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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We played a game where we just go sit at the bus stop and jump on the first bus that shows up. The fist bus was an AK bus. At AK the first bus to pull up with no line was for riviera, so we hopped on and ended up at riviera.

We played a little bean bag toss.
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Then hopped on the skyliner, where we were true maskless rebels(we had the cabin to ourselves).
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We ended up at Pop where we boarded a bus back to DS and eventually Saratoga to get ready for dinner.

Another place I’d heard a lot about but never tried(anyone see a theme with this trip yet)!
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The bread was a little slow coming out, but well worth the wait!
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One of A’s favorite foods is peel and eat shrimp. She was very pleased with her meal.
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THREE of my favorite foods on earth are shrimp, andouille sausage, and mac and cheese. This was like heaven to me. It was huge too!
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Wasn’t a problem though.
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We walked back to the room in a food induced haze.
 

Loco_driver

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You two look great!
Love the relaxing vacation!!!
Dont forget to look for bellman Mark from Wisconsin! He is the nicest!!
Thanks! I’m keeping an eye out for mark. Trying not to look too suspicious lurking around bell services. The carriage house started its refurb so things are a bit messy up there.
Bonuses are among the best things in life!
I’m trying to convince my boss of that! 😂
 

Loco_driver

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Toothsome was a pretty fun place! We split some nachos to save room for the main event. They were pretty good! We also tried the bread but neither of us were big fans.
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The real reason we came was dessert of course! A had strawberry cheesecake.
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I had the mint one(the name escapes me at the moment).
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Both shakes were excellent! You can see mine has a full size ice cream sandwich on it. A’s had a slice of cheesecake in it as well. Even I, a notorious eater of all things ice cream, could not finish this!

We decided to play a little mini golf after dinner.
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We played the UFO side.
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It was still super humid as you can see by my shirt! I’m not gonna say who won, but it’s the person with the green ball who’s not drenched with sweat 😉.
 

Loco_driver

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We went further outside the bubble today. Had breakfast ad Disney Vero beach resort and hit the beach for a few hours!
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We had a blast playing in the waves. The water was just right. We also visited round island to see if we could spot some manatees. We were very successful!

A mother and her calf!
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We had lunch at a local dive near the water. The special of the day was shrimp po boys. The shrimp was really good, as was the sauce. Only thing that would’ve made it better would be fresh bread, but this was good.
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We had to stop at @Darstarr s wawa on the way out of town!
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