Disney Day 6

We started off the day at breakfast at Chef Mickey's.  The kids loved it because it was A) character breakfast and B) buffet.  And we got to have Mickey waffles.  YUM!  My one complaint is the bacon.  Everytime we got bacon, it didn't taste very bacony.  It was pretty tasteless in fact and not worth the points.  Wonder why?  Everything else was delicious.

I had originally planned for us to go to MK this day in the morning to get rides from Fantasyland done (Dumbo, Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, and Tea Cups).  Nicholas had been telling me all week that Soarin was his favorite and nathan's favorites were Figment and Soarin.  We also had not have a chance to do Innoventions or much of the world showcase.  Since the rides we had planned were not all that exciting (face it, dumbo, winnie the pooh and tea cups are all carnival rides, peter pan's cool and I'm sorry we missed that one), we decided to go back to Epcot.  I gave everyone the option of going to MK on their own but everyone else decided to come to Epcot with us.  I got us Fast Passes for Soarin' while everyone checked out Innoventions West.  Matt took Nathan to Figment again.  I found the rest of them in the Burning House (cool interactive game where you have to find all the fire hazards).  Nicholas loved the fire truck

We also did a motion capture game where they put you in a video game.  These were really cool and the kids love to play them at home. 

Nathan's Game
http://www.thinkingofyoupostcards.com/runtime/play?Guestcode=KQSQCHKRCFRP7Q

Nicholas' Game
http://www.thinkingofyoupostcards.com/runtime/play?Guestcode=KQKQCHKLRPCFCQ

There was also a Piggy Bank game that taught you about saving and investing (which I think a lot of adults should play).  They enjoyed it and so did I.

After that we went to Ellen's Energy Adventure and actually got to ride it.  At first Nicholas was pretty nervous about it but once it started going he was fine. Nathan of course loved it since it's about energy and dinosaurs.

We then explored Innoventions East.  There were a few things there but not as much for our age group as the other.  Sum of all Thrills is there (you design your own roller coaster and then they put you in this robotic arm with a virtual reality helmet and you ride the coaster) but the kids were too short to ride it.  It was lunch time so we stopped for a bite.  Mom and dad walked out to France and had a delicous meal of snacks (since we were all running low on quick service credits and had a ton of snacks left).  I didn't think the kids would like anything there so we just stopped at the quick service next to innoventions east.  When we went in it had just started to rain.  We found seats but soon after that, all the seats started filling up and it was a free for all to get a table.  After lunch we headed out to the World showcase.  It was still drizzling but it kind of felt good.  We went towards Mexico and walked through China and the African outpost.  Logan (and all the kids really) declared that if there weren't any rides in China, he wanted to go back to Disney World.  I made them pose for some pictures anyway.

We kept walking and came upon Germany and got some caramels as snacks.  YUMMY!!! We took some nice pictures with Spaceship Earth in the background.

We met back up with my parents at the American Plaza and took a ferry back to the front of the world showcase.  By this time it started to pour.  We walked over to the Land and did Soarin for the last time (and got a pressed quarter to remember our favorite ride).  Then on our way out we did Spaceship earth (which I think has been updated since the last time we rode it).  This is one of those funny rides where the wait is long at the beginning of the day and then goes down throughout the day.  My parents were very worried when they saw that line at 10AM was 60 minutes.  I said, just wait, we'll do it this afternoon and there will be no line.  I was right, the line was about 15 minutes when we rode it.  The kids liked it better than I thought they would.   
It was about 4pm and I was ready to take the kids back and let them play in the pool.  Unfortunately certain members of our group (you know who you are) got distracted by Mouse Gears (souvenier shop) and we spent an awful long time waiting for them to be finished.  We finally walked out to the monorail.  We took the monorail to TTC.  The young adults in the group wanted to go to MK to get FP for space mountain for that evening (EMH till 2AM).  We were also going to get some snacks from inside MK for dinner and bring them back to the hotel for the kids.  I had information that the corn dogs in the MK were a snack.  Turns out that was bad information.  Anyway, at TTC we took the express monorail while my parents and the kids took the resort monorail.  Well Nicholas' had been upset because I wouldn't let him buy anything at Mouse Gears (because we had already bought souveniers at the hotel and Hollywood Studios) and he was tired and on the edge of disaster.  When I tried to leave him, he just went over the edge.  I finally told my dad to just pick him up and start walking with him in the opposite direction.  My dad said, that by the time they were halfway up the ramp he was fine and walking by himself.  He just puts on such a show for me.  Very frustrating sometimes.

We got our fastpasses and then walked all over MK looking for the elusive snack corn dogs.  We went to one place and they told us a snack cart sold them as snacks.  Turns out they didn't.  Oh well, we got our corn dogs anyway and matt and I walked back to the htoel.  Stacy and Tim rode the monorail.  They beat us but we saw my parents and kids in the lobby watching cartoons, so we gave them their corndogs there. 

We all headed back to the room.  The rain had stopped so the kids and grammy got into swimsuits and went swimming for a while.  Around 9PM the kids got into their PJ's and got settled in to watch the outside movie (Bolt, that night).  We headed back to MK.  We made it in time to watch some of Magic Memories and Me (a show where they broadcast pictures of families that the photopass people took that day on the castle).  We moved slightly more down main street and then watched wishes from there.  It was very nice.  Turns out the kids also watched wishes from pool area of the hotel.  They also watched the electric boat parade from the hotel before getting into bed.  The adults then headed to space mountain.  They've updated the wait area with video games along the way.  We had fastpasses so we didn't get to play them.  Oh well.  I must be getting old.  The rockets have NO padding on the seats or on the sides and they fling you all over the place.  It was not my favorite ride anymore.  Definitely liked Rock and Roller coaster better.

We then walked through fantasyland.  We entertained thoughts of standing in line for Peter Pan but the line was 40 minutes long and we were all tired.  We went to the Haunted Mansion. That was fun.  I had originally planned on riding it with the kids but I'm glad we didn't. It would have been too scary for them.  By this time it was 11 and we just wanted to get home.  But the second parade had started.  So we walked back through fantasyland and then through the castle and along the cleared path.  By the time we hit main street the parade was over.  We stopped at a souvenier shop (to pick up sweatshirts in a certain size for the kids that hadn't been at the hotel).  Then we walked out and took the monorail home.  A very satisfying last full day in the parks.