Chapter 4. If you like it, buy it.
i forgot this picture in the last update, it is a site that was right by the outpost where the marina is...they had a huge caslte with snow white characters around it, a ton of characters and items in there RV window, and if you look closely you will see a disney movie screen in the back, never saw them play any movies but did not go by it every night.
We used up our first 2 CS credits will hanging out at the pool, we got 2 pulled pork pita sandwiches. They were really good, they came with homemade fried chips, drink of course, and for desert, we both got the frozen drinks, which were pina colada and strawberry daquire minus the booze.
parker had eaten in the trailer while we were setting up so he was not interested, and how could you blame him, the pool was waiting right behind us and he had his suite on for the last hour ready to go...so candi missed out on most of lunch, she was not that hungry, but she did enjoy some frozen drink.
we played up there for over an hour
going between the kiddy area, kiddy pool and the big pool with slide and repeat over and over where ever parker wanted to roam.
back to the camper to change and get for our evening travels, dinner was at WL but taking the boat there would be way to easy, what was our route, well here it is.
campground bus to outpost
bus from outpost to DTD
DTD water taxi POR
POR bus to Epcot
Epcot monorail to TTC
TTC to resort monorails
Resort monorails to Contemporary
Contemporary to Resort Boat lanch
Resort Boat lanch to WL
from 1 mode of transporation turned into 9 modes, thats how we do it in our family, and it was just for fun..also we had a few hours till dinner, and candi and I always have to ride the monorail from epcot to the TTC on our first day.
now that trip with pictures and stories.
here we are on the second leg of the trip from the outpost to DTD we had the bus to ourselves, this pictures shows parkers cuts on his knees from the other day when he fell running to candi.
also on the way, we passed the entrance which is right behind FW for the new four seasons hotel as well as where the entrance will be for the new homes that people can purchase and buy, they are going to range from like 1.5 million to 8 million dollar homes.
and the fire station, this is the one that is closest to DTD and if you look closely you will see the fire house that works its way around the building and into the fountain.
our stop is DTD, to look at a few things on our way through, as we are walking in,
there is of course the animation building with all of the drawings to your right hand side, wellwe notice a sign that says larry dotson art...it catches our eye,
he paints pictures of things all over WDW and then sells them. well on our last trip, candis sister was leaving Epcot after us and notices the art store there and larry is inside signing his artwork for people, so she buys a picture of the castle and he autographs it to parker so we had the castle artwork.
we go inside, and see him there selling his pieces. we were going to keep walking but i learned my lesson last trip.
Lesson learned(last trip): if you see something you like, buy it, you might not see it again on that trip and will kick yourself for not buying it.
so i went up and talked to him, and found out that he was getting ready to leave and would not be back on property until july 4th weekend.
i found the other four parks and bought those and had him personalize them to our family, now we have a complete collection and plan on going after other things of his next trip, like water parks, and resorts and such.
he was a very nice guy we talked for a while, so glad we stopped and bought these, they offered to ship them to the resort. but i declined, i did not want anything happening to them in transite since they were personalized by him and we would not be able to get another copy.
sorry for the glare, i took them after they were already framed
after this purchase we made our way to world of disney, too look at the new racer car series they have, it is the hotwheel cars made to look like different characters. we bought him the buzz car and pluto car, and my dad bought him the monorail one and disney bus one.
then we made our way to the DTD bus location to head over to POR
another lesson was soon learned.
Lesson learned: When your child drops a toy and you run over it with the stroller and drag it under the wheel and the top of it gets all chipped up and metal scrapped, even when you get mad at yourself for doing it, a child will still love the toy and want to play with it as much as ever.
i was so made at myself for doing it, he loved that buzz car so much holding it so tight and i was so furious at myself that i was almost in tears that parker was not going to want it anymore..that is when i learned and candi reminded me to look at parker and see how happy he was holding the car and how much he still loved it.
you can see me checking it over here, before candi told me it would be okay.
here comes our transporation to POR
the ballon in docking mode (which we road later in the week) have good pics and video from it.
and parker having fun with grandpa on the boat over.
if you have not seen the treehouse DVC now you have.
then to Epcot via the POR bus system. and over to the TTC...we did get to see the new tron monorail...very cool looking, but do we like it when riding it?
will share that when we ride it later in the week.
we get aboard our resort monorail and start our trek around
see the MK and get excited to visit in a few days.
the completed bay lake towers which were under construction last time, and wonder if i will get in ther elater in the week.
we get off at contemporary and go to the ground floor to hop on our boat to WL, butnot without getting our every trip photo in the mickey ears.
mouse ears not the best picture, have to look for another one, i think i am still running back to get in this shot.
dinner update will be next time with ketchup galor.
Probably a permanently damaged back if I tried to close them up in the Murphy Bed now.
not a problem coming later, glad your with us. next we have dinner at WL, and then start our park touring.
