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Day 5 at Disney World
Last night at Victoria and Albert’s was amazing. All the food was incredible. I was a little concerned at first that the sizes of the courses weren’t going to be enough to fill me up but by the end I was more than full. Today, the weather finally held out for most of the day. We spent the first half in Epcot riding rides at Future World and going on a Kim Possible Mission. We also took in some of the Flower and Garden Festival sights. Then we hopped over to Disney Studios to finish out our list of things to do. Tomorrow morning is the first day of Star Wars Weekends so I plan on being there extra early. Wish me luck.
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Disney World Days 3 and 4
Weather isn’t cooperating with my picture taking. Here are some pics of day 3 and 4. The flower and garden festival is great to see over in Epcot and the Segway tour is a MUST DO for adults. I took some pictures from the phone and when I get home I’ll try and post those.
Disney World Day 2
Animal Kingdom was fun. Only takes about 6 hours when you don’t have any kids.
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Team Esteve Podcast – Episode #1
Episode 1 – Show Notes
Technical Details
Audacity was the software used to record the podcast
My website is hosted at DreamHost.
I use EverNote for all my show-prep/note taking.
The intro and outro music was provided through the PodShow Podsafe Music Network
Vacation Resources
We use Vickie K. over at Mousefan Travel to book our vacation and make our dining and tour reservations.
I mentioned two books we use to plan and document our vacation
– The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World
– Passporter
Two websites we go to for news, notes, menus and other information
– allears.net
– mouseplanet.com
And what I consider to be the best all-around podcast for WDW information: wdwtoday.com
Tour Information
Segway Tour
Keys to the Kingdom Tour
Other Information
Intro music was by the The Brew
Outro Music was by Big Nasty
80 Days and Counting
Over in my twitter I mentioned (or tweeted as the cool kids are saying this year) that all the reservations were finalized for our upcoming Disney trip. The wife and I will have been married 14 years in the coming months. Last time we were at Walt Disney World (WDW), we decided to celebrate our 15th anniversary by going down to Disney World all by ourselves, staying at the Contemporary resort, and having a great time. Things were going along swimmingly until I heard on a podcast that the mouse was running a special: buy a four night package at a WDW resort and you get 3 nights FREE!. I mean, C’MON! How could you turn down something like that? So we called the best Disney travel agent ever(!), Vickie over at Mouse Fan Travel (ask for her by name and mention that we sent you there) and told her to hook us up a year early. She handles all the details, down to calling the reservation number exactly 90 days from the vacation date at exactly 7am Eastern time to get us Advanced Dining Reservations (ADRs) at all the places where we want to eat.
So now that everything is finalized, let’s run down the basics:
We are staying in the Contemporary Resort (that’s the A-Frame building that has a monorail running through it). We decided to splurge (15th anniversary and all that) and get a room with a view of the Magic Kingdom. We’ll be there for about a week. While there we’ll be eating at the following places (in alphabetical order, so no stalking)
– Biergarten
– Flying Fish Café
– Jiko
– Le Cellier
– Restaurant Marrakesh
– Victoria & Albert’s
I linked the restaruant names with their menus over at allears.net so you can get a flavor (pun intended) of what we’ll be eating. They’re a great resource for all things Disney. The wife is SUPER excited about Victoria & Albert’s (and I am also for the record). How many places at WDW can you say don’t allow children under 10? How many restaurants require dinner jackets? How many restaurants at Disney World tell you to plan for 2 to 2.5 hours of dining?
So those are the basics. As we get closer, I’ll tell you about the tours we have planned and what else we are planning on doing.
Gasucawa,
Jason
