Today we were able to join the virtual queue for the soft opening of Disney World’s TRON Lightcycle / Run
It was fun to be digitized and join the world of TRON!
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Today we were able to attend a preview of “Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure” for WDW Annual Passholders at EPCOT.
Today we returned home after staying at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas Kidani Village.
We stayed five nights in room 7548, on the 5th Floor, overlooking the Sunset Savanna.
Daisy spent her vacation over at the Best Friends Pet Care, but I am sure she is happy to be back home.
During our visit to Hollywood Studios, we finally were able to experience “Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance” for the first time.
Tonight we went to a V.I.Passholder Night at Typhoon Lagoon.
Today, for Lizzy’s birthday, the three of us and three of Lizzy’s friends went horseback riding at Disney’s Tri-Circle-D Ranch at Fort Wilderness.
Lizzy rode Cooper, Andrea rode Bart, and Joe got to ride on Vegas (coincidence?)
During the past week (Thu-Wed), we had one of Lizzy’s friends from Las Vegas come to stay with us and visit the Disney parks.
So, this week (Mon-Sat), we found ourselves taking a staycation at Kidani Village in a DVC 2-Bedroom Villa with a view of the Sunset Savanna (room 7666, Pumbaa section). Although the room was cool to stay in, and liked the decor, you will find it to be far from food and other activities.
While we stayed there, Daisy found herself staying at Best Friends Pet Care at Walt Disney World.
During the week we were able to visit all four theme parks, even though Tuesday wound up getting rained out while we were at Hollywood Studios due to the thunderstorms all day.
Today Joe was able to go scuba diving at Epcot Seas Adventures’ DiveQuest.
It takes place in their 5.7-million-gallon saltwater aquarium. During the walking parts of our tour they were also able to see manatees and dolphins in their tanks (from outside their backstage tanks).
Total time for the actual dive was 40 minutes with the temperature of the water at 78 F and visibility of 203 ft – a lot better than it was like while learning to dive at Lake Mead.
The animal species that were in the aquarium were: sand tiger shark, brown/sandbar shark, black-nose shark, southern stingray, cow-nose stingray, bow-mouth guitarfish, guitarfish, loggerhead sea turtle, black-blotch ray, honeycomb Ray, porcupine Ray, leopard ray, cow-tail ray, bonnet head shark, zebra shark, and spotted eagle ray.
One of my favorite to swim with was Kat, a bow-mouth guitarfish – looks like a mix of a shark and a ray.
Our vacation included a two week stay at Saratoga Springs Resort, a Disney Vacation Club property. Lizzy’s Grammy stayed with us for most of our trip.
During our trip, we visited all four parks (Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom) along with the two water parks (Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach).
One of our visits to Animal Kingdom included an evening safari – was a nice drive around, but not a good time for taking pictures of the animals.
While at Typhoon Lagoon, we rented a beachcomber shack for the day. After getting on the bus to return to our resort, we were met with a deluge of rain, which thankfully lightened up mostly when we got to our stop.
The Sunday before we left, we decided to try to visit the horses and ponies over at Fort Wilderness, however a nice thunderstorm decided to change those plans.
Yesterday we got home from our vacation to Florida that included a Disney Cruise, and then a trip over to Walt Disney World for 5 more days. Lizzy loved the rides and shows, not so much the bus rides between each of the parks.