 Today
we check out of the Villas at the Wilderness Lodge and into the
Beach Club Villas. Most everything is packed and I woke up
early to finish up and make some breakfast. After we are all
ready we run everything down to the car and I plan to meet the girls
at the MK after I check us in over at the Beach Club Villas.
Good plan, except as I'm standing at the check in desk I get a call
from Kristen that I forgot to give her their park tickets.
OOOPS.
 So,
its hurry and finish checking in (with the very NICE but VERY NEW
CM) and run for the bus. I get there to see that the one bus
already their is the Magic Kingdom and start running. Get
there in time, but that bus is PACKED. I am the absolute LAST
person that could possibly get on and I'm JUST behind that dreaded
yellow line! ;-)
 The
bus driver welcomes us all to the morning sardine run and we're off
for the Magic Kingdom. At least there's NO way we could stop
any place else!
 Kristen
calls again and they are at the Magic Kingdom and will be waiting
for me near the turnstiles. I meet them there and pass out the
tickets to enter the park. Jeff and Corinne have called and
are running just a bit late this morning, so we head on in nd meet
them in Fantasyland after riding a couple rides.
 They
start out with Dumbo (of course!) and then we go back to see Ariel
before the line gets crazy long. Ariel is Jordyn's favorite
and it was fun seeing her with the girls. After that we
hit Peter Pan, Pooh, the Tea Cups, Philharmagic and Small World.
 Jeff,
Corrine and Brinn do the Haunted Mansion while Kristen, Mallory,
Jordyn and Maddy watch the Country Bears. *I* run for some
fast passes for Big Thunder. After that we meet up in
Adventureland where we split off again to have some do Pirates while
the youngsters do the Tiki birds. Its about time for our
Crystal Palace reservation now so Jeff grabs fast passes for Jungle
Cruise for his family and we get over to lunch just as the clouds
open up for a bit more rain. TODAY we all have poncho's
though, so its not so soggy! HOT - but not so wet! :-)
 The
girls have already checked us in so we head right into the
restaurant when Jeff and I arrive with Brinn. We have a great
lunch and watch more rain come down as we eat. The girls all
loved seeing Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger. The food was
excellent and we had a very good time with very good service once
again.
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After
lunch, we donned our oh so stylish ponchos and headed for Big
Thunder to use those Fast Passes. We also had some for
Splash and Jeff, I, Maddy and - wait for it - BRINN rode on this
one! Yes, our Splash Mountain fearing daughter decided
to give it another try since she did Humonga Kowabunga like 5 times
the other day at Typhoon Lagoon.
She
was very nervous throughout (both with speeding heartrate and NO
heartrate at various points in the ride. Or so she says...)
but handled it like champ with a smile at the end. ME? I
lost my hat!!! D'OH!!! I know better and had every
intention of turning it around for the drop, but Brinn's worries
took precedence and I completely forgot while I was winching her
down with my left arm. It flew off right after the
picture and hit poor Jeff in the side of the head, but he didn't
have any chance to catch it. Oh well... no pins on there and
it time for a new one anyway! :-) 
After
that we were done. Kristen wanted to get back to the room and
they had called around noon to tell us it was ready. THAT was
nice - having them call me this year! And the room number was
even the one I saw the CM right on the key envelope before the
manager grabbed it back and crumple up. :-D
So,
we split off from Jeff and Corinne and headed back to the resort.
That walk to the bus station is much farther than the walk to the
Wilderness Lodge boat dock! ;-) But only a
short wait for the bus to arrive and we were on our way. We
went right up to the room and its a great studio overlooking the
pool. Very nice and again, as close to the elevators as
possible and right across from the laundry room. We have
a great pool view and I even saw the MK fireworks from the balcony
tonight! Nice! But its only for two days and then we're
into a one bedroom from Sun - Fri. 
Then
it was off to the pool for some swimming. OK - the girls went
to the quiet pool while I crashed for about 1.5 hours. I
needed a nap so that I could both hit the pool later AND stay up to
type more report that night!