So on our short, but very important, to-do list, we were able to scratch a couple of things off a couple nights ago!
Originally, my parents were going to be leaving before us to drive down to Orlando and were booking a hotel room for a night or two with their rewards points. Since we had decided to fly in on Saturday the 20th instead of Sunday the 21st, we were going to share that hotel room with them Saturday night instead of trying to add more days at Bonnet Creek (didn't have enough points to add more nights). But now that their trip has gotten shortened, they won't be driving in until Sunday to avoid paying for any additional hotel rooms. That left us with nowhere to stay Saturday night. We started looking at the other Wyndham properties around Disney World, and we found out just by borrowing a few hundred points from next year, we could book one night at Cypress Palms.
If you have followed me on previous TRs, you might remember that we stayed here for a couple of nights when we went for a weekend trip while I was pregnant with DS. It's about a 10 minute drive to the parks, and will serve our needs just fine for one night. And I'm secretly pretty happy that we will not have to share one room with DS because I don't know how well that would go, and we want to be well rested for our first rope drop morning in the parks! So we booked that a few nights ago.
Also, we FINALLY booked our return flight!! We have been watching and watching the fare for the original flight we wanted that left at 6 pm on Sunday October 28th. It was $200/person for awhile, and we should have jumped on it then because soon it went up to $248/person, and then it finally sold out! Now that we have to buy 3 tickets, that was just too expensive. Instead, we are getting a hotel room near the airport on the night of the 28th and flying out instead at 7:15 am on Monday the 29th for $125/person. Not excited about the super early morning, but the cheaper fare was totally worth it.
We still need to...
- Book rental car
- Book hotel room for last night
- Pack!
With only a little more than 2 weeks left, plus DS's birthday party coming up this weekend, I know we need to get a move on because the next few weeks are going to fly by! Hopefully for the hotel room near the airport, we can find something reasonable priced with a closed off bedroom so we can have separate sleeping quarters for the night. However, with us needing to get up so early the next morning and from being worn out from a week at the parks, it might not be that hard for us to all go to bed at DS's bedtime!
For the rental car, we will probably do Name Your Own Price again on Priceline and hope we get a good daily rate since we will need the car for 9 days!
And packing...well, I don't do that until a few days before anyway!
One last thing, we went shopping this weekend at Party City to get all of the supplies for DS's birthday party, and we ended up finding his costume! It looks way cuter on him than in this picture but I don't have a picture of him in it yet. He's going to be a dinosaur!
I saw it and loved it more than the pirate or Super Grover once it was on him, so that's what we decided to go with. He is already practicing his roars!
I'm glad he's feeling better.
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for adding another day. That really takes the pressure off for your last day. You can enjoy it any way you want. Sounds perfect.
