We were woken by the alarm at 6:15am (although our noisy room had been particularly noisy this night!) and we got ready and finished packing.
We took our cases over to baggage drop for 7am but it was closed!
I was sure it was supposed to be open 24 hours. This is what the lobby of Sequioa Lodge looks like at that time in the morning:
We waited for a bit then decided to take the cases back to the room (luckily we hadn't got rid of our key!) and go for our breakfast slot.
It was really quiet at this time and we had a good final Disney breakfast before having another try at dropping our cases off. Second time lucky!
Then we went off to have our final morning at
Disneyland Parc and EMH.
As before it was really quiet. Look!
We did the same rides (do they ever vary which rides are open for EMH?)
Dumbo was empty so we had the audacity to have an elephant each:
Same with the teacups - one each!
We also went on Peter Pan and the Carousel.
Then we wandered over to Discoveryland and I had a go on Buzz while Simon went on Space Mountain.
After EMH we dashed over to Frontier land to get big Thunder mountain fastpasses. We managed to get them and then the ride broke - we never got to use our fastpasses. Still, at least we'd had several goes on it during the holiday.
Phantom Manor was also not working so we went over to Adventureland. Simon hadn't had the chance to go on Indiana Jones yet, and it was only a five minute wait so he jumped on. I got a nice cafe au lait and a doughnut - yummy!
Simon was soon back and the wait still said 5 minutes so he went back on! Unfortunately it was one of those misleading wait times and I waited about 15 minutes to take a picture of him 'taking off' on the ride.
The park was now really busy. It looked very different from earlier in the day.
We nipped over to story book land and decided to wait aout 25 minutes to go on Casey Jnr - I love it!
We managed to get a fastpass for Star Tours after lunch. Lunch was at Agrabah Cafe - somewhere new for us. There was an initial confusion when we booked in but after that we had a lovely meal. This restaurant is an all you can eat morrocan themed buffet and it is so beautiful. The staff were very friendly and helpful and the manager was on patrol making sure everyone was happy. We had lots to eat here - the plan was to fill up for the journey home! Sorry, I didn't take many pictures here - too busy eating and we had another couple sitting quite close to us and I didn't want to disturb them!
After lunch we went to use our Star Tours fastpasses - our should I say 'slow' passes? We queued for 40 minutes!
The park was totally heaving now so we wended our way out of the park and back to Sequioa Lodge. We did some last minute shopping at the hotel shop (trying to use up those euros) and then we collected our bags. We went to wait for the airport bus...and we waited....
Eventually the bus came but it was already very full. The driver could only fit about half of the people in the queue on - but he assured everyone that another bus would be coming soon.
Then he got off and said he had room for 2 more - was there a party of 2 anywhere? Oh, heck yes! So Simon and I got on the bus by the skin of our teeth - again!
The trip to the airport was uneventful and soon we were all checked in and ready to come home. Sarah and Kate were very well behaved as we waited for our flight:
A short (but slightly bumpy) plane ride later (yay...) we landed back at Newcastle. Bags were collected and we found the car where we left it. It was 9:30pm and we were tired after a busy Disney day but we survived the car journey home and fell into bed - very tired indeed.
We were sad that our wonderful holiday was over - but at least there were no funny noises at night!
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