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The campfire and s'mores look and sound good. Your cabin doesn't look that small in the pictures. I've ridden through the area with the cabins on a bus to DD and always thought it'd be a fun place to stay. $8.50 for a can of cheese is a bit much.
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Great start Matt - the more I rad about the cabins the more I like the idea of the resort. It really is like an added vacation on top of being at WDW, there seems to be so much to do.
This TR is wonderful! I am so glad I found it! We are staying in the cabins this fall for the 2nd "half" of our vavation, and you've got a lot of great info. Thanks!
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I think I can pound out another update today while at work. Shhhh! For people new to the campgrounds, I'll give a synposis of recommendations when I finish!
Although we normally avoid EMH days like the plague, we new we had to get the girls to the Magic Kingdom on our first day or we just wouldn't hear the end of it. We all got up very early and went to the bus stop to take us to the marina so that we could catch the boat to the MK. I knew at this moment that I was going to rent a golf cart for the rest of the week. I had programmed the two offsite golf cart rental places into my blackberry before we left and I made a note to call around 9am.
We got on the first boat to the Magic Kingdom which left the dock at 7:30. Of course, we wasted some time mugging for the cameras...
On the way a flurry of text messages were flying between me, Joey, Travis, and Molly (WVUGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL or something like that ). They were doing the Keys to the Kingdom Tour this morning and we were hoping to run into them at some point. The KttKT is great...up to a point. While I knew most of the stuff they said, it was pretty cool to see the backstage stuff. However, our tour run over an hour late when we took it and I was just ready to go by then. At the time, I kept my opinion to myself because I didn't want to ruin it for the WVU gang. (I didn't realize that Molly and Travis had already did it before.)
While waiting for the park to open, we took more pics... of course.
Anyways, we get into the park and the girls made the traditional stroll towards Dumbo while I went off to get us FPs for Splash Mountain. After grabbing fastpasses, I started to head back to Fantasyland when a guy says "I just got fastpasses to Big Thunder Mountain but I don't want them now. You take them". haha He shoved them into my hand and I saw him taking off toward Splash Mountain. I yelled thanks and kept walking back to Fantasyland. I wonder if the guy thought he could get FPs for Splash immediately? haha oh well.
Once back the ladies had only to wait 2 more minutes to board Dumbo.
We rode Peter Pan next and I took the opportunity to run up to Allie and jump next to her and scare her with a self portrait. My look is joking while hers is mortal fear. hahaha it might be my favorite photo of the trip.
I don't particularly feel like racking my brain to figure out what happened next but I know we finished off Fantasyland, The Haunted Mansion and Toon Town before we decided we were hungry. We made a quick pit stop at the tea cups before we began wondering what what we should eat.
We walked back to Fantasyland and saw the Fairy Godmother out and we got a quick picture. My only problem with this pic is that Allie looks so old! Gah she's becoming a young lady.
We soon decided on Columbia Harbor House and since we were celebrating Allie's Birthday, I asked her to join me in line so that they might give her a cookie or something. After we ordered, a man who works there wished her a happy birthday and asked if we'd like to dine in style. We said sure. He started to lead us upstairs and told us not to worry about food because he'd bring it to us! We walked up stairs and he took us into a small roped in area that looks down to the lines to order your food. No one was up there but us. We told Allie "Nice job!" and she agreed. Not long afterwards, the waiter and another waitress brought us all our food and complimentary desserts for the group! We thanked him profusely and started chowing down. I ate the fish while everybody else got chicken i believe.
It was then that I remembered that when we took the KTTK tour that you ate at Columbia Harbour House. I sent a quick text to Molly and sure enough, they were just arriving. Their reserved section was across from us and as they walked up, we got to meet briefly for the first time. Our plans were to go to DHS that night for Fantasmic so we confirmed those plans with them and they agreed!
They had to go eat at about the same time 10 or so CHH cast members came up the stairs and sang happy birthday to Allie. Allie's pretty shy in public but even I laughed after they left when she said "Ok Daddy. No tip. You know that singing embarrasses me!" She was giggling and had enjoyed it no matter how read she turned!
Since we had 8 or so days at WDW and the park was filling up, we knew we didn't want to stay much longer. We rode HM one more time and then headed over to ride Pirates of the Caribbean. As usual...silly hat pics were necessary.
I convinced the girls to head back to the cabin for some swimming time. It really wasn't hard to do. It was quite hot. We made it back to the dock and caught a quick boat to Fort Wilderness. I had called the golf cart company and scheduled a 3pm appt to get a golf cart so I took the girls swimming for a couple hours before the cart would come.
Up Next: Dinner in my cabin with a WDW Cast Member, the nastiest Thunderstorm ever, and the first ever meeting of the NorRadWright von Headleys.
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The cabin at FW looks wonderful, too. My DD Stefanie would love the campfire and roasting marshmallows. Fun!
For people new to the campgrounds, I'll give a synposis of recommendations when I finish!
). They were doing the Keys to the Kingdom Tour this morning and we were hoping to run into them at some point. The KttKT is great...up to a point. While I knew most of the stuff they said, it was pretty cool to see the backstage stuff. However, our tour run over an hour late when we took it and I was just ready to go by then. At the time, I kept my opinion to myself because I didn't want to ruin it for the WVU gang. (I didn't realize that Molly and Travis had already did it before.)
that picture of the girls with the Fairy Godmother! Too cute!!
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