Day# 5 (Saturday - Rest Day/Downtown Disney
Today we are taking it easy
I had decided since Saturday would probably be crazy at any park we would go to that we wouldn't go to a park.
I woke up at about 9:00 got showered and ready. I wake the others so they can start getting ready for our 10:30 adr for Cape May Cafe Buffet Breakfast. While they all began to wake up, I gather up the swimming suits hanging in the bathroom and all the wet towels and head out the door to find out about the laundry room.
It was literally ten feet away from our room, and all machines were empty. 2 washers, 2 dryers. Before coming on this trip I purchased 13 new outfits and two swimsuits for each one of us (crazy I know) - so this will be my only trip to the laundry room. But it was very convenient.
Once everyone is ready we head down to Cape May for our breakfast:
When we are seated the kids are a little disappointed because last year when we came here for breakfast they had a paper table cloth so that the kids could draw on the whole table. This time they were given a coloring sheet of the Imagination Movers. They got over it !
We loved the fact that we could walk right down to this character breakfast. The resturant area itself is smaller than most buffets and makes it very nice for character interaction. We ended up seeing all of the characters at least three times.
They all look so cute in their beach outfits :
Minnie:
Goofy:
Donald:
The breakfast here was okay as far as the food. They had scrambled eggs that seemed very runny (gross), a pre-made ham and cheese omlette, mickey waffles,breakfast potatoes, bacon, and huge sausage links. Plus there was a breakfast pizza and biscuits with gravy. There was also a good assortment of pastries (cinnamon rolls),breads,yogurt,fruit and three cereals (rasin bran,fruit loops and frosted flakes).
After breakfast we gather up our stuff and head out to the bus area to go to downtown disney. I had promised my son we would visit the
lego store and he was not going to let this go. We get to the bus and it arrives with in minutes ( I don't ever remember waiting longer than 5 minutes for bus.) We leave the bus stop and head to Typhoon Lagoon first and then our stop at Downtown disney.
We get off the bus and the first place we go in is Goofy's Candy Company. Last year we didn't make it inside so I really wanted to check it out. There were so many treats to choose from, but of course we weren't hungry in the least and if we get something now it will be a melty mess. So we decide we will stop here just as we are leaving dwontown.
Next we head into The Once Upon a Toy Store. I pick out potato head pieces and fill a happy meal type box full. The cost is 20.00 for all the pieces you can fit. I fit a ton, my box barely closed at all but the nice CM at the register shoved on it until she could get one corner barely closed and put it in a bag for me! ( We already had the bodies, so we just get the little pieces.)
Next we make it over to the lego store, the whole reason for coming to Downtown Disney. My son rushes in the store, he has a list. This is actually funny, but I am thinking why didn't we just order this stuff on-line. Because now he is going to beg to open up sets of legos and have pieces everywhere in the room. (We try to avoid this). He gets a ton of lego racers, he is car crazy. I give my 100.00 dollar bill to the lego store and in 10 minutes we are back out in the heat.
My son has completed his mission - and now wants to leave. I tell him to chill out because there is other stuff I want to see. DH looks like he is ready to abandon us
Once we are outside I see the
DVC booth set up and remember - "Oh yeah Gib said, if we stop by we can get free fastpasses at his office. I walk over and talk to a couple guys and explain how we bought over the phone and Gib had told us to stop by once we arrived in town. They call over to the DVC office but Gib is out, one of the guys talks to a sales manager that says we can head over anyway and they will hook us up with the passes. The sales people then explain how the boat works to get to the Saratoga Springs Resort - they make it sound really easy.
I then tell my family that I have one more thing for us to accomplish before we can ride the boat. We go into Earl of Sandwich and get drinks. The place is so crowded,standing room only, so we leave. I then tell them that I do not want to leave downtown disney until we have rode the Characters in Flight Balloon. My DS starts to act up, saying he is to hot and he can't walk and looks like he is going to cry. I realize something is going on .... I ask him "What in the world happened to all the energy we had in that lego store?" He then quietly admits to me that he is terrified of the balloon !! I talk to him for a couple minutes and realize he thinks it is going to float off into the sky like the balloons we see at the Albuequerque Balloon Festival
I then explain that the balloon is tied up and we just float up and down - no big deal.
We finally get over to the balloon area. The cost is about 56.00 for the four of us. I have 400.00 free dollars on our Disney Reward card so I use this to pay for the ride.
Day 5 - to be cont'd
Do we make it through the balloon ride? And will we get fastpasses at DVC tour center - coming up in next installment
What the heck were we thinking !! 
