Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! And now for the day I was most looking forward to – Epcot and the Flower & Garden Festival! Today was another sleep-in day – sort of. Once again I was up...
Continue readingReview: Yachtsman Steakhouse, April 2023
Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Today I’ll be reviewing our post-race dinner at Yachtsman Steakhouse. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! True story: I made an Advanced Dining Reservation at Yachtsman Steakhouse for the bread basket. I have heard so many rave reviews...
Continue readingThe Fairest Trip Report Of All: 4/16/23
Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! When we last left off, I had just finished the Springtime Surprise/Toy Story 10 Miler. Normally that would be the end of that story. But this time, for the first time in...
Continue readingRace Recap! 2023 Springtime Surprise: Toy Story 10 Miler
Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! Did I get tons of sleep the night before the Toy Story 10 Miler? No, I did not. But I did not get no sleep, so already this race had one up...
Continue readingThe Fairest Trip Report Of All: 4/15/23
Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! I shall begin this recap of my vacation day in the Most Magical Place on Earth with a complaint, because of course I will. 🤪 Even if you carefully lay out a...
Continue readingThe Fairest Trip Report Of All: 4/14/23
Hooray for trip reports! This trip report covers my April 2023 trip for the runDisney Springtime Surprise Weekend. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! Hello and welcome back to my favorite kind of post: the trip report! It’s my favorite because a) I get to go to a theme park, usually Walt Disney World; b) I...
Continue readingI’m Heading Home (By Which I Mean WDW)
Q. How many trips to WDW in a year are too many? A. … What? I am, as always, very ready to go home. My Springtime Surprise race registration was a total impulse buy, but then what is it the kids say? Is it carpe diem? Is it YOLO? Could it be yo, carpe diem? Have they moved on...
Continue readingOn Memory, The Magic Kingdom & The Ice Cream Kid
Happy last day of WDW50! Personally I found the protracted, alleged 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World (okay, the Magic Kingdom really) was celebrated… barely at all, really. So I’m not that broken up about it. But it does get me to thinking… I am not a parent. I never worked as a babysitter and have held a baby...
Continue readingDisney, With Gratitude
Today we’re going to pivot a little: I want to talk about the gratitude I have surrounding my Disney parks experiences. I’m not gonna lie to you guys – it’s about to get a little sappy up in here. 😅 Don’t get me wrong – there is still plenty to complain about when it comes to Disney, especially in...
Continue readingThoughts While Watching Walt Disney World: A Dream Come True (1986)
Hello and welcome back to my Thoughts While Watching series, where we unearth (mostly vintage) Disney media and react to it in real time! I accidentally saved the perfect video for this installment. We’re coming up on the end of Disney’s WDW50 “celebration,” and having now watched it, I can say that Walt Disney World: A Dream Come True...
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