(We also ate dinner at a ghastly, horrible, made-us-not-feel-good cheap Chinese buffet in the area because parking was so awful at DTD at that hour. Well, live and learn... next time, we wait till the parking at DTD opens up and eat at Wolfgang Puck Express or something, or even McDonald's.)
We drove around a bit looking for breakfast options for the next day, as the continental breakfast and free coffee at our motel would start at 7, which would have been too late. We found that, at least in that part of Kissimmee, close to Disney though it is, things are... er... kind of creepy in places. At 1 AM (on a Monday night!) a bunch of teens were standing around in front of a 7-11 I went into in a way which made us kind of nervous (bad "let's get out of here" vibes), a girl was almost staggering in the parking lot holding a bottle --- eeeeeee! The area surrounding Disney can be kind of like Las Vegas in terms of tourist traps and a sort of seediness, at times... has anyone else experienced this?
We went back to the motel room and slept, getting up at 6 AM for the 9 AM opening. (It, um, takes me a while to get up in the mornings, so I have to plan ahead. Won't go into the reasons here...
) We ate at a Waffle House (I love Waffle House), back to the motel, got ready, and off to Animal Kingdom we went!