Sky Watch Friday

Clouds reflected in the glass smooth water of a marina for small recreational boats at the Disney Port Orleans Riverside resort in Orlando, FL.

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Port Orleans Riverside: 3

Some pictures of the room interior:

Everything but the kitchen sink...

The main swimming pool at Port Orleans (each building has a small pool to itself as well, called "quiet pools", though they can get noisy as well, just normally not as crowded). 

First shot taken before dawn when the temperature was pretty cool out and there was steam rising off of the heated water:

View of the water slide:

The other end of the pool... what's that on the island?

Guess this pool has everything including the kitchen sink! 

Port Orleans Riverside: 2

The main building at the center of Port Orleans Riverside features a water wheel on one end.  Here is a shot taken before dawn one morning:

The wheel from one side:

And from the other side:

Inside the food court you find the gears and beams that the wheel turns:

And a view of the full building in the daylight:

Port Orleans Riverside: 1

Earlier in December we spent a week in Disney World (thank you to Blogger for its advance posting feature - love it - who knew we were out of town by just looking at the blog?  Nobody!).

We stayed at the Disney resort named Port Orleans Riverside, a resort that depicts deep south along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans (it has a sister resort next to it named Port Orleans French Quarter).  The buildings closest to "New Orleans" are ornate mansions on the outside, and the farther away from the city you get, the less fancy the building exteriors become.  After a while, the mansions are gone entirely and the buildings are just "wooden shacks" on the outside.  (Inside amenities are the same in all rooms, just the exteriors change and interior decoration changes in look only).

I will say that over the almost 6 days we were there I took over 2,250 photos and edited those down to around 1,693 "keepers".  So if I post one per day I can keep the blog going for 4.64 years, haha.  Don't worry.  I won't do that.  (Though maybe I should start a Disney Photo Per Day blog separately... some other time, perhaps.)  I'll just post some of the better favorites for now. :)