Disney World Day 10: Beaches and Cream and the Kitchen Sink

We all rested for a few hours and then we piled into the car to drive over to the Yacht and Beach club resorts. It was pretty funny. Doug and my dad were in the front seat, my mom sat in the back seat and the girls were in their car seats and I sat on the floor in front of Maddy. It was very cramped.
If I could stay anywhere and didn't stay at the Grand Floridian, the Beach Club would be my second choice. It is so beautiful and I just love the nautical, sea side style.
The lobby had an amazing gingerbread carousel...

I liked this horse because it has the Kitchen Sink on it's back and that was what we were here for!

We walked through to the back of the resort to get to the area where the little diner Beaches and Cream is. We looked around at the resort and their amazing pool! It had a big shipwreck with water slides.

Then we went into another lobby to get to the diner. Here they had this great little village...

Then finally we found Beaches and Cream. I had seen a Samantha Brown special many years ago where she had gone here and got the Kitchen Sink and ever since then my mom and I had planned on doing this if we ever got to Disney World.
When they bring it out to you they flash the lights and announce to the entire diner that someone has ordered it.
It has five different flavors of ice cream but we opted out on the coffee flavored so we had four. It is stuffed with brownies, candy bars, Oreo cookies, bananas, chocolate sauce, sprinkles, an entire can of whipped cream and a bunch of cherries.

Between my parents, Doug and I, Abi, and even little Maddy we made quite the dent in it but couldn't eat the whole thing.

It was a really fun experience. After we left the diner we decided to walk across the bridge over to the Boardwalk.

We stopped to watch this street magicians show and he picked my mom out to come up. She is not the type to enjoy that so I felt bad for her but she was a good sport and it was hilarious.

On our way back over to the Beach Club resort my mom and Abi played in the sand for a few minutes.

This was definitely a good way to end the day. It got us all back in the magic and feeling good again.

Next up: Hollywood Studios day two

Disney World Day 10: Downtown Disney Marketplace

We thought that Friday would be a good day to go to Downtown Disney and do some shopping.

Unfortunately it was extremely crowded.
We slept in until 7:30 which was very nice but by the time we all got ready and rode the bus over I'm afraid we must have missed the window of less crowds.
I was so excited when we arrived...

I feel bad thinking about it now though because I was pretty cranky. I think we were all so wiped out from the night before that it had carried over to this day. My dad was smart and decided not to come because I don't think he would have enjoyed the crowds at all.
We stopped by the Christmas store first and I was able to get our ornaments for this year.

I got the 2010 one and the castle for our family tree, the Minnie Mouse one for Maddy, and Abi picked out the Alice in Wonderland one for herself.


We then went into Goofy's Candy Company and made treats. You fill out this card with the kind of treat you want, what kind of chocolate you want it dipped into, and the topping. I made a rice krispie treat dipped in milk chocolate and peanut butter cups. It was so good but huge.
Abi picked a gingerbread cookie dipped in milk chocolate and sprinkles.
here she is watching them make it...

This sign reminded us of Jelly Belly...

We took a little break outside so Abi could try her cookie. She liked it but didn't get anywhere near finishing it.

Next we stopped by the toy stores- Once Upon a Toy and World of Disney. They are huge and full of just about everything you can imagine.

They have these Mr. Potato Head stations that have parts for the potato heads that you don't see anywhere else and you can fill up these boxes with parts. You can get however many you can fit in that box for the price. Abi loved this and it is played with all the time now at home. I overstuffed the box so that it barely closed and it was okay. They just taped it shut.
Here are all of our parts along with a carriage we picked up.


We got a few Christmas items and then decided to go over to the Lego store.

This family stands outside the store. Yes, it's all made of Legos..

This dragon is made all out of Legos as well. It was really cool.

We had big plans for going to this sandwich shop that sounded great for lunch but it was way too crowded and that's when the crankiness went way, way up. We were all hungry and tired and had been dealing with the crowds and I didn't handle it well.
We just decided to catch the bus back to Pop. I'm glad we did this because the stress level went way down. We got my dad and he hadn't eaten yet so we all went back to the food court for lunch.

Then we split up so we could all go rest in our rooms for a while.
I got this picture on the way back to our room. Abi was up in the number and jumped down to Doug right when I took the picture.
It is one of my favorites.

Next up: Beaches and Cream and the Kitchen Sink