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.

 

[littleroo]

I am in. Can't believe how much James has grown up!! Love SOG photos! Keep it coming!

 

[Figgy1]

I am in. Can't believe how much James has grown up!! Love SOG photos! Keep it coming!

Thank you and he's now bigger than me

 

[Figgy1]

Lunch was so good it deserves 2 posts. Some how we managed to even cram in dessert

That's the flourless chocolate cake the guys got, I had vanilla rice dream "ice cream" but didn't get a pic. I got the house pinot grigio and Jim got an Angry Orchard which came out in a frosted glass. The only problem was my wine glass had a crack in it which I didn't notice until half way through it. James said it was three fourths, anyway the server brought me out a new full glass

 

[coachwnh]

All caught up. Looking forward to more. Glad the GF dinig looks like it worked out for you. We are always impressed in what Disney can do with their GF options!

 

[Figgy1]

All caught up. Looking forward to more. Glad the GF dinig looks like it worked out for you. We are always impressed in what Disney can do with their GF options!

Some places did a much better job than others. But more on that later

 

[Figgy1]

I have one of this from every trip he's taken

 

[FlaggNL]

Finally caught up! The TR I was waiting for Hope you had a wonderful and magical stay! Start of the TR is more than great! Thanks for sharing and off course following along and in it for the long run

 

[Figgy1]

Finally caught up! The TR I was waiting for Hope you had a wonderful and magical stay! Start of the TR is more than great! Thanks for sharing and off course following along and in it for the long run

Thank you for the kind words. There's lots more to come. I'm not even finished with our first park day yet

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Thank you but finally really? We got home early Saturday morning I'm not even fully unpacked yet

The drinks at SOG were very yummy. I know you can't take the bus there but I'm not sure about the rules for just walking over and walking around or stopping in for a drink. We weren't asked for military ID at the bar, but my dh does have a regulation haircut.

Yes finally, as there was so much lead up to it. You left us all behind just waiting!

People might be able to walk over and use the restaurant/bar. When we were in Hawaii there was a military resort next to the Hilton we were at and the public was welcome to eat and drink at the beach bar there. Those tropical drinks were even better than the hilton's because they were half the price! The Disney resort might be different though.

 

[littleroo]

What a shame, you had to drink twice as much pinot!!

 

[MouseDreaming]

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 atView attachment 158161 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 FloridaView attachment 158162 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.

Hooray! Ready to arm chair travel with you. By the way, love the hat!

 

[MouseDreaming]

So glad you got to hear the GFSO while you were there. And those drinks! Early in the morning, and you were turning the dh's head!

 

[Figgy1]

More pics while walking off lunch

on our way to RNRC our first FP of the trip

That may be the one and only pics of me taken this trip

 

[Jess G]

omgg yayy!! your trip report is finally here! super excited.. reading starts NOW

 

[Figgy1]

From there we went to TSMM sorry no pic of that or Voyage of the Little Mermaid. VOTLMM is one of my dh's favorites not for the show but the a/c LOL. After that and getting the guys magic bands we headed over to see Indy

I couldn't believe it but my boys were hungry so they went to Backlot to grab a burger and fries while Jim and I went to Tune in to getme a Long Island Iced Tea and he got an Electric Lemonaid they were yummy, wish the pics came out. Next up it was time for Star Tours and then Tower of Terror at twilight

I really like TOT after dusk as it feels somewhat more spooky

 

[Figgy1]

We finished up our first park day with a couple of berry adult lemonaids from Rosie's while watching Fantasmic

BTW the Fantasmic bleachers need padding LOL Next up would we make MK rope drop the next morning

 

[Figgy1]

omgg yayy!! your trip report is finally here! super excited.. reading starts NOW

Thank you.

 

[John C. Shepherd]

Loving the report so far!

 

[Figgy1]

We were up bright up and early and saw these on our way to MK rope drop. We positioned ourselves right up at the rope so we could get on the rides first thing. We didn't see the welcome show as we were under it

 

[Figgy1]

Loving the report so far!

Thank you.