Unleash The Villains turned out so poorly that I actual wrote a letter of complaint to DisneyWorld’s Guest Relations department. This is the essence of that letter, edited slightly to increase bloginess.
So we’re finally ready for the whole reason that we made the trip down to DisneyWorld in the first place: Villains Night, which now seems to have become “Unleash The Villains”. The crowd levels at Magic Kingdom and EPCOT thus far had been very low, so we were extremely excited as we rode the boat from Beach Club to Hollywood Studios. There was almost no line at the entrance and the park didn’t seem very busy as we entered around 4:30.
We rolled out of bed with cranky overtiredness abounding and weighed our breakfast options. We decided to walk around the lake to the Boardwalk Bakery, which has been redesigned and expanded since we were there last in December 2011. One bagel, one cinnamon bun, and one sticky bun, plus chocolate milk and coke completed our breakfast-of-champions order, and we ate our breakfast while we walked into the back entrance of EPCOT through the International Gateway.
Our day began early on Thursday, departing the house at 6am while Leah was still sleeping. We made good time to the airport and checked our bags for our first flight on Southwest out of Grand Rapids. Our plane was about half-full, so we had no problem securing seats together and the SWA staff onboard were friendly and helpful.
Well, almost four months since we were last at DisneyWorld – nearly an immeasurable amount of time, I know. And we’ve only been there twice so far in 2013, so it seemed like September was a good time to go again.
Three years ago, my entire extended family on my Mom’s side gathered over Labor Day weekend in a single house to celebrate the 70th wedding anniversary of my grandparents, along with my grandfather’s 93rd birthday. More than 30 gathered once again 18 months later at the same house, and now this event has happened a third time. Each time, we’ve rented the phenomenal Rock of Ages house in Marblehead, Ohio, which is on Lake Erie and has plenty of room for all of us across 7,000 square feet.
