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Monday & Tuesday

We left rather late in the morning on Monday to travel down. I was very worried about how many "extra" stops we'd be needing to take with my pregnant status, it's always been pretty bad. Yikes!! Leaving later in the morning seemed to be the best choice because we didn't see traffic at all, ever, the entire drive!! We did stop a couple million times, what can I say? Even with those stops, a 30 minute shopping spree @ a Carters Outlet & lunch @ Shane's Rib Shack.... we still made it in 9 hours. Just an hour longer than normal and most of that was shopping & lunch. That was exciting!!



We arrived and checked in at Port Orleans Riverside without problems. It's the first time we've stayed at Riverside, though we've visited a handful of times. We stayed next door @ Port Orleans French Quarter twice. (Once being our honeymoon and once being our big two week vacation) This deal with pay for 4 nights, get 3 free is really an amazing deal!! It comes with a $200 gift card, we are on the dining plan and we bought one set of tickets with the deal. We just can't pass up a good Disney deal and are beside ourselves that there is an AMAZING military one this year as well!! (If you are military, ask for details!!) We can NOT WAIT to come back in the fall with our son!!

Tuesday we slept in, ate breakfast and went to Downtown Disney. We looked at the new "T-Rex" restaurant which is really quite neat. It's almost "just like" Rainforest Cafe, with a dino twist of course. Such a great place for little boys to enjoy!! We look forward to bringing our own little one back! They have a build a bear location, that is build a dino! We walked around, shopped some and visited the new "make a t-shirt store". It is super neat where you pick your t-shirt style, size, color and then decorate. You can choose from hundreds of characters or Disney logos, then add your own text. You have the ability to change the font, color and style of wording as well. I had intentions of making a t-shirt, but at the time didn't have a piece of information I needed. Then we ate a light lunch @ Rainforest!! We love that place for a few minutes to rest and they always have yummy food choices.

This picture was from the Lego store. That place is so neat and I expect a ton of legos are in my future!! We were cracking up at the Dad's building lego cars & racing them with their kiddos. One group of kids were begging their Daddy to come on "let's go" and he was still busy racing his car over and over.



We came back for nap time before our dinner reservations. We love going to visit the Animal Kingdom Lodge and seeing the animals. This trip it was coooollll at night after we ate though and we were sad that all the animals were in for the night. They have special "night vision" glasses out there for you to see the animals at night, if they are out. We'll have to try again in warmer weather. We ate at "Boma" for the first time there and LOVED it!! It's on the list of faves now too. It's a buffet with tons of choices. I was a little leery of what was on the menu with the African cuisine, since I'm such a "plain food" kinda girl. I found TONS of things I loved though and we'll for sure go back!!