We got up earlier than normal because we had to check in for my flight and get our bags squared away. I was also hoping to make it to the Magic Kingdom for park opening, and since we were still mostly packed from our move from Kidani, I had a good feeling it was gonna happen.
Bell services got our bags just a few minutes after we called them and Ben and I walked to the Hospitality House. We checked in for my flight (Ben would be driving from MCO to Jacksonville for work) and there was some confusion trying to find the checked bags over at bell services. It was a bit frustrating dealing with the airline check in, but we eventually got it figured out. We couldnt leave yet, though because we had never received the information with our Magical Express pick up time and had to call to get a pick up scheduled. After being on hold for several minutes, I found out that we were already scheduled even though we never got the info. Okay
we could finally head to the MK!
A bus came pretty quickly and we made it the MK having just missed the opening show.
I was sad to have missed it, but it was okay, because we found the trolley and they were singing the Good Morning song! Yay!
And look at this handsome fellow pulling the trolley!
Ben was impressed by the Mickeys on his blinders.
We rode Haunted Mansion again, and I must say that they totally upped the re-rideability factor of this ride! The queue, the attic (so much stuff to look at!), and the new ending
I just love it!
Ben spent a bit of time getting this picture with the eyes open, so I have to include it
After riding Splash Mountain and grabbing Thunder Mountain FPs, we headed over to Tom Sawyer's Island. Ben had never been over there and was very curious.
This picture also took a while to get, we had to time it just right so the little bird in his next was in the picture.
We really had a great time on the Island!
Ben shot some rifles
And I got to check out another abandoned location!
Aunt Pollys has been closed since I started going to WDW as an adult, so I was intrigued to get a glimpse inside. But as Ben was taking the picture, I panicked and became convinced a CM was going to pop out of nowhere and tell us to go away. Luckily, Ben didnt listen to me and got the picture.
After thoroughly exploring the place, we got back on the raft and headed to the mainland.
I just had to squeeze in another visit to the Country Bears.
This was the most crowded I have ever seen the Bears!
The park in general was way more crowded today than it had been the rest of the week. But it didnt bother us, we were doing fun stuff that didnt involve long lines! By now it was just lunchtime, and our last day tradition held true as we got lunch at Columbia Harbour House. I LOVE the Anchors Aweigh sandwich! We ate upstairs in the room that goes over the path to Liberty Square.
I love everything about this place
it is so well themed!
After lunch, it was time to find some more fun, but the park was too crowded for us to attempt any more rides. Instead, we found some rare and elusive iced coffee at the Sunshine Terrace (a place we had never really noticed before), as we were ordering we noticed that there was the option to get an iced coffee float
chocolate ice cream in my coffee? Okay! This was a most indulgent treat and so good!!
It was pretty warm, so we finished our ice cream coffee in the Bazaar gift shop right there. We happened to notice this interesting thing:
Not sure if you can see it, but that elephant definitely has a Sell by date. We found this to be hysterically funny.
Now we realized that we were done with the park; the crowds were just too much. But we still had a good chunk of time before ME would be picking us up... so, what to do?
between the "washing" their child incident and this one... I am amazed at how strange people can be.
Our upcoming trip is only 44 days away! It has been sneaking up on me! And because it isn't a WDW trip, I didn't do the normal plan-every-moment-and-meal thing. But today I sat down and started making lists of things we want to do in each location. While I was doing that, I had the BEST IDEA EVER! 
And WCC is a great place to eat. I remember my dad making us eat there one trip, and we all complained because it was such a hassle to get there from our resort and we were all convinced it wouldn't be that great, but we had a blast!
