Dee-
Sorry your trip is coming to an end. I have never had to deal with the BTG, but I endorse your work around
I hope you are planning a TR form this summer's adventure. We are planning a similar trip next summer. I have a conference that will be at the Grand Californian at the end of June (have to love that the boss will be paying for the room and my airfare and that the conference ends at noon each day
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After 4 days at
Disneyland, we are planning to take the kids to Hawaii for 1 week to celebrate our 20th anniversary. I am excited to actually be there for our anniversary. I am trying to decide if we split the week between Oahu and Maui or just stay on Oahu. I am leaning toward the split.
Pam
Well, since the trip was almost a year ago, I have finally gotten over it ending!
Thanks for understanding about my Disney transgression!
I love how we have had such similar trip plans all these years!
I am most definitely planning to write about my adventures in California and Hawaii! Your trip sounds wonderful! How great that your stay at Disneyland and your airfare will be on the company's dime. And that you get to play at the parks after lunch!
We will be in Hawaii during our anniversary (28 years), too. We will be in Oahu. We are doing a 4 night Oahu/4 night Maui split, plus 1 night on the Big Island for our "Immersed in Volcanoes" day.
Dont you just hate Karma!!!!!!!
I would have totally done the same thing
Snacks look great and photos of you and the billboard guy (his name escapes me atm) made me smile
You have no idea how jealous I am of your ability to check in your luggage at the resort -makes for a very relaxing last day
Really wish we could do that!
Bit weird with the CM interaction on the GMR
Glad I missed that
No escaping Karma!
I like the snack pictures too and I think these are the first pictures I have with Bo the Billboard Guy.
I sometimes wonder where some of the names you see on the DIS come from: Betty the Yeti on EE, "The Ditch"- the tequila place in EPCOT's Mexico- are they real Disney names or just inside jokes created by fellow posters? But Bo's name is no mystery (check the name tag on his uniform)
I can't lie- Disney's luggage handling service is great! Maybe on your next trip, if you fly into Boston on your way home, visit with a friend, and then fly back home, you can test out the service... Just a thought!
The CM at GMR was really ODD!
Dee - No! It can't be....it's your last day! Although, seems you made the best of it. I don't think you really were line cutting, I think you were taking into account the extra number of minutes many of us have had to wait due to the tour groups in the past! Sure hoping they are not there end of August.
You must be getting excited for your upcoming DL / Hawaii trip!
Rebecca
Yes, last day, but as I mentioned above, the passage of almost a year and my upcoming summer travel plans have really helped take the sting out of that!
I don't call it line-cutting- I call it "queue-efficiency". I made the wait-time of 4 people SIGNIFICANTLY shorter by only very slightly (1 car) impacting the wait-time of 40 people. No brainer!
Taking a selfie with Bo! Gotta love that!
And even better that someone offered to take your picture for you.
Rock on random stranger!
I thought for sure you were going to say that the BTG ended up right behind you on RnR. Dodged that bullet. Phew! Glad that Ben liked that ride.
Two rides on TSM is always a good thing. Love it!
Ewww to the CM who was talking about passing the hat around to get out of her parent's house. That's just weird.
Lunch? Hmmmm - my guess is Via but only cause I just wrote about it and I love that place.
I really stink at selfies! I rarely do them, and when I do it is with my camera not my cell phone. My cellphone takes really crappy pictures, plus I keep forgetting that my phone is a camera. Can't tell you the number of times I have said to Mark "I wish I had a camera right now" and he just looks at me.
I would have rather had the BTG behind us on RNR than the 30 plus extra minutes we spent in the RNR queue because they all had FP they were using at the same time.
Can't wait to get Ben on RNR again!
Two rides on TSM in a morning are awesome! 4 rides by noon is even better! We did that the year you could get FP by volunteering. We did one ride standby, one regular FP and two of the volunteer FP.
The only good thing about the delay in the GMR was that we were in the very last row so we could laugh and make fun of the tour guide without her seeing us. Plus, if she actually did take off her hat and pass it around, it would take a while to get to us.
Good lunch guess, but I have never been to Via (still).