Oh the places We Go, The People We see

[dizneeat]

All caught up, Jennifer. I love that you got to see the Christmas Parade at AK. It is really neat and then going to Epcot to meet Tim and his family! Great day is all I can say.

[jenseib]

Originally Posted by dizneeat

All caught up, Jennifer. I love that you got to see the Christmas Parade at AK. It is really neat and then going to Epcot to meet Tim and his family! Great day is all I can say.

I heard you snuck off again. Lucky you.

[jenseib]

Nov. 9, 2012, Friday, Day 9

I woke around 6ish this morning. I just can’t sleep in while at Disney. I took a quick walk outside and took some pictures with my point and shoot, but it was still fairly dark and they all came out really blurry.
I then took a shower and got myself started for the day. I left the makeup for later and went out to find the laundry facilities and started a load.

By then it was about 7:30 and I went out for a stroll while the others slept. I am pretty sure Mom had gotten up, but she might’ve went back to bed for a bit.

I then went for another walk to take some pictures.



Awww. Some Duckies.









This is the Villa pool.









I headed back to the room and took care of the laundry and then got Claire up and ready to go. My parents aren’t ones who get up and go early and they kind of slow us down at times. Claire is not an early riser at all, but we only have so much time and we really needed to be on our way.

We got a few texts. Rob was sick. So sick he was staying in the room and Gail was going off on her own with the girls. She had a reservation at Hollywood and Vine that morning and was headed off. Gails phone also stopped charging she had noticed when she got off the ship, so if we needed to contact her, she was carrying Robs phone. Her phone would only work if it was actually plugged into the charger, but would not charge. (Ironically when she got home it worked fine, but Rob bought her a new iPhone for her b-day in Dec.)

By 8:50 we were heading down to get some breakfast.



By 9 we had it and found a table outside to sit at.

I got the breakfast sandwich and potatoes, as did Mom.



I think Mom got this for Dad.



Now Claire will not eat any of this except for bacon and I don’t have a picture, but I am thinking we got her a muffin to eat.

The view from our table.



I think Dad forgot his hat and had to go back and get it. We weren’t going to wait though. I told my parents how to get to Hollywood Studios and Claire and I headed off.



Of course the friendship boat was leaving just as we walked up.



We waited around a bit.









I am not known for patience and I didn’t see a boat anywhere close to coming so we decided to walk.

[jenseib]

The nice thing about walking was we got some nice views of the Boardwalk and the Swan and Dolphin.






















Oh look! We could see Tower of Terror peeking over the trees.





Let me just say this walk is NOT short. I knew it was probably kind of long, but it was even longer than I thought. But we did walk fairly fast and I felt better actually moving than waiting for a friendship boat.

Look!!!!! The tree is up there too!



And as we got closer we could see ToT peeking some more.





Of course I took a ton of pictures of the tree.





And then I told Claire to go stand in front of it.



Look how huge it is. The ornaments are as big as her head.



I was just loving all the Christmas décor!




We had entered the park about 9:45. A little later than I had hoped, but still not too bad.

[KatMark]

Great update, Jen. LOVE the pictures around the Beach Club and then the Boardwalk, Swan and Dolphin. We never walked it, but it sure looked like a long walk. But I'm with you...I get impatient waiting.

Wasn't that tree huge at the Studios? I couldn't believe how big it was.