12/16
DH and I woke up at 6am to get up to head towards AK. We ate breakfast in our rooms. We were watching the news throughout our morning because of the weather; but the weatherman said there will be some light rain in the morning. We left for the bus station at 7:30am, and we arrived at AK by 7:55am. It barely sprinkled when we arrived at AK. That morning was a bit chilly, but not freezing. We killed time in the RFC gift shop. The RFC gate took a while to open, but when we arrived, we were in the front of the crowds. I told DH to meet me at EE, while I grabbed FPs. Again, myself and one other guy jogged through Dinoland. Surprising there were CMs with ropes to "control" the crowds (hence, myself and another guest.) We beat the crowds, again--grabbed our first pair of FPs. I waited for DH to arrive and we ride EE. The wait was about 5-10 minutes. After EE, we decided to ride it again, and it only took 10-15 minutes. After EE again, we decided to grab FPs for EE again, and check out some of the trails. I'm so bad with names (sorry), but we decided to check out the train where you see gorillas, we found the Dream Squad and won Dream Pins!!! AK and MGM/DHS were our lucky parks for this trip!!! At this point, we decided to go to KS. The line said it was 20 minutes, but it was less then 10 minutes.
After KS, we decided to ride EE twice by using our FPs. The lines for EE where about 45 minutes, and we only waited 5 minutes. DH kept on complimenting me about how smooth our vacation has been, and how we've barely waited in any lines. After EE, DH and I decided to call it a day, since it was almost noon. We arrived back to POP and ate lunch in their food court. I remember trying the Teramisu Twinkie (sp?) and it wasn't very good. (I'm going to stick with my chocolate cupcake and tie dye cheesecake.)
We decided to rest for a bit, and I warned DH to wear some warm clothing because it was going to be a bit chilly. And it was!!! We left POP at 3:45pm to head towards WL for our ADR at AP at 5:30pm. We arrived by ferryboat. We had never taken the ferry boat, and we just loved it! The travel is absolutely beautiful. By the time we arrived at WL (before 4:30pm), it was starting to get chilly. We explored the resort. It's absolutely beautiful. We arrived at AP exactly at 5:30pm (we lost track of time), and checked in. We waited about 10 minutes and were seated. We sat next to the window. It was extremely pretty, but before our food arrived, it was dark and you couldn't see much through the window. I ordered the buffalo and DH has the roast chicken. My buffalo was good, but it was a luke warm (you could tell my food was siting under a heat lamp for a while.) We didn't order any dessert. After dinner, we explored the resort for a bit, to kill some time, for our reservation for teh horse sleigh ride at the WL at 8pm. We met John & John the horse at 8am. The ride was very romantic. It was a bit dark, but also Christmasy as well. After the horse sleigh ride, we decided to head towards DTD and use our last PI tickets.
We did some last minute shopping (gifts for people for Christmas), and went to PI and checked the AC. We left around 11pm and it took the buses over 30 minutes before they arrived. We arrived at POP and slept.