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Trip Report Our Christmas trip do-over

If youre lucky enough to be my spouse, every night is like Valentines and every day is like Christmas. Well, at least thats what i think. My wife might disagree to an extent lol!

But, we are having a "second" Christmas trip of sorts. Only Christmas isnt in March, which is when we are going. So what exactly do I mean by all of this?

We spent 12 days at WDW in December to celebrate Christmas. Our friends joined us with their kids as well. And while we had a blast and the trip was great, it was their first time at WDW as a family and many of the things that C (my wife) and i wanted to do, didnt happen as we were often changing plans to accommodate our friends (which we did not mind at all).

It was just difficult for them with timing rides and getting to and from the parks and getting the kids fed and naps and all that fun stuff. And C and I didnt have anything specific planned such as dining reservations or rides. We take it slow on our trips and aren't worried about how many rides we get on and we had plans to take it slow and explore some new things in the parks and resorts, and while we did do some of that, we wanted our friends and the kids to have a good first trip so we didn't mind getting in a bunch of attractions when we were all together.

So this trip will be our "do-over" of taking it slow! Slow for us also includes lots of eating, snacking and drinking at various places. Now, lets get to the details:

Who: My wife and I

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When: March 1-8

Where: Copper Creek at Wilderness Lodge

Will there be a dog? That's proprietary.

We have a 1 br villa so it will be nice to have the extra room and as some of you know, my wife gets a high from doing laundry on vacation so shes excited for a room with a washer/dryer!

Our arrival day is also the last day of operations for RnR. I was up this morning to secure LL's for us. I was successful and I booked it for later in the evening. We watched a live stream for the last day at Dinosaur at AK and it definitely seemed to be a wild time as it got closer to park closing so hopefully it will be a fun time, even thos we will miss Aerosmith being the headliner.

We've got a few ADRs planned as well as some new spots we will be visiting that I will update soon.

And yes (@Tuvalu ) I will finish my Jan TR before we leave 😊😁
 

wdisney9000

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Thursday ctd...

We caught the parade on our way over to Space Mtn

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The castle looks awesome with the new paint color.

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Mickey was walking through the park and Alice and The Mad Hatter saw him and it was hilarious as he passed by and they freaked out

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Thats the best picture I could get. Hatter was waving amd hollering as Alice was trying to get Mickeys attention. When Mickey waved, they jumped for joy.

It was cool just seeing Mickey walk through the park. Of course, people were trying to stop him which kind of ruins the vibe as the CMs have to shoo people away but it was still fun
 

wdisney9000

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Thursday ctd..

Our ride lic from PoTC finally came in. We're back row

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Space Mtn was as fun and Jerry as always. Having 2 drinks and food before riding wasnt as bad as we expected lol

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Now, this may be a hot take but I just may prefer Space Mtn over Tron! *gasp!!!!

But hear me out. Tron is great, but you either wait a long time or pay $20. Either way, youre waiting appx 10-20 more minutes after you out your stuff in the locker amd then the ride itself is over so quickly.

Space Mtn is easy to get a LL for on most days. The star tunnel is far more enjoyable as a pre ride build up. You practically walk right on using LL amd the ride itself is waaay longer than Tron, albeit its an old school coaster but still fun.

If I jad to pick, im going with SM for the overall enjoyment factor. Ok, now you can come at me!
 

Laurenciaa

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Thursday ctd..

Our ride lic from PoTC finally came in. We're back row

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Space Mtn was as fun and Jerry as always. Having 2 drinks and food before riding wasnt as bad as we expected lol

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Now, this may be a hot take but I just may prefer Space Mtn over Tron! *gasp!!!!

But hear me out. Tron is great, but you either wait a long time or pay $20. Either way, youre waiting appx 10-20 more minutes after you out your stuff in the locker amd then the ride itself is over so quickly.

Space Mtn is easy to get a LL for on most days. The star tunnel is far more enjoyable as a pre ride build up. You practically walk right on using LL amd the ride itself is waaay longer than Tron, albeit its an old school coaster but still fun.

If I jad to pick, im going with SM for the overall enjoyment factor. Ok, now you can come at me!
Fully agree!!
 

riverside

Well-Known Member
Thursday ctd..

Our ride lic from PoTC finally came in. We're back row

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Space Mtn was as fun and Jerry as always. Having 2 drinks and food before riding wasnt as bad as we expected lol

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Now, this may be a hot take but I just may prefer Space Mtn over Tron! *gasp!!!!

But hear me out. Tron is great, but you either wait a long time or pay $20. Either way, youre waiting appx 10-20 more minutes after you out your stuff in the locker amd then the ride itself is over so quickly.

Space Mtn is easy to get a LL for on most days. The star tunnel is far more enjoyable as a pre ride build up. You practically walk right on using LL amd the ride itself is waaay longer than Tron, albeit its an old school coaster but still fun.

If I jad to pick, im going with SM for the overall enjoyment factor. Ok, now you can come at me!
Couldn’t agree more!!
 

wdisney9000

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Thursday ctd...

We headed to the monorail to venture over to Epcot for a little F&G action

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We started with the chiliquiles at the Mexico booth. We both loved it. Also tried the mexican lager. Also good.

Next, C wanted to try the chicken and waffles which in years past has been very good. The line at the booth was long but we waited the 15 minutes to get our food

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The waffle was good. The chicken was gross. Really gross IMO. It had a slimy texture on the outside and the meat itself tasted like the cheapest of cheap chicken. It actually left us both with a bit of an upset stomach, which we probly made happen after disecting it and looking at it too long lol. C also got some wine which was very good.

Afterwards, we rode Nemo and headed back home to WL. C went to the room. I went to Geyser Point

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wdisney9000

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Thursday ctd...

Thursday evening was not very eventful. The weather was predicted to be rain and thunderstorms from 5 pm until later in the evening. There were clouds all around when we returned to the resort.

We decided that staying in for the evening would be better than being at MK and it start pouring. We stayed in and watched Wish. It was a really fun movie.

By 8 pm, there had been zero rain lol. We had kept debating going to the park but had a feeling that it would rain as soon as got there. By 10 pm it had not rained at all. We watched the fireworks from our balcony which was nice.

We had a very good time just staying in for the evening. We also watched Princess Bride and got some dinner at Geyser Point.
 

wdisney9000

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Friday

We were well rested from a night in. We decided to hit up Epcot.

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The plan was to rope drop TT since C has not ridden it yet. We took a Lyft over to BW instead of waiting for a bus

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It was a beautiful morning amd weather was great. We got to TT right at 830 am and it was already a 45 minute wait! We tried single rider and got right on tho. We did get split up and only my ride Pic came thru
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C said she definitely likes the newer version. SSE was next

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Over to The Land Pavilion next. Hey Duey and Louie have a cool topiary outside

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We got a quick snack before the LWTL

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There was no really extra stuff in the ride to promote F&G. We found it odd. I did see this which ive never noticed

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A sort of paper!
 

wdisney9000

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Friday ctd...

We stopped at the Florida Fresh booth amd tried the strawberry shortcake amd beer flight
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The beers were interesting. They were all fruit inspired amd very sweet.

We went to France to see Impressions de Framce but its down for refurb so we opted for a 1664 instead. The line for Les Halles was crazy

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Luckily they sell it on the shop outside!

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C got a white wine

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wdisney9000

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Friday ctd...

We skylined it over to the Studios and started off at Tune In Lounge

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They have a pretty good espresso martinin

There were several locals at the bar. I know because they were telling pretty much everybody that was ordering. I definitely got "pineapple" vibes as it was a very touchy/feely scene going on.

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We sat as far away as possible lol.

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We had a LL for ToT and then another espresso martini from Joffreys

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wdisney9000

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Saturday

We got a little bit of a late start to the day, which was fine by us. We decided to head over to AK for 2 reasons:

1. Nomad Lounge!

C. We really wanted to see the new Zootopia show after watching the movie the other night.

we caught some monkey training as we waited for Nomad to open

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They were training them to touch the little stick you see in the picture. Apparently this can be helpful when medical.care when necessary.

Soon after we queued up for Nomad. There was a line of about 25 people. We got a seat on the patio

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Tempting Tigress and Espresso Martini. If you haven't noticed, Espresso martini is a favorite for C.

We also ordered the churros. They are hands down the best on property IMO

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We had a second round of drinks and then off to Everest. We spotted the line for the new "viral" ice cream cookie dough sandwhich.

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It was quite long. Glad we got the churros as a sweet treat instead of waiting 30 minutes to get a tik tok ice cream sandwich 😁

When we reached the top of Everest, I noticed the gold coin is now gone!

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The rabbit holeof this gold coins goes deeper! It was just there a few days prior and who would have gotten into the difficult spot to unwedge it? Did it fall out? I didnt notice it on the ground?? I need answers. Sadly , I would get none

I was able to clear up a little mistatement from my lasrt on ride photo where @Tuvalu thought I was holding an umbrella but it was my phone. Here is a better photo of said phone

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While the gold coin remains a mystery, the phone/umbrella mystery is solved! Lol
 

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