The dates were decided for us by the all mighty Buzz, aka Montana Disney Fan. Here he is last Ip Dip with his lovely and wonderful wife Linnie when they saw all of us for the first time:
They looked thrilled, didnt they??
They actually knew we were coming, Buzz even made the ADR for that evening. Here they are while we are all talking and listening to Off Kilter:
This is the way I remember them and everyone else from that night, laughing and smiling. They (the Ip Dippers) are fantastic people, just amazing.
Jodi, aka jodster a member of the Fockers was there with her family, she might come again, I am hoping and praying she does. Here she is with me last year:
(pic stolen from someone that took it at Ip Dip)
She is a bright light in this world, has a warm brilliant smile and the sweetest soul, and she loves the COLTS!! Go Jodi!!
See why I want to go back?
We also get to meet some new people this trip. Here is Kym and her hubby Rob. She is a WDW fanatic and I love hearing about her trips!! Doesnt it feel like you kind of know someone by reading about their WDW travels? I cant wait to meet them:
We have some people that might come. Carrie was at Ip Dip last year. Her smile can light up the room, she is so sweet and kind. She says she might be able to make it this year. Here she is from last October, she is in the pink:
We are hoping many others will join us, 2 more people are coming so far if I am right and a couple more are trying to make the trip a reality. Once I get confirmation from everyone and permission I will give them a shout out.
The last 3 trips we have stayed at Pop Century. We like the place, the roll in showers are nice and big, the busses are dedicated so no sharing, and we dont swim so the pools dont matter to us. To me it is just a place to lay our heads. Bill on the other hand likes to try different resorts, etc. Scott kept mentioning Port Orleans Riverside (see subliminal messages again
). We had stayed there in Nov. 2006 on the Alligator Bayou side. Bill thought it would be fun to stay on the Mansion side and since he agreed to go to Ip-Dip I thought I could compromise on the resort choice. It is really pretty there, I just dont think we will get to enjoy it much because we (well I) have plans, too many plans in fact. Scott was booked at Pop, but said he really wished he could do POR so with a little AP discount I suggested he book with us and then we could all stay at POR.
Oh goodness, some of you are probably thinking Who the heck is Scott? He is Scottny on the DIS and Scott-loves-Disney on Enchanted. His love for Disney dare I say, rivals mine
. He is my brother from another mother (Hi Scott
).
Here is Scott at Ip-Dip last October:
He is such a great guy, is so nice to everyone, and he cracks me up every day.
How do you fit in all this fun I have planned in 4 days and 3 nights? You dont sleep!! Well not true, we have to sleep a little
dang Bill wants to for some reason? We will get to Orlando before 11am, not sure as to when we will arrive at the resort, depends on how long MCO takes to bring Bills chair to him and how long it will take to get an accessible Magical Express bus to pick us up.
Here is the line up as I see it today (It will undoubtedly change many times, these things are being talked about daily):
Oct. 8, 2009: Drive to St. Louis, check into the hotel.
Oct. 9, 2009: St. Louis Airport to MCO. Check in at ME and take a bus to Port Orleans Riverside. Last time we had a problem with them not seeing that we needed an accessible room, so this time I called the special needs number directly, there is a lock/hold put on an accessible room in the Mansions section. I will call a couple of days to that number again and make sure they know we have to have a roll in shower room.
Here is where things will go one way or the other:
IF we can get into the room, we will freshen up, text with Scott to see where he is, take a boat to DTD and get lunch at T-Rex go back to the room and rest for a bit. Now I personally would rather grab a counter service at POR and lay down for a bit because we have
MNSSHP that night and will have been up since about 3:30am that morning. Bill wants to see T-Rex so I am going.
IF we cant get into the room, we will hope a bus to DHS look around and grab a counter service, with me obsessively calling until they tell us we can go to the room. Are you wondering why we arent just going to DTD either way? Personal care issues for Bill, if we dont have the room we will make a stop at the First Aid station at DHS. We will then go back to the resort and get ready to meet the Enchanters for Mickeys Not So Scary Halloween Party. We arent going to stay too late, I know Bill will be tired.
Oct. 10, 2009: Epcot, rope drop if possible. The lovely Enchanters say we might be meeting this day too and some even said they would help me load Bill into Test Track, he would love that if that would happen. There might even be an Enchanted lunch somewhere. I know some of them are going to be partaking in the Food and Wine Festival. I am just making a beeline for my Grey Goose Slushie goodness!! If we arent too tired we will watch Illuminations.
Oct. 11, 2009: Animal Kingdom day, Ip-Dip dinner that night and who knows what after that.
Oct. 12, 2009: Disney Hollywood Studios and departure day. We just want to hang out and watch the streetmosphere people, then back to POR for ME to pick us up. We have decided to spend the night in St. Louis so I am not driving at midnight or later to get home.
I am not going to plan out this trip like I normally do. There are too many variables involving other people. I am just going to take it as a fun trip and what ever we do, we do, what ever we dont do we will do in December. Bill will love this touring style, but I reserve the right to be a trip planning Nazi for the December trip.
So that is it, that is the plan so far, so what the heck am I going to talk about for the next 6 months?
Next installment
We are going to a party so we have to dress up, right?
I have always enjoyed reading along on your reports so I thought I would jump on this one too!
. That picture of Bill has been the most commented on picture in any of my TR's 
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It really is magic!
(but I was NOT a lurker! 
) so you will have to get onto the other 150 viewers! lol
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Maybe they are scared! 
I'll get caught up later. 
. Any chance you are going in December?? We are going to be there Dec. 13 -19th. Thanks for posting.
