A Scrap of Life

I woke this morning before 6am, unable to sleep any longer.   I got up and dressed using the bathroom light.   I edited a few things on the trip report I wrote last night.   I ate my breakfast.   I crinkled my wrapper a little.   Then a little more.   I opened the shades a bit.   Then I walked around a started packing more things.   It was 6:30 now and I was still the only one awake.   I knew everyone was tired but it was our last day at Disney! I opened the shades more.   Then I checked facebook on my phone.   Then I stood at the end of the boys bed and shook it lightly with my legs.   Then I shook it again.   As soon as I saw an eyeball peek open I whispered "good morning".   Eventually the boys crawled out of bed, which woke up everyone else and we started our day. We finally got out of the room about 7:20am.   Magic morning had started at 7 and lasted until 8 so we still had a little bit of time to enjoy...

Once we arrived back in Disneyland we headed towards main street to see how the seating for the 3:30 parade was looking.   I couldn't believe that at 2pm it was already pretty busy.   We snagged a spot on a bench but it was facing the full sun and was not going to be good for sitting in for 90 minutes.   We left the kids there just in case it's all we could find but eventually we found a place on the curb in the shade near the end of Main Street .   We saved a huge spot then messaged Melinda to see if her family wanted to join us.   They did so we spread our stuff (and kids) out to save our spot and settled back for the long wait.   I ran and got a snack for Brian (double scoop cookies and cream in a fresh waffle cone) and a chocolate croissant (I love these in WDW... maybe not quite as good in DL though) for my breakfast tomorrow.   When I got back to the curb we let the kids go explore Tarzan's tree house.   They were gone for a little while a...