Day 6 - Now It's Time To Say Goodbye

I woke up feeling absolutely horrible. The long days had caused my cold to catch up to me. I also woke up burning hot - I thought it may have been the fever, but I had all the covers on me all night - I was so out of it, I didn’t wake up to take off some of the blankets. We started packing and headed down to breakfast a little after 7.

As soon as we entered the Storybook Café, which was in our hotel, I saw Meeko, which already made me feel a little bit better. We sat down, and our waitress was seriously the nicest server I have ever had. She was only responsible for beverages since it was a buffet but she brought over juice immediately, along with Mickey Mouse waffles, and she was always there refilling my coffee. I don’t know, she just stuck out.

The characters came around - first was Meeko and he gave me the best hug I have had in a very long time. It was the hug I needed. I call them epic hugs. Later was the bear from Brother Bear (which I haven't seen so it's ok I don’t know his name, unlike Katie who has seen it!), then Chip and Dale. Let me just say, this Chip…..he was not fun. He was totally lame, and it upset me. Dale was fine, I adored him and he appreciated my shrit (which was Chip n Dale). Turk came around and I don’t really like monkeys, but it went well.

I started getting emotional gain - since I felt awful and it was the last time I'd everyone. And I was talking to Michelle again about life and dreams and yeah the water works just started. Then Meeko came around again, and I told him I needed another one of his epic hugs - and that’s just what I got. Then I started tearing up again. We explained it was our last day and we were very sad about it, we didn’t want to leave. Meeko dried my tears and gave me another hug. Then music started playing, which was the que for all the characters to dance along with anyone else who wanted to join (mainly children though) - much like the dancing at Goofy's Kitchen.

Meeko grabbed my hand, and led me into the line going around the room and eventually ending up in a circle in the middle of the room. They called out moves for us to do, so I did them. Immediately as the song ended, he grabbed my hand again, and took me back to my table. He high-fived the kids that came up to him as he was escorting me back, but he never let go of my hand. I asked him to come home with me haha that I could be his new Pocahontas, since he implied she was off all the time. I sang to him, and I think he accepted me as his new Pocahontas haha. He gave me one last epic hug and I did feel better. It's an experience I'll never forget.

After breakfast we headed back to the room to finish up packing and head to Disneyland since that is the better park in our opinion. We headed straight for Splash Mountain because we hadn’t gotten a chance to yet and wanted to make sure we got that in. A wave came and hit us write in the side, so I had one wet foot all day. We then boarded the Winnie the Pooh ride, enjoying the ride dedicated to my hubby. We shopped around for Katie's crazy hats and eventually headed over to Pirate's Lair to meet Jack Sparrow.

He was fantastic. When I asked him to sign my shirt, he wanted to sign with all the markers, which I think would have been awesome, but he had me hand them all to him one by one as he examined them, evening smelling a few until he found the right one. He ended up with green, and when he saw that he exclaimed "what, where is the red one!?". So I gave him back the red one. Everytime he tried to cap one of the markers (I had the cap in my hand, he had the pen) he would stumble and ask me to stop moving. He signed my shirt with a very nice signature and as we posed for a picture, he first put it over my face, and then lowered it. He was quite nice and he makes me laugh, we're a cute couple I think. It was Katie's turn, and he stared her down. When one of the pirates came up to him and asked what he was doing, Captain responded with "I'm marking you" and proceeded to chase around people with my red sharpie. He soon returned it and we said our goodbyes. (Don't we look like a cute couple? Don't tell Pooh!)

We explored the island, going through a cave and getting a wee bit lost haha but we made it back to the dock to wait for the raft to take us back. As the raft came over I exclaimed "it's our pirate!" and pointed. It was the same pirate from lunch the other day. He looked at me with such a pirate look, but I think he knew who we were. I like to think so anyway.

We checked out all the shops around Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean, and while in one I realized I was missing my ring, which was my favorite thing that I had bought so far (it’s a single silver ring with a Mickey and a star in my birthstone). I quickly ran back to the bench where we had stopped to apply sunscreen and figure out a game plan, and luckily it was there, yay! We found the infamous Club 33 in our travels - and even saw someone go in! CRAZYNESS

We wandered to Main Street going in all the shops, I was on a missing for a sweatshirt that World of Disney didn’t have my size in. After spending lots of money, we were a bit hungry so we headed to Tomorrowland in search of food. While in line, we saw they were selling Buzz Lightyear Souvenire cups - we discussed and debated and decided to get them, we felt we really would use them again. I have to say, getting the cup was an excellent decision, he is pretty cool. After lunch we went to Innoventions which was actually kinda lame, maybe because it was crowded. But we headed back to Main Street to finish up the shops where I purchased a new set of ears since I got mine when I was a toddler and they were pretty beat up now. We aldo ran into Mary Poppins and Bert!

We decided to go over to California Adventure and wait in line for Midway Mania. On the way, I stopped in a shop and found my sweatshirt! Katie and I got in this mindset where we didn’t really care how much money we spent, in fact we would try to get to 50 dollars so we could get 10% by showing our Disney Visa. It's not going to be fun when that bill comes!

It said it was an 80 minute wait for Midway Mania, but it only took 50. They were pretty good about keeping the line in shaded areas, and they had drink stands right near it. It was worth it too - the ride was pretty incredible and a lot of fun. I was even beating Katie for most of it, but no she had to go and score lots of points in the end. After Midway Mania I wanted a Churro because I smelled them for the past three days and they smelled delicious. So I got my churro, and it indeed was delicious. It was a day of spending money.

We headed back to Disneyland and went on the Storybook Land boat ride which was relaxing and entertaining. We headed to the Enchanted Tiki Room and enjoyed the room where the birds sing words and the flowers too (or croon? It's a mystery!). To end our Disneyland experience properly we headed to the monorail and rode it to Downtown Disney and then walked to our hotel.

We got our bags and strategically packed all our new souvenirs so we wouldn’t have to check more than one bag of luggage - go us! We said goodbye to Quinn and got into the car. Our flgiht was delayed and delayed, it was supposed to take off at 10pm, but it didn’t end up leaving until 1:40 in the morning, but we made it home - back to reality.