Trip Report The "we took a trip to Disney World just so we could write a trip report" trip report

Hello fellow Disney-folk! Early this year me (Scott) and my CDP (co-Disney-Phile) Lyn started hatching a spring trip to WDW. We've never done a real trip report before so we thought it would be fun. Lots of pictures too. Enjoy!

Our "incredible" vacation (er...long weekend, anyway) ended up during St Patrick's Day weekend. Planned in advance with reservations at Pop Century, snagging pretty decent rates too. Magic Bands customized, ordered, and received! Not really into planning things out very much but since FP+ was available, we used it (more on that later).

One day I got two(!) boxes in my mailbox from Davenport Florida. Magic Bands!

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Are we Disney-nerds? Yup. Hadn't done this before though: Mousekeeping tipping envelopes (available from WDW Prep School). This was kind of an experiment. Tipping at hotels has been a contentious point recently. Even though I travel quite a bit I'd never heard of leaving tips at hotels before reading about tipping "mousekeeping". I won't start a debate about the practice, but this was something we wanted to try in our (my?) own odd way.

More exciting news about that later on. Stay tuned!

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[Jae99]

Great Trip Report! Thanks so much for the great pictures. I couldn't stop scrolling through the pages and read the whole report in one sitting.

 

[photoflight]

I thoroughly loved reading your trip report! Great pictures, humor and commentary. Can't wait until you go again so you can write another.

Thanks - hopefully going again later this year (plus my side-trips)

 

[photoflight]

I hope your sinuses didn't keep you from enjoying your trip.

It was annoying for part of the Epcot day, but the last day was totally miserable. Ah well, it really hasn't happened to me before down here so hopefully it was just a fluke.

 

[photoflight]

Great Trip Report! Thanks so much for the great pictures. I couldn't stop scrolling through the pages and read the whole report in one sitting.

Thanks!

 

[photoflight]

Some pictures from a couple of sidetrips after our big trip. Guess that counts as a lingering trip-report trip-report?

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Trolls
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Gotta love the couple in the background. They look like they're thinking "how do we get out?"
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Then there was a huge penguin
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[Daxiegirl]

Thanks again for your awesome trip report! (Love also that it's ongoing.)
Just finished going through it all again with my DD8 and now she's super psyched to go to WDW. She especially loved your Tinkebell photos and of course all the photos of sweets!!

 

[photoflight]

Thanks again for your awesome trip report! (Love also that it's ongoing.)
Just finished going through it all again with my DD8 and now she's super psyched to go to WDW. She especially loved your Tinkebell photos and of course all the photos of sweets!!

Thanks

 

[photoflight]

A few more post-trip-report trip trip-report pictures. Whew. Say that ten times really quick!

Garden Jamitors
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Mission Space post-ride
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Buzz!
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[emma c]

Some pictures from a couple of sidetrips after our big trip. Guess that counts as a lingering trip-report trip-report?

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Trolls
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Gotta love the couple in the background. They look like they're thinking "how do we get out?"
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Then there was a huge penguin
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Why is there a giant penguin?

 

[photoflight]

Why is there a giant penguin?

Why not?

I think it has something to do with Mary Poppins. Pretty sure. Maybe. I've never seen a giant penguin before though...at least not there

 

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A little tree update:

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The little holes and brown spots are from when my extraordinarily brilliant cat decided it was a chew toy.

...and here's it's little brother I planted a couple weeks ago from a seed I caught during a trip to Epcot in May.

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[emma c]

Hmmm

Why not?

I think it has something to do with Mary Poppins. Pretty sure. Maybe. I've never seen a giant penguin before though...at least not there

new game spot the oddest character wandering about!

 

[dadddio]

Nope, no tripod - everything is handheld except the castle picture. I rested the camera on a wood piling along the boardwalk across from Tom Sawyer Island for that one. That 16-35/f4 is a "VR" lens (not sure what Canon's terminology is for that) so it helps I'm sure.

Canon's version of VR (Vibration Reduction) is IS (Image Stabilization).

 

[photoflight]

IS... OK, learned something! I should clarify, that castle picture was with a non- stabilized lens.

 

[Goofnut1980]

Here's Stitch in all his smurfy-goodness. Bet they don't have these monsters up there in Cabot Cove, eh CDP-Lyn? Oops - I mean Storybrooke...

Hahaha.. you said Cabot Cove... I just turned on Murder She Wrote on Netflix and then saw that sentence... ha

 

[photoflight]

Hahaha.. you said Cabot Cove... I just turned on Murder She Wrote on Netflix and then saw that sentence... ha

I did. Just spent a week there too.

 

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The tree grows. Went on vacation and came back to find two more branches with leaves, and a couple others just starting. The second tree is slowly coming along too, in the course of a week a second branch with three leaves popped out. It's look a little scrawny compared to the first but...we'll see!

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