FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX: An Early Birthday Celebration

One cannot have a Disney holiday without a character breakfast! We arrived right on time at 7am at Makahiki, but silly us... there was already a line of people checked in! We had to wait our turn for a photo with Mickey before being seated. There was a surprisingly good selection of offerings including local specialties or variants, as well as a few Japanese options and the all important omelet station. Aunty came around singing with her ukulele as well as Minnie and Pluto. She had a delightfully soothing voice! Our photo with Mickey came at the price of USD35 for a CD of all the photos or a photo package (a print in special sleeve). The more expensive choice of USD45 was for both. We took neither...

Photo with Mickey prior to getting seated

The buffet stations

Dolphin banana anyone?!?

Loco moco

A warm birthday hug from Pluto

Minnie!

Being our last full day here, we took the opportunity to savour the view, enjoy the beach and swim in the pools. The poke bowls from the Ulu cafe were decent and the acai bowl not too shabby. The children were given some screen time as Mal and I left at 2pm to pick up Oma and Opa from Waikiki. It was lucky we left when we did because traffic was horrendous. We didn't return until 4:35pm!! Just in time for our dinner reservation at 5pm.

We decided to have an early birthday celebration for Jonah at 'Ama'Ama as Malcolm, Nana and Grandpa were leaving for home tomorrow on his actual birthday. It was a great way to end our wondrous time together as a family at Aulani.