Here are my journal entries from the past week while I was
in The Happiest Place on Earth. If
you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, You probably know (or have pieced
together) the basics of my trip. I left home Saturday, February 7th.
From where I live in South Carolina, it was a 6 ½ hour drive to get to Orlando,
Florida. During the ride, I read I am
Malala, ate a couple bagels, and drank SO MUCH WATER. Like you have no idea
how much water I drank.. It was a lot. We stopped off in Savannah, Georgia for
a bathroom break and a quick trip to Walmart to get some cheese, turkey, and
more water haha. The rest of the ride was just straight on. My dad drove the
entire way. As soon as we left Georgia and moved into Florida… My excitement
grew and grew. I could barely contain myself! If you follow me on Twitter….. I
was constantly checking the GPS like every 30 seconds to see the time go down,
and then I would tweet it.
I know, I know, I’m weird.. and basically a 4 year
old but whatever. Who cares? Anyways, back to how insanely excited I was.. I
was pretty much shaking in my seat. My foot was bouncing up and down and I just
was excited from head to toe.
The Beach Club is a resort on property at The Walt Disney
World. It is an Epcot resort, and is within walking distance of both Epcot and
Hollywood Studios.
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| Here's a little peek of the downstairs lobby |
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| Here's a bit of what the Beach Club looks like |
The Swan and Dolphin hotels, The Boardwalk, and The Yacht
Club are next to it along the boardwalk that connects them all. There are a few
bars, a lake, boats, surrey bikes, ice cream parlors, clubs… Things like that
located near it. The Beach Club is hands down, the best. When we drove past the
“Welcome to Walt Disney World” sign.. I screamed (then quickly took a pictureof it and tweeted of course). And so did my brother. And my sister just laughed
at us and screamed later. As we continued on driving into the gate to Beach
Club, I screamed again. Annnnnd I’m pretty sure that the car behind us judged
me pretty hard hahaha but again, Who Cares? So the guy was very nice and welcomed us home because that’s just
what they do at Beach Club. Bell services helped us load everything out of the
car and onto those fancy little gold carts and back into storage. While waiting
on our room on the second floor to be ready, we walked on over to Epcot and
went to the Moroccan pavilion for some lamb, cous cous, and salad. SO GOOD. I’m
a huge fan of the tiling and mosaics they have around this pavilion and the
fountain outside of it is beautiful.
After eating dinner, we headed back to the
resort, and caught a bus to Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom was having Extra Magic
Hours until 2 am that night for resort guests, and my mom and I were feeling up
for it sooo… that’s what we did. BUT BEFORE THAT….. My sister’s birthday is
February the 8
th, and one of her long time dreams (I guess you could
say) was to celebrate her birthday at the Magic Kingdom.
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| Here's my adorable little sister meeting Cinderella the day after her birthday |
Well, she got her
wish. We went to the Emporium (only after counting down the hours and riding
Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Small World, and the People Mover of course) and
the cast members helped us count down the last 10 minutes of her being 8 and
turning into a new 9 year old. It was so sweet of them to help us out, and my
sister absolutely loved it. After midnight, my dad rode with my brother and
sister on the bus back to the resort while my mom and I stayed a bit longer for
some extra magic. I rode Space Mountain for the first time, and can I just say?
I loved it. SO MUCH FUN. We also rode Big Thunder, and a few other things that
I am totally not going to remember because of how tired I was. All I remember
was having oh-so-much fun.
We got back to the resort at around 2:30 – 2:45 am.
I slept until like 8:30 am later that morning.
{Be sure to check in later for my Travel Journal day 2. Also, sorry everything is so weirdly written. I like to journal and write about my days.. so this is just y'all peeking into my life! Hope it's even remotely interesting hahaha}
