Day 8 pm --Hoop Dee Doo Revue

In my months and months of Disney planning I read forum after forum, post after post about everything Disney. One thing that kept getting rave reviews from about 99.9% of the people was a dinner show called "The Hoop Dee Doo Revue". It was located at Ft. Wilderness Campground, a short boat ride away from the Wilderness Lodge.

We decided to try it on our last night at Disney World--to end the vacation on a high note.
We all got ready and headed over, stopping to take a family picture in front of the waterfall at WL--not the best picture ever.


Our reservation was for the 7:15 show. We got there early and were seated at our table--our table was pretty close to the stage--well, actually it was touching the stage on one side. If you look at the picture in the link above you will see a lady in the front row of tables with a red plaid shirt on--that is where we sat.

The show was absolutely fantastic. The kids loved it as much as Matt and I (OK--it was a little loud for Alex--but he fell asleep halfway through so that was fine). The performers were on stage and in the audience at times--singing, cracking jokes and talking to people in the audience as well as each other.

The show reminded me a lot of a show I remember my parents watching--Hee Haw (or something like that).

At the begining of the show they sing a song about people coming from all over and the performers walk around the audience asking where you are from and then sing a little verse to the song about your state. One of the ladies picked us and the verse for Georgia was something like this (can't remember exactly)
"This family comes here from Georgia's sunny beaches,
What we really want to know is: Did you bring us any peaches?"

When they brought out dinner (to music and singing of course) they plopped down pails of food at each table. The first pail they plopped down at our table was on Carter's plate--I took this picture, and it might be one of my favorite from the entire trip


We took a couple more--these were taken closer to dessert time and the first picture the performer that is behind me (can't remember his name, sorry) made a joke about the show being so good it was putting the audience to sleep (because of Alex sleeping on my shoulder).




I think it is a hard decision which was more fun--this show or the fireworks cruise, but definitely tied for first on the best moments of our vacation. We all sang the songs all night and the kids talked on and on about their favorite parts of the show--really excellent.

We got back to the resort, only to realize we had left the stroller over there-so Matt helped me get the kids to bed and then took one for the team and took the boat back over to retrieve our stroller--what a good guy!

Tomorrow--leaving :(