>Around the World

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If you are in Epcot, you can participate in the Disney’s Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure. This interactive game based on the Disney Channel series Kim Possible. The game in Epcot has you following clues around the park, to help you be a secret agent and solve your mission. It is a pretty neat game, and you get to spend some quality family time as you do it.

There is another game you can play as an adult in Epcot, It is usually played during the Epcot International Wine and Food Festival, but can be played anytime you are in Epcot. I have tried it once a few years ago during a visit during the festival. I wouldn’t attempt it today, as it is a young-man’s game. This game is called Drinking Around the World. The object is to have a drink from every country as you walk around the World Showcase. Now this seems like an easy thing to do, but you must remember that there are eleven countries represented in the world Showcase and the walk is only 1.3 miles. (that’s a short distance for many drinks). During the International Food and Wine Festival this past year, there were twenty-one extra booths serving food and drinks from other countries that do not have pavilions in Epcot. With this in mind, there are many great places to get a drink in Epcot. In the past, I have mentioned the Rose and Crown Pub, which is one of my favorite places for a

pint in all of Disney World. But there are some other great places “Around the World” where you can enjoy a beverage and many of them don’t offer a bar or a place to sit. These are the Unknown Magics that are the Drink Stands of the World Showcase

Around the Mexico Pavilion, for example, there is a margarita stand that is wonderful for a cool drink on a hot day. They offer Strawberry Margaritas, Lime Margaritas and a Midnight Blue Margarita, as well as Dos Equis Lager. These frozen margaritas are mighty yummy on a warm day and they are a little strong also.

If Margaritas aren’t your style, you can continue walking around the World Showcase and you will come to Norway. At the Beer Cart here, you can get a Carlsberg Beer or assorted wines. Carlsberg is a pretty good beer, a pilsner that is smooth going down. As you continue on your way, you will come to the Joy of Tea Stand. This is a funny name for this stand as it may make you think that you will have your choice of different Chinese teas. However, this stand not only sells the Chinese beer Tsingtao, but you will also find Canto Loopy (a mixed drink made with vodka and cantaloupe juice) the Mango Gingerita, and plum wine.

Continuing on our way around the world, you come to the African outpost area. Here they have the Cool Post Refreshment stand. This is one of the only places in Disney where you can get a Land Shark Lager (brewed by the Margaritaville Brewing Company). You can also get a Safari Amber which is brewed just for Disney by Anheuser-Busch.

Of course most people think that Germany is the land of beer, here in Epcot it is no different. In the Sommerfest there are a plethora of German wines and beers available. But out at the stand in Germany, they not only sell beer and wines, but they also sell shots of Jagermeister and schnapps. I have had a Becks from the stand in Germany, which is quicker than waiting in line inside Sommerfest.

So far we have been able to stop at five different stands while walking around the World Showcase and we haven’t even made it half way around. We still have Italy, Morocco, and Japan to visit along with The United states, France, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Each of the drink kiosks in near these pavilions offers beer and wine choices, but they all offer something special that relates to each country. For example, in Italy they offer Limón cello, a lemon liqueur form Italy. You may remember Danny DeVito drinking too many of these before an episode of The View. In Japan they serve SAKE, which is a nasty strong alcoholic drink made from rice. In Morocco, they offer frozen mixed drinks and Casablanca Beer, which is imported from Morocco. In France, you can get Champagne and two different slushies; the Grand Mariner Orange Slush and the Grey Goose Citron Lemonade Slush.

At the United States drink Kiosk, you can get Sam Adams and Bud Light which is kind of disappointing, but I look at as I always drink in the United States, so I usually look for a drink at another country’s pavilion anyway.  For example, in the United Kingdom, the drink stand is actually the Yorkshire County Fish Shop, which sells fish and chips as well as pints of Guinness, Harp, and Bass. In Canada they offer Moosehead, Labatt and Molson. They also offer a thing called a Torontopolitan which is made with orange juice, Chambord, cranberry juice and vodka. You can also get a Mojito at the Canada Kiosk.

Now if you were actually Drinking Around the World, I would think you would be having trouble seeing or at least walking at this point. As I said, I tried doing this once and gave up when I got to Morocco. I had started in Germany. I now do the vacation long Drinking Around the World Game. Every time we go to Epcot during our vacation I have a drink or two in a different country, instead of one in every country in one trip around.  It is more enjoyable for me and with a fifteen year old, plus it is a much more responsible thing to do.

So, now you know if you want to try different drinks from different countries; you can enjoy as many as you want as you circle the World Showcase. To do this, I recommend visiting the drink carts form each of the countries in Epcot, but I also recommend doing it in more than one trip around the pavilions. Enjoy Drinking Around the World, but please be safe doing it.

>A Step Back in Time

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Many years ago, I went to a bar at the Jersey Shore with some friends. It was different than any bar I had been to up to that time. There was a downstairs area that had a main bar and an area for a band and it was your average bar. But, there was an upstairs that made this bar different. There was a complete room upstairs that had sofas and overstuffed chairs and end tables and coffee tables. It was if you were in a huge living room that overlooked the downstairs bar. It was really a great place to enjoy an evening with friends, have a few drinks and listen to some live music. What made this such a great place to be was that it was so comfortable.

In Walt Disney World, there are a few places to get an adult beverage that are like this. One of them is in my favorite resort, the Boardwalk. Now, this lounge is actually inside the resort. It is down the hall from the main lobby and is called the Belle Vue Room. The Belle Vue Room is a small living room

area (kind of like the room I described above), with overstuffed chairs and a few sofas, a large coffee table and some end tables. The Walls are lined with book shelves. The shelves hold books and board games for your reading and family enjoyment. There is also a large old time radio. And over in the back corner of the room, there is a bar. The bar has maybe three or four stools at it, as most people that come to this lounge, sit on the sofas and chairs. Disney’s Website calls it a “1930s sitting room.”

The bar is a full service bar, they offer a few different beers and have mixed drinks, I actually had a few gin and tonics the last time we were there instead of my normal drink (beer). The bartender the evening we were there was a very pleasant gentleman that we enjoyed talking with. We actually stopped into the Belle Vue Room, because we had dinner reservations in Epcot and as we were getting ready to leave the resort, a thunder shower started. We figured we’d have a drink and wait for the storm to blow over. After we sat down the bartender got us our drinks and we got to talking about our plans for the evening. He agreed that the storm would be gone in 45 minutes. At the 45 minutes mark he refilled our glasses and asked what time our reservations

were for. As we told him about an hour and fifteen minutes from that time, he said we should be ok, it couldn’t last much longer. 45 minutes later again, he asked if we were going to brave the rain (at this point it had been raining very hard for 2 ½ hours) or if we were just going to stay there. We decided to try it and stopped in the gift shop for an umbrella. As we got outside and started walking, the rains stopped and the sky started to clear.

We laughed about the fact that we spent almost three hours sitting in the lounge waiting out a thunder storm and that we could have done something else with our time, but the truth is, we had a great time in the Belle Vue Lounge. We sat and read the newspaper, listened to the radio (they play old time radio serials from the years before television) and played some board games. We laughed and talked and really enjoyed our family time in this wonderful place.

So, for a quiet little bar, with a nice relaxing feel to it; someplace where the family can spend some time and enjoy some refreshments, step back in time and try the Belle Vue Lounge.

*The Belle Vue Lounge is also open at breakfast for some coffee and pastries, which is a nice way to start your day.

>It’s Worth the Walk

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I like beer. I’ve stated that before. I also like bars. I like bars that are on the bay, that you can actually watch the sun go down from a table in the sand. I like corner bars where everybody knows your name. I especially like bars that serve a variety of beer, are small and intimate and have good bartenders. The Crew’s Cup Lounge is such a place.

The Crew’s Cup is located in Disney’s Yacht Club Resort, next to the Yachtsman Steakhouse. It isn’t very large and is usually used as a waiting area for people that are eating at the steakhouse. Besides the bar and the tables, there are sofas and chairs that you can sit at while you wait for your reservation time. We have sat in the Crew’s Cup waiting for a table in the steakhouse, but we have also enjoyed this wonderful little lounge during the afternoon and it is a great place for a drink.

The room itself has a lot of wood throughout. The motif is a sailing one which ties in nicely with the Yacht Club, but it isn’t overly masculine where my wife was uncomfortable. The wood in this instance is very comfortable and make it seem more like a woodsy/cabin type atmosphere. The bar in the Crew’s Cup is not huge, but it is a good size for the size of the room. The one time I sat at the bar, the bartender was
wonderful, and made our visit even that much better. They do have many different choices of beer and since it is a full bar, you can get basically any drink you want.

The menu changes from lunch to dinner, with the dinner menu not only being more expensive, but much more extravagant; not only can you get a Yachtsman Filet Mignon or Braised Beef Ravioli, but you can also get Truffle Mac and Cheese as a side dish. The lunch menu is more your “Bar Food” type of choices, with wings, nachos and spinach dips as well as burgers and other sandwiches. No matter when you eat though, the food is very good.

With this lounge being in Walt Disney World, there are many other places you can go for better food, so why go to the Crew’s Cup? The atmosphere. It is a great little cozy bar. I sat at the bar once for a few hours and enjoyed a really nice afternoon, of relaxing conversation and good drink. We have also eaten here for lunch as a family and we all enjoyed the quietness in the middle of the day (of course when the Yachtsman Steakhouse is open and people are waiting for their tables it isn’t really that quiet). This is one of those Unknown Magics that you need to search out when you are in Disney World. It is a great place to get away from the noise and the crowds of they parks. It is just a short walk from Epcot. You just leave

through The International Gateway Entrance (in between Great Britain and France) and walk past the Beach Club to the Yacht Club Resort. So, next time you are thinking of a drink or a nice quiet place for some lunch, try the Crew’s Cup, it is well worth the walk.

>Something Frozen to Cool You Off?*

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You’ve spent the morning in one of the parks. You have dinner reservations at ‘Ohana or any other one of the wonderful Disney restaurants for dinner, but it isn’t until late in the day. Your family wants to get some souvenirs and do some shopping. So, you head for downtown Disney. While you’re there you get a little warm (there isn’t much shade in Downtown Disney) and with the warmth comes the thirst. A great place to get a drink is at the Unknown Magic that is the Margarita Bar.

Picture by BILL IADONISI

The Margarita Bar is a small stand, located on the dock near Cap’n Jacks, on the East side of Downtown Disney. It is open from noon until eleven at night. There are a quite a few tables, with umbrellas, alongside that overlook the water and face Fulton’s Crab House. They are a very nice place to sit and relax for a few minutes, or many minutes and enjoy your beverages.



Picture by BILL IADONISI

 The menu is not huge; they do not offer food, just drinks and cigars. The Margaritas offered are Strawberry, a Don Julio, (which is made with Don Julio Anejo Tequila and Grand Marnier) their 1800, (made with 1800 Tequila, Cointreu and Grand Marnier) and the Ultimate (made with Sauza Gold Tequila and Grand Marnier). They also offer a Rum Runner, (made with Bacardi Silver) Pina Coladas and beer and wine. For the kids, they offer strawberry, Pina colada and Strawberry Banana Smoothies. They do sell cigars also, which you can smoke out on the deck.



Picture by BILL IADONISI


This little stand and dock area are very nice. It’s an unassuming and peaceful place to sit and enjoy a drink. It reminds me very much of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. How you can sit out on the deck of some of the bars and watch the boats come and go.  And this Unknown Magic is a wonderful place to stop for a drink, so next time you’re in Downtown Disney and need to wet your whistle, stop by the Margarita Bar and enjoy!

* Thank you to Bill Iadonisi for the wonderful pictures of the Margarita Bar.

>Very Cold Drinks

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In two of my posts a while back, I talked about when you should plan on going to Disney World. The one was titled We have to Wait until the Kids are Out of School. In that article I talked about travelling to Florida in the summertime. Of course there are drawbacks to being there in 95 degrees and 95% humidity, but if there is a Thirsty Thursday way to make this time of year bearable, it would be a trip to Aloha Isle.

Aloha Isle is the little refreshment stand across from the entrance to The Swiss Family Robinson’s Tree House. This stand isn’t very big and doesn’t offer a

whole lot of refreshments, but it is the place that you want to visit (you’ll find that many people agree with me, when you get there and see the line) especially when it is hot outside.

The Menu features, Coco-Cola products, some hot drinks (coffee and tea or cocoa) cut pineapple, chocolate or vanilla soft serve ice cream and chips. But

this isn’t what the people wait in the line for; no they wait in the line for the other two items on the menu; the Pineapple Float and the Dole Whip. The Dole Whip is Soft Serve Pineapple ice cream (you can also get a Pineapple Vanilla Swirl Dole Whip). The Pineapple Float is a Pineapple Dole Whip with pineapple juice. These two pineapple concoctions are unbelievable!

Another great drink for a hot day in the Walt Disney Resort is the Frozen Lemonade. This drink can be found at different places throughout the parks. I think we had our first one at the snack stand in Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom, but we also had it in Epcot and Animal Kingdom. The Only problem I have with the Frozen Lemonade is that it disappears way too quickly!

Both the Dole Whip and the Frozen Lemonade are on the Disney Dining Plan as a snack credit, making it easy to get one when you are thirsty on a hot summer’s day, or any other time for that matter. So when you need a cool drink, head for Aloha Isle for a Dole Whip or look for the refreshment stands that sell the Frozen Lemonade and Enjoy!

>A Thirsty Thursday Favorite

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In this week’s  Tips From a TeenagerTuesday, my co-author mentioned that his favorite place to eat in Downtown Disney was the House of Blues. I wrote about the House of Blues, as a restaurant in an article titled In Search of Great Catfish. In that article I wrote about the restaurant and the food, but I didn’t mention the fact that the House of Blues is a good place to get a drink.

The House of Blues is considered a chain restaurant, but it is also a great venue for live entertainment and a very good place to go for a drink and to hang out and relax. Happy Hour (in the Restaurant) starts at three and goes until five, but there is also a late night Happy Hour from 10:30 until Closing. This is also when they have live entertainment in the restaurant on Friday and Saturday nights. During Happy Hours, the Domestic Bottles are $2.50 and Import Bottled Beer is $3.50, as are the House wine and cocktails. During Happy’s they also offer ½ price appetizers. Monday through Sunday, from 5- 10:30 there is live entertainment in the front courtyard, too.

The front courtyard is a great place to have a drink, it is a very comfortable place to sit and enjoy the music and laugh with friends and family. It does get a little loud and crowded when there is a show going on in the main venue. Inside the restaurant is a nice place to enjoy a drink also. You can sit at the bar or at a table and enjoy some good food and some music. If it isn’t a Friday or Saturday night, you still get to listen to some great blues and soul, which is played over the sound system.

The beer selection is pretty standard, Bud, Budlight, Coors, Heineken, Amstel Light, Corona, Corona Light, Miller Light, and Guinness. They do offer Blue Moon, which is Belgian wheat ale. They also serve Yuengling, for those from
the Mid-Atlantic States, Sam Adams for the North Easterners and Stella

Artois, for the beer snobs (of which I consider myself). Stella is a Belgium pilsner lager that is a very nice smooth drinking beer. It goes very well with the Pan Seared Voodoo Shrimp, from the appetizer menu, or the Creole Seafood Jambalaya entrée.

We enjoy the House of Blues very much, for the food. (My favorites are the catfish bites; they come with sweet potato fries and the Blue Cheese Blues Burger). But we also like to stop in and get out of the heat of the day or even stop in later in the evening, and enjoy a drink and some family time. This is one of the Unknown Magics in Walt Disney World that you can enjoy, if you give it a try.

>A Rocket and a Boardwalk View.

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I have mentioned before that I like Disney’s Boardwalk. I enjoy taking a break from the parks and hanging out there. I enjoy staying in the Resort, I think it is perfectly situated to get to anywhere, and I really enjoy the fact that there are so many choices for food and drink. You can eat high end at Cat Cora’s Kouzzina or the Flying Fish Café or you can go quick and easy with Hot dogs or Pizza. For Liquid Refreshments there are plenty of choices also, but hands down one of my favorite places in all of Disney World, and located on the Boardwalk is the Big River Brew Pub.

The Big River Brew Pub is located, between Thimbles and Threads and the Disney Vacation Club Preview Center. It is open Daily from 11:30am until midnight. This Big River Grille Brewing Works as it is officially named is the only one of the four Big River Grilles, to be found outside of Tennessee. It is owned by the Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group, Inc which owns and operates brew pubs in 29 states and two in Taiwan. It is not a really big place to eat or have a beer, but it is never really crowded and there is outdoor seating for when it is.

The food is very good, there is a starter menu which includes dips and nachos, while the main courses offered range from chicken, fish, and meat to pastas and sandwiches. There are many salads, everything from a Greenhouse Salad to a Grilled Salmon Caesar. There are kids’ meals, and “homemade” root beer. Big River is on the Disney Dining Plan.

We have had many of the different menu items at Big River. We try to get there for lunch, usually the first day we are in Disney. The Caesar Salads are good as are the Nachos, and the Blackened Mahi-Mahi Sandwich, but I am partial to the burgers. Their Burgers are fantastic! (I think this is because it is a brew pub, I have found that most brew pubs have great burgers.)

Since Big River is a brew pub, that makes your drink choices a little different. They do offer a full bar for mixed drinks and wines, but they do not offer Bud, Miller Light or Coors, because they don’t offer beers other than their own. Big River Grille Brewing Works is true to its name as they brew their beers on sight. And they are good! I have not found one of their beers that I didn’t like. Some are comparable to mass produced beers. Their Gadzooks Pilsner is a good choice if you like Budweiser, while their Southern Flyer Light Lager is a very nice light beer. My favorite is the Rocket Red, which is a refreshing ale that is reddish in color. They also have a Steamboat Pale Ale, and a Sweet Magnolia American Brown Ale. At different times of the year they offer other seasonal choices, such as a Summer Wheat. They do offer a beer sampler, that costs a few dollars and offers you a 2-3 oz. taste of each of the beers and ales they have on tap at the moment.

One of the best things about Big River is the Boardwalk seating. They have tables outside the restaurant that are on an “enclosed” patio. (They are enclosed by some potted plants.) Sitting here, you are overlooking Crescent Lake and can see the people coming and going to the Beach and Yacht Clubs and Epcot on the Friendship Launches. While sitting at these tables, you can also enjoy the view of the rest of the boardwalk and you can even see the top of Illuminations, the fireworks form Epcot. Relaxing on the boardwalk, enjoy some very fine beer, is one of my favorite things to do when in Walt Disney World. This is why Big River falls into my top five places to get a drink in Disney.

>Taken from Ireland, Plonked Down in Orlando.

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I’m sorry that as I am talking about the different bars and watering holes in Disney that I am not providing a lot of pictures of them, but I realized that I don’t have a lot of pictures of the drinking establishments in Walt Disney World. That is because I don’t feel comfortable taking pictures of bars when there are people sitting at them. I do have pictures of one of the best places to get a drink and a meal in Disney World, though. It is a wonderful place to have a beer, get some food and  in the evening to enjoy some entertainment. This place is Raglan Road. Located in Downtown Disney.

Raglan Road is an authentic Irish Pub that as they say, “that has been Plonked down in Orlando Florida.” There are a few bars throughout the restaurant for when it gets busy, a couple of Televisions, and plenty of tables. There are also areas where the Irish Dancer Performs and the house band plays. It is a rather large Pub, with its own gift shop and outdoor walk up window, as well as an outdoor seating area.

We ate lunch in Raglan Road last summer on a Sunday afternoon, and it was relatively quiet. The food was good. I enjoyed the Fish and Chips. The Menu also features Bangers and Mash, Shepherd’s Pie and other Irish favorites. The Master Chef was Ireland’s Chef of the Year 2009 Award Winner; Kevin Dundon.

Of course this being an Irish Pub, we need to talk about the Drinks. The Beer that is being featured as of this writing is Guinness, Murphy’s Red Creamy Irish Ale, Smithwicks Irish Ale, Harp Irish Lager, Boddingtons’s Ale, Bass Ale, Stella Artios, Kronenbourg 1664, Tucher Hefeweiss, Strongbow Cider and Newcastle Brown Ale. They have many Irish Whiskey selections and Scotch Whiskey selections for your enjoyment. They also have a full complement of mixed drinks and cigars are available.

This is a great Irish Pub, where the house band, Tuskar Rocks, plays and Creel a trio along with Danielle Fitzpatrick, their Irish Dancer, entertains Monday through Saturday nights. It is a Raucous Rocking good time. But, don’t let that scare you off if you are with a family. A few years ago, Raglan Road was

named in the top 50 Diners’ Choice Awards for Best Kid-Friendly Restaurants. The kid’s menu helps with this also, as it features the kid staples, Shrimp and Chips and the Dalkey Duo, which is sausage in a blanket and mustard.

The walk-up window outside the Pub called Cooke’s of Dublin, is their fish and chips to go. If you just need a quick bite and don’t have time to sit and enjoy a few pints with your meal, this is a great alternative to some good food. I personally would make the time to sit and enjoy my fish and chips with a nice pint of Stella Artios or some Boddingtons’s Ale, but that is just me.

This is a wonderfully authentic Irish Pub, and it is a fun place to go and sing and laugh. If you are with a family of younger kids, going during the day or earlier in the evening may provide a nice alternative for you.

For more information check out Raglan Roads website: http://www.raglanroadirishpub.com/orlando.html  and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

>A Refreshment by the Pool

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I don’t drink coffee. I used too, never really enjoyed it, so I stopped drinking it. I drink iced tea, mostly. As I was walking around my classroom yesterday, a young lady in one of my classes made a comment about my travel mug. It was a Disney Resort mug. Actually it was one of the refillable mugs that you used to be able to get at the Boardwalk Resort. They used to have different styles of mugs for each different resort. Now they use the same mug throughout Walt Disney World. I’m sure it is more cost efficient for them this way. The reason I am bringing all this up on this Thirsty Thursday is because today’s refreshment places are places where kids can get their refillable mugs filled and you can still enjoy an adult beverage.

These places are the Pool Bars. All the Disney Resorts main pools all have a Bar located around them. Some of them sell things like chips and pool supplies. Others serve food usually light lunch fare. Most of these bars have a very small area for patrons to actually sit at the bar, so it is cozy. Most of the bars also have a television at them. The nice thing about the pools bars, besides the smallness of them, is that even if you have children, you can have them go in the pool and you are close enough to keep an eye on them. They will know where you are and you can still have a grown-up conversation as they play and swim.

One of my favorite pool bars is the Mardi Grogs at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort. It is a nice bar that you really don’t notice at first, because it is tucked in the corner of the pool area. We enjoyed an afternoon here a few years ago, while our son swam for a few hours. I also like the bars at the Boardwalk Pool and at the Caribbean Beach Resort. The Caribbean Beach’s pool Bar is called the Banana Cabana while the Bar at Luna Park, the pool at the Boardwalk is themed like a Carousel.

The drinks at the bars are mostly the same. If you have your refillable mugs, they are always able to be used at the pool bar, although they have stopped filling them directly, they now fill separate plastic cup and then have you pour it into your mug. The choices for the refills are coke products and usually lemonade. Since it is a bar, they do have some specialty drinks they make and they have the most popular types of alcohols, to make many different types of drinks. Their choice of beers usually isn’t very varied, but there is usually something for every kind of beer drinker.

Every cast member we have ever encountered at one of the pool bars has been pleasant, and friendly. They are also good with the kids when they need a refill. The Pool Bars are a fun place to have a drink whether as a couple or as a family. The kids seem to not only like the fact that they can get a refill, but that they can get their drink, take it to a lounge chair to enjoy it and then jump right back into the pool. And all the while, they can do this why you enjoy your beverage at the bar, while keeping an eye on them.

So, the next time you take a break from the parks and head for the pool remember to take a little cash, and the refillable mugs. That way, you can enjoy an adult beverage and the kids can enjoy their refreshments also.

>Taking a page from the Mouseketeers.

>I have to admit, I never watched the Mickey Mouse Club. I know, as a Disneyholic, you would think I would have. But I think the reason I didn’t is that I am a child of the 70’s. According to Wikipedia, in the 1970’s the show only ran from 1977-1979 on about 130 stations. I don’t remember it playing in my area. The big times of the Mickey Mouse Club were in the 1950’s and again in the 1990’s. This is when we remember the performer’s names (from the 50’s because of the role call and the 90’s because of the talents that they became, or tried to become). But I had a feeling of what the Mickey Mouse Club shows were like, so I looked back to make sure my thoughts were correct. Looking at a great website about the show called, The Original Mickey Mouse Club Show, and information from some wikis, I found I was right in the fact that the original show, which was aired 5 days a week, had a theme for each day.

The reason I am telling you all this is because The Unknown Magic Within Walt Disney World is going to be changing over the next week or so. We have already starting going into the direction of themed days, with our Foto Friday and Saturday Matinee, so we have decided to extend our themes. Starting next week, Sundays will now be called Second Chance Sunday. On Second Chance Sunday, you will be able to read one of our Articles that you may have missed from the distant past. Tomorrow we will start our Magical Attraction Monday, where we focus on one attraction and the Unknown Magic involved in it. We’ll Follow on

Tuesdays with Teenage Trip Tips. My 15 year old son will be collaborating with me by giving me a list of what he likes to do in Walt Disney World. Wednesdays will be our day to share with you great places and ways to recreate and relax on your Disney Vacation that you may not know about. It will be called Hakuna Mawednesday. Thursdays will be known as Thirsty Thursdays. On Thursdays we will talk about different places to get a refreshment, maybe an adult beverage and enjoy some places that are Unknown Magics to many people.

We will continue to share many of the things people miss and be persistent with our philosophy, that to enjoy the Walt Disney World Resort you cannot be a Disney Commando. Because of this new format, we may repeat some of the information we have already shared with you, we will try not to, but I am sure it may happen. Please forgive us if we repeat ourselves, we will do our best to present new information daily. Please come check out the new themed days,

we are hoping to help you to enjoy as many Magical Experiences as possible in Walt Disney World and hope you continue to enjoy the Unknown Magics that we have to share.