Day 8 – 9 January 2013

Last day. Sad.

We started with and early breakfast at food court (8am). We decided that we were going to try out Sorcerers of the Magic kingdom card game in the park today. We loved it. We were able to slow down, and it felt like we were able to take in more of the park this way. It was not all about getting on rides! 

So we wandered around on Main Street doing Sorcerers then headed to Space Mountain. Bek and I rode StandBy with out Dada with a walk on wait, was great! 

Is she having fun?  I was!

One last trip on Carousel of Progress and then we headed over to Buzz, which was another walk on! Time for a little breather so we went on the People Mover. On there we saw Stitch doing a Meet and Greet with no line so when we got off we headed over there. He was awesome! In Bek's autograph book Rapunzel accidentally started signing her name on Stitches spot. We told him that, he was a little confused, but when we looked at the autograph book, he signed “Stitch, NOT Rapunzel!” Nice! Also, the autograph pen had a string on it where we would tie it to the book. Stitch was memorized by it!

We then headed over to Adventure Land to do more Sorcerers. I grabbed a Dole Float (very good, but not crazy good like all the hype!) on our way to heading back to the resort for lunch in the food court and to start packing.

Late afternoon we headed back to the park and did some Sorcerers in Frontierland/Liberty Square.

We were able to hop on Pirates TWO times, back to back with no wait, awesome again!

Bek and I did Big Thunder Mountain one more time (15 min wait) and then we all did Haunted Mansion one lest time (I rode in a Doom mobile by myself!).

We then hopped on the train to Fantasyland and got on Dumbo 2 time with no wait. The second time Dada joined us, so I rode by myself and took a few videos!

Now it was time for our reservations at the Plaza. Underwhelmed. It was a very nice looking place, with a great view of the castle. I expected a better menu. It was like counter service, but at a table service. However, we did get a free Fastpass from our waitress. We had to wait a bit because she was dealing with a non-English speaking table. That was nice! The food was ok, just not fitting to the atmosphere.

Then we decided to get a great spot for Celebrate the Magic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZR0PkQZPac) and Wishes. OH MY GOODNESS, Celebrate the Magic was AMAZING! Wishes was alright, but no Tinkerbelle!

Then sadly we walked out way out of the park for the last time for this trip.

Day 7 - 8 January 2013

Mama and Girlie morning at EPCOT! Dada decided he wanted the morning off to hang at the resort so Bek and I headed to EPCOT for a Girls morning! We had a quick breakfast in the room and off we went! I left it up to Bek what we did, so first we headed to Soarin' and grabbed Fastpasses then over to Test Track. Standby time was listed as 25 min, and we figured that would be not to bad of a wait! Oh boy, were we wrong. I should of gotten the hint when we were in line outside and I did not hear the cars going by often. As soon as we got in the building part of the line they made an announcement that they were having difficulties. I liked the queue...for the first 10 min...then the music started driving us insane! But we powered through it...and *92* min LATER we got in our car. Yea, 92 min. UGH. So by the time we were done there Fastpass time had come so off to Soarin'. We had the perfect seats this time (third times a charm!), middle set, first/top row middle! Was great! Well by now Bek had just about hit her limit but we both wanted to hop on Spaceship Earth before we went back to the resort. We both love this ride!

Pluto hanging out while waiting for Test Track

Mama and girlie morning out!

1 Happy...1 not so much...

WooHoo!

Oh you Stitch...

SO, back to the resort to meet up with Dada and have lunch and a little break! We ate in the food court again, then we hungout in our room for a little bit. 

The crew was ordering pizza today!

Back to EPCOT! We headed right over to the World Showcase to wander around the countries we missed before. We found the maze in England and Bek had a ball doing that! We just wandered and took all the details in!

Bek in Canada

Hopscotch we found outside of England!

Happy girlie!

Part of the maze in England

Back "streets" of England

The DIS board January group I was part of decided we would take pictures next to trash cans...here is one of mine, with a grumpy face!

Bek at Japan

Better face at another trashcan picture

Love this picture...though I look so short!

We had reservations at Biergarten at 5:55, so we headed over there at 5:30. We were seated pretty much right away. Our timing was great, too, because at 5:55 the next performance began! Bek went right over to the dance floor and held hands with a group of other girls and just danced around and around! She had a great time! John and Bek enjoyed the food, I, on the other had did not like ti so much. I expected lots of meats and sausage, and there were for sure! Just the flavors did nothing for me. I think I also was pretty “fooded out” and not feeling 100%. I would not give it bad rating at all, the buffet was large, the atmosphere was great and the service was wonderful.

More wandering around and then we slowly made our way out and I said a sad last goodbye to EPCOT for this trip.

We headed back to the resort and had a quick swim (yup, me too!), and then to bed to get ready for our last day!