Final Day of Celebration...

Today is our final day in Orlando and the last day to celebrate our baby girls birthday! We must finish up the celebration weekend with a great ending.

Our original plan was to do all 4 parks in one day but I knew early on, it was not going to happen. We slept in till late and when we finally got up it was pretty much get ready, finish grabbing all the last minute items and pack up the car. Once we got everything done we hopped on the bus and headed towards Animal Kingdom to get on Everest. We were hoping that Melody can finally get on with us.

It was fun listening to Tristin tell her things about the ride the entire way to the park, They were EXCITED!

We finally arrived at Everest and little to our surprise, Melody is still a little short to ride and I am talking about a little less than 1/2 of an inch. Hopefully by the next trip she may be able to ride. We all decided NOT to wait on the 60 minute wait line and headed into the single riders line, we all got to ride more than once in about 20 minutes. Well, we went to that park just for Everest but decided to ride DINOSAUR since we were already there..

While on the way out we stopped to see the "The Village Beatniks" who grabbed Tristin to play some sticks with them. It was kinda funny cause I can tell Tristin was a bit embarrassed.

We finally headed out of Animal Kingdom and headed towards Epcot but decided to take the Swan/Dolphin bus. We wanted to take a walk by our special place.. Our kids get super excited every time we go by there...

Our Special spot, It was getting ready for a three day event..

Now off to Epcot!



The second we walked into the park Melody saw Alice and headed straight towards her.
This picture was fun to take because while we waited in line we could see the sky turn darker and darker. Then we can see and hear lightning and thundering from a distance.. We were trying to figure out how we would run and head towards Mexico before the storm would head in so I told Ray and Tristin to start walking and that I would run with Melody and reach them up front..

We finally get our picture with Alice and start running towards Mexico!



While running to Mexico we got a few rain drops but nothing to big but you can tell the weather was getting ugly. We finally arrive at the San Angel Inn and they were switching from lunch to dinner and had us waiting about 45 minutes to be seated.

The wait was worth it since they sat us right by the water.. Kids love this location :)
Once seated we ordered our appetizers and drinks.

Tostada de Chorizo y Papas, these are really good...

Guacamole served with chicharrones

Our awesome drinks!! So good

I had the Wild Passion Fruit Margarita



Ray had the usual Blue drink with the light in it, LOL!



We both had for dinner the Filete Motuleno, it was so GOOD!!

Both kids had the Tacos..




Then we had dessert but with a little celebration !!!

Love to hear them sing Las Mañanitas

This was our flan which was NOT all that!!

Both kids had Ice Cream =)


We took a Family Picture!!

Once we finished with our dinner we headed towards the Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros. All the elements work nicely together to produce a terrific atmosphere, I felt like I was in Mexico... LOL



Now comes a funny story...

If you remember before walking into the restaurant the day outside was HORRIBLE. During dinner Ray and I had made a deal, If anyone knows me they know I usually leave at midnight or later. My poor honey hates it and we had agreed inside that if the weather was bad we would head straight home after dinner. Luckily to my advantage when we walked out the SUN was out and shining, LOL more time at the park for us.

Now we made our usual stop in China. I thought this dragon was so awesome...

It was made with Pineapples and other plants!!

The kids always want something in China!!!


So cute with her Parasole!!


We headed inside the Temple of Heaven and saw "The Dragon Legend Acrobats" which our kids and we totally love.. Those young acrobats are AMAZING!!


We headed towards Melody's favorite picture spot "The Wishing Well" she was hoping that Snow White would be out but she wasn't..

This was her Snow White picture for this trip... LOL



We had a great time and let me tell you that Epcot was packed with Norwegians..
They were all drinking and having a fabulous time because it was their Constitution Day.. May 17 is the Celebration of the Constitution of 1814 of Norway so they were having a fab time... We actually needed to start heading out since it was getting late..

I had sent my friend a text earlier so that we can meet up and just say, Hi!!

It was nice getting to see her and after a while hanging out at the Boardwalk it was time to say BYE..

We got on the bus towards Downtown Disney to get the kids a little something before hitting the road. We then took the walk back to Saratoga Springs, it is a really nice walk even though we heard they spotted a black bear in the area..

I took this cute picture of Downtown Disney from our walk..




We arrived at the hotel and Daddy headed inside to go get all the items we had purchased at the parks and had sent to the hotel . While he was inside I was with the kids by the pool, I just had to give them a chance for the last swim. I knew that a 15 minute swim would make them extra sleepy for the 4 hour car ride...

I finally took them out of the pool, dried them up and dressed them for the car ride home.

Daddy did two more stops:

One at Earl of Sandwich and purchased food for the road and the other to put gas... The trip was so much fun for the kids and us but it always feels like it goes by so fast... It is always sad to leave our favorite place but it makes you plan for the next trip faster!! We got on the road at about 11:45 PM and got home at about
4:00 AM oh well, back to reality...