Where in WDW? Challenge 64

Last time you were challenged to identify Where in WDW you would find this ...

There were quite a few good guesses for this one, and one or two correct ones. I have to credit my daughter for pointing this out to me ... just to the right of the entrance to The Enchanted Tiki Room. (Sorry, I don't have a wider shot to show here.)

Didn't get it? Well, here is another one for you - Where in WDW? would you see this?

As usual, make your guess in the COMMENTS section below and then stop back next week to see if you were correct.

Where in WDW? Challenge 63

Last time you were challenged to identify Where in WDW you would find this ...

This one had quite a few of you scrambling for an answer. Have a look on the shelf at the right, in this - the final scene in the Carousel of Progress.

Didn't get it? Well, here is another one for you - Where in WDW? would you see this?

As usual, make your guess in the COMMENTS section below and then stop back next week to see if you were correct.

October, 2013 Trip Report - Epilogue

Epilogue

After a day or two back home in NY, I get a call from the company that is supposed to repair my air conditioner at the house in Florida that the part is in and they are ready to install it. Unfortunately, the times that someone needs to be available for them do not work for any of the people I had hoped would be able to let them in to do the work. I had no choice but to make an unexpected trip to Florida, and before I knew it I was landing at the Tampa airport, and heading to my house. (Well, technically there are still some legal matters to deal with before it officially becomes mine, but I still need to take care of this.)

Before I left NY I told my daughter that I would like to drive over and take her and her husband out to dinner the night before I once again fly back to NY. On the way down I tell my daughter to start thinking about where they would like to eat that night. Moments later I get a text that a late opening at Be Our Guest in the Magic Kingdom had come open. (We had been trying unsuccessfully to get dinner reservations ever since it opened about a year ago.) She worries that it will be too late for me (9:10 PM) as I still have to drive 90 minutes back to my house when the evening is over, but I tell her I am fine with that and to make the reservation. I then board my plane (Newark to Chicago Midway) and when I arrive in Chicago, I find a text informing me that she was able to find yet another newly available reservation for 7:40 PM and has switched to the earlier time. It appears that as we approached the time which those with reservations had to cancel or have their credit card charged, cancellations were occurring. In each case the reservation time slot had become available within 2 minutes of my daughter making our reservation, and once the later one was released, it was snapped up right away.

On the day I was to meet them, I had planned on leaving my house early and spending some time at Downtown Disney before driving to my daughter's house where I was to meet them, but as I approached the exit on I-4 that I would get off to go to her house, I realized that if I continued on to Downtown Disney, I would arrive there, have to find a place to park and then only have about a half hour before I had to leave, so I decided to head directly to her house and just hang out until she and/or her husband got home from work. I walked around, had some ice cream and relaxed at the library. When it was time, I headed back to their house and my son-in-law returned first.

Once my daughter got home, we prepared to head to the Magic Kingdom. By the time we parked, took the tram to the monorail and arrived at the park entrance, it was around dusk.

We had some time so we walked leisurely down Main Street, through Tomorrowland and then into New Fantasyland as the sun continued to go down.

When we arrived at The Beast's Castle, it was time to check in. We were told that they were running a bit behind, but less than 10 minutes after our reservation time, we were called and were seated.

We had eaten here for lunch a number of times, but this was the first time for dinner. The food was excellent (I had the lamb chop) and for desert ... I had the grey stuff. (It's delicious! Don't believe me? Ask the dishes!)

When we left the restaurant, Wishes was just starting, so we watched from the bridge leading to/from the Beast's Castle. My daughter and I have watched Wishes from this area before and it is quite a good spot to watch from ...

More photos of tonight's Wishes fireworks can be seen by clicking here.

Once done we headed back towards Main Street.

When we reached Main Street, people were getting ready for the Electrical Parade. I was considering staying, but the crowds leaving the park would be huge (they were even now after the fireworks), and I still had not only to get back to my daughter's car - and then her house, but I had almost a 90 minute drive back home once I left her house. So we continued out of the park.

The next morning I was back in the air, and after a 6 hour layover at Chicago Midway airport (3 hours planned ... 3 hours due to weather), I arrived back home ... ending my October trip(s) to The World.

October, 2013 Trip Report - Wishes

As we exited Be Our Guest, Tinkerbell was making her flight from the top of Cinderella's Castle and Wishes was about to begin. While I did have my camera with me, I didn't have a tripod ... remember, not only had I not planned on photographing fireworks, I had no plan to even be in Disney World this trip, so my tripod was safely back at my house in New York. I quickly made a few adjustments to my camera's settings ... breaking all the rules I use to photograph fireworks ... and hoped for the best.

Generally when you see photos of Wishes, you see Cinderella's Castle in the pictures. While a castle is present in the shots, this time it is The Beast's Castle. Also, while the view here is spectacular, you do have to look in two directions, as some of the fireworks are going off behind you.

While these pictures generally don't show the full blooms of the exploding fireworks, they came out better than I had anticipated. Your decide ...

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October, 2013 Trip Report - Day 6

Day 6

Tonight we fly home, so the order of the day this morning is to pack and leave the room. Most of our packing was done last night, so this morning we head to the makeshift food court as usual for breakfast and then finish the last minute packing back in the room. Once done, we bring our luggage to airline check-in where we hand over our suitcases and receive our boarding passes. Although we have reservations for this evening on Disney's Magical Express, our daughter will be able to drive us to the airport, giving us a bit of extra time.

We hand our carry-ons to the hotel's luggage services and head towards EPCOT, where we will meet our daughter during her lunch break and she will get us in to the park. It feels strange today as we board the bus, since I do not have my camera with me. My day "carry around" case had to be packed into a suitcase, and everything else was in the backpack which gets carried on the plane with me ... and I didn't feel like bringing that heavy thing into the park. However, is anyone ever entirely without a camera today? I had my phone with me so I had a camera if I wanted to take any pictures.

We arrive at the usual spot - where we meet our daughter at the entrance to EPCOT - and she is shortly there as well. Once inside, she heads back to work and we head into Future World. Although the International Food and Wine Festival is still in full swing, we decide that we will stay in Future World today and do the things that we hadn't done all week while we were partaking of all the goodies in World Showcase.

A quick stop at the Magic Band kiosk by the pin station yields FastPass+'s for Soarin' and Spaceship Earth. I chose a 2 attraction set as all of the 3 attraction sets included one time past when we would have to leave the park. Next stop, a coffee at Starbucks. While it is still warm, it is quite comfortable compared to the 90° plus days we have had this entire trip.

My wife decides she wants to see Captain EO - but not ride through the attraction first - so we head there and don't have a long wait as the pre-show starts as we get there. The movie is showing its age - most especially in the 3-D effects. Having gotten used to the 3-D technology of today, the shortcomings of Captain EO are obvious. Also, having seen it when it first made its appearance, it is obvious that the lasers used in the original show had not been replaced for this return engagement.

For lunch we head to The Land and easily find seats at Sunshine Seasons food court. Our FastPass+ for Soarin' is approaching, but we still have some time before our return window is here, so we take a trip on Living With The Land.

Once done, we are about 5 minutes from being able to use our FastPass+ so after a bathroom break, we are ready.

Keeping with today's theme of taking it easy, my wife next wants to see the movie Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable, and following that a 37 minute ride through Ellen's dream at the Universe of Energy.

Our next stop is to look to see the wait time for Test Track. Standby is 80 minutes, but Single Rider shows only a 10 minute wait, so we decide to go that route. We design our cars and in less than the stated 10 minutes are boarding the ride.

It's time for our final FastPass+ of this trip so we head to Spaceship Earth, after which it is time to take the bus back to All Star Sports where we will meet our daughter. But first, before we leave the park, I want to buy a bucket of popcorn in this Halloween Mickey container.

We are met in the lobby of the hotel when our daughter finishes work for the day, and we drive to the airport, ending yet another visit to Walt Disney World. The flight home is on time and we arrive as planned.

The end? Well, it was supposed to be, but hang on ...