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On 4/15/2019 at 12:37 PM, slices said:

 

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Past this on the way there, was this the one a few people had commented seeing over the last couple of months?

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Cute tablecloth. Your set-up looked so nice ☺️

Yes, that was it and I was the one who commented on it.  I think it looks horrible out on the lawn.  A person’s site, no problem...but on the lawn of a common area , out in plain sight?Eyesore.

Thanks for all the pics and details of your trip.  It’s been great to follow along!

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Don't feel bad.  I consider myself pretty good at backing trailers into practically any space.  My Dad had me backing farm trailers at 7 years old and I could zip them in and out of barns and park the

13 hours ago, twiceblessed....nacole said:

Cute tablecloth. Your set-up looked so nice ☺️

Yes, that was it and I was the one who commented on it.  I think it looks horrible out on the lawn.  A person’s site, no problem...but on the lawn of a common area , out in plain sight?Eyesore.

Thanks for all the pics and details of your trip.  It’s been great to follow along!

Thanks, the table cloth was from Target last year.  Agreed on the antenna, plus I would expect to see this more at places like state parks where you don't have cable TV.

 

 

 

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49 minutes ago, slices said:

Thanks, the table cloth was from Target last year.  Agreed on the antenna, plus I would expect to see this more at places like state parks where you don't have cable TV.

 

 

 

What is surprising, is that the Fort even allowed someone to put it there, and for it to still be there after this length of time.

I wonder if it's a satellite setup for a camper, or some sort of marker for the Reflections construction, sort of like the way they now survey.

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7 minutes ago, Travisma said:

What is surprising, is that the Fort even allowed someone to put it there, and for it to still be there after this length of time.

I wonder if it's a satellite setup for a camper, or some sort of marker for the Reflections construction, sort of like the way they now survey.

I thought I saw a cable, running to the 600 loop but... who knows?  It's ugly though :( 

We're in town the end of April/first of May, not staying at the Fort but plan to stop in and eat a meal.  I'll take a closer look and ask a CM. 

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1 hour ago, twiceblessed....nacole said:

I thought I saw a cable, running to the 600 loop but... who knows?  It's ugly though :( 

We're in town the end of April/first of May, not staying at the Fort but plan to stop in and eat a meal.  I'll take a closer look and ask a CM. 

I saw the cable also, but didn't follow it to the other end past the bushes.

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We got to Animal Kingdom around 10. Hadn't been to the park before,  despite eating in Rainforest  cafe there.  We had a fast pass for Primeval whirl so straight to DinoLand.

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A quick stop to see DeVine first.

After Primeval Whirl my wife took the kids in the boneyard to play, while I got a photo with Donald Duck.

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Lunch next, I had planned to just grab a quick service in DinoLand but my son wanted to sit down and have noodles, so we ended up at Yak and Yeti.

I have a Landry card, so always nice when other people are getting told it's a 90-minute wait, and on showing my card we get told 5 minutes. Nice that there are two Landry restaurants in the park, although I would say this is the better of the two.

 

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He got his noodles.

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Sweet and Sour chicken.

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Honey chicken.

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I went for something a little different and got the Chicken Tika Masala.

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Fried wontons for dessert.

Just before lunch I'd rearranged our fast passes, and snagged on for Dinosaur. My wife didn't want to ride it, so she got a photo with Launchpad instead.

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I believe he was asking who took a bite out of her ears.

Unfortunately, Dinosaur was closed and my son was getting tired,  so after a quick play on boneyard, my wife took him back.

Which meant my daughter could take advantage of our fastpass and drag me on Everest. 

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We grabbed icecreams and went back to the Fort after this.

Rest of the day was fairly quiet,  mac and cheese in the instapot for dinner.  After dinner, we went for a swim. Only at the Fort will you find a group of 8-year-old boys, in the pool discussing the merits of buying various sizes of new versus new campers!

 

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Last full day was Epcot, we'd been there when Flower and Garden was on two years ago but didn't really see much of it. This time my wife was disappointed that they didn't have all the Orange Bird Merchandise they did the previous year but was excited to get the sipper until they sold out of them!

Before that breakfast,  had planned on a later start, so a bigger breakfast at the site this time.

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14 hours ago, slices said:

Last full day was Epcot, we'd been there when Flower and Garden was on two years ago but didn't really see much of it. This time my wife was disappointed that they didn't have all the Orange Bird Merchandise they did the previous year but was excited to get the sipper until they sold out of them!

Before that breakfast,  had planned on a later start, so a bigger breakfast at the site this time.

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Your little chef sure knows his way around some scrambled eggs. Yummy!

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The bowl-like the table cloth was from Target last summer.

 

Epcot was mostly about Flower and Garden but did manage some rides,  first Living with the Land which I hadn't done before. I  think I would have appreciated the view from Graden Grill on previous trips a little more if I had done this earlier.

By the time we had done this, it was gone 11 so time to start around the World Showcase.

We had scoped out menus beforehand. Fist up was Flavor Full Kitchen, we had the salmon and the kids got a blood orange Aqua Fresca each.

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We found the playful garden, snagged some comfy seats and stayed there for a while. Really liked this, kids had a good time and nice and easy for one of us to run out to get snacks and drinks. We also got a dedicated Flower and Garden gift card each, since last time we did an Epcot festival we ended up spending most of our food budget there!

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Honey Bistro, honey mascarpone cheesecake, and the tandoori chicken flatbread.

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Brandy Barrel Honey Ale

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Citrus Blossom, they were out of Orange Bird cups, but we got the slushy drink anyway.

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Citrus shortcake.

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Crispy citrus chicken.

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TropiCannon Citrus IPA.

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Pinnaple Promanade, Frozen Violet Lemmonade

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Pineapple Soft Serve

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Pineapple Mana Wheat

We left the playful garden after this and at my son's request headed towards Mexico.

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A quick stop in the shops and the kids decided to take up pin trading.  Not a bad hobby really, better than spending their  gift cards on plastic tat

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Trowl and Trellis, farmhouse meatball.

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Tropical Wonderland Wheat Ale.

Didn't get anything to eat in Mexico, but did go on the boat ride which seems to be a favorite of my son's.

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Lotus House, spring rolls, and wontons which the kids shared.

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Bubble tea, the kids liked it, not impressed myself.

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Beef shank, I got this because I knew I needed to eat something and figured the kids would eat most of the wontons and spring rolls. My daughter still had about half of this.

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Jasmine Beer

We were tired of walking after this and had a fast pass for Soarin', surprisingly my daughter just wanted to go back to the site while my son wanted to do Soarin'. Out of the four of us, I was the only one who had done it before, so my wife took him while my daughter and I headed back.

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After one last photo.

 

 

 

 

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You would think no one was hungry again that day, well a while after we got back to the Fort. My wife and I were discussing what to make for dinner, and both kids walk into the camper asking to go to Trails End. It was our last night there and they felt like the trip wouldn't be complete otherwise. Fair enough, but I've booked it for a bunch for our October trip as we've only done dinner there so far.  Although this is the one time we went over budget.

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A quick stop at the arcade after dinner.

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Followed by a quick play

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The experience was slightly lessened by the fact that right after this photo was taken a little boy maybe 3 or 4 years old decides to pull his pants down and do a wee under the playset!

Bus back to the site rather quickly after this ended up taking both kids to the see movie which was Toy Story 3.  We stopped to fill up our drink cups at the pool,  second odd experience of the night.  This was close to 8pm so fairly quiet by the drink refill stations, there was a mother with a bunch of kids using the ice dispenser of the drink station to fill gallon zip lock bags and placing them in a small wagon. She most have easy had a dozen. Didn't want to pay $2 a for a bag of ice from the machines I guess.

 

Anyway, we got over to the campfire and did s'mores, surprisingly both kids wanted to stay until the end of the movie, despite almost being asleep on the benches. Last night and all.

 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Tri-Circle-D said:

Great trip report. 

Did you know those farmhouse meatballs aren't meat?

When we tried that booth, we had a debate about what the meat was. To me it had a pork/lamb flavor going on. 

It turns out that they're some kind of vegan voodoo concoction. 

That a dirty trick they're pulling in that booth. 

TCD

I was vaguely aware that there was a vegan food booth,  although I'm not sure my daughter was she asked for the meatball, she ate though. My Mum is vegetarian, so I've had a number of meat substitutes over the years. For not being meat, these meatballs were definitely some of the best I've tried.

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The plan for checkout day was to grab takeout breakfast while we packed up and then go to Magic Kingdom for a few hours. I'd just taken the EZ down, when it started raining really heavily. Wasn't much we could do but keep on packing up, and putting everything away wet.  Ate breakfast huddled under the awning, just before taking it down. 

After that, we decided to skip the parks and go straight home.

 

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Was dry when we got back so were able to dry everything out.

 

 

 

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