Last full day! We got the Magical Express envelope under our door through the night – pickup 4:30 pm the next day. That’s pretty good as we get time to do stuff before we have to leave.
We decided to walk over to Beach Club this morning – grab breakfast from the Marketplace and then eat in the Solarium. We enjoy having a snack in the Solarium – love the atmosphere – we are glad that the little tea event Disney was doing in the Solarium is not occurring anymore as we missed the place.
Then a bus from Beach Club over to Animal Kingdom.
Photo Pass pic of the family heading into Africa at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Straight to Kilimanjaro Safaris – we hadn’t had a day ride yet this trip on it so it was nice to do that. Heather was hoping to see the new baby elephant – we kind of did back over our shoulders but it wasn’t a great picture opportunity.
Heading into Harambe Wildlife Reserve at Animal Kingdom Kilimanjaro Safari ride
back end of a blurry baby elephant at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
After an ice cream we headed out and caught a bus back to Boardwalk.
Then a bit of a rest in the room and then headed on down to the pool and hot tub. The kids did a lot of slide runs and K did some stuff with the entertainment crew.
We had lunch by the pool before heading back up to the room and eventually heading over to Epcot for our last night.
We snacked our way around the park and caught Illuminations (we did Spaceship Earth and once we got off I did our pre-check in for our flights the next day).
Fountains at France pavilion at Epcot World Showcase
T and K from World Showcase with a view of Spaceship Earth at night
There was a section of World Showcase where the lights were out (near Morocco) and we saw lights flicker hard just after we got in the park crossing the bridge to France. There were also several rides down – Frozen Ever After for quite a while, Test Track and Imagination for the whole time. Soarin’ and Spaceship Earth for a shorter time. Apparently Epcot was having some power issues that night!
There were Extra Magic Hours but after doing Nemo I was just done. T wanted to go back to the room as well and relax.
So T and I went back to the hotel and Heather and K stayed in Epcot. They did meet and greets with the Mickey crew, Anna and Elsa and managed to get on Frozen Ever After when they finally opened it again (apparently it was deserted).
Anna and Elsa in Epcot
Deserted Frozen Ever After 1
Deserted Frozen Ever After 2
Selfy of Heather and K with France in the background in Epcot
I got up around 7 and was not able to get back to sleep so I had a snack and did some typing.
Our first magic pass for the day was not set to be until almost 11 so we decided to take it easy in the room and around the hotel before walking into Epcot later to ride Soarin’ and check out the Festival of the Arts activities.
We got to Soarin’ right near the end of the fast pass window and we all rode the ride.
We then got on our fast pass for Living with the Land before heading to the DVC lounge to plan our day and have a snack.
Then a wander over to the Odyssey building which was the main building for the Festival of the Arts. We tried the cronuts, the flat bread and the beer flight before checking out the art in the building. We had never been in the Odyssey building before so that was interesting as well.
Festival Showplace at the Odyssey in Epcot
We did get a huge number of pictures through the PhotoPass folks at various special booths they had set up in honor of the Festival of the Arts – I will look at doing a special post just for those at a later time!
Next we went to the Mexico pavilion and did the Kidcot station. They were doing an artist’s palette in honor of the Festival instead of a Duffy or Perry the Platypus like the last few times the kids had done of the stations.
After that we rode the Three Caballeros ride.
We moved on to Norway for the Kidcot station and a scan of the store before moving to China to do the same.
Then we walked through Africa to Germany where I went to get a beer and a giant pretzel for us to share while Heather took the kids to the Kidcot station.
Next it was Italy and after the Kidcot station we stopped to watch a street performer and I got pulled in as the patsy for a ball toss game with the clown street performer. Our son T did not like me being made fun of but I talked to him after to let him know that I was in on the joke and that I was ok. He is pretty protective of his family.
We then continued on finishing up all the remaining Kidcot stations to fill out the kids’ palettes. We checked the art and Heather made sure to do some sampling along the way.
As part of the festival there were living statues out in front of the Fountain of Nations and K had to have some pictures taken with one. He snuck her glasses off of her head while she was distracted.
Living statues in Epcot as part of Festival of the Arts
We had promised the kids ice cream – so even though it was cold we went in search of ice cream. We ended up at the vendor in front of the Electric Umbrella and T, K and I had ice cream and Heather made us take a picture in front of the fountain.
Ice cream in front of Fountain of Nations in Epcot
Then a quick run through Spaceship Earth before heading back to the Boardwalk area. We ordered pizza to take back to the room – I waited while Heather took the kids back to the room.
We had a quick supper looking out the patio doors to the Boardwalk.
Saw partial Illuminations and Wishes from our room.
Illuminations from Boardwalk Villas room
We took it easy and rested for the evening – it has been tiring trip so far!
I woke up at 3:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep. I woke everyone else up at 5.
We all got dressed nice and warm for the Pro Bowl 5k and then headed out to the car.
It was a quick and easy drive over to the Epcot to park and get over to the race corral.
There certainly wasn’t the crowd or the same excitement as a true runDisney race but the kids were excited for the race which made up for some of that.
Epcot before ProBowl 5k – not as busy as a runDisney race!ready to run ProBowl 5k
the noise machines are definitely ready to run the ProBowl 5k
definitely not as crowded at the ProBowl 5k as a normal runDisney race
Once we got going we started fairly slow and stuck together but as time went on K would decide to run ahead so I would pace with her and Heather would run slower with T. Then K would have to stop to walk and T and Heather would catch up and we would travel together for a time.
The kids were hugely excited to be in Epcot that early in the morning (just after dawn) with all the music playing and the big torches lit up.
ProBowl 5k in Epcot
ProBowl 5k in Epcot – with torches and lights
ProBowl 5k sunrise in Epcot
ProBowl 5k in Epcot – Canada Pavilion
Before we got to Imagination I could tell that K was getting burnt out and she had to make a bathroom stop. After a wait she came out and she had taken her sweat pants off since she was too warm. Luckily she had on a pair of shorts underneath.
ProBowl 5k in Epcot – the whole family
We caught back up to Heather and T and T was raring to sprint to the finish at this point but K was still tired. So I paced ahead with T and Heather stayed with K.
Then we did the loop around Spaceship Earth and out the back stretch towards the finish line. We ran dawn the home stretch together and got our medals and bottle of water.
K getting her ProBowl 5k medal
T and K with their ProBowl 5k medals after the race
T with his ProBowl 5k medal after the race
We headed back out to the car and back to the hotel to have some warm showers. It was sunny but cool – a great morning for a run!
Overall the race was fun but definitely lacking in the splashy and magic of the runDisney races – the course was the standard 5k race path for the runDisney races but there was no on course entertainment and no characters to see. Just some happy Disney cast members cheering folks on.
And the medals were pretty cool.
Very proud of the kids and how well they did – and we didn’t get swept – so that is a bonus.
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After a shower and a change we headed back out to the car and went off Disney property for breakfast. Heather had a desire to hit IHOP so we did that and had a big breakfast.
We then hit another grocery store to get some cold meds before heading to get some gas put in the rental car.
Then we dropped the car at the Dolphin and headed back to the room.
After a bit of a rest we headed into Epcot and ran into a meet and greet with Elena of Avalor – K and her had a chat about dresses as K had on her Christmas Bell dress that is a similar colour to Elena’s.
Elena of Avalor having a laugh with Belle
After glancing at a few of the Festival of the Arts items and booths we made our way through to hop on the monorail to Magic Kingdom.
We made it to Magic Kingdom and got onto Space Mountain with 10 minutes to spare in our Fast Pass.
empty Space Mountain ride cars
Crowds were crazy – it must have been people in for the Pro Bowl because I have never seen it that busy in January.
We used our last special fast passes to ride Space Ranger Spin and then we wandered over to get in the really long fast pass line at Mine Train – they had had a 4 hour outage on the ride earlier in the day and it was backed up. At one point while we were there we saw the standby line jump to over 3.5 hours.
After mine train we did some wandering around to see what else we could ride and the wait times were just insane. We did get into watch the Enchanted Tiki Room show though which is always kitschy fun.
Enchanted Tiki Room
Belle not impressed with Gaston before supper at Be Our Guest
So we wandered and killed some time and it was finally time for our reservation at Be Our Guest. They were backed up about 15-20 minutes but it wasn’t too bad. It was here that we got confirmation that they couldn’t text Canadian numbers either.
Once we were in the service was fantastic and the food was great. I definitely ate too much.
It was still fairly busy after supper and it was getting colder but we weren’t ready to quit yet!
We decided to split up – K and Heather went to meet Ariel and T and I went on Dumbo.
After that we got our wires crossed and Heather and K got on Dumbo and T and I ended up heading closer to Cinderella’s castle. Heather and K got to see some Wishes while on Dumbo and T and I watched it near the castle.
T and I took lots of pictures.
Beast’s castle at night
Part of Wishes can be seen over Beast’s castle
watching Wishes near Storybook CircusWishes looking toward Beast’s castle
Afterwards Heather and K caught up with us and we decided to head to see if the wait times were down for Goofy’s Barnstormers and on the way Kaia realized that she was missing her magic band. I did the wander back and forth over our path and couldn’t see it (the kids rode Barnstormer while I did that) and reviewing pictures we determined that she almost had to have lost it on Dumbo.
After a bit the cast members on Dumbo had found it and we were able to breathe a sigh of relief (it was a special Aurora band).
A quick ride on the tea cups.
Then we wandered over and rode Pirates of the Caribbean before realizing we were just done. At this point it was after 10 and everyone had been up since at least 5. Even though we would have loved to take advantage of the reduced wait times, at this point we were just too tired.
So we wandered out to the buses and after a short wait (as we were waiting it started to rain – leaving was the right call) we were able to get on the bus back directly to the Boardwalk Resort.
On the bus ride K realized she had lost her glasses – after a chat with T and K we were able to determine that she had taken them off and put them in the pouch for riding Barnstormer. And then after the ride they were so concerned about seeing if we had found her magic band that she forgot her glasses. We will have to talk to lost and found at Magic Kingdom on that one. (after several checks with lost and found and with the main lost and fount at TTC we never did get them back unfortunately)
Back to the hotel and a quick stop at reception to pick up Heather and the kids’ annual passholder magic bands (2.0) – we can’t get them shipped to Canada so we have to get these at the hotels – I had gotten mine shipped to the Boardwalk during my Goofy Challenge trip so I had mine but we couldn’t order the others until their annual passes had been activated (which was done on our first full day of the trip). So as soon as we had activated them we had them shipped to the Boardwalk as well. But we hadn’t seen a shipping letter to say they were on the way so we had gotten concerned we weren’t going to get them while we were here. But during supper I checked the Disney site and it indicated that they were at the hotel waiting. Whoohoo!
Sure enough they were also the 2.0 bands that Heather was hoping for.
We then got the kids to bed and they were out quickly.
So was Heather.
I read for a bit and then crashed out myself. It was a long but good day!
Hotel move day! We set an alarm as there was an early bead collecting conservation activity Heather and the kids wanted to do before we left. They went to do that and I stayed in the room and finished up packing.
After they go back they only had 3 more activities left to go to complete the full collection but at least those ones were late morning / afternoon activities and we could come back and do those easier – so we made plans to do that later in the week.
We then took our bags over to bell services to have the luggage transferred over to the Boardwalk Villas.
After that we did another wander around the resort and let the kids buy small African drums as a souvenir of the stay at the resort.
We decided we didn’t want to pay for a cab over to Boardwalk Villas so we hopped a bus to Hollywood Studios instead. We got off the bus at the park and took the walk way to the Boardwalk area and checked into the hotel. Our room was not ready yet but they were able to get everything else set up and they said we would get a text when the room was ready. Note for Canadians – it doesn’t look like the texting to a Canadian cell number works for the room check in.
We then walked the Boardwalk area to International Gateway at Epcot, went through security and rented a locker so we could put down the African drums for a while!
First stop in Epcot was the Canada pavilion where they were giving out Disney buttons with “Canada 150” on them in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017.
Next we had to test out one of the perks of full DVC membership by going into the DVC Members Lounge in Epcot. It is located in the glass pyramid above the Imagination with Figment ride. The space has a great vibe and the free snacks and drinks were a nice bonus. We sat and absorbed the atmosphere for a while.
We decided that we would head over to Test Track and use up one of the special fast pass tickets we had been given the other day at the DVC Center. Before we got on the ride though it had to shut for a maintenance issue. The kids were pretty upset unfortunately.
So we went into MouseGears to do some shopping and to stick close to the ride in case it came up quickly. We ended up getting T a nice sweater that he still wears constantly now that we are at home.
Heather also bought all the Dooney and Burke.
Well, not really but she did get some crazy deals and somehow managed to convince me to let her use the e-gift card I had from runDisney due to the Walt Disney World Half Marathon being cancelled earlier in the month.
Heather was looking at the purses and one of the cast members mentioned that the Food and Wine bags were 30%, plus 20% off for annual passholders, plus my e-gift card equals two purses apparently.
We also got a couple fuzzy blankets (as per tradition) and had it all shipped to the hotel.
We then did Spaceship Earth and walked back out to the Boardwalk area to grab a pizza from the pizza window there. We picked up our stuff from the locker at International Gateway on our way.
Surprisingly we still hadn’t gotten the text to tell us our room was ready (which is how we found out that texts to Canadian numbers don’t work) so we wandered back to the hotel and found that our room was ready.
The room was great with a true boardwalk view on the 4th floor – straight view to the lighthouse and the Beach Club Resort. It was also just a short walk down stairs to the pool area and a different set of stairs to end up on the Boardwalk itself. The Boardwalk exit that was closest to our room was an exit only but it sure made it fast to get to the Boardwalk instead of waiting for the elevators.
Beach Club and Yacht Club lighthouse from Boardwalk VillasDisney’s Boardwalk area from Boardwalk Villas room
We then decided to go swimming in the clown pool for a bit – probably 45 minutes there and several trips down the water slide for the kids and a few for Heather and I.
Then back up to the room and called to get our luggage brought up.
Our daughter K did a change over to her Elsa dress and we did a fast walk to Epcot to get into our Frozen Ever After fastpass just about 10 minutes before they expired.
After that we were able to get on Test Track to make up for the disappointment from earlier in the day.
Then a quick snack before heading onto Ellen’s Energy Adventure and then a wander over to do the Nemo ride.
After Nemo we watched the fish and the divers in the aquarium for a while before heading into Coral Reef for our supper reservation. The food was great although T seemed to get a bit of a tough steak.
We spent time on supper and ended up missing Illuminations unfortunately.
We then decided to end the day, so we walked out to the Boardwalk and picked up some items for breakfast the next morning and to keep in the fridge from the store.
Put the kids to bed, did a quick unpack and organize and then went to bed ourselves.
Started the day with a quick 2 miles – it was quite warm! It was nice to finally get some real heat.
Took a while before everyone else got up after I got to the room – all the walking yesterday burned everyone out!
Lunch was pizza at the hotel then an hour of swimming in the quiet pool. Just a beautiful area with a great mix of sun and shade.
Then a bus to Epcot!
Walked into Epcot and right onto Spaceship Earth.
We then stopped for treats – popcorn and ice cream by the main fountain.
We then had a quick stop to check on the special DVC fast passes – they were not showing up in app anymore – asked fast pass folks and they confirmed they were still there and active. Excellent.
Used one of the specials for each of us to do Test Track – Heather did not ride though.
Next was Ellen’s Energy Adventure.
Then we went in and saw that the wait for the Sum of all fears simulator was not very long. So our son and daughter and I went on it. I had done it before with our son but it was our daughter’s first time. He went on his own this time and I went with her. They both had a blast and loved the designing aspect of the ride.
Sun was starting to set right at about now – great colors in the sky!
Then we did the walk over to Rose and Crown for our supper reservation – it was quite good.
Then a look around United Kingdom / England pavilion before walking to the fast pass area for Illuminations viewing. We had never done the fast pass for the fireworks show before – what a great area to view the fireworks!
Magic hours tonight so we still had lots of time to do stuff after fireworks…
First we walked around the world and had a beer in Germany.
While there we saw them open the bridge to let the globe out of the lagoon – that was pretty cool – we had seen the globe and other barges come out to the lagoon before but never leaving for the night.
Wandered back to do the Character Stop and saw Mickey, Minnie and Goofy then did the Finding Nemo ride, the Journey into Imagination with Figment ride and then went to check on Test Track again but it ended up being down. One more trip on Spaceship Earth then Mouse Gear for a final bit of shopping for the night.
We were pretty much ushered out of the store and then wandered out to the buses. One was waiting for the hotel that we ended up running for. Last ones on before it headed out.
Got out at main entrance of the hotel and went to the food court that was still partially open. Got some snacks and headed back to the room for a bit of tv and then to sleep. Another day up after midnight.
Feb 17th
3.68 miles this morning. There were lots of ladies out running this morning – Princess Half Marathon folks are showing up
Received Magical Express transportation notice for the 18th but it had no pickup time – called and got it set up. 3:30pm
Lunch at hotel then off to Magic Kingdom for our last full day.
Magic Kingdom:
Steam train to Story Book Circus
Run around and shop in that area
Over to Tomorrow Land
Bought Heather a purple magic band
Rode People Mover
Used special fast passes to do Space Ranger spin – it had been closed for a refurb when we here a few days ago but now it was open again but my question is what did they do doing refurb? Both my gun and Heather’s were wonky.
Splash mountain
Looked at using special fast passes for Heather and our daughter to go another time on Splash Mountain but it was too long a fast pass line
Back over to the Tiki Room
Then to hub and caught end of Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it
Then hub grass for a bit before checking in for supper at Plaza – bit of a wait – supper was not too bad – lighter sandwiches which was nice for a change
Then some shopping before Wishes – got a nice spot on main street
Then over to Space Mountain for fast passes
Then the Tomorrowland dance party
Tomorrowland Speedway
Then Goofy’s Barnstormer – couple times for the kids including a back to back ride without having to get out
Dumbo
Ariel meet and greet
Under the Sea ride
Pirates of the Caribbean
Thunder Mountain to end the rides for the day. Just realized we conquered the Magic Kingdom mountain range again today!
Then got Kaia a Shellie May just before the stores closed and then off to the bus and back to the room to pack…
Feb 18th – checkout day
Just an easy day today as we finished packing and got all of our stuff over to the airline check in desk. However there was an issue with the type of flight we had from Delta and we weren’t able to check our bags at the hotel unfortunately.
So we dropped the bags with the concierge folks and did some wandering and shopping around the hotel (including using up the gift card we got from the DVC tour).
Eventually it was time to get on the Magical Express and head to the airport. It is always sad to leave but at this point we were all getting anxious to get going and get home to see the pups.
We had some more fun at the airport with our bags and then our flights but we got on the plane fine and it was all good in the end – just more stress than we had been hoping for.
Off the plane in Minneapolis and caught the shuttle to the hotel where we had parked the van. It was pretty late by the time we got there and checked in but the TGI Fridays that was attached to the hotel was still open so we had some appetizers to fill the bellies and then off to bed.
The next morning it was near freezing and raining – it was lovely loading all our stuff in the van!
On the way home we made some stops for more running gear shopping and supper in Grand Forks before heading toward home. There was risk of freezing home the last couple hours of driving so that added some extra fun right at the end of the trip.
Kids off to bed as soon as we got home and we did some quick unpacking – and then I was up and at the kennel picking up the pups first thing on the 19th.
Unfortunately our son woke up and got sick around 6 am but at least he got back to sleep after and seemed good the rest of the day after that.
I did not get back to sleep however, so after a bit of trying I decided to get up and go for a run. I did 2 laps of the hotel running path including the out and back past Port Orleans French Quarter. Beautiful morning, if a bit cool.
After my shower, everyone was still asleep so I wandered down to the general store and picked up some milk for the room fridge and some more meds for our son. Everyone was just getting up as I got back from the walk.
We had breakfast / lunch at the hotel in what became a bit of a theme for the trip – late nights and late breakfast.
We found out that Port Orleans Riverside now keeps a breakfast station open in their food court until 11:45 – sweet!
After a short wander around the hotel we grabbed a bus ride to Epcot.
It was weird to see a long wait for Spaceship Earth at around 2 in the afternoon. We skipped that with a promise to the kids that we would get to it before we left – it is one of our favorite rides but we only end up ever doing it as a walk on.
We then did the Finding Nemo ride before going to give Living with the Land a try…but it had a huge line as well!? Strange.
So a quick ice cream and popcorn stop by the fountain and then a quick check of Ellen’s Energy Adventure. But they had just let in a group and the wait was going to be too long before they opened the doors again.
Instead we did a wander of the World Showcase area making sure to hit the 3 Caballeros ride in the Mexico pavilion and also to get pretzels and beer in Germany. We also stopped in the Norway pavilion to grab some of the perfume Heather loves from there.
We also hit the American Adventure show and I hate to admit it but I fell asleep – the beer from Germany and the less than 5 hours sleep caught up to me I guess.
After the show we explored some more and did a quick walk out the International Gateway before coming back into the park and making our way back to Coral Reef for our supper reservations.
We had a short wait once we checked in but it was worth it. We ended up with a table right by the aquarium windows. The kids were ecstatic. The meal was very good as well and we had couple visits from a young boy who politely asked if he could take some pictures at the window to show his friends. It was pretty cool – we saw a few groups of divers in the aquarium during the meal.
After supper we wandered over to do our Test Track Fast Passes, then hit Spaceship Earth and Living with the Land, which were walk ons now.
We then caught the last 75% of Illuminations before getting back on the Finding Nemo ride and one more go on Spaceship Earth.
Then a bus and back to the hotel. Kids probably fell asleep around midnight.
How often do you see kids that happy while just relaxing?
Granted they had just spent a good half hour playing tag on the grass and the beach…
The photo was taken in front of the Beach Club Resort on the beach area in Feb 2014 during our family trip. It was a gorgeous day and everyone was feeling good even though it was our last full day at Disney World.
We ended up doing World Showcase in Epcot and then Magic Kingdom thoroughly that day (late magic hours at Magic Kingdom) and the kids were exhausted but it was a great day and I think that was at least partly because we had time to relax and have a bit of fun in a great relaxed area before we went and hit the parks.
Lovely day.
K and T on the swing in front of Disney’s Beach Club Resort
Going to trip a new post category – Family Friday – the idea will be to show family pics from around Disney World and to try to highlight all the great things that can be done as a full family.
I will start off with a pic of Heather and kids taken just inside Epcot coming in through the International Gateway. We were wandering around and on the island between the England and France pavilions there is nice peaceful area where you can get some different views of the lake and the pavilions. For whatever reason we had never really noticed or utilized this area before but that day we saw it and used it as a spot to catch some sun and sit peacefully for a few minutes.
After quite a long hiatus on this subsite I am going to take a stab at getting back into it. As I am about 27 weeks out from our expected travel day to Disney World for the Disney World Marathon and Goofy Challenge / Dopey Challenge I wanted to kind of help settle my nerves and build some patience as I am pining for Disney World already!
So for Wishing Disney Wednesday for this week I am going to go with something nice and peaceful. Disney World can be quite hectic of course with huge crowds and lots of noise and stress sometimes…but, in Epcot at least, they seem to be able to have peaceful spots where you can just sit back and relax and get some peace.
With that in mind I am going to go with Living with the Land – it is an often overlooked ride especially sitting beside Soarin’ and all the crowds that go there and there doesn’t seem to be much of wait most of the time. The lack of wait alone can help with the whole peaceful thing too…
The ride itself is an easy going boat ride with a story about preserving and of course living with the land but for me the most relaxing part of the ride is where you go through the green house areas on the boat. You get to see many different kinds of plants and different ways of growing them but for me the biggest draw is the sense of peace and quiet I get while on the ride.
My favorite time to ride the ride is during the day when the sun is up, the air is nicely balanced and isn’t too hot or cold, humidity is at a good level. The sunlight coming through the dome is great, there is the sound of water gently lapping against the boat/ride and with the sand base of the plant areas you can almost imagine you are on a nice peaceful beach somewhere. It is fantastic as a place to sit and refocus for the rest of the day.
Snow Man / Sand Man in Living with the Land in Epcot
I haven’t had a chance to do one of these posts in a while but now that everything has settled down after the Goofy Challenge in January and our family vacation to Disney World in early February I hope to get a chance to do more…
On our most recent trip to Disney World we had what was probably one of our most memorable nights at the parks. Specifically late at night in Epcot.
We stayed at the Beach Club Resort on this trip and there were late night Magic Hours at Epcot this night but it was a touch cool and the park was pretty much deserted at the end of the night. When I see the pictures of that night I remember the peacefulness of the walk through the park out the World Gateway exit. It really felt like we were alone there exploring and able to take all the time we needed to see what we wanted. I’m not sure I’ve ever felt more relaxed in one of the Disney parks.
There were so few people around that we were able to get some great pictures of what the park looks like all lit up at night without a whole crowd of people being in each shot.
The night had a great feeling and this shot really helps me remember it.
