Day Five - Downtown Disney and other stuff

Yay!

You've made it to the end of our trip! Congratulations! If you're starting here... go to the bottom and work up.

We're to Saturday, day of wrapping up and returning. We headed back over to the Animal Kingdom after packing up the Mach 5 for transport to ride Expedition Everest. We got there and, surprise surprise, it was still closed. Good news though, it was set to open shortly. So we jumped in the standby line behind these people from New Jersey (much like the elves from the Polar Express)... we know this because they stood and talked to us the entire 45 minutes to an hour that we stood there, waiting. But we did get to ride the Everest ride. It was fun! It's a coaster that goes forward, then backward, then forward again. There's a Yeti. Yup, a giant furry animatronic Yeti about midway through. Seriously fun though. There were screamers in front of Mom and Dad (the Jersey people) and behind them (Allie and I). We then high-tailed it out (da da dum) and over to Downtown Disney. We searched for the elusive High School Musical 1 throw, which we still didn't find, but we found the one for the second movie. We also bought some prints from an art store and walked to the opposite end of the park to check out an awesome movie/music store will all hand-signed memoribilia... that none of us could afford. It was really neat though and there was lots of stuff I wanted (in case anybody wanted to know). Lunch/Dinner was at Planet Hollywood, between Judy Garland's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Clint Eastwood's pistol from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and the bike Jim Carey rode in The Truman Show. After lunch/dinner (linner or dunch), we started back to Charleston. Dad drove for awhile... then Mom... then Allie. We got lost coming back and ended up making a circle around the South Carolina/Georgia state lines. Not so much fun. Everybody was restless and a little cranky by the time that we got back around 10.45PM last night. Seeing Bandit so excited made it a little better though. So anyway, that's our whole trip. Hope you've enjoyed your tour. Duck on your way. Watch your head, and if don't watch your head, watch your language. Pluto 16-17.

Don't forget to tip your tour guide.

See everyone later!

Whitney