Disney World Day 4



For our last day at Disney World, Lacey thought it would be fitting to eat lunch at the Be Our Guest Restaurant, which is located in the Beast's enchanted castle.  Oh my, I absolutely loved the food, but especially the locale!

The food is French-inspired and there are three elaborately decorated rooms straight out of the beloved Disney film.  Guests can choose between the mysterious West Wing, the Rose Gallery, or the grand two-story ballroom where snow actually falls outside the enormous ceiling to floor arched windows.  Yes, I stared at it for the longest time, watching in amazement. 

Hadley let us know, quite quickly, that she didn't want to eat in this creepy room. The Beast's remnants of his angry tirade are everywhere you turn. He really did a number on this room.

Wow...talk about a quick-service meal. I kept wondering how they would know where to bring our food and before we could even get seated Mrs. Potts had our food waiting for us in a manner befitting royalty, with real china and flatware.  They took "quick" to a whole new level. 



We let the girls get special dessert treats of strawberry cheesecake cupcakes.  We really had a wonderful time; the food was very tasty, too.

By our last day, there was nothing we hadn't gotten to ride, nor any princess we had yet to meet.  But we didn't get autographs until Day 3 so we had to backtrack to get several of those keepsakes.  I have to say that it was nice, though, to not feel super rushed to get certain rides in or meet-n-greets.  Instead, we rode some of our faves again, like Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, and Dumbo.



Hadley did don her Cinderella ballgown with the princess herself on our first day.  However, it came a torrential downpour that day and we all got soaked.  Poor girl looked like a hot mess (in her soaked black Tom's nonetheless) for her first meeting with Cinderella. So it was nice to be able to go back and tell the beautiful princess goodbye when she wasn't soaked.  Maybe we shouldn't have gone that first day, but she wanted to so badly and in the end what does it really matter?  I have the magical pictures of Cinderella twirling sweet girl around forever etched in my mind.

Toward the end of the night, we were getting silly.  We got seriously out of our routine on this trip but it was totally worth it.  When we left the park two of the nights, we stopped by Joe's Crabshack for half-price appetizers.  No naps and bedtimes around midnight or later were certainly catching up with our little ones.

We just had to catch the Electrical Parade one last time before leaving Magic Kingdom.  We didn't buy any souvenirs until that last night, when we went in to The Emporium, which is the largest gift and souvenir shop in Disney World.  We did get Hadley a charm necklace and let her pick out one charm to go on it.  She put a great deal of thought in to that one special charm and finally settled on a Minnie Mouse with a polka dot bow.   I would love to be able to add a charm to her necklace each time we visit.  I still can't believe we went to Disney World.  When people would refer to it as being "magical," I always kind of thought they were exaggerating or just a little strange.  Well, I can honestly say now that they weren't exaggerating or strange.  They hit the nail on the head.  We feel beyond blessed to have been able to stay with precious friends who were our personal tour guides the entire week.  We wouldn't change a thing.  Until next time Walt Disney World.....hopefully we will see ya real soon!