Disney World for Free!

23-27 January 2023

I took a red eye but didn’t sleep as much as I would have liked. Child. My shuttle bus was delayed but they gave me a gift card in apology 😊
Breakfast at friar tucks
You can use your magic band to activate each of the 50th anniversary statues. They play some audio when you do. And your band lights up and vibrates.
I collected them all week at the 4 different parks and earned the achievements in the Play app
I Lava You float from Sunshine Tree Terrace beautiful and tasty
Country Bear Jamboree
I took a short video to show people who haven’t seen the show what those weird animal heads hidden in the Winnie the Pooh ride are
Free play on the shooting gallery!
Rode their steamboat. It was pretty different!
Had lunch at the Diamond Horseshoe. No entertainment in theirs and it’s a sit-down reservation place
Impossible meatloaf and Mac and cheese
Apple cake and Ooey Gooey toffee cake. I really just came for the desserts 🙂
Came back to the hotel for a rest. Port Orleans Riverside…beautiful!
Splash closed for good a week before I came 🙁
Dinner at Columbia harbour house was delicious clam chowder, salmon, and a blueberry shake
Fireworks show…awesome as usual
First time they did projections on the Main Street buildings. We do it all the time!
We would never have done pyro with flats flyin like this!
For the 50th anniversary, each icon gets lit up every night in this cool way
Pressed penny silk pie and mint julep frozen lemonade from Casey’s corner
Wednesday started at Hollywood Studios. I got a walk-in for the Sci Fi Drive-inn
Pretty cool premise

The desserts are beautiful and tasty
Midday break at the pool…ahh
Ate at Boatwright’s at my hotel. Amazing cornbread!
Mmm blackened salmon
Peach cobbler with blackberry ice cream. Dang!
Pretty much exactly the same as ours inside. Our queue is more fun 😊
Only got to ride this once. And that only because I begged a guest relations CM. Didn’t ever get to fantasmic 🙁
Went back to magic kingdom. Was almost on Pooh when it went 101. Lame.
Waited for mine train in the pouring rain only to have it go down when I was on it waiting for it to take off. They did give me a lightning lane for the next day but I had to go to city hall for it.
I love rainy days at the park!
My hotel room has a fun fold down bunk!
Thursday EPCOT! I did the duck tales challenges in each land. Found this in a fortune cookie at the China pavilion
Unlocked these at the Germany pavilion
This one in Mexico D
These 2 in England
Bought Steve some of the awesome peanuts we loved in Germany
Guardians: Cosmic Rewind is the coolest roller coaster I have ever been on!
Ate at the Coral Reef restaurant for lunch. So cool!
Arts festival made for some incredible treats!
And a fun community mural painting project! They gave you a little container of paint and you found that number and painted some squares in
That’s what it should look like at the end!

Harmonious is breath-taking!
They did the coolest thing shooting off fireworks from the sides toward the middle!
Early morning on Friday as I checked out of the hotel and left my bags
First stop at Animal Kingdom: Avatar flight of passage. What an incredible ride!
The forest they created is stunning
Crazy dessert at the avatar cafe
Had lunch at Tusker House where I met characters
and had amazing African food 😊
The safari was fun!
Saw lots of animals and none of them in cages 💚 I still don’t like them in captivity though. Makes me very sad.
Festival of the Lion king…cool show. Not at all what I was expecting.

Beelined from there to the bus, back to the hotel to catch the shuttle to the airport. Fun trip! I’m totally going to do it again soon. 😊