Always a Project

After our delightful stay at Fort Wilderness, we left vacation mode and got back to more normal day-to-day life.  Our next stop was Sherwood Forest, a Thousand Trails resort where we stayed for two weeks.  We've stayed here before and it's definitely our favorite Thousand Trails campground in the Orlando area, both because of its proximity to Disney and the dryness and levelness of the sights.

Campsite at Sherwood Forest

It may be difficult to tell in the photo, but we had a site at the end of a row, which meant we had a little more privacy and a little more space than most of the other campsites.

While we were parked in Sherwood Forest we finally finished waxing the RV to protect all the new paint we'd applied in West Virginia.  And of course Aaron found plenty more projects to work on...

One of the furnaces stopped working.
Here Aaron is diagnosing it - ultimately
he just had to clean the electrical 
connections to fix it.

One of many loose tiles in our bathroom.  Aaron ripped them
all up....

...hacked all the grout off the back...

...and reseated and regrouted them.  Amazingly none of the 
subfloor was damaged, we're not sure why the tiles were loose.

All done!

Aaron also spent a lot of time working on the air conditioners...

He added insulation and taped the
corners around the intake/outlet boxes

And replaced one of the fan motors and one of the control boards

We had a couple of fun animal buddies in Sherwood Forest...

This red shouldered hawk frequented 
the area between our campsite and
the resort's laundromat

Random neighborhood cat who liked our campsite

And of course what everyone wants to know...how does COVID make this all different?  Well, the main pool was closed, the clubhouse was closed, all the resort activities were canceled, and you weren't allowed in the office (you knocked on the door and someone came outside to assist you).  Since we didn't regularly use any of these services, it didn't have a huge impact on us.  

We celebrated Aaron's birthday while staying in Sherwood Forest with some birthday muffins and a fun day at Disney.

Birthday breakfast

Obligatory birthday buttons at Disney

In front of Star Tours at Hollywood Studios

We saw the cavalcades at Animal Kingdom for the first time - they traverse the river - cavalcades are one wonderful thing that has come from the COVID response at Disney.

Character cavalcade in Animal Kingdom

And of course as soon as Halloween was over, the Christmas decorations went up at Disney World!

Main Street USA, Magic Kingdom