This trip we stayed at Disney's Wilderness Lodge which is in the Magic Kingdom area. Transport to Magic Kingdom is either by ferry boat or by bus. We chose boat each time! After two days in the parks, we slept in on Tuesday morning and then hit the hotel pool for dozens of rides down the water slide!
We could see the geyser and Bay Lake from our hotel room balcony!
This waterfall originates in a "hot springs" in the lobby. Will found a dime and decided to toss in into the lobby fountain before we left.
Of course no room is complete without Mickey theming. Like the other "deluxe" hotels, the Disney theming in the rooms is present, but very reserved. We had the Mickey towels and the red pillow had Thumper from Bambi.
Ironically, the coolest day of our trip was our planned pool day! Will warmed up after swimming before getting lunch from Roaring Forks. I ate first while the guys were swimming and learned my lesson that the birds like sandwiches, too!
For dinner we went to Animal Kingdom Lodge to dine at Sanaa. We spent some time before and after dinner watching the animals on the savannah. The animals that live on the hotel grounds are different than the ones at Animal Kingdom Park. Sanaa was mostly Indian cuisine: chicken and bison curries for me; lamb for Jason; and cheese pizza on Naan for Will. We all enjoyed it! The dessert was awesome! I got the sampler that included a chai pudding and a chocolate cake. Will's dessert was the coolest though: "Milk and Cookies." The milk was strawberry lassi (after we already had mango lassi for dinner!) and the cookie was a design your own sugar cookie with orange frosting, M&Ms, and jelly beans!
