May 15, 2011
It has been a while since I have been able to update the blog. We were at St. Andre
ws State park, FL through May 5, then an overnight stay at O'Leno State Park, then 6 days and 7 nights at Fort Wilderness at Walt Disney World, which we were sorry to leave behind yesterday (May 14). It is a very cool campground with a very "Disney" feel throughout. Well finished trails, signs, shops, restaurants and great pool with a spiral shaped water slide.
Our campsite was at the "
Settlement" end, so we were walking distance to the boat dock to Magic Kingdom, and the Settlement store, Trails End restaurant and Hoop Dee Doo review, which we did the first night. Unfortunately a spotlight on Kyle about 3/4 the way through freaked him out and he was bound and determined to leave before we could finish watching the show or eat dessert. The show is similar to (but not as good as) the Calif. Disneyland Billy hill and the Hillbillies show, which is free.
We had a 6-day park pass, so we did Hollywood studios and epcot once each and Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom each twice. Animal Kingdom is extremely well done. Beautiful setting, well designed and really make you feel in the boonies. Some great new rides too including a Himalayan roller coaster, a dinosaur ride (like Indiana Jones at DL) and a safari bus ride. Also a water ride in which we all got totally wet. Kyle typically doesn't abide by shows and movies but we all really enjoyed a Lion King presentation at animal Kingdom. It is a singing, acrobatic, music, huge puppets thing. Really well done.
We had some great food too. We ate a really nice dinner at the Wilderness Lodge which looks just like Yellowstone Lodge, we ate at the Biergarden in Germany/Epcot, and had a country buffet meal on our last night at the Trails end in the campground.
My humble opinion is that the LA Disneyland is better than Magic Kingdom at Disney World. the Calif version has the matterhorn, Indiana Jones, and a better Pirates. Although being able to go there from the campground by boat was very easy, as is the bus system to all the parks and resorts at disneyworld.
Alas - but yesterday we left and stopped at Kennedy Space Center en route to our current campground Anastasia State Park in historic St. Augustine FL. We took a go=uided bus tour at KSC and we able to get as close as possible (1-1/2 miles) to the shuttle which is schedule to launch tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow we need to take the RV into the local ford dealer to have them check an intermittant missing problem we've had recently. I replaced the fuel filter and have been using fuel injector clean in the gas but that didn't fix it. more ter ...
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