*I will respond to everyone who left comments, but I didn't want to spoil the surprise at the end. Which unfortunately, is coming...*
I hate the last morning at WDW. Granted, if you wake up and you are still there, it's still way better than waking up at home and going to work, but still, it's melancholy. In order to maximize our tickets, I always book a late flight home so that we get another semi-full day at the parks. It takes some of the sting out of leaving.
I was up at 7am on the dot and still had Hyde on the brain. In addition to whatever the heck else he griped about the entire trip, (crowds, children, waiting in line, heat, lovebugs, I could go on and on), I knew if he woke up and the room was littered and disorganized I would have to hear it all day long. Jekyll was also a little Hyde-like about the late flight. He hates getting home at midnight. I tried to explain my reasoning, plus the tickets were $100 cheaper for the late flight, but still he wasn't too happy.
That's what you get for not paying for your own plane ticket Hyde.
So take THAT!
I got up and packed all of Kassidy's and my stuff, and by 8 ish I was finished and made the looooooooooooong trek up to the front to get us coffee and pastries for breakfast. To my shock, we still had 5 dining credits and 6 snack credits left to use. I have no idea how that happens to me every time, I guess my Disney dining math is way off.
By the time I returned Dr. Jekyll was up and showering, and we were on track to still get in a few hours at the Magic Kingdom, since it was the one place left that Jekyll hadn't visited.
And this, dear readers, is where aliens abducted my husband and replaced him with this weird stranger pod person that I had no idea how to handle. In case you are just joining us for the last update, or have just forgotten what a *insert slanderous nasty insult here* he was for the first two days, go back and take a peek. Especially the post where I quote all of the negative comments that he spouts out at the top. Due to that awful two days, I figured the best, and realisticly we could hope for was that we would walk out of Disney with him saying something like: "Well, I'm glad I tried it, but this isn't for me, you guys can go on your own from now on. But, you need to cool it for a while and not come back so soon..." Something like that, I thought that was a fair assessment.
We dragged our luggage up to El Centro to do checkout and check in for the Magical Express. I stood in the check out line and Aaron and Kassidy disappeared to the gift shop. By the time we met up again, Scrooge McHyde and Kassidy emerged with her bouncing up and down.
Dr. Jekyll, (who was being a miser even after he decided he was having fun), had bought Kassidy a pair of those giant Mickey hands and a Cinderella's Castle piggy bank. I kind of eyed him weird, but decided that he was just doing the "Daddy" thing and that Kass must have batted those baby blues at him.
Dr. Jekyll: "I saw that our first day here and wanted to buy it for her, but I was waiting to see how much cash I had left."
Anyone else a little confused here? This is the first I have heard of him wanting to buy anything, other than the things he bought for himself in Epcot.
I ran to the bathroom, and when I returned Dr. Jekyll was sitting down with one of those tablet thingies, haven volunteered to do the Disney Market Research exit survey. I hoped he wasn't being too hard on the place, he did hate the distance from our room to everything, but the resort is beautiful and the pool is to die for.
He gave everything the highest marks possible, including the room and the service we recieved from everyone in the resort.
What in the h-e-double hockey sticks? I kept scrunching my nose and narrowing my eyes at him. It isn't like him to be so positive, especially when he'd been such a horse's butt thus far. I thought he disliked this resort. That is the impression I had gotten so far. Apparently, I was wrong.
As we were walking out to go and store our bags at the ME check in, Kass thanked her Daddy for the piggy bank again and said she loved it.
Dr. Jekyll: "Well, I figured you need to start saving right away for next time."
I gave him the narrowed side eye glance of skepticism, but smiled a little because I figured that statement was at the very least permission for me to bring Kassidy back in the future by ourselves with no arguements. Score! Right?
Me: "Yay, Kassidy! Start saving as soon as we get home."
Dr. Jekyll: "Yes, please do. I can't wait to come back here, we need to plan as soon as possible."
WHAAAAA???
Whachyoutalkinbout Willis???
I literally stumbled while walking and looked at him slack jawed and wide eyed.
Me: (incredulous) "Are you kidding me right now?"
Dr. Jekyll: "No, I've had a great time, I want to come back as soon as we can."
Ok, I knew I was getting punked. Ashton Kutcher was hiding in the bushes somewhere, because this had to be a joke. It's not possible for someone to do a complete and utter turnaround and personality change in 4 days, right? I mean, I know how I've described it sounds funny, but at the time those first two days were literally painful for me. It was NO FUN. So, this little bomb of magical happiness that was dropped on me that morning was a hard pill to swallow, even if it was a pill of pixie dusted goodness.
We dropped off our stuff, with no baggage fees, (thank you Southwest Airlines), and headed off to the Magic Kingdom. Where there is no beer. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop again. If it was crowded, this little magical moment would become a Hyde nightmare again soon. I didn't dare to hope. All of my hope was dashed out of me at Via Napoli and ground into other familie's pizza crust. You're welcome, other families.
When we entered the Magic Kingdom around 10am, it wasn't very crowded at all. I figured people must still be sleeping off the Halloween party from the night before. We walked through the gates and entered right in the beginning of the Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it parade. Kassidy stood on the curb and jumped up and down and pointed out characters. Everyone who passed her either waved at her or gave her a high 5.
Dr. Jekyll: (smiling widely) "Wow, she is getting lots of attention, that is so cool!"
More side eyes from me. Who on earth is this person?
When the parade was done, we walked to the end of the street and got our favorite photopass pic of the trip.
We were on really limited time, we had to be back at the CSR at 3pm to meet the ME. AND, we had a lot of food to eat within the next 3 or so hours. So, Kassidy and I decided the best course of action was to just concentrate on Frontierland and Adventureland. I figured Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Jungle Cruise and lunch at Pecos Bills sounded very doable, if we used a Fastpass for the Jungle Cruise. Dr. Jekyll walked around with a smile and snapping pictures of the castle.
(I hope you all understand my skepticism here. If not, go back and read the first three of my report posts, LOL.)
While I grabbed our Jungle Cruise FP's, Jekyll chatted with the DVC representative.
Don't get too excited, LOL, they were just talking Ohio State football. I think he stopped and said hello to everyone he saw wearing OSU stuff or who called out "Go Bucks!" to him. And there were A LOT.
We headed over to Splash Mountain first. It was the longest line I have ever, personally, encountered at Splash. I think we waited 20 minutes in the standby line. I was sure I would hear curses and complaints.
Nope. Not a peep. Just compliments on the queue detail.
Jekyll thought the drop was fun, but there are a couple of times on the log where the track drops with kind of a thud and it hurts your tail bone. He could have done without those.
Deciding that maybe, just maybe, it was possible to keep Hyde at bay in the MK, I looked at the 25 minute wait at BTMRR and grabbed us fastpasses instead, deciding we would go eat first at Pecos Bills, then head over to POTC, do the Jungle Cruise, circle back to BTMRR, then head out.
I had the chicken wrap at Pecos Bills. Um, that thing is HUGE. It was delicious, but it is 10 times the size of what they show you on the picture on the ordering board. It was the size of a mondo burrito you'd see on Man vs Food. It was good, but holy frijoles, I don't need that much food, especially on another day where the thermometer read "just stay inside".
We headed over to POTC, only to find it closed.
Something was wrong with the boats. I stated to Jekyll that I was sad that he didn't get to see it, as it's a classic. This was his response.
"It's ok, I'll just put it on the list of stuff I need to do when we come back next time."
Are you freaking kidding me? When is he going to stop pulling my chain, because it's not funny. At all. I swallowed my negative comments, and we headed to the Jungle Cruise to use our fastpasses. Boy, was I glad we had those. That stand by line is the WORST. LINE. EVER. If it says 40 minutes, it's really at least an hour.
We had the worst captain ever. He was really lame. I apologized for making Hyde ride with such a lame-o and told him it's usually better. I prefer the snarky, deadpan younger girls. This was an older gentleman who was too bubbly.
I had hoped POTC would be back online when we were done, but alas, no pirates life for us.
We were quickly running out of time, so we hightailed it over to BTM. As I suspected, Dr. Jekyll loved it. Didn't so much love the stuffy queue, which even I find a little too tight quarters when you head down the ramp with all those people.
By then, it was time to say goodbye to the MK. We headed out through Liberty Square to get to the hub, so that Aaron could at least see that part, and I was kind of bummed that we didn't get Aaron on the Haunted Mansion. Kassidy was in hysterics because she really wanted to take her Dad on Space Mountain, but there simply wasn't time. I told him that there were still two whole other sections of the park that he's never even seen. Once again, this was the response I got:
"Well, I'll just have to make those priorities when we come back."
I'll skip the confused smilies this time. I'm sure you all get the point. We used the last of our snack credits on ice pops on the way out, because as I mentioned it was FLIPPING HOT, and went to wait for our resort bus to head back to the ME. We arrived with about 20 minutes to spare, so we grabbed some grab and go sandwiches for the trip with the last of our snack credits, and wandered around the gift shop with Jekyll pointing out things he thought I'd like.
Huh. Who'd have thunk it?
So, as the antithesis of everything that was said within the FIRST 24 hours of arriving at WDW, I'll leave you with quotes from the LAST 24 hours of our trip and comments that he has made, at least every other day since we've been home the past couple of weeks.
"I've had the best time of my life."
"I love it here, I can't wait to come back."
"I wish I was lounging at Disney right now."
"When are we going to go back to Disney?"
"Better put this change in your piggy bank for Disney World!"
"I had such a great time with you guys."
So, dear readers, as the song goes, now it's time to say goodbye. For now...
**COMING ATTRACTIONS**
It's Just Like "Real" Hawaii...Only More Expensive: An August 2012 PTR
love it.. this sounds like m DH our first trip!
3 times that's great. We love Tusker House too, and AK does get super hot (or at least it feels that way by 1pm compared to the other parks)
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I told myself that I was perfectly fine with just the long weekend, but I still cried on the Magical Express, like I always do when we leave, LOL. They play "now it's time to say goodbye..." and I tear up every single stinking time. 
...so that I didn't have to listen to another Mr. Hyde tirade, we left the room very close to 4pm for our 5:30 'Ohana dinner reservations. Seeing as we had to take not one, but two forms of transportation to get from the CSR to the Polynesian, and the fact that we were certain to have to wait quite a bit before being seated, I wasn't taking any chances. Checking in at 'Ohana is always kind of a nightmare, even when you aren't there during a free dining promotion. Now, learning from my prior experience that morning, I made sure that Dr. Jekyll knew what was up and that it was VERY likely that we would have to wait up to 30 minutes, but there is a decent sized bar where we could sit and wait, and that he could get Kona Longboard, which he loves. We took the bus to the MK, then the resort launch across the lagoon, which despite the heat, is a very pleasant little journey. 
I think it took me 10 miuntes to get to the podium where I was greeted by a super friendly CM who handed me the pager and away to the bar I went to drink my pineapple full of awesomeness. 
Overall, 'Ohana was a great time for the three of us, even Jekyll said he liked everything about it, with one exception. Our main server, Cousin Debbie, was FANTASTIC! Cousin Debbie's helper Cousin Autumn, however, may have been the most miserable CM I have ever seen at Disney, save that girl who worked the beer cart in Germany. She wasn't just inwardly unhappy, she was borderline rude and gruff. We just laughed about it and made fun of her frowny face every time she walked away, (yeah we are just THAT mature), but for real, she was a miserable human being.
I have given up on the three of us matching. I ordered matching costumes for DH and I but if they don't look good I am giving up and we will just wear Halloween t-shirts.
We went once in 2003. We went on Oct 31st, it was PACKED!!! We did have a great time, but I missed trick-or-treating back home. Although, we didn't have much of a wait for the rides, it was tough navigating the park with DS in the stroller. We only made it til 10pm from what I remember. DH and DS (my oldest was 10 at the time or 9) went to IoA 
I thought maybe your DH had been completely replaced and looking into DVC.
