Off to Disney! We had been assigned a spot at Fort Wilderness campground that wasn’t as close as we would have liked, but they were able to switch us to a different loop at check-in. We ended up with a great spot in the 100 loop. The spots are tight, but on most of them there are trees and bushes providing you with nice separation from your neighbors.
We took the girls on a bike ride to get the lay of the land and figure out our logistics for Magic Kingdom the next day. As the Delta variant has reared it’s ugly head, Disney was requiring masks at all indoor locations and all attractions once you enter the “official line”. Also, there is no eating or drinking once in the line. So, be prepared, if you do go. Indoors many of the rides have Plexiglas between the zig-zaging queue and hand sanitizer stations are all over the place.
We ended up doing 2 days at Magic Kingdom
and a day at each at Epcot,
Hollywood Studios,
One of our daily ice cream stops.
and Animal Kingdom. The girls had numerous favorite rides at all the parks.
Look close there’s a hippo just chillin’
This Mama is Worn Out.
Our socially distanced Character dinner.
Chef Mickey 
Ari thought Donald was so funny.
In Hollywood Studios, we did manage to ride the current Holy Grail of Disney rides, the Rise of the Resistance. To ride this attraction it involves getting up before 7 am and getting a boarding group by entering a virtual queue via your smart phone. We followed the steps detailed in the Parksavers Blog and it worked like a charm for us. You are “taken prisoner” by the First Order as part of the ride. At one point I think the girls really thought, we had been captured. It was a busy and expensive week, but the girls really had a great time.
We left Disney and headed for Edisto Beach State Park in South Carolina. It was our last night with the girls. We drove them up to Myrtle Beach to drop them off with their parents. They were going to be starting school the following week.
Diablo will never be the same..
We woke up to a whole lot of rain and just spent the morning lounging around. The afternoon it cleared up a little and we went to the Edisto Island Museum. It’s a small little museum that provides some history of the island and it’s people . The island was once home to a number of cotton plantations and therefore many slaves. Most of the slaves were from West Africa and since the island was remote, the slaves were able to keep much of their African culture/language for many years. It was also interesting to find out that the vast majority of the trees on the island are less than 100 years old. The bo weevil wiped out any remaining cotton plantations in the 1920’s and the live oak and pine trees cover the island once again.
I liked the beach wheelchair 
I got battered by a rouge wave and covered with broken sea shells.
It was time for us to start heading on our return trip back home. We made it to High Falls State Park in Jackson, GA. Wish I could tell you more about this park, but sometimes other things get in the way. We had planned on doing some of the hiking trails in the park, but Will woke up early in the morning after we arrived in great pain. We ended up spending the day in the emergency room. After the CAT scan, the doctor determined that indeed it was as Will had thought, a kidney stone. He’s had them before and luckily this one kept on moving painfully along and out.
