We spent our last morning at Disney in the pool. The girls giggled and swam and played. Then they ran over to the splash pad to dart around and through the fountains of water and play with the Finding Nemo characters that sprayed water unexpectedly.
After swimming, the girls opened their last Tinkerbell Magic, Barbie princess dolls that they promptly opened to play with while Husband and I packed our things. (Tinkerbell even brought a figurine for kidsister.) We ate lunch in our room and reluctantly said goodbye, taking the shuttle back to the airport.
The flight home was much easier, despite not having Grammy and Papa who were staying one more night. The kids were so worn out from days of activity and over stimulation that E slept most of the flight to Vegas. A napped for awhile while L and I had some one-on-one time doing puzzles and bead pet crafts I brought for her. After A woke up, we played with books, colored, watched a movie, drank hot chocolate, played with pipe cleaners and eventually arrived in Vegas. We had just enough time to find out connecting flight and feed the kids before we were off on the short flight home. I tried juggling E and L but towards the end, I passed E to her Daddy and L and I both fell asleep for a few minutes just before landing.
And soon, we were home.
Miscellaneous:
--the resort tries to make checkout and airport shuttle as easy as possible. But some how we missed some details this time and there was a bit of confusion. There is an airline check in at every resort but it's only open in the morning. Which means, you can leave your room, check your bags into the resort's airport check in and then go play (at the parks, downtown disney, etc.) until your shuttle arrives to take you to the airport (usually 2-3 hours before your flight). Since we stayed at the hotel that day, we didn't go to desk early enough and missed the luggage check in. Which ended up being fine, we just had to collect it from the shuttle driver and check it ourselves at the airport. Otherwise, the shuttle (The Disney Magical Express) would have taken care of the for us.
--Did I mention that the new hotel keys are actually wrist bands? They're still working out all the details but eventually the wristbands will connect guests to all their meal reservations, charging privileges (if authorized) park tickets, fast passes, PhotoPass and even include a child locator in case they get separated from their parents. Very cool technology.
--PhotoPass is another fun DisneyWorld feature. There are photographers all over the park offering to take your photos and then connect your photos to a card number they give you. You can have multiple cards and link them together if you forget it. This allows you to look at the photos after your vacation and decide if you want to order them, which ones and how many. You can even drop the pictures into pre-made scrapbook pages. Cool feature but can be pricey. So the nice part is that the PhotoPass photographers will take your picture using their camera and then you can ask them to take the picture using yours too. So you have the picture on your camera. They are always in the best photo op places and character meeting spots. Hopefully in the next few days, I'll feel settled enough again to look at our pictures online and with any luck, there will be an amazing family picture.
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