Wilderness Lodge & Magic Kingdom

This year's trip to Disney World was a quick one - only three nights - but full of fun new experiences.   We stayed one night at Wilderness Lodge in a two-bedroom villa (after some itinerary rearranging due to my misread of the summer baseball calendar and a limited supply of available studio and one-bedroom villas on short notice).   Wilderness Lodge is opening a new "Copper Creek" section on Monday, so the pools and public spaces had many updates since our last stay here in 2013.   We especially enjoyed the new bar and grill area overlooking the water.

  

 

After settling in and grabbing lunch, we took the boat launch over to Magic Kingdom for our FastPass rides.  We were expecting the oppressive heat, but seriously it was no joke.  We stayed for about three hours and then took a pool break until dusk.  Before and after there were thunderstorms.  The weather was seriously crazy.  We remembered to pack our Disney Park water sprayer/misting fan and got a lot of use out of it trying to keep ourselves from melting.

 

 

 

 

 

We arrived in time for the new fireworks show: Happily Ever After.  It has a lot of castle projections, unlike its predecessor, Wishes.  We had a great view, and I absolutely loved it!   We also snuck in a ride on Splash Mountain, souvenir shopping (stuffed Pluto for William and Christmas ornaments for me) before the Kiss Goodnight and heading back to Wilderness Lodge for bed.