Lynn and I have done WDW in October, early December, and early January to also miss the crowds. It has worked out well. December allowed us to hit the Xmas decorations. October allowed us to take in the wine tasting of the different nations at Epcot. Not to mention taste their foods.
As a child and young adult I remember going with relatives to the sea side to go clamming. Then we would bring them back and have a clam bake. Corn on the cob, hamburgs, hotdogs, home made salads. Any clams I have now are bought in a grocery store by the bag. I miss digging for those little buggers.
As mentioned before, Lynn and I will be at WDW for Xmas. Never will do that again. We are scheduled to cruise
DCL again next October during our wedding anniversary on the Magic Eastern with a family we meet a few DCL cruises ago. They are from outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin where Lynn is from.
I have been trying to talk Lynn into doing a cruise to the Southern Caribbean out of San Juan, P.R. for awhile and told her we should cancel the DCL cruise and do
RCCL out of P.R. instead. That way we can do it later in the winter when we can get out of a week of real winter weather.
One last thing before I head out to do yard work, I work evenings. The New England accent. Spending my time in R.I. during the summers while growing up allowed me to keep that accent enough to be noticable to others around the country (dad was in the Navy). It was funny when I lived in Texas and began to catch the Southern accent the Texans have. When we finnaly moved up to where we are now in Western N.Y. people were confused as to the accent I had. Now it's just plain old English.
Catch yo later.
Chris
In my case we would have about 300 miles to drive so we can't do it. If it comes about do me a favor. Have some fried clams for me.
In fact, if it does not happen have the clams for me anyway. Clam cakes, steamed, or fried does not matter. Not raw!!!
They would ask me to repeat certain things I said and then they'd practice saying it themselves. Too funny!
I can still remember going down to Rocky Point as a kid and having clam cakes and "chowda" - yum! I wasn't allergic then! We ate at the Coral Reef in Epcot and my husband was sooo disappointed with the seafood he ordered. We later found out that New England seafood takes different from Gulf seafood.
We picked apples and brought them back home. Grandma would never question where and how we got the apples. She would bake pies and turnovers. Yummy. 
WELCOME.
