Hello, everyone, and welcome to our Year With the Ears of our daily vlog,
where we relive our year living in the Walt Disney World resorts in 2019.
Today is day one.
After sleeping in after a very long New Year's Eve, we slept in and left our
tiny house, checked out of there and went over to old Key West.
Now, this was the first time we had ever stepped foot in old Key West.
We had never been there before, let alone stayed there.
So we were super excited.
So we went and checked in and they had
balloons behind the counter, which I was so excited about.
So of course, had to get one.
It really doesn't take much to excite her, just a balloon sword or a balloon flower.
And she's thrilled. So I like that. It's great. It's a lot of fun.
Now after we checked in, the room wasn't ready yet,
so we went and decided to explore because we had never been there before.
And we ran into Chip and Dale, which was really surprising.
They had this adorable photo opportunity
with the twenty nineteen balloons and Chip and Dale in their New Year's outfits.
It was super cute.
So that was a really a fun way to kind of start off the new year,
start off the day while we're waiting for our own to be ready.
And then shortly after that,
our room was ready and they called us over and we got stuck in the furthest room
from the front at the very end of the last building,
I think it's building 50 over there
in like the cul de sac area, which is really nice because it's
relatively quiet down there, except for the fact that that room was
on the back of the building and we didn't realize that.
And we really didn't really think about it because it was daytime.
Like there's golf carts going by, but like, it's fine, whatever.
But that also backs up to a road.
And that road is rather busy, especially at night with traffic coming
back from Disney Springs, things like that.
After we checked in, we took pictures.
We did not do a room tour because we weren't doing those at the time.
We didn't know that people needed them.
Yeah, we just took some pictures and we're like, OK, this is cool.
And the room tours didn't start
until later, which we'll catch up to that here in just a couple of weeks.
So we went over and drove
to Wilderness Lodge because we had dinner at Artist Point and we both loved it.
It was way more fun than we thought it was going to be for being a character.
Mial Grumpy was super grumpy,
Dopey was really happy and just the cutest thing dancing all over the place.
Snow was dancing everywhere and we
actually had a table right across from the Evil Queen.
So she pretty much glared at us the whole time.
It was kind of creepy.
I tried to eat dinner while the evil queen just sits there staring at you the entire
time and judging you for your table manners.
It was just it was it was a little unsettling, but in a cool way.
Like the food was great.
Love the food there.
And of course, the character interactions were just were just amazing.
She actually scared us a couple of times
because we were talking and I wasn't paying attention.
And she didn't have people taking pictures
with her the whole time because we were right there.
She walked over and just kind of stood there,
I was very much in conversation.
I was totally paying attention because
that's what you're supposed to do when you talk to someone.
So I was not looking around.
And the next thing I know, there's a human being standing right there. Scared me.
He thought it was hilarious. It was the
funniest thing. Like it was it was very similar to when we ate at
Be Our Guest on our honeymoon. Oh my goodness.
And we ate at Be Our Guest on our honeymoon, our room was right next
to the area where Beast does the meet and greet after dinner.
And at one point he had nobody in there waiting to see him.
So he just kind of wandered out
of the room and stood there right next to our table, right next to Alyssa before
she realized she was standing there towering over her after a second.
So very similar with the evil queen.
It was basically bottom line moral of the story.
Alissa doesn't pay any attention to her surroundings when she's eating.
So if you want to sneak up on her, that's the time to do it.
That's really fair.
But we had a wonderful time there.
We really enjoyed the meal, the food, everything.
And then we decided to take the boat over to Magic Kingdom.
And we spent a couple hours there in Magic Kingdom.
When we got on the boat, fireworks were actually going off.
We got there just in time for Happily Ever After.
It was kind of a finale right about
the time we got up to the entrance of Magic Kingdom.
So we've got some amazing pictures of fireworks behind the train station.
And then we decided to spend the next
couple hours just kind of enjoying Magic Kingdom.
The lines were not nearly as bad as New Year's Eve.
They were still long, but not as bad as New Year's Eve.
So we rode a couple of things, walked around and enjoyed seeing
the different things in Magic Kingdom and just kind of being there at Disney World.
It was a really, really great relaxing day
after having a very busy day the day before.
So this was just a really nice day and it was the first day we were in the resorts.
So it was just it was the beginning, right?
It was the beginning of everything.
So we went back to Old Key West, got ready for bed and went to sleep.
Yeah. Didn't didn't sleep.
Like I mentioned, the noise, kind of didn't sleep, that great.
But we did enjoy the studio, we did like the room and we decided
that we were going to go ahead and just keep the next two days of our reservation.
And we probably, when we get up the next
morning, probably should book some more rooms, because at this point,
we still just have this Old Key West room we're staying in.
So we'll have to deal with that tomorrow, I guess.
So we'll see you tomorrow for our Year With The Ears.