Well, of course we can still be friends. We'd actually be perfect dinner companions. I'll happily trade you my icky yucky veggies for your steak/chicken/porkchop/whatever/meeeeeat!I don't know if we can be friends any more.jk.
This actually reminds me of a friend of mine that I traveled with a couple of times in our early 20s. She absolutely refused to ride Dinosaur, claiming that it was too bumpy and jerky for her. But when I would try to talk her into riding it, you could see the sheer panic and terror on her face. She just refused to admit that she was scared of it. So don't worry, you're definitely not alone!
Hi hi!
Thanks for joining in! And congratulations on your first WDW trip! I'm planning my first DL trip ever for my 40th birthday in December 2020. (Don't worry, I haven't started that PTR quite yet. 
)Believe it or not, I think I'm going to stick with the tiara I have! I do love it so.Great deal of the NE tickets!! Sounds like plenty of savings for a nice meal or maybe a new tiara...
I'm going to use my ticket savings to treat for breakfast at Boma on the day we leave. Om nom nom.You know, I attempted to do the same at Tusker House on my last trip! I think my ADR as for 10:45 or so. I was wanting to make it a "brunch," and be there for the switch-over from breakfast to lunch, so that I could sample offerings from both services. So I waited. And waited. And waited. By 11:45, I said to heck with it and left.
So I'm going back for dinner on the next trip (which now has the characters, hooray!).Ohana and Boma are always Must-Do's for me. I love Ohana for dinner. I keep telling myself that I'm going to try it for breakfast one of these years, but I just keep going back for those chicken wings and noodles. Mmmm. I'm drooling just thinking about it!
Really? When I planned a little fantasy trip for myself, I thought that was the easiest part! Haha. Disneyland Hotel, no doubt!
Really? When I planned a little fantasy trip for myself, I thought that was the easiest part! Haha. Disneyland Hotel, no doubt!
I'm a purist, it's gotta be a Disney hotel!
Not something I would normally do, because it's a lot of time on my feet. I tried doing WinterSummerland about 10 years ago, and by the end I was miserable. I can't imagine that something like that is very ECV friendly, either. (Hmm, I should probably hit up the DISabilities forum here about this before I write it off completely.) Anyhow, I digress... She got all super giddy and excited over the idea, so I'm going to make sure at least she and my uncle get to go. Maybe I'll send them over there on our rest/DTD day, and just have them meet up with me for our T-Rex dinner that evening, followed by night shopping at DTD. Hmmm... 
And I'm perfectly fine and happy with being a big lady. I would just like to lose enough so that I have more energy and stamina for the parks. I should probably start exercising some too, but... Mmmm. Couch. I gotta spread it out, I still have 2 months until park hours for December are released and my planning (and compulsive PTR updating) can TRULY begin! DUN-DUN-DUN! 
I can't wait!
But... But... CHEESEBURGERS.Mini Golf is fun. like you i don't want it to take up my precious Disney time! I am not going to harp on you with weight. BUT i will say we are starting to gear up for Disney!!! and it's a health thing. we all care!
57 days until Park Hours!
87 days until ADRs!
207 days until FP+!
267 days until WDW!
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Hey, ya'll!
I've spent my few free moments over the last couple days trying to catch up on most of ya'lls PTR/TRs! Aren't you proud of me! I still have a few more to catch up on (you're next, Sarah!), but I thought I'd take a moment to do a little update here.
Room & Dining package is 65% paid off! And the money for the Disney park tickets is set aside in my Savings account, just waiting on the boss lady to make the new pricing live in our system so I can scoop them up for super cheap!
Speaking of park tickets, I forgot to mention in the last update that even though our 5-Day Hopper No Expiration tickets are getting marked-down to $319, I'm actually only paying $269 for my ticket. How's THAT, you say? Well, between all the good things my new boss has been saying about me recently, and the $12,000 Princess Cruise booking I landed last month, my department Division Head decided to thank me for my hard work with a $50 Gift Card for the PX here on the base where I work. And it just so happens that our travel office is also set up to accept those same gift cards... As soon as I got my hot little hands on it, I immediately thought to myself "DISNEY TICKET MONEY, F--- YEAH!"
Oh! And after a chat with my aunt, it turns out she has NEVER in her 50+ years of life, EVER... played miniature golf. So when she found out that there's two mini-golf places at WDW, she flipped out and asked if we could go to one.
Late last night before bed I decided to pop in my 2015 Disney Parks Planning DVD and curl up on the couch to watch it. I've had it for a couple months, but this was the first chance I've had to sit down with it. I love watching the planning DVDs, they just make me fell all warm and happy.
I've kinda definitely fo' realz have fallen off of the weight-loss wagon. I'm not gaining anything back, thank goodness. But I'm not losing anymore, either. I know I should be trying harder, but cheeseburgers and cupcakes just make me so dang happy!
Stilling thinking about writing up that list of Must-Do's for Downtown Disney! Maybe later today. Or this weekend. Or next week. Or next month. Who knows with me.
I went to WinterSummerland nearly 10 years ago myself and, as much fun as it was, I can't help but think: why play mini-golf at Disney when there are SO many other things to do there?!?!? But to each his or her own I suppose... after all, you are talking to a parks commando here with me so what do you expect!
Yes! It is a widget I use, in combination with pscalculator.net . I'll actually write more about it the upcoming update!
I've decided to skip the mini-golf myself, and let the two of them go do that on their own on our rest day if they want. Meanwhile I will go lounge by the pool reading or Facebooking while hitting the frozen cocktails. That's MY idea of time well-spent, and I'm sure by that point I will be ready for a little solo time anyhow.
I agree! Hence why I'm making sure we don't sacrifice any park time for it. With my Lupus and Fibromyalgia, I HAVE to take a rest day in the middle of the trip, so I figure that's the perfect time to send them off to WinterSummerland for a couple hours.Yay!!! That's amazing! And congrats on that great cruise booking - woohoo!
Wow, your aunt has never been mini-golfing?!
I want those park hours sooooo badly. A little less than two months to go yet!Great news about even CHEAPER tickets!! Woohoo!
I don't know much about either mini golf course but I'm sure they're great. I just don't know if I could spend my precious Disney time there. But it sounds like your aunt is really excited!!
Can't wait to hear more about your plans when park hours are released!
That's awesome. Am going to have to play around with that myself.48 days until Park Hours!
78 days until ADRs!
198 days until FP+!
258 days until WDW!
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Hey, ya'll!
First of all, I neeeeeeeeeeeeed May to get here. Like, NOW. I'm dying not having park hours. It's physically KILLING me.
I've planned all that I can plan at this point. I've tooled and re-tooled my ADR wishlist as much as I can without having a concrete itinerary in place. I need that legit itinerary before I can come up with a FP+ plan. I can't finalize my resort until the military rates come out over the summer. OH WOE IS ME.
...Okay, enough of that drama. Here's some happy stuff!
Guess who bought her park tickets this weeK? THIS GIRL!!!!!!!
Check these beautiful babies out... Are ya'll ready for a blast from the past? Magic Your Way tickets, 5-Day Hopper w/ No Expiration Option, circa 2007:
And for anybody wondering, YES, they linked right up to my My Disney Experience account without any trouble at all. So they've all been linked and assigned... and you better believe that I totally called dibs on Cinderella.
So yes, that's one less thing! It felt REALLY good to get those paid for and taken care of. Now as far as tickets go, it's just MVMCP (which we'll buy in April) and Universal, which I'm going to hold off on until the last minute to see if my friend that works there can still hook me up with comps (but I'm going to have the money set aside in case that he can't).
Recently, @squeegee posted on the thread here, and asked me about how I come up with and track my "# Days Until..." countdowns, so I thought I would write about that!
First, using THIS handy tool, I started by figuring out my ADR date (June 7th) and my FP+ date (October 5th).
Then I studied the release pattern of the park hours at the Disney Travel Agents portal, and discovered that each month is usually posted 7 months out, on the first or second Friday of the month. Based on this deductive reasoning, the December park hours should be posted in May, however May 1st itself is a Friday. So my best guess is that I'll see those hours post on either the 1st, 8th, or 15th. For my countdown, I chose to use the 8th as it is the median of all three.
And of course, I know my travel dates. So now I have all four of my important dates to count down to... Park Hours, ADRs, FP+, and Check-In.
Armed with this information, I utilized a widget I found for Android called "Days Left." There's different sizes and colors you can use, but for my purposes, since I have started off with four of them, I use the small 1x1 widget. And then I just set up a widget for each important date. and added them to my "Disney" screen on my phone (the first screen I see when I swipe left from home screen). Wha-lah:
As you can see, they read across the bottom in order: Park Hours (yellow), ADRs (purple), FP+ (teal), and Check-In (pink.)
On a side note... For anybody curious, the photo frame in the middle automatically rotates between that Mickey & Friends picture, and pics of Cinderella Castle, Spaceship Earth, Tower of Terror, and the Tree of Life. Yes, I realize that Trivia Crack and Google Search aren't Disney-related, but I didn't have a good spot for them on my other screens. And yes, my background is indeed a photo of a cat eating an ice cream cone and surrounded by candy and sparkles. Don't judge me!
Anyhow, back to the widgets! Another cool feature is you can actually input not just the date, but what event it's counting down to. So for example, when I tap on the pink one, this screen pops up:
I like it. Makes it quick and easy to always have my countdowns at my fingertips. Maybe it's a tad neurotic, but that's pretty much what WDW planning is all about! Right? ... right?
So anyhow. That's all I have for this installment. I'll get re-caught-up on all of ya'lls threads soon, I swear it!
Until next time!
thank you!
