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And they told me that I wouldn't be able to purchase gelato before 4, maybe 5pm unless I wanted an entire carton of it.

No gelato for you!

And then I made them take a ravioli, and peanut butter/chocolate Fedra ration bar selfie.

And if you ever want a ration bar, you can get them at the grocery store in Nebraska

It was okay, but the real highlight was watching the lady on the Today Show make terrible cookies and try to pretend they were good.

Sadly, the burrito this time seemed kind of different. I don't know if you can tell from the toppings, but it just looked like it had been sitting out awhile

We had a good experience there this trip, but we've had a couple misses. Worst being 2021 on our actual anniversary day

We also had a weird experience where the server didn't give us back Josh's card after running it,

And for the first time we had to park a car there. It was really something.

We took a car for the first time last year, and did in August too. It's an experience! I think we lucked out with it not being too busy so parked fairly close, and we just hoofed it because of the stroller then took the ferry. It felt very crazy to see how quickly we could drive from Dolphin to the parking lot though since the bus feels so long!

consistent continuing story and because of it's funny and meta at times they can do some really different episodes.

Chucky freaks me out so I've never even seen a movie, but thought it was funny and interesting how they treat everything as cannon based on our tour guide

This house was the one that had the same designer as last year's Dead Man's Pier. There was a lot of really cool parts to it, including that you could see ahead of you (like it was a real village), and like last year's house it was really beautifully designed.

It was so cool to get to see all the details of how the set went together

But season 4 of Stranger Things was really good, and I do feel like the house this year did it justice especially after the one for seasons 2 & 3 was a bit disappointing.

100%. We just rewatched season 4 too which really upped the appreciation of how good the house was, especially for zack because he didn't quite remember what all had happened

 

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Going to Universal for one final haunted night and then WDW for Halloween night .Staying at Sapphire and Bay Lake Tower.
I live here in Celebration so tomorrow night we need to check out all the homes decorated for Halloween before they start Christmas !
And then it will be crazy not enough days to do it all !
Thanks for all the photos .
And that snake in the toilet picture reminded me of the time a frog was sitting on our toilet seat in the middle of the night !!! Scared the sh*t out of me!
I also have had a bat flying in our 9th floor unit when we lived in Kansas City It was an old converted building called the Hemingway.
And you probably don’t want to know Why I will never buy a toaster at Goodwill Haha !
I guess real life can be scarier than anything I can imagine !

 

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Oh my gosh I just remembered some other real life scare when we first moved to Orlando and were fascinated with seeing an alligator across street at the golf course …so next day we walked over closer to the waters edge to see if he was still “ across the pond”
We were asking ourselves if we were a gator where would we hide and then glanced down at our feet and he was looking right at us!!!
I will never trust any amount of water in Florida ever ever again !
I still drive past this location and can’t believe how dumb all those guys are playing golf , not knowing or caring about anything except trying to search for their lost golf ball .
I swear I’m not making any of this stuff up . I have no imagination .
Which reminds me of the school teacher that once upon a time told
Walt Disney he had no imagination .
And that is why Sorceror Mickey/ Mickey Mouse in Fantasmic ends the show with
“some imagination Huh “ ….before he disappears .

 

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Haven't read much of your TR yet, but just had to jump ahead to say I'm soooo glad to see you back! Always enjoy your TRs. Just wish I had this one BEFORE our HHN trip. lol

I look fwd to seeing what you thought about everything, but overall, I thought it was a great year for houses and the show was better than I expected. I was a bit disappointed in most of the scare zones - especially the Dr Oddfellow entrance one - really thought that one would be bigger/more powerful.

I feel like they really need to step up the zones' wow factor and impact. Felt lacking compared to ones like Sam/Halloween, Rob Zombie and others. Was wishing for more of.... something....I dunno: more lighting, more special fx, more pulsating music.

But we def had a great time and already looking fwd to next year. (Bummer though - I never caught David Pumpkins or the M3GANs when we were there.)
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No gelato for you!

And if you ever want a ration bar, you can get them at the grocery store in Nebraska



We had a good experience there this trip, but we've had a couple misses. Worst being 2021 on our actual anniversary day



We took a car for the first time last year, and did in August too. It's an experience! I think we lucked out with it not being too busy so parked fairly close, and we just hoofed it because of the stroller then took the ferry. It felt very crazy to see how quickly we could drive from Dolphin to the parking lot though since the bus feels so long!

Chucky freaks me out so I've never even seen a movie, but thought it was funny and interesting how they treat everything as cannon based on our tour guide

It was so cool to get to see all the details of how the set went together

100%. We just rewatched season 4 too which really upped the appreciation of how good the house was, especially for zack because he didn't quite remember what all had happened

I was so glad they stuck to the main story taking Vecna's point of view and didn't focus at all on the Russia storyline- that was the only part of the season I didn't like. The house - and the SAs - were amazing.

 

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I think this last most recent post is my favorite and don’t know if you realized just how you created a spooky effect with your words and camera images:
The first with “ Before it rains” and Mickey& Minnie have a little color but the rest of the image seems grayish …then the BoardWalk is in black & white photo adding to the feeling that a story is about to begin about something strange . Should I worry about Mickey & Minnie ?
But then we have Color and a fun ending back at Universal Studios .
but no Mickey No Minnie
The end .
Currently the full moon tonight was pretty amazing in the Orlando area.
And it is keeping me awake because tomorrow morning drive across town to Sapphire Falls and Voodoo Donuts and more more more!
Happy Halloween !

 

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HHN & a Disney Dinner Date

We spent some time back in the room after the tour because it was a lot of walking.

Sunset view from our room:

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Tonight the priority was going to the houses Josh hadn't seen yet (even if he'd seen some of them on the tour). We had a really great run through at Blood Moon, and then we went to the Chucky house. Josh liked both of them a lot, and even said he wanted to start watching the Chucky show. (Which I tried to get him to watch before we left ).

Then we went to Dark Offerings:

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After that we were a little hungry because we hadn't eaten since lunch time so we got some Twisted Taters.

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And a Walking Taco:

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I actually thought the Walking Taco was pretty good, but Josh said he'd never eat it again. I have heard some people say they barely got any toppings on theirs which is terrible, but ours had a pretty good mix of everything.

The next day we had most of the day open since we'd decided against rescheduling our Epcot day (which I would've moved to this day if we had). We decided we'd still go to Disney, and maybe have a dinner date somewhere before HHN.

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We ended up settling on Ale and Compass because we hadn't been there in a long time, and they'd had a pretty good burger from what we remembered.

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Parker House Rolls and Spreads​

Bacon Jam, Pub Cheese, Citrus Butter

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These were fluffy and delicious. I wish you didn't have to pay for bread at any restaurant, but these were really good. I liked the pub cheese, and Josh liked the bacon jam and citrus butter so it worked out perfectly.

We both got the:
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Bacon and Vermont Cheddar Burger​

with Caramelized Onion on a Parker House Bun with Applewood-smoked Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato, and Herbed Mayonnaise

Although I got mine with the truffle fries and shallot mayo.

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The burgers were just as delicious as we remembered, and the truffle fries were amazing. Sadly, the shallot mayo did not seem to be the same shallot mayo I remember them serving with truffle fries in Crew Cup a few years back that I liked. This one seemed to have a heavier shallot flavor, and I wasn't a fan, but the fries didn't really need a dipping sauce.

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Afterwards we headed out back to my favorite view, and got some pictures in before it rained.

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Gosh, that is a lot of rolls!!! They do look good and the burger would impress me I think, that place has never been on our radar, but might look at it.

Boardwalk Views & Another Night at HHN

Some more pictures of the Yacht Club/Boardwalk:

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After dinner we headed back to HHN. Josh still had one more house to go through, and we did a few others again too.

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First I had to try the Bloody Snowball over at the Yeti food booth.

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I like coconut a lot so I enjoyed this, but it wasn't my favorite snack this year.

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Tonight we did Blood Moon again, Universal Monsters Unmasked, and the last house Josh hadn't done yet which was the Last of Us.

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Josh had played the first game but wasn't really a fan, and never watched the show so I don't think he really thought the wait was worth it, but I thought the house was even better the second time around because I recognized more stuff in it. Still it was the longest wait we had (even with EP I'd say we waited about 50 minutes). This was one of the houses that always had the longest line so we usually avoided it. But the Friday I'd gone with Zack and Alyssa it had seemed busier overall than the weeknights, but the EP lines all seemed really short so we didn't wait nearly as long as we had to this time.

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Our last day & a few posts about my trip to Sleepy Hollow ​

Someone mention coconut.........lol......I love coconut, but is that a chocolate centre??

Glad you had a good evening with not too bad wait times.

 

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And a Walking Taco:

Another midwest specialty lol

Parker House Rolls and Spreads​

Bacon Jam, Pub Cheese, Citrus Butter
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This is like, number one reason I'd like to go here and we just haven't ever made it. We're so bad about eating outside the parks.

Still it was the longest wait we had (even with EP I'd say we waited about 50 minutes). This was one of the houses that always had the longest line so we usually avoided it. But the Friday I'd gone with Zack and Alyssa it had seemed busier overall than the weeknights, but the EP lines all seemed really short so we didn't wait nearly as long as we had to this time.

Oh wow! I remember EP line was really short once we got back there Friday. I feel like Friday and then Saturday were similar, though Saturday was a bit worse, but even though it was busy the EP lines weren't bad and definitely less than half the normal wait.

 

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Chucky's Twisted Playground

We started our day with some nachos at NBC Grill.

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We discovered these nachos a few years ago, and they're some of our favorite on property. The toppings are usually pretty evenly distributed (though I always think everything could use more cheese). And we just wanted to split something because we had another big dinner planned to replace the dinner at Bull and Bear we canceled.

Before our stay ended we also had to make it over to Chucky's Twisted Playground at Cabana Bay.

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I think this was my favorite of the photo ops rooms they've had at Cabana Bay (although the Stranger Things one was fun, there weren't as many choices in backdrops). Over the years they've added a lot more photo ops into the space, and this year I felt like there were quite a few to choose from and it was nicely themed.

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Most of the photo ops were from the show because I think it was sponsored by Peacock, but I don't think you really would have to know the plot to take pictures here.

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Plus they had a Tiffany photo op too!

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It was a cool space, and I'm glad we got to take some pictures there.

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We had the nachos with chicken from NBC a few years ago, it looked very different to that though, that looks smaller, but yes, lacked cheese and I`m not overly fond of cheese.

I got excited and thought it was going to be a Tiffany as in the jewellery store display....lol......

Our Last Night at HHN

To make up for missing our Bull and Bear dinner earlier in the week I made a reservation at another steakhouse (though one we'd been to before), The Palm!

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We had great service and a pretty good meal here. The steak was perfectly cooked, but I felt it had a bit too much salt on top. The truffle gnocchi also wasn't the same as the previous time I'd had the dish, but the potatoes au gratin was amazing. It was so creamy and cheesy, I wished I had room to eat much more of it than I was able to.

After dinner I took a picture with my final hotel photo op of the trip which was Jekyll and Hyde. I had no idea what to do here so here is my attempt at recreating Jekyll and Hyde.

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And we were back for our last night at HHN!

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We didn't do a crazy amount this last night because the park was packed full of teenagers acting obnoxiously and we had to leave early the next day.

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We mostly stayed up front and did a few of our favorites again (Stranger Things, Dueling Dragons, Yeti). And we also went through the Tribute Store one more time which is when I bought the Dueling Dragons tee.

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And I had to get one more of these Oreo Cheesecake pops!

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Our flight left early enough that we didn't really do anything besides pack up and leave so that's it for our trip!

I hope you enjoyed following along even though this was a bit different and less detailed than my usual format. And if you want to stick around a bit longer...I did take a weekend trip to Sleepy Hollow with family in October, and I'm going to make a few posts about that next. ​

The Palm do overseason their steaks for sure, we always ask for a tiny amount of seasoning and even then it`s fine, glad you enjoyed it though.

What shame about the teens!! Heard that a lot this year from both guests and SA friends.

Thank you for coming back and doing your report, you would have been sadly missed as your reports are always wonderful to read. I hope we can say hello again at maybe "our usual tables" in Strong Water Bar.......lol.......

Looking forward to your Sleepy Hollow posts!!!