Ben woke up ~10am and seemed to be feeling much better so we coordinated with Kerri to hookup at the Monorail entrance in Downtown Disney. By the time we got into the park he was like a new boy (we should have gone on the Pinocchio ride first!).

Lines were short so we got through a ton of rides in fairly short order. By 2-ish we decided to head back to the hotel and get some swim time in. There's a small water slide at the hotel (may 100 yards long?) and after a few minutes of play time in the regular pool I went for a quick run. Next we coaxed Ben into taking a stab at it. He was tentative at first but I saw him half way down and he was loving it. Being proper spoilers we "only" let him ride it a million billion times before we had to call it quits. We had just [almost] forced Abby to go on Pirates of the Caribbean, assuring her that she would like it (which she did not) so getting her to try this "new" thing just wasn't going to happen. Perhaps next year.

After a bit of dinner we made our way back to Disneyland and hit several other rides. None of us had ever been on the Peter Pan ride so we gave it a shot and boy that was fun. 30 years of going to DLand and never once on that ride? No idea why.

While we were in line to fly away with Peter the woman in front of us asked me if she could borrow my cell phone so she could call her daughter. A minute into her conversation led to a bit of a shriek... her daughter announced that she was pregnant. The grandma-to-be was so happy! And Abby remarked, "She's the happiest person I've ever seen!". Kinda weird for a 6 year old to say such a thing but really, that was one happy bird.

Ben was pretty-well spent by this time but we went for one more pass on Autopia, thinking that we'd catch the monorail from there. Turned out that it was too close to fireworks time so we ended up walking back to the hotel. And even better -- I apparently left my cell phone at the Autopia ride. When I got back to the hotel I realized it was missing so I kept calling it with Kerri's phone and finally one of the employees answered. Thank goodness they answered because I never would have guessed that it had been left inside the park. I'll get it back in the morning.

About ready to crash but looking forward to some early access to the parks before we call this weekend "done".