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.

 

[Cesar R M]

View attachment 161116 View attachment 161117 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

Maan, I swear I could watch that show every day and never get sick of it! ( FTLK)

 

[DimpledDevil18]

Tiffin's looks really cool inside. Not my type of food, but the atmosphere looks really cool. Also Happy (belated) Anniversary!

 

[MinnieM123]

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

Oh, my favorite -- the Swan!! Sigh . . . wish I was there!!

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

I'm still lovin' your trip report! And boy you do drink a lot there! Nothing wrong with that though.

 

[prfctlyximprct]

I'm hoping I can live up to your drink tally! Tiffins looks amazing, wish I was less of a picky eater. I want to go there simply for the ambiance! One day!! Still enjoying this so much! And I'll have to try a cider like @Ciara recommends... Here in the tri-state area all I can ever find is the apple hard ciders around fall time..

 

[Figgy1]

Tiffin's looks really cool inside. Not my type of food, but the atmosphere looks really cool. Also Happy (belated) Anniversary!

Thank you

 

[Figgy1]

I'm hoping I can live up to your drink tally! Tiffins looks amazing, wish I was less of a picky eater. I want to go there simply for the ambiance! One day!! Still enjoying this so much! And I'll have to try a cider like @Ciara recommends... Here in the tri-state area all I can ever find is the apple hard ciders around fall time..

Thank you and a few of the best are yet to come

 

[Figgy1]

I'm still lovin' your trip report! And boy you do drink a lot there! Nothing wrong with that though.

THNX but I almost never drink at home

 

[Figgy1]

Saturday August 13th was a nice quiet day. We spent a bit of time at Typhoon Lagoon and then went and did some outlet shopping. The most important stop was Character Warehouse. I really lucked out there I got matching long sleeve 28th and Main shirts for the guys for less than I'd pay for a Walmart shirt. A mug my dh was looking for, a Kingdom Couture item at at least 80% off, something Frozen and a few other odds and ends (put a nice dent in my Christmas shopping list) We got back in time to squeeze in some time at the pool and have dinner at the condo

roasted beets got on to my salad LOL

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

THNX but I almost never drink at home

Yeah i leave all my drinking for disney as well

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Saturday August 13th was a nice quiet day. We spent a bit of time at Typhoon Lagoon and then went and did some outlet shopping. The most important stop was Character Warehouse. I really lucked out there I got matching long sleeve 28th and Main shirts for the guys for less than I'd pay for a Walmart shirt. A mug my dh was looking for, a Kingdom Couture item at at least 80% off, something Frozen and a few other odds and ends (put a nice dent in my Christmas shopping list) We got back in time to squeeze in some time at the pool and have dinner at the condoView attachment 161309 roasted beets got on to my salad LOL

 

[epcotisbest]

Saturday August 13th was a nice quiet day. We spent a bit of time at Typhoon Lagoon and then went and did some outlet shopping. The most important stop was Character Warehouse. I really lucked out there I got matching long sleeve 28th and Main shirts for the guys for less than I'd pay for a Walmart shirt. A mug my dh was looking for, a Kingdom Couture item at at least 80% off, something Frozen and a few other odds and ends (put a nice dent in my Christmas shopping list) We got back in time to squeeze in some time at the pool and have dinner at the condoView attachment 161309 roasted beets got on to my salad LOL

That looks really good.
We went to both Disney outlet stores at the Premium outlets last week and did not buy a thing. Just nothing we either one saw that we wanted. Oh, there was one linen shirt I liked a lot, but at $58 for the marked down outlet price, I passed.

 

[Figgy1]

That looks really good.
We went to both Disney outlet stores at the Premium outlets last week and did not buy a thing. Just nothing we either one saw that we wanted. Oh, there was one linen shirt I liked a lot, but at $58 for the marked down outlet price, I passed.

Thank you. I agree $58 as a markdown isn't that great but a $200 item for $20 and shirts for $15 were pretty good. The only things we didn't get for well over 50% off were a mug my dh looked high and low for and something Jedi Mickey

 

[Figgy1]

Sunday August 14th. We started our day bright and early at MK

 

[Figgy1]

We had an 8am PPO breakfast at the Crystal Palace. It was fun and the food was ok. But seeing we're all gluten free the chef had a bit of a problem keeping up with the boys and their love of waffles. They said it was all you can eat not me My boys take the words all you can eat as a challenge The real maple syrup was a plus but my dh said my omletes at home are much better. I buy organic eggs from a local farm and precook the veggies that go in it so I'm thinking he may be a bit picky. The guys ate all the bacon and sausage they could stuff into themselves They were out of the gf muffins that day and I didn't see the stuffed french toast we can't eat it but I was planning on getting a pic for all of you.

 

[Figgy1]

I don't know how but we hadn't yet seen Merida, fixed that quickly!

On our way to Astro Orbiter we saw

Then we had a few laughs at the Laugh Floor

 

[Figgy1]

From there we went on 7DMT and stopped in the shop by Enchanted Tales to get something I didn't notice any place else. A quick ride on the Carousel

A stop to see one of my favorite objects

Then we headed through Liberty square and saw this amusing CM. He's quite talented and funny

 

[Figgy1]

We walked past this sad sight wishing we could ride it once again

So instead we went on POTC

 

[epcotisbest]

This looks as good as most of the Disney meals. We too fix meals in the room, more often than not for us. You are an artist in the kitchen.

 

[Figgy1]

This looks as good as most of the Disney meals. We too fix meals in the room, more often than not for us. You are an artist in the kitchen.

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Thank you not all our meals at home are plated quite as nicely. There's a lot more family style