Tony

Love it!

Nice!

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I see y’all hiding back there!
very nice!!!

Ugh.
We love Territory Lounge - great place to watch a Monday Night Football game or just swing by and order up a bunch of appetizers for dinner.
Although I must say that last trip we spent most of that evening lounge time at Geyser point. Any time I can sit at a bar, have delicious drinks and waffle fries and watch the EWP from the comfort of my bar stool, I'm moving in.  🙂 

This jaded/veteran visitor wouldn't use it. As convenient as it is, I hate it when they route you backstage to empty out a park. When I'm at WDW I prefer wall-to-wall, 24/7 magic... even if that means crowds.
We stay until park close most of the time and we never count on getting out quickly or easily.  Instead we pull up a snack or a drink, find an out of the way bench to chill out and people watch until the crowds clear, then enjoy strolling out of a mostly empty park.
But hey, we're crazy like that. 

I left the fort Dec 4th I'll see if i still have the calendar when i get home.

off my refrigerator???  lol

Yesterday we drove over 500 miles.  Stopped in St. Augustine and spent the night at the Flying J.  Left there this morning around 5:30 and arrived at the Fort a couple of hours later.  Boy, is it crowded here!
Went over to the MK to activate our annual passes.  Walked down Main Street.  It was insane.
We are on site 704 until December 11.  Look forward to seeing you!  Please stop by if you're in the neighborhood!

It's been 6 years ago, but we really enjoyed that particular parade one evening in early December. I don't recall any h**l raising, just lots of pretty carts and fun.

Just bumping!! Hoping to see folks. As "mama" used to say, it's time for a "Fort Feast"!!!

Moving on, and wrapping this up, Gem and Disney Springs.
Gem minning was closed.

Didn't end up as Disney Springs as my son didn't quite seem him self.
My wife went to  fetch breakfast while I packed away. 

Kids were happy to help this time so went faster.  Although as I moved the kid's air mattress to fold it, I noticed a hole in it, so we ended up throwing it out. When asked both kids told me it was like that all night,  does make me wonder why I bothered with it given they didn't say anything.  My wife sept out the tent, which as good given I think there was still sand from last time. She wants a folding broom for the next trip.  She also found a squirrel-sized hole behind where the air mattress was and a few Mickey Goldfish crackers.
I have a strict rule about no food in the tents only in the EZ up for this reason. Had words with the kids and will tape the hole.
Were packed and out of there before 11, nice thing about leaving on a Monday rather than a Sunday is chick Fila being open on the way home.

Back to my PhotoBucket album. 
Can you see this one?

 
 
 
 

1700 loop. Love it!

Probably could have done with a quiet day at the Fort after that but we only had the weekend and it was Food and Wine. So off after a light cold breakfast at the site we got the bus to Epcot.

This is the bus we got.
Got there about 9:15, which wasn't bad going.
Headed to the festival center to see if there was any chance of signing the kids up for the children's cooking thing.

I knew this was a long shot so wasn't too surprised when the CM told me they were fully booked. Apparently, they booked out around 9am on the previous day. I had actually considered upgrading my wife or myself to an annual pass, and doing a quick run into Epcot Saturday night to get them registered for this, but sounds like it would have been a waste of time anyway.
While we were there we dodged the lines of pass holders and checked out the chocolate experience, getting free samples as we went.


Had booked fast passes near here, so off to Mission Space. The first time we'd done this, did green this time, kids want to do orange next time we are here.

Kids swapped themselves around as my daughter wanted to be in command, and my son wanted to be engineer so that was good.

Spent quite a bit of time here.

Next fast pass was test track.

My wife won't do test track again, and in case you can't tell by the photo I'm only there for the kids. Next time I'm at Epcot my sister is taking them on it.
While she was waiting she'd picked up some snacks.

Once we were done we noticed Taste Track was open, it's always closed when I'm that way. Now part of food and Wine.
I tried a Cronut and got the kids pancake milkshakes which I guess is a Wreck it Ralph II thing.

I like the cronut but my wife wasn't impressed.

Checked out the new play area, until it rained before going to Figment our last Fast Pass.

Then it got a bit chaotic, my daughter and I went to flavors of fire, but had to cut some cash out as they weren't taking card right then.

The Black Water Porter.

Corned Beef

And the Piggy Wings, my daughters choice. My wife and son got a slushie in light lab and then the pumpkin chocolate drink at the chocolate place. Met up with them there, and my got in the long line at the refreshment port for poutine. Too busy and hot for my son, to be honest, I thought I'd be leaving Epcot around then, but he just asked to go to Mexico because the pyramid is air-conditioned. He wanted to do the ride before eating, it was a 20-minute  guess we all had the same idea!
Wasn't sure my wife would do this one, so took some video for a change. This is just from my phone.
 
As we were coming out of the pyramid,  we see my wife who is disappointed she missed the ride, my son wants to do it again anyway. So I go off for more food.


Followed by the Greek Nachos.

My son ended up eating most of these.  We headed towards Norway to use the restrooms, ran into Tony around there. Went in the shop for a bit to cool off, and  plan what next.  I had booked Candy Sushi but my daughter didn't feel up to it at that point.  My son just wanted to go to the UK before leaving, so we double backed through show place plaza into Canada.

 

Not part of food and wine but my wife like's the Magners Irish cider they sell in the UK beer stand, so I got a Bass Ale to keep her company. My daughter went off into the shop with her gift card and bought a couple of overpriced British candy bars, don't think I've ever paid that much for a Lion bar. While my wife was finishing her cider I waited in  line for the Irish sausages.

One of the slowest lines there, you know it's bad when you get welcomed to the front of the line. The Guinness Baileys shake must have been popular, they ran out of Baileys before I got to the front.
Had some debate about what to do next, I originally had wanted to get over to MK a bit after this but that was thinking that we wouldn't last this long.  Decided to head back to the Fort, and start thinking about dinner.  We were fed up of walking around with small plates,  I had a quick look to see what was available and grabbed an early dinner reservation for Garden Grill at 5:35.  Wasn't planning on character dining, but it was on the way out and sit down.  I guess if we hadn't booked this we may have gone to Wilderness Lodge.
 

We've had breakfast there before so weren't that bothered about the characers but still had a good time, and wanted to try dinner here for a while.




Unfortunately we son started feeling unwell and didn't eat much. We headed back after this and both kids had an early night, it had been a long day.
 
 
 
 
 

Oh, come on. Boone's Farm is where it's at.

Or MD 20-20

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Well that aint gonna happen at my house.  We got the silver to avoid the oppressive heat and crushing crowds.

I think they should let all passholders in on the special days.  It is not right.  If you pay the money you should get to go.

Hopefully they will change their minds and allow Silver passholders to get in on the special days in September.

I will take part of the blame for that.  I have been very sick during 2017 and I am not a very public person.  The WWW group has known because we all talk privately on our phones.  However, I have been doing all I can just to keep my head up at work.  In addition, I was attacked at school after my surgery (to fix what was wrong) and had to immediately change jobs.  If you noticed, I disappeared.  I didn't mean to but something had to give and that is why I have some other people who help me in the background who I could not thank enough.  My goal in 2018 is to hopefully get everything back up to steam.  I cannot and will not beg people to come back, however, I can recruit new people to stop by for information.  I am not here to spread pixie dust, but the real deal.  I am working on being at Disney more often and reporting from there for the site.  The app will be updated this year come hell or high water and work on all platforms.  (or supergeek will not go to Blizcon, hahaha)  I apologize for not being the admin you expected me to be.  Unfortunately, when I get sick, I get really sick.  I will do better.  We will also be camping more and hopefully we can get some GG's planned for the year as well.  I know it is not much of a comfort for 2017, but it can be a building block for 2018.  Every site goes through ups and downs.  We have had our down and now it is time to go up again.