Today is our last day in WDW. Joe and I are up at 6 am. We have to get our luggage and boarding passes by 7:30 am if we don't want to deal with it at MCO. Our flight leaves @ 1:30 and ME is picking us up at 10:45 am. This basically leaves us no time for a final park or anything... except, O'hana with Lilo & Stitch. Joe, Waldo and I take care of the luggage and get the boarding passes from the front desk. We go back to the room and get the kids ready for our 8am ADR. We're about to head out the door and Minnie is crying. She won't put on her shoes. I ask why and she says her sandals hurt. I check her feet and see she has blisters that have popped and are all raw on the back of her left heel. Poor little thing! She never once complained about her feet all week! Well, we had already packed up all the other shoes and we had nothing to put on her feet.
I remembered the gift shop had some really cute Tink flip-flops. Perfect for blistered feet! We head to the main longhouse to O'hana and I tell the others that I will run downstairs, pick up the flip-flops and meet them at the table. Well, the gift shop doesn't open until 9 am. I tell Minnie to wing it and go barefoot to breakfast. Oh well!
We sit and our server takes our drink order and then whoa! Here comes platter after platter of food. Sticky buns and cinnamon rolls and fruit. Next comes the main platter, eggs, bacon, Portuguese sausage, potato wedges, Mickey Mouse waffles, french toast, and biscuits. Everything was very good and hot, except for the eggs. What's with the weird eggs. I think they were those dehydrated eggs that they use in the Las Vegas buffets. They're gross and runny and just not right. The characters started coming out and Minnie was having a great time. She wouldn't get out of her chair because she was embarrassed of her bare feet. I noticed the characters were very interactive. Maybe because is wasn't very crowded?
Pluto was being silly and covering Joe's head with his napkin. Minnie was just cracking up at this. Little EE wouldn't have anything to do with them. Whenever a character came over, he'd put his head down and not make eye contact.
We manage to get EE in a few shots with the characters. And just look who's finally cracking a smile... yup, WALDO! He's only smiling 'cause he knows we're going home today.
They start passing out maracas to kids so they can participate in the parade around the restaurant. Of course, Minnie forgets all about her bare feet and jumps up to join before we can stop her. I hope no one noticed the little brown child with no shoes!
Can you see her barefeet?
We had to pay OOP since we had used up all out TS credits. I think it was around $120 for all 7 of us.
We left O'hana feeling sad... knowing our time at this magical place was coming to an end. Back to the *real* world... back to work... HAHA! Not me!!
We headed over to the smaller gift shop and redeemed our free pin coupon our TA gave me. I also purchase a few pins for Minnie and EE. I tried to talk Joe into heading over to the MK for a stroll along Main Street or a ride or two, since we had 2 hours before our ME time. We was being a fuddy duddy and didn't want to go. Fine! We will have about 5 snack credits and 3 table service credits to use. I go into Samoa snacks and buy 5 Mickey Head rice krispy snacks. We'll give'm to the nephews.
Minnie reminds me that she is still barefoot, so we go downstairs to the main gift shop and buy the Tink flip-flops. They're $12! $12! Ok, I'm not poor, but I am cheap. I had a hard time buying those little suckers, when I bought Minnie 2 pair for $6 at the
Disney Store this summer! Oh, well... whatta gonna do?
I send Joe and EE back to the room to relax and Minnie and I head over to the Taragonga Terrace to finish off those CS credits. I buy a bunch of crap... more rice crispies, chips, fruit, candy, milk, for the flight home. I walk out of there with 2 huge bags. But, I leave with 0 snack credits, 0 TS credits, and 0 CS credits. What good customers we are!
It's close to ME time, so we head out and take some photos around the hotel.
It's really beautiful here. I really loved staying at the Poly. We've been to Hawaii many times and sometimes I'd forget we're in WDW, not Hawaii. That's how good the theming is there.
We head outside and wait a few minutes for the ME. It shows up and we all climb on the bus. We sit up front near the driver and he puts the farewell tape on. He starts telling us about the lovebugs and how they're some kind of mutant, man made, buggy mistake. I guess they're immune to any kind pesticide and there's literally nothing they can do about them. They're gross. We're driving through huge swarms of them and they are splattering on the windsheild. The whole front of the bus is covered with they're little carcasses.
Note to self: Never sit in the front row of the ME bus.
We arrive at the airport and make our way to the shopping mall! In an airport? Cool! We have a few hours before our flight, so I hit the stores. I love the CROC store! Surprisingly, they're out of Minnies size in pink or lavendar, so we pass on the
CROCS. I can order them from zappos, if I want. Of course we peruse the Disney Store and the Dr. Seuss store. I wanted to get Minnie and EE the Thing 1 and Thing 2 shirts, but Joe says nah! So, I drop the idea. Whatever, Joe, you stick in the mud!
We get in the security line, with 2 strollers, 2 toddlers, 2 backpacks, 1 purse and 1 carryon, when Minnie decides she has "to go"! Little EE is now fast asleep in his stroller, so 1 parent cannot manage all this and carry a sleeping baby. So, we pass Minnie to Walt, since Walt has only 1 small backpack. Walt takes her and they make it thru security lickety split and to the nearest restroom, which is a tram ride away!
Up next... Where's Waldo in MCO? And... Don't make the flight attendant mad!!!
when we got home ) to see the King Tut exibit at the Field Musuem. DD is obsessed with Egypt lately. Needless to say we had a very long night she ended up crying herself to sleep. 
Oh, brother! I think she's just too young to own a "real" pet. Don't flame me, Goldfish lovers! 
It's my new favorite. I love Tigger&Belle, she is utmost offending. I think that's her name.
