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Today was our no park day. I woke up about 8:15 but laid in bed until 9am. We got up and started getting ready as we were spending the day in Downtown Disney.
We had lunch reservations at Wolfgang Puck Café.
DH got the Pork Loin. Was huge and DH loved it.
I got the Spaghetti Bolognese. It was very good and we were so stuffed we did not even get the dessert.
We spent the rest of the day just walking around and did some shopping and relaxed and took in all there was to see until our dinner reservations at Ragland Road.
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Today was our final day here. I got up around 7am and started getting ready for the day and Errett got up after I got out of the shower to start getting ready. We had a few things that needed to be shipped home as there was no way we could get it back so we walked over to the convention center to get it shipped out. Actually not bad prices at all to get it back home.
Once we were done with that we headed back to the room and grabbed our gear to head over to MK. We got to the park about 9:15 and just took it all in as I knew it would not be until 2015 that I would be back.
We headed over to HM to ride this one last time. We then walked over and did Mickey’s Philharmonic. As we were walking by after the show I noticed the line for BOG was short so we got in line cause Errett knew I wanted to try this restaurant. We were only in line for about 30 minutes, which was good because if I would have had to stand behind the woman in front of us any longer I would of pulled my hair out. She was loud and over bearing.
We left out of BOG about noon and started walking towards Storybook Circus where we saw Daisy, Minnie, Donald & Goofy.
After that we headed towards tomorrow land and saw Alice, and the White Rabbit but could not get picture as they were getting ready to leave. So, we walked further around the corner and saw the line for Meranda was very short so we got in line. They apparently treat this as a meet & great and wait for everyone to leave the area before they let in the next group of people.
Once that was over we were walking back down Main Street and Errett wanted to go into The Art of Disney store and he ended up buying a small print. While he was in there I went back outside to just take in the sights and as I was walking around Town Square noticed that Mary Poppins was out and scored a picture with her.
We left the park at 1:51 and headed over to EPCOT.
Once we got to EPCOT we went and rode Figment and then went to Captain EO again. Errett had to get in one last ride on this.
We walked back over towards test track and that wait was 100 minutes so, yep not riding that this trip at all. We ended up getting on Ellen’s Universe of Energy. All right ride but was grateful to sit for a while. After the ride it was pretzel time for Errett and we snacked on that while we walked over to World Showcase.
We walked around sampling more of the carts and just walking around. There were so many people there and then it hit me that it was a Saturday night DUH!!!. We were getting hungry again so we headed to The Liberty Inn for food.
After eating we decided that we were going to head back to the resort and finish up the packing and we were tired and my foot was starting to really bother me.
Once we got back to the resort I called and paid for the luggage fees finished up some packing and relaxed for a while before we both drifted off to sleep.
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