Last full day of vacation. I woke up dreading the end of the trip. My texts were starting to contain a lot more funeral stuff and a lot less fun stuff compared to the start of the trip.
It was a relatively slow start to the morning, but eventually we both got up and ready. I think we headed out around 10:45. It was an uneventful drive over to Disney Springs, but as soon as we got there it was obvious that it was a Saturday. The Lime Garage was already filling up, so today we ended up parking on level 4, instead of our usual level 2. Despite the masses of humanity working their way into Disney Springs, security moved quickly (for those of us that had taken the hard sided sunglass case with clasps out of our bag earlier in the week), and we were on an escalator down into Disney Springs pretty soon after parking.
We wandered for a few minutes and then checked in at Wine Bar George for brunch around 11:20. We were seated immediately.
Brunch here was top notch. Service was excellent, atmosphere is nice. Nick got the dole whip orange old fashioned, which he said was “good but a bit medicinal” and I got the frozcato to drink. Then we split the coconut cream stuffed french toast and the brunch board (cheeses, honey, fig spread, pork rinds, nuts, sourdough, hash browns, sausage). The food was fantastic. We both were happy and full at the end of brunch!
After brunch, we wandered over to World of Disney to make sure we hadn’t missed anything earlier in the week. Then we headed for the buses, where, after a brief wait, we hopped on a bus to the Epcot resort area. We took this bus over to the Beach Club, and then wandered the loop around Crescent Lake, enjoying the beautiful weather, debating which Friendship boat color scheme is the best, popping into some of the shops, and doing flight check in from the Boardwalk (sigh!).
When we made it over to the International Gateway area, we headed for the Skyliner and we were on it in just a few minutes. We took this over to Caribbean Beach, then transferred to the Skyliner to Hollywood Studios.
After flying around Disney, we headed for the bus stops at Studios and pretty quickly we were on a bus. It was an uneventful ride to the Contemporary, where we got off the bus and headed up to the 4th floor to explore the stores before heading for the monorail platform.
Soon enough, we were back at the Polynesian for the last time this trip. Here I led the way out to the pool bar, where I got the Voyager, I think, (pineapple dole whip, blue stuff, coconut rum, etc) and Nick got a lime dole whip margarita. We then took these to the beach to enjoy. We both love that the pool bar here is accessible to everyone. They’ve got some fun and unique drinks.
Having enjoyed our beverages and the sunshine, we headed back inside, where we joined the (short) line for seats at Tambu lounge. Within 15 minutes we were able to snag seats at the bar. Here we both got an order of the ‘Ohana noodles (which are now actually listed on the Tambu menu), Nick got a Backscratcher, minus the backscratcher, and I got the Keikei’s lemonade. All was excellent, and we had a good time chatting with the bartender who was originally from CT and the couple next to us, since the wife is a kindergarten teacher.
Once we’d carb loaded, we paid up and headed over to the bus stop. A bus came along probably 10 minutes later, and it was an uneventful ride back to Disney Springs, where we went straight to our car because Saturday night Disney Springs crowds are not our thing.
It was then an uneventful ride back to the resort, where we packed and acted like old people, downing Tums and Advil, because yeah, we’re old now.
I think we both called it a relatively early night.
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