Day 6!!
Hi friends! I'm trying to get this TR finished up to make room for the new PTR for our September trip!
Sadly, this was our last day in WDW
We woke up later than we would've liked, around 9:00. We had a 5:00 flight out of MCO to Milwaukee, so our Magical Express pickup was around 2:30 PM. We jumped out of bed, finished packing, and had the last of the pop tarts in the room before taking the resort shuttle to the Custom House. It was very convenient to just get to leave our luggage with bell services until our DME picked us up! We tried to tip the lady that helped us, but she claimed that she couldn't receive tips! Oh well, we felt bad but at least we tried!
From the Custom House, we hopped on a bus to Downtown Disney (I think the name ended up switching over a few days after we got back!) We had some major shopping to do, with little time to do it! We ended up getting to DTD at about 10:45 AM. First stop was the Christmas Store to buy an ornament! This has turned into an little tradition for every trip and the Disney ornaments are always my favorites on the tree
. We agonized over the ear hat choices for quite some time, but ended up with this ornament:
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We LOVE it! The yellow really pops against our tree, plus the theme is fitting because this trip marked the first time we had seen the Beauty and the Beast show
After buying the ornament, we looked around in the art store. One of the souvenirs that I really wanted was a vintage-looking sign/poster of any kind. I was scouring the store and couldn't find anything, but my mom bought this picture frame:
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Fun fact: My sister and her boyfriend went to Disney World over Valentine's Day Weekend and came back with this exact same picture frame!
I saw it in their apartment this past weekend and I was like "Did mom give that to you??" Nope, just turns out that Haley and Mom have the exact same taste in souvenirs!
After looking in the art store, we browsed Tren-D and the Marketplace Co-op. Oh my goodness, I could spend all day in the Marketplace Co-op. They have such cool and unique finds in there! I bought this set of plates for my apartment up at school, and my roommates love them just as much as I do!!
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Time was passing by quickly, so we took a peek into Basin again and then spent some time in World of Disney. We got a travel mug for my sister and I got these two cute antenna toppers (they were 2 for 8$ I believe)
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Once we made our purchases at World of Disney, we set off in search of someplace to eat. We wanted to be on a bus by 1:30 so that we had plenty of time to get back to CBR and catch our Magical Express. We rushed through a torn-up Disney Springs and finally settled on Wolfgang Puck Express. At this point, we were both getting crabby. I couldn't find the posters I had been looking for, and we both hated having to rush around on our last day. Plus, the walking was catching up to us and our feet were throbbing. Finally, we made it and put in orders for our food. We both ordered personal pizzas and I ordered some jalapeño chips. My mom sat down to wait while I went on a mission to find my posters! Sadly, I never found them
However, I did find a family absolutely SCREAMING at each other outside of a store. The mom was grabbing her teenage boy's arm and yelling, "WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Coupled with a strong Jersey accent, I couldn't help but giggle to myself. Here I thought that my mom and I were being crabby!!
With no posters in hand, I reluctantly made my way pack to Wolfgang Puck Express to eat. We quickly finished our food and trudged back to the bus stops. We stopped at Goofy's Candy Company along the way to use up our final snack credits. We bought chewy sprees, sour gummy worms, licorice Mickey heads, and chocolate covered pretzels. Then, we made our way to the CBR bus. We enjoyed passing the Fire Station on the way to the resort!
Since we still had a bit of time, we looked around Old Port Royale for a while and filled up our mugs one last time. Then, we strolled over to the Custom house where we boarded the Tragical Express
We got to the airport and bought a whole bunch more souvenirs, including a tee shirt for my dad, a shirt for Mom, a Lotso Bear keychain for my boyfriend and Mickey head earrings for my best friend.
Overall, our flight was uneventful. It was delayed for about 40 minutes, but soon we were on our way. After picking up the car at the airport, we stopped by Subway for a late dinner and arrived home at about 10:00 PM. I crashed into bed soon after, dreaming of the day we would come back to Disney.....
THE END
Thanks so much for reading my trip report everyone!! I had a blast writing it! Stay tuned, I am going to take after one of my favorite trip report writers
Nilla and do an in-depth review of CBR, our dining, new things we tried, things we liked/disliked, and what is coming up next!