Happy New Margarita - The Pre Trippie - Updated - The DIS Discussion Forums

saratogagirl · 10-10-2009, 02:08 PM

Well here we go again, due to unforeseen circumstances last years trippie ended at the pre-trippie! We were home two weeks before my cat needed numerous trips to the vet (I am pleased to report that he is now fighting fit). Immediately after that my nan was taken to hospital where she stayed for three months, before we had to make the difficult decision to choose a care home for her, three months later she is loving it and like a new lady, she has discovered her knitting again, and loves a gossip with the residents, its a great weight of our mind... Needless to stay the first six months of the year were not the best.

Fingers crossed that this gets to be the pre-trippie that leads to the actual trip report.

I know I have been absent for the DIS for a lot of this year, so for those of you who don't know us, here we are:

Me (Jules), 39 loves to plan, loves the mouse, loves the world, my happy place

Ian (39) leaves it all to me, but loves the place as much as I do, to sum his attitiude up he saw a post today entitled "How to do ADRS's when you don't know the park hours" he casually answered to me "you get a bear", I have always been his bear, don't ask why, because I have no idea?? He is soon to be 40 and don't I know it, 2010 seems to have become "The Year of a Million 40th Celebrations".

So 2009 has seen numerous camping weekends, the GGG3, Glastonbury, you will note a lot of tenting has gone on, November 17th sees us off to Cuba with our best mates for two weeks, where we hope to chill, drink and be merry. The question remained what of our DVC points, we knew we wanted to bank some for one of the million 40th celebrations, but could afford to use some. The plan was hatched, we both felt it only fair to spend Christmas Day with my dad this year as we have been gone the past two, but New Year would be practically perfect in every way!!

In February I booked us a flydrive with Virgin departing December 27th, and at the same time booked us into The Cumberland House in Horley for Boxing Night, its good to chill out the night before and gives the opportunity for a pre-holiday booze up...

Saratoga Springs was booked for eight nights as soon as our seven month window came up, the usual requests, upper floor, Congress Park, view of Downtown Disney - fingers crossed. At eleven months I was able to swap our first two nights to Kidani Savannah, which we are both really excited about.

ADRS have been booked and the plan of attack looks something like this:

December 26th make the journey to Gatwick, twilight check in, before much merriment in Horley to get the holiday off with a bang.

December 27th fly to Orlando, quick stop at Publix to stock up on the essentials (beer and wine) before checking into Kidani, our first dinner is at Jiko,

December 28th - Animal Kingdom, we were thinking of giving it a miss as time is precious this year, but I need my fix of the Dawa Bar. We hope to spend some time appreciating the resort before phoning our beloved Papa John in the evening whilst enjoying the views of the Savannah.

December 29th - up and at them early to head for Saratoga to try and get our room requests, before breakfast at Kona, and a few hours at MK, back to the resort a whizz around the Osbourne Lights, before drinkies at The Belle Vue Lounge and a late dinner at The Flying Fish

December 30th - chilling at the resort, before a few hours at Downtown Disney where I am sure our favourite Margarita Bar will feature, before heading to the Wave for dinner. We will then head to the MK for the late night festivies, we love The Magic Kingdom on the 30th where we get to see the sneak peak of Fantasy In The Sky before New Years Eve

December 31st - Epcot - Updated - we will meet up with our maties Mandy and Paul to recreate last years celebration, we had a blast! The plan I think is a few drinks before early dinner at Tutto Italia, we both decided that the sensible thing would be to eat something this year, I am sure we will wash it down with Mr Pinot. We can then pick up our hats and blowers before heading to The Rose and Crown for the 7.00pm party, after that the World is literally our cockle. I can't wait for this night, I am sure we will have some antics to share with you all - promise not to lose myself this year Mand. Here is a pic from last year:

January 1st - recovery day, I am sure that Downtown Disney will feature heavily and we hope to try Paradio 37 in the evening - tequila is your friend..

January 2nd - shopping, we will head to The Mall at Millennia for yankee candles, jimmy choo choo and it would be rude to walk past Tiffanys!! Dinner is booked for Narcoossees and in time with watching Wishes.... We hope to head for the Tambu Lounge afterwards, I need a lapu lapu.

January 3rd - our last day, will be spent at Epcot, where we have booked the annual tradition of dinner at Rose and Crown for Illuminations..

So thats it, I am sure there will be much good food, much relaxing on the balcony and as many ritas as possible, we are both very excited to try the new tequila bar at Mexico..

I promise that I really will try to get the actual report done this year, fingers crossed we will have a Happy New Year, and circumstances won't get in the way again - thanks for reading.

The Fetherstons · 10-10-2009, 04:01 PM

Sound excellent Jules

We love AK and were lucky to have a savanah view this year, Enjoy look forward to reading about it

jjk · 10-11-2009, 02:19 AM

all sounds fab Jules, I love wdw at Christmas looking forward to hearing all about it

natalielongstaff · 10-11-2009, 03:12 AM

great pr-tripie hun ! cant wait to hear all about your NYE celebrations

mandymouse · 10-11-2009, 05:21 AM

Yeah baby !! We're all booked hun

Bring on another FAB-U-LOUS New Year's Eve with friends. You can add our ADR now

OMG, I'm so excited

Your plans sound great Jules

BTW, if anyone missed our antics last year, click on the link in my signature

saratogagirl · 10-11-2009, 05:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandymouse

Yeah baby !! We're all booked hun

Bring on another FAB-U-LOUS New Year's Eve with friends. You can add our ADR now

OMG, I'm so excited

Your plans sound great Jules

BTW, if anyone missed our antics last year, click on the link in my signature

OMG, It was a nightmare doing the trippie last night and not really being sure what was happening..

I have edited the trippie - whoo whoo, now I know I will have a head like a bucket on January 1st!!

Bring it on, I can't wait

mandymouse · 10-11-2009, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saratogagirl

OMG, It was a nightmare doing the trippie last night and not really being sure what was happening..

I have edited the trippie - whoo whoo, now I know I will have a head like a bucket on January 1st!!

Bring it on, I can't wait

Thanks for posting your pre-trippy Jules, it was just what Paul needed to get everything sorted

Pinky166 · 10-11-2009, 07:56 AM

Your plans sounds fab Jules....I can't wait to read all about your NYE antics with the Martindales.

saratogagirl · 10-11-2009, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pinky166

Your plans sounds fab Jules....I can't wait to read all about your NYE antics with the Martindales.

thanks hon, now get on with yours, I want to read what you got up to next x

CustardTart · 10-11-2009, 08:16 AM

Fabulous!!!

Glad you guys have got it together for another fantastic New Year's Eve - or should I say Booze Year's Eve!!!!??????????

Can't wait to read all about it...

Now if someone could just fit Jules with a GPS tracking device...

natalielongstaff · 10-11-2009, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandymouse

Thanks for posting your pre-trippy Jules, it was just what Paul needed to get everything sorted

im sure he didn't need much persading !

saratogagirl · 10-11-2009, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by natalielongstaff

great pr-tripie hun ! cant wait to hear all about your NYE celebrations

not much longer for you now Nat, you must be so excited

saratogagirl · 10-11-2009, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CustardTart

Fabulous!!!

Glad you guys have got it together for another fantastic New Year's Eve - or should I say Booze Year's Eve!!!!??????????

Can't wait to read all about it...

Now if someone could just fit Jules with a GPS tracking device...

Hello My Lovely

I think Mand may have mentioned baby reigns

Tammy Stringer · 10-11-2009, 09:30 AM

Sounds like you have it all worked out Jules. What fun you are going to have - a perfect combination of new things and old things to try and of course a wonderful New Year's Eve to top it all off.

I really hope you do get to do a trippie on your return and that 2010 is a more settled year for you both - not forgetting the year of a million 40th celebrations!!!!

Tam

CustardTart · 10-11-2009, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by saratogagirl

Hello My Lovely

I think Mand may have mentioned baby reigns

Makes sense...

How about something like this - it's also a handy back pack for those NYE essentials!!!

Tho' now I look at it again, seems like the monkey is molesting that unfortunate dummy...

10-10-2009, 02:08 PM	#1
saratogagirl I need books, and wine and Ian in order to survive I couldnt wipe bottoms of strangers I am strangely refreshed this morning ... and I am off to the butchers soon Join Date: May 2006 Location: south wales Posts: 5,764	Happy New Margarita - The Pre Trippie - Updated Well here we go again, due to unforeseen circumstances last years trippie ended at the pre-trippie! We were home two weeks before my cat needed numerous trips to the vet (I am pleased to report that he is now fighting fit). Immediately after that my nan was taken to hospital where she stayed for three months, before we had to make the difficult decision to choose a care home for her, three months later she is loving it and like a new lady, she has discovered her knitting again, and loves a gossip with the residents, its a great weight of our mind... Needless to stay the first six months of the year were not the best. Fingers crossed that this gets to be the pre-trippie that leads to the actual trip report. I know I have been absent for the DIS for a lot of this year, so for those of you who don't know us, here we are: Me (Jules), 39 loves to plan, loves the mouse, loves the world, my happy place Ian (39) leaves it all to me, but loves the place as much as I do, to sum his attitiude up he saw a post today entitled "How to do ADRS's when you don't know the park hours" he casually answered to me "you get a bear", I have always been his bear, don't ask why, because I have no idea?? He is soon to be 40 and don't I know it, 2010 seems to have become "The Year of a Million 40th Celebrations". So 2009 has seen numerous camping weekends, the GGG3, Glastonbury, you will note a lot of tenting has gone on, November 17th sees us off to Cuba with our best mates for two weeks, where we hope to chill, drink and be merry. The question remained what of our DVC points, we knew we wanted to bank some for one of the million 40th celebrations, but could afford to use some. The plan was hatched, we both felt it only fair to spend Christmas Day with my dad this year as we have been gone the past two, but New Year would be practically perfect in every way!! In February I booked us a flydrive with Virgin departing December 27th, and at the same time booked us into The Cumberland House in Horley for Boxing Night, its good to chill out the night before and gives the opportunity for a pre-holiday booze up... Saratoga Springs was booked for eight nights as soon as our seven month window came up, the usual requests, upper floor, Congress Park, view of Downtown Disney - fingers crossed. At eleven months I was able to swap our first two nights to Kidani Savannah, which we are both really excited about. ADRS have been booked and the plan of attack looks something like this: December 26th make the journey to Gatwick, twilight check in, before much merriment in Horley to get the holiday off with a bang. December 27th fly to Orlando, quick stop at Publix to stock up on the essentials (beer and wine) before checking into Kidani, our first dinner is at Jiko, December 28th - Animal Kingdom, we were thinking of giving it a miss as time is precious this year, but I need my fix of the Dawa Bar. We hope to spend some time appreciating the resort before phoning our beloved Papa John in the evening whilst enjoying the views of the Savannah. December 29th - up and at them early to head for Saratoga to try and get our room requests, before breakfast at Kona, and a few hours at MK, back to the resort a whizz around the Osbourne Lights, before drinkies at The Belle Vue Lounge and a late dinner at The Flying Fish December 30th - chilling at the resort, before a few hours at Downtown Disney where I am sure our favourite Margarita Bar will feature, before heading to the Wave for dinner. We will then head to the MK for the late night festivies, we love The Magic Kingdom on the 30th where we get to see the sneak peak of Fantasy In The Sky before New Years Eve December 31st - Epcot - Updated - we will meet up with our maties Mandy and Paul to recreate last years celebration, we had a blast! The plan I think is a few drinks before early dinner at Tutto Italia, we both decided that the sensible thing would be to eat something this year, I am sure we will wash it down with Mr Pinot. We can then pick up our hats and blowers before heading to The Rose and Crown for the 7.00pm party, after that the World is literally our cockle. I can't wait for this night, I am sure we will have some antics to share with you all - promise not to lose myself this year Mand. Here is a pic from last year: January 1st - recovery day, I am sure that Downtown Disney will feature heavily and we hope to try Paradio 37 in the evening - tequila is your friend.. January 2nd - shopping, we will head to The Mall at Millennia for yankee candles, jimmy choo choo and it would be rude to walk past Tiffanys!! Dinner is booked for Narcoossees and in time with watching Wishes.... We hope to head for the Tambu Lounge afterwards, I need a lapu lapu. January 3rd - our last day, will be spent at Epcot, where we have booked the annual tradition of dinner at Rose and Crown for Illuminations.. So thats it, I am sure there will be much good food, much relaxing on the balcony and as many ritas as possible, we are both very excited to try the new tequila bar at Mexico.. I promise that I really will try to get the actual report done this year, fingers crossed we will have a Happy New Year, and circumstances won't get in the way again - thanks for reading. __________________ my DIS buddy ICE's are Goofysmate (Jill) and T16GEM (Gems) Last edited by saratogagirl; 10-11-2009 at 05:48 AM.

10-10-2009, 04:01 PM	#2
The Fetherstons DIS Veteran Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne Posts: 7,081	Sound excellent Jules We love AK and were lucky to have a savanah view this year, Enjoy look forward to reading about it __________________ Kerry x (Ive been boo-ed twice but cant get my Mickey pumpkin to work) Thanks Michelle & Madmumof2 and Netty for your help MY ICE BUDDY IS MICHELLE - SNOWYGIRLS Me (35) DH Craig (37) DS Adam (7) 1980 Disney0ff Site 1993/7 Disney Offsite, 2001 Honeymoon ASMusic 2005/6 ASMovies, 2007 Pop Century 2008 CBR, 2009 Tuscany Villa

10-11-2009, 02:19 AM	#3
jjk Pete and I wait and watch some lovely baby lizards I have always booked myself "Play Up Pompey" Join Date: May 2004 Location: Reading Posts: 17,202	all sounds fab Jules, I love wdw at Christmas looking forward to hearing all about it __________________ Rachel "Play up Pompey, Pompey Play up" 2000 Disneyland paris 2003 Ramada inn 2004 Quality inn plaza2005 Cumbrian lakes2006 Emerald Island July and December2007 Emerald Island May and July2008 Emerald Island and Contemporary Resort2009 Saratoga Springssaratoga springs 2010

10-11-2009, 03:12 AM	#4
natalielongstaff I need a cup of tea and a big bar of free chocolate nowI will be back later too stalk some more Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: leicestershire,england Posts: 71,490	great pr-tripie hun ! cant wait to hear all about your NYE celebrations __________________ April 2003 DLRP, November 2004 WDW and Barbados, September 2005 WDW, September 2007 WDW,October 2009 WDW

10-11-2009, 05:21 AM	#5
mandymouse If It's Not A Bahama Mama Then I'm Not Interested Can I put my Christmas Tree up yet ? Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Nuneaton U.K. Posts: 57,821	Yeah baby !! We're all booked hun Bring on another FAB-U-LOUS New Year's Eve with friends. You can add our ADR now OMG, I'm so excited Your plans sound great Jules BTW, if anyone missed our antics last year, click on the link in my signature __________________ Mandy xx Needs a new 2010 ticker, and wants one NOW !!!!!

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10-11-2009, 07:56 AM	#8
Pinky166 a little on the OCD side very impulsive, which doesn’t bode well for our credit cards! Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Herts, England Posts: 9,799	Your plans sounds fab Jules....I can't wait to read all about your NYE antics with the Martindales. __________________ Claire x Here Come the Girls! - Pre Trip Report It's a "Wonder" I survived! = September 2009 Trip Report - Work in progress! Getting ill with the Maguire's! = December 2008 Trip Report - Completed Sept 2000 - Offsite, Sept 2002 - Offsite, Sept 2003 - AKL, Sept/Oct 2006 - Univ PBR, June 2008 - DLRP, Hotel NY, Dec 2008 - Univ HRH, WL & YC, Sept 2009 - OKW, 4 Night Cruise & Poly, June 2010 - Bay Lake Tower, Girls only! January 2011 - Inaugural Dream Cruise, August 2011 - 7 Night Alaskan Cruise My DIS/I.C.E buddy is Rachel (jjk)

10-11-2009, 08:16 AM	#10
CustardTart I am sooo proud, happy, relieved and impressed - it's a great day... Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: South East London... Posts: 14,117	Fabulous!!! Glad you guys have got it together for another fantastic New Year's Eve - or should I say Booze Year's Eve!!!!?????????? Can't wait to read all about it... Now if someone could just fit Jules with a GPS tracking device... __________________ Grand Floridian Resort & Spa - Christmas 1998 * Dolphin/Vero Beach - Easter 2000 * Polynesian - August 2001 * Grand Floridian Resort & Spa - August 2004 * Beach Club/DCL Wonder - May 2005 * Grand Californian Hotel - NYE 2005 * Polynesian - August 2006 * DCL Magic Western Caribbean - September 2007 * Yacht Club - October 2007 * Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa - December 2007 * Villas at Wilderness Lodge/DCL Wonder Double Dip - May 2008 * DCL Magic Mexican Riviera/Disneyland Hotel - August 2008 * Boardwalk Villas - October 2008 * Animal Kingdom Villas/Hard Rock Hotel Club - Easter 2009 * Bay Lake Tower/DCL Magic Eastern Caribbean & Tortola/Villas at Wilderness Lodge - September 2009 * Bay Lake Tower - June 2010 * DCL Magic Mediterranean Cruise - August 2010 * Old Key West - October 2010 * Villas at Wilderness Lodge/DCL Dream Inaugural/Maiden Cruise B2B - January 2011 * Villas at Grand Californian/DCL Wonder West Coast Repositioning Cruise - Easter 2011 * DCL Wonder Alaska Cruise - August 2011...

10-11-2009, 09:30 AM	#14
Tammy Stringer I love babies - all milky and baby powdery Do you knit, Barbara? Up for the marquee option Join Date: May 2002 Location: Gloucestershire, England Posts: 1,249	Sounds like you have it all worked out Jules. What fun you are going to have - a perfect combination of new things and old things to try and of course a wonderful New Year's Eve to top it all off. I really hope you do get to do a trippie on your return and that 2010 is a more settled year for you both - not forgetting the year of a million 40th celebrations!!!! Tam

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