Let me get that right out in the open. I am honestly not a big Disney fan. I don't have a room dedicated to Mickey Mouse (or even a shelf of knickknacks!), I don't own every Disney movie (I don't even have all the classics!), and I don't dress head to toe in red, white and black. In fact I think I only have two sweatshirts and three hats from WDW. AND YET, I absolutely love Walt Disney World in Florida. I don't know what it is about that place, but I just adore it. The details, the cleanliness, the happy and helpful people. Yeah, pretty much everything. And it doesn't hurt that the rollercoasters are pretty much as much as I can handle. So, even after taking a trip with the boys last year, I had the urge to go again this year and so back we are going. We're even staying at the same resort - Wilderness Lodge. Now I am fully convinced that part of what I love about a Disney vacation is the planning. I'm a planner/resear...
On Saturday, after three fun days at the Renaissance Hotel, we checked out and headed over to Disney's Villas at Wilderness Lodge. We stayed at the main lodge last year, in a two-room deluxe room, but this year we wanted even more space, so the villas were perfect. When we first got here, we were assigned a 5th floor room facing the bus-stops/road. It wasn't a horrible room, but I had really wanted one on a lower floor (the fifth floor balconies have solid walls in instead of slats) and facing the pool/lake. When I called to ask for a room change, they said there wasn't anything available, so I was willing to settle. The boys, including Chris, got changed for the pool, and I went back to the lobby to check on a package delivery. While I was there, I asked again about a room change (figuring that the people on the phone didn't really know anything) and was told that there WAS a room available. They arranged to move all of our bags into it and we head...
Wednesday was supposed to be our "rest by the pool" day. And we did get a good amount of rest-time in. BUT, we also decided to head on back to the Magic Kingdom for the late afternoon/evening and try to make it to the Wishes! fireworks. The boys had never seen fireworks before, so this was to be a bit of an experiment prior to the Halloween party fireworks on Friday. Resting and swimming was wonderful, as always, and I was so happy to see both boys so happy and confident in the water. They just couldn't have been happier. As luck would have it, just before I was thinking we'd need to start getting ourselves together to head to the park, an afternoon downpour started. We were actually "trapped" in the pool for a few minutes, because it was coming down so hard and fast that we would have been freezing if we'd gotten out! Showers, clothes, and a couple of snacks later, we were off to the park. We took a cab to The Contemporary resort, and then ...
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