I was just laughing looking back at the picture of Donald(DS4) blowing out the candle on his cupcake because
Lego(DS6) is in the background loading up his bread with some butter. My wanna be chef used to eat butter by the stick when he was younger. He definitely knows how to make something taste good, add more butter!
Now that dinner was done, I knew it was time to leave. I would have loved to stay since the majority of the crowds were gone now(all of the school groups), but my kids needed to do some relaxing. I knew that Lego(DS6) was wanting to go to the lego store, but I also didn't want him to get his way for nagging me all day long. But on the other hand, I didn't want him to ruin his time at the parks by longing to be at the lego store. We usually don't even go to DTD until the last day so the kids can pick out their souvenirs. I came up with a compromise. We would go back to the pool and go swimming and then if he was really good the next day, we would go to the lego store after our dinner at Boma's. He agreed and said that he wouldn't nag me to go to the lego store at all while we were at the Animal Kingdom the following day.
So back to the room we went.
On the way out we saw another photopass photographer and decided to get a picture of us in front of the castle from a different angle. The photographer was wanting us to get the kids out of the strollers, but they were exhausted and Donald(DS4) was furious that I was making him take, yet again, another photo. He was so tired of me taking pictures. I had to keep telling him that when he was older he would be so glad he had so many pictures to look back at. Also, I didn't want to ever hear him say, " why do the other kids have more pictures than me? It's not fair." I grew up with 7 brothers and sisters, and two of my sister's used to always count the pictures in the house to see who had the most pictures.
Here are the photopass pictures, you can see Donald(DS4) starting to get mad
Then Princess(DD2) gives him the stare
Now Donald(DS4) is refusing to even look at the camera
Me and DH, this was our 9 year anniversary as well, but we didn't celebrate it with all the birthdays going on. It's always more about the kids!!
Now it was time for my favorite part of the day, lugging on those dad burn strollers with four worn out kids clinging to our legs. The bus wasn't too crowded, so it was ok. We then had to find our building as we hadn't even unpacked yet. We had requested bldg 14, but it was full so they put us in bldg 15. This was fine because it was pretty close to everything. My kids were so excited when they saw the room.
We had this towel Mickey on the bed
Here is lego(DS6) with his new burst of energy trying out the bed
Here is the trundle bed that Lego(DS6) decided he was going to sleep on. I was going to have them all take turns sleeping here, but nobody else wanted too. Lego(DS6) loved it.
Here is the sink area
and here is the mirror
sorry, I didn't get any pictures of the bathroom.
After unpacking our stuff, we put on our swimsuits and headed out to the pool
This is where it got a little confusing. There were paths everywhere, and signs pointing to the pool in each direction. I was so confused, but we found some people headed that way and just followed them. I recommend taking your POR map with you when you are walking the grounds, until you learn your way around. It can get confusing. We saw this, and knew we were close.
It was getting dark, so it is kind of hard to see these next pics. Sorry.
DH took these of Princes(DD2), but they are kind of blurry
Donald(DS4) at the stairs
this next one you can see part of the pool, but you don't see the fun part. It is off to the left. They had a big bucket looking thing that dumped water, and a water slide. If I was the one with the camera, I would have gotten a picture. My DH is too embarrassed to be seen in a swimsuit, so I am always the one who gets in with the kids.
We headed back to the room and everyone went to bed about 9:30. I stayed up until 11:30 because I was taking notes, I keep journals for my kids and I was trying to write in them. Will the kids sleep in? We will see...
I am glad you are here. I see that you just got back from a vacation. I have always wanted to go at Christmas time, but I am scared of the crowds. I noticed on your TR that you did it without your kids, that is probably what I would have to do to go at Christmas. I also want to say that your granddaughters are soooo beautiful!!
We are wanting to pay off our debts first. Oh well, a trip to Disney keeps me motivated!
I wonder how many cans of hairspray she had to pack. Seriously. I tried so hard to get a picture without being noticed, but I was trying to fast and every picture came out blurry. I didn't want to offend her so I used my cell phone, still every picture was blurry. My husband told me not to worry about it, we would probably see her later since she was at the same resort. This was not a long bus ride, and we made it to AK in time for rope drop. We got there probably around 10 till 9:00, and there still weren't a lot of people there. See how close we were to the little opening number? 
I hate spiders!! Goofy(DS7) loves anything crawly and gross, so he loved this. Too bad, so sad, he will never have a pet spider or a pet snake while he is in my house. We didn't exactly go by the plan on this day since it turned out not to be too crowded. The first place we headed was to the back, you know, the Safari. I think everyone was headed this way as well, but it still didn't turn out to have a wait. I hate how you have to take your strollers in this line, and then get out of line to park them. In the meantime, everyone without strollers are passing by. It totally stresses me out. Here came our ride.
Oh Well. After picking up our FP's we headed into Dinoland. There was nobody there. My kids don't like the dinosaur ride because it is really loud, so the only thing we do here is the TS and play a few games. We got on the TS because those lines usually look shorter than they really are. There were only 2 families in front of us here. 
My kids always want to do these, but we have always just walked by. Of course they do the one where you squirt water at the target and the first one who gets their thing up the pole wins. So we had all four of them play against each other four times. I helped Princess(DD2) of course. I also had to teach Goofy(DS7) that sometimes it is better to let other people win so that they can feel the excitement of winning as well. Sorry, I didn't get any pictures. After they each picked out a little stuffed bear we asked a CM where the dinoland character meet n greet was. She pointed over to the big fence area, so we walked that away. We were surprised when we came around the corner and saw 2 special dogs, with no line. Of course we had to get our picture taken, and there was a photopass photographer there so here are the photopass photos. 
It was awesome! If you have never done this ride, then I strongly encourage you to do this one. 
