WDW trip recap and how I'm going to do 3 races in 3 days

Pictures from the trip can be found at Dave's Flickr page - here and here.

The facts:

We arrived at MCO around 5:00. As soon as we hit the ground, I turned my phone back on and there was an SMS my friend Len saying he and some others were already in Epcot. We picked up our bags and got our car from Avis and headed to the Boardwalk Villas, our home away from home for the next 5 days. One cool thing about our rental car was that it was equipped with an EPass so we could drive through the toll booths between the airport and Disney World. We got to the Boardwalk and valeted the car (free to DVC members!) and checked in. The CM behind the counter told us our room was ready (and I'm thinking, "it better be, it's after 6:00"), checked us in, and we headed off to the room.

Our room was a "standard view" studio on the Villas side of the BW. We got off the elevator, checked the signs and started walking toward the room. We walked and walked. We walked so far that I was beginning to think the room was in MGM (sorry, I mean Disney's Hollywood Studios). Seriously, it must have been half a mile from the elevators. But we finally got there, and the room was nice. The view was of the Swan and the quiet pool. It was clean and everything seemed to be in good working order. Because the room was on the timeshare side of the resort it had a kitchenette with microwave, mini-refrigerator, full sized coffee maker (yes!), and various kitchen-type accessories. My only surprise was that while it had ceramic coffee mugs and real glasses, it only had paper plates and bowls and plastic cutlery.

We unpacked a bit, freshened up a little, and headed to Epcot to sample some Food and Wine, meet Len, and watch Illuminations.