Paradise to the Treasure-A Polynesian/Eastern Caribbean/Spring Adventure 2025...Updated 8/10

[pkondz]

Ha! It was just perfect but not hot in the morning. I only like to swim if it's HOT!

I’d never swim up here.

Heh. You’ll never swim up here.

You're cracking me up!

I think they came around and asked if she wanted more and Allie is a sucker for good balsamic

Ohhh

 

[vamassey1]

Finally caught up. Enjoyed your cruise. Does my heart good to hear about your special mother-daughter time. Since I have never taken a cruise, reading helps me so much. Maybe someday.

Flower and Garden is my favorite festival too. Looking forward to reading about it.

 

[buzzrelly]

I’d never swim up here.

Heh. You’ll never swim up here.

You're right! We are getting a bit of a cool spell today with temps in the high 70s and I'm kind of bummed I won't be going in my pool!

 

[buzzrelly]

Does my heart good to hear about your special mother-daughter time. Since I have never taken a cruise, reading helps me so much. Maybe someday.

I can totally see you and your family going on a cruise1 It's the perfect group trip!

 

[pkondz]

You're right! We are getting a bit of a cool spell today with temps in the high 70s and I'm kind of bummed I won't be going in my pool!

Yeah, it's 65 here (and grey and rainy) right now (although the high is supposed to be 75) and I don't think I'd want to go swimming either.

 

[buzzrelly]

MARCH 9, 2025
A LITTLE FLOWER AND GARDEN


Allie got off okay this morning. Mears picked her up at an ungodly hour and she was texting me from the gate at 4:49am saying, "I don't know what I'm doing here for 3 hours, lol..." Apparently it was just her and one other family on a van that morning so they made it to MCO very quickly.

I was up and out by 7:30 am and it was another perfect day weather-wise...


I love this area early in the morning when nobody is around.
I stopped at the bakery for a cup of coffee and strolled over to the International Gateway.


They led the bunch of us to the bridge outside of France where we waited for Remy to open.
To me, this is just perfection...

I was waiting along the left side of the group and stood against the railing. Right in front of me was a family of four with a mom, dad, teenaged girl around 14 or 15 and then a son around 12 or 13. The teenaged girl went up to the railing to take a pic and dropped her phone, like it slipped from her hand and then bopped onto the bottom of the railing and then plunk...into the water it went. It was so quick but it was like it was in slow motion. The whole crowd standing there gasped, including me! I felt just awful for her and her parents. She was crying, the mom was trying to keep it together and the dad went over to a CM who came over and was looking into the water with him. What a terrible way to start the day and I just know how devastated my kids would have been if that happened on vacation. I hope she was able to replace her phone. I just know that's something she'll never do again!

Anyway, we were walking into Ratatouille by 8:24am and had a great ride through a French kitchen.


When I got off I just sort of wandered through World Showcase,
enjoying the weather and all the topiaries.

Mike (my DH) and I will usually do the scavenger hunts but we will spread it out over a couple of EPCOT days. Since he wasn't with me and I only had the one day here I just unofficially looked for Spike when I could...


I loved doing this but it also made me kind of sad knowing I wouldn't really get to experience the festival fully this year.

My wanderings continued in next post...​

 

[buzzrelly]

MARCH 9, 2025
A LITTLE FLOWER AND GARDEN

I wandered around World Showcase loving all the topiaries.
Some of my favorites...


And found another Spike...


I'm not going to lie, I do sometimes use the iphone clean-up to erase people from my pics
but that wasn't necessary this morning...

There was not a soul around!

I finally made my way out of WS...


and headed to the Butterfly Garden.
This is always a favorite of ours when we go in April,
but today was kind of boring because none of the butterflies were butterflies yet!
I hadn't even thought to consider that would be the case! It was a fast walk through.


I headed to Sunshine Seasons for some breakfast.

I guess I should use the term "breakfast" loosely here!
This is a peanut butter whoopie pie that Mike and I found in January and loved.
It was too much for one person though and I ended up eating half and tossing the rest.

It was almost time for my Guardians ILL so I headed there next...



Continued in next post...​