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Hollywood Studios and Port Orleans French Quarter: Disney Day 3

August 4, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Abe and August walking in Toy Story Land

Travel dates: January 2024   We’re back from another summer trip now…another summer trip during which I fully intended to get some blog posts up and then failed to do so. So! Back at it! I’m picking back up with our first actual park day at Disney World, having already recounted our Skyliner day This […]

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A Complicated Disney World Trip for Abe’s 11th Birthday: The Plan

May 18, 2024 by kokotg Leave a Comment

Dave, Pluto, Gretchen, and Abe

travel dates: January 2024 Warning: I’m about to spend a lot of time talking in excruciating detail about Disney World. At least it will be excruciating to those who hate and/or have no interest in Disney World. Feel free to skip these posts, which will be interspersed with Newfoundland RVing content! Flashback: In September, August […]

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Traveling Light at Disney: Five Things to Bring

October 20, 2018 by kokotg 2 Comments

I am not the mom who always has bandaids in her bag if someone scrapes a knee. I generally interpret, “pack a lunch” to mean, “toss some Clif bars and string cheese in the car.” The day I was able to stop hauling a diaper bag around with me was one of the happiest of […]

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A Quick Trip to Universal Orlando with our New 11 Year Old

April 15, 2017 by kokotg 2 Comments

This trip happened back in January, but I’ve put off writing about it until now, because I haven’t been sure quite how to approach it. We planned a short trip to Universal Studios in Orlando for Gus’s 11th birthday (you know, because that’s when you go to Hogwarts. If you’re a wizard). We’ve been to […]

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Filed Under: florida, museums and attractions Tagged With: florida, orlando, theme parks, universal studios

Our Disney-without-the-parks New Year’s

February 12, 2017 by kokotg Leave a Comment

travel dates: December 31, 2016-January 2, 2017 Conventional wisdom about Disney vacations says that you should plan a non-park day in the middle of a week’s vacation–hang out at the pool, do some shopping, maybe a bit of resort hopping, have a nice meal out–to help you recuperate from long days of theme park touring. […]

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