Travel Day - Milwaukee to Walt Disney World

Wow! That was a whirlwind.  It’s now nearly 14 days after Marathon Weekend and I am just sitting down to write this.  So much as happened since January 1. 

January 2 was travel day, with a 6:40 am flight from Milwaukee to Orlando.  I figured getting up in the early morning to make that flight was good practice for getting up at 2:00 am for each runDisney event.  The flight to Orlando was uneventful, quite pleasant.  We collected our checked-in luggage and picked up our rental car without delay and headed off to Disney’s Boardwalk Resort.

 

We arrived at Boardwalk before noon, way before our room was going to be ready.  We parked and headed straight for Epcot for lunch.  After lunch we toured Epcot and checked out the recently opened World Celebration area behind Spaceship Earth and sat for a photo with Walt at Dreamers Point.  After that we headed to the Beach and Yacht Club resorts to check out their Christmas displays before they disappeared.  Then it was off to the grocery store to stock up on some essentials for our stay.  As we were parking upon return to the Boardwalk, our room became available, and we checked in.

 

Our room was a DVC Villa with a Boardwalk View.  I had always wanted to stay on the Boardwalk and the gentlemen from whom I rented DVC points was kind enough to secure us a Boardwalk View when he made the reservation.  It was cool.  We were on the 4th floor looking out over Crescent Lake with the Beach and Yacht Club across the way.  We could see Spaceship Earth off in the distance with a panoramic view of the Boardwalk.

 

By evening we were pretty wiped out.  The early morning flight and long travel day had taken its toll.  We planned to call it a night early, but soon learned we had a very loud neighbor.  This was first time we’ve had such a problem at a Disney resort.  The housekeeping staff quickly moved us down the hall to a quieter room, but the packing and unpacking pushed us to 10:00 pm by the time we settled down again.  

 

I was feeling very tired and fatigued.  We abandoned our plan to go to Animal Kingdom for early entry at 7:30 am the next morning and settled in to get a good night sleep.

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