Friday June 15, 2007
Today was our last day in the World and we were going to conquer 2 parks in 1 day. How many of us would be conquering them was still up in the air.
We woke up bright and early to pack and clean up all our stuff. It’s so easy to get comfortable and spread out in such a short time. Not much souvenir shopping was done so it was pretty easy to fit everything back where it needed to be, except the food. We somehow ended up with more food leaving than coming, mainly due to all the desserts we couldn’t fit and had taken back to the room.
I got the dreaded door hangy thing from outside and opened it up to make sure we weren’t being charged for stuff we didn’t pay for. And of course what do I see, unknown charges. No!
Apparently Minion #1 decided to use the hotel phone to call long distance to Puerto Rico…twice! A lovely $74 in unnecessary charges since there were 3 cell phones with long distance capabilities for FREE! Then I see an arcade charge of $10. Remember when we asked Minion #1 how he got the arcade card? He supposedly paid for it with his own money. Uh wrong!
Also, remember when Ivan wanted to get a candy bar with a snack credit in AK on our park hopping day and the lady told him I needed to be there and then later on she was able to give him the candy bar? Yup, charged it instead of using the snack credit! But that one I don’t blame on Ivan, I blame it on the cashier he didn’t ring it up right.
So there was about $86 extra in charges that shouldn’t have been there. I know that’s not much, but it’s the fact that that’s money that didn’t need to be spent. I was so mad and ranting and raving.

Bre felt bad and told Mom she would pay for Daniels charges and then she went and had a lovely “conversation” with him and he ended up apologizing too.
What a great way to start the day…..
We quickly loaded all our stuff into the van and made it over to Artist’s Palette to get some breakfast and use up some of our CS that we still had left since we didn’t use them the day before.
After breakfast I asked Mom what Bre had decided to do with Daniel and Ivan since they used up 1 of their park ticket days with their excursion to MGM for 2 hours. She told me she was going to buy them tickets for today. Ok, her money not mine. Really there was nothing else she could’ve done except drop them off with their relatives, but that would’ve been an imposition for them and for us ‘cause we would’ve wasted valuable park time driving into the city and back to WDW. So we went to the Carriage House to check out and Bre went to buy the Minions their tickets.
We decided to leave the car at SSR for the day and take the buses to the parks. It took forever for an AK bus to arrive, but if eventually did and we were off to our first park!
We got to AK, not before it opened though, so once again I missed another rope drop. Oh well.
Our main ride plan was to ride EE so I sent Minions #1 & 2 to get us some FPs. They returned and we headed over to ITTBAB. As we were walking in Joey started walking ahead of all of us, so I told everyone to stay back.
Why? Well before we had gone to MK we told Joey that he needed to not wander off, since he had a tendency of doing that, because MK is a big place with lots of people and he could get lost or stolen or whatever. During our MK visit he ended up wandering a few times and we kept telling him he needed to stay with us and not do that, but it went in one ear and out the other. Then yesterday I had another conversation with him about this very thing and now he was once again wandering off, so it was time to teach him a lesson.
So since the queue for ITTAB has many twists and turns we all stopped and stayed behind one of the turns as Joey proceeded to walk away from us. About a minute later he comes back all freaked and asking us what happened to us?

Of course we all played innocent
Me: “Us? We were looking for you! We couldn’t find you so we were searching for you. You wandered off again didn’t you?”
Joey looking sheepish and still scared.
Me: “What did I tell you yesterday about wandering off?”
Joey: “To not do it.”
Me: “And what just happened?”
Joey: “I wandered off.”
Mom: “You need to stay with us, because this place is very big and there are a lot of people and you could get lost very easily or someone can take you and then we’d all be sad.”
Joey: “OK.”
He didn’t wander the rest of the day either, guess the scare tactic helped.
We continued the rest of the way in to ITTAB and enjoyed it very much.
We hit up Dinoland and braved Primevel Whirl. I’m glad to report that none of us got sick

, didn’t almost lose a show and did not have smelly bars.

I actually enjoyed it and would definitely do it again.
Whilst we were on PW, Mom and Bre decided to play some of the carnival games and when we found them, the Minions all wanted to play too. So we played a few games and Minion #3 really wanted to win something, but nobody was winning, so I decided to join them in the Dino Race Skee ball thingy. Now I’m an expert at this game because Mom loves this game and every time we would go to a carnival or fair or amusement park that had this type of game we would always play. So I was pretty confident that I would win, especially since my competition was mostly kids and 1 other adult, but I knew I could take that adult. Hahahaha!

Suckers! The races started and I immediately pulled ahead. My skee balls were all going where I wanted them to go and soon my dino had left everyone else in the dust and I was crowned winner.

I asked Joey which Dinosaur he wanted and he ended up picking a big blue brontosaurus. He was so happy and I was glad I could make his day.

Unfortunately we now had a big blue dino to carry around. D'oh!
It was super hot and we decided to take a break and use up some SC and buy some delicious refreshing ice cream as we planned what to do next.
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