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Wow! Thanks for sharing! I might have to pick up a cap when we go back in January. As much as I love my okefenokee cap, I really like the one for the Fort also.

We go this coming up October and then again in January 2018. So, we'd be within that six-month period to use all 7 of our days.

I wish I had a No Way Jose right now! Yum!

We talked about buying the annual pass before our October trip. My sisters bought five-day tickets for that trip. Kenneth and I go back in January to camp. We'll have the dogs at the campsite with us, so we may not do parks too much. Now I'm thinking that the 7-day ticket might work out pretty good for us after all. We can use the five days in October and have two days left to use in January. Luckily we've still got time to decide (and to save some $$$).

What a great trip! Shardi, I'm glad you're doing better. How awesome that you enjoyed the entire day at Castaway Cay and the rain held off until you got back on the ship. Thanks for writing the trip report. I enjoyed it so much!

My dad was in the navy for 20 years and I don't remember him mentioning SOS. I just looked at that recipe you posted and realized that's his famous sausage gravy that he made on Saturday mornings (had it on biscuits)!

That's cool! I've never noticed those portraits hanging in there!

Awesome! Great to see another TCD trip report! I don't know that I could have handled the crowds on opening day, but I'll gladly watch from where I am. I'm on vacation now and almost planned a trip to the Fort, to take our new little camper, but we had too much to do at home this week. So, it's a staycation for us. We don't head back to Disney until October, so I'll learn as much as I can from your trip report on navigating Pandora. We'll probably buy an annual pass on our next trip, so we'll actually start visiting the parks again.

You had me at love story! I'm definitely in! And you're a great writer!

I'm very late to the party, but here! Love the Rocky pictures! And the bunny fondue was adorable! That crowded loop looks so uncomfortable to me - I don't think I could handle that. Thanks for another trip report!

Great report! Tent camping really is a lot of work, but it's a lot of fun! Glad you enjoyed.

Ooh, seeing gators is a plus for me! I look for the gators when we go by there, on the way to Disney (along I-75), and almost always see a couple from the road! We recently stayed at Stephen C Foster state park (in the Okefenokee swamp, in south Georgia). One reason was for the gators and the other reason was the dark skies at nighttime for star-gazing. Didn't get in a canoe there but I might next time. Saw a lot of babies in the canal, and then saw mom - who let us know it was time to move along!

On our last trip, we went to chef Art Smith's Homecoming (or is it Homecomin'?) restaurant. I really wanted to try the hummingbird cake, but opted for the banana pudding since it wasn't on the menu - I didn't want to miss my chance to have it. I figured I would try the hummingbird cake on my next visit. I googled the recipe for the hummingbird cake during our drive home and found an article from Disney food blog. We came home from work the other night and whipped it up! It's really yummy. I thought I was doing something wrong because the batter ended up being really thick - I had to spoon it i

Yes, that's why we were there. There seemed to be a pretty good turnout. I think the longest line I saw was a 40-minute wait at the Mine Train, so really not too crowded. They did have free food, which is always a plus for me, even if it's something as simple as chicken nuggets, hot dogs, veggies, etc. They had a lot of different characters out and that really seemed to be a hit with a lot of people because there were some long lines for that. They had a special fireworks show that night at midnight. We enjoyed seeing a different show and it wasn't so full in the park that you couldn't find

Today we tried the Homecoming restaurant at Disney Springs. There were a few different things we wanted to try so we just split everything. We ordered three appetizers and were going to try a couple of desserts, but had to cut it back to one dessert to share. We couldn't finish everything but I had to try a dessert from there. We had the Church Lady Deviled Eggs. They were topped with bacon. I love deviled eggs and these were good, but they don't really seem much better than what we make at home. So, I probably wouldn't order these again. I would eat them again if someone in our party wanted

We ate at Bongos the other day (the big pineapple at Disney Springs). This was a first for me, but it has been a really long time since Kenneth ate here. I have to say that this is now a favorite for me. I had the Award Winning Cuban Slow Roasted Pork. It was served with black beans and white rice. It's very similar to the pork carnitas that my sister makes (and almost as good). And I'm a sucker for black beans and rice. All of this at Bongos had really good flavor. One of kenneth’s favorite sandwiches is a Cuban. He ordered the midnight Cuban. It has pork, ham, pickles, mustard, and

We saw a lot of smoke behind Be Our Guest last night. I'll have to try to get one of the pictures loaded that Kenneth took. We assumed something had caught fire because it was A LOT of smoke and it smelled like a campfire.

We'll be at the one next week! I'm excited for it, since we stopped buying annual passes!

Goodness gracious, man! That's a lot of tents!

It looks like a fun place. We have a coworker (that actually lived right up the street from us) that moved to that area. She loves it there!

Here's my fiend sign. I usually just park it at the end of my site, by the road. I've met a few people from here, because they saw the sign as they were looping.

We were on the 1700 loop. We rode our bikes around several loops and looked for fiend signs, but didn't see any. We recognized some of the people on our loop from past trips. We would have run to the comfort station or got in our truck if we thought the storm was getting too dangerous. One of my biggest fears is tornadoes and I was mostly scared that something like that might develop from a bad storm. We stayed up for a couple of hours until we knew that the storm was totally gone. The storms we experienced in the past were mostly strong winds and lots of rain. That gets a little scary becaus

That storm last week scared me pretty bad. We were in a tent and I think it was about 1:00 am when it got cranked up. My sister was texting me from Georgia to check on us. The wind was enough to wake me up about 30 seconds before my sister started texting. She's real good about keeping an eye on the weather when I'm camping (I'm the baby so she's always worried about me). We got dressed and ready to bolt if we had to. I was shaking like a leaf from fear. The worst part was how loud the thunder was and how bright the lightning was. But, we do tend to experience at least one bad storm on most of

Wow! 50 years! Happy Anniversary! And they are super adorable!