- Sunday and Friday were the two non-travel days that we didn't have tickets for Disney. We spent most of them shopping, although we did devote Sunday night to the Colts (more on that in another post).
- Downtown Disney is a Disney collector's dream and also, surprisingly, a great place for adults. The first store was "World of Disney" which has EVERYTHING you could ever want with mouse ears on it or related to Disney. Need a Beauty and the Beast snow globe (my wife did!)? They've got it. Need a Pirates of the Caribbean handband with Goofy ears hanging down? They've got that too. Need a Mickey Mouse tea set? Yeah, that's there. Not sure how you would make it out of here with kids. The main attraction for kids (apart from the approximately 10,000,000 stuffed animals) was the "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique" where you're little princess could get outfitted and hairstyled like a Disney princess. It was like Libby Lou on steroids. It's neat idea if your little girl is a princess fan, but I believe you have to take out a 3rd mortgage to pay for it.
- Great stuff for adults to do. We at a Wolfgang Puck's Express for lunch. Great quick and reasonably priced (for Disney) food. There was also an ESPN Studio Store (where an employee assured us the Colts would lose Sunday night), Virgin Mega Store, Planet Hollywood Store, Cirque De Soleil shows and lots of nightclubs (not that we were there; we're so old we were in bed by 9-10 p.m. even on vacation.
- Orlando/Kissimmee also have a multitude a outlet malls. The Disney outlet stores had cheap (again, by Disney standards) last-season merchandise. The store makes you wanted to buy everything because it was so much cheaper than anything you've seen all week. However, you soon noticed that most of the clothing was odd sizes (smalls or triple XLs) or the collectibles were with characters you didn't want. We ended up not buying much here. Probably the only place we could say that!
- Rachel also found an Old Navy outlet. I thought Old Navy was basically an outlet store, so I was surprised to find they have a store selling stuff cheaper. Leave it too my wife to find great deals on t-shirts even on vacation.
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