11th Anniversary!

For our anniversary this year, we went to the Hoop-dee-doo Musical Review, which is a fun, western-saloon-style dinner show at the Fort Wilderness resort campground at Disney World. The show and the food were so much fun! Later that night we went over to the Polynesian Resort and watched the fireworks over the Magic Kingdom from the beach there. It was the perfect ending to a great day.

A great blue heron I spotted near the campground. The picture doesn't show its size very well, but these big guys stand about 4 feet tall and are very impressive to see up close.

Fort Wilderness sign

In front of one of the props for the show by the theatre.

Getting ready to eat and watch the show!

When it was time for the main course, the waitresses came along with these buckets of ribs and fried chicken and slammed them down on our metal plates. I about jumped out of my skin! (but it was all part of the fun)

Enjoying our western-themed dinner of ribs, fried chicken, beans, corn, mashed potatoes, salad, and cornbread. Mmmmmm, boy!

The show was great, with lots of singing, dancing, silliness and family fun. I almost wished we had brought the kids with us!

Time to bring out the strawberry shortcake! Which of course had its own song and dance.

Holy Mother of all Strawberry Shortcakes! There are no words to explain how scrumptious this was. I'm still dreaming about it.

For one of the final songs, they gave each table a washboard to play along with our spoons. Because what's a song without a good washboard accompaniment? Nuthin, that's what.

The show ended with several audience members being brought up on stage and being part of the show. My favorite was the old guy in the angel costume at the far right.