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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Some more from today while I wait on supper.

Cruise number 2!
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Next we were off to never land. First time actually seeing the queue. Makes it a bit better!
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We headed to big thunder next, but it went down when we were waiting, so we bailed.

Met some old friends in Frontierland.
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And since we were right there anyways.
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A rootin tootin good time was had by all!
 

Loco_driver

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More from MK today.

After the jamboree it was time for a snack. We only had one destination in mind.
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We savored our treat for a pretty good while(getting to take your mask off will do that). Afterwards we went back into fantasyland for mermaid. The castle is really coming along nicely.
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Next stop was emporium to try and help @Darstarr find her flatware, but we were unsuccessful. Tink was coming by when we left emporium.
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Tomorrowland was next
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We waved to Buzz from afar.
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We wanted to do carousel of progress, but it had a 30 minute wait, and while I love CoP, I’m not waiting 30 minutes to see it in the sad state that it’s in right now. A selfie as part of the DVC selfie scavenger hunt would have to suffice.
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Loco_driver

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More from MK

By this time crowds had really gotten heavy, and waits were crazy everywhere. A wanted to score the free button you get for completing the DVC selfie hunt, so we were off to the other locations.

First was liberty square.
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Next was tiki room.
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Followed by the front of emporium.
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Mickey and the gang came by while we were in front of emporium.
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Last stop on the scavenger hunt was Walt’s window. It was tough to get because of all the people around, but it’s the window directly above the umbrella.
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Our hunt complete, we made our way back to the Tomorrowland DVC kiosk to collect our buttons(which I didn’t get a picture of). We were getting close to lunch time, so we went back to Main Street.

A Disney duck for @DisneyGigi. This fella was hamming it up for A.
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Loco_driver

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More fun from earlier.

After lunch we were ready to get away from the crowds, so we headed for the bus stop. We caught back up with the princesses and watched from the other side. This was the best of the character cavalcades we saw. I really enjoyed all of them though!
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As we approached our bus stop we could see there was a bus pulling out, leaving a rather large crowd behind still waiting. We begrudgingly got in line to wait our turn. Soon after, a boardwalk bus pulled up to the spot next to ours, but there was only one couple waiting in that stop. Once they were loaded up, the driver, Noel, asked our line of anyone wanted to take her bus to boardwalk to walk back to BCV. I gave those who had been there longer than us time to take up her offer. Only a few accepted before A and I, and we jumped at the opportunity. Noel said it’s ok to complain about busses, and encouraged us to do so with our hotel manager. They have a new bus dispatching system that isn’t working well at all, and the more complaints we make, the more likely it is to be fixed. To top off her kindness, she also went ahead and dropped all the BC people at our bus stop so we didn’t have to walk! Noel is my favorite CM so far from this trip!

We made it back just in time to tell darstarr goodbye before she boarded the tragical express for what would be a long trip back home.
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We headed to the pool to see if it had a wait to get in. It did, but only one party was in front of us. We had to wait about five minutes to get a chair and dash back to our room to change. A swam a little and napped in her lounger. I’m a child, so I swam more and enjoyed the fun waterslide!
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Loco_driver

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More from yesterday(4/12)

After several hours in the pool it was time to get ready for dinner. We stopped by the room to change before making the short walk to Epcot. We had a little time to kill before our ADR. So we hung around WS.

The monstrosities. I overheard several people talking about how horrible these things are.
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Trying to get a picture of this beautiful spot is hard now thanks to the giant burnt tacos and the stargate.
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Hanging out in Italy.
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I swung by Germany to see if the trains were running(and to pee), they hadn’t been the day before. But they were today!
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Dinner wast at Via Napoli(see my earlier post). We had a great pizza and fairly poor service, which is pretty typical for Via Napoli.

Florida sunsets are something special.
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