Day Four

This morning we got up early for an 8 am Breakfastasaurus character breakfast with Mickey, Donald, Pluto and Goofy. It was pretty good food but the characters were the great.

Then we went and rode Mount Everest. Chase go to ride 2x because of RS. Then we rode the Khali River Rapids. You will get wet. But it was worth it.

Then we went to a kids area called Dino-rama. We rode a ride called Primeval-whirl. We absolutely loved this ride! After that we rode the Triceratop Spin (same thing as Dumbo and Aladdin). Then we rode the Primeval-whirl again and left the park around noon or so. This was really all we wanted to do at this park. We thought about doing the Safari tram but we wanted to go ahead and get to the beach.

Somene asked me on a flight home what shows we enjoyed. We didn't really do any shows. We're more "ride people."

So we went back to the hotel and ate lunch. Then we headed out for Cocoa Beach. While there we had a blast. This was definitely daddy's favorite part of the whole vacation. I could stand in the water and be virtually weightless which felt great on my aching feet. I also just generally love the beach.

We had planned for months to come on this day. What we didn't know until earlier in the week was that there was goint to be a space shuttle launch from Cape Canaveral just two miles away at 7:30 pm. So we got to see a real live launch of Atlantis which was very cool. You could see the flames shooting out and it was very loud as it went up.

We then ate Pizza Hut in Cocoa Beach. They had the absolutely most disgusting bathrooms I have ever seen.

Then it took an unbelievable 4 HOURS to drive the 52 miles back to Orlando. There is one main highway back and we found out later that something like 100,000 people had gone to see the shuttle launch. I believe it because we were driving 10 miles an hour with everyone of them. The worst traffic I have ever been in. It was brutal.

The cool thing though was this was a really great family time. We laughed and sang and had a blast. We got what our family calls "road happy." This is where you are so tired that normal things are hysterical. We also learned that Reagan thought the Bon Jovi song started out as "Shockalaha, and your to blame, baby you give love a bad nay!"

We had considered going back to Magic Kingdom for a couple hours for Extra Magic Hours but since we didn't get back til' Midnight we just went to bed.