Trip Report Finally Back in Our Happy Place. A Three Week Trip With a Cruise Included

We’ve been back for just over a week from what was a wonderful three weeks. There were a few hiccups, but for the most part Disney World was just as we remembered it.

This trip was me and my two youngest daughters, Alice (18) and Lexi (15)

We stayed at Pop Century from July 7th-20th, then sailed on the Disney Magic from July 20th-25th, then French Quarter for the last three nights, July 25th-28th. For the Pop Century part of the trip we had the UK 14 day park tickets which included the waterparks.

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

Still on our way

Still taking photos of waterfalls

Frozen was already showing as a 40 minute wait, we were regretting not making more of an effort to get out early, but we still had quite a while before our first LL so got in the queue

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

The lantern reminded me more of Tangled than Frozen

So much detail in the queue, I think we’ve only waited once before, we used to always get FP+ for it

The queue was moving pretty quickly and we ended up waiting closer to 20 minutes

Then a snack, Chocolate Kringla, this was delicious

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

Next was our first LL, Guardians of the Galaxy. We were so excited for this but I was also a bit nervous because I do get some motion sickness. I can’t ride the teacups without feeling ill but I can ride
Mission: SPACE orange, bit weird.

We were almost at the loading area and the just loaded vehicle was held for about ten minutes. We speculated that there might be a cleanup at the other end, not helping my nervousness.

Then our turn

This was the most fun ride ever, it’s definitely my favourite ride now, I laughed all the way round. We got One Way Or Another as our song and it was just perfect. And not the slightest bit queasy, I could have ridden it again.

Straight over to our next LL

Definitely tall enough now

 

[littleroo]

I am so glad that you loved Guardians. I also love the ride! I think it gets a bad reputation for motion sickness. I always try to encourage people to give it a go at least once.

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

I am so glad that you loved Guardians. I also love the ride! I think it gets a bad reputation for motion sickness. I always try to encourage people to give it a go at least once.

I may have spent far too much on more Lightning Lanes for it

 

[littleroo]

I may have spent far too much on more Lightning Lanes for it

Trust me, I get it!! I really have never been interested in an after hours party. I am more of an early bird than a night owl. However, I may do an Epcot after hours party just to ride Guardians over and over again!

 

[cgersic]

I'm thinking I'll have to give Guardians another try. It made me so motion sick the first time I've never tried it again. And I don't get motion sick on anything other than Ratatouille (if I go more than once).

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

I'm thinking I'll have to give Guardians another try. It made me so motion sick the first time I've never tried it again. And I don't get motion sick on anything other than Ratatouille (if I go more than once).

I hope you do get to ride it without feeling ill, I’m so glad I tried it. Strangely after being fine on Guardians, I did feel a bit off on Ratatouille. I think it was that there was so much on screens

 

[littleroo]

I hope you do get to ride it without feeling ill, I’m so glad I tried it. Strangely after being fine on Guardians, I did feel a bit off on Ratatouille. I think it was that there was so much on screens

I feel off on Ratatouille, too. I liked it a little more this time but I wore a motion patch behind my ear which I really liked. Usually, I just take the 3D glasses off.

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

Our next LL was for Soarin’, but it wasn’t quite time so we stopped for lunch in Sunshine Seasons first

Lexi had the Stir-fried Chicken which she liked

I went with the cheese flatbread, it was fine

Alice had the salmon which she enjoyed but forgot to take a photo

Lexi and I both had the Tropical Boba Juice which was a bit on the sweet side for me, I think a ‘grown-up’ version of this would be good

We were very happy to be in the middle on Soarin’, no bendy Eiffel Tower

Time for Living with the Land before our next LL

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

Tiny waterfall

Our next LL was Spaceship Earth

I was headless

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

As someone who loves waterfalls and fountains I was looking forward to Journey of Water

It’s so pretty, we all loved it. It was so hot by this time though and very crowded so we didn’t stay too long, we were looking forward to coming back at night

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

We had a LL for Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure next so took a slow wander over to World Showcase

I love the fountain

And the cute wallpaper

We all thought this was a really cute, fun ride. But, as I mentioned before, it did make me feel slightly off. Not enough that I wouldn’t ride it again, but I definitely wouldn’t be able to do back to back rides.

We had planned to spend some time in World Showcase but we were melting, it was just too hot to be outside for long. A shower and a nap seemed like a much better idea, then we could return later that evening.

As we got to the skyliner, we were informed that it was currently down. Luckily we didn’t have to walk all the way to the front of the park for a bus but were directed to a backstage area where we boarded a bus going to all the skyliner resorts.

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

I thought it would be nice to have a table service meal before returning to Epcot for the evening. I checked online and managed to get a reservation at Trattoria al Forno

Wildlife as we walked towards the skyliner

Towards the Boardwalk

I would like a wine rack like this

The bread with garlic was so good

We find it hard to resist calamari when it is on the menu, so shared between us

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 10th July (cont)

The sun had started to set, Lexi went outside to get some photos

Beef short rib for me, I think with polenta. I didn’t write it down and can’t find it online

Truffle Gnocchi for Lexi

Lasagne for Alice

All our food was very good, we thoroughly enjoyed our meal at Trattoria.