Magic Memory Monday – Stormalong Bay – Dec 30th, 2013

Look how happy she looks!  Today’s Magical Memory Monday comes from our December 2010 family trip to Disney World.  We split that trip between Caribbean Beach Club and the Yacht Club Resort.  This picture was taken at the magnificent kids’ pool area of Stormalong Bay.

Stormalong Bay is the very large pool area shared between the Yacht and Beach Club Resorts and features a small kids’ splash pool, a larger sand bottom kids’ pool with a big sand island in the middle, a lazy river and another large pool area that has a spot to play various pool games and an area where the large water slide empties into.  The entrance to the water slide is in a separate area that is made up to look like a beached sailing ship and that area also features another little kids’ pool.  The whole area is fantastic and beyond the actual water parks it is probably the best pool in the area.  Wonderful place.

This picture was taken while I was in the water of the kids’ sand bottom pool and K came running off the sand island with just a fantastic smile on her face.  These kinds of memories are why we keep coming back to this hotel complex.  I can’t help but smile when I look at the pic.

K in Stormalong Bay
K in Stormalong Bay

Thinking Disney Thursday – Sometimes you just have to run on the beach like a maniac – October 24th, 2013

Like the title says – sometimes you just have to run on the beach like a maniac.  There is so much to do at Disney World and it is all so easily accessible if you are staying that the Beach Club Resort like we were on this trip.  But even with Epcot being 5 minutes walk away and Hollywood Studios less that 20 minutes sometimes you just have to ignore that and go with the simple pleasures.

Like running up and down a beach, yelling at the top of your lungs and trying to catch seagulls – ahh to be 5 again like my son is in this picture.

That is one of the beautiful things about Disney World – there are these opportunities to get away from the crowds and do your own thing and just be a kid.  Awesome.

T on the Beach Club / Yacht Club beach
T on the Beach Club / Yacht Club beach