After we had covered the essentials in a 3 day whirlwind tour trough the very crowded parks, the last day is dedicated to the outer layers of the Disney universe. Starting with Breakfast at the Wilderness Lodge, one of the themed on-site hotels - this one with a north-western mountain log-cabin theme. The restaurant features some of the loudest and most obnoxious waiters, which the kids obviously find very amusing... After taking the monorail around the lake to the other themed resorts, we spend some time at Magic Kingdom and Epcot, to just look around at the set, take some pictures and go on some of the rides we missed earlier, now with significantly less crows than the days before.



After spend the last 4 days in the various parks, things are starting to become a bit of a blur. However fancy and sophisticated a ride or attraction is, familiar pattern emerge. No matter what the story behind it, there is usually a fight between forces of good and evil or at least some kind of danger, which is safely averted and at the end of every epic journey, there is a gift-shop...

But no matter what, Disney surely does a good job of telling a story and create an illusion in amazingly elaborate and sophisticated ways, shying no effort and cost in the process. Seeing an operation of that scale run that smoothly is truly impressive. But after a while all that superficial perfection gets a bit boring and it's good to be back in the real world, with all its messy, noisy, conflicting, unpredictable complications, chaotic organization and dirty bathrooms...