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Day 2

We got up early this morning because I had to do a 3 mile run to keep up my training for the Walt Disney World marathon in January. This made me realize how crazy I am The run was good though. We ran around Crescent lake by Pop and Art of Animation. Afterwards, we ate breakfast in the room then headed to Magic Kingdom. We had a lunch reservation at the Diamond Horseshoe. We really enjoyed it! It was alot of food but so good! I want some of that cornbread right now

After lunch we rode Buzz ( as usual Erik won), peoplemover, and Space Mountain. Am I just getting older or is Space Mountain getting rougher? It's still my favourite though. We wandered around some shops and had a citrus swirl before riding small world and the mine train. Then we headed over to the Contemporary for some more shopping and pin trading. We were planning on meeting up with our fellow members at the Top of the World lounge for fireworks but we were pretty tired and the fireworks weren't for another 3 hours. So we headed back to Pop and grabbed a mega slice of pizza and a whoopie pie for supper and called it a night.

Day 3

Got up fairly early today and after breakfast in the room, we headed to Epcot. We checked out the Art of Disney store where I will be dropping a lot of cash when I win the lottery . Then we headed Living with Land before lunch at the Garden Grill. This is our favourite restaurant! We go every trip As usual the food was plentiful and delicious. We aren't fans of fish so we like that they've changed the menu to sausage instead. Dessert was different this time around too. It's now a shortcake instead of cobbler. The shortcake was good but I miss the cobbler The character interaction here is usually really good but today it was pretty lackluster. Maybe because it was busier than it usually is when we go? Whatever the reason, it won't stop us going next time!

After lunch we headed over to Norway for our Frozen Ever After fastpass. I liked it but I wouldn't wait for more than 20 minutes for it. Next we quenched our thirst at Club Cool and headed to our last fastpass which was the character spot. The characters were great here. They all loved Mister and Itty with their Mickey ears on. We caught a set of the British Revolution in the UK pavillion ( love them!). They need to play more Beatles though We wandered around world showcase for a bit. Our plan was to eat at some of the food and wine booths for dinner but we were so stuffed from lunch we only had the pork slider from Hawaii. We also got ice cream in France which is always SO good. We watched the movie in France then headed back to POP. We watched Illuminations from the bridge between POP and Art of Animation. Not the greatest view but hey, no crowds either

Day 4

Slept in today. This was our first probably ever day with no plans I like to plan and Erik is more of a "wing it" type so I was nice and planned a couple "wing it" days We did some laundry and went for a swim ( we rarely ever swim!). We had a pizza for lunch. I love the pizzas at the Value resorts. After lunch we headed over to Epcot where we had dinner at the food and wine booths. This time we ate at Scotland, Belgium, Farm Fresh, Morocco and Australia. We liked everything we tried. We watched three sets of the British Revolution and the Circle of Life movie. Then we watched Illuminations and hopped on Spaceship Earth on the way out. We had hoped that by riding it, the lines at the bus stop would thin out a little by the time we got there. NOPE. It was still massive. We got on the third (packed) bus and there was still a huge line of people waiting. Once back at the resort, we did another 3 mile run. It was nice and quiet since it was midnight Then we had some leftover pizza and went to bed.