Hi everyone! I came home a day earlier (Thursday), because DH went back to Boston to help out with the DGC at the airports on Friday, and then was only able to get back to Columbus, not Dayton, so I had to pick him up at the airport because we both had flown out of Dayton. Now, everyone is back home.
Yes, I really was able to get into the 2 bedroom dedicated early. I know I had it before I left for church that morning...maybe it was 8:30, not 7:30, but it was clean and ready for us! Part of the reason that I and my DSis had gone down on Saturday was to have a room in case the Boston group got there and the 2 bedroom wasn't ready.
Oh, those sticky occupancy rules! At least that would limit the number of critters there could be, right? DSis had that room to herself, or so we thought after the first 2 nights. What we had was a studio for Saturday through Thursday morning and a 2 bedroom from Sunday to Friday morning.
DSis and I had arrived on Saturday and a very good DF of mine (We've known each other since kindergarten, if there was a reunion, it would be a 50+ years one) came from the west coast of Florida to spent the day at Epcot, enjoying the F&W, The Village People, and then a delicous dinner at Chefs de France. We 3 shared the studio that night, and it was fine.
Both sofa beds, one in the studio and one in the 2 bedroom are the old kind, with the bars. One happy surprise for us, was that the DGD (2 1/2) did sleep in the pack and play even though she's had her own big bed at home for about a year now. She liked her own little space, go figure!
I considered our weather a 6 out of 10 for the week. We had planned to go to Blizzard Beach on Saturday, it may have been warm enough, in the 80's, but there wasn't a bit of sunshine, and during the day there were bouts of rain, and we did fine with ponchos at Epcot. We sampled food at different booths Saturday afternoon, but what I really liked was the frozen Irish Coffee...wow!
DS and DGS were on the Tomorrowland Speedway when the skies opened up on Monday, they got completely wet and chilled to the bone. The rest of us were only soaking wet. In the future, DH and I brought our ponchos, the younger family braved the rains.
We didn't get to go fishing at the ole fishing hole at Riverside, but we had a delicious breakfast at Boatwrights (I love their stuffed french toast, to share, it's quite rich) and then we went swimming there. What a great time we all had....DGC are 2, 3 and 4, with the 3 year old a daring swimmer, who loved the slide. This was Tuesday, which may have begun sunny and warm at times, but rain and clouds developed and we left the pool around noon. That was fine, there were no objections to going, at least one of the DGC didn't want to get "wet."
Even on Thursday, when so much of the day was bright and sunny, had bits of heavy rain. We rented a surrey bike and a regular bike, 3 adults brought DGS (3) over to FW to see the ponies, horses, and just enjoy nature. On the way home to VWL, we came upon a doe...DGS was so thrilled, we stopped and eventually the doe gracefully jumped away and that was spectacular. He liked that as much as the 4 year old enjoyed the show at the castle, which is saying a lot!
Disney had Halloween activities planned, we only did Trick or Treating at DTD both on Tuesday and Wednesday...that time was 6-9...mostly "empty" on Tuesday, crowded on Wednesday, but very doable. The Boardwalk had great activities, I think that time was 5:30 to 8:30 on Wednesday, and we did some of that too. Our kids were too young to appreciate the DJ, but in a few years, we'll stay at the BWV for Halloween.
The villa pool was closed for refurbishing, but the main pool was also closed, either for Chemical or Mechanical problems from Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning. Really, the weather wasn't exactly condusive to swimming even when the pool was opened, it wasn't crowded.
We had maintenance in the villa, a refrigerator door holder was broken, and we fixed it with duck tape, but figured it was best fixed by the Disney people, the unit in the second bedroom leaked water on Wednesday, needed repairs, and a sink in the main bathroom leaked water out of an unusual place. With the repairs taken care of, it should be in tip top shape for the next occupants. I hope they have a wonderful time at VWL....we did!!
Bobbi
