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.

 

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Thursday 17th July (cont)

We stopped for some photos on the way to our Guardians LL

I can’t find our ride photo from that day, I must have forgotten to download it. I know our song was Conga, which i now rank second, One Way or Another is still favourite

We were feeling hungry so headed back to La Cantina de San Angel for something to eat, obviously had to get a margarita as well. It was crazy busy there and we ended up taking our food to the walkway over to the Odyssey building and balancing our trays on our laps. It was too awkward to take food photos but we did have a nice view.

 

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Thursday 17th July (cont)

We hadn’t been on The Seas With Nemo & Friends yet, so that was our next destination. One thing I find with the long trips that we take is that we end up missing things because we think ‘Oh, we’ve got plenty of time, we’ll just do them the next day we’re at this park’. And Nemo was something we almost missed doing.

I do love this ride, it’s just cute. And I love the queue, particularly on a hot Florida day.

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 17th July (cont)

After our ride we explored the aquariums

We started to get the giggles over some of the fish names

And because we’re Brits we do like a silly insult and can make most words sound like an insult. So we started with the fish names: “You Smallmouth Grunt”, “You Horse-Eye Jack”. People around us must have thought we were crazy and wondered what we were laughing at so much.

More insults

 

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Thursday 17th July (cont)

A bit more exploring

Found him

We had to rescue Lexi on our way out

We walked through Journey of Water again but it was very busy and we couldn’t interact much. There was a Moonlight Magic event on that night so it was feeling quite busy everywhere

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Thursday 17th July (cont)

Because it was so busy we decided not to stay for fireworks, we were planning on watching them the next night anyway. We walked through the UK shops on the way out

My weird child

A few more character outfits on the way out

We timed our skyliner trip home perfectly again. Missed the rush and saw the fireworks

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Friday 18th July

With two days left until our cruise we knew we wanted to visit all four parks again and end each day with fireworks. The last night had to be Magic Kingdom, so this night would end at Epcot and because of the ease of getting there on the skyliner it made sense to start at Hollywood Studios.

Our last morning getting the skyliner was the busiest, the queue extended across the bridge and down the side of the lake. It did move quickly though

We rope dropped Tower of Terror

And had time to ride again before the park opened to non resort guests

I liked some of the artwork in the shop

We needed a snack so stopped at the Joffrey’s cart

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Friday 18th July (cont)

My attempt at an arty photo

Alice did much better

On our way to our next ride

The girls made me stop until the sign changed

MMRR wasn’t too long of a wait so we headed over there

I hadn’t noticed the Hidden Mickey last time we rode

 

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Alice’s picture is really cool!!

 

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Thursday 17th July (cont)

I would like all of this in my house

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Art on the way out

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Next we had to go back to Pop Century for a boring job, laundry. We only had two days left before our cruise and they were going to be very busy so this would be the only chance I had to do it.

would like all of this in my house

 

[Piglet_the_brave]

Friday 18th July (cont)

We got stuck for a while on MMRR so I was able to get some photos

A pose with Walt on the way out

Alice wanted to go to Star Wars Launch Bay next

Goofy was playing games