thank for sharing! Definitely going to look into them!
Lovely!I don't even think I saw that room when I ate at BOG last summer. I was in the West Wing which was really neat, if dark!
Must check that out next week!
That is awesome!!!!
Really cute!
Congratulations and welcome home!
This is such a beautiful picture!
Love your pictures and I'm enjoying your trip report!
I want those Minnie ears! I've almost bought them a 100 times.
Very nice! Following along, l feel like I am there in person.
Thanks for taking us along!![]()
Great pictures and report. Thank you!
So enjoying your TRI love your mini ears...I hope they have them when I head back in March!
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You have such an amazing photographic eye! I have been looking for a camera that is easy to carry/use but still take great photos. I'll have to check into the one you got. Thanks for the tip about pre-ordering food at BOG!
I'm waiting......LOL!!!
following! loving your TR so far! Also extremely jealous that you bought DVC at the Poly- congrats on that!
Really enjoying your report! Thank you!
Gorgeous pics of My. ReanierDay 1: Wednesday, July 25
Original Plan:
New Orleans
Revised Plan:
Arrive at MCO at 4:35
FP+ 5:00 Spaceship Earth
FP+ 6:00 Pixar Film Festival
FP+ 7:40 Soarin’
9:00 Illuminations
What Actually Happened:
My dad picked me up to go to the airport at about 3:45am, and I was ready to go, which is kind of an anomaly. I’m usually scrambling around trying to finish things up. I had a 5:10a flight and I was dropped off at 3:57a and through security by 4:05a with my TSA precheck. I didn’t check any luggage, but I did bring my yellow DME tag in my carry-on in case they were looking for people to check their luggage at the gate through to Orlando. This has happened before, and I was glad to have the yellow tag. This time, they weren’t even doing the ala carte service when the plane is too small for the carry-on luggage and they collect it plane side and put it under the plane and then you pick it up again plane side "because we had a big plane." See:
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I flew first to Seattle and the flight was uneventful. The flight is so short that they weren’t even serving coffee on board. The only drink option was orange juice. I was glad I had made some coffee and drank it at home! The best thing about this flight to Seattle is the view, and it was made even better by the sun rising over Mt. Rainier this morning.
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The food lines in Seattle were quite long this morning, but I wanted to have Second Breakfast before the flight since it is so long. I ended up just getting a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Clearly I was not yet in Trip Report mode, because I do not have a picture of the bagel. You'll have to do your best to imagine it.
The flight was great. It was very smooth and I had paid for the premium seat upgrade with the 4 extra inches of legroom. On a prior flight, perhaps on Delta, I had not even been able to open my little Chromebook in the regular economy section, so I wanted to make sure I would have enough space to use the time in the air to get some assignments done. This was a good choice, but I really noticed the smaller legroom on the way home!
My flight landed on time and I went straight to Dunkin Donuts for dinner, because we don’t have Dunkin where I live, but I just love them. I got the sausage, egg, and cheese on a croissant and an iced coffee.
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Then I went to catch the Magical Express to Pop Century.
I had intended to go to Epcot and ride Soarin and then watch Illuminations. You’ll see I had three fastpasses for this evening, and I knew I couldn’t even make the first two, but my thought was that just maaaaybe I could get an Illuminations fastpass after using my Soarin one. Soarin and Illuminations are both Tier 1, so I think you have to use or time out of three fastpasses before getting a 2nd Tier 1 FP. In hindsight, I feel a little bad having fastpasses that I ended up not even using. I think I might have canceled the ones I knew I wasn’t going to use.![]()
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I got to Pop Century and got settled into my room, which was in the back of building 7, in the 80s section, room 7337. I always take a photo of the room with the number in it in case I forget after getting back to my room after the first day in the parks. However, with the new room-ready texts, this isn't really necessary anymore!
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The nice thing about this room was that it was in a very quiet location and I did not have any trouble with the WiFi, which was great considering my online classes. The room was recently renovated and included a coffee pot, which was the main reason for selecting Pop over my go-to value resort of All Star Sports. I really liked the new features in the room.
The built-in toiletries were fine, although the nozzle was broken on one. I didn’t realize how easy it was to fix, so I called and they said maintenance would come. They never did, which is how I realized you just pop it back in.
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When I opened the safe, I found that someone had left a bobble Edna Mode toy sitting right in the middle of it. I wasn’t expecting that!
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By the time I got settled, I was pretty much toast. I decided to stay in and work a bit more on some school work. I did go back over to the food court around 9 in the evening to get a burger, and I was struggling to stay awake while eating the mountain of waffle fries, so I think it’s good I decided to take it easy this evening.
Food Spending 7/25: $49.07
Breakfast: SeaTac Great American Bagel - $6.30
Lunch?: MCO Dunkin Donuts - $7.64
Pop Century (Refillable Mug) - $20.23
Dinner: Pop Century food court - $14.90
Souvenir Spending 7/25: $0
None yet!
Before I left the room, I put the Edna Mode bobblehead back in the middle of the safe.
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Cool. Looking forward to more.
Gorgeous pics of My. Reanier
Joining in. I'm impressed with your ability to get schoolwork done on vacation. I'm not sure I would have been able to pull that off.
I wonder how long this has been going on for LOL.
Your dogs are sweet. I grew up with mini Dachs. We now have whippets but I have a special place in my heart for the dachsies still.
And I’ve been debating heading off to HS EMH on our trip next year while hubby is running the half marathon. I think the number of times you were able to do TSM has swayed me
I'm just checking in... Missing the updates!
Well done. I appreciate your writing style with just enough detail to get your points!
Thank you for the updates! I enjoy your style. We'll be there around this time next year. How did you deal with the heat?
Fun trip so far love your writing voice, pictures and details!
Day 2: Thursday, July 26 continued
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I went and did the walk through of One Man’s Dream, which is now called Walt Disney Presents and then watched what they now have for the video, which is the first ten minutes of Incredibles 2.
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I then did Star Tours which showed a wait time of 10 minutes, but I think it was closer to a walk-on, and then Muppet Vision 3D. You can see how crowded it is near the Muppets; everybody was either at the headliners on Sunset Blvd. or Toy Story Land.
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I then walked to the other side of the park to use my Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster fastpass. One cool thing was there was a custodial cast member who was making the water drawings on the ground near Sci Fi Drive In.
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This really is a beautiful park. The architecture on both Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards is quite amazing.
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I then walked BACK across the park for PizzeRizzo, which opened at 10:30. The cast member was still making character images on the ground with water. They were evaporating quite quickly, so I'm glad I got to see them. This time he also had Goofy and Donald.
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Since I didn’t have much to eat at 6:00, I was really hungry by this point and was standing outside waiting by 10:25, so I went in this Christmas store. I expected it to smell like Christmas, you know that cinnamon-y scent, but it smelled like garlic since it's between PizzeRizzo and Mama Melrose restaurants.
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The pizza box the cast member is holding at the front door is actually covered with pins for trading. I like the details of the restaurant; they tried to make it look authentic.
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For some reason, I do not have a food photo. I realized part way through my trip that sometimes, my camera wasn’t storing the photos I was taking. I think this was one of them. I think it was happening when I left the camera app too quickly after taking the photo. This restaurant has upstairs seating. It was not crowded at all, even by the time I left, but the downstairs area was bustling. I do like the New York memorabilia on the walls.
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After lunch, I left the park, and just in time. The sky opened up right when I got to the bus stop, which is fortunately covered. An Art of Animation bus came first, so I hopped on that one because I wanted to walk around the resort to see it, and I was hoping the rain would stop by the time I got there.
As it turns out, the rain DID stop, but it looked like it was heading in my direction, so I didn’t do much wandering around. They are working on the gondola system on the Generation Gap Bridge between AoA and Pop.
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However, I did beat the rain back to my room, so that was a win. My room is where the blue dot is.
I spent some time working on schoolwork, which wasn’t too much of a let down because I was hoping to swim at the resort. The lightning had the pool closed pretty much all afternoon anywa![]()
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