Ft Wilderness with Friends

Although we go to the Disney Campgrounds all the time, our friends the Smiths have never stayed there. Yay! We are so excited to introduce our friends (the S fam and the 6 other fams coming later) to our favorite getaway.

We went up on Thursday. Once we checked in, the kids played in the "yards" and had an absolute blast running back and forth between the Stu cabin and the Smith cabin. Genie and I took to unloading the food and stocking our kitchens while Charles and Shane did something. I'm not really sure what.

Since Genie was going to be cooking for a massive group of peeps on Saturday and we had dinner plans for Friday night, we thought it would be lovely to cook for our friends. Steaks on the grill with baked potatoes and a caesar salad. Yum. Yum. Yum. Oh, and hot dogs for the kids.

Friday was a bit more chaotic than it was planned to be. We had planned to spend the day at Animal Kingdom. But in the morning, on our way to the hop on a bus, Genie and I decided to check on the other cabins for our friends. Several other families were going to be arriving in the next 24 hours and we wanted to make sure that their cabins were going to be on our loop. We had all linked our reservations when we booked, so it should be a no-brainer, right? Wrong. This happens every time. I don't understand why Disney hasn't mastered "linking". I mean, come on, we all want to stay together.

Anyway, we discussed it with the manager. And we had 2 options:
Option 1: stay where we are and our friends will be together at the other end of the loop - NOT next door to us.
Option 2: move into a new loop. Our entire group will be clumped together. Perfect for the kiddos.

The only hesitation is how angry our hubbies will be when they hear that we have to move. Hmmm... Almost on cue, the phone calls and text messages from the hubbies begin. We give them the good news. Shane was less than excited, verbally. Then he hung up. Good times.

So, we packed up. And moved a few loops over.

In the end, it was worth it. And I think even Charles and Shane would agree.

We spent the afternoon playing at the cabins, went to the ride the ponies, played on the playground, and waited for the Tighes to arrive.

The beautiful birthday girl

My goofy Bud

Little G

The kids are fascinated with taking silly pics - you'll see. 

Buddy was excited to ride the horsies - it was his first time.

The playground at the Campgrounds

Passing the time in line for dinner

Ok, I'm publishing this one even though I am not quite finished with it... I will either add photos to this entry later or start a new one altogether. Probably the latter.