travels, races, and other musings

Disembarkation, Mini Golf, Disney Springs We had arranged the night before to come to first seating breakfast. Did we want to? No, but we had transfers we had to catch earlier than second seating breakfast would allow. I don't know how other people handle it. Maybe they also try to make a similar deal? Go to Cabana's? Our usual table wasn't going to be occupied so it wasn't an issue to show up for first seating.  We had breakfast and said goodbye to Jay and the team and disembarked. Re-entry was super easy and we didn't even have to get out our passports. They have some new facial recognition system. It made things go really quickly. We found our bus and thankfully, everyone was pretty much on time for the transfer with some folks sliding in right at the last second. It was an uneventful ride back to Orlando and we arrived at our resort (Riviera) at around 10:30 and then we...didn't have anything to do. So we hung out in the lobby, did a little shopping and went...

Travel and Disney Springs For our 25th anniversary, we knew we wanted to take a Disney cruise. (I mean, it seems like we pretty much always want to take a Disney cruise.) We've cruised multiple times over the years to celebrate our anniversary and we wanted to check out Disney's new private island area, Lookout Cay. We decided to make it a big trip and tack on a couple of days at Disney World at the end.  We were originally going to fly in the day before the cruise, which was our actual anniversary (January 9) and have a nice dinner before embarking the next morning, but the weather forecast was looking concerning with a chance of icy weather. So we changed our flights, booked an extra night at our hotel and left a day early. It was a little hectic getting out that day, but we made it and arrived late in the evening in Orlando on Wednesday night. We took a Lyft to the Polynesian and found our room, got ourselves sorted out and went to bed.  The next morning we were able to sle...