Living in a TENT at DISNEY WORLD for Christmas!🎄

Hey everybody and welcome to The Family Fudge. In today's video, we're living in a tent at Christmas time. Come along with us for 24 hours as we go Christmas camping at the most magical place on earth, Disney World. This has become a family tradition for us that we definitely look forward to every year. But of course, this year we had to make some changes. In this video, I'll take you on a tour of our new setup, including one of the coolest tents I've ever seen. I'll also show you how I keep our campsite organized. I'll share breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And of course, I'll show you the truckload of Christmas decorations we set up, as well as some amazing Christmas displays from other campers. Friends, Christmas camping at Disney World is over the top and ultra festive, which I love and I can't wait to share it all with you. Now, don't forget to like and subscribe and let's get on to the camping. Yesterday, we got here around 4 p.m. and we started setting everything up, which I have to say, wasn't the easiest because it was sprinkling on and off and it started getting dark at 6 p.m. So we didn't have a ton of time. And I don't know if you've ever set up a tent in the rain or in the dark before, but it definitely makes things more of a challenge. Now, if you've seen any of our Disney camping videos before, you'll notice that we don't have a camper or an RV this year. In the past, we've rented RVs to stay in, or we've stayed in our own tiny RV. But this year, we decided to give head camping a try, but more about the tent in just a bit. Now, last night, after we got everything set up, it was pretty late. And one of the great things about staying at the Disney World campground is that they have a restaurant on site. So for dinner, we ended up just ordering a pizza, fries, mac and cheese, things like that. Not a typical camping dinner, but it was easy and quick. And then after dinner, we all got ready for bed. Good morning. John and I are about to get started on breakfast, but first a tour. Now, we've already cleaned up all of the bedding from last night and we've tidied up. So I need to give this tour before everything gets messy again. So here we have our overall camping site. In this area of the campground, there are big, massive RVs. And then there's us with our huge tent. And we have our forest of Christmas trees. Now, personally, I love this tent. Not only is it super easy to put together, it's also nice and tall, so you can actually stand up inside the tent. But I also really love how much it looks like a cabin on the outside. I think it is so cute. The only bad thing about this tent is that you can't technically buy it right now. It's from Walmart, but it says it's currently sold out. Now, we actually found this on Facebook Marketplace for only $100. The brand is Ozark Trail, and it claims to sleep 12 people. Now, I'd say it really only sleeps about four to six comfortably, especially if you want to use air mattresses like we do. So at the front of our tent, I have our little setup with our doormats, just like I have back at home. And then I also have a little bin here by the door so we can take off our shoes before we enter. Right now, we have it set up in what I call living room mode. During the day, we're storing our extra bedding and our clothes in the back of our car. That way, they don't clutter up our tent while we're using it. Right now, we just have a few bins for jackets and sweatshirts. We have pillows and throw blankets. We have plenty of seating. And I've also packed our little projector so that later tonight, we can cozy up in here and watch a Christmas movie before bed. So yes, during the day, we have our four couches set up like this. And then of course, at night, these fold out into queen-size air beds. So my husband and I sleep in here, and the two younger kids, Lily and Griffin, sleep in here too. But then for my teens, Jackson and Mackenzie, they have their own sleeping spaces. Back behind our main tent, we left a little courtyard space. The kids can ride their scooters in here. We can set up our camping chairs if we want. But after breakfast, we're actually gonna pull a couple of golf carts back here, so stay tuned for that. Basically, these two teenager tents are like mini versions of our big tent. These tents are also from Walmart, and they say they can sleep up to four people. We just have one queen air mattress in each of them, and that makes them nice and comfy for just one person. So now back up to the front, you'll see we've got our big candy cane arch and our 14-foot Santa. We have our little arch over here, and I've left a spot right here for parking our golf carts. So now walking back into the courtyard, on this side, we have our outdoor kitchen and our cooking area. Even though this campground is only like two miles from the Magic Kingdom, it actually has a lot of critters and wildlife. We've learned the hard way that you can't just leave food out in the open, so to keep it all put away, I'm using a bike tent. Now here's how you're supposed to use it, but in ours, I have a table, our electric ice chest, our kettle, our ice maker, things like that, and these do have a plug nearby. Now underneath our table, I have a bin for my cooking pans and utensils, and then in one of these sets of drawers, I have things like plates, cups, and utensils, and then in the other one, I have non-perishable food and snacks. Now this whole tent can be zipped up while we're not here, so it keeps the critters out, and it also keeps things dry if it rains. Now right next to our camping kitchen, I have a smaller table, and this is where I set up the camping stove and any cooking that I'm going to do, because I don't want to actually cook in the kitchen tent. That might be dangerous, and I always like to bring a little speaker. That way I can play Christmas music around our site. On the other side of our courtyard, we have our picnic table. Now this is provided by the campground, but I like to add a little easy up tent over the top. That way we have sunshade, we can stay pretty dry if it rains, and to go along with this, I do have the screen add-on, so if the mosquitoes get really bad or if the flies become a problem, I can add this on. Now in case you were wondering about the bathrooms, the showers, or the getting ready situation, this campground does provide comfort stations for that too. These comfort stations are not far from our campsite, and they're always very clean. So now on to breakfast. John and I are going to need a tag team this. We're going to make some Christmas Mickey waffles with the waffle iron I brought from home, and to make these extra Christmassy, I'm turning them green. I'm serving these waffles just like they do at the Magic Kingdom, and that means Nutella and plenty of fruit. To go along with the waffles, we're also making some scrambled eggs with cheese and some chicken apple sausage, and to make preparing food at the campsite a little bit easier, I went ahead and pre-chopped as much as I could before we left get ready for the golf carts. Now the thing about this campground is that it's massive, but you're not supposed to just drive your car around to the different areas. So instead, there's a whole golf cart culture here, and during the holidays, people like to decorate them. Now usually we have one six-seater golf cart that fits the whole family. They ended up giving us two small golf carts instead. Honestly, this was such a bummer because I love driving around together to look at all of the Christmas lights. Okay guys, so now that we're done decorating the golf carts, I'm going to whip together a very simple chili cheese Christmas camping nachos, and I need to do this quickly because we're about to head to Epcot to go on some rides. Now the great thing about this lunch is that there's no real cooking required, and it's all made in one pot. You're just going to take one can of your favorite chili, any brand will do. You're just going to add that to your skillet, and then you're going to add one jar of your favorite nacho cheese, followed by half a jar of your favorite salsa. My kids like the mild. Now all I have to do is just heat this through. I want to get this nice and bubbling, and then I'm going to turn off the heat. Next, I'm going to cover the entire top with lots of shredded cheese. Then I'm going to pop the lid on to help that cheese get ooey, gooey, and melty. Now I'm going to serve this with some guacamole and plenty of Christmas colored tortilla chips. I also have some shredded lettuce on the side and some sour cream. After lunch, we didn't have a whole lot to clean up, which was awesome. Some of us changed our clothes so we could head over to Epcot. Now the first thing we did was rush over to ride Guardians of the Galaxy. If you ask me, this is the number one best ride in all of Disney World. This one is so much fun, and it's not too scary. After that, it was just about time for an early dinner. Since Epcot has their festival of the holidays going on right now, each kiddo picked out something different from the festival to try. From Japan, Mackenzie picked out the Christmas tree sushi. This has crab meat, cream cheese, salmon roe, and spicy mayo. From Hawaii, Griffin picked out the Kalua pork. I was surprised to pick this one out. This came with sweet potatoes from Okinawa and a mango salad. From the Bavaria booth, Lily chose the cheese fondue. This was a bread bowl, and on the side there were baby vegetables, potatoes, and pickles. And then lastly, from Canada, Jackson picked the holiday poutine. This had sweet potato fries, turkey, turkey gravy, cranberry relish, and crispy onions. Now after that, Epcot was getting crazy busy because of the candlelight processional. We did end up watching some of that, but then we had to head back to the campground because I still had a couple of things planned before bedtime. Once it was dark, it was time for the golf cart tour. We loaded up our golf carts and we drove around to check out all of the displays. Out of everything, this is always my favorite part of holiday camping at Disney. And I say holiday camping because people do this decorating for Halloween too. Now some of these displays can be really, really elaborate, and it's always fun to see what people come up with. And you can really tell that these people love Christmas camping picked the movie Home Alone. That is his favorite, but I would love to know in the comments down below, what is your favorite Christmas movie? Now we ended up projecting this on the front wall of our tent. That way, everybody else who is still driving by to check out all the decorations could watch our movie too. You could totally see it from the outside and the inside of our tent.