After two mornings of getting up early, we decided to just sleep in this day. The boys had been sleeping until 8:30 AM, at least, if we didn't wake them up. We got breakfast from Roaring Fork Snacks and ate in our hotel room.
We went back to Animal Kingdom this day. We headed right to Camp Minnie-Mickey since we didn't go there on Thursday. While the boys and I got in line to get character autographs & pictures, Jim headed up to Africa to grab Safari fast passes. We met Mickey, Goofy and Pluto in this area. Andrew noticed that Goofy was missing his hat from last year. hmm. We really wanted to see the Festival of the Lion King next and timed it perfectly where we only waited in line for about 3 minutes. We sat in the "lion section" this time. After the show got out, we followed the mob scene and got out of this land (it's a tight area when the show lets out). We headed up to Africa to use our Safari Fast Passes. We had a really great, lively driver this time named Alexis. Andrew was the one who noted her name. We got to see a female lion - first time for that! After the safari, it was time for a break. Jim & the boys sat down in the Dawa Bar area while I went up to Kali River Rapids to get fast passes. I went back to the Dawa Bar and we caught the acrobat show again (in an open area right next to the Dawa Bar). We all had an ice cream and enjoyed the time off our feet. When it was time to use the Kali River fastpasses, we headed on over to Asia. Just Jim and the boys went on - I really had no desire to get wet. Ironically, they barely got wet and I kept saying that if I had gone on, we'd all have gotten soaked. I was able to wait for them on an overhead bridge and take their picture as their big, round boat went by. Once they got off the ride, we headed back towards Discovery Island and then out of the park. Bye Animal Kingdom for this trip! That's all she wrote.
We went back to the hotel for a small break. We wanted to get our car so that we could drive it to the Yacht Club and use the Disney transportation from that hotel location. We also wanted to show the boys the hotel and ask them what they thought about it. When we got there, we showed them the Stormalong Bay pool area and they were very impressed. They also loved seeing the whole Boardwalk area across the lake. We got on the boat from there to Epcot (it takes you to the back part of World Showcase near France). We wanted to visit all the countries this night and the boys wanted to do the Kidcot thing again. They made masks in France and off we went. Wow, it was really crowded - much more so than we thought it would be - but we enjoyed seeing all of the countries again. We worked our way all the way around to Mexico, all the while picking up all the charms for the masks. We stopped in Morocco to take pictures with "The Genie" from Aladdin and in Germany to pick up some candy. The girl at the Kidcot area in China told Andrew that the Chinese Character on his shirt meant "love". Aww! She also told them that Andrew was born in the year of the dragon and Matthew was born in the year of the tiger. We couldn't find a place to sit down and eat in the World Showcase, so we checked out test track but it was out of fast passes. Bummer. We saw free tables at the Electric Umbrella Restaurant so we stopped in there to grab a bite to eat. Afterwards, the boys asked to go on Spaceship Earth one more time, which was great since it had no line! When we were off that ride, we headed out of Epcot, stopping at the last two countries the boys needed charms from (Canada & UK). Jim bought himself an "Off Kilter" CD in UK (they're a Scottish group that plays in Epcot all the time). We got back on the resort boat and headed over to the Boardwalk Hotel. We watched the Epcot fireworks from the boardwalk area. We really think we'll stay in one of the Epcot Resort area hotels next trip to try something new.
We were back at the hotel around 9:30 PM. Andrew asked to get his caricature done and we signed up, but it turned into a huge fiasco. Big waste of time and at 11 PM, we headed up to our room empty handed. Another lesson learned and not the best way to spend our last evening in WDW. We were all so tired from such an exhausting week and were already talking about what we'd do differently when we come back. Not that it's anything new that we'd already be talking about going back or anything. :-)
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