Trip Report Third time’s the charm- Sorta kinda live-Now with bonus content!

We’re going back! Hey everyone it’s me, the Loco. Like many of us here in our little community, I missed out on a few Disney trips thanks to the pandemic. We originally had plans for a west coast trip back I the summer of 2020, but that clearly was a no go. We had a backup plan of visiting WDW in September, but a change of jobs for me forced us to cancel that since I wouldn’t have any available leave time(I started the new job in august). That leads us to now, trip number three, and we are a go! Our last trip was February of 2020 just before the world went bananas, but that seems like decades ago at this point!
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So Let’s do this! I’ll get the intros and details out of the way.

Who: Those of you who have read any of my older reports know it will be me and the wife. She’s the good looking one in the picture below, which would make me the slightly inebriated one.
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Anyone remember the throwback TR we did last year featuring Molli and Chris getting engaged?

Where:
Four nights here
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Followed by three nights here
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Wait, not there. I mean the real wilderness lodge! Copper creek villas to be exact.
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When: Approximately 48 hours from right now. Am I ready? Of course not. Being the man, I’m contractually obligated to wait until the last second to pack, and to forget something super important!
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We are excited to get back “home”, even with the restrictions and missing entertainment. I have to admit that it’s been nice not having to plan quite as much. I just made park passes and a few dining reservations and that was that. I’m in the camp that believes fast pass actually inflated wait times for most attractions, and I am not particularly sad to see it go.

We’ll be driving down since we planned this trip before vaccines were widely available and we were still a little on the fence about flying. I feel more comfortable with it now, but prices have skyrocketed, so I’ll just stick with the road trip.
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Will I be putting the loco in Loco_Driver by doing the entire trip in one day? Even I don’t know the answer to that yet. Check back Friday!
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Will I partake in mine and @Tuvalu beloved WCC burnt ends nachos, or a No Way Jose?
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Will any fellow magicians be making appearances?
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So with all that out of the way, let’s goooo!
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Loco_driver

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The type of inconvenience I would be thrilled to deal with today in 48 degree Pennsylvania.
To be fair it was of no inconvenience at all. Runaway Railway was practically a walk on, so we did it than made it to rise with plenty of time to spare! Sorry about the weather. Seems all my friends in the northeast are pretty sick of it!
 

Songbird76

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Headed towards the exit after joining the resistance. Saw a cavalcade along the way.
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MPB in the sky time!
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Stopping at riviera for a prize.
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Bonus prize because they like us.
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Headed back to WL now
The way the light is shining on the one picture, it looks like Daisy has a huge sword, and because of her expression, it looks like she's ready to take off some heads!
 

Loco_driver

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Just about as close to perfect as a night can get at MK tonight.

The TTA continued to test and tease us.
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Apparently the girl with the bow in her hair is some sort of celebrity named JoJo. I sent this to my niece and she got very excited.
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Walked onto mermaid for what may have been Shirley status. I know there were no clams anywhere near us with people on them.
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Same for Haunted Mansion.
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Took two laps on BTMRR.
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Closed it out on splash.
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Our boat ride included the electric water pageant as well as some wonderful serenades from our captain Mallory. A perfect end to a darn near perfect day.
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