After 3 long, adventurous park days, we decided to sleep in on Monday! What that really meant was that I woke up at about 8am before everyone else did. I decided to do what I'd been longing to do for quite some time.. have coffee outside on the little patio! Up until then, I'd been drinking coffee while running around, trying to get myself and the kiddos ready for the day's adventures.. Today was going to be far more low key!
I was especially excited about my morning coffee and breakfast that morning!
A little side story here.. back when Hubs wasn't doing so well, he lost his temper and threw my most favorite coffee mug and broke it. He felt bad about it, even going so far as trying to find one on ebay. It was an old Winnie The Pooh mug that I'd had for several years. Anyhoo, I was determined to get a new favorite mug while we were on vacation. I figured I would "know" when I saw it, but my initial thought was to get a Marauder's Map mug where the footprints appear when hot liquid is inside. However, it just didn't feel right to me. I also saw a super cute Hedwig owl mug (and I do love owls!!) but it also didn't feel quite right!
Nope.. this Marauder's Map mug felt perfect! On the back it says, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good!" I am almost certain that my coffee tastes better in this mug then the others! And having a rock cake to go along with it.. DIVINE!
Anyhoo, the plan for the day was to have lunch at T-Rex and then browse Downtown Disney for a little bit. We had some Disney gift cards we had gotten for Christmas to spend. I know that the girls were anxious to do the Build a Dinosaur thing at T-Rex. Punky had been talking about it for months!
There was free parking at Downtown Disney! We were also able to park very close. Crowds seemed very low, especially for lunch time! I didn't have reservations and was hoping that the wait wouldn't be too long!
It wasn't a long wait. They said it would be 30 minutes, but it was only 15 minutes max. We were seated in the underwater sea area.. right next to the tank that had bust a few weeks before. Anyone remember that? They didn't have the tank repaired yet, just had some sort of false fish tank wrap thingy around it.
I've got to say, the theming was pretty cool! The kids were awed by it all, especially when everything started moving! I didn't get great pics, but this will give you an idea:
It wasn't super crowded, but it wasn't empty either. No one thought a thing about us getting up and walking around to check it all out. Our server was a pretty sweet lady! They gave the kids little hats and coloring books to keep them occupied. They also had a play area where they could "dig" up dinosaur bones! I thought that was a nice idea!
I ordered a pasta dish and Hubs got some sort of chicken dish. The kids got pizza and mac n' cheese. I want to say there were some broccoli sides ordered as well. Now, I will have to say that we might have gotten spoiled by eating lunch at Mythos twice. One could even say that we might have gotten a little snobby about our food that week. The food was just.. meh. Not awful, but not great. But, you are paying for the ambience, not the food. Theming was awesome! Yes, it was a little loud, but it was very cool as well! The food was average.
Now, we had just finished eating when Buds needed his pull up changed. I swear, he is never going to potty train. He is going to go to high school in pull ups, I just know it.
Anyhoo, I normally have a pull up and some wipes in my purse, but once we got to the bathroom I realized that I had left them in the camelback, back at the hotel. I figured he would be okay for a few minutes sans pull up, so we went back to the table and Hubs said he would run out to the car and get the spare that I kept in there.
I took the kids to the gift shop area so the girls could get their build a dinosaurs and that was when it all hit the fan. Standing there in the middle of the gift shop, Buds peed his pants and threw a huge fit! Right before Hubs got back with the spare pull up. It was serious chaos!
Long story short, it took forever, but I got Buds and his mess cleaned up and the kids got their dinosaurs and we got out of there before we could cause any more damage. Later, when we were back at the resort, I realized that my gift card that I had saved and saved swagbucks for had been forgotten! Of course!
Maybe we will use it for Rainforest the next time..
So, we walked around Downtown Disney for a little bit!
There were a ton of neat photo ops all around!
We went into the world's largest
Disney Store! It was pretty amazing in there! The girls had used their gift cards to buy their dinosaurs (they were able to be used at T-rex!) but I still had one. I bought the kids books for their pressed penny collections and a Mike Wazowski thing to put on Bessie's antenna! She'd done so well on our vacation that she deserved a souvenir too!
We went over to Ghiradhelli, but ended up not getting anything. They did give us a free sample of chocolate, which was yummy! But I was still full from lunch. I'm kind of regretting not getting an ice cream now.
There was a huge
Lego store which was pretty neat. They had a thing where you could build your own Lego Droid that Hubs thought was cool. I'm surprised he didn't buy one. He was like a kid in there!
We didn't get to stay long because we had plans to meet up with family back at the resort. We were going to have dinner and swim that evening. I ended up not getting a single pic of that visit either.
We put the kids in bed after they left and then Hubs and I rented a movie and ordered room service. They offer free movie rentals at a Redbox kind of thing there. Kind of a cool feature! Also, you could order delivery from the restaurant that was on property. I think it was called Tradewinds. Hubs didn't care for the lasagna we had and so he ordered some chicken tacos. I got the parmesan fries appetizer to munch on. Also got us a couple of key lime pies. Food was good. I fell asleep during the movie though.. I was still pretty exhausted!
The next day, the plan was to go to Wet n' Wild and Medieval Times!