Disney World Day 6

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Our last full day at Disney World. By this point, we had done pretty much everything at all four major parks, napped or otherwise relaxed for at least two hours of every day and had wonderful evenings at Epcot exploring the World Showcase before dinner. Given that, we decided to take the morning and just hang out around the hotel.

The kids with Ariel right outside our hotel.

Our first morning we had breakfast at this restaurant at our hotel (Cape May Cafe) that we had made reservations at 6 months ahead of time. This morning we decided to try our luck at walk up service. They gave us a buzzer, told us it might be 20 minutes and in less than 5 we were seated. It was a really fun breakfast because it was the only meal all week that it was just the four of us and we didn't have anywhere to get to, so we could linger over our coffees and waffles as long as we liked.

Lennon and Minni fell instantly in love.

Mia liked seeing the characters, but I think she's already old enough that some of the magic of them is already lost. I don't want her to grow up!

Donald making Lennon crack up

My pretty little baby

We celebrated both kids birthday one more time this morning. Lennon, of course, didn't even ask if he could eat his. He doesn't care about sugar yet, thank God!

Lennon got more and more excited about the characters every time he saw them.

After breakfast we went out to the massive pool at our hotel. Mia had wanted to get her hair wrapped all week and Uncle Kelsey and Aunt Bethany paid for her to do it for her birthday. It took about 15 minutes so Daddy and Lennon went on over to the pool and started swimming.

We probably spent about half an hour or so just swimming in the pool and exploring around it, but then the majority of our morning was spent sliding down this slide and the slide across the water at The BoardWalk Hotel. This one was long and mostly straight and started at the top of a wrecked pirate ship. The other slide was twisty and spit you out the mouth of a clown. Both slides allowed Lennon to go down all by himself which he thought was just too cool! We were always waiting for him at the end of the slide because it was deep water. Both kids had such an awesome time. After all the water play we were almost too tired for lunch so we just went back up to the room and laid down for naps.

In the afternoon we went over to Epcot and did a few more rides. One of which was The Seas With Nemo and Friends. You sit in giant sea shells and see scenes with the Nemo characters and it all ends with you looking into an actual aquarium with Nemo characters projected onto the glass with the real fish. We rode it once before dinner and once after.

Our family in the mouth of Bruce the shark

One of the best parts of the trip was getting to know Reagan a little better. Living so far away from Peyton and Reagan is so hard, but I think I made some real leg way throughout the week with Reagan. She's such a sweetie. Now, if I could just need to work a little harder on Peyton liking me.

By the end of the week dinner was so much better with Lennon. I learned from LeNan and started bringing stuff to occupy him and he also got used to the idea that he had to sit around for a while and that there were a lot less time outs and griping from Mommy if he just behaved.

Lennon was getting a real kick out of Grandaddy saying "I said a say sonny" with a lisp. He kept trying to say it back and laughed hysterically.

The restaurant tonight was a seafood place. Supposed to have the best seafood at WDW. And one whole wall of the restaurant looks into an aquarium. Since Lennon loves fish, we chose this restaurant to celebrate his birthday. They brought him out this big plate with several different little cups filled with sprinkles and stuff to make his own sunday. The sweet little guy spent so much time making it just ride and really concentrated on it and then gave it to Mia. He didn't care at all that he wasn't going to eat it.

Here he is dumping the last bit of candy on top.

Mia was very grateful for the yummy dessert.

Lennon made a train out of salt and pepper shakers and such toward the end of our meal.

Mia riding a ferry over to the Magic Kingdom for the parade and fireworks. Cinderella's castle is in the background.

When we got to Magic Kingdom the streets were already pretty packed. This nice man showed us this little spot next to his daughter for Mia to sit up close. It was perfect. We were just behind her and she had a little friend to chat with and trade pins with during the parade.

The parade that was there when I was a little girl was back and it was really fun to see some of the older characters like Pete and his dragon.

I love the looks on the kids faces while they watch the night time parade go by. I wasn't able to get a shot of Mia's face because of her position.

Mia and Granmommy patiently awaiting the start of the fireworks show.

It was pretty awesome. We didn't have the absolute best position for viewing the fireworks, but I thought it was pretty awesome. Tinkerbell flew right over our heads at the end of the show.