Your black and white photos of EE are stunning! The details you can see in your photos are so incredible.
Love the flashback photo of Toni. These darn kids grow up way too fast.
Nice Dinosaur pictures too. We love that ride and you captured some great parts of the queue!
Wow! I love the black and white photos. You are giving me great ideas for our trip in November! I can't wait to see more!
You have such a talent! Thank you for sharing your wonderful photos! I especially love the black and whites of Everest. I’m a big fan of “deep cut” Disney art and decor and I can totally see doing a series of those gallery wall style. Really lovely.
Just found your trip report. I am caught up and really appreciate you taking the time to do one. We are going in November, so I have been wondering what it will really be like in there.....We are all sooooo excited and praying that we will be able to go. We live in Southern California, so Disneyland is our home park. We miss it terribly. It is great to see how Florida is handling it from your perspective. Thanks!!!
So cute! We saw different characters on the boat there but not these guys, hope to see them later this month! I know Pocahontas and Meeko are supposed to be on a boat also and I want to see them as well Love all the surprise character spottings!Heading towards Dinoland we spotted these guys enjoying a leisure cruise.
Toni had such a great time she left the park clicking her heels and dancing!
We came back to our room and unpacked our delivery from Garden Grocer which included this Covid Stress relief kit. (Actually, the vodka was from the Markplace in the Contemporary.)
We explored the new lobby for a few minutes. Still like the old one better.
Our incoherent waiter in his hazmat suit did surprisingly agree to take our photo. Perhaps it looked in focus behind the plastic shielding and his thick glasses.
Amazingly, the Uber driver covering Walt Disney World didn't really know how to go from the Poly to the Contemporary - even with GPS.
Not one "ugh" - so much better!
The ride was amazing (again)! -
All that plus a little post editing in Lightroom produced this;
and now that I had the settings all dialed into the camera I tried a few other shots;
I always said that once she became a teenager she would change into the sleepy, nasty and irrational creatures her siblings were; but to her credit she never did.
Heading towards Dinoland we spotted these guys enjoying a leisure cruise.
If only Wally could have seen me on that bridge waving my heart out to Mickey, Minnie and Pluto...
Toni circa May 2009
We were in Dinoland USA for one reason and one reason only.
Sterg saw me taking a picture of the Dino feet which prompted this;
"Dad, they look like your toe nails."
How about selfie time in front of Tree of Life?
The last time I did this trail was in 2011 on another early morning trek with Toni...
This is a wonderful trip report so far! Just echoing what everyone else is saying, your photos are amazing! It’s making me even more excited for our upcoming October trip.
Adding to the parade of praise here. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your trip with us! The photos are stunning, your excitement palpable, and the fun you and your beautiful family had so clear in these posts. We were supposed to be in WDW the very week it closed, and thanks to you, we are getting a taste of 'what could have been' -- though, I doubt Flight of Passage would have had no line!
So cute! We saw different characters on the boat there but not these guys, hope to see them later this month! I know Pocahontas and Meeko are supposed to be on a boat also and I want to see them as well Love all the surprise character spottings!
Adore the picture of Toni when she was little makes me want to look back at all our old trip pictures with our boys!
Love it!
We've improvised and had some fun times this year as well!
What a fantastic trip report and even more amazing photos! I especially love the throw-back shots. One of the things I love most about Disney World are the memories around every corner.
Great trip report and photos! Keep it up!
Great shot! She reminds me of my Allie, always dancing!
My husband loves that Boat Box wine…good to know it's available down there!
Well, now we can look forward to a new, new lobby. I know people are hoping they bring back a waterfall. I like this lobby, but to be fair, I never stayed at The Poly until 2016 and the waterfall was long gone by then.
Very nice. And I like that you got your own little seating area. Every time I've eaten at Kona Cafe, I felt like I'm out in the middle of the room.
Maybe he's in the wrong line of work.
Thank goodness! One positive change!
I love it!
Holy moly…stunning!
Same with my Allie. When all my friends complain about their teenaged girls, I'm over here like
Super cute
Yea, Wally doesn't know what he's missing
So cute. My kids loved that area too
Pretty much the ONLY reason we go to DinoLand too. I really hate the whole area with the black top
Awesome!
So cute. Happy memories are what's fueling me these days