Thanksgiving at Disney World- The Last Installment

We bring this Disney World bid-ness to a close.

Yes, it's true.

It was indeed a sad day.

We had ONE day left on our park hopper pass- and decided to hit up "Hollywood Studios" one last time for our favorite rides... which really meant Jon wanted to ride "Rockin' Rollercoaster" some more.

Unfortunately... he started coming down with a cold and was only able to ride it twice.

Bummer.

We met up with the "Muppets"...

 Walked through Pixar Studios...

 And waited entirely TOO long for this Toy Story ride....

admittedly, it WAS pretty cool.

But the line was killer.

 And then we had to say "goodbye" to Disney...

We packed up our things and hit the road by 3:00.

We drove halfway Saturday and then the rest was Sunday.

We had "post-vacation depression" all this week.

Life is rough ;)

BUT hopefully we'll see Disney some time again!

In the meantime- here's some pics of all the celebrities we found around the park.

Piglet

(Never did find Winnie the Pooh! Sad...)

 Jungle Pluto

 Timon and the gorilla from Tarzan...

Anyone remember her name? All I can think of is "Rosie O'Donnell"!

 Minnie!

 Pocahontas

 Alice

 Aladdin and Jasmine

 Flick and.... the princess bug.

Can't remember her name either.

Oops.

 Up

 Mr. Potato Head

 Mulan

 Mr. Incredible

 Cinderella and... Prince?

 Peter Pan, Wendy, Alice and Mad Hatter

 Mary Poppins and Burt

 Buzz Lightyear!

 Pirate Goofy

 Pinocchio

 Snow White and Prince Charming

 And that's a wrap.

Our Disney adventure is through.

On to Christmas!

Thanksgiving at Disney World (Episode 5)

Well now to get to the REAL point of visiting Disney World....

to dance :)

We clogged Friday morning at Downtown Disney.

It was the perfect location because we had all those Black Friday shoppers out and about and we had an awesome crowd.

Our music gave out on two of our dances. Shoot.

But we managed.

 Booty bump

 Jon got to be MC for part of it.... which he had a little TOO much fun with ;)

It was fun. We even have pins that say we're "Honorary Disney Cast Members"...

so if you want to shake our hands or get our autographs,

feel free.

We spent the rest of the day at ANIMAL KINGDOM.

Which was magical.... as Disney always is.

The icon of Animal Kingdom, "The Tree of Life"

 We watched the show "Lion King" which was phenomenal.

Disney puts on such spectacular shows!

I took a bazillion videos... pretty much captured the whole show... and I wanted to upload them- but videos take so stinkin' long.

And I'm feeling lazy.

 We took a wild ride through the African Safari...

 And saw tons of animals! Real ones! Not animatronics, folks!

There were elephant, giraffe, lions, hippos, rhinos, buffalo, crocodiles... it was awesome.

 Watched the "Jingle Jungle" Parade :)

 And rode the "Everest" rollercoaster ONE too many times... according to me.

Not according to Jon.

 But wanna know the best part about this day?

We had dinner at Carrabbas.... sooo delicious.

THANKSGIVING Day at Disney World

So Thanksgiving was a little bit different....

Although the Disney employees were so sweet and wished EVERYONE a "Happy Thanksgiving" every which way they turned,

it was still weird to not be playing in a "Turkey Bowl" or preparing food for a evening feast.

We spent the day at Epcot- which was delightful.

Not only because the weather was beautiful, but the crowds were less!

(Probably enjoying a nice Thanksgiving meal at home... weirdos...)

We rode a few rides...

and Jon found his dream car.

We had to wipe the drool off the floor.

How embarrassing.

Epcot is home to many different countries...

Mexico

 Norway

 China

(Gotta rub the Buddha belly)

 Germany

 Italy

America!!!

 Japan

Morocco

 

In Morocco, we did indeed find the Persian Princess.

No, not Jasmine- silly.

 

 We made it to France...

 England

 Jon met up with "The Beatles" there.

And LAST (but not least)

Canada!

 Beautiful day at Epcot.

 We ended the day looking for Thanksgiving dinner...

our experience was much like that one on the "Santa Clause".

You know... the dad burns the turkey and they go searching for dinner but everywhere they go is closed and they end up going to Denny's but they're all out of whip cream and pumpkin pie?

Yeah.

Turns out lots of places are closed on Thanksgiving... so we found a Golden Corral... but I'm pretty sure every white trash American was there (including us) because the line was out the door.

So we left.

And went to TGI Fridays.

It wasn't quite turkey and mashed potatoes- but it was tasty.

But I lied. 

We didn't end the day looking for dinner.

We ended the day at Downtown Disney.

We wandered through some Disney shops...

 and ENDED our Thanksgiving Day at Cirque du Soleil.

Which was jaw dropping.

Phenomenal.

Incredible.

We loved it.