Another one week solo trip.

It’s too soon to have any detailed plans, but the gist is to check out Animal Kingdom Lodge for the first time. I also want to go to the new GEO-82 lounge in EPCOT so I’ll need to make a reservation once the 60 day window opens on 11/18/25. One goal I have for this trip is to do as much free stuff as possible - that is, just go around a see things and be in environments and just sit and people watch - and maybe lean more into the fireworks and parades and that side of things.

So far, I have my accommodation and flights booked. The flights are JetBlue (miles - and I used my Mosaic status to get extra legroom so the entire thing was $11) and I’m doing a “split stay”: 4 nights at BLT (Bay Lake Tower), a night at Animal Kingdom Lodge, and then 2 nights at Grand Floridian (aka Grand Flo) in a room with a view of the park so I can watch the fireworks.

I don’t recall ever going to Florida - much less to Disney - in late January (we always went either in summer or at xmas), so it’ll be interesting to see if it’s really 60 - 70 degrees with minimal rain! I might be cold for the first time ever at WDW!

(I have no idea who the woman was who sat next to me on Seven Dwarves Mine Train, but I love that our outfits matched - down to the glasses even - and that she was clearly having A Blast!)