3-night cruise on the Disney Wish - Day 1 Intro/Travel to Orlando

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Intro/Travel to Orlando

We went on another cruise. (You may have noticed that we like cruising.) We had originally booked Disney's newest ship, the Disney Wish, for the third sailing, which was to be in June of 2022. But then the ship was delayed, our sailing was cancelled and we rebooked on the Dream instead. At first I was really bummed, but then they gave us 50% off any cruise we wanted to be used by the end of 2023, so we've booked France, Iceland, and Norway for July 2023. But we still wanted to try the Wish so we rebooked for January thinking it might be nice to get away from cold, cedar allergies, and whatever else. 

Whatever else turned out to be kind of a lot. I lost my mom in September, then my step-mom in October (and this is after losing my dad the previous year) and then I was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of days after Christmas. So a little getaway before my surgery and treatment was definitely in order. 

Thankfully, our flight on Thursday late morning was uneventful and we arrived into Orlando early in the afternoon and then took an Uber to Animal Kingdom Lodge. As we were driving through the gate, I got the text that our room was ready and we went right up to our savannah view room. We settled in a bit and then just relaxed and watched the animals outside the window. Emmaline and I went shopping in the gift shop and she bought a new pin for her collection. 

For dinner, we walked from our room at Kidani over to Jambo House and enjoyed a meal at Boma. We all thought it was very good, but a little expensive. We went back to our room and watched an episode of Bad Batch on Disney+ (Chrome Cast since the rooms don't have Disney+ which seems awfully silly to me). We went to bed early since we had an early morning bus to the port in the morning. 

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