| Day 5 Monday April 9th
Have you ever seen the commercial on TV where everyone is driving around on flat tires because they all back up out of the car rental places over the metal spikes because they want to spend an extra day in Florida. Well that was us today. We had packed most of our stuff on Sunday so we got up this morning and headed straight for AK. It was raining lightly so I grabbed 3 ponchos that I had brought down with us. We got to AK fairly quickly and went straight back to EE. I must say since there was no real line we missed most of the cool stuff in the que. I was looking around a little but mainly walking straight for the ride car. We got right on a train and I didn't really have enough time to chicken out. The biggest ride I ride at WDW is BTMRR. Everyone compare the two as fairly similar but I think EE is more intense that BTMRR. The hill you can see really isn't too bad because it's on a bank but the backwards part is what had me screaming like a little girl. Kelsey was next to me and Courtney was in the seat behind us. I made it and looked for a shirt that said I survived EE but I didn't see any. I know I'm totally whimpy but it was a huge deal that I rode that. Courtney wanted to get right back on and I talked Kelsey into going on again too. I was afraid she didn't have any fun on the ridethe first time because she was so worried about how I was doing. She rode it again but she didn't want to do it any more after that. We went and rode Dinosaurs and then left AK. We took a bus to AKL and then jumped on a bus to DTD. We did some shopping and then went back to BC and got our bags together and called for a bell hop. They stored our bags and we headed back to WS. My entire reason for staying at the BC was it's proximity to WS. I just love WS and I think I was in there 5 times in 5 days. We wandered around and had some funnel cake and Courtney got lunch in Morroco. We made our way around to Canada and were watching Off Kilter again when I remembered that I never had our boarding passes printed out. We headed back to the hotel and I just knew we would get "C" and never be able to get seats together. I was very disappointed in myself that I had totally forgotten the day before. Darn that WDW for being so much fun that I forgot about everything but celebrating with my family!!!!!!!! Next trip I am going to tape a sign to my room door stating what time and day I had to go and get them printed. We headed back to the hotel but I didn't have our confirmation number because it was in a pocket of my passporter so we went out to the bell hop area to get the number. They let me in the room with the luggage so I could just grab that sheet of paper out of my bag but no one could find our luggage. I started just checking racks of luggage and couldn't find it. Someone was stacking luggage in the last row and I couldn't get by him. When there was finally a small space I snuck by and that is where we found our luggage. I got the number and went to print the boarding passes. We didn't have much time so we just hung around the hotel until the towncar came. Quicksilver had called me the day before and backed our pickup back by 15 minutes so they weren't coming until 3:30 and our flight was at 5:45. That seemed kinda late to pick us up and now that we wanted to be the first people in row "C" it seemed even later. The driver was around 5 minutes late picking us up and after we got thru security we hustled to the terminal. We were right behind a single lady in line so that wasn't bad. We sat on the floor behind her chatting about our trip. She too had be in WDW (another WDW lover from the way she spoke) and we had a nice time chatting until it was time to board. When we boarded there was a lady sitting on the isle and the two other seats were open so Kelsey & I went there and Courtney took the seat on the isle behind us. After take off the lady offered to switch with Courtney so he could sit with us since she was just trying to be across from her husband and sons. The flight got in about 10 minutes early and we retrieved our bags and called the car place to pick us up. We got home around 9:40 and were very disappointed to be home. Of course all Kelsey and I could talk about was the trip and going back to celebrate her 13th birthday in 2008. I can't think of a better way to celebrate your 40th birthday than with the ones you love in one of your favorite places on earth. It definatly was a trip of a lifetime and I'm glad I worked so hard planning and saving money in order to do it. And of course thanks to all my passporter friends for all their advice that made the planning even easier.
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