Our third time in August because Morgan is in grades where missing a week is no longer viable… You’d think we’d be used to the heat!
Day 1
August 22nd I was up at 4AM, showered, finished the last bit of packing, got everything to the door ready to load before waking his nibs… When much to my surprise, who should wander down, dressed and ready to travel? Morgan! So we loaded up the car and despite the overstuffed suitcase almost not fitting in my trunk, we managed and headed for the airport. We arrived at 5:30, I had planned for 6, but him getting up and dressed independently had thrown off all my timings.
Turns out everybody else was as early and had almost all checked in. We bought some candy to suck on on the planes and patiently waited. We departed Ottawa a slight bit late, but managed to make up time and arrived in Toronto a tiny bit early. Cleared U.S. Customs in record time and then waited some more… Our Orlando flight was late leaving and late arriving, we landed at 1245PM and we at the gate at 1:05. We were off the plane, to DME and on our bus in 15 minutes! We were on the road to WDW 10 minutes later! We were actually checking in within an hour of the plane arriving at the gate!
Check-in took a little time because we had two reservations, one for the first night on an AP discount and one for the following seven nights on a 40% PIN. The check-in lady was great, changed the two bookings to a “continuing” booking and they just slid new keys under the door in the morning [they sadly slid them under the door after we had already departed for the day, but the thought was there]. I asked for a birthday button because I’d decided that my 50th [in October] is worth celebrating.
After we found our room [a little bit of confusion on my part had us miss a turn], we found it to be a very nice ground floor room with a walk-out patio facing the Tidal Pool swimming pool. I figure from our room it’s closer to walk to EPCOT than to the boat to EPCOT! Some room pics:
The Beach Club Resort:
Once we settled what little stuff we had in our carry-on, we headed to DTD. I bought a few golf shirts [or polos as they’re sometimes called] and Morgan got some Lego, we ended up with way too much time allocated to DTD. With Virgin and Starabilia gone, we ran out of places to go long before dinner. We stopped at Ghirardelli’s for my favourite Decadent Drinking Chocolate mid-afternoon and then for shakes an hour and a half before dinner. Oops… Too much snacking meant neither of us even ate half our main course. But Raglan Road was still great! We shared a Scallop Forest [no pic, sorry... it looked so delicious we forgot] and then Morgan had Fish & Chips and I had their Shepherd’s Pie. Both were delicious and we were very tempted to keep eating beyond being stuffed, but decided to live to fight another day.
The Food:
It appears I caught Morgan blinking, it looks as though he has eyes painted on his lids…
On the way back, I bought the Mickey-head I-4 Highway sign and a Beach Club golf shirt. We unpacked our now present luggage and prepared for a long day at MK…
Day 1
August 22nd I was up at 4AM, showered, finished the last bit of packing, got everything to the door ready to load before waking his nibs… When much to my surprise, who should wander down, dressed and ready to travel? Morgan! So we loaded up the car and despite the overstuffed suitcase almost not fitting in my trunk, we managed and headed for the airport. We arrived at 5:30, I had planned for 6, but him getting up and dressed independently had thrown off all my timings.
Turns out everybody else was as early and had almost all checked in. We bought some candy to suck on on the planes and patiently waited. We departed Ottawa a slight bit late, but managed to make up time and arrived in Toronto a tiny bit early. Cleared U.S. Customs in record time and then waited some more… Our Orlando flight was late leaving and late arriving, we landed at 1245PM and we at the gate at 1:05. We were off the plane, to DME and on our bus in 15 minutes! We were on the road to WDW 10 minutes later! We were actually checking in within an hour of the plane arriving at the gate!
Check-in took a little time because we had two reservations, one for the first night on an AP discount and one for the following seven nights on a 40% PIN. The check-in lady was great, changed the two bookings to a “continuing” booking and they just slid new keys under the door in the morning [they sadly slid them under the door after we had already departed for the day, but the thought was there]. I asked for a birthday button because I’d decided that my 50th [in October] is worth celebrating.
After we found our room [a little bit of confusion on my part had us miss a turn], we found it to be a very nice ground floor room with a walk-out patio facing the Tidal Pool swimming pool. I figure from our room it’s closer to walk to EPCOT than to the boat to EPCOT! Some room pics:
The Beach Club Resort:
Once we settled what little stuff we had in our carry-on, we headed to DTD. I bought a few golf shirts [or polos as they’re sometimes called] and Morgan got some Lego, we ended up with way too much time allocated to DTD. With Virgin and Starabilia gone, we ran out of places to go long before dinner. We stopped at Ghirardelli’s for my favourite Decadent Drinking Chocolate mid-afternoon and then for shakes an hour and a half before dinner. Oops… Too much snacking meant neither of us even ate half our main course. But Raglan Road was still great! We shared a Scallop Forest [no pic, sorry... it looked so delicious we forgot] and then Morgan had Fish & Chips and I had their Shepherd’s Pie. Both were delicious and we were very tempted to keep eating beyond being stuffed, but decided to live to fight another day.
The Food:
It appears I caught Morgan blinking, it looks as though he has eyes painted on his lids…
On the way back, I bought the Mickey-head I-4 Highway sign and a Beach Club golf shirt. We unpacked our now present luggage and prepared for a long day at MK…
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