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Journey Home

Journey Home Woke and did the final packing. My scales state we’re right on the limit so let’s hope they’re accurate. We had to be out of the room by 11:00 but we’ve got to hang around until 13:30 when the airport transfer picks us up. I can think of worse places to hang around in than Jambo Lodge. The mini bus came right on time and delivered us at the airport. It was utter chaos but due to Val’s need for assistance we were fast tracked. Having witnessed Disney’s organisational skills this came as a bit of a shock. We cleared security and was taken to the gate. There was already notification that the flight was delayed but it was delayed even further. We eventually took off an hour and a half late. We touched down at Gatwick at 09:00.    We then caught our Oxford Airline bus back to Oxford where Steve met us and took us home. It was a great three weeks and our Golden Wedding was well celebrated albeit two years late. We made many friends some we probably never see again other...
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Second Half of the Final Week

Wednesday 28th Today we had a lazy relaxing day. After breakfast on the balcony we took the bus to Typhoon Lagoon. We put on our swimming gear walked over to the Lazy River,climbed into our “dinghies” and just floated around. We did four circuits before climbing out. The environment isn’t conducive to cameras etc but I’ve looked on YouTube and is some footage that shows just how relaxing this is. Once out we dried in the hot sun then changed and left the park. We had to change buses at Disney Springs so we took advantage of the situation and wandered around buying a few more things. When done we boarded the bus back to the billet. Here we sat and enjoyed the tranquility of our balcony until it was time to go downstairs to the Boom restaurant within the complex. Here we had another lovely meal accompanied by a glass of champagne each compliments of Disney because the waitress noticed the badges we were wearing. We left the restaurant and returned to the balcony to watch the sun go down....
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Back on dry land

Saturday 23 April We climbed out of bed at 06:00, this was a struggle as we’d forgotten there were two six o’clocks in a day. The bulk of our luggage had already been collected so with just our hand luggage each went for breakfast. After we’d eaten we disembarked the ship collected our luggage and cleared customs and immigration. We then climbed aboard a Disney Cruise line bus that took us to the next stage of our holiday at Animal Kingdom Lodge. It’s a magnificent place and you really feel you are in Africa. We checked in and we’re allowed to go directly to our room. Talk about wow factor, it is absolutely stunning with a balcony upon which you can sit and overlook the “savanna” we were mesmerised just watching the zebras, giraffes and various species of antelope wander around. We hadn’t booked a meal so we bought some sandwiches and just sat and watched. Sunday 24th April  We awoke to the beautiful view and had breakfast on the balcony. We then took the courtesy bus to EPCOT and ...
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Cruise  Thursday 21st April  I’m sorry you got a repeat of the first part of the cruise in the second part of the blog but we’re having a such a great time so editing issues aren’t at the front of my mind. After we left the Virgin Islands we sailed into the sunset and when it was dark we had a magnificent firework display at sea. The next day was a day at sea and it was such lovely calm day so we decided to have go on the AquaDuck ride.    It is simply sitting on a dinghy and then you go around the ship in a tube propelled by the water. Apparently there is YouTube footage to illustrate what I mean. It was great fun Val thoroughly enjoyed it. The most interesting part for us was getting in and out of the dinghy. I’m sure it provided some good entertainment to the onlookers. Who cares we are on holiday. Being at sea it was a relaxing day but really hit us in that this beautiful highlight of our holiday is coming to an end and with a run ashore tomorrow we knew we we ne...
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Phase Two The Cruise

Disney Cruise  Saturday 16th April We were up early for our luggage was being collected so as to be transferred to the ship, as we were ready when the bus boy came to collect our luggage we blagged a lift with him. We arrived at reception and was happy to see a member of Disney cruise staff present. We approached her and was so pleased to hear her say to us “you’re good to go.” We had time for breakfast then the coach came to transfer us to Port Canaveral. We arrived at the docks and saw the ship it looked absolutely massive. We debussed and had to take a Covid test which was fortunately negative so we we allowed to board. As we reached to top of the gang plank our name was called out and we were greeted with applause from Mickey, Minnie    and some of the crew. Our first job was to locate our muster station and log our visit in on the app. We then had lunch then we were allowed to go to our cabin. We located it and when we entered we discovered lovely gifts from our fami...
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Phase two Start of the cruise

Phase Two Disney Cruise  Saturday 16th April We were up early for our luggage was being collected so as to be transferred to the ship, as we were ready when the bus boy came to collect our luggage we blagged a lift with him. We arrived at reception and was happy to see a member of Disney cruise staff present. We approached her and was so pleased to hear her say to us “you’re good to go.” We had time for breakfast then the coach came to transfer us to Port Canaveral. We arrived at the docks and saw the ship it looked absolutely massive. We debussed and had to take a Covid test which was fortunately negative so we we allowed to board. As we reached to top of the gang plank our name was called out and we were greeted with applause from Mickey, Minnie    and some of the crew. Our first job was to locate our muster station and log our visit in on the app. We then had lunch then we were allowed to go to our cabin. We located it and when we entered we discovered lovely gifts fro...
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Caribbean Beach Resort

 Blog 11th -15th April Put it down to jet lag but I noticed the last blog was dated 11/4/22 which was actually the date it was posted but it actually refers to what happened on the 10th. Here goes w it’s the remainder of our stay at the Caribbean Beach resort. Monday 11th Today we ventured to the Magic Kingdom using the shuttle bus from the resort. Once in the resort we had lunch and walked round to Adventureland and had go on Big Thunder Mountain from there we went to Splash Mountain both quite adventurous for us. The latter ride caused us to get a little wet but the heat of the day soon dried us off. s we came off this ride so a parade passed through which we stood, watched and photographed. We were advised to go on the the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train as it is sedate. Who were they kidding! After the ride we went to the Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner. We left the restaurant with a view to retuning to the billet but as we walked  we back we came across the Chrystal Glass sto...
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