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I love the Dapper Dans!! You are right about being lucky to see them again in the same day and I would've stopped too!! Sorry about your boat ride but I love the photos you took while waiting!! The WL waterfront cabins look amazing!!
Now that's how you leave Magic Kingdom on a high note. Ba-dum-bum.
Super annoying to just miss a boat though. And then to watch other ones go that you can't be on.... grrr.....
Nice photos on the way back though!
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Your camera really took some great photos in the Pooh ride! The 7DMTR is very smooth but I do find when I'm in the back of any roller coaster that I have a tougher time that the middle or front. Your ride pic was so funny. Sorry you had such a long wait for the boat. We had that experience with the boats heading back to the GF last year and it was extremely frustrating.
That was too funny with Mark and Piglet! Overall great character interaction for your meal. Pretty cool that you got to experience the Dapper Dans twice within hours! That was crazy with the boat situation and not good!
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Your camera really took some great photos in the Pooh ride! The 7DMTR is very smooth but I do find when I'm in the back of any roller coaster that I have a tougher time that the middle or front. Your ride pic was so funny. Sorry you had such a long wait for the boat. We had that experience with the boats heading back to the GF last year and it was extremely frustrating.
That's one of the reasons we haven't stayed at the Wilderness Lodge for so many years, simply because it's not on the monorail line, where you (sort of!) get more reliable service back to your resort...
Friday 3 March – part ten: why can’t Disney do what the guests want?
We headed back to the lobby from the boat dock…
…and on the way, I was trying to check my emails, in case they’d emailed to say our room was ready, as we’d had no text message. I had specifically asked them to text, and not to email this morning, as checking emails is not that simple on the phone, and the Internet service today was a bit hit and miss. When I got to front desk, I just about managed to get into my emails (after some serious trying) and discovered they had emailed me at 12:36pm to say the room was ready. Why can’t Disney do what the guests want?
We headed off to find our room…
Aren’t the Boulder Ridge Villas lovely?
We had been promised our room would be right off the atrium, and it was. It was a lovely location, and it instantly made me feel more welcome, although that probably sounds a bit dumb. With our last room location, it felt like “we’ll dump you as far as we can from anything, as we just aren’t interested in you”. We had a one bedroom villa, and of course I set about exploring all of it, and photographing it…
Mark even spotted a woodpecker outside…
He was there, despite all this work going on right outside. Now honestly they were working when we got there, and frankly I couldn’t hear a thing. I have to be honest about that. I did sit there while we were waiting for bell to deliver our luggage, waiting for the noise, but nothing came. I was really impressed by that, and honestly, I found it fascinating to see what they were doing. It’s going to be amazing once it’s all done.
We spent the next couple of hours in the room enjoying some down time, and I decided to sample the hot tub – well, heck it’s sort of like a tradition with me really.
Next: it’s probably just as well he didn’t know what the meats were before he ordered!
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Sorry you had such a long wait for the boat. We had that experience with the boats heading back to the GF last year and it was extremely frustrating.
Overall great character interaction for your meal. Pretty cool that you got to experience the Dapper Dans twice within hours! 
Love all the photos. 
Why can’t Disney do what the guests want? 
Now honestly they were working when we got there, and frankly I couldn’t hear a thing. I have to be honest about that. I did sit there while we were waiting for bell to deliver our luggage, waiting for the noise, but nothing came. I was really impressed by that, and honestly, I found it fascinating to see what they were doing. It’s going to be amazing once it’s all done. 
Your room is also beautiful!
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