Trip Report Some People are Worth Melting For: Round 2!

We’re back!

Timeline: June 2024
Location: Boulder Ridge Villas at Wilderness Lodge
Cast: Me (A), Dad (R), my sister SB, brother-in-law Iz, and niece B!
Why? It is little B’s first trip! I feel so thankful to be here experiencing the magic with her for the first time.

This is all of us pre-B during our last trip all together in 2021. I’m excited for SB and Iz to finally experience WDW since the pandemic. Things were quite different back in Summer 2021! They also of course haven’t ridden Ratatouille, Guardians, or Tron yet, so I’m looking forward to that for them too.

 

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Life has gotten busy, but more updates from July will be coming shortly! Sorry for the delay.

 

[Scott10]

It has been a while since I've been on the boards, but was shocked to find this report way down here. Hoping all is ok and thinking I can't be the only one still waiting on the updates to continue on this trip!
Always enjoy your writing style and photos!

 

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Ah, where was I........?

Back in July, on Day 1 of our trip! After Tiana's, I was starving. I had been putting off lunch all day because of my worries about missing my window at Tiana's. I have no photos, but I went to Columbia Harbor House and had some chicken tenders and fries. Afterwards, it was getting close to parade time and I caught these guys marching by!

I hoofed it across the park to Tomorrowland through the parade crowd. I required some dessert after my lunch (cream cheese pretzel dessert, that is!).

I sat and enjoyed at a Lunching Pad table and then decided to join the *crowd* that was at CoP. I guess everyone was trying to escape the heat.

It wouldn't have been a Tomorrowland visit without a spin on the PeopleMover.

I decided to head over to Epcot and made my way out of MK. On the way, I stopped to listen to the piano man at Casey's and then was serenaded by the Dapper Dans. I think it is the live entertainment that makes Disney so magical, for me.

I hopped on the monorail and it started to rain, but thankfully by the time I reached Epcot it was over. I also made an impulse purchase and got an ILL for Guardians that was already opened up, so away I went.

Still no Conga!

 

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This was my first time seeing the new "hub" at Epcot, so I wandered around and checked out La Calle.

I know they want them to be easy to move around, but I felt like the buckets holding the umbrellas could have been a bit more fashionable.

It was SO hot, so I took the boat over to Morocco in search of a cool beverage.

I went to America first, but nothing was appealing. I ended up in France and got the Grey Goose Vodka Slushie. It was satisfactory and much stronger than I would have thought for a slushie.

Hot and tired, my last Epcot activity was SE.

Bye for now!

 

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I got back to ASMu quickly and grabbed some more chicken tenders for dinner.

I took it back to the room to eat. I didn't want the room to smell like dinner (LOL) so I wandered around our section of the resort looking for a trash can, and then called it an early night. The trash can was shockingly difficult to find. S was flying in tonight on a red-eye, and she was due to arrive around 2:00 am.

S arrived a bit earlier than expected, I woke up, we talked a bit, and then both went to sleep again to rest up for Day 2!