VERY special birthday, need help planning something special!

[leebee]

My DD will turn 13 while we are at WDW (on Sept 23rd, WAHOO!!!). We have done a birthday trip before, even though it was after the birthday, so I know about getting her a "It's My Birthday" button at each park, telling them at the restaurants, making the phone call to Goofy/Donald on the birthday line. I want to plan something special for her turning into a teen birthday but don't know what. Her birthday is our last full day at WDW...can't spend a huge amount of money and don't want to spend alot of time out of a park (so, for example, wouldn't do a spa treatment or something like that). I'm not sure where we are staying yet, probably offsite, maybe at ASMo or ASSp (can you tell it's a last-minute thing?). We will have a car. Haven't been able to get a cruise. I'm not even sure which park we will be visiting that day. Does anyone have ideas for something really special for my not-so-Little Princess??

 

[Jets fan]

For my nephew's 13th birthday we started off with breakfast at Boma, followed by a waterski lesson for an hour at the Contemporary. The whole family rode in the boat and could have taken part if we'd wanted to. He did water skiing and got rides on a big floaty thing. The boat ride was fantastic and very fast.

In the evening we went to the California Grill for dinner.

Was a fantastic day

 

[Principessa Alba]

Many of the restaurants will do special things if you tell them it's a birthday. And I haven't done this in awhile, but if you stop by town hall, they'll give you a birthday badge or something, LOL, sorry, someone else will have to fill you in on what exactly it is, we haven't been there on a birthday in many years.