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Saturday, May 22

Day 2 - Part 1

Looking for a Resort, DVC presentation and Lunch at the Boardwalk



We woke up this morning, took showers; ate our peanut butter & bread in the room (this was a great thing – it cut the edge in the morning – and prevented me from eating the morning high carb junk that I usually eat when I travel). We also saved a bit of cash doing this. After getting dressed – we headed out of our room and drove to the Beach Club resort. We are trying to decide where to stay for our birthday trip at the end of September after we get off of the Wonder. We were down to two resorts – the Beach Club and the Boardwalk Resorts. We knew that we wanted to be close to EPCOT since we will be there for the Food and Wine Festival. So this morning we decided to head to the Beach Club, and then to the Boardwalk at noon. We drove up to the gate, explained to the guard and he said, “Come on in!” We had decided last January to stay at the Yacht Club this coming January for the marathon in 2005. I know there are lots of Beach Club lovers out there – but we didn’t feel it nearly as much as we had felt it when we checked out the Yacht Club. This doesn’t mean we won’t stay here – we have to look at the Boardwalk yet.







Before the trip, I had seriously been considering joining DVC. I had ordered the videotape from the DVC website, and called DVC to make an appointment to meet with a guide. I’d told Cheryl she did not have to come with me – since she really had no interest in DVC, but she decided to go with me. We drove from the Beach Club to Saratoga Springs Resort and the new DVC tour center. We found it (after some confusing driving instructions from the guard), parked the car, went in and checked in at the front desk. We had an appointment with Richardo. We enjoyed the tour; Saratoga Springs will be a very lovely resort when it is complete. For a short report of the tour and results, see the post in the “Owning a piece of the Magic Forum - Terri's mini DVC report.” The end result is that I did not buy DVC – not right now. I will likely do it next year – it all depends on finances. We finished our tour with a scoop of ice cream in the ice cream shop at SSR and then headed to DTD to do some shopping.



Cheryl needed to go there to replace her Minnie hairbrush and a multi-colored pen that her dog Phoebe ate!!! I wanted to look for a new pen to write with – I bought one previously, it’s just a bit too thick to use all the time. I also wanted to check for a “Grumpy’s Gymnasium” sweatshirt – which was a bad idea since it was the wrong time of year to look for a sweatshirt!!! After our short sopping trip to WOD, we headed to Disney at Home to look for wedding gifts for our running buddy and new Disney convert Kris. I ended up buying her a Classic Pooh teakettle, a classic pooh hot plate for the tea pot and bought my niece Jolene a three fairies tooth pillow. Cheryl could not find anything to get Kris – so we headed out toward Boardwalk to get some lunch and check out our second birthday resort option.



We arrived at the Boardwalk and really liked the entrance area.







It was very bright and was bright and cheery. When we entered the lobby all I could say was WOW – which was my reaction the first time I ever saw the WL lobby!! We walked through the lobby and into the other areas of the resort and then headed to the Boardwalk itself. We had considered to get lunch at Spoodles – but discovered they don’t serve lunch and ended up at the Big River Brewing Company instead. I did not realize that this is not a Disney owned restaurant. I had the Blackened Mahi sandwich with kettle-cooked potato chips, while Cheryl had the Chicken Cashew salad. The total bill came to $24.48 before tip, and there was no DDE discount since this is not a Disney restaurant.



Next installment - EPCOT, Flowers and France!!!