Its Tuesday and we are exhausted. Since Leia wasnt feeling well last night we try not to rush everyone this morning and dont care that we leave later than anticipated. Todays objectives are to see the Finding Nemo Show, ride Expedition Everest and go shopping at Downtown Disney (I see Potato Heads and
Lego in our future).
We drive today just for the simple fact that it will be easier to get to DTD from AK with a car and we know that Luke is going to buy lots of Lego. Before we left home it had been decided that he could spend $200 on the trip. I hadnt let him buy anything with his own money in months which was killing him since he didnt even know about the trip. Plus, he made over $100 at our yard sale just before we left. Hes quite the salesman. If a person even looked at one of his toys he was there to explain how it worked.
I hate trams in parking lots. Its officially official. They are almost as bad as waiting on a bus and fighting the people that jump on the bus through the exit. Almost. I will be strictly an on site girl if for nothing else than avoiding trams.
We get inside AK and Anakin runs off to get fastpasses for Expedition Everest. By this time our feet are really hurting. We meet him at the Nemo Show after I convince Leia to take some Advil since she keeps saying her head hurts (I find out once we get home that a headache can be a side effect of Strep throat).
Were sitting at the show and Im relieved that the only other ride we have to ride today is Expedition Everest. Everyone is just feeling worn out after all the running, heat, rain, blah, blah blah. The show is AWESOME. I cried a little. Yes, you heard me. The tears were there but I dont think they came out like they did when we watched the Beauty and the Beast show last year at MGM. That one got to me because Leias face was just so sweet to look at while she watched it and I was just so happy to be there. This one just gets to me when Dory is all sad and alone at the end and Marlin really is a big jerk... you know the story. It was just such a great show. Before the show they said they were recording it for something or other and to ignore the cameras and sorry for the inconvenience. Did they say that when you went to it that day Goofyluver? We were at the 11:30 AM show. Were you there? Ill kick myself if you were. We could have sat together
The stage for the Finding Nemo Musical.
After the show we still have a good hour to kill before EE so we head into DinoLand. The only thing we did here last time was eat at Restaurantosaurus. My kids dont really care for dinosaurs. Leia thinks that the TriceraTop Spin looks like fun so Anakin grabs fastpasses for Primeval Whirl and we get in a 20 minute line for TriceraTop Spin. Afterwords Leia wants to ride again and Anakin says he will skip Primeval Whirl so I take Luke on PW. We go to use our fastpasses and there is no line so we dont need them. Hint Hint Hint If its busy and you think a ride is popular and you dont need your fastpass it might be a hint that the ride stinks We had seen it on TV and I thought it looked great. Leia wasnt big enough to ride it and now I know why. You get on the ride and before you get off an invisible somebody beats the crap out of you. Ive never been in a physical fight with anyone but I can only imagine that you would feel the same after one as you feel when you get off of PW. Poor Luke had his glasses pushed into his face by my shoulder several times and was screaming for it to stop for pretty much the whole ride. I think the imagineers screwed this one up. Sorry guys (and gals although I never see any gal imagineers when Im watching those Travel Channel specials). We once again skip Dinosaur because Luke doesnt think he can handle the scary dinosaurs and Leia really doesnt care.
Anakin and Leia riding in a Triceratops.
Now, its time to ride EE. We grab some ice cream first because we are dieing from the heat. Then I put Leias new Tinkerbell flip flops on. Theyre so pretty. I put them on her at the hotel earlier while we were getting ready so she could practice walking. She never wears flip flops because the pair I bought her two years ago annoyed her. She doesnt like the plastic thing between her toes. These are also higher than the normal flip flops and she obviously cant walk in them. I hold her hand and steadily walk her to the CM. He measures her and announces, Youre just tall enough. Your shoes saved you! He stamps her hand and I try to get her through the line without looking too suspicious but she is tripping all over the place. Really, she looks like a drunk four year old. Now Im laughing but afraid that someone is going to run up and start yelling that we cant ride the ride. I have her other shoes with me but dont want to hold up the fastpass people to stop and put them on. There is no fastpass line really. We basically walked on the ride. I barely get her there and stow her flip flops in the net. The first CM said it was cool so they didnt fall out. Then another one came by and said you had to have your shoes on. I ignored the second one. Leia loved EE. She chose a pink t-shirt with a cute abominable snowman on it when we got off.
Its starting to sprinkle a little and we are ready to get to DTD. We rush out to the car and at some point
FORGOTTEN THING #6 happens (I hope that's right, I forgot to write down a list of forgotten things and the last number I can find is 5). Ill tell you about that on the next installment.
We get to DTD and get some McDonalds. Yuck! I dont come to Disney World to eat McDonalds but Anakin absolutely refused to try the Wolfgang Puck carryout place. I was too tired to mess with two different places.
After McDonalds we drive to the other end of DTD and Anakin and Luke go into Disney Quest. Leia was still eating her chicken nuggets. When she finishes up we follow them in. The coolest thing about Disney Quest is the elevator that takes you up. I had no idea there would be a little show there. It was cute. The rest of Disney Quest is annoying. Anakin and Luke argue the whole time over the Buzz Lightyear game. They try it like four times and cant win (it took them three tries just to figure out how it worked) so Luke is now in full pouting mode. Leia just wants to play air hockey the whole time were there and these idiots (translation teenage boys) keep playing really rough at the table next to us and knocking their puck up in the air and hitting people. I convince her to find something else but she wants to go back to air hockey. The idiots are still there only now they have lost one of the pucks and moved on to a different table. I take Leia downstairs where Anakin insists that I trade him Leia for Luke. They head upstairs and I go over and report the idiots and the missing puck. When I get upstairs there is an employee standing next to the boys which suddenly makes them calmer and he has brought a puck up with him. We spend the next half hour trying to convince Leia to leave. If I had a bigger house I would so buy an air hockey table so the kids could just annoy each other and leave me alone.
Our first shopping stop is World of Disney. Leia really wanted to see that Princess store from the commercials. She wasnt impressed. It pretty much looked like most of the stuff she has seen at the
Disney Store. She just wants a My Little Pony. So we head to Once Upon a Toy and Luke runs off to make his lightsaber. I take Leia to the Ponies and shes in heaven. I spend the next 20 minutes trying to cram every outfit, a pony and a popcorn cart into a little box. I unfortunately didnt realize that a bunch of little things that looked like bowls were actually Pony shoes so Leia only has a few non matching shoes (well call these forgotten things #7) but she has every single other accessory. I was so proud. The thing barely closed. A lady told me before I started that I could get everything in but probably not the popcorn cart. I showed her! Not really, she left before I was finished.
Now, on to my reason for DTD. The Potato Heads. My friend from a few years ago had said that I could get all the pieces in one box if I was careful and didnt get the Potato. I didnt want to get home and have problems with the pieces fitting our one measly Potato so I did get two Potatoes. Only, there was no way you could fit all that stuff in one box. It would take ten. It looked like they had come out with lots of new stuff. A CM helped me for a little bit and when she closed one of the boxes she could only get one side closed and said that was good enough. I filled the other one. We got Mary Poppins stuff and Little Mermaid stuff. Leia wanted Tinkerbell stuff but I could only find the hair and wings. The CM said they didnt have the shoes anymore. I ended up seeing the shoes after we paid and were leaving (it was only one pair on a display one but Im sure I could have asked for them). I was probably filling Potato Head boxes for close to 40 minutes and Anakin was angry with me. I wish they would just package them all in one box and let you pay $50. That was more work than fun and there was a lady telling her daughter that if she wanted one she would have to do it herself because she wasnt having any fun. I said to her, It feels like a job doesnt it? And we shared a laugh. But really, I love the fact that we have those pieces and the kids love playing with them but it was less fun doing that than standing in line for a ride for 40 minutes. At least you knew you were getting on a fun ride. With the Potato Head pieces you just knew that you were going to forget some things that you really wanted. Im labeling the Potato Head experience with
FORGOTTEN THING #8 because I should have just bought a third box full of accessories and missed the Tinkerbell shoes. I considered the Potato Heads mine because the kids didnt want to buy them since they knew their funds were limited and had chosen other things but now in hindsight I wish I had gotten the Buzz Lightyear stuff and something else that Luke could enjoy more. He loves the things like the sorcerers hat, the autograph book and the video camera but Leia has the entire Mary Poppins outfit and Little Mermaid getup to play with as well as Tinkerbell hair and wings that he won't touch. I dont think I will be making it back anytime soon or to
Disneyland and I dont want to spend a fortune on ebay or in shipping so I guess he will just have to be happy with what hes got.
Leia had said she was thirsty so I asked Anakin to take them and get something to drink about 20 minutes in to filling the Potato Head boxes. They came back in when I was trying to pay (the only guy at the register was trying to use some foreign travelers checks and they had to call someone and it took forever). As were leaving Leia is crying that shes hungry and daddy only let her get a drink out of the water fountain. Now
Im angry. I dont like the kids drinking out of water fountains especially in places like this not to mention she is hot and wanted something cold. There is a hot dog stand just outside and I stop to buy bottled water which makes Anakin all indignant that the water fountain wasnt good enough. It takes forever for the water too because the people in front of us bought more than ten hot dogs and sides and drinks. Sheesh, we are the bad line magnets today.
While at DTD Ive been calling one of my sweeper buddies who lives nearby and is coming to meet me. She is in the parking lot so I send Anakin and Luke into the Lego Store and Leia and I wait outside. There are a ton of smokers out there and the smell is making me sick to my stomach and Leia is crying that something stinks and Im hoping my friend gets there soon. I finally see her and we say Hi and are talking a little bit when Leia starts crying that she needs to go potty
NOW. I have no clue where the potty is and check the map. It looks like it is on the outside but we dont see it. It takes us a good five minutes to figure out that it is actually inside the World of Disney Store. Leia keeps crying louder and louder that she needs to go
NOW. Im afraid that shes going to pee her pants and we are running through the store. About 2/3 of the way back she stops and leans forward and here it comes. What she did is why they call it blowing chunks people. She blew those chunks all over the place. Luckily she was in the middle of a big open space and didnt damage any merchandise. My friend is an RN so when the CMs ask if we need anything she starts directing them around about helping us get to the bathroom and bringing us a cup so Leia can rinse her mouth out without getting stuff on her water bottle.
As were in the bathroom Leia is still crying about how she told me she needed to potty. My friend and I are kind of laughing about it at this point and telling her that needing to throw up is much different than needing to potty and if she had just said she needed to throw up we could have taken her to a bush instead of getting throw up all over the carpet in the princess store. We head back to the Lego Store (sneaking quietly by the poor CMs pouring the throw up powder on the vomit) and Leia sees a Lego castle thats pink and has a baby in it. She just has to have it. Its $60. But, its her money. We arent buying their stuff this time other than food and a t-shirt. Anakin is already raving mad about how much Luke is spending on Lego even though I swear he agreed that Luke could spend $200 of his own money. The kid wanted to go to the Lego Store more than Disney itself and was ticked off every morning that it wasnt the day that he got to go to the Lego Store. Anakin seriously needs to drink something to kill that bug that crawled up his butt. His attitude is bringing us all down. I had wanted to go to the Earl of Sandwich for Dinner but due to the blowing chunks incident just want to get back to the hotel as soon as possible. I say goodbye to my friend, apologize for the short visit and take the kids to the car while Anakin pays for everything. He gets to the car and starts griping about how Luke bought so much they gave him free stuff (they stamped a card all the way so he could get $10 free so Anakin just grabbed him one of the small Mission to Mars sets he hadnt gotten (of course Im thinking Leia got cheated since hers cost nearly half of the total).
When we get back to the hotel I take the kids and all the bags and head upstairs while Anakin parks the car. Im trying to figure out what I can feed them since the Boardwalk is awful with the quick food choices. I call Disney Dining to make sure Im not missing anything. Thats when Im reminded that I can buy sandwiches from the bakery on the Boardwalk. I really wanted to get Leia some soup but I would of had to take her to a restaurant or order overpriced room service (it still would have come from the restaurant but I couldnt just get it to go myself). Since I really didnt think she would eat it I didnt want to pay for room service. Luke and I head to the bakery after Anakin gets to the room and I buy two big sandwiches and get Leia a kids meal with the uncrustable. She loves those but they cost so much I dont buy them at home anymore. The cashiers are pushy and the one in charge starts going off about a dessert. I said we didnt want desserts and she snaps at me asking if Im on the dining plan. When I tell her no she shuts up (looks at me like I have three eyes) and says that the first girl was right and walked away. Geez lady, I would have been on the dining plan but we couldnt purchase it since we won the trip. I asked.
We get back to the room and Luke and I can only eat half of our sandwiches so Anakin eats the other halves (he was still pouting about the money and said he didnt want anything when we first left). Leia fell asleep on the bed holding her uncrustable without taking any bites so I wrapped it up and put it in the mini fridge. We fall asleep knowing that I dont plan on taking Leia out in the morning even though the next day is really our last day and was supposed to be the day I finally get to eat my way around the World Showcase. After the drink incident Im not leaving her with Anakin again and Im still mad that he couldnt get her a cold drink. I go to sleep trying to think of what to do for Leia to make her feel better in the morning and wondering if I will ever get to eat my way around the World Showcase.
Great trip report! I can't believe G-Luv blew you off!
(J/K, G-luv!
) Your kiddos are adorable and I'm totally lovin' your Forgotten Items list! :thumbup2:
Excuuuse me! 
hopefully your last day goes better!
I feel so bad for you! And poor little Leia! 
