Hey everyone, I’m Mike, she’s Sophie, that’s Brenda, and he’s Grogu, and we’re On the Road with Mickey! This is episode 245 and this week our feature topic is Top 5 Educational Attractions at WDW! This week, we’re talking about the best of the best when it comes to educational attractions at Walt Disney World. What is on your list? Let us know! Here’s what we talked about:

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• Cheddar from the Big Cheese:
  
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  • Brenda: The Disney Treasure has arrived in Florida! Her maiden journey to Port Canaveral is now complete, and tomorrow night, November 19th at 8PM, on the Disney Parks Blog, you can watch a livestream of the Christening of the ship!
    
  • Sophie: Also Disney Treasure news – on November 10th the Disney Treasure saved four people who were on a sinking catamaran – located over 200 miles from Bermuda! The crew sent a smaller ship to the catamaran, and the crew performed perfectly in saving those people. Well done!
    
  • Mike: Walt Disney World Resort refurbishment news: Over at Wilderness Lodge, the Copper Creek Villas & Cabins will be going through a refurbishment from Mid-May through September, 2025. Over at Port Orleans Riverside, refurbishment will happen in the Magnolia Bend section of the resort from April 2025 until January, 2026. Lastly, Pop Century will receive updates starting in late March 2025 through mid-February, 2026.
    
  
  
  
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  • Patti chimed in with a very good answer: “I have nothing. We always try to check everything out and experience different things we haven’t before.”
    
  • Debbie said: “We do everything and hate missing anything. FYI: I forgot ..we don’t do everything in The Circus area.”
    
  • Pam has a very well thought out answer: “The tea cups. They look fun. I want to like them but they make me nauseous.”
    
  • Sheila and Chrissy have the same thought: “Waiting in line!”
    
  • Lastly, Pam sent us an E-MAIL!!! Yay Pam! Here’s what she wrote: “Hey all.  Really enjoyed the show and it gave me a few new things to think about.  I have to add this though.  Don’t waste your time laying in bed in the morning!  Set that alarm on the phone in your room and let Mickey wake you up.  Get up, get out, get to rope drop.  It really can make a difference.  You can nap later in the day or when you get home from your vacation.  But take advantage of the early morning admission time and get out there and have fun!  Mike, I know we’ve talked about this before.  I can’t stand to waste my morning time at Disney.  I’m raring and ready to get going in the morning.  Just ask my 2 teenage granddaughters I had to “drag out of bed” last year when we took them for our girls trip. No many how many times I go, I can’t help myself from the go go go in the morning mentality. Keep up the great work.
    
  
  
  
• Feature Topic: Top 5 Educational Attractions at WDW
  
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  • For this feature topic, we decided to list five attractions and talk about what makes them very unique. Here is our list of five:
    
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    • Hall of Presidents – Sophie
      
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      • Liberty Square, Magic Kingdom
        
      
      
      
    • American Adventure – Brenda
      
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      • World Showcase, Epcot
        
      
      
      
    • Spaceship Earth – Mike
      
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      • World Celebration, Epcot
        
      
      
      
    • Living with the Land – Sophie
      
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      • World Nature, Epcot
        
      
      
      
    • Kilimanjaro Safaris – Brenda
      
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      • Africa, Animal Kingdom
        
      
      
      
    
    
    
  
  
  
• This Day in Disney History for 11/18:
  
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  • 1928: Mickey Mouse stars in Steamboat Willie!
    
  
  
  
• Stump the Soph!
  
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  • The Little Mermaid – Grimsby, Max, and Eric
    
  
  
  
• A little bit of Walt
  
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  • “The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife, and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen. My interest in these problems has been sharpened by our motion-picture production of wildlife subjects and the relation of animal life to all the other conservation issues during the past few years.”– Walt Disney
    
  
  
  
• Coming Next Week: Getting ready for our Disney Christmas Get Together!
  

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