Good morning!
Just wanted to post a mini-trip report and life update from last week.
My sister is getting married in less than 2 weeks, and as a groomsman's gift, my future BIL flew his men down for a weekend in WDW. Their favorite place to stay is WL, and I'd stayed there as a teen with my parents, but my fiancee (who some of you know) had never. By staying at WL, we both have completed the rounds of staying at every deluxe resort. I crossed the finish line when we stayed at the Poly last summer. We had a nice hot weekend, and it was so good to be there when we don't usually get there. No La Vie En Rose cocktail at F&G was safe! We stayed CL at WL and had a deluxe room with a nice view of Bay Lake. They have a great new pool bar/restaurant called Geyser Point, and I couldn't help but wonder if at some point HH will expand like this.
We DID manage to sneak in some BC time as it was such a short trip, we widely shrugged Disney transport and Ubered everywhere. We decided the quickest way into Epcot was to go through the BC, so *Oh Well,* I guess we'll just have to spend some time there! I can report that there seems to be some decent construction (convention center wise) in the outskirts of the BC parking lot, but I think the way the building is angled, few if any rooms should be looking at it, but I could be wrong. It was such a tease to be there, but we'll be back for a long stay in August!
On a more personal note, the trip was great, but the return home was not. Our beloved Grace, the cat I've had for 11 + years took a big turn on the last day we were gone, and thank goodness some higher power got us home just in time to spend some time with her before we had to say goodbye. She'd been tentatively diagnosed with cancer in October, but had outlived her prognosis and was doing fine. She even had a clean round of bloodwork come back about 3 weeks ago. The vet was even questioning his own diagnosis, but then she started acting a bit funny before we left, but not so funny that we felt we couldn't go. She was also fine for most of the 72 hours we were away, but really took a plunge about 12 hours before we got home. I miss her, but I'm glad I got to see her to say goodbye, I'm glad she wasn't sick for long, and I'm glad I got to spend a weekend in my happy place before dealing with this loss.