Day 6:
DH woke up at the crack of dawn to catch a shuttle to the rental car place and came back with a PT Cruiser. Earlier that night while we were at
MNSSHP, DHs relatives had shown up: His sister and her husband and his cousin and her husband. SIL and BIL were staying at POFQ while the cousins were at Coronado Springs. DH, DS, and I, along with SIL and BIL, were going to drive to Tampa and visit with some of DHs and SILs relatives. If I was, um, a little less than entertained, you will be too. Just know that we made it safely to Tampa, visited, and made it back safely.
We met up with the cousins at MK that night, after dinner at the food court. DH and his family rode Big Thunder Mtn while I stayed with DS. It was pretty late, and we had just had a long day of traveling so I decided to take DS back. DH came with us and we turned in.
Day 7:
Another short report on this day. I woke up with a killer headache. Remember, I had a sinus infection earlier in the week. You know the kind of headache where your head is throbbing and any sound or light makes you feel like your head is being ripped open? Thats the kind I had. DH was kind enough to keep DS entertained for most of the day (after letting his family into one of the parks hes a CM and gets passes and its a long story).
Let me take this opportunity to tell you the story of how we didnt go on Expedition Everest. DHs cousin (actually the husband of the cousin, but for all intents and purposes, hes a cousin) and DH are both crazy for Disney and talked about nothing but this trip for months. They were both looking forward to riding EE. I was too, but Im kind of a baby and didnt want to ride it alone. We decided that wed run over to AK to ride EE, then go about our day. Well, DHs cousin decided to ride it when we were at MNSSHP then proceeded to throw up. (I really hope he doesnt read here.) Needless to say, he didnt want to ride it again. That, plus my headache destroyed any chances of DH and I riding EE this trip. Oh well, theres always next time.
I felt somewhat better by the late afternoon, so we took DS to the little playground at POFQ to burn off some energy, then boarded the boat to Downtown Disney to have dinner at Planet Hollywood with SIL and BIL. We ate, shopped a little, and went back early. Even DH agreed it was nice having a day where we didnt do anything.
Day 8:
This was SIL and BILs, as well as the cousins, last day (they were just down for the weekend). We all went to MGM. DH and company rode Star Tours (I get motion sickness on simulator rides). During this time, DS had a major diaper blow out and I literally ran for the Baby Care Center to change him. He spent the rest of the day pants-less.
Yes, hes about to do what you think hes about to do.
After he was all taken care of, DH, SIL, BIL, and I went on the Tower of Terror. Yay! I got to go on a ride! SIL and BIL had to leave to catch their plane so we went to have lunch at Sci-Fi with the cousins. Wow. Its nice and dark, cool, and quiet in there. Good burgers, too.
After lunch, we all rode the Great Movie Ride and then it was time for the cousins to leave. We went to go watch Muppets 3-D, then headed back too, as I was still a little tired from the day before. We had cancelled our Fantasmic Dinner Pkg at the Brown Derby because DS made it clear he would not tolerate a show like that. We did it right at the 48 hour cut off so we had lost our table as a result. After another food court meal, we headed over to DTD one last time.
The ferry was one of DSs favorite rides.
Day 9:
Once again, we woke up bright and early for our third and final character meal. DH happens to be in love with Mary Poppins. Out of the kindness of my heart (I hold a grudge against Mary Poppins dating back to the 1964 Oscars, but thats a story for another day) I found out that MP made an appearance at 1900 Park Fair for breakfast and booked it. For DH, not DS, mind you. The buffet was smaller than the one at Chef Mickeys and Crystal Palace, but decent nonetheless. This time, we met all the characters and DS took a liking to Mary Poppins himself.
Like father, like son.
We puttered around MK one last time, riding Pirates again and also TTA. DH rode Space Mountain while DS napped in the stroller. We bought DS some official Mickey ears.
This picture is slightly out of order. Ignore the lack of continuity of DSs clothes. 
After a brief visit to our room to pack up a little, we headed to Epcot for our traditional last day dinner at Le Cellier. As usual, it was fantastic and we had a great time. I had the herb crusted prime rib while DH enjoyed the free range chicken.
Ok. Its after dinner, about 7pm, on the last day of our trip. This is when DH decides he absolutely
must join the ranks of the pin traders. We hiked over to that pin store in the middle of Future World so DH could buy his lanyard. He must have been mulling this over for days, because he had already claimed the bus pins from our resort gift shop for riding Magical Express. Armed with his four buses and a crash course in pin trading, we set out to trade pins. Now, I dont know if you non-pin traders know this, but apparently you cant trade a pin with a CM that the CM already has. Do you know how many people ride Magical Express? A lot. Do you know how many bus pins there are floating around out there? A lot more
we got two each. So trying to find a CM who did not have that stupid bus pin was quite a challenge. Im not even going to tell you how many CMs we ran up to checking out their pins, but Im happy to report that DH did manage to rid himself of three of the buses, keeping one for his collection.
Day 10:
We woke up and packed up the last of our things so bell services could take them. We ate our last Mickey waffle at the food court and waited for the Magical Express bus to take us back to the airport. Goodbye, Disney!
Its always so sad coming home, even though 10 days is a LONG time to be at WDW with a one-year-old. Were already planning another trip for 2007 and I hope youll all read my next report a year from now.
Thanks for reading!
. They didn't empty our trash, barely made the beds, never refilled our toiletries, etc. . What building were you in? I wonder if we had the same mousekeeper.
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. Thanks for sharing with us.
