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The rest of the day July 17 – Part 2

We go to the Fun Center for DD because she hadn’t had a chance to play the games and besides I need to finish up the game card, as this is our last day. One game doesn’t give out the tickets it’s supposed to, we tell the clerk and she gets it loaded, says DD will get “a few extra tickets” – OK, we think 3 or 4 as it gets loaded properly – the thing just keeps spewing tickets. Over 100 tickets later it finally stops! LOL! DD won about 49 tickets herself, we kept the extra separate as we were going to figure out how to divide them. Turns out DS-5 just wants one of those Styrofoam airplanes – so he gets that and is happy, doesn’t care about the rest. DS-8 wants a bunch of the little things, so gets a bag full of stuff and is happy! DD is just sitting there at the counter trying to decide what she wants, there was this Care Bear for 325? (close) which is the only thing she really wanted. I had decided to go ahead and give her the big chunk of tickets we have because the boys are happy with the smaller things. As she is sitting there, she must have just had a super sad look on her face or something but a teenage girl came up to DD and gave her a piece of paper that had 149 ticket credits on it! That was so sweet, thank you for the random act of kindness – it made DD’s day! I didn’t even see it happen as I was dealing with the boys. I saw the girls as they were ahead of us getting their prizes. So, we add the 3 tickets together and we have 321 – I’m telling DD she doesn’t have enough, after I say that the CM asks what it is she wants, when we tell her it’s the Care Bears, she “magically” makes our total be 325! (I did find 4 more tickets up in our room later! LOL! So, I guess technically we had enough!). DD was so excited, the CM asked her what color and DD didn’t even care! She just wanted one of the Care Bears (DD loves Care Bears they are one of her favorite things, so she absolutely treasures that bear now – it got special treatment the entire way home!)

We go back to MK, we get a few rides in before dinner. We manage to make it to Tony’s somewhat on time. I thought the food here was good and would return – other than if you were there, my DS-5 decided to take a fall from the booster seat at the end of our meal, I think he scared the guy next to him half to death and then I was the mean mommy! Before it happened, they had been getting a little TOO hyped up and I had been telling them to settle down, sure enough the reason he fell was that he was leaning too far over in the booster seat (1/2 the time we got him booster seats & ½ the time we didn’t!) trying to bug his sister. So, after I make sure he’s OK, I scold him for “I TOLD you not to do that and this is why” stuff. I’m sure the couple next to us thought I was being horrible that I didn’t feel too sorry for him. He was a little scrapped up but no worse for wear, maybe next time he will listen to me (ya think? I doubt it! LOL!). DH said the manager did come over to make sure everything was OK but I didn’t see it, I was too busy dealing with said child. Ahhh….no such thing as a quiet meal with our family. Always some drama involved. Also, this is where if you are on the Premium plan, there is a glitch. The waitress came back and said they were having trouble with the bill and the manager was working on it. After a bit, she came back and said, it was fine it was all taken care of but they had to call the hotel and it had to do with us getting another card, etc… (we had checked-out from the plan – which is what it had to do with!). So, even though we had to midnight to use our credits, at some point the computer apparently does a processing and wipes out whatever credits you have left on the card. They will need to call the hotel and get it straightened out. It’s more of a pain than anything else. At the sit-down it wasn’t too bad because you are sitting there eating anyway but I caused a problem at the Food Center.

Think we are tired? LOL! This was before the fall - I think!


DS-1 - I ordered him pizza but he wanted my spaghetti, so I had to share (not sure if he ate any or most ended up on the floor!)



Went on a couple more rides and DS-5 goes on the Haunted Mansion with DD & DH. He hated the ride but he was silent through the whole thing. DD did say it got stuck though and that is probably what freaked him out. Unfortunately, that was the last ride of the night so poor DS-5’s adventure ends with falling off a chair and going on a ride that spooked him out. DS-8 wouldn’t go near the Haunted Mansion, so I wanted with him and the 1 year old.

We go back to the hotel, we manage to make it out of the park before the fireworks – we did get stuck in an area with the Spectromagic parade. I get all turned around because it’s dark and I’m all messed up. So we did some wild goose chasing. ROFL!!! Get DS-1 a Mickey Mouse because DH said he has been wanting one, he loves it (he has a huge one at home in his crib but he wanted a smaller, easy to hold one apparently).

We decide we still have 3 credits left on our plan and I’m not about to give them up. I figure we can get some snack type things if nothing else. The grill is closed by the time I get there but that’s OK, we will just get some cereal/milk combo’s as our meal, juices & non-melting desserts. We can eat them in the morning or take them with, etc… HOWEVER, remember the card issue I had before. I TOLD the CM it was going to be a problem, they needed to call the hotel (I’m IN the hotel, I figure this shouldn’t be much of a problem). The food center is PACKED. There is 1 register open and apparently only 1 CM in the entire place. Sure enough, she swipes the card and says, “It says there are no coupons on this card” – Umm…yes, I told you that was going to happen. She calls, they tell her to do something that she has no clue what they are talking about. She goes to find a manager, none to be found. A backed up line behind me (sorry if you were stuck behind me!) but I was holding my ground on this as I didn’t bring any other means to pay and frankly, we already PAID for those credits, the rule is we have until midnight to use them and I’m playing by your rules, I can’t help it your computer isn’t set up for it. Finally, they just tell her to let me have it and they would deal with it later. Whew! Finally get my last food.

Tomorrow is check-out and head on home! I don’t have a set time to leave (obviously by 11 for check-out) but no early morning wake-up calls, etc…

Next up – Check-out & summary.