Disney World, Florida

We left River Bend RV Resort on Wed, Jan 20^th, and headed to the Fort Wilderness campground at Disney World. It poured down rain and was cool on Thursday so we waited until Friday morning to go to Magic Kingdom. We walked from our campsite to the boat dock at Fort Wilderness and took a small passenger boat to Magic Kingdom. We finally figured out how to use the Disney FastPass+ system and scheduled times for three of the rides we wanted to go on. It’s free and saved us a lot of waiting in-line time, because the FastPass+ has a separate entrance for each attraction. We spent all day at the park, including watching the evening light parade.

 

We went out for lunch on Saturday and did some grocery shopping. On Sunday morning, we went to Epcot which we hadn’t been to since the early-80s. It had expanded but only a few of the rides and exhibits were the same as what we had remembered. We left at 2PM and headed back to the campground to watch the Broncos-Patriots AFC Championship football game. What an exciting game and we’re thrilled that the Broncos are Super Bowl bound.

 

On Monday we went to Disney’s Hollywood Studios park. We had only visited it once before and it too had greatly expanded with many new attractions as well as some long-time favorites. We enjoyed lunch at the “50s Prime Time Café” which was totally furnished and decorated like a home in the 1950s. Black & white TVs playing shows from the 50s, Formica countertops, ceramic poodles everywhere, and they served fried chicken, pot roast, and meatloaf, and upside down pineapple cake. 

After lunch, Julie talked me into going with her on her favorite ride, “The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror”, a haunted elevator in The Hollywood Tower Hotel. Yes, you wear seatbelts and are strapped in, but dropping about 12 stories in an elevator car, in pitch black darkness is very scary. Then you go up just as fast, stop at the top and drop again.

We also enjoyed a 40-minute extreme stunt show on a back lot. There was a grandstand that held 5,000 people and it was nearly full. The show was very good.

Julie and I went to Disney Springs (formerly Disney Downtown) after leaving Disney’s Hollywood Studios park to look around and have dinner. It has really grown since we were there last. Last Tues, Jan 26^th, we moved to Titusville and Willow Lakes RV Resort where we’re spending nine nights.        

Steve & Julie Cornelius