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Nice time at Pepper Market with some great food choices. It's one of the better food courts in WDW! Too bad you couldn't get a good view on the fireworks, but probably too far away as you said!
It did have good selections, but I still like the Value ones better personally. But the different selections were nice.
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Nice bit of Disney pixie dust with those mugs!
Yes. I don't think it was intentional on the CM's part though. LOL.
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You lucked out with the free mugs!!! We tend not to get them much anymore since we only drink water or coffee at the resorts. We also found that we got lost walking back to our room a lot. I don't know what it is about that resort but it's just not easy to navigate in the dark!
I love the mugs but there are many trips when they aren't worth it. But since we were spending a lot of time there, they really were, even if we had paid for them.
I don't drink coffee and I don't often drink water on vacation so much.
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Looks like a nice dinner and love surprise fireworks!
Sounds like a pretty good way to start a vacation--free mugs and fireworks (the good kind). Sorry your room was grubby. That's kind of gross.
Can't wait to see what you all get up to next!
Back at the room, the luggage still had not arrived and mom was getting antsy about that. She wanted to take a bath and just chill out for the night but her things were in her checked luggage.
Claire and I decided we wanted to explore the resort and headed out.
I asked her if she wanted to swim as I had a suit in our carryon and she asked if I was going to as well, and I told her no. She said no, she would wait till tomorrow.
I knew most of the resorts were now building fences around the pools and I saw this construction so I figured they had started to build one here now too.
Another extended golf cart went by and offered us a ride and we declined again. I think I may have called Skip while we walked as well to tell him goodnight.
Claire and I decided we wanted to head over to Disney Springs for a little bit to end the night so we headed back to our room to let Mom know and check to see if the luggage had arrived.
Sounds like a pretty good way to start a vacation--free mugs and fireworks (the good kind). Sorry your room was grubby. That's kind of gross.
Can't wait to see what you all get up to next!
It was a really nice way to start.
Yeah, they really needed to close the door while in there cleaning and clean that area.
October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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It does have a beautiful view across the lake lit up at night! I wish that the resorts didn't have to put all those fences up around their pools. It takes away from the beauty a little. I understand the legality of why they're doing though. Looking forward to hearing about your night at Disney Springs!
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It does have a beautiful view across the lake lit up at night! I wish that the resorts didn't have to put all those fences up around their pools. It takes away from the beauty a little. I understand the legality of why they're doing though. Looking forward to hearing about your night at Disney Springs!
I agree. I really think they are doing it to stop people from pool hopping. Disney has so many crazy things going on lately. I think they sit in meetings and see who can top each other with dumb ideas!
We got back to the room and still no luggage. Mom was not happy about that, so I called to check. It was now just over 3 hours, so technically we were fine but since it was getting late, I thought I better before it got too late and had to go without tonight. They said they would check on it and kind of acted like it should already have been to our room. They said they would call our room once it was located.
Claire and I gathered what we needed and told Mom to call us as soon as she heard anything so that we would know and then headed off towards the main bus stop.
I stopped and took a few pictures of the water fountain and other lobby photos.
We headed out to the bus stop and it took quite some time for the bus to arrive. A couple was sitting out there and said they had been waiting almost 30 minutes by the time we arrived and we still waited a good 10 -15 minutes more before the bus finally arrived.
We loaded up and soon we were being dropped off at the new bus stop. Wow is it ever different. I took pictures of it later in the day time, but I am not so much a fan of it. We walked through the new areas and again, it was strange and it just didn’t seem to fit the Disney feel of the older areas. It was like a fancy outside shopping mall. It felt so strange to me and Claire wasn’t a fan either.
We made our way towards the Marketplace, which has some change as you enter it, but still mainly has the same feel and look.
We spotted these living statues, which I thought was really cool.
I then suggested to Claire that we get a snack at Ghirardelli. We have never had anything from here nor have we ever even been inside. Claire said she wasn’t super hungry and I said that was fine because we would share.
We got in line and looked over the menu. I swore I had seen in the past they had something with peanut butter and chocolate, which is my favorite combination, but I could not find anything on the menu that even remotely resembled that combo.
Just like Beaches and Creams, this place is very pricey.
We made our order and were given a number and we went to find a seat outside.
In only a few minutes our sundae arrived.
The new Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique was spotted and we walked over to take a look. Also the stairs next to it led to a parking garage. That is all new to me as well.
As we walked along Claire started complaining about why we weren’t going to the parks. I told her this was a cruise trip and these extra early days were just bonuses and I just couldn’t afford to do it all. She was upset because no one asked her what she wanted to do and she would rather go to the parks than cruise. Wow…I had no clue. I thought she was excited to be cruising with her cousins and family.
I am going to chalk some of this complaining up to preteen hormones as she has been becoming more and more moody lately. And of course anything I do is dumb or so not cool.
Finally after some backtracking we found the way to the bus, only to figure out if we had just went a little further than we were before we would have been right at the stop and closer to where we needed to go. The way it is set up is that you have to walk all the way to one end to get to each of the rows for the different resorts. My legs were already screaming….yeah, I am really out of shape. We got on the bus once it arrived and headed back to CSR.
When we arrived we headed back to the room and Claire led the way. We got back much faster but I didn’t really follow how she did it.
As we stepped in our room I saw our all of our luggage there. Hmmm….Mom never called and told me. She had been sleeping but woke up when we walked in and I asked if the luggage had just gotten there. Nope they came right after we left. Ugh, Why didn’t you call…..Oh I forgot. LOL!
So all this time I was kind of annoyed that our luggage hadn’t arrived and it had been there the whole time! I was even discussing it with some people on the bus too. Mom said that the luggage actually had been sitting to be delivered for a long time but no one did and the guy who brought it was some sort of supervisor or something and wasn’t sure why it had been left sitting there. He apologized Mom said….I think we should have gotten free fastpasses or something. Hahaha.
Oh well, we have our stuff and honestly, most everything I needed was in my carryon anyways.
We got ready for bed and Claire and I lay down and holy cow!!! I about slid out of the bed. It had a MAJOR slant to it and my side of the mattress was literally broken. I scooted to the middle a bit more and held on for dear life. As the night went on there were several times where I rolled and hit that slanted/broken area and caught myself before tumbling to the floor. Yeah, that is not going to work for 2 more nights. I will need to get that taken care of in the morning.
Crazy day for you! Glad you got the luggage and too bad your mom forgot to relay its' arrival to you! Nice photos from DS and I love how it is now after the development! I've actually only been to Ghiardelli once and enjoyed it with a hot fudge sundae. I've usually been too full to go there after a meal and won;t go beforehand.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
DS does seem confusing now but I'm hoping that when we start visiting it more often, we'll get the lay of the land. How frustrating the whole luggage story was but so glad that it all arrived!!! Your mattress sounds like a nightmare. Hope you were able to get a new room or a new mattress for the next couple nights.
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Too bad you couldn't get a good view on the fireworks, but probably too far away as you said! 
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Glad you got the luggage and too bad your mom forgot to relay its' arrival to you! 
Nice photos from DS and I love how it is now after the development!
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