OUR LAST DAY AT THE FORT

I don't know what it is, but we always sleep so good in the MH. Since it was in the high 70s and low 80s during the day in Orlando we slept with the bedroom window open at night and woke up to birds chirping and cool morning air. It was so nice in the morning that we decided to sit outside and have our morning coffee while enjoying nature.. We even brought Bentley out in his stroller to enjoy the morning.

The nice thing about camping during this coronavirus thing is that in this campground you are pretty isolated from other people. The closet campsites are 50 to 60 feet away and  your exit door of the RVs are always on the passenger side so that you never come face to face with other campers unless to walk over to meet them. We could see and hear others cooking breakfast outside and smell the bacon, eggs, onions and potatoes on the griddle, but we were content to drink our coffee and feed the squirrels and plan our day of laziness.

I forgot to mention that the day before I had remembered a nature trail that went behind our loop. It was only for walking with no golf carts allowed, so I took Bentley for a walk on the trail at about dusk. David decided not to go. As we came around a curve in the trail and into a clearing there was a deer that walked right in front of me. As we walked further there were 2 more just grazing and looking at me. None of them ran away as I got closer.

There was another couple walking their dog on the trail and they referred to the deer as cast members. I guess the deer are pretty used to people. We also saw a wild turkey as we were driving through the campground. Farther down there were several people fishing on the canal near the dam. Bentley and I headed back home to share the pictures and videos with David. He was sorry he hadn't gone with us and we decided to try it again tonight.

We spent most of the day looping through the other areas of the campground and checking out all the amenities TF has to offer. We drove by the horse stables where you could go horseback riding, past the huge recreation area at The Meadows and tried to figure our how we could drop off our golf cart early in the morning so we could get on the road as early as possible.

When The Meyers cancelled we needed a back up plan for Spring Break. They were supposed to join us at TF the next day and they had a cabin reserved there. With WDW closing the parks we decided to cancel the rest of the time at TF and go somewhere else that had something for the kids to do. Also, we needed a place with cabins for them and a campground for us. I had heard good things about a CG in Myrtle Beach, SC that people loved AND they had beach houses that you could rent. I texted R & N and asked them to look at it and let me know of this place. If it wasn't too far away for them we could try and get reservations. At least it wasn't in Florida and they might have availability. They did and we both made reservations and had a place to go for tomorrow. YEA. That was a relief.

I had spent so much time planning our Spring Break at TF and WDW. I ordered blank, matching  shirts for us to wear to the various parks and made the designs for the front of the shirts. It took a long time to cut out the designs by hand,  (since I didn't have one of those fancy cutting machines) but it was much more affordable that buying that many shirts. The matching shirts would be easier to locate each other if we got separated and easier to keep an eye on the kids in a crowed park. I made each of us one of each of these shirts and I made Najla 2 extra tank tops  since that's what she likes to wear.

The Running with The Force was for Hollywood Studios. How could you miss that orange?

I didn't put names on these for security reasons, but David and I had one that said "Ya Ya" and Pepere"

Sorry these are rotated. These said "Best Day Ever 2020" with sparkles even though it wasn't the best day  😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

                                            And these were for Animal Kingdom.

                                 Maybe if we can make it there another time we can wear them.  We had gone to Sams Club to buy snacks so we could take them with us to the WDW parks for snacking and not have to spend a lot of $$$$ on food.  Oh well, it will get eaten eventually.

We had a great last day in TF and knew that we wanted to come back again. I understand now why people love it so much there. Our campsite came with a BBQ grill and a picnic table so we decided to cook out on their grill rather than pulling our griddle out of the MH to cook one meal.

  This was the grill at TF.  Spotless, just like the picnic table. We couldn't believe how clean it was. It looked brand new. There is nothing more disgusting than having to cook on an old rusted out dirty grill that who knows what has been cooked on it or what had pooped on it. Before each new camper arrives the campsite is totally cleaned, including the grill.

Our meal was great and after dinner we took a walk along the nature trail with Bentley. Unfortunately, it was too early in the evening and the deer were somewhere else.

Every night at 9PM WDW has a wonderful fireworks display over Cinderella's castle. If you are at  TF you can go down to the beach and watch them from there. The music from the fireworks is also piped in so you can hear the Disney music in the background. I took lot of videos of these fireworks and they were GREAT. They videos are too big to post here so I will try to post on my YouTube page later. If you go to YouTube and look up Tails from Tennessee it will show the videos.

Also, at 10:30 they have a Disney Water Parade out on Bay Lake that you can see from the beach/marina area. That's just too late for us to stay up, so we passed on that one.

Would we come back to The Fort? Absolutely !!! We are so sorry The Meyers couldn't join us and we couldn't stay longer. The original plan for us was 8 nights here, but without the parks being open  and The Meyers not being here it just didn't make sense.

                                                       We LOVE The Fort !!