High Five Life

Day 7 – Checkout, Downtown Disney, Drive to St. Augustine Today was the day we checked out of Art of Animation.   We were bummed because no one ever wants their Disney vacation to end.   We packed up all of our stuff and loaded the car then headed to check out.   We still had two counter service meals each and something like five snack credits each. Our parking pass and dinning credits were good until midnight today, verified with a cast member, so we ate breakfast at Landscape of Flavors one last time and then caught the bus to Downtown Disney Marketplace. We shopped for several hours with highlights being the Christmas Store, Goofy’s Candy Company, Once upon a Toy, World of Disney and the Lego Store.   We had so much fun shopping, even thought we didn’t spend much.   We did manage to spend all of our snack credits on various goodies we could take with us. The construction had begun for the Disney Springs remodel but was in the very early stages of putting...

Sunday, October 6, 2013 Arrival, Downtown Disney It was finally here! The day we leave for Disney! My husband, our daughter and myself, plus daughter's BFF, were all flying down this afternoon and ready to have a week long full of Disney fun! We have always gone in May in the past and thought it would be fun to mix things up. We decided to go in October so we could attend Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party .  It just happened to also be during my birthday!   We had everything packed and ready to go the night before. My friend  was roped into volunteered to take us all to the airport and pick us up when we got back. We decided to kick off our vacation with all of us going to breakfast at Bob Evan's before heading to the airport. We had a hearty breakfast and good conversation with good company and then set out for our airport adventure. We had a 1:05 pm departure time and also needed to go through airport security. Having never flown ...