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Hey guys! I'm back sorry for the delay in starting this trip report! I got sick my last day in Disney for the first time ever and was out of it for a week or so after I got back. then the holidays hit and I was traveling alot. Then my silly ole laptop which is a gazillion years old decided to not work for a while but its back up and running now so lets hope it stays this way. So, you ready for a trip report???
For those of you who did or didn't follow along with my PTR let me refresh everyone on this trip!
The Cast:
Myself: Crissy, 37 years old and avid disney fantic. I've been going since 2000 sometimes multiple times in a year and two disney cruises under my belt.
Eric: My DH and he is 39, didn't used to love disney all that much until 2009 when I convinced him of his first week long trip as an adult with me. Since then he's gone back for a week with me every year!
The when? the Where?
This trip was from Saturday the 24 through Saturday the 31st. We were staying in Wildnerness lodge for the first time and five full disney days and two hotel days.
Lets get this trip started shall we??
Day 1 Friday October 23rd, Travel day:
I somehow convinced my husband as I am usually able to do to travel down to Brunswick, GA and stay overnight which is about 5 hours from where we live in SC. My husband was hesitant as he wanted to drive down early Saturday morning but we wouldn't get to the hotel until about 4pm and we really wanted time in this hotel due to how expensive it was and we had never stayed here before.
Friday: I'm always off on friday's so I was able to completely finish packing. We bought some new luggage for our trip to France this year and we wanted to give it a try this trip. Boy I was so impressed with how much we were able to get into these suitcases with room to spare.
I closed the suitcases up and got them ready to put in the car. My husband was able to get off a little earlier than anticipated that day so we made our way out earlier than we thought.
We stopped for gas and a visit to Taco Bell before heading on our way to Brunswick, GA our resting stop for the night.
We made it to Brunswick earlier than we ever do around 6pm. Probably because we left so early this time around. My husband never takes a half day but he had one to waste and it ended up being worth it in the end.
Once checked into our usual hotel in Brunswick, we walked over to dinner at a local eatery. The food was good and once we were done we decided to head back to the hotel to relax before turning in around 1030pm as we had a early wake up that next morning.
Day 2: Check in day!! Part one.
We had a wake up for 730am. We were ready and eating breakfast around 830am at the hotel breakfast. I will say this hotel we always stay at called Best Western plus is super nice for the 90 dollar price tag. We have unlimited internet, the rooms are very nice and updated and the breakfast is really good to be included.
Once we ate we loaded up our overnight bag into the car and stopped for our ritual Starbucks stop before heading down to Disney.
The drive in this day was really nice actually. It was nice and sunny but it was a bit chilly leaving brunswick so we were wearing jackets over our shorts outfits.
It was a three hour drive on down to Orlando which went with no issues. There was a lot of traffic going into Disney that day but we figured due to the food and wine festival and it being a saturday was the reason for so much traffic.
It was so cool going in to our hotel this way as we have never stayed this far into disney property before and never in the MK area.
Making our way in we tried to savor every moment.
We drove into the parking area and it looked really full but we circled back through where the valet starts and behold we got an up front spot which we never moved from the entire trip!!! Duh, there was no way were giving that one up!
We were so excited practically ran into the hotel!!!
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