This page is to help you quickly jump through this picture set. Below you will see a listing of the pages and the captions on that page.

• Page Number: 1
  

  12:29pm - Leaving the Magic Kingdom and setting off for the Contemporary. Noticed the Express Monorail was down.
  12:36pm - On my way to the Contemporary
  

• Page Number: 2
  

  The Walt Disney World Railroad steaming along the perimeter of the park.
  The gingerbread display is in the north side of the concourse toward Bay Lake tower again.
  Some stats on this year's display
  

• Page Number: 3
  

  This year the display features Disney100
  

• Page Number: 4
  

• Page Number: 5
  

  Pins for purchase
  Treats available for purchase
  Wish sipper
  

• Page Number: 6
  

  A new refillable mug design debuted recently.
  

• Page Number: 7
  

  The extended queue for the Monorail was in use so we decided to walk back to the Magic Kingdom.
  

• Page Number: 8
  

  The Express Monorail was still closed. A tractor was out on the track.
  1:20pm - Thought about taking the boat to the Grand Floridian but there were a lot of guests waiting and the next boat was out at the Polynesian still.
  So we walked to the Grand Floridian. The Polynesian DVC on the opposite shore
  

• Page Number: 9
  

  The path ahead.
  

• Page Number: 10
  

  They had a large boat on the route today, here it is heading to the Magic Kingdom, I do not think we would have made it onto that boat with the crowd that was ahead of us.
  The line at the Grand Floridian dock.
  

• Page Number: 11
  

  Renovation work continues at the Grand Floridian
  

• Page Number: 12
  

  Christmas decorations
  A lift display, not as festive
  The lobby of the Grand Floridian was very crowded this afternoon. Here is the gingerbread house.
  

• Page Number: 13
  

  I snapped a few pictures but had to do it through the guests queued up in the area.
  

• Page Number: 14
  

  The Grand Floridian Christmas tree
  

• Page Number: 15
  

  A smaller tree near the lobby entrance
  

• Page Number: 16
  

• Page Number: 17
  

  Looking down at the gingerbread house
  This is the crowd waiting for the Monorail. It was backed up and wrapping a few times in the walkway just to reach security which was stalled due to the platform queue being full.
  

• Page Number: 18
  

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• Page Number: 20
  

  2:19pm - Boarding a boat to the Polynesian. We made it on by a couple groups only.
  

• Page Number: 21
  

  The Polynesian DVC project from the dock.
  

• Page Number: 22
  

  There was a healthy queue of guests on the dock waiting for the boat to the Magic Kingdom.
  They have painted some of the concrete brown, assuming as a test before doing the entire building.
  

• Page Number: 23
  

  Assuming this boarded up two story area is a Grand Villa
  The north/right wing has what appears to be a base coat applied already.
  

• Page Number: 24
  

  Second coat of paint going on the ground level.
  

• Page Number: 25
  

• Page Number: 26
  

  The clouds are rolling in. This afternoon a big storm front was forecast.
  The Polynesian Resort lobby Christmas decorations
  

• Page Number: 27
  

• Page Number: 28
  

  From the upper floor.
  

• Page Number: 29
  

  The express Monorail was back in service and the Polynesian queue was reasonable so took the Monorail back to the Magic Kingdom. Here is a look at the Polynesian DVC project from the Monorail.
  

• Page Number: 30
  

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• Page Number: 32
  

  A car at the Wedding Pavilion
  

• Page Number: 33
  

  A look at the Grand Floridian Renovation
  

• Page Number: 34
  

• Page Number: 35
  

  Getting darker as we head back to the Magic Kingdom
  

• Page Number: 36
  

  The boat queue is much shorter now.
  3:15pm - Tonight is a party night at the Magic Kingdom, all those guests are waiting to be let in.
  3:16pm - I am heading for the bus stop to try and get outta here before the rain.
  

• Page Number: 37
  

  3:34pm - A parade of buses arriving, one of which is ours.
  3:58pm - Back at the Beach Club, nearly 40 minutes to return this afternoon.
  The storm rolled through with some heavy down pours and some lightning and thunder.
  

• Page Number: 38
  

  6:19pm - The heavy rain had passed so I decided to head for the lobby and see what was going on while waiting for the smaller bands to roll through.
  The gingerbread carousel
  

• Page Number: 39
  

  The pool was closed due to the storm
  

• Page Number: 40
  

  A wreath by the pool
  A wreath by Cape May
  An overhead look at the gingerbread Carousel
  

• Page Number: 41
  

  One more wide view before heading back to the room.
  An overhead look at the gingerbread Carousel