Dis Countdown

110 Days.

Finally have a Disney Countdown again. Lately I'm just not....right....without concrete plans for visiting my Happy Place. But now I have reservations and tickets and all is right in the world.

We'll be taking another long weekend with just the lovely Lisa and I and, as usual, we'll be trying out a few firsts. Well, one is a first for Lisa but just a "been a LONG time" for me. We'll be tent camping at Fort Wilderness. It'll be late January, so it won't be hot and fingers crossed it won't be too cold. The usual weather for that weekend is highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s, so I am pretty confident we'll be comfortable. Our gear is rated for below freezing, so I'm not worried about sleeping at all. In any case, we'll have fun. I'm very excited to introduce Lisa to the camping thing, especially in The Fort.
This will actually be Lisa's second time at Fort Wilderness, but the first was a stay in the Wilderness Cabins with my family as a graduation from college gift from my folks (who, by the way, are THE BEST for doing that).

Another first for us will be attending the Disney After Hours event. We will likely leave here after work Thursday and drive most of the way down, planning to finish our trip and get to WDW around lunch time Friday. The After Hours event allows you entry to the Magic Kingdom at 7 pm with three hours in the park after it closes to the public at 8:00 and our tickets are for Friday night. From everything I've heard this is a pretty incredible time. They only sell a few thousand tickets which leaves the park pretty much empty. The attractions are almost all open and according to a friend who did this last year, they are all walk-ons all night. As an added bonus, popcorn, ice cream snacks and drinks are complimentary all night. I'm looking for forward to seeing this for myself!

We're planning to spend Saturday at Disney Springs enjoying the food and cocktails and shopping and hopefully experiencing the immersive, virtual reality Star Wars experience that is scheduled to open by the end of this year.  Called Secrets of the Empire and created by a company called The Void (who've also created a similar experience themed after the Ghostbusters in New York City) the experience will transport you into a Star Wars universe you can touch and interact with during an original story. It's not like anything I've ever done and I am itching to try it out.

With any luck The Edison will be open in Disney Springs by then along with it's underground component. That underground bar was originally rumored to be a Neverland-themed secret kind of Lost Boys lair thing but now is supposedly going to be modeled after rum running tunnels that presumably fit well into the Disney Springs backstory. We'll see. The whole thing sounds right up our alley, so I'm hoping the Fall 2017 opening projection means it will be ready by late January.