Before I start with my TR post I would like to explain my absence recently here on the Dis. My DD and DH were in wedding last weekend and I made DD's dress for the event:
I am happy to report that DD did an AMAZING job, she walked right down the aisle like a pro! She did too good though, because suddenly I had images of her walking down that aisle as a bride and I spent her whole walking crying!
She is growing up way to fast!
This is also homecoming week for DH's school. Since DH is STUCO sponsor he is in charge of the whole thing. I also make all the sashes for the court. On top of all that DD got her first ever fever this week!
She evidently picked up a virus somewhere, so while my DH is gone 13 hours a day this week DD has her first non-cold illness of her life! YUCK!
But, tomorrow is Friday which means homecoming week is almost over, the sashes are finished and DD seems to be feeling much better, so, I have almost survived this crazy week!
Thanks for hanging in there with me! If I am reading your TR or PTR I will catch up soon, I promise!
And now on to the TR!
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Day 5
Monday, July 29
Today was a full rest day, we had two ADRs at the Poly so we had no monorails, no buses, just hanging around soaking up the beauty that is the Poly!
I got up around 9:00 am and DH got up around 9:30. We got ready but wanted to wait until the very last second to get DD up since she had not been getting her normal amount of rest this trip. We got her up at 9:50 and started getting her ready. We were out the door by 10:05. Charlotte was a little crabby because we really did not give her enough time to wake up, but I knew once we got to breakfast she would perk up! We had a 10:20 ADR at 'Ohana, we checked in about 10:10 and got in line and took our picture. This picture did not show up on our PP either, but I am not upset about it because it was awful! Charlotte was still not happy, and I was trying to get her to smile when they took the picture. I was really upset about how horrible this picture turned out! I made DD a great dress and myself a matching skirt. I really wanted this to be a great photo, but it was not good, awful really!
Shortly after our terrible photo shoot our pager went off and we were headed into the restaurant. You may or may not remember that we are a family of Stitch lovers, we are serious Stitch fans! My DH used to hate Disney animated movies but after seeing Lilo and Stitch he totally changed his mind. We even used to DVR the old cartoon series that came on Disney Jr at 3:30 am! We watch some type of Lilo thing everyday! So, I knew this breakfast would be a hit! As soon as we walked in to the restaurant we saw Stitch. The crabby toddler who would not smile for the photo 10 minutes ago became a starstruck super fan! She smiled and said "Stitch, momma STITCH!" of course Stitch had to give a quick hello to his biggest fan!
Then DD turned around and saw Lilo and she screamed again! It was so cute!
At this point we were ready for a great meal! We sat at a table near the aisle.
DD sat in her booster seat and started patiently waiting her turn to meet her favorite characters! Pluto stopped by first :
Despite having loved Pluto the day before she was not really all that interested in him today, she had bigger stars to meet I guess...
After Pluto our food came. All I can say is WOW! I am not sure what they do to those eggs, but they were the best scrambled eggs I have ever had in my life, so good! The potatoes, juice, and sausage were great as well! DD liked the Mickey waffles a lot and the eggs,and DH could not get enough of the sausage.
While we were eating Hawaiian Mickey stopped by:
And shortly after Mickey, Stitch stopped by. DD jumped out of her chair and ran to him!
After Stitch it was impossible to get Charlotte to eat anymore, she was just too excited! Then, Lilo came by. Lilo liked Charlotte's dress and hair bow!
Charlotte was too starstruck to turn around
Just about the time we finished eating the parade started. DH took DD up to participate in it.
I wanted to take more pictures but it was such a special moment I just wanted to live in the moment. DD loved it!
After the parade, someone stopped back by:
Charlotte thought this was hilarious!
That is some serious love there!
Then Lilo came back by:
It was a great meal. Once again I am so glad we had a late reservation. I really felt like we got lots of attention because there were not many people left in the restaurant at this point. We paid the bill and went back to our room to change into our swimming suits.
If you read the my PTR you would know that in all the times I have been to WDW I never took the time to get in a pool! Well, we fixed that this time, that was the only thing on the agenda for this afternoon! After our quick change we were headed to the pool. DD loves swimming so she was pretty excited. I had read on here that the pools offered free life jackets which DD would defiantly need so we located those first. Then, we found a table and set down all of our stuff. I know lots of people complain about this pool being crowded and lots of people "pool-hop" to the Poly, but I have no complaints. We got to the pool around 11:30 and we easily located an empty table and had plenty of space to swim and splash around. It was great!
We swam for about two hours and were a little hungry again. So I walked up to Captain Cooks to get a QS meal for us to split. We got an Adult Grilled Cheese with poly chips and a Minnie Mouse cupcake for me, a Dole whip for DD and DH. We used snack credits for the dole whips. It was so good! If I would have known how fantastic this QS location was I don't know if I would have gone with the DDxDP. The food was so great here! Oh, and I actually took a pic of the Minnie Mouse Cupcake:
This was so good! It was chocolate cake, with chocolate mouse and frosting on top of that! AMAZING and it was half melted by the time I got to eat and it was still super good! If you see these, try one! I could not finish it though, it was so rich. After our lunch we decided to take naps.
Stick around to see how the rest of the day went!
I am glad to have you along! It is really fun to read along with someone else's TR. I have learned so much from reading about other people's experiences!
Finally, after the third time she came back in and ate her dinner. This was a low point for us. But, after having days of interrupted schedule and lack of sleep I guess this is to be expected. While our meal was not enjoyable, it was not because of the food, it was fantastic as always. In my opinion the veggies are the best thing there, I seriously like them better than the meat! 
and I like the barefoot picture in front of the surf board. I don't blame her for not wanting to wear her shoes...I go barefoot whenever I can get away with it too! 
besides, when you're a cute toddler, you can get away with that stuff! 
