We had a fair wait for our breakfast reservation - the longest of the trip. The Polynesian resort is gorgeous though! I would love to stay here some time. Breakfast was pretty good though. It is a buffet that is served family style, meaning they bring the buffet in a big pan to your plate. They also brought a nice fruit plate and delivered Mickey waffles to you! Erin enjoyed meeting the characters though, so she loved it. We had a long wait to meet Stitch - just some bad timing as he had just left our area when we arrived, so we had to wait for him to make his way all around the restaurant again before coming back!
After breakfast, we caught a cab into Orlando. Gord wanted to look around and we thought it would be a nice break from the non-stop Disney action! We got Erin a cute riding shirt and a horse tee from the trip. Gord didn't see anything that he liked, so Erin was the only recipient of stuff from Sheplers! We decided to head back to the hotel and go for a swim. We swam and hit the hot tubs for about an hour before heading back to our room to freshen up and heading into the Magic Kingdom for a while.
We took the boat there and decided our first stop would be to catch the Steam Train. I haven't been on that in years. We took it to the Toon Town stop. This area is new since Gord and I were there last, and we skipped in when we went in May. Erin wanted to go here because you got to see Mickey and Minnie's houses! Naturally she loved Minnie's neat and tidy house!! Mickey needs a housekeeper!!
Erin decided she wanted to go on some rides at this point, so she and Gord headed to ride the Teacups - not my cup of tea, okay, sorry - so I sat that one out. Erin just loved it and wanted to go a second time. While they went to do that I went to get a frozen lemonade. Erin changed her mind on the ride, so I went and go her one too! She took quite a liking to the frozen lemonades there just as I did! Next stop for Erin and Gord was the Speedway. Erin rode this with Grampa in May, so she was the pro. Gord told her she was a terrible driver! I remember Grampa telling me the same thing all those years ago too!!! We walked around a bit more and were unsuccessful in convincing Erin to go to see the Hall of Presidents. She's a pretty perceptive 5-year old, and immediately sensed this interactive show was geared more to adults!
It was getting close to our dinner reservation time at Liberty Tree Tavern, so we checked in and waited a bit before being seated. This was a nice restaurant. We were seated right under an air conditioner vent so we had a very cool draft through dinner! Dinner was disappointing though. The mac and cheese was just plain gross and I don't blame Erin for not eating it. I don't know if was because we had so much amazing food on the dining plan and it was tough to live up to, or if we were just plain so full! The deluxe dining plan is A LOT of food! The atmosphere was great and there were characters so Erin enjoyed it! It was fitting that Minnie Mouse was the last character she met on the trip, because aside from the Princesses, Minnie was her definite runaway favourite character!
When we came out from dinner, the Spectromagic parade was making it's way by, so we found a great spot to watch it again. This is really a special parade and we all loved seeing it again. A great parade to see on our last day! We stayed to see the fireworks as we got on the boat, then headed back to the hotel.
So we got back and unfortunately it was time to pack. I gave Erin a quick bath and got her into her pj's. Gord discovered, much to his disappointment that his bat would not fit into our suitcases. We knew we couldn't carry it on, so he went down to the front desk to make arrangements to have it shipped home. When he got back, I went down to the gift shop to pick up a few last minute items and gifts to bring home. Gord saw him earlier, then I caught up with Chris who was doing the same thing! We finished up packing and crashed some time after midnight! A long travel day home was ahead of us tomorrow!
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