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After our Christmas cruise was done, we headed back up to Orlando and Hollywood Studios. We noticed it was a bit cool when we got off the ship in Miami. Once we arrived in Orlando, we realized it was a lot colder than we had anticipated. A cold front had moved in between the time we had left on the ship and when we returned. Unfortunately, having come from the Caribbean, we weren’t prepared (or dressed for) cool weather. We didn’t want to let it interfere with our visit to Hollywood Studios, but it definitely helped convince us to spend a shorter amount of time there. We used our three FastPasses that I had setup for the afternoon. We also spent some time in the Star Wars Launch Bay, mainly trying to stay warm. When we headed to Star Tours to use our fast passes, Nancy headed over to the Baseline Tap House, which is in the old Writer’s Stop location, and got a flight of beers and cider.
Our main goal when visiting Animal Kingdom this trip was to ride Flights of Passage at least once. We couldn’t get any FastPasses for it, so we made sure to rope drop Animal Kingdom twice on this trip. We got to ride it on both days. We made sure to pick days that didn’t have Extra Magic Hours in the morning, and we arrived at the park about an hour before opening. On both days, we got into the park about 45 minutes early and everyone headed towards Pandora.
I had the great privilege and honor to be invited back on my favorite podcast, Rope Drop Radio, to discuss our Spring Break Cruise and trip to Walt Disney World.
We planned to spend eight days at the Disney parks before leaving for Miami for our cruise. Because of the time of year, we expected it to be really busy in all the parks. We planned to get in a few rides in the morning by arriving for rope drop, use our FastPasses, then spend a good amount of time enjoying the atmosphere.
Time passed quickly as we waited for our travel day to arrive. The travel itself was actually pretty anti-climatic. The outbound flight for our trip left from Dulles airport. We had arranged for a cab to pick us up at 6:00 am and drop us at Dulles. We dropped our bags off and headed to the TSA Precheck line. We had packed our carry on bags fairly full, mainly because we were sneaking Christmas presents on for our girls. Of course, our carry on bags got pulled aside for additional screening. Luckily, the girls cleared without issue and we shooed them away while TSA looked through the bag. Nancy was able to tell the agent about the gifts and he discreetly searched the bag without revealing to the girls what the presents were. After we reassembled the bags, we were on our way to the gate.
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