Trip Report Revisiting 2016's War and peace I took one for the team

Hello it's me again and if you want to know what the title means you'll have to stick around for a while. Sorry but no spoiler This trip was 3 years in the making and the official countdown started at 439 days. Surprisingly the time seemed to fly by. Our little adventure was taken by me (for those who don't know I'm Figmentfan423 Figgy to my friends here), my dh and our 2 boys James 14 and fellow Disney planner and M who's a bit older autistic and doesn't like getting his picture taken or me talking about him. Our trip began at

am on July 30th. We sang happy birthday to my little guy while driving down the street on our way to Disney. I'm a very mean mommy who made my baby spend his birthday in the car. Any way it was smooth sailing until half way through Virginia where we hit rain and traffic all the way to the North Carolina border. It was bad enough we worried a bit about making it to our hotel for the first night but once we hit NC the skies cleared and so did the traffic and we made it to Florida

to take the obligitory first Florida picture of the boys. With a bit of luck and excitement we made it to Ormond Beach to get a good night's sleep.

 

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About now the boys were getting hungry. ok let's face it they're always hungry So thanks again @bee and @MinnieM123 we hopped the boat over to the Swalphin to look around and have lunch at the Fountain while Jim hung back at DHS and go to launch bay and grab a salad at ABC

Lunch was great! Best part it cost about the same as a qs meal. Chef Nathan made me a veggie sandwich with sweet potato fries, James got a burger with sweet potato fries and said it was the best one of the trip and m got the pulled pork sandwich with regular fries

 

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For @MinnieM123, @ajrwdwgirl, @betty rose and all other goody lovers

 

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After lunch we didn't have any real plans so we walked over to EPCOT by way of

The boys wanted to do some more Agent P missions and it was warm (sounds like a good excuse) and stopped in at R&C Pub and met the world famous Carl

and had an English Rose

Then over to France for some window shopping, another mission and a Grey Goose Slush

It was hot by then LOL

 

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We walked around world Showcase and to our shock and amazement the the line for FEA wasn't too long so why not ride while we could

That was the drawbridge by the Outpost I don't ever remember seeing it up before. Any way on to Mexico where I got something to put away for Christmas SHHH! and of course while the rode the boat.

 

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We walked around the lagoon and back towards International Gateway

That was the tag James got on line at FEA

 

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We had just got on the boat to DHS when the skies opened up and how! The shut the boats down and we wound up back at

at least a bus came quickly and got us back to DHS

 

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We met up with Jim and went on the great Movie Ride and Star tours and of course I had to see the frozen Sing Along again

The boys went to Backlot and got burgers and nuggets

I just had some fries. The park was almost empty when we got back all the lines were pretty short and we got on to ST twice as a walk on and the second time James was finally the rebel spy. As soon as we got off it was shirt shopping time but the rebel spy shirt only came in childrens sizes. Yea for my wallet! Then off to the tune In Lounge for a couple of Mowie Wowies

 

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Then we had time to see this fellow. I felt sorry for him having no line at all

Then we watched the galactic Spectacular from farther back and now we can't decide if it's better really close or a bit away from the theater

 

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Friday August 12th and we made rope drop in AK

If you've never seen De Vine put her on your must do list she's one of our favorites

along the way we saw this cute fellow. I love Dug

Can't forget about Flick

 

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We had a bit of time so we saw it's tough to be a bug and then we headed towards Festival of the Lion King

 

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We had a really good rest of the morning just walking the trails and seeing the animals and sights

 

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We then decided to head over to Art of Animation for lunch which was very loud but decent

Then we popped over to POP for a quick look around. Sorry I think Jim was the only one who got pics there

 

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Then over to DTD for a quick visit to Erin Mc Kenna's for the boys and Morrimoto's for us. I was so tempted to get a snack but i knew we had a big special dinner coming up. So just a Jade Tiger for me it was excellent. It was so good we found out the other place the bartender worked and hoped to run into her there later in our trip.

 

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After lunch we didn't have any real plans so we walked over to EPCOT by way ofView attachment 161077The boys wanted to do some more Agent P missions and it was warm (sounds like a good excuse) and stopped in at R&C Pub and met the world famous CarlView attachment 161078 and had an English RoseView attachment 161079 Then over to France for some window shopping, another mission and a Grey Goose SlushView attachment 161081 View attachment 161082 It was hot by then LOL

Ya for the grey goose slushie!!!!

 

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Then over to DTD for a quick visit to Erin Mc Kenna's for the boys and Morrimoto's for us. I was so tempted to get a snack but i knew we had a big special dinner coming up. So just a Jade Tiger for me it was excellent. It was so good we found out the other place the bartender worked and hoped to run into her there later in our trip.View attachment 161122

This looks delicious, too. Adding it to my ever growing list!

 

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Time to head back to AK and no surprise the boys were hungry and wanted to go to Pizzafari. They got Mediteranian pizzas and salads

We also saw these very talented fellows

 

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We were so impressed with the Nomad Lounge that while we were there made an ADR for Tiffins

 

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Dinner was amazing! Everything was excellent the food the service and the libations I started with the spring roll

Followed by the veggie curry

with a glass of

Jim started with the cheese board

followed by the Wagu beef

 

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Our server was Hassan and the chef was Andrew Jim had the passionfruit creme and I had the lambu libation

They sent this to the table

we finished with some excellent coffee

 

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We topped off our night by riding Kali just the boys we were way too dressed, Expedition Everest (twice no line), triceratops spin and PW and of course caught the show on the Tree of Life