Under construction

Construction on the long-awaited museum addition started this week. They've blocked off street parking for their trucks that are hauling away dirt so it takes me a bit longer to find a parking space. So fun to watch them work and I'm excited to see the finished project.

The outdoor stairwell has been moved so this second-floor door by my office is blocked off.

This is the note on the chair. Good reminder.

We had a staff meeting to pick tile for a single stripe in each of the two new restrooms. These were samples of the colors we previously chose. Good to see them in person vs. on a computer screen. I liked the lighter blue, called Lake, just above the yellow tiles in this picture. The red would tie into the fire house theming. The orange would be a nod to the high school's colors. I don't want to say what we decided on ... and it may change ... you'll have to wait and see.

The first-floor side exit is blocked too because on the other side is the hole they're digging and it's deeper than our existing foundation. Don't want to fall into that.

From this angle you can't tell anything is going on.

Uh oh. See that big pipe? That was an unexpected discovery and shut work down on Friday.

More spring flowers

While we were away our tulips decided to bloom. This is one of two tulip plants we have.

As did this bush by the back porch.

Just a few weeks ago I cut back our clematis to about one foot. I tore out the remaining wooden trellis and replaced it with a metal one. The recent warm weather has helped it grow. I've been trying to weave the plant through the trellis.

I checked the 30-day weather forecast and decided to take all of my plants outside. They didn't winter well in the basement and they look dead but sometimes they miraculously come back. We shall see.

When I left for work I noticed a tulip bloomimg in the parkway and another one ready to bloom.

This is in the parkway by our garage apron. We can't remember what we planted there, but it's growing. Suppose we'll be surprised.

Random Disney

I took this picture at the Fort Wilderness Campground. We thought it was a hummingbird but it was a hummingbird moth. There were quite a few buzzing around.

This is Lakeshore Lodge, a huge DVC resort currently under construction by Fort Wilderness.

This was a restroom at Wilderness. I do like how Disney embraces a theme and runs with it - the lanterns as lights, floor tile that looks like a quilt, the rope design on the backsplash tile and the wood around the mirror.

Speaking of theming - this was the pillow in our room at Boardwalk. See the Mickey?

And this was the curtain in our bedroom.

We do like the beer garden in Epcot's British area. Such great people-watching.

This shows how full the seats were at the Rick Springfield concert and this was before everyone was seated.

L gave Andy his belated birthday present - a Disney Vacation Club quarter-zip shirt.

An Easter tree at the Orlando United Club.

Disney trip ends

We had a lazy Tuesday morning, packing up, checking out and driving to L's apartment to drop off our leftover water bottles and some perishables.

I took a picture of the delivery just like the Amazon drivers do.

We had a few hours to kill before heading to the airport so we went to Magic Kingdom and rode Tron. (Check out the nice Peter Millar shirt Andy found when L took us to Cast Connections).

We were walking to Tiana's Bayou when we got stopped by a parade. It had so many characters.

Mulan, one of my favorites.

We had a pretty lucky morning. We got in the third closest parking spacee to the tram at Magic Kingdom, the security line to get into the park was fast-moving and we ended up on the first seat of Tiana's Bayou. We thought our luck would hold out and we'd get uograded to first class on the flight home, but that didn't happen. Here we are after being soaked on the water ride.

Though we didn't end up in first class, we were able to move up to the first row after first class - lots of leg room and just two seats in the row. It was an emergency exit. We were telling the very chatty flight attendant how we almost got upgraded and she gave us blankets because we would have had them in first class (and the plane was chilly).

Disney Monday

We thought today was going to be a relaxing day but L wabted us to come see her at the Fort Wilderness Campground so we could tour the new cabins. She has a chip on her ahoilder. Get it? This is one of her favorite resorts to work at, probably because she gets to wear Chip and Dale.

We had never seen the campgeound before so it was neat to look around. Too rustic for me, but very quiet. Very spread out, too. Everyone rents golf carts to get around.

We get there and the person who was going to give us the tour was at lunch so she sent us to the barn to look at the horses. This Clydesdale was named Skylar.

This pretty horse is named Prince. He's a Percheron. Cute how the horses have nametags that look just like all the other cast members.

These horses are pampered.

Then we went to the quick service restaurant for lunch.

And finally got our tour.

Not sure I like how the bunk beds are in the master bedroom.

After talking to the salesman, he gave us two cookies.

It took is awhile to figure out how to leave the campground but we eventually figured it out and headed to Epcot.

Rick Springfield was performing three shows. He performed Sunday night and L and W walked past but didn't know who he was. Kids.

I think he played six songs and I knew five. The audience, if you can believe it, was largely older than us. The place was packed.

He looks ok for 76 and he joked about his youthful audience. Crazy though that some people stood in line for hours to get in.

For dinner - just the two of us - we went off property to V's Pizza that we found online. It was wood-burned pizza, thin and good enough.

Disney Sunday

L was working at Boardwalk Sunday so our first order of business was to see her in action.

Then we went to Magic Kingdom. The weather was perfect but it was crowded.

Somehow, though, the wait time for Peter Pan was 35 minutes so we did that. We haven't been on that ride in years because the wait time is usually too long.

We spent a few hours at the Boardwalk pool while Andy listened to the Masters tournament on his phone.

Later that afternoon we went to Epcot with L and W but went our selaarte ways in the park. Andy and I rode Soaring, Nemo and Living with the Land.

We met up for dinner at Garden Grill. It's served family style.

And it's a character meal so we got to see Mickey ...

Pluto ....

Chip ...

and Dale. W didn't realize the restaurant had characters, but he willingly played along.

Here's Chip banging his head against the wall because we didn't know how to tell him apart from Dale. Apparently, Chip has a dark nose like a chocolate chip. Who knew? L did and she apologized to Chip on our behalf.