We have had 8 days of rope drops so far this trip, so we are now on our version of an "off day."
We started our morning with a breakfast at 'OHana at Disney's Polynesian resort.
This is how we take it slow, get up early and have a breakfast with Mickey, Stitch, Pluto, and Lilo.
Downstairs the kids think they are pretending to surf.
They snap a picture before you are seated.
Once seated we were served some juice and food. It is a family style meal, and it was nice to just sit and be waited on, rather then worry about missing a character when at the buffet. Pluto was first to greet us on this morning.
Then Stitch came by. This was one of the best character meals because there was a PhotoPass person with Stitch and Mickey.
And Lilo.
And finally our pal Mickey Mouse!
Now that our tummies were full, we headed over to Blizzard Beach. We had the water parks add on to our base ticket so we were excited to take advantage of it. The kids were ready to go and hoping not to "melt."
The view of the summit from the "lost children" area. We pointed this out to the kids that they better not get lost or they will be forced to hula hoop. Only joking of course… :)
Our little vacation planners! They thought they were making our rope drop plan but we already had a plan. We started by Doug heading up to go down Summit Plummet then we would all go up and do the family tube ride. After that we would be focusing on the little kid's area.
The kids and I watched Doug from here after we had claimed a beach chair in the little kids area and put stuff in our locker. Doug was the second person to go down for the day. The only person before hime was the person they picked to "open" the park.
You can almost see the flash that is Doug go by in this picture. He liked it for some reason! It is unlike anything else you can go on and the best wedgie of your life. :)
Once he rejoined us at the bottom, we all rode to the top. Doug walked the first time up because it is faster to walk. We knew the line for the chair lift would just keep growing as the morning went on so we wanted to ride it now to avoid the line later.
Clair pointing out some thing important.
The big kids and I at the summit. Be warned their are still some steps to go up to get to the top. Now that we got to the top, we were ready for Teamboat Springs (worlds longest family raft ride) but it was not open yet due to technical difficulties. So we had to walk down the steps to the bottom. Not exactly the way for the family to start the day.
We hung out in the Tike's Peak area and the kids splashed around for a few minutes. Next, we hiked back up the steps for another try at Teamboat Springs.
Thank goodness it was open! I'm not sure we could have walked back down again! The kids are not tall enough for any of the other slides up there. It has a great view from the top! You can see just about every Park and Hotel from up there.
The raft ride is lots of fun and long. Clair would argue that it is no fun and too long. (This Disney trip was full of fearful things for her and she survived!)
We had room for more in our raft. I is hard to Imagine 5 adults in it but I believe it would work.
You can see the steepness in this pic.
At the bottom where you get out of the raft they have a hidden mickey made out of the raft and some tubes.
Lots of tubes waiting for lazy people in the Lazy River.
We walked over to the wave pool.
This wave pool has the short choppy type waves and Alden and Samantha didn't know what to make of them. Clair basically said NO, so we hung out in the back.
Back over to Tike's Peak for some sliding.
Sam always end a slide with a look of terror on her face.
We finally pushed Clair Down one!
Sam, Alden, and Doug went over to the Ski Patrol Training Camp. This is the pre-teen area. There are some other activities and slides over there. Alden and Sam did one of them a few times. Then they headed over to the Toboggan Racers. They had lots of fun once they got brave enough to do some of the bigger slides.
Random view up the Mountain from the Ski Patrol area.
It was just about noon so it was time to head to lunch and rest up for a big night at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!! The water park opened at 10. So, in two hours we were able to accomplish everything we really wanted to with very little waits. The people were really starting to file in as we were leaving. And just like in the theme parks we watched people enter and then look at a map and decide to eat first. By 2 o'clock the lines will be long and hot, so we were glad to get out of there before it got too crazy.
We took these picture while Doug was getting all our stuff out of the locker. It was our first time to a Disney Water Park with the kids and we had fun. Can't wait till they are a little braver and little taller. We picked Blizzard beach over Typhoon Lagoon because Tike's Peak is a lot bigger than the little kids area at Typhoon Lagoon and because we did not want to mess with the sand that Typhoon Lagoon has.
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| Map of Blizzard Beach |
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