Disney Continued - Sunday and into Monday...

So, we left MGM, or whatever you want to call it now. We got Jacob loaded into the rental car, and he fell asleep literally before we could get out of the parking lot! Jeff suggested that maybe we could try to go and walk around another park and he'd just sleep in the stroller. So, after short discussion, we headed towards Animal Kingdom. As we arrived, Jacob was still sleeping. We tried to ease him out of the car seat and into the stroller. He kept sleeping... at first. We did not get far at all and he started crying pretty good. No Animal Kingdom for us! Back into the car, and I think he fell asleep again. So we headed back to the hotel. But of course, by the time we got him back there, he didn't want to sleep anymore.

We headed back over to Downtown Disney. By this point, I realized that I had forgotten my swimsuit! Yes, that's right, we had rented a house with a pool, and I had no swimsuit - not going to work. We decided to check out the suit options at DTD. In a word, not good. Expensive. Only one store had it - Team Disney. We walked the entire DTD. We did stop at McDonald's for a $3 shake and $2 fries - everything is more at Disney! A Double Cheeseburger meal is about $6 or $7! Crazy! So, after looking in earnest for a suit, we abandoned the cause and headed back to the hotel. I'm not sure what else we did that day. I think we weighed dinner options. Considered Benihana (in the hotel) and decided against it. We opted for some take out food from the hotel's sandwich/pizza shop. It was okay, but not great. Jacob went to sleep okay, maybe another 5 minutes of crying, but again, we had to be so quiet.


Monday, Dec 11:
In case you don't know, Jacob is an early riser - like 6 am, which helps when you are trying to get out the door, but isn't good when you want to sleep in. However, I seem to remember that on Monday morning, we did not hear a peep out of him until about 7 AM. It was bliss.

So, up we got. Epcot was on the plan for the day. Also on the plan was packing up our stuff, checking out of the hotel, and into our 4 BR house, where we would meet my mom & grandparents later in the day. Off to Epcot we went. One of the first things we did was the Epcot Character Spot. We thought we'd wait in line and get Jacob's picture taken with Mickey. As it turned out, we actually got to take pictures with about 5-6 characters! It was awesome. We got great pictures and I've uploaded a lot of them to Shutterfly if you want to peek. www.jacobjones.shutterfly.com Jacob loved the characters!! However, he did not love much more about Epcot...