Nermel9
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- Mar 18, 2009
The End, part 2
Once the CP was over, we went over to what seems to be Brandon's favorite pavilion (I'm guessing because of the beer?
) and looked around for a little while. 
Germany looked so beautiful that night, they really have some of the nicest Christmas decorations in World Showcase!
Brandon went to get a beer, so I went in the Christmas shop. I always get an ornament on any trip that I go on, so I had to get one, and there was one in particular that I wanted in October, but never got.
Here's my terrible attempt to take a picture of the ornament I was about to buy:
Ok, I know, you're all like "what the *&^% is that" right?
Well, if you look on the tree at the Mickey head glass ornaments, it's one of those. See the one on the bottom left, with the purple and white? It's that one. I am SO happy that I bought it, I wanted in in October, like I said, but it was too expensive (or so I thought at the time)! But since I didn't really buy anything on this trip, I figured why not? Ahhh, I love Disney Christmas ornaments! I want a whole Disney Christmas tree someday! I kept walking around and went into the shop next door with all the crystal, and OMG, everything was so pretty!
Look at this little Marie!!
How adorable is that? Ohhh, why can't I be a millionaire?
Well, since I'm not, and couldn't buy anything in the crystal store, we went back around the World Showcase. We didn't really have anything to do, we just wanted to wander around before Illuminations started.
I love the tree in America, I think when I first saw the Christmas decorations, I didn't like it at all, but now I think it's beautiful. It's so simple and classic, it's perfect for the America pavilion!
We found ourselves in France, and there was a PP photographer in front of the fountains, so decided to get our picture taken, even though I felt awful and looked worse.
(Yep, made it a little smaller because it looked creepy bigger! *Of course, now that I'm rereading this update before I post it, they are still big, but hopefully they will resize themselves and be smaller soon!* ) I actually don't mind this picture, except you can tell how sick I am. And Brandon again looks like he's toothless!
The photographer wanted us to kiss, and said something that made us laugh, so instead of getting us actually kissing, she got us laughing in the next picture!
I actually love this picture! I love the fact that we're laughing and happy and it was actually caught on camera instead of some stupid staged kissy picture (we always look awkward in those!) Except I don't like how the fountain is coming through the middle of our faces, that kind of ruins it. But still, it's one of my favorites!
We walked through England a little to look at the decorations, and then went into the shop in Canada, where I considered getting this:
I think I've mentioned how much I love moose in previous TR's right? Well, I love them, and I thought this was too cute! However, it's just long tee shirt to sleep in and it was obnoxiously expensive. So I didn't get it, but maybe next time!
It was almost time for Illuminations, and even though we could have gone to the special CP package viewing spot, we just hung out near Canada. I got my beloved Disney popcorn
and waited for Illuminations!
A few of my favorite pics:
Illuminations was spectacular, as always! It's nice that they add the extra song at the end for the holidays too, any way they can extend Illuminations by a few minutes is fine with me!
Unfortunately, at the end, that meant Epcot was closed, and it was also the end of our trip almost. We went in MouseGear one last time (I don't think I bought anything, which is probably a first!) and then we just hung out and took pictures.
The Fountain of Nations was...fountaining? I don't ever know what to call it when this show is happening, so fountaining is going to have to do!
On our way out, I made Brandon sit in front of Stitch so I could get a picture!
I think as we were leaving, I posted this picture to FB and put "Goodnight Epcot"
Oh, and one last picture as we were walking to the tram-
Snowflakes! I'm pretty sure I yelled that as I was walking out and took the picture, I love those beautiful Disney snowflakes!
Sadly, I got on the tram and we went back to our car, and then back to Pop. As much as I was sick of the rain and sick of being sick at Disney, I was still leaving Disney the next day, so I was upset. Especially since then I thought we were skipping our May trip and wouldn't be back til September! It just seemed so far away!
We stopped at Everything Pop so I could get some cough drops for the plane the next day, and went back to our room and went to sleep. I didn't even bother packing, I figured I'd just do it in the morning.
Wednesday 12/14, Departure Day
I got up around 8:50 and packed up all my stuff. It was sad taking my window decorations down! I left the Mickey and Minnie gel decoration up for the next person to enjoy, although I'm guessing Mousekeeping probably took it down!
Brandon got up, packed, and we went down to Classic Hall to check out. We put all of our stuff in the car and then went back in for breakfast. I wasn't really hungry so I just had some tea and this little beauty:
Disney cheese danish. It's probably my new favorite thing for breakfast!
When we were finished eating, we walked out of the front of Pop to our car and I had to take a couple of pictures before we left:
We drove to the airport, dropped off our car and checked our luggage and went over to our gate.
Eventually it was time to board the plane, and again, we got lucky, no one sat with us. I let Brandon have the window seat for once (I never do, in case someone does sit with us, I can't be sitting next to a stranger!) and I settled in and tried to sleep.
Unfortunately, there was a lot of turbulence on this flight so I couldn't get comfortable, and I was freaking out a bit. The captain kept telling us he was going to try to find a different path to get out of it, but he then told us it was going to be like that the whole way home, because of the weather.
It did calm down a little and they let people get up and use the bathroom, but when it first started and they told everyone to get in their seats, they also said if you are in one of the bathrooms, to stay there until the turbulence stopped! 
Imagine being stuck in one of those bathrooms for 30 minutes? We landed safely and right on time. We grabbed our bags and went outside to wait for the shuttle to our parking lot. It was freezing in CT! We were having a really mild winter up to that point, but when we got back, it seemed so much colder than Florida!
So that's it! The end of our little December trip! I'm going to do one more update in a couple of days to wrap everything up, there were some great moments to this trip, and some not so great moments! Thanks for reading!
Wow watching Illuminations from that view must be amazing 
That just doesn't sound fun!
And start my May PTR, I'm hoping I can start it this weekend!
Even though you weren't 100%, it seemed like you did a lot and did end up enjoying your trip. Thanks for sharing!
