Trip Report - March/April 2025

[Noreen411]

Friday 3/28/25
We went to the gym around 6:15. Our normal morning routine of laundry, jacuzzi, showers, and breakfast followed.

We drove to Hollywood Studios.


Scott loves these little aliens. On our last trip we bought a bunch of the ones that you push a button and they say things. With more than one, when you push the button on one, the others all chime in. I think we have 5 or 6 of them. But he posed with these stuffed ones for me.


Our first attraction was my favorite one at Hollywood Studios…Tower of Terror.


We bought a few more shirts, then stopped to watch One Man’s Dream which was about to start.

We came back to the front of the park to ride Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway train. This is cute, but I still miss the great movie ride. They really should put a ride photo in this ride.





One show we haven’t watched in a while was about to start, Indiana Jones Stunt show. When we’re here in the fall, it’s usually too hot to sit in the outdoor theater for this. The show ran into technical difficulties and the last scene was cancelled. The show was still enjoyable and if you hadn’t seen it before you probably wouldn’t know what you missed, other than they announced it.

We headed into Toy Story Land next. These green army men were walking by so I took a quick picture of them.


We mobile ordered pop tarts from Woody’s Lunchbox - Raspberry and Key Lime. The raspberry is my favorite. We tried a bit of each then wrapped them up, Scott had a little ziploc baggie just for this purpose.



The saucers were our next attraction. We both think this is cute and Scott is always fascinated more by the tracks and how the cars switch tracks than the rest of the ride.


Our next attraction was Toy Story Mania. This is always a favorite and we keep trying to remember to work together to get other screens and effects to open up.

 

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Friday 3/28/25 Continued
We headed out of Hollywood Studios and took the Skyliner to hop over to Epcot.
Look how crazy my hair looks on the skyliner sticking straight up


We enjoy walking and with nice weather especially love strolling around World Showcase. We stop for different pictures and attractions too.

I don’t remember where exactly this was, but thought it was nice that they had a Muppets topiary knowing that attraction is closing in Hollywood Studios.


I think we did about 2 laps around. Pictures may be out of sequence.








It was time for us to ride Remy. This is cute but I am not a fan of the single rider line on this attraction.

 

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Friday 3/28/25 Continued
We decided to try the bar at Shula’s tonight. We took the boat to the Dolphin, but when we got to Shula’s the bar was packed. We waited a bit but everyone seemed like they were settled in for a while. We don’t like to hover so figured we would try again another night and pick something else tonight.

We walked around the Boardwalk area and went into Flying Fish and asked if there was any availability at the bar. They were able to seat us immediately. I am definitely preferring this type of set up where they seat you at the bar rather than 1st come/1st served and having to wait around for a seat to open up.


Scott had a Martini and I had an Espresso Martini


For an appetizer we had the Pork Belly BLT; this is an amazing appetizer, we both really enjoyed it.


Their bread is good but we didn’t want to fill up on it.


Scott had the seafood pasta. He loves this dish and gets it every time we’re at Flying Fish.


I try different things and today I went with the potato wrapped snapper. This was very good too. One time I had it and wasn’t thrilled so didn’t try it again for ages. I’m glad I gave it another try since today it was very good.


We enjoyed our meal at Flying Fish but skipped dessert here with something else in mind

 

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Friday 3/28/25 Continued
We walked over to the Cake Bake Shop to get dessert to go.

Scott loves chocolate chip cookies so we had to try the chocolate chip cookie. Scott was very excited to try it and ate half of it before remembering to pose the cookie for a picture. So this is only less than half the cookie. He liked it.


Since the car was at Hollywood Studios we took the boat back there. Waiting for the boat we started chatting with a nice couple from Indiana where the other Cake Bake shop is; they said they go there often and the carrot cake is their favorite. They said they will often buy a whole carrot cake for birthdays and other celebrations.

We drove back to the resort and tried our desserts from Cake Bake.

We bought the Blueberry Crumb. This was pretty good. We each tried a little piece.



We also bought a piece of Carrot Cake. How funny that the couple on the ferry mentioned this was their favorite. They were right, of the various cakes we’ve tried from Cake Bake, the carrot was our favorite. The part I found odd is that the little flower on the Carrot Cake wasn’t edible. They make pretty frosting flowers on other cakes, I’m surprised they didn’t on the carrot cake too.

 

[Noreen411]

Saturday 3/29/25
We went to the gym about 6 this morning. We did our normal morning routine of laundry, jacuzzi, showers, and breakfast before leaving for the park.

We drove to Animal Kingdom.


We always stop for the pictures right by the tree since they almost always will have some magic shots.



Our first attraction was Dinosaur. We are definitely going to miss this one when it’s gone.



We did the Jungle Trek since we wanted to see Bakso, the baby tiger. We saw him sleeping, it’s not the best picture of him but at least we saw him.



We took the train over to Rafiki’s planet watch section and watched the Animal Show with Nelly, the Porcupine. This was interesting, we’ve never seen this before. We liked that it was all up to Nelly what he decides he wants to do.



We went in to the section where they do the drawings and we drew Dot from Bug’s Life. I’m not very artistic so appreciate the way they provide very detailed instructions on how to do this. Scott’s drawing came out much better than mine did.



We took the train back to the regular part of the park.

 

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Saturday 3/29/25 Continued
It was time for us to ride the safari. While we didn’t see the lions this visit, a giraffe tried to get very close to the truck.


We like the unique magic shots like this one where we look like we are walking along with the animals.


Scott was going to ride the single rider line at Everest but it was pretty crowded so he didn’t wait.


We continued taking cute photos


Scott was happy to see his favorite Mickey Mouse shaped chocolate chip cookie with dipped ears. I thought this picture was hysterical since the thing behind him with feathers makes it look like a blond Mohawk.

 

[Noreen411]

Saturday 3/29/25 Continued
We left Animal Kingdom and drove to Magic Kingdom.

When going through security the guard wanted everyone to do a Conga Line, it was kind of cute how some people were getting into it. Of course, there are the grumpy ones that ignored him. We did what we call the “Avocado Dance” as we walked through. If you’ve ever been to Stew Leonard’s, which is a quirky grocery store where they have all sorts of animatronics, where they sell Avocados, they have animatronic Avocados that sing to the tune of La Cucaracha, but they sing “We’re Avocado, We’re Avocado”. Once you hear it, it gets in your head. If you have Alexa and ask her to sing the Stew Leonard’s Avocado song you’ll hear what I mean. So we always end up singing it to each other and when we do we move our arms that are pointed up kind of up and down (we’re corny like that) like a little dance.

Continuing going off on this tangent for a minute, you know how sometimes little thoughtful gifts are the best kind of gifts? Scott was picking up a few items at Stew Leonard’s and brought home a cute little gift for me. When you push the button on the hand it sings the Avocado song. This little plush avocado just makes me happy.


Back to our day in Disney, we were just getting to Magic Kingdom



We stopped for several different pictures as we entered the park.


Donald Duck seems to show up in Magic shot pictures recently.

 

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Saturday 3/29/25 Continued
This is always one of the pictures I like since it looks like a postcard, but we’re there on the bottom right side.


It was time for us to ride 7 Dwarves Mine Train. The more we ride this the more we like it. We used to think it was kind of a like a milder Big Thunder Mountain, but now we appreciate it more. I can’t help singing Hi Ho Hi Ho it’s off to work we go when we’re in the mine part of the ride.



We rode Peter Pan and then Small World after Mine Train.

We headed back towards Main Street.


We stopped in the Confectionary and made our own popcorn and also got a cake pop.



We made our way out of the park

 

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Saturday 3/29/25 Continued
We drove to Caribbean Beach Resort for our dinner reservation at Sebastian’s Bistro. We went a little early to have pre-dinner cocktails at Banana Cabana bar.


Scott had a double bourbon and a Coke. I had the Banana Cabana drink.


We were seated on time at Sebastian’s Bistro in the back section; we never sat in this room before.


The food was very good. We had the regular menu but they also have a vegetarian version. It’s a plated All You Care to Eat type place.

The bread is good but would be even better if it was warmed up.


The salad is super fresh and tasty


I like that the meat platter has all the sauces on the side


The sides are good too. I don’t like cilantro normally since it tastes like soap to me, but their cilantro rice and beans are delicious


It’s a lot of food. We didn’t need anymore but everything we had was very good. Sebastian’s Bistro is a hidden gem.

The star of the show is the dessert…pineapple coconut bread pudding. We were too full to eat it so asked if we could have the bread pudding to go so they boxed a piece up for us that we brought back to the resort to eat. I liked how they packed each component separately (the bread pudding, the caramel sauce, and the ice cream) then we put it together.