When last I left you, we were just leaving the awesome Candlelight Processional. And the glow of the CP had worn off and we were FREEZING again!
WARNING: This update is VERY short on pictures! It was very hard to take pictures with my gloves on, so I didn't take very many at all this evening!
We went off in search of some food and we ended up at my favorite, the Tangierine Cafe. YUM!!! DH and I shared the Schwarma platter with lamb and chicken. It was a teeny bit warmer inside, so we stayed inside and ate our delicious food.
As we ate, we noticed that there were some children digging in the Morocco fountain for money!
Where were their parents?!
And the kids were both wearing shorts and t-shirts on such a cold evening. You could not have paid me enough money to dig in that fountain on that cold night! Not that I would ever do that anyways, but you know what I mean. I guess those kids really wanted those pennies!
After the Schwarma platter, DH wanted some good old American apple pie, so we went over to America and got him some apple pie at the restaurant. He said it tasted just like McDonald's apple pie, but that didn't stop him from devouring it! I passed on the apple pie because I had something else on my mind...
School bread! We went to Norway next and met up with my parents and my brother and sister in law. We all got a treat at the bakery. The school bread was delicious as always! Then we jumped in line for Maelstrom, which is still one of my favorites!
After Maelstrom, my parents decided to call it a night and they headed back to Pop. DH decided to head back also as he had an early flight to catch the next morning. There's a long story there, but while we were at Disney World, we were in the middle of preparing for our big move back to Chicago from Phoenix. Well, there was some issue going on with the realtor and changing the house from for sale to for rent and DH was having to deal with it all on the phone. He held it together as long as he could, but then he asked me if I would be okay with him changing his flight to one day earlier so that he could go take care of business at home while he still had one day off work. I pushed my little bit of sadness aside and told DH that it was fine with me and he changed his flight. He had seen everything he wanted to see already and I knew he wasn't going to have much fun anyways, while worrying about house stuff, so it would have been silly to insist that he stay. So off he went to Pop to pack up his things...
That left my brother, SIL, and me to enjoy the rest of the evening in the World Showcase. I just LOVE the World Showcase at night. It's tempting to me to spend every evening in the WS while I'm at WDW!
My bro and SIL watched the movie in Canada
Meanwhile, I looked around some of the shops.
I wish that my my house!
A perfume-in-the-shoe tree!
I saw some popcorn in Canada and almost bought some, but I decided to wait until we were a little bit closer to the time Illuminations would start.
I found a table in France right on the water between the buildings that sell crepes and wine. There was a tree there that seemed like it might block our view, but I waited on my bro and SIL to see what they thought. They came over a few minutes later and said they were happy to have a table, so we stuck with that spot. I ran off to get my popcorn and some drinks and then we prepared to watch Illuminations!
Well, I'm glad we stuck with that table because our view was perfect!!! Do they change Illuminations at Christmas time? It seemed like there was a little bit added to the show for Christmas, but I wasn't sure! Either way, it was wonderful!
After the show, we decided to go check out the Boardwalk. And as we did, we saw that there was a magic show going on on the Boardwalk. It was super cute! The magician had a bunch of different kids come up to help him with his magic tricks and of course the kids were adorable!
Next, we took a bus from the Boardwalk to DTD, then caught a bus back to POP. It was quite a roundabout way to get home, but we got there eventually. I was back to the room by 11:05 and thank Goodness, DH had cranked up the heat in there! I think Mousekeeping turned the heat down each time they cleaned the room, so it was always very cool when we returned in the evenings and took a while to heat up. This evening, because DH returned earlier than I, it was so nice and toasty, which was just what I needed after freezing my buns off all night!
One not so nice thing that happened that night was that DH showed me a cockroach that he had found in the bathroom.
And like the man that he is, he used the bathmat to smash it rather than a kleenex! And he didn't dispose of it yet because he wanted to show me. So, you, my lucky readers, get to see our friend the cockroach!
This was our last night together in Disney World.
But I still had one full day and one more night there, so I tried to just think positive and enjoy my remaining time!
Next up: Our last full day...
) , so I amused myself in the shops.
