Coronado & Birthday Beginnings!
Day 3: September 24th
When we last left you, we had stayed up way too late making tutus after a full day of Animal Kingdom and feasting at Liberty Tree Tavern.
Today we are celebrating Kaela’s birthday!!! YES MY BDAY!! Mine was first because it was September 24 and my real birthday is April 24 so it worked out quite pleasantly that way (✿◠‿◠)
To fill you in quickly if you didn’t read our pre-trip report, we were celebrating our birthdays on this September trip, even though our birthdays are in April & May. On our first trip together we were lucky enough to ACTUALLY celebrate our birthdays so we wanted to carry on the tradition. For the purposes of this trip, “birthday” really means the day of the trip where each of us got to choose the majority of the plans, especially meals and which parks to play in.
We woke up later than we meant to and got ready for our check in at Coronado Springs!!! Can u blame us for waking up late though lmao, we were up til way late glittering my apartment!
We packed up all our important things from Kaela’s apartment and rolled out to CSR.
Duffy was a very good co-driver.
Somehow I didn’t take any pictures of the CSR lobby when we were checking in and it looks like no one else did either lol. I guess we were too excited or something? We left all our luggage in the car so its not like our hands were all full. It’s a mystery. Actually, I left my camera on my carryon suitcase, so I didn’t have it on me when we checked in. In hindsight, this was a wrong choice.
We didn’t wait very long to get to the front desk and we checked in. She looked at our preferences and told us we could have a room right NOW in Ranchos or wait for a different room closer to what we asked for. Well none of us wanted to stay in Ranchos and since we didn’t need to be in our room right away, we chose to wait for a room in Cabanas.
My notes at this part literally say “Our room was not ready so we paid off balance and were given the choice of ranchos or waiting....we chose waiting lol” - lmao we did not want Ranchos! I knew from my exploration pre-trip that it was just too far away from everything even though it was beautiful, and we would prefer something else.
She put us in Cabanas 8B which we ended up being very happy with! We went and parked the car near where our room would be when it was ready and went over to the bus stop to go to Epcot.
We got more pictures of the bus stop than we did anything else during this first visit to CSR lol. Probably because according to our notes, we had to wait 30 minutes for the Epcot bus, since we JUST missed one as we were walking to the stop. This would be the beginning of the trend of unlucky bus trips for us.
Still happy.
ok but seriously where is the bus?
please???
10:39am @xo_kaela: we've been waiting for an Epcot bus for 35 minutes......I feel like an angry tourist right now…
to be honest I think one of the only things we complained about/had bad feelings towards on this trip were the buses. we seriously had SUCH bad luck with them pretty much every day, it was horrible. I have never had to wait as often or as long as we did for buses and it was just pretty sucky lmao. so that was kind of a bummer way to start the day but we weren’t going to let it get to us!!!
Ok so we ended up at Epcot extremely late in the game and it was a NOT RECOMMENDED park today, and boy it was easy to see why. Crowds everywhere, lines for everything, no FP+ left. We snapped many pictures w the photopass photographer out front.
I had never gotten to use the frame before, I still love this pic so much :3
this pic is my facebook & twitter profile pic now :3
Chris was working FP in one of the Breezeways so we went to visit him and see if he could work any FP magic. He could not.
We did get this cute picture of them, though ^_^
11:24am @xo_kaela: thanks to this helpful cast member whom I have never seen or met before for getting us our epcot fastpasses today! #notreallymybirthday
We said goodbye to Chris and it was not yet time for our Spaceship Earth fp so we got some Fountain View Starbucks!
If you’ve heard us talk about Starbucks, we’re all big fans of Disney Starbucks, it’s what Walt would’ve wanted, etc, etc. So it was a mission to go into Starbucks, and take pictures.
I selfie’d with Duffy while we waited for our orders.
Kaela & I both enjoy our Double Chocolatey fraps while Ana enjoys who KNOWS what. Iced macchiatto with like 1000 extra shots???
Omg, sis! Venti Iced Hazelnut Macchiato, non fat with an extra shot of espresso.
I don’t like coffee I don’t know what these things mean. But look at our trendy starbucks/fountain photo haha
We ALL tweeted about out our Starbucks adventure so you could tell we were enjoying it too much haha
11:30am @wreckitsarah: Good morning from Epcot �� @ Fountain View Starbucks at Epcot
11:31am @xo_kaela: The girl spelled my name right on the Starbucks cup and the dude STILL called it out as "Kara"
11:40am @snowweisz_: I just had a Fountain View Starbucks hazelnut macchiato with 4 shots of espresso. I am ready to tour all day now #zipadeedisney
I remember this Starbucks trip being so hilarious to me though because Ana was seriously DRAGGING before we had coffee lmao like falling asleep at the FP kiosk, but then after she had this she perked right up! It was true Disney magic.
We drank our drinks and decided to head into the Mexico side of World Showcase to make our way to Maelstrom. On the way, we met our new friend Duffy!! You might have already noticed that we brought along Kaela’s Duff to help us celebrate her birthday 
We were going to have a LOT of fun with him on this day and meeting himself was the first stop!
birthday girl & Duffy.
11:42am @xo_kaela: stop Duffy you're going to make Chris jealous!
signing for his fans
basically best friends now
Duffy was OVERJOYED that we had brought him out to travel. We mentioned that he’s a traveling bear so ofc he would be perfect for an Epcot day! Also, have you guys hugged Duffy? Omg he is sooooo fluffy and adorable! If you read our PTR, you know there’s some history there where we used to not like Duffy very much, but that was an embarrassing time. We love him now, rightfully.
I am so happy we came around and love Duffy now. He’s just too cute not to love. Also I’d like it to be known that I have since acquired my very own Shellie May, aka Duffy’s girlfriend, from Japan, and omg she is SO CUTE! why is it so fun to pose stuffed bears as if they are human? We just don’t know
It was one of those great food situations where like, youre SO FULL youll explode if you eat another bite but its SO GOOD that youre willing to risk exploding in order to keep eating
But still 
