Walt Disney World Resort 

Fort Wilderness Campground

As this facility is centrally located with transportation by boat or bus to each of the theme parks we did not move our motorhome for the week we stayed at Walt Disney World. Jim even took the bus to the camp grocery store when we needed milk. This campground lived up to its top 10 rating.

 

          Magic Kingdom         

 

Having been to this park previously we picked our favorites for this return trip including memories from the 1964 New York City World’s Fair at the Carousel of Progress.

     Busy Main Street                                                               Jungle cruise

     Pirates of the Caribbean                                                       Swiss Family Robinson

    
Outdoor dining                                                              Bear Jamboree

We concluded our day at Monster’s Inc Comedy. Did find a quiet spot on Tom Sawyer Island to relax for lunch. No log flume or runaway train ride for us on this visit.

     From Tom Sawyer Island                                                           Crossing floating barrel bridge

   River cruise                                                            Monster comedy

 

Epcot

Our favorite attraction at Epcot was Soarin’ Around the World while free-flying from a hang glider over some of the world’s landscapes and man-made wonders such as The Great Wall of China and the Matterhorn. We were glad we scheduled two days for Epcot so that we could visit this attraction for a second ride.

     Busy Epcot                                                        Sea Base aquarium

    
Space Ship Earth                                                             Testing your senses

     Travel around the world                                                   Memories of China trip

     Pixar magic                                                                  Uphill falls

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Animal Kingdom

With the prediction for heavy rain and colder weather for Sunday we changed our planned visit to the Animal Kingdom for the day before. As might be expected the Festival of the Lion King was a very colorful Africa theme action show. Just as action packed was the Pixar film It’s Tough to be a Bug with several creepy-crawly moments in the dark.

   

   
The Tree of Life

     Going up Everest                                                   Going down Everest

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“Magic Band”

We made good use of our “Magic Band” which easily gave us access to each theme park, our selected FastPass attractions and charging purchases. It was easy to reprogram the band on our Disney APP any time we might change our choice of attractions. We also used our Disney APP to check attraction wait times and to order ahead for dinner. Welcome to the iPhone age.

 

Disney Springs

With numerous shops and restaurants, everything Disney is for sale here – apparel, souvenirs and of course ear hats which seemed to be the most popular item.

     Big Tinker Toys                                                         Lego Dragon

 

We now travel to the west coast of Florida through an area of numerous lakes, state parks, motorhome resorts and of course alligator warnings.

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