With @TarHeelTiff wrapping up her trip today and @DumboRunner sure to be nearing the end of hers, we need more boots on the ground!
Who is next up to enter the bubble and keep us playing from home alive with hope???
With @TarHeelTiff wrapping up her trip today and @DumboRunner sure to be nearing the end of hers, we need more boots on the ground!
Who is next up to enter the bubble and keep us playing from home alive with hope???
We leave two weeks from today. First park day wonât be until that Thursday, though.
Weâve got one more day tomorrow at AK, but will be anxiously looking for the next group of trip reports to ease back into real life!
We will arrive Thursday.: AK, POP
Friday: MK
Sat: Ep
Here now to fill in the gap. Iâll probably do this @galuchies_463555 style and just take over this thread. Iâve been terrible about taking pics so far but promise to pick up the slack tomorrow. Canât believe how much weâve lucked out on the weather so far. General overview:
Dates: Sun 9/20-Fri 9/25
Resort: Beach Club Villas studio (first time renting pointsârental secured back in early January)
People: me, DH, DD, DD5, DS3.5 and my mother, henceforth known as Grammy.
Told the kids about a week out this time and so got to experience a week worth of overly dramatic âI just canât wait to go to Disneyâ every 5 minutes or so from the 5 yoâŠand super frequent one song crazy dance parties initiated by the 3.5 yo in the lead up: âAlexa, play âSupercamafenigigfy-make-me-animotionâ âŠand yet she canât quite understand my requests to set the timer for ten minutes.
Sunday 9/20
Got to MCO around 10:30 am and it was pouring.
By Italy it had pretty much stopped drizzling and we took off the silicone shoe covers. I grabbed a margarita, ok 2 margaritas from Choza while the other 4 went inside to ride 3 Caballeros. I did not see pleased faces on the people before me who had tried the spicy poblano blackberry margarita, so naturally I had to try it for myself. In retrospect, perhaps I should have seen their sip-and-immediate-frown faces as a warning. It was interesting, not terrible, but not something I would recommend. The other was just a classic margarita rocks for my mom. I figured Iâd be through the Choza line about the same time they came out of the Mexico pavilion but I was through a lot faster, so I drank most of the weird smoky-spicy blackberry margarita to save them from having to drink much of itâŠbut then needed to wash the taste out of my mouth with half of the other normal margarita. We then headed to pick up their Remy prize and then to my daughterâs favorite ride, Figment.
Sounds like a fun first day!
Monday 9/21
Super pleasant weather, around 82 degree for the high, relatively low humidity, mostly sunny with a steady breeze and no rain. Absolutely fabulous sweetie darling and totally not what I was expecting for this week.
Got to the Beach Club bus stop about 7:55 for the 9 am MK open. DD5âs first online kindergarten zoom meeting of the day (the one when they take attendance) starts at 8 am so she did most of that at the bus stop and finished up on the bus. Skipped her other zoom meetings today. Had originally just planned to pull her out of school for the week when I first made reservation back pre-pandemic. Anyway, on the first bus around 8:20 and through the gates by 8:40.
Iâm headed back at the end of October (10/26-10/31) - with a different group. DS is staying home and Iâm heading down for Food & Wine with my newly 21 year old niece, mom, sister and brother in law. This will be COMPLETELY different from our trip last month!
You are at the Beach Club, right? Are you talking about the temporary Solarium setup? Iâm glad they have a lot! We are coming down in late October and I have been hemming and hawing about an Instacart order versus just the DVC stores.
Howâs the quality on these? Iâm looking forward to doing the hunt and unsure if we do just one or two.
Just want to say ⊠thank goodness youâre there! I was just starting to feel sad that there werenât any trip reports happening.
We have a package of the medium size Pixar masks. Do you think they would fit your DS? I would be happy to mail them to you! We just want them to be used by someone and your DS3 holds a special place in my heart ever since he tried to pack a rug for your trip in August.
I have 5 grand nephews and nieces. I got the two older boys lanyards and 6 pins for their birthdays in May so they could start pin trading. My niece says they are not going to want to give away any of the pins, so I have a pile for trading when DLR eventually opens and we can all meet there. My oldest grand niece turns 4 today and we sent her her own lanyard and pins. So now the twins need them too! Their birthday is in January and theyâll be three. I have had so much fun buying pins for them. Iâve purchased a lot of them on ebay and know thereâs no guarantee theyâre authentic, but I have been avoiding the super cheap lots. Each kid has a different theme plus I get them a year pin for their birth year and a ride pin from a ride that they enjoy. It has been so much fun for me to look for pins for them and even scour our own collections so that each of them get one of my pins too. My girls started pin trading on their first visit to DLR but they were a little older (7 and 9).
The quality is OK though I doubt theyâd last more than a couple drops. They seal tightly and donât leak. If you have an annual pass youâll get the 30% discount on the maps. I figure it avoids any argument if it is a prize per kid.
I think so. Iâll have to double check this. I donât have a baseline to compare it to vs. the regular selection but Iâll snap some pics next time Iâm there.
That is so sweet. As it turns out, I thought he was requesting the mask on the left which I have one for myself but actually he just wanted the one on the right which we bought last trip. The problem is that he licks and chews the inside while wearing them so he goes through 4-5 per day
Ugh my DS4 does this too! It is SO gross and I feel like we go through WAY more than 4-5 a day. Thankfully he has about 15 masks now.