December 22, 2011 5:19 p.m.

We did it.  We made the maiden voyage in our motorhome.  Well, at least it was the maiden voyage for us.  It has already been through two previous owners.  We took our house on wheels to Fort Wilderness and took dozens of pictures.  We haven’t been to Fort Wilderness in two years and I forgot how much fun we have there.  No, we never did go into any of the Walt Disney theme parks, but we did enjoy many other features of the Walt Disney World property.  It is super there during the Christmas season.  The decorations are beautiful.

Here is Self-Reliant Man trying his best to get used to driving the “Bird”.

Before we had gone too many miles, the children were very comfortably settled.  Or as they called it, “riding in style”.

Entering Disney property as viewed from the Copilot’s seat (that’s my seat!)

First snack.

First meal in the motorhome.

First pee pee.  (Of course that was Chips – LOL).

First evening.

First DVD viewing (late on a rainy night)

Here is a glance of the lobby inside the Grand Floridian Hotel.  We love to go here and listen to the musicians perform.

You can see them across the way.

Chips decorated our campsite for Christmas, but our decorations were modest in comparison with some of the other campers.  Every year, we are startled at the efforts that campers go to in decorating their sites.

For example..

.. there was the model of Walt Disney World..

… there was the fifth wheel that has everything…

… truly everything and more …

… and Santa Claus, himself, had his campsite just across from us.  What are the chances?  His lights were even synchronized to music.

Keep in mind, these are campsites, people!

Here are a few select snapshots from the rest of our activities that week.

11 p.m. dessert at Beaches and Cream (WDW Beach Club Resort).  Amazing how many kids were there on a supposed school night.  Either they were all homeschoolers or parents actually pull their kids out of school to visit Disney World – horrors!

We rode our bicycles to the Wilderness Lodge Hotel.  It’s tree is so tall that I couldn’t get it all in the picture, even from the top floor.

Self-Reliant Man and Chips didn’t want to climb the stairs with Sweet Girl and me.  So I snapped their picture from up above.

We always visit the horses at Fort Wilderness.  Disney employs several people at the horse stalls, and they were all very busy.

What a sweet surprise!  Sweet Girl ran into two of her friends at the horse barn.  They were out with their mom for a field trip at lesser known spots on Disney property.  You can cover a lot of ground just using the busses, boats, and monorail.

Movie night at the campground.  We got to see Toy Story, but first Dale had to hug Sweet Girl. . . . .

. . . .  and light the campfire for everybody.

Marshmallow roasting (and scorching).

And, in memory of our 2010 vacation trip, here is Disney’s own version of Old Faithful Geyser.  Taken behind Wilderness Lodge.

In summary, if you are going camping, Fort Wilderness is one good place to go.  Even if it rains (which it did, on and off, for the first two days we were there) there is plenty to see and do while keeping out of the rain.  Maybe we won’t wait an entire year before going back!