kastoney
Disney foodie served with a side of sarcasm
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- Jul 18, 2010
Good choice and glad they extended the fireworks so you could see them later in the week. Curious to see what you thought of themIn the end, I valued sleep and well rested kids over seeing the fireworks twice. It hurt not to use those tickets but I really didn't think the boys were up to a late night in the parks after our flight and travel day.
I love being able to take the boats at WL, one of my favorite things about it. Did he point out the old River Country? That's always my favorite to see as I have lots of childhood memories of it.The boat came shortly after we got to the dock and we all found seats. We had an AWESOME captain/skipper named Stephen who pointed out all the landmarks and answered everyone's questions.
It's on ours too. Only thing that holds me back is the two bus systems. We've contemplated it a few times as their cabins look divine but adding in another $60/day for a golf cart takes it up to about the same price as a deluxe.Fort Wilderness has a very different vibe than any other resort that I've visited. I think a stay here would be interesting and it's on our Disney bucket list now!
Yum!!!! It all sounds so good. Think we are finally going to try breakfast at TE next tripI have it noted that my favorites were the fried chicken, ribs, cornbread, and pea salad. Jim enjoyed the brisket as well. The boys all liked the fried chicken (or "friend" chicken as Jake called it) and rolls. And of course we all loved dessert! The boys opted for cookies and ice cream sundaes, I got strawberry shortcake and banana pudding, and Jim went for another helping of brisket and ribs.
We had the same view and what is crap by day was certainly a pleasant surprise at night. Someone told us they played the wishes music over the hotel tv channel but we could never find it.Our not so great daytime view turned into a really nice view of Wishes! I wish I would have been prepared and played the soundtrack on my phone but we just made due with watching the fireworks. The boys could actually see them from the top bunk so they just laid in bed and watched. I sat out on the balcony for the whole show, of course!
I'm still on the fence if I like the deluxe way to do it or not. It's usually fine but we've had two occasions where we didn't get on busses in favor of people who I knew got there after us.I stopped at Bell Services to pick up our rental stroller for the week and we were off to the bus stop! Now Deluxe bus stops were something quite different for us too. Instead of "lines" like at Pop or AOA, there are just benches and everyone just crowds around. This morning, we were the only ones waiting for a bus (it was 7:35 am) but we got to chat with a very nice College Program CM named Kristopher.
I thought for sure you were headed to see the inside out crew. We waited 45 minutes to see them and had gotten in line right after 9We turned right and headed over and were the 2nd family in line at the new Character Spot.
Don't know what it is with this place, but Casey loves it too. I always try to get her to go upstairs and look around the aquarium but the shark is the only thing on her mind.
We'll see how frozen changes the equation, but aside from Soarin and Test Track we've found you really don't need a fast pass for anything else at Epcot. Since you don;t have to pick 3 anymore we just did one on the last tripIt was time for our Turtle Talk FP+ at this time. I'm just going to use this time to say just how useless I find FP+ on most shows. We were let into the same large open area as the regular standby guests so it always seems completely pointless to me. The boys looked around the queue area until the theater door/curtain opened.