Last Florida post

Of course you can't go to Orlando without giving some money to Disney.  We hit Magic Kingdom one day and Epcot the last day.  We didn't get as many photos these days - since the hurricane had passed, these days were starting to approach typical Florida-in-August weather, and we were starting to get worn down from all the walking we were doing on the trip.

 Had to get a photo of the castle.

 Jim and Alex on the Dumbo ride. 

 Grace was always game for a silly photo.  The Toy Story ride was lots of fun for all of us.

A great photo op that we somehow missed on the way in that morning.

  

 Our final day was at Epcot.  We really didn't get to take full advantage of the park since it was so hot and we were quite worn out.

 Grace was up for getting her photo taken with just about every costumed character we ran across.

 The kids worked together to get through a game about saving money.

 

The kids and their piggy bank before the end of the game.

 

Grace and Jim took off on their own, so Alex and I completed as many of the Phineas & Ferb/Agent P Adventure segments as we could.  You got a cell phone that played programmed messages (cartoons) that gave you clues of things to find in each of the World Showcase areas in order to find the evil Dr. Doofenschmertz (it used to be a Kim Possible adventure, but has been updated with the newer cartoon). Once you found a particular spot you used the cell phone to "connect" to it before you got your next assignment.  My stick-in-the-mud kid really got into it and took it very seriously, even going so far as to ignore his shyness and going up to a person working in a tea shop in the United Kingdom area and saying "Danger is my cup of tea" in order to get the Twinings tea packet with the next clue on it.

And just before we left Alex FINALLY found a costumed character that he wanted to take a photo with.  Duffy the Bear has only been in the United States Disney parks since 2010, and was who Alex had chosen the day before at Magic Kingdom as his souvenir (because he didn't have enough stuffed animals as it is, the mother comments dryly). We saw him as we were heading on the way out and couldn't pass up the chance to stand with him.  You can see from the photo how happy the boy was to be with the bear.