Wow! We made it back from Disney!

Where to start? Well, tropical storm Fay dumped rain on Orlando for 6 of the 7 days were there! It was the first storm to make 4 landfalls in the state of Florida. Read all about it at Wikipedia!

Dawn posted a set of pictures on her blog too.

Tuesday was a travel day.
Everyone's at the airport on time. Adam is still pretty unsure of the whole thing.

Our tickets had us on separate planes once we got to Detroit. Adam and I had a direct flight to Orlando, that got off the ground a half hour late. Kind of odd how they made an announcement about problems with cargo, then separately looking for someone that checked a cat, then 30 minutes later an announcement that maintenance had to finish up their log before we could leave.

Dawn, David, Rebekah and Rachel had to go through Atlanta, but that leg was running late. They were told they would have to catch the next flight after their scheduled one, though it might be delayed or cancelled due to Faye's approach.

Went to the Hoop De Doo Review at our resort, which was a really great show, with our table right in the front row!

Wednesday:
Downtown Disney
Got up late and went to Downtown Disney in the tropical storm, spent the day shopping.

Ended the day at the Polynesian Resort's Luau Cove to watch Hula dancing and a Fire dancer.


Thursday:
Animal Kingdom:
Got up at 7 to ride horses, but (of course) Faye had other plans for that -- the horse rides were canceled for the day.

Visited Animal Kingdom, where we rode Expedition Everest twice, went on the Kimajamin Safari, and topped it off with 50 minute wait and a ride on the rapids.






That evening another record was set: the canceling of Epcot's IllumiNations fireworks show.


Our home away from home (in the swap!):


Friday: Epcot for Late magic hours

Laundry and swimming in the morning, after Adam saw a 4'+ snake in the pool the night before.

Ate in London, where Rachel got Bangers and mash.

A huge amount of rain where we watched Illuminations without Dawn, who had to go back to the room.




Saturday:
Hollywood studios

We had sunny weather until about 2:30, at which time a T-storm dumped on us.









Finished the day with Fantasmic

and a good old pillow fight:


Sunday at the Magic Kingdom was rather warm, and not a drop of rain was found all day:








The blurry picture doesn't do the fireworks justice for our last night in Florida:


Troops are anxious to go home, as now it is warming up since Fay has moved further north.