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Oooh, I hope they start doing other Disney designs. I would love some Dalmatian Toms!

That is a very nice little trailer and it sounds as if you dealt with a pretty good dealer and sales person that knew her stuff. She was never pushy and knew what your needs were, one sales guy I send folks to is like that and will also check your tow vehicle so it can pull what you want, great trip report and your like us, comfortable in both DVC units and a camper.

 

We love adventure! Whether it’s pulling our accommodations behind us, or moving rooms every day!

 

Great TR. and happy belated birthday. 

It would be fun, once, to try several resorts in one trip  

Which DVC is your favorite resort and why?

Love the trailer. Especially how the doors open into the living room. (Tent, lol)

 

Thanks. That little tent really does make a difference. We didn’t bring it with us on this trip, since we had the big tent.

 

As far as favorite DVC.....that is tough. We really love them all for different reasons. We still haven’t tried Aulani or the Grand Floridian. If I absolutely had to pick one right now, it might be Poly. We stayed there in October for the first time and fell in love with that resort. When they first announced it, kenneth was ready to add on. I didn’t get what the big deal was. We finally got around to booking a room there. The floor plan is great with the bathroom being split and I just adore that resort. I love walking around the grounds of the Poly, especially at night. It also has a great location. When we wanted to go to EPCOT, we just walked next door to the TTC and jumped on the monorail. We’ll be back there in May (we booked that trip while we were staying there in October).

 

Awesome, love your little trailer!!!!

 

Thanks, Carol!

 

Trailer looks nice, I've just been googling the specs. Something we would consider if we ever upgraded from a tent. Have the same restriction on needing to keep in the garage.

 

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We’re very happy with this little trailer! Sometimes it’s good to keep things simple.

 

That is a neat little trailer with the tent addition looks roomy.

Good for you thinking of your fellow campers (barking dog) and of the dogs.  I wonder if there is a way you could get the little guy use to being left in the trailer?  Maybe set him up at home in the garage, do often enough for him to stop the yapping.  Then move camper to driveway,  then farther out to a shopping parking lot.

Has anyone dealt with this problem and solved it?

 

There were a few times in the evening, that we left them in there with the heat going and windows closed. Like, when we just needed to run up to the trading post to grab some stuff or go get a GAG. We didn’t hear any barking then - we’d ride by on our bikes a few times to check. I think maybe he had a harder time when he could hear everything outside. But, I think we still have some work to do with the Buzzer!

 

I like your trailer. 
Do you need a reservation to use Best Friends daycare?  How much do they charge? 

Thanks, Dave. We just walked in to Best Friends and they were able to take Buzz and Dakota. They did say that it would be best to go ahead and reserve days so we don’t get there and they don’t have space for them. The daycare we got them in is basically just in a kennel. I think you can add playgroup, but we already didn’t plan on spending the money to put them in there at all. And we also don’t tend to do parks from sunrise to sunset. We stood there and picked what days we would reserve for them. After their second day, we decided to drop one of the days we had them scheduled for. The girl behind the counter said that if we had paid a deposit (we weren’t asked for one at any time) that we would have lost that deposit for not giving two-days notice of the cancellation for that day. At that time, I was glad we didn’t pay a deposit because we’re bad about not being super planners. And we were kind of put on the spot to pick what days they would go there, with us not knowing what days we for sure wanted to go to the parks. I’m one of those people that cancels fastpasses the night before because I realize I just want to be lazy and hang out. So yay for not losing a deposit, lol! For two dogs, we paid $57 a day. That was with a DVC discount (which only saves you a few dollars, I think).

We pulled into the Fort on Sunday, January 14. I forgot about faxing in a site/loop request before we headed down, so I called (on the way to the Okefenokee) and added requests for loop 1700 and a list of about six sites on that loop that we would love to end up in.  When we arrived we had a site in 1700 and upon driving into the loop, it looked to be the last empty spot in there! Every winter, we camp in 1700 and recognize a few regulars that spend the winter down there. I'll be honest with you - I really like this loop because of these people. They're all a little bit older and quiet campers. And you have to love walking through there and seeing the big yellow lab laying in the front window of the camper. 

We still love to tent-camp, so we packed our tent for this trip. We got our tent set up with our mickey lights shining on the side. We also had some friends that made a mickey lamp for us, for Christmas!

We also made sure to pack Dakota's favorite toy for this trip!

We have annual passes this year, so we had to figure out how to keep the pups comfortable and safe while we're away. We set up a pen in Earl (so Buzz wouldn't destroy the inside of the trailer). We got them situated with toys and their beds and slapped a diaper on Buzz - separation anxiety, he likes to pee on things when we leave him. We had the windows open because it was too cool at the time to run the air, but would be too warm later to run the heat. They had a heated throw that would stay on for a couple of hours, so that would cover the morning hours when it was a little cooler.

We hopped on our bikes and rode up to use the bathroom before we went to catch the bus to the park. After using the bathroom, we decided to ride back around just to make sure the dogs weren't being crazy. The closer we got to the campsite, we could hear Buzz. {bark, bark, bark, silence for a few seconds, bark, bark, bark.....}. I bet he would do this all day. No way were we about to do that to our neighbors. We nixed plans to go to the park, loaded the pups into the truck with us, and drove to Publix to do our grocery shopping for the week. Kenneth and I took turns running into the store to buy groceries. There were certain things he needed to look at to buy (such as whatever beer he wanted to drink for the week and what kind of charcoal he wanted to use on the grill) and then I went in to buy whatever I needed to cook the meals. We got back to the campsite and unloaded groceries and got everything put away in the cooler, freezer, and in the kitchen area. And then we threw a couple of steaks on the grill for lunch.

We also got our hammocks put up.

We bought some ice cream while we were at Publix and also heated up some hot fudge. We had hot fudge sundaes that night.

The next morning, we got a pot roast set up in the crock pot. This was a Mississippi pot roast recipe that my sister found on facebook. Roast with Au Jus mix, ranch dressing mix, a stick of butter, and pepperoncinis. So yum.

I also told Kenneth that I really want to go to a park. But putting the pups in the camper wasn't going to work. They used to stay at Best Friends on our past trips, so we took them over there and put them in daycare. We basically had the whole day to go to the parks. We headed to Epcot!

Another festival! More food booths! And we are planning for some cold weather! I think I'm going to stop there for tonight.

So, I think I might stop for just a minute and give a little background on how we ended up with a little trailer.  We used to frequent the local airstream dealer here because we're slightly obsessed with airstreams.  This dealership also has a lot of other unique campers that you won't find at a place like Camping World. In all of our visits, we got to know a lady at the dealership (Chris) and told her early on that we are not in a situation to purchase anything for a long time. But she always spent time with us when we were there and was always available to answer any questions we might have. She would also email us whenever they got in a certain airstream model that we wanted to see. All of this, knowing we weren't going to buy. We pass this dealership on the way to see Kenneth's mom (you can see it from I-85), and Kenneth saw these tiny trailers from the road one day when he was headed to take his mother to a doctor's appointment. We had looked at A-liners before, because we know some models will fit in our garage (we live in a neighborhood where you can't keep a camper on your property, but we can hide one in the garage). So, we measured the height of the door opening and the length of our garage and then measured one of these campers at the dealership. We spent some time inside and made a few trips, looking at these.  The trailer is made by intech RV - Kenneth was already familiar with intech trailers, so he started doing a lot of research on the RV side of the company. Well, they marked these trailers down a good bit, and ended up marking it down enough where we thought we could buy one. We got with Chris and asked her about financing, how much to put down. And voila, we are now the owners of a tiny trailer that can be stored in our garage at home!

This was the day we went to sign papers and did the walk-through to learn about all of the features of the trailer and how to use everything. Definitely an easier walk-through than most trailers as this doesn't have a bathroom or any kind of plumbing whatsoever. It's very small and basic.

There's a slide in the front-part of the trailer that comes out and has a stove with two burners and a fridge/freezer. We usually use this for ice cream and just use our coolers for all of the refrigerated items.

We also really like that the trailer has cargo doors on the back. That was actually one of the selling points for us, because it makes loading it with camping gear so much easier for us.  That was one of the main reasons we looked at these instead of the T@Gs. There are two mattresses inside, that when you lay them side by side, make a queen size bed. The cubby holes above the bed are really deep and hold a lot of stuff. I also had to make curtains for the trailer and had to come up with a way to hang them. For now, I used command hooks and cheap curtain rods sitting on those hooks. We'll come up with a more permanent solution. This trailer also came with one of those SUV tents, that attaches to the back of the trailer, expanding our living space a bit.

And, here's how well Earl fits in our garage, even with too much junk in there.

Next, we'll get back on track with our visit to the Fort!

 

On ‎2‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 8:57 AM, Tri-Circle-D said:

Congratulations on moving up to a trailer. I hope there are more photos of it- it looks cool!

 TCD 

Thanks! We had no plans on getting one for a long time, but it ended up just being the right time for us.

On ‎2‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 10:37 AM, dblr....Rennie said:

The rooms at the Beach Club look they are set up exactly like the ones at Saratoga Springs but definitely updated, yes the balcony is narrow but looks longer then some resorts.

Love the new little trailer, looks compact, best of luck with it and enjoy

There's a few balconies at Beach Club that are very unique. I guess this one was really long since it's a one-bedroom. We've gotten some in a studio that are HUGE! And the trailer is very compact! I'll show how compact it is, in the next update.

On ‎2‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 12:21 PM, fladogfan aka Gretchen said:

Loved this TR, moving from hotel to hotel every day was something.  Looks like you made it part of the experience, great.  Good photos too.

Cute little camper, dogs seem to approve of it.  When the kitchen pulls out what is the space inside camper used for?

I really wasn't looking forward to moving every day, but we said we would just try to pack pretty light and it wouldn't be a big deal. It wasn't so bad, but I definitely would prefer one room for the whole trip, lol. The dogs seem to like the camper, and they are the main reason we purchased it. Crazy, I know. But, we really wanted them to be able to stay at the Fort with us.  It didn't completely work out. I'll get into that in a bit.

Great DHS nighttime shots!

Thanks!

We went to the Fort! But first, we stopped at the Okefenokee at Stephen C. Foster state park for a couple of nights. I love this park for two reasons:

1. gators - I don't see gators where I live. We hear rumors that there's some in Lake Lanier, but the sightings are scarce. I have a strange obsession with gators that stems from fear and fascination.

2. This park is recognized as a dark sky park. Once we get through the main entrance of the swamp, we drive 18 miles to get to the campground. They have a night-time speed limit and you seriously have to keep an eye out for wildlife.  We had to slow down a couple of times to let deer cross the road.  The frogs are also super-loud! We had the windows up and could hear them as clearly as if the windows were down. I remember the first time Kenneth and I stayed here. We sat out under the stars and couldn't see anything around us. It was really kind of creepy - you jump every time you  hear something, because you can't see what it is.  We always try to plan our trips there when it's close to a new moon, so we don't have too much moonlight keeping us from seeing all of the stars.

It was cold when we made this trip though. This was our first camping trip to Disney after purchasing our tiny trailer, Earl. With it being so cold, we spent a lot of time in the trailer with the pups, blasting the heat.

Here we are, on the drive down.

Here's the canal at the park. You can rent boats and kayaks here to ride out into the swamp. We still haven't done that. Truth be told, I'm not getting in a kayak in a swamp filled with gators. I might get in a jon boat, though.

And the campground and Earl backed into his little campsite.

When we were hunkered down in the trailer, Dakota was happy to lay in the sun.

And when it's cold outside, you need to eat and drink to stay warm!

I wish it was a little warmer so we could enjoy the campground more. I guess one good thing about the cold is the lack of mosquitoes. The previous spring when we stayed there one night, in passing, we had to cover every inch of ourselves with bug spray. Even our hair! After surviving a couple of nights of cold, in the swamp, we headed on down to the Fort. Since Kenneth does all of the driving (I offer to help), I think he was glad to spit the drive into two different shifts. Next update, we'll start on our time at the Fort!

 

We came out through the back of the Beach Club and walked over to Epcot. 

There was some more food that we wanted to try for the holidays.  First, we had to get Kenneth some beer! He had the beer flight from the American pavilion.

We also tried the food offerings in that area. One had turkey and the other one may have been pork tenderloin.  I'm having a hard time remembering much about these meals. I think they were probably just okay.

We went back over to France to grab some pastries to put in the fridge for dessert and breakfast in the morning. I think one was a coffee cream, éclair, chocolate mousse, and crème brulee.

We took the food back to the room and I think I took a little nap while Kenneth watched some football. After resting for a bit, it was our plan to head to the Magic Kingdom. We decided to go back through Epcot and jump on the monorail to head that way. Plus, I never really took the time to see the Christmas tree at Epcot.

I don't remember much of what we did at Magic Kingdom. Looking back at pictures, it seems we did at least do the Jingle Cruise. That was a new one for us, since we don't make it down this time of year.

We tried not to stay out too late that night. We needed to get on the road as early as possible, because we were hoping to pick the dogs up on Sunday before their animal hospital closed (they board with their vet). We did make it in time.  And the final shot from this trip - looking up towards the Beach Club after getting off the bus.

I appreciate y'all reading along on this trip. That is the end of the best-birthday-ever trip.  But, I've learned from the master of trip reports. I'm looking at you, TCD. I'm going to include some bonus material. Because we just got back from the Fort about two weeks ago!

So, we left off with ending the day with dinner from Earl of Sandwich and dessert from Sprinkles.  I think we actually took the cupcake back to the room to eat it.  That was Friday night and the third resort of the trip.  Saturday, December 2nd was my actual birthday - the reason we made this trip happen. I woke up that morning to a video from England from my friend's 2-year old son.  Such a cute start to my birthday.  I also told Kenneth that I would love to have breakfast at Olivia's before we head to the next resort. Here's the view from our room that morning.

We walked over to the Hospitality House and were seated immediately at Olivia's. One of my favorite menu items at Olivia's is the grits.  So cheesy and good! I also had an omelet with potatoes and a biscuit. It was too much food and I didn't finish it, but it was a very good meal to start out the day.  Kenneth had oatmeal and a continental plate. He also had a parrot punch to drink (coconut rum, melon liqueur, peach schnapps, and pineapple juice). Kenneth couldn't finish all of his food either, so the pastries were packed up to move to the next resort with us.

After filling our bellies, we definitely needed that walk back to the room. Once we got back inside, we got everything packed up because it's moving day again!

Our final resort of the trip is the Beach Club. This is actually one of our "home" resorts and usually hard to get into (because of that awesome pool). The last time we stayed there, I wasn't really feeling it because it was starting to feel run down and dirty.  They've since remodeled and these rooms are looking kind of fancy! We walked around and checked out some of the Christmas decorations in the DVC building and of course, the carousel, until our room was ready.

And look at the view from the room! We were looking right into Epcot!

Next, we'll head into Epcot!

That OKW one bedroom unit looks amazing- so much space!  
I agree with everyone who liked your (or should I say Kenneth's) DHS nighttime photos- they are excellent. I really like the new location of the DHS Christmas tree. They did a good job with the decorations in DHS this Christmas. 
Now, let's have some more of this great report!
TCD

I love all of the space that a one-bedroom provides at Old Key West. When my cousin came over from japan years ago, we had a three-bedroom grand villa. She and I went in and ran through every bedroom screaming. It was so nice!

But isn't the beach club a lot of chocolate?

The horses and characters are all chocolate, aren’t they?

Great report! I enjoyed it so much. I had no idea you needed to line up so early to get into Trader Sam’s. We’re staying at the Poly in May, so we may run over early and try to get a good seat in there!

Old Key West is great for the size of the rooms and even the patios are larger there, you can actually fit more then a couple of people compared to the one at other resorts.

The patios there are awesome! With a table you can actually sit at. Wait until you see the patio at the next resort - so narrow!

That pecan tart looks delicious.
Like you I prefer the traditional artist singing the Christmas songs instead of the newer artist redoing them.

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I think that tart may have had chocolate in the bottom also.

Rice Cream, Yummmm! I discovered this many years ago at Akershus before they changed it to all princesses all the time. It is now a must stop to get one every time I visit World Showcase :)

I almost got the rice cream again on our last trip, a couple of weeks ago.

I always have to get the school bread at the Norway bakery.  Not sure I've tried the rice cream. 
You got some great pics of HS at night! 

I think the credit for most of those pictures will have to go to Kenneth. I stole quite a few from his camera. I’m sneaky!

And of course, since it's the holiday season, they had food booths around World Showcase.  We tried a few things while we were there. In Japan, I had some soba noodles. They were good. Just like what I'm used to eating.

In America, Kenneth tried the pecan tart. We were actually surprised at how large this one was. I think Kenneth liked it. I don't eat pecans, so I can't comment on this one.

I also tried the rice cream, in Norway. This was not at a food kiosk. It was at the bakery, in Norway. The rice part was not sweet, just very creamy. So, it paired very well with the sweetness of the strawberries on top. I liked this one.

That night, we went to Hollywood Studios. We didn't explore much of the park. We went to go see the projections on the Tower of Terror and to watch the Jingle Bell, Jingle Bam (is that right?) show. We watched the Jingle bell show from in front of Hollywood and Vine.  I LOVE the retro Christmas decorations at Hollywood Studios and the Christmas music that they play is the best! I'm one of those people that plays Christmas music year-round, but I prefer more of the traditional artists like Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby. I don't really care for the modern artists doing Christmas music.

After Hollywood Studios, we went to downtown Disney  for dinner. We had a craving for some Earl of Sandwich and I had a free birthday cupcake coupon from Sprinkles.  I got my usual chicken bacon avocado wrap from Earl and Kenneth had the Original. We both also had pasta salad. We split the cupcake - dark chocolate, if I remember correctly.

So, we left off ending our day at Animal Kingdom on Thursday night. Friday morning, we were making a move from Wilderness Lodge to Old Key West.

Goodbye for now, Lodge!

Hello Old Key West resort! The one bedroom villas at Old Key West are huge!

After getting everything into our room, we hopped on a bus to go to Epcot.

 

 

First, prayers of Thanksgiving for your sister being cancer free. Prayers too that it was only the car of your other sister that was damaged by the drunk driver. Cars are replaceable. I do hope the driver has gotten the help she needs and something like this never happens again.
What a wonderful way to celebrate a birthday! I love WL too. If we ever stayed at a deluxe resort, it would definitely be my first choice.

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Thank you so much. With everything that happened, we were very lucky in all cases. We still have two more resorts to visit before this trip report is over!

Awesome start to your report.
Thanks for sharing about the B resort. I've been there a couple of times to drop off rental cars- there's an Enterprise desk in the lobby. I was able to take their free bus to Epcot from there. I always thought it might be s good place to stay for a cheap room. It looks like a decent place.
Not a big deal, but those signs they post at the gingerbread displays bug me. How did they use 998 pounds of flour for the Contemporary gingerbread house, but only 800 at the Grand Flordian's?  The white backdrop at the Contemporary is a piece of plywood they use every year. The only things made out of gingerbread are the flat, one dimensional, castle and the Cinderella figures. How did that use more flour than the whole house they built at the Grand Floridian? Liars!
TCD

Lol, so true about the numbers they’re reporting. I do wish there was more to the contemporary gingerbread display. The house at GF and the carousel at BC are much more impressive.

I'm in and on the first page.
Great way to celebrate a birthday.

I wish I could celebrate like this every year!

 I’m in. Great start to your TR. I too, like TCD, have dropped off rental cars at the beach resort a few times. And I get promotions to stay there all the time. Looking forward to reading more. 

Thanks for joining in! There’s much more to come!

I'm in! Great pictures, Love Disney at Christmas. Thanks for sharing- Resort hop till ya drop

Disney decorated for Christmas is the best!

What an awesome way, to celebrate your birthday!
LOVE, LOVE that truck buffet.  So stinkin' cute!!
The Wilderness Lodge, is our favorite... it's the one hotel, we would like to stay in (I'm not a hotel person, I like my own germs... lol). 

You should stay one day!

Yay! Glad your truck got you all the way down to the Fort! 1700 is our favorite loop!

Have a great trip!

I like the truck buffet kind of a neat theming. We prefer a 1 bedroom even if it's just the 2 of us, I like the extra space and if I wake early I don't disturb the wife, Plus we do not get down often so we are using up points so they don't expire, hate not using our points.

The one-bedroom was so nice! We try to come down a few times a year, so we don’t usually have a hard time getting through our points. Most years, we are borrowing from the next use year.

Very nice!! I've wondered about the B resort. We've stayed at the Holiday Inn next door sometimes for first night arrival, and enjoy that also.

The room at B resort didn’t have a very clean feeling to me - I don’t think it was really dirty, maybe it just has a lot of wear and tear right now. The lobby is beautiful, though! And the bed was quite comfy, and that was very important to me after getting in so late (I think we arrived around midnight, after going in to work at 5:00 am that same day).

Sounds like a great and much needed trip. 

Thanks! Best birthday ever! I was very lucky to have had that opportunity.

Wow, great pictures. When we were DVC, we never had a chance to stay at WL.  Seeing those pics makes me wish we had.

It had been a long time for us, since we had stayed at Wilderness Lodge. What I love the most about this resort is all of the little nooks and hang-out areas all over the place. The DVC building has a lot of great places to relax all around the lobby.

Wow!  A truck buffet, AND Wilderness Lodge??  This is starting off great!
Oh, and looks like I'm first!  

Yay, first! I hope you’re starting to feel better! This was one of the best trips ever!

I'm in!  the buffet looked great!  like the truck!  looking forward to more!
 

Thanks! That buffet was really good. Especially the creamy, cheese grits. They do grits really good down here in Florida. In Georgia, you usually get grits with butter. I like mine creamy with lots of cheese.

X-2 Our favorite as well. Oh, 3rd

It’s such a nice resort, isn’t it? Being next door to the Fort helps. :)

Looking back at pictures, it appears that we hung out in the room when we first got there. We headed out that afternoon for the "gingerbread and Christmas decoration" tour.  We took a boat to the Contemporary, from the Lodge. First gingerbread display!

It smelled fantastic in there! Is that smell really all coming from that gingerbread or is Disney adding that smell? After admiring this display and trying to count "hidden" Mickeys, we jumped on the monorail and scooted on down to the Poly. There wasn't a gingerbread display and the tree isn't that big since this lobby isn't as tall as the Wilderness Lodge or Grand Floridian. But, of course it was a beautiful tree!

Instead of getting back on the monorail and going through security again, we walked over to the Grand Floridian from the Poly.  Of course, the decorations here are impressive!

I also tried one of the gingerbread shingles. I didn't really like it. And it was, like, $9.00. Fail.

Looking back at my pictures, it appears that we headed to Animal Kingdom from there.  It looks like we rode Everest and had dinner at Yak and Yeti. That's us in the front row of Everest.

 

Yak and Yeti dinner. Following are wok-fried green beans, sweet and sour chicken, and chicken tikka masala (so spicy and soooooo good).

And that ends our Thursday of our long weekend at Disney.  I'll try to get another update in tomorrow.

So, I'm one of those that hasn't been here for a while.  The last couple of years have been busy - I have a sister that was diagnosed with cancer two days before a Disney trip and she was hospitalized for blood clots shortly after said trip. After surgery and radiation, she is now cancer-free! I also ended up having surgery later that year. We also had a drunk driver come down our street and total my other sister's car, in front of our house, while we were in bed (she was taken to jail, barely able to walk and my sister got another car).  We've all had enough excitement for a while. Even with all of that going on, we made sure to head down to Disney as much as we could.

 

Last year, for the first time in my life, I spent my birthday at Disneyworld! That's kind of a big deal because I have a December birthday and we work retail.  We were able to work out our days off between two weeks so we could have a long weekend (Thursday through Sunday). Kenneth is a DVC member, but we were planning this trip fairly last minute.  It was hard to get three nights together in one room, and especially hard to get cheap rooms (a studio room). We were grabbing any reservation we could get as we found them. This ended up getting us three nights in a one-bedroom villa at three different resorts.  I also found a deal for B resort, that included breakfast, for Wednesday night.  So, that's four different resorts for the weekend and moving every day.  It was worth it to me, to celebrate my 38th birthday at Disney.

 

Since we had to work Wednesday, we had to make the most of our time to be able to hit the road at a decent hour.  We used our lunch hour to run home and grab the dogs and drop them off for boarding. After work, we got on the road and pulled up to B resort late that night. 

 

 

We went to bed shortly after getting into our room. The next morning, we went downstairs to enjoy our breakfast at the restaurant on property. We opted for the buffet, which was made to look like it was set up on the bed of a pickup truck.  We enjoyed it a lot and were glad it was included in our reservation.

 

 

After filling our bellies and getting cleaned up, we headed out of B resort and headed to the Wilderness Lodge, for the second resort of the trip.  We certainly don't need a one-bedroom villa and don't want to spend that many points, but it really is nice to have a king-size bed and a big tub to soak in.  Here's the one-bedroom villa we were in.

 

 

I LOVE the Wilderness Lodge! It's such a beautiful resort, and even more beautiful when it's decorated for Christmas!

 

 

 

Oh, man! I’m finally caught up! What an awesome trip report. Just like Marty, I’m inspired to do one as well. It’s been a long time and that whole photobucket deal really bothered me. But, I think I’ll be able to get it figured out. Count us in for traveling to see the eclipse next time around also. We drove to kenneth’s cousin’s lake house to watch it last year. We were right in the center of the path of totality. It really was an awesome experience! Really looking forward to the rest of the report!

 

I’m sitting in our little camper at the Fort now, needing to pack up and head out. And yet here I am, reading your trip report (I’m good at delaying the inevitable). And I’m already missing Disney! Love all of the pictures, Marty! I hope you make it back down here soon.

Yay, Marty! I’m glad you’re making it down there so often! One day, we’ll run into each other again!