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unewillow · 04-28-2010, 02:25 PM

Days 7 and 8

I am going to do our last 2 days together because at this point, we were EXHAUSTED (imagine if we had commando toured) and I was getting sick and so we didn't really do all that much.

So, Day 7 (Saturday for those wondering) was our last full day at Disney and our planned AK day. Once again we were up early so that we could eat breakfast at Tusker House. Our actual reservation wasn't until 9am-ish so imagine my surprise when they let us into the park when we got there at 8:15am. Yeah, just a little early. We took our time wandering back to Africa and stopped to check out some of the Discovery Island animal spots along the way...until a CM nicely yelled at us to keep moving because they weren't actually open for park visitors yet.

We got to TH and had our picture taken with Donald and then were seated pretty quickly. We actually waited until Mickey and Daisy had come around to our tables to get food because they were so close we didn't want to miss them. Then we attacked the buffet and loaded up so that we would be there when Goofy came around. As always the food was excellent, this was my 3rd time eating there (Bx2, Lx1) and I have yet to have a complaint. Plus, I think the theming over the actual food area is beautiful.

After breakfast we went to EE and grabbed fast passes for later in the day and then wandered back towards the front of the park to decide what our next step was. Along the way we grabbed a photo with Jonah's fav character.

After we got our picture taken I spotted a hair wrapping station and we split up, they went on Kali River while I had my hair wrapped. One day I will ride this when it is hot and I don't mind being soaked for the day, but today was not that day. We all finished up about the same time and from there we made our way over to Camp Minnie/Mickey for the next FotLK show. I can not say enough how much I *LOVE* this show. It makes me a little verklempt every time I see it. No pics, because I was enjoying the show.

C&J wanted to ride Dinosaur so we headed back to Dino land, and this was the point of the day where I started really not feeling great. So, while they rode I sat on a bench and drank a bottle of water and tried to perk myself up. I will also mention that this was the HOTTEST day that we were there. Every other day was in the 80's as well, but there had at least been a breeze and the humidity hadn't been bad. That day, no breeze and something like 80% humidity because of the expected rain. After C&J were done riding we decided to head for some AC to plan our next move and since we had 2 CS credits left we went to Restaurantasaurous for lunch.

Our plan was to go see the 2pm Finding Nemo show, then head over to EE to use our fastpasses and hit the Jungle Trek on the way out. Well...we did go see the Finding Nemo show, which was excellent as always, except we were all so exhausted C&J fell asleep in parts

! So, as a whole we decided to bag the rest of the day (gave our FPs to the couple next to us) and went back to the hotel to sleep until it was time for dinner at WCC. Which is totally what we did, and after a yummy skillet dinner and the best ice cream sundae ever (on my part), we headed back to Kidani to pack our things since tomorrow was check-out.

Day 8 (Sunday) arrived grey and overcast to match our moods and we were glad we had all packed the night before (including me having to buy an extra bag to check!) because it took us a while to get up and get moving. We dropped our bags off at RAC and then headed over to Mara to use our last CS credit for breakfast. I had booked us Boma but we all agreed it was stupid to pay OOP for a meal when we still had credits left.

C&J were picked up by DME at 11:30am and we said our

and then I had 4 hours to kill until my bus came. So, I went on a photo safari until it started to pour down rain.

I treated myself to a delish lunch at Sanaa (I had the samosas and shrimp tandoori) which along with the Sudafed helped clear my sinuses for a bit. Then I wandered to the Community Room and shot 2 rounds of pool until it was time fore my DME pick up.

Once at the airport I found out my flight was delayed by half an hour and so I went to the little Spa they have in the terminal and had myself a nice relaxing facial

. Then it was time for my flight back to Philly and back to reality. But, I wasn't too sad because I know I'll be back soon.

And that's it!! Thank you all for reading and commenting!!

**KMB733** · 04-28-2010, 03:38 PM

Great updates! Glad you finally got to see the Zebras and you enjoyed the KTTK tour. I would like to do that one day. Sorry you weren't feeling good toward the end of your trip, but at least it was at the end. Thank you for sharing your trip with us, I enjoyed reading about it.