CAMPING at FORT WILDERNESS & runDISNEY MARATHON EXPO #dailyvlog

Good morning and day two at Disney. This is going to be when it gets real having a daily vlog because Dash just decided he didn't feel like sleeping last night. Exactly. We've been testing the peanuts thing because we know lots of kids are allergic to peanuts but what we found out is that Dash is allergic to sleep. So not only that but like if you watched our last daily vlog I haven't been to the grocery store in like a week so we don't have stuff for coffee at the house. Yeah so the but first coffee thing is not even a thing right now because we can't even make coffee so we're going to explore Fort Wilderness campground here and we're gonna find some coffee and we also need to check the bus routes for the events starting tomorrow as well so let's get started. But check Dash out he looks happy. Hey bus. Okay maybe he looks kind of sleepy too. Are you laughing at our goofy mommy and Dash hour this morning? Okay we're almost at the front and we have two goals in mind. One is hopefully hopefully hopefully they have coffee but two is to check the bus schedules. We're here for the marathon weekend and it is operated by a Disney which operates independently from Disney. That being said they have contracted out with a company called Mears to provide bus transportation to and from the starting I guess area so that is the plan. The long and short of it is that there's a lot of logistics to doing a run Disney race and one of the best ones about that is that they start all the races at 5 a.m which means you get to show up for the corrals at like and the buses to take you at like 2 30 to 3 o'clock in the morning. Yeah yeah yeah so I'm gonna be 100% honest with you when I signed up I signed up for all four races it's called the Dopey Challenge. I just assumed that the races would start at like at a normal time you know 8, 9 a.m. They all start at 5 like Lauren said with the buses departing at around 2 30 a.m. That's gonna be four consecutive days getting up at 2 30 a.m. That might be the hardest part of this whole weekend. So we just found out the bus schedule uh it's as bad as I thought it would be. The good news is the buses run every 15 minutes um that's the good news the bad news no other good news the bad news is that uh the first few days for the 5k and 10k the buses start at uh 3 a.m um and since I'm in the first corral I need to be in the 3 a.m bus um for context the races don't start until five that's right two hours at the you know what of dawn yeah to hang out yeah and hope for good weather so you're not sitting there um in the starting corrals too long uh but on Saturday and Sunday for the half and full marathon the first bus leaves at 2 30. So um half an hour earlier it's already early um I don't even see the point of going to sleep at that point uh on a positive note they did say that if we were leaving from one of the other resorts not Fort Wilderness campsite here um sometimes at 2 30 a.m for the first buses there's like hundreds of people waiting uh fortunately not a ton of runners stay here at Fort Wilderness so pro tip if you're coming for like a run disney race stay at Fort Wilderness you'll have easy access to the buses um so that that is a positive that is a pro um beyond that uh according to those logistics I will have to be asleep by 6 p.m today and it is already 10 a.m um that is eight hours from now that is most likely not going to happen we'll see how this goes but there wasn't coffee in the lodge okay so here there you go gotta go to the back uh Fort Wilderness to find coffee so that's what we're gonna do we are here we need to get to here we just made it to the settlement area in the back of Fort Wilderness campsite apparently or campground apparently this is where you can find the coveted coffee there's the menu oh sandwiches beverages oh beverages yes oh that looks yummy s'mores latte oh somebody's yawning oh oh i missed it little baby dash was yawning too they got a coffee secured this is a s'mores um interesting fact uh they of course have regular milk but if you're looking for coconut or oat milk they do not have it they only offer soy and what i've seen for the very first time here rice milk so he gave me a sample of rice milk to try and it's not bad so i made my latte with rice milk instead um i'm more of a hot tea person they didn't have any tea so i'm seeing something back at the airstream that is what it is oh i'm so sorry honey disney shame shame need more tea options okay so today is the pickup day and we're headed over to ESPN's wide world of sports to pick up the bib and you know participate in the expo well and because this is a daily vlog we'll throw in a little bit of what it looks like the last couple of hours while we work because this is technically a wednesday for us and a work day baby dash obviously loves his job we're training him early uh hashtag boss baby anyone um daddy sherpa made a huge mistake first time i've made this mistake um while we were inside working uh it rained and one of us forgot that the stroller was outside and now it is completely soaked so that sucks but i've got this handy dandy little towel i'm hoping that will dry some of it up so that dash can ride in it um but yeah big slip up by daddy sherpa okay the expo is approximately 7.5 miles from this campground so a gps says it should take around 14 to 15 minutes let's go technically we could take the buses to the expo but it's easier if we're on or we take the truck because then we're on our own schedule because the buses come at certain times but we've been told that because we were staying here at the campground this little lovely piece of paper that they gave us means we have free parking yeah i think she said anywhere uh on a campus but anywhere anywhere the proper any of the properties except for magic kingdom okay because they do not have a parking lot though so there we go what you doing buddy you just need your car seat straps that's lovely dude he's lucky it's not thanksgiving anymore so random we're headed over to something called an expo and when you have huge running events they're typically an expo where you have you know vendor gear occasionally their socks if you've forgotten socks some of them will even sell shoes um lots of running fuel in case you forgot some of that stuff um but this particular expo is for disney marathon weekend and what's highly coveted is the disney merchandise and they have very limited edition disney race weekend merchandise that goes so quickly so quickly in fact that there is a virtual queue that you have to enter um the earliest you can enter it was 8 30 this morning um and then people will just stand on line for hours waiting to get in and so on we've skipped all that jazz we're just going for the bibs um which means we shouldn't have to worry about any of that stuff but in terms of like a line to get into the expo no clue we're about to find out and to note it's not that we're skipping all that jazz with the disney stuff because we don't think it's cool it's just that well we live very minimalist lives and if we did everything like that for every one of the events that we went to well we'd have so much crap that we wouldn't be able to like live in the airstream we totally would and there's some like i would definitely want like a dopey finisher jacket but i know those are like the first to go um and there's some really cool like dopey challenge you know pins and things like that but again like she mentioned there's nowhere to put it but these events these expos are usually huge like massive massive warehouses of all things runner stuff so should be interesting to check out how disney does this one of the things i'm most excited to find out is which corral i'm going to be placed in um there's going to be different corral assignments for the 5k the 10k the half and the full pause not familiar what is a corral if you're not familiar with the corral um think of them as gates that you just sort of like you've heard cattle into a gate that's exactly what they're that's exactly right and then the race will start in waves so like corral a or one or whatever they call it would be the first wave that goes off at you know the start of the race that's the crazy fast people typically the crazy fast people and then typically towards the back of the pack you have you know usually your slower runners and walkers and walkers tons of walkers at disney yeah and that's another thing there are definitely tons of runners and walkers and i have respect for them all anybody that finishes these distances kudos to you um it's a huge undertaking a lot of people have trained for months for this so kudos to everybody participating great we're starting to encounter some traffic i thought by coming later in the day there would be fewer people but there's still a lot of people i guess it's relative right maybe this morning there was even more um that being said it is day one of the expo and those are usually the busiest days this is the packet pickup for all the people who aren't crazy enough to run multiple races and this is what it is according okay okay perfect thank you so much good news i got there's two bits there's one for the 510k and there's one for the in full marathon so i've got technically two bits um right there the letter is corral or they call them waves too wave assignments and i got a which is that's really good that means um that means there's fewer people in front of me and i can go zoom zoom um not that i should before races because i would maybe it's day three or four but still a first win yes okay so welcome to the expo this is not the disney specific one this is just the normal one i told you these things were huge behind me you've got all four race course maps so it's been cool to see what the course of technically actually running um i've taken a look already and let's just say that there aren't gonna be any personal best happening this weekend but this should be a really really good scattered throughout the race and that for me that's my new grunt winner of gold getting some photos or video with some disney characters i just heard from a fellow runner that tomorrow for the 5k it's expected to rain which not too bad for a 5k but if you're running a marathon you would not want it to be raining bad news these expos were known for having a lot of big box stores not a lot of places to get to wonder local but we did find one really cool new vendor that we are pumped about shreddable shell they created this jogger that you throw on over your running clothes so that you can stay warm inside of a corral while you wait pretty epic for any kind of race so we got a couple for the london and the berlin marathon later this year now that the the bibs and swag bag with some shirts and stuff secured it is five o'clock and according to my math skills i need to be in bed in an hour and that includes figuring out what the heck i'm gonna eat for dinner uh figuring out what i'm gonna wear for the race in the morning uh prepping my coffee for the morning which is gonna be black coffee now at this point because we don't have any still haven't gone to the grocery store yet um gosh yeah so much to do and dash is sleeping we're waiting on some account yeah yeah if you saw yesterday's video do you know that uh dash is uh not been sleeping uh which means uh going into this race sleep deprived that wasn't yesterday that was this morning was that this morning no what day is i have no idea where we are right now i'm so tired oh there should be like a first daddy uh challenge and literally the only challenge is just like getting up and functioning throughout the day that is the challenge okay well back to the camper we go let's do this successfully managed to keep dash asleep in the dream quick change in plans i just googled it and the grocery store is only 10 minutes from here since we have already driven 10 minutes away from the campground so that's the reason i haven't made it to the grocery store yet between all of this stuff and the work stuff that we've been doing today getting to a grocery store 20 minutes away and 20 minutes back too time consuming so now it's only 10 minutes we're gonna run go get the basic essentials so that daniel can have creamer with his coffee in the morning and we can figure out something quick and easy to eat for dinner what's up can you tell dash loves going to the grocery store zoom zoom we're gonna catch bobby what do you think buddy yeah we need to do some fast food shopping here so daddy can get to bed oh my goodness is this so much fun grocery secured and back to the airstream with plenty of time to spare i have to be asleep in 15 minutes not bad all right yeah dad and dash okay first of all what do you have on your legs this is for recovery um my legs what are my legs are already a little sore from running from running because i started training two weeks ago for uh this race um it's neither here nor there but this will help so i'm gonna hit this up a little bit before i go to bed they're blow up pants they're blow up pants yeah they compress squeeze out the the bad stuff essentially that's the easiest way to put it dash seems to like it he does oh let's take a look at the see what i got here i got a poster fancy fancy i've got my racing bibs winning super excited about that i see some shirts in there let's see what they gave us oh that's pretty legit oh there's a bunch of stuff in here okay what is this this is the what's that say dopey challenge t-shirt whoa this is the what's that say oh goofy challenge the goofy challenge is just the half marathon and also crazy and then we've got i like the colors kind of like it's got a whole 90s vibe to it um this is for the marathon cute it's pretty cool it's got the whole like a saved by the bell vibe here totally i think so and then you've got um which one's that this is for the half marathon shirt it's pretty cool it's kind of like a what is that lime green i'm not even sure aqua i don't anyways and then here is the which one is this this is the 10k holy moly they give you a ton of shirts shippendale these are all long sleeve shirts and we're in florida that's logical that's logical yeah and here is the 5k i'm kind of digging the 5k shirt oh it's very bright yeah okay that is um oh i forgot his name that's not the dog the dog whatever the dog's name is comment below because i can't believe i'm from orlando i'm forgetting the dog's name anyways and then we've got some other stuff i think that's oh there we go this is the 10th anniversary of the dopey challenge and the 30th anniversary of the the run disney uh marathon weekend so people have been running this crazy race for 10 years that's pretty cool this is like a luggage luggage tag i guess yeah kind of cool i'm digging it well while daniel does his blow up leg things and dash plays with it i'm gonna make dinner i have to say probably my favorite thing about this really ridiculously crazy weekend is the fact that we are going to try to go to bed at 6 p.m and considering what time is it now 6 30 oh considering the bet yeah go to bed at six and you get up at 2 a.m you get eight hours sleep anything after six that's less than eight hours but but lauren we have been sleep deprived for months so we've been training for this at least we've both technically been training for this i don't sleep anymore so yeah about that so at least we might get a little bit more sleep stay tuned check in with us tomorrow in the next vlog in our seven day disney vlog challenge for how we actually sleep tonight because i promise you that you don't want to have to okay until tomorrow friends you get the chance make sure to wander local because as you know it's good for the soul bye for now y'all