Day 5 Last day of Competiton Saturday July 1
No rest for the weary today. We are up bright and early
and down at the competition ring by 8am. Today is his final competition, traditional forms. There is a large group in his division. There are more competitors for this event than were for extreme. Ok here we go. Kiefer is 10th out of about 30 competitors so this event took a long time. Im still in his corner cheering for him though.
He did well, he was kinda nervous and that made him perform a little fast but all his stances and techniques looked good. He eneded up receiving a 5th place for this event. I could not have been more proud of him. We never expected to place in this competition at all. We were so happy that he did so well. After his event was over we watched some of the adult competitiors do their extreme forms and decided that we had alot of work ahead of us for next year. Oh yea... next year again. Woo hoo another trip to the world.
We finished watching that last competiton at about 10am or so and decided that we had time to eat, rest a little while and head out to one of the parks.
After about an hour of down time we headed to Epcot, we arrived and started towards world showcase. Here starts our no line adventure again. We rode the boat ride in Mexico. I just love that restaraunt. We will have to try it next time we are there. Anyone with any reviews on it? Moving on to Norway we rode the Maelstrom and took a picture with the troll at the end. I thought it was really cool how each of the countries were so unique. We strolled along looking at each country we watched the street performer in Japan and finally ending up at the ferry dock in Morocco, we loaded on the ferry across the lagoon and took the short ride to showcase plaza. My only regret is that we didnt walk the short distance to finish WS. But alas,maybe next year. We headed to Honey I shrunk the audience and were told that all the attractions in that area would be closed when we got out of this one. We agreed that that would be okay because we were now getting hungry again and wanted to head to MK for the remainder of the evening. My kids LOVED this show. They all screamed when the mice ran over their feet. I was laughing so hard.
It was fun. Leaving Epcot and not seeing everything was a little bit of a downer, especially since I wanted to catch soarin. But hey we were headed to MK for the rest of the evening.
We hopped the monorail to MK and arrived to alot of tired people leaving, a group of people staking their spot for the parade and we completely bypassed them. Never looking back. We thought about riding SM since we missed it the other day and as we headed that way... guess what was open. DOTH MY EYES DECIEVE ME is it POC.. YES we sprinted through the entrance. again NO LINES.. this is getting to be fun.
We loved loved loved this ride. Brinley left the ride singing Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me.
We started to ride it again, but the line had gotten bigger at that time. I can only assume that it had just opened when we happened to walk by. Talk about being lucky.
We were really hungry and wanted to eat, so we skipped SM we would be at MK in the morning and it would be easy to get on that ride at that time. Crossing the breeze way between adventure land and Frontier land we headed to Fantasy Land to find someplace to eat. We could see that there were no lines at IASW, and Peter Pan. So we did both. My princess loved both of those rides. She has been such a trooper on this trip. Not a single complaint from her the whole time. Funny how seeing no wait lines makes you forget about your hunger for a little while anyway. I guess the parade ended because it started getting busy again in FL and thought about the Pepper Market, hmm I bet we could get some food and eat in our room, so thats what we decided to do. Tomorrow we have alot planned might as well get an early start by hitting the sack early. Since I didn't take my camera on this day I don't have any photos to post, but I will post a photo to show everyone how much of a
our little Brinley is. My husband built her her own princess coach bed. Take a look
I am shocked at how much luck you've had with short lines at all the good rides! I waited for like an hour and a half when i went on philarmagic! I'm going to WDW in about a week and reading your posts makes me even more excited!!! It sounds like your having a blast, keep us posted and I hope your son did/does well at his competition!
to be here. Kiefer is a 2nd degree black belt and has dreamed of competing in this tournament for as long as he has been in martial arts. Kiefer will compete in three events (EXTREME WEAPONS) which is a form with weapons, music, basic, advanced and extreme techniques such as flips, kicks and jumps. (EXTREME OPEN HAND FORMS) which include all of the above except he does these with out a weapon and finally (TRADITIONAL FORMS). Our competition starts at 4pm so we are going to grab something to eat and get some quiet time in our room. You know athletes have to get in the zone. Or at least thats what Kiefer calls it. 
and so were we. After that we were all ready to get some food and head back to the room for tomorrow we had traditional forms. As we were walking out Kiefer went to collect his awards one 1st place trophy YAY! and two 5th place medals. Not too shabby 
Thanks for reading everyone. I am glad I could share our story with you.
you got to ride POC!! How awesome!
