We headed back out around 4:10. We walked back to the main building, up to the second floor and headed to the monorail. But before hopping on, I passed by the Photopass desk (located beside the M. Mouse Mercantile and scheduled a Grand Floridian Photospass portrait session. I had prepurchased my CD and brought along my receipt (VERY IMPORTANT you have proof of purchase to take advantage of the 50% discount for the sitting fee) and so wanted to have some photos of us taken at the hotel. We got onto the monorail, and one stop over was the Magic Kingdom! I love this monorail resort!!!!
It was hot and crowded at this time. The heat and the active "swim" finally took its toll on little Tink, she passed out in her stroller by the time we reached Crystal Palace by 4:35. We parked the stroller and DH stayed with the girls while I went to check in. When I told them my name, SHE COULDN'T FIND MY RESERVATION!!!!!!!
I was in panic mode and stressed beyond belief! I had all my ADR confirmation #s and times printed out, but I had left it in an envelope that was now sitting in the safe back in our room! (This is now the second time this has happened to me, as you may recall our 1900 PF experience!). After a few stressful seconds (but seemed like minutes to me!), she found my name. It had already been checked in for some reason...they didn't explain. She just gave me a buzzer and told me to stick around close as I would be called soon. I had actually hoped it would be a while as I wanted Tink to nap a little longer. Turns out that my pager wasn't working and they were screaming my name for a while (we were waiting by the stroller parking area for CP, so not too close to the check in window). Finally a CM comes up to me and asks me if I am who I am, and then tells me my table is ready! I had to wake Tink up unfortunately, and that is never a good thing!
We got a table close to the buffet once again in a corner. Great location for seeing everything and still close to the food! I had Tink on my lap being grouchy because I woke her. She wasn't impressed by the characters just yet and said she wouldn't take her photos with them.
However, Piglet came, and who can resist Piglet? Not even a grouchy Tink. She got right up to give him a hug and a smile for the photos!
Up next was Pooh himself!
I think Tink was coming around now, and being more of her happy self. She was eating, drinking and getting excited by all the soft "furry" characters!
Next came my personal favourite, Eeyore:
I think the girls absolutely loved how soft and cuddly he was.
I am finally going to post a photo of me now!
This is DH with Belle:
As you can see, we're just sitting around now, waiting for Tigger. Waiting, and waiting.......
DH got up to ask the handler when Tigger was coming out. DH relayed to the girls that Tigger was hungry and had to go have something to eat before coming back out again. We waited some more. We paid for our bill and our server said she would personally go back to find Tigger for us if he isn't out soon. But luckily for us, he came out!
The girls loved the topiaries in the lobby area of Crystal Palace and wanted their photo taken with them:
With our bellies full it was time to head out and explore a little more Magic Kingdom. We turned towards Adventure Land. The first thing we saw was the Swiss Family Treehouse. We toured this and although I hear so many people say how completely boring this is, the girls enjoyed the climb and all the little displays. Growing up, I used to love watching the TV series, Swiss Family Robinson, so I really enjoyed exploring this tree house. Of course the girls have absolutely NO CLUE who the Swiss Family is.
Close to the Treehouse was the Aladdin's Magic Carpet ride. Fabulous! A fun ride, outdoors, no need to be scared on this one. That's 2 for 2 now! You can squeeze 4 on a carpet...the front of the carpet controls the height of the carpet, and the rear seat controls the tilt (front/back). The girls had heard about the spitting camels, and I was worried that they may get "spit" on and then proceed to freak. I lied and told the girls that the spit from the camels was actually this little one:
and that there was not way they would get wet on this ride!
There was this one camel higher up that did occasionally spit at the guests, but if your magic carpet is high enough, he misses. Belle made sure our carpet stayed at the maximum height!
DH had grabbed fastpasses for us to use on the Jungle Cruise prior to going on the Magic Carpets. So now we had some time to kill (about an hour). We walked back to Fantasy Land to ride the carousel. But when we got there, it was out of order
We decided to let the girls run around Pooh's Playful Spot (even though it is meant for children 5 and under). Belle thought she was too old in there so she didn't do too much.
It was time to head back to Adventure Land to use our FP to the Jungle Cruise. We were 5 minutes early for our FP return time, and they made us WAIT! We went to the nearby pressed penny machine to pass the time. FP are amazing! You feel special walking by all the people who chose to wait in the standby line!
Now, remember, I haven't been on this ride in 14 years. All I remember about this ride was that I enjoyed the little boat cruise to see all the displays/animals along the shore. Did I know there was a DARK TUNNEL on this ride????????
We started off pretty good on the ride. However it also didn't help that we could hear thunder in the distance! It started getting darker, and darker. And then we saw the CAVE! Are we going IN THERE?!??!?! Do I need to tell you what happened when we did?
Of course, once we got out of the cave, all was well. But now the skies were getting dark, and the thunder and lightning were getting stronger, louder. We headed straight down Main back to the monorail. But to relieve any guilt I felt for making my poor babies go on that miserable ride, I promised to buy them their most desired Minnie wedding ears. Does anybody else have 4 and 6 year old girls who are obsessed with weddings???????? I found them on a gift cart right by the exit. We paid for them and then ran to the monorail. Avoiding all those coming from the monorail and into the park. Not an easy task. We made it in good time and were safely inside a train when the rain started.
I wanted to take a photo (we were in the Main Building just inside from the monorail station) of the girls in their wedding ears (hopefully I won't be seeing the real thing for MANY, MANY years to come!
We walked back to Sugar Loaf just in time for their dessert offerings. YUM-O! We were actually back in the room by 8:10 now. A nice early end to our day. I was happy that the girls were able to go to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight and both were passed out by 9:30. I fell asleep too at the same time, but only to be woken by the kaboom of Wishes!
Next up: Will we frighten our poor girls on any more dark rides, or did we learn our lesson yet??
I'll have to ask her! 
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We do the same as you and fly out of the States but from Syracuse.
DD4 just about had enough of all the smiling too, so we had to cut it short. I had 39 from this shoot, and with all the cropping and borders added to it, I doubled the number of pictures to over 80 from the GF alone! I just ordered the CD and hopefully I will get it soon and then I'll update this trip report with my added photopass pics, so be sure to check back! 
