See, We didn't forget all about you!

[MrsHeg]

After the parade we finally got to ride TSM, of course it was a big hit with Stitch, too bad the lines are always so outrageous that a second time around was out of the question.

We had a late lunch planned at Sci Fi, this turned out to be a perfect place for Stitch, the boys took the driver's seat and I sat in the back, Stitch sat still, was quiet and ate his lunch totally enthralled with the whole movie setting.

Stitch had the kids mac and cheese which came with fries, Grumpy had the ribs and I ended up with a house salad and a bowl of chili. The food rated an ok, we won't take this one off the list completely but it will go on the back burner.

After lunch we ran into the Block Party Bash parade, it just passed by and didn't stop, is this new or maybe just something they did that day?

Once again I was through for the day so we made our way out of the park, notice the afternoon storms moving in.

After resting for a while we got started packing up the room, we were heading out the next morning so we got as much of a head start as possible.
Stitch spent the evening assembling one of his lego purchases and couldn't have been happier.

So here we were, we had been in Disney all week and done no night time activities, no fireworks, no Illuminations, no Fantasmic, nothing. Not to mention no big ticket rides. Stitch didn't mind and Grumpy said he was fine with it but I still feel guilty, having put a damper on everything. Changing the date of the trip at the last minute was not an option, that's definitely one of the downfalls of renting points, it cuts way down on the flexibility. But it was definitely worth it, we were able to stay in deluxe accomodations at value pricing.

Next up,
Breakfast at OHana with Stitch, one last trip to the Magic Kingdom and a stopover in Tallahassee.

 

[MrsHeg]

So here we are, our final day.

We finished packing up and loaded the truck, Stitch and I waited downstairs while Grumpy went back in the room to make a final check for any left items. A few minutes later he came back with a pair of Stitch's underwear, he said he found a surprise in the safe, Stitch then chimed in with, "I had to keep my lucky underwear safe!" I keep the bag of dirty clothes in the closet and he put his underwear in the safe when I told him to put them in the dirty clothes bag.

We took the bus over to the MK and the the monorail to the Poly, the front was already taken so we didn't get to drive this trip.

I don't remember why Stitch was pouting in this picture but he got over it pretty quick,

Our service at OHana wasn't the best, so much so that I considered not using the TIW card because of the automatic tip that is added, while not horrible our server did not earn an 18% tip.

Stitch perked up when the characters made it to us,

He wanted to take a picture with this guy, he said he was from the movie "Night at the Museum",

 

[MrsHeg]

After breakfast we headed over to a very crowded MK, we hadn't taken a ride on the train yet so we decided to take the train over to Toon town, get off there and take the secret path over to Tommorowland and take another spin on Buzz. Here's the view of Main Street from the train station, look at the masses,

Stitch on the train,

When we pulled into the Frontierland station you could see the lines for Splash winding through the yard, we all know what that means. Pulling into Toon Town we I noticed several characters in a little alcove between the Judges tent and the train station, so we made a bee line from the train over to see them, we hit character paydirt, we saw all these characters without waiting for more than one person in front of us with any of them, some were waiting for us,

After meeting the characters we took the secret path, it was wonderful we had the path to ourselves.

 

[MrsHeg]

The first thing we ran into in Tommorowland was the new Stitch show, I've read some pretty bad reviews about this one, but I have to disagree, we thought it was pretty cute and Stitch loved it. Now it's certainly not a must do, but if you're in the area you should give it at least one try.

Stitch found a friend to watch the show with,

Stitch and his friend doing the new dance they had just learned,

We rode Buzz, and of course we had to do Stitch again, headed over to Fantasyland for a few rides, and I had to watch Philharmagic at least one more time. You just can't walk by the castle without taking pictures,

It was around 1:00 pm and we had planned to be on the road by 2:00 pm so we started making our way out of the park, we made one last photopass stop,

Stopped at the candy store for snacks to take on the ride, and ran into Chip and Dale as we were taking a final bathroom break. This turned out to be a great way to end our trip, I had a bag of Chip and Dale pretzels in my hand, Dale saw them and stole them from me and tried to run off with them, his "keeper" fussed at him and made him give them back. Stitch loved this and we got some great shots,

We caught the bus back to OKW and started our journey home. We made a stop in Gainesville for lunch/dinner and made it to our hotel in Tallahassee for the night. I had splurged and booked us into a nice hotel with a hot breakfast buffet for the night, Grumpy wasn't too happy with the prospect of spending the extra money but it was too late.

Our room was pretty warm when we arrived but I didn't think much about it until we had been there a while and it didn't cool off. I contacted the front desk and they sent someone up to check it, the AC unit was frozen, so they moved us to another room, the second room had a horrible smell in it, come to find out they had just replaced the carpet, well with my asthma and all the problems I had been having all week this wouldn't do either, so they moved us again. After getting settled in we all took our showers and went to sleep, around 11:30 pm we were awakened to the sound of someone trying to get in, with all the changes that were made they didn't have us listed in the room and had assigned the room to someone else later.

Well to the delight of Grumpy they comped our room and breakfasts and didn't charge us anything at all. He said he'd play musical rooms again if it meant we didn't have to pay.

The lump in the bed is actually Stitch,

 

[MrsHeg]

So in conclusion,

In spite of the problems we had a good time, Stitch was happy, Grumpy actually got some much needed rest and still had a trip to Disney.

We were early for most of our ADR's and were seated prior to our ADR time.
Even with this, I think we will be venturing off site for more meals in the future, Disney restaurants are pretty expensive for what we had, and I'm sorry to say that our service wasn't great, not horrible but not great, with the exception of LeCellier our server there did a great job.

We hit it lucky with transportation, our longest wait was 15 minutes and there was no one at the stop when we got there so it's pretty likely that the bus had just been there.

Even with the risks involved in renting points we will continue to do so, you just can't beat the value.

As far as the rides and nighttime activities we missed, I definitely want a do over, and those are already planned. We have two short trips planned to meet some fellow DIS'ers, one in August and one in October, followed by a week long trip in November.

Thanks for reading along, I wish I had the flair for writing that some of you have but I don't see a future in journalism for me.

 

[H20DogsNDisney]

I can't wait for the next one!

 

[MrsHeg]

I can't wait for the next one!

Thanks, Have a wonderful trip yourself!