Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Today we enjoy one last go-round at the Festival of the Arts in Epcot. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! Our final Disney morning dawned – not that you’d be able to tell....
Continue readingPrincess Weekend Day 4: Exploring The Wilderness & Hoop Dee Doo x2
Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Today we explore Fort Wilderness and take in a showing of the Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! If you read my 2024 Princess Half Marathon trip report,...
Continue readingPrincess Weekend Day 3: Adventures In Golf Cart Parking & More Race Shenanigans
Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! When we last left our intrepid gang, we had just finished the Princess 10K. Under normal circumstances it would be straight to the showers. On this particular...
Continue readingPrincess Weekend Day 2: Epcot Festival Of The Arts & Final VQ Fail
Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Today, we visit Epcot! Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! Ah, irony – the day before we left for our Princess trip, Disney announced that it would be ending ALL its virtual queues...
Continue readingPrincess Weekend Day 1: Mears Madness, Expo & Disney Springs
Hello and welcome to my runDisney Princess Half Marathon Weekend 2025 trip report! I’m returning to the blow-by-blow diary format for this trip. Read all the posts in this report here. Onward! My Princess Half Marathon Weekend trip began as they always do: at the airport. I arrived early to do a little work at the gate, which I...
Continue readingDopey Challenge Redux: The WDW Half Marathon
Hello and welcome to my Dopey Challenge 2025 trip report! Today I’ll be recapping the WDW Half Marathon. Read all the entries in this report here. Onward! After two distressingly chilly race mornings, the WDW Half Marathon promised milder conditions. Even in the middle of the night we were looking at temps in the 60s. The only potential dampener*...
Continue readingThe Dopey Challenge Trip Report Start Line
It’s official – I’m a two-time Dopey Challenge finisher! And it feels great. Needless to say I’m going to tell you all about it, and in my traditional style I will be using every word I know. That’s right, kids, it’s trip report time! I will, however, be eschewing my usual day-by-day trip report format, as I didn’t really...
Continue readingThe Neurodivergent Guide To Universal’s Great Movie Escape
I did not plan for Universal’s Great Movie Escape, and it almost broke me. I kid, I kid! It’s just an escape room; it’s not that deep. But I did have to sit down in the lobby, close my eyes, and focus inward for awhile when it was over. After all that escaping, I was waaaaaay overstimulated. You might...
Continue readingWhat I Found Odd About Velocicoaster & Other Universal Observations
I decided not to do a proper trip report for my single Universal Studios Florida day. By the combined powers of Universal’s Express Pass and the touring style of my trip group, it was all very ride-to-ride-to-ride (and Velocicoaster three times!). Efficient, yes, but hardly entertaining when rendered in prose. Still, you know I can’t go to a theme...
Continue readingKate The Great Takes Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend
Hello runDisney friends! I know, I know, I famously did not run the 2024 Wine & Dine Half Marathon. Luckily, someone simultaneously much cooler AND hotter than me did. Enter my cousin-in-law (that’s a real term; I checked) Kate, the only member of my family who loves Disney parks as much as I do. She recently came over to...
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