disney 2012 - day six

day six objective: squeeze every last drop out of our last few hours at disney

part one - one last character breakfast at the grand floridian with a random assortment of characters. princess-wear was required (ok, not really, but it was insisted upon)

tigger again

pooh

mary poppins listens to some crazy pickle rambling

miss alice

and the madhatter! this guy was awesome. the kids loved him and he stayed at our table for quite a while being silly.

he and the kids had a frog jump contest

and made silly faces

then a quick but jam-packed trip to the magic kingdom for a couple of hours. more teacups, of course

daddy and Q went to do the race cars one last time and pickle and i did winnie the pooh and it's a small world. we rejoined forces and hit the enchanted tiki room. then it was, as caroline says, "time for go."

baby lilly and rapunzel required their own airport seating

i agree caroline, i agree

it was a perfect vacation. the kind where part of you wishes it would never end, but another part is glad when it's done so you can catch up on your rest. we can't wait to go back!

disney 2012 - day five

day five objective: enjoy our last full day at the house of mouse; kids' choice: magic kingdom (duh)

we monorailed to the polynesian for breakfast at o'hana,

Q was not feeling well, but caroline enjoyed meeting lilo and stitch (despite having no idea who they were.)

lilo tried to cheer Q up but he wasn't falling for it

stitch also gave it a shot too with no luck

more mickey

and pluto

also could not get Q to care

caroline was super amused by pluto's autograph technique

hawaiian princess

after breakfast i took grumpy back to the hotel to rest while everyone else hit the MK. apparently the only things jeremy felt worthy of photographs were snack time and a popcorn-eating bird.

during this time caroline met rapunzel and tiana. pics of this will have to be in another post (when i get the CD of photos i ordered from disney.) after a couple of hours of not-napping, Q wanted to go back so we joined the crew for a quick lunch by the castle.

then we took the train ride around the park

woody! this was our only woody sighting and we were on the train

caroline fell asleep, so daddy pushed her around while Q and i did the monsters inc. laugh show. we got out of there in time to catch most of the daytime princess parade

too bad pickle missed it

we baby-traded and i pushed sleepy around and did more shopping, while daddy and a now all better Q went on more rides. i got them their mouse ears.

we rode the tea cups again. it was definitely caroline's favorite ride and Q's second fave (after the race cars.)

then we boated and monorailed back to epcot to eat at the coral reef, the restaurant with the giant aquarium in it. we all enjoyed watching the big fish swim by. we had to book it out of epcot after dinner because the fireworks were starting which meant the masses would be leaving momentarily. we didn't want to wait 2 hours for a bus back to the hotel.

in case you were wondering what $30 worth of balloons looked like