Thursday morning we awoke to dreary skies and the threat of rain, hail, and thunderstorms. To Disney or not to Disney in the rain? Shortly after 9am I began checking wait times on My Disney Experience App, and it was a no-brainer. Attractions that had an hour or longer wait the entire week were walk on. So we brought only the necessities. No cameras, no bags, donned our rain ponchos, and prepared to get wet! Thankfully it wasn't cold because a cold wet day would have been miserable!!
The rain was probably the best thing that could have happened! It kept the crowds down. We split up and Clint and Valerie went one way, Veronica and I another. Clint and Valerie rode Big Thunder Mountain three times in a row - just walked on. Later, they rode it again with a 10 minute wait. The longest Veronica and I waited for anything the entire day was 20 minutes. Everything, and I mean everything was practically walk on. We did more on this last day than we had managed all week!! It rained most of the day, heavy at times, but by late afternoon it stopped. We were wet, but it sure was fun.
We left to have dinner offsite, went back to the townhouse for a bit, then back to Magic Kingdom for the parade. We arrived 15 minutes before it started and walked right up to a front row spot.
What a great end to our magical vacation!!!
Friday morning we packed up and headed to the airport. It was a great trip, but there's no place like home. When we got home though.... Oh.... when we got home, I was absolutely HORRIFIED to find that Pepper had somehow trapped himself in the hall bathroom. He had no food or water for however long he was in there. He was perfectly fine, so he wasn't in there long... but still! To make things worse, he had tried to claw his way out and wore off the pads of his front paws. Bloody paw prints were everywhere.... He must have been frantic to get out of there. I felt just sick thinking what if we hadn't come home that day and can't imagine how he managed to close the door. Next time we will make sure all the doors are shut or wedged so they cannot close all the way.