Day 5 and 6: Downtown Disney & The Drive Home

Wow, I felt like we took so many pictures during our trip, but I keep thinking of things that we did that we have no photos of. I guess there's no such thing as too many pics on a family vacation. Let that be a lesson to me.
We checked out of our hotel and then drove to Downtown Disney which is full of stores and restaurants and has free parking/admission. Our first stop there was the Lego store. The next few pictures are all made of Legos.
These were taken in front of the biggest Disney Store in the world. The kids got their main souvenirs on this last day in Florida. Elena bought a small Tinkerbell doll with about 20 accessories and Kevin bought a Lego Duplo set of 2 of the cars from the Cars 2 movie.
Sweet little copycat Kevin admires Elena so much.
I bought my souvenir at Once Upon a Toy. Apparently the only photo I took of the store was this train. My most expensive souvenir was actually for the kids, but it was totally my idea because I thought it was so cute. They have a small box for Mr. Potato Head parts. You can fill it for $20. I had a cast member cram the box full for me with the items I'd selected. It was awesome. We now have all these Disney parts - Tinkerbell hair, Buzz shoes, Cruella DeVille purse, etc. The woman must have fit 25 things in there! I'll have to remember to take a picture of it all later.
We also ate good food, shopped in the Christmas store, and rode on the carousel. At about 4pm, we started to drive home. It had been a fun day and worth the late start heading home. We had tried to extend our original room for one night, but our Orlando hotel was booked for Memorial Day weekend. So, we stopped somewhere in Georgia. I'm so glad that we did. I was thinking we just drive all night. That would've stunk. Anyway - we stayed here:
We played in the indoor pool that night. Enjoyed our bigger and super clean room. In the morning we had their awesome free hot breakfast and swam in their outdoor pool. Kevin and Elena loved climbing on this counter and then sliding down the couch in front of it. He's showing off his new cars in this picture.
I wanted to take a picture of the kids sleeping in the backseat on the way home since we started the trip with them awake. Unfortunately, when they were sleeping, I was either driving so Dan could sleep too or else I was asleep in the passenger seat.
We had a fantastic trip and I'm so glad that we went! We are going to have to scrimp for a while to make up for it, but everyone needs an impromptu Disney trip every now and then. It was a great graduation for Dan and birthday for me gift. The best.