We woke up on our last day at Disney knowing several things needed to be taken care of before we could go have any fun today!
Grandma started out the morning by giving the boys the stuff she'd gotten for them-Carter woke up with Crush in his pack and play and Corbin got a shirt he'd looked at a couple of different times and a sign to hang up in his room.
We had to get packed and get the room picked up to be sure we didn't loose anything or leave anything behind.
Grandma also had to get over to the ME pick up at the main building of the resort. Now the info we'd gotten said she had to be there about 9 but she was ready to head over "in case the line's long" a little after 8. Dan took her over there and had breakfast with her and hung out with her until she got on the ME I guess.
In the meantime, I got everything packed up and ready to go once Dan got back to the room. It wasn't too bad really which is good.
We couldn't figure out what was taking Dan so long since all we'd talked about was him walking his mom over there, having breakfast with her and bringing something back for us. Carter passed the time loving Crush and Corbin ate a poptart or something....
Corbin tried to love on Carter but he wasn't really having any of it this morning
About two hours later, he FINALLY came back with breakfast.....he ended up staying with her until she was ready to go.
This is where the email previously mentioned comes into play...we'd agreed before leaving that we were going to book bounceback for free dining next year if it was available so we didn't have to worry about getting it or not. Nothing was left in our room so I had Dan call the front desk. The CM gave him two different codes-one for 40% off a deluxe, room only ressie. The other was some kind of MYW package which we wouldn't use because we have APs.
We tried to make ressies with her and she explained she couldn't do that. We quickly looked at the calendar since the CM had told us it was for any time in 2009 (which threw a red flag for me!!). We tried to call the ext to book from our room and the CM there knew nothing about the codes we had. He said the one we gave him was only good for the remainer of 2008 and we couldn't use it on our Dec trip since it was a "package" with the DDP.
After about two hours of calling several different places and speaking with several CMs, we left with NO BOUNCEBACK!!!
I told Dan this is NOT how I wanted to leave Disney and hadn't really ever been this disappointed before...I was so mad!So when I got home I sent my nastygram (worded as nicely as possible!) to Disney letting them know how upset I was that I couldn't book another trip to their property. That's when I got the voicemail about them sending the $100 Disney gift card (still waiting for it in the mail). I would like to call the guy back and thank him for calling first off and also explain that what I wanted was to book another trip at a discount or at least garuntee (sp?) free dining next year but get two rooms instead of one. I still need to make that call....life was busy this week!
Since we still had CS credits (4 to be exact) on the DDP, we headed to DTD to do a bit of shopping (retail therapy may have made the trip home a bit more pleasant) and use our CS credits up to get something to eat on the way home.
We had planned on hitting the MK again this morning but with Dan and the bounceback issues taking so long, it was literraly check out time when we left which was much later than I'd wanted to be out of there by. We just ended up going to DTD and calling it a day.
First stop was to watch Stitch spit on people. Then we went into World of Disney. Dan picked out two pirate glass mugs and the boys each got a cup (Corbin picked them out since Carter was sleeping in the stroller!). I picked out a scrapbooking kit and some Disney tape to use in my scrapbook. Dan also picked out a poster of Mickey with a fireman and a postcard of Walt with the castle. I picked up a couple of other small things (something for Leon and a Halloween pin for another DISer) and we checked out. I wanted the Halloween "soundtrack" from MNSSHP but couldn't find it. The CMs there suggested trying the Christmas store at they carry other holiday stuff too.
The boys and I went into the Christmas store and Dan went to check out restrauants to see where he wanted to use the CS credits. Right inside the door of the store was the huge monorail set. We'd previously promised Corbin the small metal monorail for not having an accident in the van on the way down (story added to the beginning of TR previously) and still hadn't gotten it for him. I told him we'd keep looking to see what we could find but didn't have room for the big one right now.
We looked around the store and couldn't find the CD I wanted but the boys had fun watching a Mickey Christmas movie. Dan came back in and found us and had found a place to do lunch.
We wound up getting lunch from ....brain fart....I just had it and lost it....I'll edit later when I think of the name again-not Wolfgang Puck's. I didn't see anything on the menu that I would/could eat to I told Dan to pick grilled cheese for the boys and get whatever he wanted for him. I was going to take the boys outside to wait for him.
We sat down on a bench for a minute before I got an idea...we went over to the side entrance of DTD and I let the boys out to walk on the sidewalk. Corbin couldn't figure out why the ground was all wet. Pretty soon the water started shooting out. Let the fun begin! I knew Dan would NOT be happy with this but he would just have to get over this!
The boys had such a wonderful time playing in the water-Corbin was SOAKED by the time Dan came out. Thankfully clothes were in the van and we quickly changed him in the parking lot before heading out.
Dan took the boys out to the van and I stopped to get some popcorn as a snack for the boys on the way home. I also got something to drink (had to use another snack credit!!) and saw this awesomely cool thing:
That wonderful thing screws on to the top of water bottles (or any other bottle with the same size opening) and turns it from a bottle you have to tip to drink out of to a bottle with a straw!! I actually got two of them and want to get a couple more on the next trip!! Carter loved it and started using it right away!!! It's wonderful-I think it was my best buy of the trip!!!
Dan had called earlier to get directions to the Disney outlets so we could also stop there on the way out of town. I was looking forward to this but wasn't sure what to expect. Tonya (the DIS'er I met at MNSSHP) had been to both of them earlier in the week and said they both had the same things so at least I knew I didn't have to go to both of them.
Want to know what I got at the outlets???? You'll have to wait and see until next time!! I ordered the photopass on Friday and paid for "express" shipping so that's 2 days for them to put it together and 2 day shipping so I should have it early this week! I'll post the pictures from it this weekend for everyone. I'll also post my outlet finds and trip home pictures!
Have a super night!!
What cute pictues. Love the Character pictues from Epcot. The dinner at CR looks amazing!! The personizied menu what a great idea and souviner. Did you have to pay extra for them? Is the CR the only ones who do it? The cake made me hungry, just might have to go get some dessert now
Do you mind if I ask how much it cost? I might have to look into a cake for our anniversary dinner. Love dads matching shirt
Carter names for the characters are cute. Landen says Mickey plain as day, the only other one is Guf for Goofy, we working on the others.
I'm hoping to run them ragged so they'll nap so mommy can try that again tomorrow! 
Abby does that bathroom thing. She did it more when she was Corbins' age, not so much now. I think they just like to see what the different bathrooms look like. Because there is no way they have to go that much, unless they've had a ton to drink. 
I should take notes when I read your TR.
I can't see the pictures! They all say you have exceeded your PhotoBucket Bandwith and to "go Pro".
get to eat at the CR so I what to see your 
Wonderful!!!
So much for a quiet holiday! This will be my mom and stepdad's first time down here so I'll probaby take the week off or work half days or something. We'll hit the "tourist" places like Savannah, Hilton Head and Charleston. Hopefully she'll stay so I can get up and do some shopping on Thanksgiving and Black Friday! 
It said "bandwidth exceeded". But oh well. I still liked the TR! I'm sorry that they couldn't book the bounceback offer for you. Hopefully you will be able to work that out.
I always pack snacks too since Corbin's allergic to just about everything! 
