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  • Day 5 Recap: Enjoying some quiet time

    Day 5 Recap: Enjoying some quiet time

    We kicked off Wednesday morning with breakfast at Kona Cafe, a staple for our family trips, at the Caribbean Beach Resort. As has been the case so far on this trip, breakfast was decent but service was weirdly slow to get started.

    I had their signature dish, Tonga Toast, which is basically a ginormous French Toast + Bananas sandwich, with tons of cinnamon and sugar as a coating. As you can imagine, it was delicious but not quite filling in the longterm. Everyone else had a large traditional style breakfast, and was happy with the results.

    We spent the rest of the day relaxing at the hotel. Reading, napping, swimming, going to the gym, etc.

    For dinner that night, we headed over to the BoardWalk Hotel for dinner at Trattoria Al Forno, a well-reviewed Italian restaurant. After many food-related misses this week, we were so pleased to have a long, relaxing dinner here.

    The food, wine, and service were all excellent. We took our time with appetizers, mains, and multiple wines, and had a truly excellent dining experience. We followed it up with baileys and desserts at our hotel, and bed. Vacationing is exhausting!

  • We’re at Walt Disney World all week long!

    We’re at Walt Disney World all week long!

    For all of this week, we’re on vacation at “the happiest place on Earth”, Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

    Who’s “we”? It’s me, Kevin, my brother Tyler, and my parents. It’s mine and Tyler’s first trip in awhile, and Kevin’s first-ever Disney experience, so we’ll be taking many pictures and making many observations. We’ll be blogging everyday to share the highlights of those observations, and of course we’ll be sharing some of the best photos from the day.

    We arrived early this afternoon at Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, where we’ll be staying all week. We treated this as an orientation day. It involved lunch at Olivia’s Restaurant at Old Key West, shopping at Target, considerable naps, dinner at Raglan Road Restaurant, and an evening of exploration at Disney Springs and Disney’s Boardwalk Resort. We packed a lot in, and we’re looking forward to getting into the full swing of things tomorrow.

    Here’s the best of our photos from today:

    Tomorrow morning’s running route 🙂
    The view while walking to Disney Springs from our hotel
    Enjoying the show at Raglan Road Pub – Irish dancing in-house
    More in-house Irish dancing at Raglan Road!
    Trying to channel our inner-Frozen.
    Getting in line to take the bus to the Boardwalk Hotel.
    Me and my Dad in the Boardwalk’s lobby
    An evening at the Boarwalk
    A distant view of Epcot’s daily fireworks show
    Kevin won this little tiger on the Boardwalk!