Well we reached Fantasyland and headed for IASW which we had not ridden yet. I am one of those people that believe IASW is a one time per trip experience as I do love it but if I ride it too many times I can't get that song out of my head. Brant had never ridden it before...when he went with his mother at age 12 they did not do it because she is afraid of boats? (Never thought of IASW as a scary ride until I heard this LOL) and when we went in 2002 it was totally a "run by a teenager" trip as it had been a trip esp planned so Kari could go see the NBC overlay on the HM and IASW was not on her agenda at all. Therefore I had not ridden it since the 90's and Colton & Brant had never ridden it.
The wait was longer than most had been today but not bad at about 15-20 minutes although it felt long as I wanted to get to the dark rides before closing.
Colton adored it...I loved the "new" additions of the Disney characters. Brant says he was not as traumatized as he thought he would be after being told how the song would make him crazy. He thought it was cool but said he was sick of that song by the time we left. (wait until he finds out that it plays much more often when the holiday overlay is gone and you lose things like Ariel & Co singing Jingle Shells)
So we headed for the other FL rides we had not hit yet. First up Peter Pan with only a 15 min wait I have always loved it and my boys did too.
Next up was Mr Toad which Colton laughed at all the way through then off for a spin on the teacups at night.
Followed by a walk on trip with Alice..
There were about 10 minutes left until midnight at this point so we headed over and practically walked on to PP again
Then we did Snow White and Pinocchio both walk on...we were the only ones there.
After finishing up in FL we headed for Main St and did a slow perusal of shops with a stop for hot cocoa and moseyed around there until about 1 am.
Then we stepped out of the park for the last time and into the Esplenade and believe it or not there were still lines taking pics of the Calif Letters...masses of people I had still not gotten a single pic of them since you could not get a clear view due to the masses. We got in a line in front of the letter "C" as Colton really wanted a pic with it.
Couldn't even get a good pic of the C as there were people crowded all around me...very sad
We headed for Coco's (which is very near our hotel) to get some food and coffee & more hot chocolate. Due to the Holidays Coco's had extended their hours and we hung out there until almost 3 (Colton ended up asleep at Coco's for almost an hour. Unlike our BB experience he did wake up and walk to our hotel to meet Super Shuttle.
We picked up our bags and did a little re-arranging for the flight. Once the bags were ready Colton promptly went to sleep in the lobby by the fire.
I also dozed a bit but Brant is way too smart to take pics of me sleeping.
Super Shuttle picked us up at 4 and we were off to SNA.
Next up the ending of an eventful trip home that extended our vacation.
EDIT...the pics of the teacups at night were from another ride at some point (note the parade & crowd in the background) but I hadn't used them yet so I used them here.
