disney day 5

our last morning we woke up early to hit one last character breakfast at akershus in epcot. the logistics of packing up, checking out & whatnot didn't go super smoothly, but i don't really want to detail all of that here. it wasn't anything a little shouting & slamming of the hand by the ole battleaxe (a nickname of mine in my previous life as a financial analyst...) on the counter couldn't fix...

ahem. right. so...onto norway in epcot for breakfast at akershus. belle greeted us & we got a nice family photo with her. the same five princesses greeted us for breakfast as had the night before. so honestly, for me, it was a bit of an overkill...originally i had planned it because i had read that jasmine & mulan would be there...the two princesses we hadn't seen anywhere else. but thankfully i took some good advice & didn't really build anything up for luci so i was the only one disappointed. and of course, it was lovely to see cinderella, belle, aurora, ariel & snow white again.

belle

ariel

snow white

some belle had a lil crush on our prince gusgus!

after breakfast we headed back to the resort to catch the bus to the airport!

more logistical details, fussy/exhausted boy...something about the longest 2 hour flight ever...blah blah blah. we left grandma & grandpa at the airport as they had decided to catch the last flight home that night straightaway. clay, luci & i made it home in time for some chick-fil-a only to get a call from poor grandma & grandpa saying their flight had been cancelled! so off clay went back to the airport and i set about getting the kids to bed & our stuff unpacked.

and that is it really!

in summary, it was an expensive vacation worth every penny. logistically almost everything went smoothly when you consider all of the moving around we did. luci was at a perfect age. gus was a little young. i really didn't want to do a family vacation without him & grandma & grandpa took excellent care of him when he his needs were different than luci's. and of course we are grateful that grandma & grandpa pierse came along & made such great memories with us.

the one thing that annoyed me is the way disney ends rides & events in stores. but one thing i couldn't be more proud of was the fact that my pea asked for only one thing the entire trip.

a balloon.

an $8-$15 balloon.

she asked for it on sunday & monday. we told her we'd get her one on our last night.

and come wednesday night?

she never asked.

i'm VERY proud. we must be doing something right.

hopefully we'll be back...luci thinks maybe when she's five....so start saving dad. ;)