So what have I been up to lately? Big life news was my excellent vacation to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida with my best girlie Meghan and her family.
Thursday, May 2:
Meggie's mom drove me to Orlando and we got a cabin at Fort Wilderness
Resort & Campground. We claimed beds and unpacked things and put
food away and went to dinner at Trail's End, a sort of Southern-style
buffet.
Friday, May 3:
EPCOT Day! We rode a boat to EPCOT and had a ball. (Ha ha.) This day was
just me, Meg, her fourteen-year-old daughter Katelyn, and her
five-year-old son Benjamin.
We picked up FastPasses for the Soarin'
ride, and then Katelyn and I got fish 'n' chips from the Britain area
upon entering the World Showcase, and sat with Meggie while Benny played
in a play area. Then we wandered around the World Showcase area,
checking out the food and the sights in each of the countries. We saw
the movie in Canada (which was funny), checked out the music-and-scenes
presentation in France, and rode the Maelstrom ride in Norway.
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| Meggie, Katie, Benny on a boat |
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| Benny and me being silly with masks |
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We also
got to eat Frushi and noodles and little parfait things, and Meggie and
Katie got Moroccan pancake things but didn't like them. Ben wanted
Mickey ears ice cream and had to wait a long time for it, and was
incredibly patient. Then we trekked back to the other side of EPCOT,
drank soda samples in Club Cool, and rode Soarin' (amazing as always).
We left the park intending to come back for the Extra Magic hours, but
it rained, so some of us just snoozed through it.
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| Panda bush! |
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| Benny finally got his ice cream |
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| Beverly, the Italian Coke |
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Saturday, May 4:
Hollywood Studios! It was Star Wars Day, too, so we saw a bunch of
people in Star Wars-related costumes walking around. (Sadly, Star Tours
was down, but we got a FastPass for it anyway.) Our group this time was
Meg, Katelyn, Brendon, and me. (Benny was with his grandmother.)
We went
for the Aerosmith Rock 'N' Roller Coaster and pretty much hopped right
on because we did the single rider line. I warned my seat-mate that I
would be screaming a lot, and I screamed a lot. Upon telling Meghan
this, she said she had never heard me scream and determined that she
wanted to sit next to me on the next ride so she could hear it. Next
we rode the Tower of Terror and I did indeed scream a lot as they had us
in a spooky elevator and kept dropping us at random times!
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| Rock 'N' Roller Coaster |
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| Tower of Terror |
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Then we did
Muppets 3-D, hit Pizza Planet for pizzas and salad (and a Darth Vader
cupcake), did the Great Movie Ride and a presentation on The Magic of
Disney Animation, and then finally Star Tours was operational again and
we got on it. (We got to go to the Wookiee planet AND got to see Yoda!
Score!) Then it was Sci-Fi Dine-In (which had tables shaped like cars
and let us watch hokey video clips while eating), and we did Midway
Mania and some shopping. Nice full day.
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| Darth Cupcake |
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| Brendon Furry-Head |
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| Maleficent in the shop window? |
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Sunday, May 5
Magic Kingdom day! I had not been since 1988, so yeah, it was different.
All of us went this time. We took a boat, went to Tomorrowland and had
pretzels, and did Stitch's Great Escape and the Buzz Lightyear shooting
game. Then we checked out the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor. Totally funny
and interactive with the Monster comedians making fun of people in the
audience. Haha!
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| Ben and me on a boat |
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| Meg and Bren on a boat |
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| Monster comedian! |
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Katie wanted to do the Haunted Mansion and Benjamin gets
too scared of such things, so we left him with Brendon to ride the
Speedway cars. Haunted Mansion was cool but it was the SAME RECORDING
from when I saw it when I was ten. I was reciting it along with the
spooky voice. Then we took a boat around and saw Tom Sawyer Island, met
back up with Brendon and Ben for food, and did Pirates of the Caribbean
(Ben was so excited) and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (Ben kept yelling
for us to take him on it again).
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| Not quite tall enough, Ben |
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| Pirates of the Caribbean! |
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| Ben's so excited! |
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And then we got ICE CREAM--I had been
waiting all day for it!--and they actually had Tofutti as an option so I
got that instead of dairy ice cream! So yum. After some shopping, we
left Magic Kingdom and sat on the beach for fireworks. Benjamin was an
absolute nut running around trying to get everyone to play with him! The
boat show and the fireworks were pretty but we were cold. And then we
went home.
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| Ice cream with Katelyn & Meg |
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| Tofutti with Ben |
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| Cold on the beach |
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Monday, May 6
Animal Kingdom! We all went except Brendon. We got FastPasses for the
Everest roller coaster, then checked out the monkeys and got some food. I
ate at a kiosk that was entirely vegetarian food and had super awesome
noodles. Then we rode the roller coaster but because there was an angry
Yeti and some backwards riding in the dark, Ben got scared. Then he got
scared again when we did the It's Tough to Be a Bug movie and dry ice
steam obscured our vision while they simulated a bunch of mean hornets
attacking us. His grandma took him to play so Katelyn and Meghan and I
could ride the scary dinosaur ride. They sent us back in time to when
the meteor was hitting.
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| Benny's wild time |
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| Expedition Everest roller coaster |
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| Dinosaur ride |
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Then we met up again, let Ben play carnival games, got some snacks, and went home. The end!
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