Typhoon Lagoon - October 4

Annabelle woke up this morning with so much energy and in much better spirits. This made us all so happy. We got ready to spend the day at Typhoon Lagoon Water Park. We knew right when we got there that we were going to love this place. It's so tropical and kitschy. We found a nice quiet shady place to drop our belongings. Our first stop was the Crush n Gusher slides that shoot you up, down and around. Then we went to the wave pool which the girls absolutely loved and spent a majority of their day there. Nate and I rather liked the lazy river. We realized that Typhoon Lagoon was one of our favorite places so far just for the fact that there was no time pressure to be at show, turn in a fast pass ticket or to be at a completely different place in the park. We could just hang out and enjoy ourselves.

The water park closed at 5 pm and we went back to the hotel to shower and get ready for our dinner reservations at Boma at 8pm. Nate and I wanted to get a caricature done of the girls before we left but the artist at our hotel was already busy doing a portrait so we were pleasantly surprised to find one at the Animal Kingdom Lodge who was just wrapping up with a customer. He was very nice and the picture turned out very cute. It's of the girls fighting which is something they have been very good at this trip. While one was posing we'd go with the other one to look at the animals. The Animal Kingdom Lodge has a huge wildlife preserve on property so you can view zebras, giraffes, flamingos and other animals up close. It's very impressive.

Boma is a buffet that serves African-type cuisine. I sampled all of it and it was very good. Annabelle, of course, only wanted the mac and cheese. She was starting to burn out from being outside in the sun all day.

Over dinner we contemplated going to the Magic Kingdom one last time as it was open until 1 am. We ha to go to a park anyway as Disney transportation doesn't go from resort to resort. We decided to go for it. We arrived there at 9:30 and couldn't believe the crowd size. It was much more busy than it had been on Thursday. We still managed to make a few rides but were perplexed as to why there was a 40 minute wait for the Peter Pan ride at 11 pm!

We finished off our evening with a Dole Whip from Aloha Isle. We decided we'd do our best to get up early to hit Hollywood Studios one last time with the afternoon spent at Epcot. Upon arrival into our "suite" the girls thought it would be fun to imitate their art and had a huge fight in our room so as of now we're all sleeping in and packing our bags INSTEAD of going to Hollywood Studios. How is it that can they can be so good one minute and the next just blow up?

It's 1:30 am now and I'm thinking of all the things that need to get done for the return trip home. We haven't even done any souvenier shopping. ACK!!!!! *frustration squiggle*

ATTRACTIONS
Everything at Typhoon Lagoon
Haunted Mansion
Hall of Presidents
Splash Mountain
Big Thunder Mountain
Philharmagic

INJURIES
*Sore feet from the rough ground at Typhoon Lagoon
*Sunburns from the day at the water park - apparently I should've been better at reapplying but you should've seen all the poor lobster bastards we encountered there our small burns have nothing on those red guys


WHAT I'VE LEARNED
*Lazy rivers get you away from reality and then the fighting children will bring you right back to it
* I am thankful that we stayed at the cheap resort as we were hardly in our room. However, I do think it's a great idea to tour the other ones to see what you're missing out on. They are amazing!