vamassey1
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- Oct 13, 2005
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So I want to backtrack a little.
The time leading up to this trip was very busy. Danielle was a very involved member of her FRC Robotics team at school. Starting in January they had spent 6 weeks building a robot for competition and putting together their Chairman's Team presentation. Danielle was on the drive team, a member of the Chairman's team and the Dean's List nominee for the team. We finished building on Mardi Gras and then starting competing in March. Our first regional competition was in Little Rock Arkansas. Two weeks later we competed in our local regional in New Orleans. When you go to regionals the hope is that your robot will win or your Chairman's team so then you can qualify to go to Worlds in St. Louis. Well we didn't do too good in Little Rock but we did pretty darn good in New Orleans. Our robot didn't win but our Chairman's Team won and Danielle was one of 2 Dean's List winners to move onto World. So after spending 2 weekends in hotels in March here we were living in a hotel again and would be in another one in a few weeks in St. Louis. We pretty much stayed packed, just changed out clothes. Of all the hotels we stayed in this one was the best and we were really looking forward to enjoying the atmosphere.
The time stamps on my pictures shows us hitting the Riverside sign at 4:44 pm. We unpacked and freshened up and got ready to head out. Can anyone guess where we went first?
Some resort pictures as we made our way out.
This was the front of our building facing the water. We stayed in Oak Manor. Of course we were all the way in the back, but it wasn't a bad walk. Once we got to the front we were right by a bridge to cross to the lobby area. I have to say I really missed going through the lobby and checking in. I missed getting all the paperwork. We ended up going back at one point and getting a map of the general area since we actually did some driving this trip.
We never got to see these in action last trip so this was neat.
More pictures from this beautiful resort. These are looking back from around the boat dock area.
Oh look here comes a boat!
If you've guess we're waiting for a boat to Downtown Disney you're right. I know it's Disney Springs now but in 2015 it was still DTD. We've kind of made it a tradition to go to DTD on our arrival day.
Here's Danielle waiting.
And me waiting. We were really hoping we would make it on this boat.
Looking back from the boat. Yeah we made it on the boat.
A boat selfie taken at 6:08
If you have never taken the boat ride from Riverside or French Quarter to DTD you really should. It's a wonderful relaxing trip with so many pretty sights. I did have more pictures loaded but had to delete them when PhotoBucket starting restricting pictures.
Oh look here comes French Quarter.
Danielle loved this slide when we stayed here in 2010
Continued in next post.
So I want to backtrack a little.
The time leading up to this trip was very busy. Danielle was a very involved member of her FRC Robotics team at school. Starting in January they had spent 6 weeks building a robot for competition and putting together their Chairman's Team presentation. Danielle was on the drive team, a member of the Chairman's team and the Dean's List nominee for the team. We finished building on Mardi Gras and then starting competing in March. Our first regional competition was in Little Rock Arkansas. Two weeks later we competed in our local regional in New Orleans. When you go to regionals the hope is that your robot will win or your Chairman's team so then you can qualify to go to Worlds in St. Louis. Well we didn't do too good in Little Rock but we did pretty darn good in New Orleans. Our robot didn't win but our Chairman's Team won and Danielle was one of 2 Dean's List winners to move onto World. So after spending 2 weekends in hotels in March here we were living in a hotel again and would be in another one in a few weeks in St. Louis. We pretty much stayed packed, just changed out clothes. Of all the hotels we stayed in this one was the best and we were really looking forward to enjoying the atmosphere.
The time stamps on my pictures shows us hitting the Riverside sign at 4:44 pm. We unpacked and freshened up and got ready to head out. Can anyone guess where we went first?
Some resort pictures as we made our way out.
This was the front of our building facing the water. We stayed in Oak Manor. Of course we were all the way in the back, but it wasn't a bad walk. Once we got to the front we were right by a bridge to cross to the lobby area. I have to say I really missed going through the lobby and checking in. I missed getting all the paperwork. We ended up going back at one point and getting a map of the general area since we actually did some driving this trip.
We never got to see these in action last trip so this was neat.
More pictures from this beautiful resort. These are looking back from around the boat dock area.
Oh look here comes a boat!
If you've guess we're waiting for a boat to Downtown Disney you're right. I know it's Disney Springs now but in 2015 it was still DTD. We've kind of made it a tradition to go to DTD on our arrival day.
Here's Danielle waiting.
And me waiting. We were really hoping we would make it on this boat.
Looking back from the boat. Yeah we made it on the boat.
A boat selfie taken at 6:08
If you have never taken the boat ride from Riverside or French Quarter to DTD you really should. It's a wonderful relaxing trip with so many pretty sights. I did have more pictures loaded but had to delete them when PhotoBucket starting restricting pictures.
Oh look here comes French Quarter.
Danielle loved this slide when we stayed here in 2010
Continued in next post.
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