Throwback Thursday!

This week in Throwback Thursday we go back just a year to 2012 when we took our big dual Disney trip to Walt Disney World and our Cruise aboard the Disney Dream.  I was thinking to myself this morning that we would be coming home from our cruise tomorrow if this was last year.  Well, it's not last year...and here we are, just a short year later.  Man, how time flies, huh???

We stayed at Disney's Port Orleans Riverside resort.  Not one of my favorite of all I have been able to stay at, but nice none the less.  I really think I prefer the smaller French Quarter.  It suites my needs much  better.

Please enjoy the pictures from that trip found below!!

Our Resort lobby....

Some duck friends on our way to our room

Our room

One of my new favorite drinks on property!
The Moonshine Margarita at Whispering Canyon Cafe in the Wilderness Lodge.

                                              Had to take a stroll around my favorite resort!

Fall decoration on Main Street!

Oh, the BEAUTIFUL Castle!

                                     Me inside the walk-way in Cinderella Castle.  Love these mosaics!

Our day at EPCOT and the Food & Wine Festival!  Loved it!

                                              Living With the Land attraction in Future World

                                           Me and Mary Poppins!

Belle and I!

                                        Our wine seminar!  Really enjoyed it, and made a new friend in the presenter!
                                        We still keep in touch via e-mail!  She wants us to come to Spain!

Outside the Festival Center

                                                    Our Jungle Cruise skipper!  Funny guy!

The back side of water!!

                                     Our VERY favorite attraction at WDW!  Pirates of the Caribbean!

                                            Meeting my pal Amy Petermann for the first time!!

                               Here we are with our friends Joe and Chrissy Diebold, and Amy!

Took these pictures while on the Liberty Belle Riverboat!  Love the perspective from the side!

Lunch at Crystal Palace, and giving a big hug to my favorite, Eeyore!

                                   Piglet!

Tigger!  Let's bounce!

                            Lovable Pooh!

Splash Mountain!

The next group is from Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!  Fun night!

Captain Hook wanted us to join his crew!

Meeting Merida!












the next group of pictures, is our day at Hollywood Studios! 

Got to see a very old friend from my hometown....we had not seen each other since the day we graduated from high school!  Long ago!

Kicked my hubby's butt on Toy Story Midway Mania! 

The Great Movie Ride!

First bite of the day's Mickey's Ice Cream Bar!

                                              Me and Cathy out in front of the Carthay Circle!
                                                   One of our favorite shows on the Marquee!

FANTASMIC!!

An evening with more Disney pals, Nick and Barbie Maglio, at the Yehaa Bob show!

The guys doing the YMCA~

                                      More new Disney friends!  Brent Dodge and Beatrice Feeney!
                                                             Love these people!           

Getting set to sign in for our Wild Africa Trek!

Paul is all geared up, and ready to go!

Do I look ready to rock this thing?  Well, I was!
Loved this experience, and hope to go back on this again some time soon!

                                     Our African food tastings.  I loved it all except the dried meats.

Our second favorite attraction on property!
Expedition Everest!

Lunch was at Flame Tree Barbecue!  Total yummy!

Did not eat at this location, but Restaurant'osaurus is so fun to go look at, inside and out!

Dragon sushi roll at California Grill!  Our favorite place to dine at Walt Disney World!

Waiting for the monorail to take us back to Magic Kingdom so we can catch the bus back to our resort.

Unlocking our "home" door for the last time.

We would be off to our cruise the next day!