25 days until our December family trip and I better kick this baby into high gear if I expect to finish it before then! I hope everyone, although I seem to be a tiny bit low on readers, is ready to go from a People Mover TR to a BTMRR TR!!
I left off with our journey over the very cool bridge to BLT! But first I must back track a few minutes! Until we exited the monorail!
Why, well because when I exited the monorail I realized something! I had to go down the escalator! I had no stroller to get online to the elevator with and the line for the elevator was a tad long! Why does this matter one little bit your wondering? I am terrified of down escalators! I know it’s stupid and irrational. I have no idea why I’m afraid! I’m not afraid of up escalators, just down! It’s one of 3 stupid, irrational fears I have (well cover another at some point
) I actually think it has more to do with a fear of falling down the escalator then anything else! I briefly thought of getting in line for the elevator anyway. But DH would make fun of me! If the kids were with us they would too! So, at that moment I decided I was going to try to accomplish one thing on this trip! Conquer my fear of down escalators!
I took a deep breath and crush the anxiety that was starting to build and got on without hesitating! Hesitating is what cause the most problems! I nearly got plowed over at FAO Schwarz in NYC a few years ago by a push man! In my little anxiety driven terror I actually yelled at the guy! I asked him if he would like to push me and my kids down the escalator! He was completely dumbfounded!
Anyway, I was on the escalator and super proud of myself! I pointed it out to DH and he was super proud of me too! Woo hooo!!!
Ok, flashback over and we’re off to BLT!
I had put in a request for a even numbered room on the north side of the building in hopes of getting on of the lakeview rooms that is actually lake and MK view! But, after I did it I thought about calling and taking the request off because the view out toward WL is very, very nice! I left it though!
When I got the room text it said room 7742. That’s an even numbered room but I really didn’t care too much what our view was! Lake and MK or lake I’d be happy!
When got off the elevator the and turned right to enter the hall I realized that MK was behind and if we proceeded down the hall we’d be moving more toward the rooms with a view toward WL! So, we were headed in that direction!
We soon found our room!
Without the kiddos along and DH hitting the bed as soon as we walked in the room I was off around the room taking pictures!
The view!
Looking all the way left...
Looking left, a little closer to center...
Looking straight out...
Looking a little right...
Looking right...
Around the room...
from the entrance area
small bathroom
From by the big window
picture above dining table
bed and sleeping DH!
TV and dresser area
bathtub!
The room was really nice! It also seemed really big! I love how the room is narrower by the door and gets wider as you move further into the room! I love the giant window in the living room! The room, really, all in all, was beautiful! I did notice wear and tear in the room that seemed a little odd for such a young resort! I don’t remember seeing any wear and tear at Kidani and very little at SSR!
I also, somewhere along the way, called for the luggage! I told them I’d like my luggage delivered and I had 2 Owner’s Lockers waiting for as well.
The bellman arrived about 10 minutes later with 2 Owner’s Lockers and nothing else! I explained to him that I had called for my luggage not just the lockers! He was rather annoyed and called bell services on his walkie talkie thing. The person on the other end said that the luggage was on the work order sent to his walkie talkie thing not just the lockers! He looked at the order and said it wasn’t and then made me look at the order too! It wasn’t there, but really, all I wanted was my stuff!
He told me he’d be back in 10 minutes with the luggage, okey dokey! While I waited I sat down on the couch in the living room for a moment to discover that is good awful uncomfortable! YIKES! I got up and moved to the GIANT tan leather chair! Ahhhhhhh! Can I order one of these for home?! I could totally see myself curling up in this chair every night!
Then my comfy bliss ended! The phone rang! It was the bellman! It seems someone had removed it from the cart it was on and left it in a pile on the floor! Fabulous because my laptop and ipad were both in a laptop bag with the luggage, I had nightmarish visions of them being stepped on and rolled over! He wanted me to describe our stuff so he could make sure he got it all! Are you kidding me?! Really?! Now I was having nightmarish visions of never getting our stuff! UGH!
About 5 minutes later he arrived at the door with a cart full of luggage! Luckily all of ours was there and several other pieces that he had picked up because they were with our luggage! Again, really?!
At least we had all of stuff, finally! With that I decided to was time for me to take a rest on the balcony! I sat there for awhile and relaxed and took it all in! Ahhhhhhhhh! I started to doze and decided to go inside and take a nap with DH! I set the alarm on my phone so we didn’t end up sleeping until 8 pm and not being able to sleep that night!!
I woke up when the alarm went off at 4:30 and we quickly freshened up and decided to head to DTD instead of going to MK for the evening! We waited maybe 5 minutes for a bus and were on our way! We discussed what to do for dinner and I mentioned Earl of Sandwich, but DH was looking for something more and a sit down meal. Ok! We entered DTD by Rainforest Café and I mentioned to DH that we could see what kind of wait they had. So we head that way!
But then something caught DH’s eye! Capt Jack’s! He asked me about it and I told him that I really didn’t know much about it other then I thought it was seafood. DH was really happy with the word “seafood!” So we decided to see what the wait was!
There wasn’t a wait at all!
Since we were on
DDP for the first half of the trip we skipped the appetizers and ordered our entrees. We both ordered Lump Crab Cakes. The thing was, the arrived about 2 minutes after we ordered them! That seemed strange to both DH and I! After all, you can’t get a meal at McDonald’s that fast! We dug in a little apprehensively and were pleasantly surprised! The Crab Cakes were very, very good! The Cajun mustard sauce that was drizzled on the cakes was a great accompaniment!
We discussed our options for dessert! They had a chocolate cake on the menu was yummy looking. But from where I sat I could see Ghirardelli! Hmmmmm…
I know we had dessert coming to us with DDP but neither DH or I was passing up Ghirardelli! So we were off to shop after the worlds shortest dinner, I swear we were in there 30 minutes tops! We decided to shop off the crab cakes before Ghirardelli. We stopped in Tren-D and looked around. I didn’t find anything that I absolutely had to have so we moved on!
We moved over to Team Mickey, DH was in search of a hat! He wanted either a NY Islanders hat or a Giants hat! There were no Islanders hat and the 1 giants hat they had DH didn’t like at all!
So we moved on again! Off to World of Disney!
My one and only DTD picture!
One stop souvie shopping for the kiddos! Woo Hoo! We basically got everything we needed, or I wanted, to bring home to the kiddos!
Then it was off to a very important next stop!
Lego! My kiddos LOVE legos! We had to come home with something good! Luckily, I knew what they each wanted! DD wanted the Lego space shuttle. I admit, when I picked it up I almost put it back, it was $99! Yikes!!! DH insisted that if that was what she wanted that was what we were getting! That surprised me! DH is way more frugal then I am! DS7 wanted a specific Lego Star Wars set and DS3 wanted a Lego Toy Story set that has a garbage truck in it! We were quickly all set and out and off to Ghirardelli for some ice cream!
It smelled sooooo good in there! Yummy!!!
DH ordered a vanilla cone and I ordered a chocolate cone! No, we weren’t adventurous but it was really, really good! Really good!
After our creamy goodness was done it was time for us to head back to BLT!
When we got back to BLT we I unpacked what we needed until we moved on Thursday!
Then I went and got in the Jacuzzi tub! Ahhhhhh! Talk about relaxing! I spent a good amount of time in there kind of floating and soaking. I even had to put some more hot water in at one point because the water was getting a little bit chilly!
That bath was a wonderfully relaxing way to start the trip!
When I was about to get into bed I heard a familiar noise outside!
The Electric Water Pageant!
I watched it from the balcony and took a few pictures! DH watched for a few minutes and headed to bed!
After the show was over it was off to bed! With hopes of Epcot EMH dancing and my head and visions of a plan change dancing in DH's!!
I encounter a lot of people who don't get it but I think it's there loss! If they think they're too good, to grown up, or just plan won't enjoy it then it's more park for those of us how do get it and we'll have a better trip without them in the way! 
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I love that your daughter wanted the space shuttle Legos! Very cool 
