Trip Report One way or Another..........

It has been quite a few years since I've been to Disney for a full week. I've been there for a day here, two days there but I really missed a full week at Disney. When your first born says lets go to Disney, you make it happen. We just returned, and the best way for me to process getting back to regular life is to do a trip report, so here we go.

Me and Em
October 19-25th

Our flight was leaving at 7:00 am, and it made for a very early morning since we had a two hour drive to the airport. We got on the road at 3:30 and we landed at MCO around 9:30 am. We got an Uber, and Oster was great. He even slowed down so I could get this most coveted picture.

I let Em pick a lot of the details for this trip, one being the mistake of picking our resort. I was willing to pay for a moderate, but she really wanted to stay at POP. sigh~, what can I do..... She loves it

We requested the 60's or 70's building and got a room in the 70's. Our room was ready when we arrived around 10:30 am. Our room was on the first floor and faced an inner courtyard. Mostly quiet, except we could hear the room above us when they were getting ready in the morning or returning at night. They weren't rude or being overly loud. It's what you pay for I guess.

We unpacked and decided we'd rather hop on the skyliner and find lunch rather than go to Typhoon Lagoon. We got off at the Caribbean resort. Their Cuban sandwich wasn't too bad. I'd get it again. We then stopped at Riviera to see the murals in person and eat the "best" cookie at Disney.

I have to say, I didn't think the Riviera Signature cookie was the best cookie on property. I would give it a C.

Em has a fear of birds. This gets mentioned in all of my reports since there are birds everywhere at Disney. Luckily for her, this bird was quite a distance from us, but she made sure to point it out and comment about what it was doing. Then, to our horror, it snatched a little lizard for lunch.

Our early morning was catching up with us so we decided to go back to the room and take a break before heading to Disney Spring for the evening.

 

[cgersic]

Ooohh I saw the tie dye one. I may have to do that on our next trip!

I hope you'll make a report about your adventures!

I said the same thing about the tie dye - it was too late when I saw it. I don't take very many pictures, and it was many miles of wandering solo, so I really don't have much to report

 

[Zipadeelady]

I said the same thing about the tie dye - it was too late when I saw it. I don't take very many pictures, and it was many miles of wandering solo, so I really don't have much to report

I often think about going solo. It would be a totally different experience for me. I think I would do more wandering and sitting to people watch and listen to the atmosphere. Sounds dreamy

 

[Zipadeelady]

Thursday! Magic Kingdom and Epcot Day!

We were up and at the bus stop right around 7:30 am. Our goal was to rope drop 7 dwarfs. This was my choice. We have never tried and I wasn't sure how it would go. We passed the gates at 7:42 and started to pass by the Contemporary. There were many police cars and sirens passing the bus. We later learned there was another occurrence at the resort.

Today, our Disney bounding was Peter Pan and Smee! Em's earrings are dangly gold stars! We made it to Main Street at 8:00. I did do a horrible "crop cleanup" on my photo. Em taught me this Apple feature while we were there.

I actually saw two other people dressed up as Smee on different days. They both had on red stocking caps. They were more hardcore than me. No way am I wearing a stocking cap in Florida, even in October.

8:02

After scanning in at the bridge and walking to 7 dwarfs, the line seemed pretty long. We chatted with people around us and waited... I took a potty break over in the Circus restrooms. While in line, there was a family behind us, Mom, Dad, two younger kids, maybe preteen and 7ish. The mom went somewhere, and the dad was saying how this was going to be a good day and the girls needed to keep their patience with them and just have fun because mom wasn't using a scooter or walker today. It was sweet; he wasn't being douchy or rude. Just setting the scene. Mom came back and they were talking about how long the wait would be, and the next thing you know a CM walks by, then backs up and asks how many are in their party. Confused, Dad says four. She said come with me. He was hesitant, and CM says, "do you trust me". Everyone in line is yelling for them to go and whoo hooing for them. This is the family on the first ride of the day on a train to themselves.

The line moved very fast and it took about 7 minutes for us to load after the line started moving.

This pic is actually so funny to me. Do you know how many times I tried to push play on my phone, thinking I had taken a video? That shiny triangle glare had me so confused.

After our ride we could have hopped on another ride before early entry was over but we were on a mission to try something new, new to us. On the way we ran into the Dapper Dans.

 

[Zipadeelady]

I got ahead of myself...after consulting with my pictures I see that after we got off of 7 Dwarfs we walked behind the castle, made a wish in the Well then saw the Dans as we were walking down Main Street.

After videoing the Dans we headed to the front of the park. We learned that there is still an embroidery shop, and they will embroider anything that is cloth. We had brought our sweatshirts that we purchased at World of Disney yesterday and wanted to get our embroidery order in early since they were closing at 6 pm and we knew we wouldn't be back to MK this trip. We each ended up paying around $20. We chose special colors and special fonts that were an upcharge. We love them. I'll make sure and take a photo of mine and post it.

Looks like we had a LL for Pooh

We checked the app and Tron was at 35 minutes! We hustled over there, and the line really didn't look bad, so I was hopeful.

After about 20 minutes in line I looked to see what the wait time jumped to. We were lucky and waited 30 minutes.

When we got off we saw Chip and Dale. It was so cute. They had a little boy with them, and they were waving to the cars going around the Speedway. I did crop the boy out.

 

[Back!Elbow!Shoulders!]

I often think about going solo. It would be a totally different experience for me. I think I would do more wandering and sitting to people watch and listen to the atmosphere. Sounds dreamy

 

[Zipadeelady]

 

[Zipadeelady]

We had a LL at Haunted Mansion. On the walk over, around 11 am, the front of the Castle was crowd free. There were only a few people to be "cleaned up"

Em said "what are you doing" I had to laugh and say I've never seen this picture in a report!

Time for lunch, we took the long way to Casey's, but look who we ran into.

Emily and I have come to really like the mini dogs. We started eating, and then Em was gone.

 

[Zipadeelady]

We headed to Adventure Land to ride Jungle Cruise with our LL. The wait was short, the Skipper was on his toes, and we even saw a "bearded horse". But I swear there was a rhino at that pole, not hyenas.

Another round of Pirates.

Then Em finally got to try the Pineapple Upside Down Swirl thingy.

We wandered over to Mickey's Philharmagic. This show will never get old to me. Em got to see the new Coco addition and really liked it. Coco is one of her favorite movies.

 

[Zipadeelady]

Just like Disney, my ride photo got lost and took me a few minutes to find.

Also lost was our hunt for Pascal. We didn't stay long to look, but did find a couple.

I was getting tired and I hadn't had the chance to ride one of my favorites yet, so we walked to Tomorrowland and had a nice, relaxing ride on the Peoplemover. Then, as Tuvalu knows an excruciating ride on Space Mountain. It was bad... Not Primevil Whirl fun bad, but painful and not fun bad. Does that make sense? I may have to skip out on my next SM ride.

It was time, it was around 2:30, and I needed a break. So we started to head out. The afternoon parade was going on so we stopped to watch in the middle of it.

I then suggested walking ahead to get closer to the exit.. AND WHO DID I SEE ROUNDING THE CIRCLE IN FRONT OF THE TRAIN STATION!!

I walked/ran towards the fire station and was waving wildly. Pan saw us first and motioned that I stink and then pointed to Em, then to himself. Then Captain Hook saw me and saluted me!! It was so fun to see them. The picture is horrible after I got rid of all the kids I was standing behind. Then the best thing ever... I didn't realize Smee was on the other side. I waved, but he was working the crowd on the other side. I turned to look at Em the she pointed back and I saw Smee had seen me. He did the whole.

I was so excited!

A short time before that, I had been texting @riverside as they were going to be arriving soon, after the parade, I tried again. They were so close, but we thought we might be able to meet at Epcot on Friday, but again, plans constantly change when you are at Disney. Hoping we will meet up in the future, maybe at Baseline.

 

[fractal]

Nice story with the family of four - so glad you got Smeed in your outfit!

 

[cgersic]

I often think about going solo. It would be a totally different experience for me. I think I would do more wandering and sitting to people watch and listen to the atmosphere. Sounds dreamy

It is all that and more When I leave, I miss walking around to constant music. My sister came and enjoyed resort time for a couple of days at the end, so that's always a great time too. Your picture with Goofy and the surfboard was my last pic of the trip It's so fun seeing you and your daughter smiling and having such a good time together, can't wait to see more!