We Leave the World at
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Im going to start this final chapter of Sizzlefest with a non-Disney song, since it was the day we were leaving Walt Disney World.
Should I(we) stay or should I(we) go now?
If I(we) go there will be trouble
And if I(we) stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
Should I (we) stay or should I (we) go
(Should I Stay or Should I go The Clash)
Should we throw caution to the wind and stay?
For a little longer. Because of last nights tears?
Or if we go
..what time should we leave???
In ADs mind we have already left. Or should leave. Now. Weve got to get on the road. Now. Because. We have too. Right now. Get the kids. Lets go.
It was time to go
.
But, before I tell you exactly what time we left, I go back and tell you something that happened last night.
If you recall, I commented earlier in this report that Disney knows all about the
DDP and they will get it back. Well, they didnt. But very close!
We arrived back at OKW about 9:30pm and I immediately realized that we didnt use up all the credits on our DDP. If we were to leave when AD was suggesting, we wouldnt have the opportunity to use up those credits and Disney would in fact get it back!
So I said to AD, Honey, are you hungry? Im going over to Goods to Go for a minute
We had 6 snack and 4 counter credits remaining. Which is shocking because we ate a lot on the DDP!
When I arrived at GtoG it was 10 minutes before closing.
I quickly glanced around for anyone who looked like they could use some free food, because I knew we wouldnt even begin to finish what I was about to order. The place was pretty much deserted. Except for one lady who I thought had the same idea as me.
So I stepped right up to order food we didnt need and probably wouldnt eat, but hey, we paid for it!! I ordered 4 bottles of water and 2 Mickey rice-krispy treats for the snack credits, and 4 hamburgers and all the fixing, plus 2 more water, 2 chocolate milks, and 4 more Mickey treats for desert, for the counter credits. The Woman beside me was astonished!!
I countered her look with, well, we are leaving tomorrow and I have to use up all the left over credits
Her look went from astonished to puzzled to sheer horror!
About 40 questions came out of her mouth, all at once. And being the good Disney geek that I am, I calmly explained the ins and outs of the DDP. She didnt have a clue. She thought that if they didnt use their credits on a particular day, they expired that day. She said they never bothered to use the snack credits. At all!
I know you can all guess what happened next.
Yup, she cleaned GtoG out of Mickey treats right there! And frantically ordered extra food. And drinks. They were leaving the next morning as well.
She thanked me, and I felt better for DDPlanning it forward!
After stuffing ourselves, I helped AD with the last minute cramming of the car so we would be ready to leave at
.3am!
AD re-thought the leaving at 3am and said Lets leave at 4:30am
After the kids went to bed and we had a minute to sit, AD said, maybe we should sleep in a little, and then we can leave at 6am
(during all this I said nothing, just smiled
)
Guess what?
We left at 7am
..
To Olivias
..for breakfast!
We drove away from Old Key West at 8:10am! Thats about the time I planned to leave. Ladies, you just have to let them work it out for themselves!!
The rest of my story is all about the drive, so here is the by the numbers version:
8:10am leave WDW
11:24 am GA Welcome center
1 pm Sonnys for lunch (somewhere in GA)
9:15 pm somewhere in Virginia
11:45pm Overnight stop at Summersville, WV
July 22nd
8:50am left Summersville, WV
2:50pm arrived at Buffalo airport to pickup ADs car
3:30pm cross border to Canada
4:50pm - Were home!
Time: Approximately 23 hours
Total KM driven: 5,102.8
Total Miles: 3,170.73
And finally, the most important on the road observation:
Big Things we saw: (sorry didn't get any pictures!)
Big Indian Irving NY
Big Peach Gaffney, SC
Big Peach #2 Macon, GA
Big Airplane Ex146 I-75 GA
Big Rocket Ex 101 - I-75 GA
Big Peanut X80 I-75 GA
Big Baseball Charlotte, NC
Because why else would they put these big things up along the interstate? For us to look at and report back to you!
Up next: Epilogue