punkin413
feel the magic, dang it!
- Joined
- Jan 9, 2007
my very first trip report!!!!!!!!
hi.
my name is dawn and im a disney-holic. nice to meet all of you.
im reserving this area for my TR index (so those of you who are interested can just come here and look to see what pages the actual trip report will eventually be on).
TR INDEX
-pre-trip report #1: page 1, post 1 (duh....you're reading it!)
-pre-trip report #2: page 4, post 51
-pre-trip report #3: page 6, post 82
-pre-trip report #4: page 6, post 88
-pre-trip report #5: page 7, post 99
-pre-trip report #6: page 10, post 137
-day 1, part 1 - check-in and MGM: page 16, post 228
-day 1, part 2 - remainder of MGM: page 18, post 262
-semi-update - 1st photopass pics: page 20, post 300
-day 2, part 1 - epcot: page 21, post 311
-day 2, part 2 - more epcot: page 23, post 341
-day 2, part 3 - MK and DTD: page 24, post 356
-day 3, part 1 - morning at AK: page 26, post 388
-day 3, part 2 - remainder of AK: page 28, posts 415 & 416
-video of tower of terror: page 29, post 431
-videos of fantasmic finale, EE & gorillas at AK: page 30, post 447
-day 3, part 3 - dinner at narcoosee's with wishes: page 32, posts 472 & 473
-day 4, part 1 - MK opening and fantasyland: page 35, post 512
-day 4, part 2 - MK - toon town, frontierland, HM & casey's: page 36, posts 535 & 536
-day 4, part 3 - MK - adventureland, parade, etc.: page 38, posts 559 & 560
-day 4, part 4 - MK (dream along with mickey) & dinner at kona cafe: page 40, posts 588 & 589
-day 4, part 5 - MK - late afternoon fun and wishes: page 43, posts 641, 642 & 643
-FINAL THOUGHTS - page 44, post 660
okay ..heres the lowdown. im a 30-year-old court reporter whos happily married to DH (ray), a 35-year-old computer technician. ive been to WDW three times before, when i was 8, 11 and 15. ive been DYING to go back ever since, but due to things like college, being broke and just life in general getting in the way, im just now getting around to doing it. DH has been numerous times before, but all in or before the early 80s. so obviously its been a long time coming for both of us ..too long!
last spring DH and i were discussing where to go for our 5-year wedding anniversary and i mentioned disney. his exact words were, book it. your wish is my command!
our anniversary is april 13th, but we decided to wait until may because I didnt want to take the chance of being there during any spring break crowds. the book it conversation was in may 2006 and i had to wait until august to book the trip since the rates for may 2007 didnt come out until then. it seems like those 3 months were more like 3 years!!!
anyway, on to the cast:
DH the love of my life for the past 13 years. weve been dating since 1993, my senior year in high school. weve been married for 5 years and its been absolutely great the whole way! (yeah, i know, gag!!!) DH loves star wars
(i CANNOT believe they changed SWW at MGM to june this year!!!!! were going to miss it! 
) and anything electronic. hes a true dork, but a dork of the handsome persuasion IMO! he owns a huge collection of gundams, which are like really expensive japanese transformer models. one of the main reasons i love him is because hes like a 35-year-old kid
.well, that and hes an EXCELLENT cook! hes not into disney like me, but is definitely looking forward to the trip and i have a feeling well be back soon after he sees how great a well-planned WDW vacation can be!!!! but i have promised him we will go to yellowstone national park on our next major vacation. dont know how much fun that will be, but hes letting me do the disney thing, so I guess its only fair!!
me i love anything disney
(as I already told you). i own a huge assortment of disney movies and i watch them on a regular basis, my favorites being peter pan, alice in wonderland, lady & the tramp, aladdin and beauty and the beast. my one requirement before even DISCUSSING having kids was that DH and i go to WDW on our own without kids. may not make a lot of sense to some of you, but i dont make sense to a lot of people! 
okay here are the trip details, just FYI.
were staying at pop century. i wouldve loved to stay at one of the nicer resorts (the poly being my dream hotel), but i figured wed rather have more spending money instead of spending it on the hotel. i dont think were going to be spending much time there anyway. plus its a disney hotel and value by disney standards is not really real world value!
we got a 4-day park hopper ticket with the water park fun n more option (although were not planning on visiting the water parks, but i wanted that option for the DTD stuff). were also on the DDP.
heres what weve planned so far:
saturday, may 5: leave georgia!
were planning on dropping off the kids (our two beagles, sherman and eli) at DHs moms house late saturday afternoon (i will miss my babies so! 
), hitting the road and stopping somewhere about an hour north of orlando to spend the night. dont know where yet and im not making reservations
were just gonna wing it!
sunday, may 6: get up early (early is like 8:00 a.m. for us!) and head to WDW
. were going to eat lunch at the pop food court after we check in, then head to MGM (hopefully by noonish). we have a 6:30 ADR at sci-fi dine-in theatre. im still trying to convince myself to ride ToT, the *only* ride at WDW im worried about. MK has extra magic hours that night, so im thinking well head over there after fantasmic.
monday, may 7: epcot until late afternoon. we have a 12:00 ADR at le cellier. and yes, we will be doing the drinking around the world thing.
but dont be disappointed if we dont get something from *every* country. i dont want to overdo it and then be miserable the rest of the day! well probably leave epcot around 5:00 or 6:00 and then go back to pop, freshen up and head to DTD that night. were planning on eating at wolfgang puck express and going to PI.
tuesday, may 8: animal kingdom until closing (6:00). i want to try to go by AKL at some point that day, too, just to check it out. im thinking well probably eat lunch at flame tree or pizzafari, depending on our mood. i know .everyones going to recommend tusker house to us. but im not a big fan of chicken on a bone. it grosses me out
. so I dont think tusker house is a good idea for me. were then heading back to pop to freshen up and we have a 8:10 ADR at narcoosees. cant wait to see wishes from there! after dinner we might head over to the boardwalk for awhile.
wednesday, may 9: magic kingdom all day. for lunch it will probably come down to caseys, pecos bills or pinnochios village haus, depending on our mood and where were at when we get hungry! we have a 5:30 ADR at kona café, so were going to hop on the monorail for that and then come back to MK til closing.
thursday, may 10: leave WDW.
how heartbreaking! ill live, though. were going to head over to cape canaveral and go to kennedy space center that day (DHs reward for 4 days of disney!), then stay at a bed and breakfast that night.
friday, may 11: drive home to georgia and come back to reality.
by the way, ive got my crocs bought and broken in (although theyre not lime green just couldnt bring myself to buy those!) and ive already cut out my lime green mickey heads from the home depot paint sample department. so if youre going to be at WDW when we are, look for DH carrying a bookbag with a green mickey head pinned to it! ill be focker watching!!!!!!
thats it for now. i feel those are all the details anyone would be interested in anyway! most likely i wont be posting any updates (other than just your regular DIS hellos, welcome to my TR, thank you for reading, etc.) until we get back unless we have a change in plans.
thanks in advance for reading!
hi.
my name is dawn and im a disney-holic. nice to meet all of you.im reserving this area for my TR index (so those of you who are interested can just come here and look to see what pages the actual trip report will eventually be on).
TR INDEX
-pre-trip report #1: page 1, post 1 (duh....you're reading it!)
-pre-trip report #2: page 4, post 51
-pre-trip report #3: page 6, post 82
-pre-trip report #4: page 6, post 88
-pre-trip report #5: page 7, post 99
-pre-trip report #6: page 10, post 137
-day 1, part 1 - check-in and MGM: page 16, post 228
-day 1, part 2 - remainder of MGM: page 18, post 262
-semi-update - 1st photopass pics: page 20, post 300
-day 2, part 1 - epcot: page 21, post 311
-day 2, part 2 - more epcot: page 23, post 341
-day 2, part 3 - MK and DTD: page 24, post 356
-day 3, part 1 - morning at AK: page 26, post 388
-day 3, part 2 - remainder of AK: page 28, posts 415 & 416
-video of tower of terror: page 29, post 431
-videos of fantasmic finale, EE & gorillas at AK: page 30, post 447
-day 3, part 3 - dinner at narcoosee's with wishes: page 32, posts 472 & 473
-day 4, part 1 - MK opening and fantasyland: page 35, post 512
-day 4, part 2 - MK - toon town, frontierland, HM & casey's: page 36, posts 535 & 536
-day 4, part 3 - MK - adventureland, parade, etc.: page 38, posts 559 & 560
-day 4, part 4 - MK (dream along with mickey) & dinner at kona cafe: page 40, posts 588 & 589
-day 4, part 5 - MK - late afternoon fun and wishes: page 43, posts 641, 642 & 643
-FINAL THOUGHTS - page 44, post 660
okay ..heres the lowdown. im a 30-year-old court reporter whos happily married to DH (ray), a 35-year-old computer technician. ive been to WDW three times before, when i was 8, 11 and 15. ive been DYING to go back ever since, but due to things like college, being broke and just life in general getting in the way, im just now getting around to doing it. DH has been numerous times before, but all in or before the early 80s. so obviously its been a long time coming for both of us ..too long!
last spring DH and i were discussing where to go for our 5-year wedding anniversary and i mentioned disney. his exact words were, book it. your wish is my command!
our anniversary is april 13th, but we decided to wait until may because I didnt want to take the chance of being there during any spring break crowds. the book it conversation was in may 2006 and i had to wait until august to book the trip since the rates for may 2007 didnt come out until then. it seems like those 3 months were more like 3 years!!!
anyway, on to the cast:
DH the love of my life for the past 13 years. weve been dating since 1993, my senior year in high school. weve been married for 5 years and its been absolutely great the whole way! (yeah, i know, gag!!!) DH loves star wars
(i CANNOT believe they changed SWW at MGM to june this year!!!!! were going to miss it! ) and anything electronic. hes a true dork, but a dork of the handsome persuasion IMO! he owns a huge collection of gundams, which are like really expensive japanese transformer models. one of the main reasons i love him is because hes like a 35-year-old kid
.well, that and hes an EXCELLENT cook! hes not into disney like me, but is definitely looking forward to the trip and i have a feeling well be back soon after he sees how great a well-planned WDW vacation can be!!!! but i have promised him we will go to yellowstone national park on our next major vacation. dont know how much fun that will be, but hes letting me do the disney thing, so I guess its only fair!!me i love anything disney
(as I already told you). i own a huge assortment of disney movies and i watch them on a regular basis, my favorites being peter pan, alice in wonderland, lady & the tramp, aladdin and beauty and the beast. my one requirement before even DISCUSSING having kids was that DH and i go to WDW on our own without kids. may not make a lot of sense to some of you, but i dont make sense to a lot of people! okay here are the trip details, just FYI.
were staying at pop century. i wouldve loved to stay at one of the nicer resorts (the poly being my dream hotel), but i figured wed rather have more spending money instead of spending it on the hotel. i dont think were going to be spending much time there anyway. plus its a disney hotel and value by disney standards is not really real world value!
we got a 4-day park hopper ticket with the water park fun n more option (although were not planning on visiting the water parks, but i wanted that option for the DTD stuff). were also on the DDP.
heres what weve planned so far:
saturday, may 5: leave georgia!
were planning on dropping off the kids (our two beagles, sherman and eli) at DHs moms house late saturday afternoon (i will miss my babies so! ), hitting the road and stopping somewhere about an hour north of orlando to spend the night. dont know where yet and im not making reservations
were just gonna wing it!sunday, may 6: get up early (early is like 8:00 a.m. for us!) and head to WDW
. were going to eat lunch at the pop food court after we check in, then head to MGM (hopefully by noonish). we have a 6:30 ADR at sci-fi dine-in theatre. im still trying to convince myself to ride ToT, the *only* ride at WDW im worried about. MK has extra magic hours that night, so im thinking well head over there after fantasmic.monday, may 7: epcot until late afternoon. we have a 12:00 ADR at le cellier. and yes, we will be doing the drinking around the world thing.
but dont be disappointed if we dont get something from *every* country. i dont want to overdo it and then be miserable the rest of the day! well probably leave epcot around 5:00 or 6:00 and then go back to pop, freshen up and head to DTD that night. were planning on eating at wolfgang puck express and going to PI.tuesday, may 8: animal kingdom until closing (6:00). i want to try to go by AKL at some point that day, too, just to check it out. im thinking well probably eat lunch at flame tree or pizzafari, depending on our mood. i know .everyones going to recommend tusker house to us. but im not a big fan of chicken on a bone. it grosses me out
. so I dont think tusker house is a good idea for me. were then heading back to pop to freshen up and we have a 8:10 ADR at narcoosees. cant wait to see wishes from there! after dinner we might head over to the boardwalk for awhile.wednesday, may 9: magic kingdom all day. for lunch it will probably come down to caseys, pecos bills or pinnochios village haus, depending on our mood and where were at when we get hungry! we have a 5:30 ADR at kona café, so were going to hop on the monorail for that and then come back to MK til closing.
thursday, may 10: leave WDW.
how heartbreaking! ill live, though. were going to head over to cape canaveral and go to kennedy space center that day (DHs reward for 4 days of disney!), then stay at a bed and breakfast that night.friday, may 11: drive home to georgia and come back to reality.
by the way, ive got my crocs bought and broken in (although theyre not lime green just couldnt bring myself to buy those!) and ive already cut out my lime green mickey heads from the home depot paint sample department. so if youre going to be at WDW when we are, look for DH carrying a bookbag with a green mickey head pinned to it! ill be focker watching!!!!!!
thats it for now. i feel those are all the details anyone would be interested in anyway! most likely i wont be posting any updates (other than just your regular DIS hellos, welcome to my TR, thank you for reading, etc.) until we get back unless we have a change in plans.
thanks in advance for reading!
thanks for reading!
