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5 hours ago, shaffecv said:

Sounds like a pretty fun activity. Though we usually aren't back at the Fort by 9. We would try to make at least one cruise when we are there.

A morning "coffee cruise' would work for me since I usually do that anyway while waiting for my wife and or kids to wake up and get ready.

Lol. See it’s always the dads wandering around while the families get ready. 

Me and my son are always pointing out hidden mickeys. My wife thinks we’re crazy. We even find hidden pine cone mickeys in our yard from tine to tine that me or my son set up. I think she will eventually start seeing them also. She hasn’t had enough pixie dust yet

Not sure if this has already been brought up. So I figured I would bring it up. 

 I have participated in the July 4th parade before and Halloween one. When I say participate basically I mean as the last cart passed I jumped on my cart and followed. I followed because most of the time the carts separate off and start looping in a big line. It seems fun and I’ve met a few fiends this way. Most nights and mornings I go looping. In the morning I actually rise early while the family sleeps in. Go to trails, grab a cup of coffee. I usually have some things I want to check out that I have seen on past trip reports. Then loop some. Grab another cup at the meadows and walk around. At night I typically kid the family up and loop and then end at the light show. Or if we were at a park go to the light show and then loop. Which brings me to my idea

 While surfing the sections tonight I started thinking about our upcoming trip. The days always have a different schedule and we don’t always do the same thing. One guaranteed thing we do every day is loop. I usually see other looping at the same time and they usually end up at the parade. Or follow us out and we see them start looping. So would it be a fun unofficial thing to do to say if you want to loop meet at let’s say the dog park every night at 9pm.  Some nights you might be the only cart, but on weekends and holidays you might end up having a few carts. It’s a place that if you pulled up you know what the other carts are most likely there for. There not picking up food at trials end or watching g the movie. You can start looping with maybe some short interaction. Start with the 300 loop then on to the 100/200 loop cross over to 400 then 500- 1400-1500-16-17-18-19 loop down to the 4 way and on. End up at the light parade golf cart parking for the parade. Then you might have the opportunity to chat some more and check each other’s carts out. Let the kids play on the beach and more. And of course head to the 3000 loop for some kungaloosh at the hospitaly house. Lol. 

 Of course the morning one is also an option, but probably more unrealistic. But the mornings usually are awesome for exploring. Most of the time I might bump into another father over by the bat house or back by the river country fence trying to peak through. We usually chat it up a little. Most are either doing the same thing I am. Letting the family sleep in or letting them all get there showers. 

 Just some ideas. I figure just a meeting place doesn’t make anything binding. Like meet here this day at whatever time. But just an informal way to create additional meeting opportunities. What’s everyone think. 

Wait. Where does it say beer?

Sweeet. A tcd trip report 

We sat down at 730. We were a little disgruntled because we wanted to go to the sing a long at 8. The manager apologized and gave us 40% off. Our waiter was awesome, and of course the food was great. So after we got over being starved we were fine. Missing the sing a long just gave us more time to loop. So we still had a great night

Well tonight is 7pm and they still haven’t sat the 6:15 reservations. They can only tell you they are running behind

Which loop

We are here this weekend. We decided to just stay at the campground. Getting our energy up for the easter scavenger hunt. Lol

Go O’s

We checked in to loop 500 on Thursday. Didn’t have any water. We went to trails end for dinner when we came back after 9 we had water back. 

What’s open at Hollywood Studios, and is it worth going. This used to be one of my families favorite parks. We loved the street performers. We haven’t had our passes the last year, but just got them as birthday presents for the family. 

 Last we heard most everything except tower of tower, rockin roller coaster, and toy story were closed. So we are trying to see if we should plan a whole day there on our upcoming trip, or maybe just shoot over for half a day. 

We finally got it after trying a couple times a day. Yesterday my wife was down in bed all day. She kept checking every 15 minutes and it finally popped up around 630 pm

I can’t even get nov 2nd - 6th. Much less halloween

He was at the beach bash. He came out more than once and walked around for about 20 minutes at a time. They also cancelled the campfire and sing a long at the theatre location the same night

We made it. Even got the site we requested on the 800 loop

We booked he hoop de do for Saturday. What time is the potluck. We won't eat, but will probably come by to meet everyone depending how my little guy is doing

We did it for thanksgiving dinner this year. They had Christmas clothes on , and sang 1 or two Christmas songs. It wasn't much added to here clothes for Christmas 

Thank you very much Jason. I forgot to thank you 

13 hours ago, djsamuel said:

Sorry about that; Vertical/Short Take Off Landing.  It is the short airstrip that is now used mainly for construction worker parking.  It's on the right as you near the entrance to Wilderness Lodge. 

Yep. Vertical short take off and landing. It used to be written on the runway.

Just found it on the other boards. Probably wouldn't have time to really get that involved anyways. 

 So we got lucky, and will be going on Disney fantasy again this weekend. We just did our sons make a wish trip in October. My mother in law decided that the last two years we have been stuck in hospitals she would surprise us with an anniversary cruise. The fact that we have to manage our sons care she decided to book a cruise and she would go with us to watch him as much as possible. We got cabins next to each other so we can give him his medicines, and he can sleep in her room. Of course he helped her plan the trip. So we got the Disney fantasy just western Caribbean this time. We're fine with it, because we love Disney. 

 We had one big question. Last time we were on the fantasy we saw some crafts hanging from doors where you can put stuff in them. We thought it was just something someone made to receive there excursions with. As we walked around the ship we saw more and more. We realized there must be more to this. We didn't think we would be going on another Disney cruise for years, so we didn't think much of it. Last night my wife started googling them. She saw that it's something called fish finder I think. Does anyone know what this is, or has anyone participated in it

I still consider my spike one of my most cherished souvenirs 

Lol

I can't even get a site on one of the many sites on the dog walk between 800 and 900. So I give up on soecific sites. I even drove through and saw a site I wanted and called the desk to tell them it was empty on the 800 on the dog walk. They said it was reserved. Guess what, it's still empty