Happy Sunday that feels like a Saturday! I LOVE that about long weekends. I can actually take a little DIS time and noe feel like I am neglecting other things. Of course I AM neglecting other things but too bad. LOL. I'm going to respond to replies, then Mary Ellen's and then if the gods are willing get the rest of my Epcot day up so I am caught up to where Mary Ellen is.
Lovely run pictures! What a treat to start the day like that!
Yay for the meet with Kat!
It was a treat! I had never tried that route before and with the construction we weren't sure if you could still get all the way to DTD running so it was a bit of an adventure to figure out, esp as I don't really know SSR well at all. Kat rocks!
I remember that rain poncho - the entire thing fell apart.
I don't remember that part.
OK - I think I have definitely lost weight since last year. I am going through a serious calorie tracking phase right now and its helping.
Those really work if you stick to them. I should and have made a few half hearted attempts to do it again over the past 8 months but have not stuck to it. When I did, it really really worked. But it's work.
o your FP schedule reveals no explanation for why I have pictures for Soarin right after TT. Do we ride standby???? I'm so confused. Really.
I can't imagine we did standby, for some reason I feel like someone gave us FP's?????
I remember you jumping in the pool. It was seriously hot that day. All I could handle was the run to the health club and back. I never would have made it to DTD. Well, maybe now I could, but definitely not back then.
that's because you were smart and ran the day before, the non 900 degree morning.
Your dark and stormy looks way cooler than mine.
I didn't stir before photo op. LOL!
Yuck. Sorry you had to deal with all the phone calls. That's a good way to ruin a nice morning of solitude. Hopefully everything was easily resolved.
Yeah, it wasn't anything major but I swear it was both kids and different things. The worst part was having to do a full stop mid run in that kind of heat. That is why I needed to jump in the pool!
My money is on Olaf there.
Mine too
Yippie! All caught up again. WAY too much to comment on, so just wanted to let you know that I loved reading all about your day at Epcot and enjoyed all the photos.
Thanks Karin!
Now to Cynthia's update. DTD/Disney Springs is still a total mess...just in different spots now (had a horrible cab ride there last week).
It was a mess in September when Jeff and I were there, better than on this trip but still a mess. Seemed actually worse again when Ann and I went there over PHM. WAYYYYYY worse. Bus situation was an absolute nightmare. And it was FREEZING. LOL.
I forgot about Cynthia's phone call drama. When you have school age kids at home that is bound to happen. It used to happen to me all the time. I even had the school call once because someone needed a late note.
I remember it happening to you more than once on other trips.
Really hot!
I really love that show too. She just never wants to stick around for it. On our canceled trip, she was going to leave after dinner, and Jim and I were going to go see the show.
Boo! It is my favorite actually. I think for me it's the combination of everything, not so much the actual fireworks themselves as arguably Wishes is better. But the music, being in Epcot which is a seriously happy place for me, and the fireworks combined make it our hands down winner.
Especially if we can walk "home" after.
I had the one with Myers since I don't like Coconut and it was very good!
The Myers one was prettier! I love Coconut rum so it was good but I think we both had whip envy seeing Kat's.
Hello ladies ! I haven't been on the boards in forever. Yet here I am, in desperate need of a vacation (yet I don't have one planned), and the next best thing is to read about someone else's vacation to my favorite place. Cynthia, since I love your TR's so much, you are the first person I searched for and I found this combined TR. How fun!
I haven't even read past the first page yet but wanted to say hello and that I'll be reading to get caught up soon.
Alison!!!!!!!!!!!!! How fun to have you here. I am SO behind everywhere myself but life should settle down for a few months starting now. Well settle down as much as it ever does I guess.
Awww, you got to meet Kat! How absolutely fun is that!!?? Loved all your drink choices especially the Drunken Dole Whip! Wowza!!
Kat is the bomb and the drunken dole whip was delish!
The flowers in Norway are always so pretty! Nice shots there! Your tilapia looks suspiciously like a scallop with spaghetti squash?? Hmmmm....
It does. I am almost positive I had the tilapia and know I wouldn't have ordered the scallop. However, the scallop is right up Mary Ellen's alley so it IS possible it's a picture of her food.
Lovely morning run pictures. I'm sure if there wasn't all that construction at DTD it'd have been even nicer.
Can't blame you for jumping right into the pool after your run. That's the perk of being near one. Easy and fun way to cool off on a hot day.
All I could think of on the way back was jumping straight in the pool, and then wondering if that was kosher. And then deciding I didn't care.
The downpour that day at Epcot. Bleck. I am pretty sure that picture of the IG features myself and Alex in the background. We were the only people too chicken to run to the Beach Club.
I think you had a poncho on, too. But I can't remember.
I don't remember having a poncho on but it's possible I did! It was a sprint for sure, it was pouring!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still can't believe nobody ordered ice cream at Beaches and Cream! Although, the adult Dole Whip is just as good. If not better in certain situations.
The dole whip is less filling too, we were stuffed after those burgers!
I wanted to pop in and let you two ladies know that I've been reading along and am all caught up again. Of course, with our two week trip to Disney starting Friday, I'll fall behind again. UGH!
Have a great trip Liesa! I am beyond behind everywhere, with no hope of catching up but I am following along on FB!
Cynthia, I can't believe you can run in the morning! I'm so jealous of people who can go for walks/runs in the morning at Disney and then walk around the parks all day! How are your feet not killing you??? I get these stupid blisters on my pinky toes and I'm ruined for the week...from blisters!
Oh no, that's awful!
I get pretty nasty blisters, blood blisters and torn up feet. I always have. I have different issues than before I ran but it's still an issue. For me the key to mitigation is Shoe Rotation. I bring a LOT of shoes that hit my feet in different spots so that I can rotate. That way if one spot get cranky I can wear a different shoe that hits other spots to give the bad area a break. I guess luckily for me, the issues caused by running are all around my bunion areas. Those areas can be problematic in a closed shoe but get nice breaking space in a flip flop so walking around isn't an issue at all. Also, thankfully, the bunion areas are pretty manageable until I start going over 6 miles or more and I don't run that far in the parks, this was under 5 miles total. Good socks are huge! For me, smartwool socks have been by far, the best.
Aww, you met up with Kat, she's awesome! Wish she would come back to the DIS and write some more TR's!
Me too, love Kat!
Cynthia:
LOL, you went into the mens locker room.
I know, it was pretty funny and we'd only had one glass of wine at that point!
Cynthia:
Great pics of your run and your time at Epcot.
I am all caught up again.
Thanks Scott!!!
They don't overlook anything!
