head to what was one of our favorite rides in all of disney--- Expidition Everest.

Hadley was dissappointed that she wasn't tall enough to ride. We took turns using swap passes.

Then we headed to meet Doug and Russel from Up.

We rode the Dinosaur ride...

We saw the Lion King Show that the kids got to be a part of.

We only spent half a day in Animal Kingdom. It was the first day that our Park Hopper passes would come in handy. We pretty much saw everything so we did one last ride before leaving, the Kali River....we got soaked and then headed back...

For Dinner I had heard that the best restaurant in Disney World was the California Grill. I had made us reservations months before and we timed it so that we could be there while the firework show was going on at Magic Kingdom. While the show is going on they dim the lights and play the firework music and since we are high and above Magic Kingdom, we had the best view. It was truly magical and the food lived up to the hype. We had some of the best sushi and scallops we have ever eaten.

The kids each got their own sushi plate for dessert:

And like every other restaurant this week, Frank got to blow out another candle for his upcoming birthday.

We love Disney World!