Sunday June 15th, Day 8
Up next part 2...our special dinner
and back to MK
So after we got back to the room, it was raining. We all changed into dry clothes and took a little a rest. We had Dinner ADRs @6:20 for Kona Café! I was very excited to try this place since it seems to be a hidden gem.
It was also an EMH @ MK tonight , since this was our last night we decided to try and stay as long as the kids would last. We also decided we didnt want to deal with the buses tonight so we drove to Kona, so we could take the monorail over to MK afterwards.
these are at the Poly
Kona café doesnt look like anything special, it is sortof in an open area looks very no frills
but the food is sooo good!!! Sorry no pictures my DH thought taking pictures of food was a little over the top, plus I always forgot to do it! Anyway I ordered the Beef Teriyaki sooo yummy~ DH had the pan Asian noodles with shrimp, he said it too was good.. I dont remember what all the kids had, but I do know that Lauren ordered the grilled chicken strips and wanted honey mustard to go with it. The waiter later came over and said they didnt have any, but he would make some
He came back over with a bowl and regular mustard and put all sorts of honey in it.. He got an A+ for effort that is for sure! It didnt taste quiet the same, but she said she liked it enough. The meal was very good, one of our favorites. After dinner we were praying the rain had stopped.
It was still sprinkling a little, we walked right out and hopped on the monorail and in less than 5 min we were at the gate! I sooo want to stay at the poly or contempt sometime for the monorails!
Since it was still raining (it couldnt make up its mind if it was stopping or not) we got out our ponchos and were ready to hit the park.
It was close to 8 oclock I think. I think the rain kept some of the crowds away for a little while anyway. We headed toward Fantasy Land and grabbed a FP for PP, then went to ToonTown. Checked the line for one last attempt for Minnie, nope still a long line no one wanted to wait in. We got in line for Goofy, was about a 15 min wait or so.. Since this is the only coaster Emma can do, she just loves this, we ended up doing it twice ponchos and all! After wards the rain seemed to be stopping so we took off our ponchos, and hoped we wouldnt need to take them out again!
We decided to take the secret red trail path from TT to Tomorrow Land again no one on it! Dh took the kids on Space Mountain with our FP from the morning, and got our Child swap. I took Emma on Buzz, since they werent done yet ,Emma wanted to do the Carousal of Progress again. A show was just starting too, so we went in that they were waiting for us when we got done. I then did SM while Dh took Emma on TTA one last time. It was getting close to wishes, there was some mixed opinions on whether everyone wanted to see it again
. I made the executive decision of staying and watching, I mean its WISHES people!!! They were glad we did in the end, I did agree to leave before it was completely over to beat some of the crowds.
We headed back over to FL and grabbed some FP for Pooh and for some strange reason the return time for another set of FP was in like 5min, so I grabbed some for Mickeys Philharmagic too. I could tell Emma was getting tired and not sure how long she would last.
We did Pooh and I could tell Emma was about to fall asleep, Peter Pan is one of her favorite rides so thought she would wake up for that. Dh was carrying her over and in line and she fall asleep.. Literally on the walk over!
I knew my plan for a really late night was about to be over, Joey was ready to go too. I suppose Lauren and I could have stayed but as much as I hated to admit it, I was getting tired too.
Tonight I did notice that even with the FP a lot of the return lines were longer than they had been. I guess b/c of it being an EMH pm
Anyway I knew that we would not be using all the FP we had collected, so I decided to start to give them away
I swear people just look at you , like you are crazy or trying to scam them. I cant believe how many people dont know you can use the FP later then the time on the ticket. I asked several CMs during the trip and they all said anytime after just NOT before
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So the standby line for Peter Pan was I think over an hour, I found this family that was right behind us (they were in the standby line and we were in the FP line if that make sense with the lines)I asked how many in her family, and she said 5.. I said if you all can get out of line, I have these FP that you can have and use now. She gladly took them ( I am sure they still had at least a 30 min wait) and were just a few families behind us by the time they got up to us, they all said thank you! I also put my Philharmagic Fps on someones stroller, hopefully someone got to use them..
At this point Emma is crashed~ We got our wrist bands, b/c the kids still wanted to go do Splash at night and headed over to Frontier Land. Dh said he didnt want to do splash and get wet.. So I said I would take the kids, but Lauren and I decided to put back on our rain ponchos just in case
Joey said he would take his chances
I have never done this ride at night, and it was pretty cool! I am very glad we had on our Ponchos, Joey did get wet but thought it was soo funny
When the ride was over I had another set of FP to give away, again I cant believe how hard it was to give away fast passes
! Finally found a family with teenage girls that wanted to do it again, so they were very happy!
Then Dh took the kids over to use our last set of FP for BTMR , the kids retold our earlier ride to DH with me and my hat!
Emma was sound asleep! The last Spectro was just passing us by on the bridge there by Splash, so I watched that for a few minutes. Then before I knew it they were back from BTMR and it seemed like everyone was ready to call it a night! So much for my plan to close the park down.. Ha-ha..
It was about 11:30 and we decided to head out, I would like to try an EMH pm sometime when the kids are older, I think it would be fun to be riding all those rides when we otherwise would be sleeping
It was very sad to be walking down main street for the last time, I honestly have no idea when we will be back. It seemed like this trip took forever to plan and save for!
We left and jumped on the monorail back to the Poly, since our car was there from dinner. It was so quick and easy! We were back in our hotel room and ready for bed in about 15 min from when we left! So much better than those buses!!!
Up next : checking out
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You do a great job touring the parks. It seems like you were really able to pack a lot into a day!! That's awesome! Also your kids are so adorable!! (And your husband reminds me of that actor Greg Grunberg.)
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