Breakfast with the Princesses on Day #9 of our Disney trip

On the 9th morning of our trip we had breakfast with the princesses at Epcot at the Akershus Royal Banquet Hall! Alden was not feeling the best, so we didn't pressure him into going, but he really wanted to see the princesses! Our reservation was for 8:00am, so we had to get up pretty early. The longer he was up, the better he felt. That was....until....we were next in line to meet Belle. Our whole family got a picture with Belle, but right before that, Alden decided he needed to threw up on me. Surprisingly, he felt a lot better after that and would have been sicker if we wouldn't have met Belle anyway because he would have just cried until he got sick. :)

This is what the park looks like when you are one of the 1st people allowed in! (Epcot opened at 9:00am that day and we got there at 7:45am for our reservation.)

Our group picture with Belle! Alden is looking a little bleak...

The 1st princess to come to our table was Aurora (Sleeping Beauty). Clair didn't like her so much!

Clair didn't like Cinderella either! Alden couldn't quit coughing, so he left with Doug to walk around Epcot for some fresh air while the girls and I finished our breakfast.

Clair did like the Bagels!

Samantha & Snow White - Twins! It could have been Triplets - but Clair was having no part of it! :)

Ariel (Little Mermaid) was the last princess to visit us. Clair at least didn't scream while she visited our table, she was very polite and just looked away! :)

After getting some cough medicine in Alden he was doing much better. The ropes had just dropped at the front gates, so Alden and Doug thought they would pass some time at the charater spot.

Still doing okay...

Having fun...

Should have know he was heading south when he was not thrilled about a one-on-one with his hero Donald Duck. Right after Donald and still waiting for goofy he coughed up some more and gaged on it. So Doug got to run him from the characters to the bathroom to clean up a bit.

Then the girls and I met up with the boys. Doug then gave Alden some benadryl to induce a nap and had decided to give up on the Triaminic chest congestion and stick with just the cough triaminic . He thought the chest congestion medicine was working too good because poor Alden would cough it up and gag.

So back on the monorail we all went towards to the Magic Kingdom and hoping for naps at 9:10am!

So we got back to the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC) and they were all still awake, however, Alden and Clair's heads were bobbing. So Doug took them for a walk while Sam and I headed to the Magic Kingdom

So just after we split Alden threw up again. Doug got him cleaned up at the TTT and Clair fell asleep while he was cleaning him up in the bathroom. Then they walked....and walked...and walked some more. From the TTC, through the Polynesian to the Grand Floridian and finally to the wedding pavilion. (There is a path connecting it all.)

Beach behind the Tahiti building. (We stayed in Tahiti while at the Polynesian.)

View of Polynesian from the path to the Grand Floridian.

Pool at the Polynesian Resort.

Wedding Pavilion. (Doug is a nerd and had to map out his "walk" when he got home and it was about 2 1/2 Miles.)

Meanwhile: Samantha and I were on the ferry headed to the most magical place on Earth!

The crowds weren't too bad at 10am this day! Usually there is always a crowd around the castle!

Our 1st stop was the Tomorrow Land Speedway. Samantha got her own driver's license to drive! :)

We made another trip to Toontown! We tried to ride Goofy's Barnstormer, but it wasn't working at that time.

Samantha decided we needed to ride Cinderella's Golden Carousel again, so I decided we needed a mission! Our mission was to get on Cinderella's horse! There is only one horse that was Cinderella's own horse and it had a golden ribbon around it's tail. I kept my eye on it during the group's ride before us and we headed straight for it! I gave Samantha a boost and explained to her why we picked that one. She was beaming from ear to ear!

Next we went on It's A Small World!

Just hanging out, being a princess while we waited for Doug, Alden, & Clair!

One other mission I had for that day was to see Princess Tiana from Princess & the Frog. Alden joined us just in time!

We went to our favorite pictures spots in front of the castle and had some family pictures taken too!

Next up was Pirates of the Caribbean! Alden had to get another new shirt to "clean up" a little bit and he wanted a pirate shirt, and he also got some Pirate Mickey Ears!

As we were waiting for Clair's Mickey Ears to get finished, we saw Pinocchio and took a picture with him.

Clair has ears too! :) All of the kids have their names embroidered on the back of their 1st Mickey Ears! Alden & Sam got theirs on our last trip!

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As we were leaving the Mad Hatter's Hat Shop, we ran into Whoopi Goldberg (literally)!! She was getting some Mickey Ears embroidered too! (She was there was the Candlelight Processional at Epcot that evening - she was the narrator.)

After getting Clair's hat, we rode the monorail back to Epcot...

Samantha got her own Princess Mickey Ears!

Clair was tuckered out!

This is Alden's favorite hallway! There were bathrooms really close and always a bench to wait on!

We walked around to the different countries...

First up was Canada.

Then we walked to France and the kids met Pierre Noel (a.k.a. Father Christmas) and sat and listened to him tell about Christmas in France.

This was supposed to be a picture of the Eiffel Tower in the background, but the son was too bright at that time of day. You can kind of see the reflection in the water behind Doug.

The kids really liked the countries and there were "KIDCOT" stations in every country. They colored a Disney Duffy bear and the people from that country and wrote their name in their language. They got to take the Duffy bear to each country and then saw how the names compared to each other in different languages. The kids still talk about their bears at home and we took a couple extra to color at home when we needed some "disney magic" back in Nebraska. :)

The kids sat and listened to another story in Japan. A Japanese Street Vendor told them about the Japanese New Year.

After Japan, we walked back to The Land Pavilion for our dinner reservation at the Garden Grill.

This restaurant rotates as you eat! It was very neat to have a different view from our seats every few minutes!

The kids loved Chip!

Chip tried to talk to Clair, but she just wanted to eat her bread! :)

Dale was funny! He stole Alden's pirate ears!

Pluto is another one of the kids' favorite characters! Alden loved his whiskers!

Mickey in overalls! You don't see that everyday at the parks!

After dinner, we rode "The Land" ride and learned about the food we had just eaten (most of it is grown right there in the land).

We walked to the Imagination Pavilion and rode Figment again. The kids really love him! We were going to stay for Illuminations and Fireworks, but it was getting cold and Alden was finally feeling better, so we didn't push it. We went back to Westgate for the night and packed a few things because we only had 1 more full day at Disney!