ThreeBoyMama
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2014
Day Two-Sunday, September 17, 2017 (Part One)
The next morning I was up early and decided to hit the AKL gym for a run. This became a habit for me on this trip. For the past several months I had been training for a 10K and also going through some personal things that, combined, resulted in me losing about 30 pounds. I really, REALLY did not want to gain any of the weight back on this trip and as a result I did not indulge as much with my WDW food choices as I might have otherwise (though you will notice I didn’t hold back on the drink calories). I ran at least 5 miles every morning, in addition to all the walking we did. Most days I ended up with over 30,000 steps! I ultimately managed not to gain weight during the trip, while still eating and drinking mostly what I wanted, which is some serious Disney magic right there.
ANYWAY, I finished my run and grabbed Sean some breakfast at The Mara—a chocolate croissant, chocolate milk, and some grapes. No pictures of any of that but I think we all know what croissants and grapes look like. We were checking out of AKL this morning and heading over to the Beach Club for the next seven nights—we were SO excited! We absolutely fell in love with the Beach Club the previous October and couldn’t wait to stay there again. As we drove up to the Beach Club that morning our favorite song was playing on the radio and we both said “this is the best trip ever!”
As planned, we checked in, dropped our bags at the Beach Club bell desk (after taking a giant sniff of that wonderful vacation-y lobby smell we love so much) and then walked over to Epcot to really get our trip started!
We used our FastPass+ for Spaceship Earth and then made our way back to World Showcase to hit up our first Food & Wine Festival booths. Sean got some of the Chicken Pot Stickers from the China booth:
He loved these the year before and loved them again this time as well. It was once again super hot, which obviously meant I needed a Shoffferhoffffer:
While I was enjoying the delicious grapefruitiness that is that beer, Sean decided to get a Kaki Gori from the stand in Japan. He got half melon and half blue raspberry:
This was an excellent decision. It was so hot out and this was so yummy, I totally “helped” him eat it. He looks less than thrilled in this picture but probably because it was a million billion degrees that day. From there we backtracked to Norway to finally ride Frozen Ever After with our second FastPass+ of the day. On the way I grabbed an Ace Pineapple Hard Cider from the Refreshment Cool Post because why the heck not (see also that it was a million billion degrees out):
FEA was cute but geez, I can’t believe people were waiting in 80 minute stand by lines to ride it. From there we walked back over to Future World, used our 2:00 p.m. FastPass+ for Nemo, and then killed some time chatting with a CM about the manatees. Sean was getting crabby on me but we still hadn’t received the text that our room was ready. Thankfully I got it as we were hanging out in the aquarium, so we headed out. On the way we picked up our Halloween popcorn bucket at the stand outside of The Land. Sean opted for cheese popcorn. Another excellent decision on his part. I don't seem to have a pic of the bucket for some reason...photo fail.
We made the trek back to the Beach Club and were in our room by 4:00 p.m. Once again we had Disney magic sprinkled on us and scored an AWESOME third floor room overlooking the back entrance to the Beach Club that leads to the walkway to the Boardwalk and Epcot. We had a huge corner balcony and a water view—seeing as how I had only paid for a standard room I was totally thrilled. It was approximately 1.7 miles from the elevator but we didn’t even care, it was such a great room:
We were dying to get in the pool and spent the next hour and a half enjoying Stormalong Bay, the beautiful weather, and just finally being in our happy place. I am not sure that I will ever stay anywhere other than the Beach Club again. Just a couple pics of us soaking up the Beach Club awesomeness. I promise there is more food in the next post!
The next morning I was up early and decided to hit the AKL gym for a run. This became a habit for me on this trip. For the past several months I had been training for a 10K and also going through some personal things that, combined, resulted in me losing about 30 pounds. I really, REALLY did not want to gain any of the weight back on this trip and as a result I did not indulge as much with my WDW food choices as I might have otherwise (though you will notice I didn’t hold back on the drink calories). I ran at least 5 miles every morning, in addition to all the walking we did. Most days I ended up with over 30,000 steps! I ultimately managed not to gain weight during the trip, while still eating and drinking mostly what I wanted, which is some serious Disney magic right there.
ANYWAY, I finished my run and grabbed Sean some breakfast at The Mara—a chocolate croissant, chocolate milk, and some grapes. No pictures of any of that but I think we all know what croissants and grapes look like. We were checking out of AKL this morning and heading over to the Beach Club for the next seven nights—we were SO excited! We absolutely fell in love with the Beach Club the previous October and couldn’t wait to stay there again. As we drove up to the Beach Club that morning our favorite song was playing on the radio and we both said “this is the best trip ever!”
As planned, we checked in, dropped our bags at the Beach Club bell desk (after taking a giant sniff of that wonderful vacation-y lobby smell we love so much) and then walked over to Epcot to really get our trip started!
We used our FastPass+ for Spaceship Earth and then made our way back to World Showcase to hit up our first Food & Wine Festival booths. Sean got some of the Chicken Pot Stickers from the China booth:
He loved these the year before and loved them again this time as well. It was once again super hot, which obviously meant I needed a Shoffferhoffffer:
While I was enjoying the delicious grapefruitiness that is that beer, Sean decided to get a Kaki Gori from the stand in Japan. He got half melon and half blue raspberry:
This was an excellent decision. It was so hot out and this was so yummy, I totally “helped” him eat it. He looks less than thrilled in this picture but probably because it was a million billion degrees that day. From there we backtracked to Norway to finally ride Frozen Ever After with our second FastPass+ of the day. On the way I grabbed an Ace Pineapple Hard Cider from the Refreshment Cool Post because why the heck not (see also that it was a million billion degrees out):
FEA was cute but geez, I can’t believe people were waiting in 80 minute stand by lines to ride it. From there we walked back over to Future World, used our 2:00 p.m. FastPass+ for Nemo, and then killed some time chatting with a CM about the manatees. Sean was getting crabby on me but we still hadn’t received the text that our room was ready. Thankfully I got it as we were hanging out in the aquarium, so we headed out. On the way we picked up our Halloween popcorn bucket at the stand outside of The Land. Sean opted for cheese popcorn. Another excellent decision on his part. I don't seem to have a pic of the bucket for some reason...photo fail.
We made the trek back to the Beach Club and were in our room by 4:00 p.m. Once again we had Disney magic sprinkled on us and scored an AWESOME third floor room overlooking the back entrance to the Beach Club that leads to the walkway to the Boardwalk and Epcot. We had a huge corner balcony and a water view—seeing as how I had only paid for a standard room I was totally thrilled. It was approximately 1.7 miles from the elevator but we didn’t even care, it was such a great room:
We were dying to get in the pool and spent the next hour and a half enjoying Stormalong Bay, the beautiful weather, and just finally being in our happy place. I am not sure that I will ever stay anywhere other than the Beach Club again. Just a couple pics of us soaking up the Beach Club awesomeness. I promise there is more food in the next post!