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"Kristy's Big Decision"
CHAPTER 13
Before I knew it, the plane had landed and we were all getting off.
Some like Margo were happy to disembark.
But others, like Gabby wanted to stay on.
I explained we would be taking another plane back. This cheered her up immensely.
When we got to the hotel, there was a surprise waiting for Emily.
Her eyes lit up and she squealed happily, "Pluto!"
"How did…?" I asked as I saw what Emily was pointing at.
The woman behind the desk, who introduced herself as Ava, explained what had happened.
"It's a good thing her name was written on the tag, along with where you were going." She said. "Here you go, sweetie." With that, she handed Emily back Pluto.
"Thank you." I said.
"No problem." Ava replied. "But you might wanna be careful because of the leash laws in Florida."
I giggled, but Emily didn't get it. She was too young. "What leash laws?" Karen asked as we walked up to our rooms.
"I'll explain later." I replied.
Karen nodded.
When we entered the first of fourteen rooms we would be sharing for the two weeks we would be staying there, Karen immediately announced that she wanted to share a room with me.
"Calm down." I said. "We'll figure it out."
After everything was sorted out, Karen got her wish, along with having Alex as a playmate.
After we got unpacked and settled in, I asked the loaded question.
"What do you guys want to do first?"
"You shouldn't have asked that." Anya said knowingly.
I nodded, realizing my mistake too late.
"The Rainforest café!" Alex and Karen said in unison.
"Meet Mickey!" Sari said.
Emily giggled as she made Pluto bark.
"Ride space mountain!" David Michael said.
"Not so fast, young man." Mom said with a glare. "We need to talk." With that, she led David Michael away as we all tried to figure out what to do.
We all knew the little ones were hungry, so it looked like we were going to get something to eat first. The only question was, where would we end up?
"I wanna meet Tinker Bell!" Gabby cried excitedly.
Charlotte nodded in agreement, although she was quieter about it.
Mariah nodded as well.
"Okay." I said. "Let's get something to eat first and then we can start the fun."
Everyone agreed to that. We shepherded the kids out of the hotel and into the parks.
"Kristy?" Emily said as we were half way downstairs.
"Yeah?" I said. I was ready for her to say she had to go potty, but she didn't.
"Pluto come too?" She asked.
"Sure!" I said. "In fact, all of you can bring your new friends along."
In the end, Alex, Karen, Sari, Mariah and Gabby were the only other ones who did so.
When we entered the park, the kids' eyes grew wide with excitement and wonder.
Anya promised a slightly disappointed Alex that we would go to the rainforest café before we left. She reminded her daughter that we had two weeks there.
We rode the monorail to the Magic Kingdom.
From there, we traveled to main street.
When we got there, Emily started squealing happily.
"Kristy! Kristy!" She shouted. "Mickey, Mickey!"
Gabby giggled and nodded as she joined my sister.
"Kristy, can we meet him, please?" Gabby asked. She was more verbal than Emily and had better sentence structure.
"Sure!" I said.
"I wanna meet Ariel!" Karen said.
"Me too!" Alex chimed in. "Mama, can we?" SHE asked, turning to Anya.
"Maybe." She said. "We'll see."
Alex grinned.
"I don't think Ariel's here you guys." Mal said.
"I know she is. " Karen said confidently.
I mouthed to Mal to let it go and she nodded.
After we were seated at a table, we started helping the kids decide what they wanted to eat.
Alex chose a chicken finger basket with honey mustard, while Karen had the shrimp basket and Charlotte had a cheeseburger. She gave half of her fries to Gabby, who was getting a turkey sandwich.
After everyone had ordered their food, we started talking about what we wanted to do afterwards.
When are waitress, who was named Belle, strangely enough, came back, Emily piped up.
"Pluto's hungry too." She said.
Belle grinned.
"Well, sweetie, maybe you can share your lunch with him. I'll even bring you a bowl." With that, she left. SHE soon returned with a bone made of plastic and set it on a plate. "There you go." She said.
"What do you say, Em?" I Prompted.
"Thank you." Emily said. She made Pluto bark.
"He's saying thank you too."
"You're both very welcome." She said. With that, she left.
Once we finished lunch, we headed for Mickey's Toon town fair. We thought it would be a good way to get the kids into the Disney spirit.
Anya was carrying Sari, while Hannie and Karen walked hand in hand. I wasn't surprised. They did everything together.
Alex looked a little put out until Charlotte invited her to walk with her.
I smiled at Char and gave her a thumbs up as we entered Mickey's toon town fair.
"Look!" Alex cried as she pointed up at the screen.
Everyone glanced to where she was pointing.
The movie or whatever it was kept the kids occupied for twenty-minutes.
After that, they started getting restless.
"Mama, I'm bored!" Alex said in a less than nice tone.
"Sweetheart, it won't be much longer." Anya said.
"You didn't have to wait this long to meet the doujer empress." Alex mumbled.
Anya giggled.
"No. But this is different." She said.
Karen giggled, having heard her.
"Why don't' we play a game." Anya suggested.
"What kind?" Gabby asked. "What kind of game, Anastasia Springer?"
Anya smiled at Gabby.
"Let's play the guess the experiment game!" Alex suggested.
"Alex, I don't think everyone has seen as many episodes of Lilo and Stitch as you have."
"I have." Karen piped up.
Anya laughed gently.
"Wait a minute." I said suddenly. "Alex, you're a genius."
"I am?"
"We'll each sing a line from a Disney song and the others will have to guess what movie it's from."
The kids agreed to this and we started to play.
The time flew by quickly.
Before we knew it, the kids were gearing up to meet Mickey and Minnie.
Karen and Alex hung back with Mal.
"What's up?" She asked.
"I wanna meet Ariel." She said.
Mal nodded and chose to not say anything.
Alex ran over to where Anya was standing with Margo and Claire.
"You decided to meet the Disney Fairies, huh?" She asked.
Alex nodded.
Margo started jumping up and down as she saw something in the distance that we couldn't see yet.
As the figure came closer, Alex joined her.
It seemed like it was almost time.
While I took Margo's hand and Anya led Alex over to the right area, Alex's grin grew.
After the girls met the fairies, we stopped so Sari and Emily could meet Pooh Bear.
Emily loved Pooh so much, she didn't' wanna say good-bye.
I made a mental note to get her a plush one at the first store we came across.
After the character meet and greet was over, we headed for fantasy land. There, the kids were immediately taken in by Mickey's phill her magic show. I have to say us baby-sitters liked it too.
We all laughed a lot.
However, when Donald's head went through the wall, Sari started to cry.
Anya tried to help her, but she was inconsolable for five minutes.
Once the show was over, we headed to a bench to rest and see what the kids wanted to do next.
As Sari continued to cry, a woman wearing an official ID came up to us.
"Is she okay?" She asked. "By the way, my name is Cindy."
I introduced myself and Anya did the same.
Mal was too busy explaining to Claire why it wasn't a good idea to let Mickey go swimming in the river
"She's just a little upset." Anya explained. "I think she thinks that Donald really got hurt."
Cindy nodded. She knelt down to Sari's level and gave her a reassuring smile.
"Oh don't worry, sweetie. " She said. "Donald's fine." To prove her point, she reached into a basket she had been carrying and pulled out a mini plush of Donald.
She handed him to Sari and smiled gently.
"There you go. " She said. "Now you can keep him safe."
"Magic show bad!" Sari said.
I giggled despite myself.
"Well, sweetheart, there are just something's that aren't so magical." With that, she gave Sari another smile, smiled at us and left.
Just then, Karen let out a shriek of fright.
I had known her long enough to tell her different shrieks apart.
"I knew this one meant trouble.
"Alex!" She cried.
I jumped up and Anya did the same at Karen's pronouncement.
Anya was at her daughter's side in an instant while Karen hovered nearby worriedly.
Alex was on her knees, her right hand on her forehead as though she was in pain.