Just seen as I was finishing up my reply on my PTR that you had a new post. Glad you are officially booked!
Me too! there is nothing like logging into MDE and seeing the hotel and tickets. Makes this trip very real!
Fun!!! Even if you aren't doing the parks at least you are at Disney. It is great y'all live close enough to drive up for a weekend and enjoy DS.
I may never be able to move out of South Florida because of WDW... It's super fun to go for little weekend trips, but I do much prefer the week long vacations. Nothin like being totally emerged in the Disney magic!
Ahh I love when more nights=more dining credits! When we were looking at our 10 day vacation we couldn't get over having to book 10TS meals. It was almost overwhelming until we decided to put it off until fall. I am sure once we get back together we will start picking out dates and then be back in the same boat as what we were lol.
YAY for booking your May trip and your trip to BB!!!!! Also meeting Morimoto was super cool, too!
How was i NOT informed your had this??? YOU KNOW you have to say Hey Mo i have as PTR you need to subscribe...
LOL! I started it when you had a lot of car trouble going on, I figured once things settled you'd pop on over
I AM HERE NOW! and was only 4 pages behind!
Not too much to report a year out! November can't come fast enough!
WOWZA! Your daughter is getting so big!!! and BEAUTIFUL!! Just love all your family pictures! I cannot wait to see DISNEY family pictures!!!
Thanks Mo! She's a handful. I'll have some good ones after this weekend too!
I am not going to lie.. I read just your updates and i don't know if any of the below was suggested?
Ohh so excited for you to stay wilderness! how FUN!!!
Me too! That resort is so pretty. It'll be nice to come back to a tranquil room after a day in the parks. Plus it's the fella's first deluxe!
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O'Hana Breakfast?
Although since you did the Polynesian dinner by you O'Hana dinner would be PERFECT for her! especially the dancing and the parade she can participate in!
I thought about the breakfast there, if only to meet Lilo and Stitch; she loves that little alien. We have started a Stitch collection that may soon rival your not-so-little-little one's... Well maybe not soon...
My only thing with any breakfast is DH; he is in NO way a morning person. It takes him a solid hour to become human after he wakes up. I'd worry he'd be grumpus.
What about Akershus? We didn't like Lunch-dinner Yet breakfast was OK. we do it just for the princesses..
Oddly enough we had planned to skip Epcot and HS this trip. But now that they moved Anna and Elsa to Epcot, we may have to change that. DD isn't so big into the princesses, but there are a few she loves; Elsa, Tiana, Jasmine and Aurora (who she calls Elora, after herself), so I'm still playing around with that...
Are you going to book BBB?
Funny you should ask, my mom called Disney and tried to book it for the baby as a surprise, but she won't be yet be 3 when we go so she'll be too little... I will soon have news on that front though...
OMG! your leaving WEDNESDAY?!?!
SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!
IT IS going to DRAG.. Only bad part of planning.. It's way too off!
I am really excited the 'Fella" will be staying his first deluxe! Now you won't ever go back to any other resort! LOL!! Smart cookie you are..
and use them again next September for DD’s birthday!
I'm so glad you had a great time for your little Disney Pool time get away! I can't believe you didn't take the stroller with you to BB. You were very brave and I'm sure very tired after lugging around a sleeping toddler. I'm sorry you had such an ordeal getting back home and then everything happening once you got back. We had a toilet overflow about 3 years ago and we ended up having to replace all the flooring upstairs. It was a not fun, long process, but the end result is wonderful!
I will never leave the stroller behind again, that is for sure! The toilet issue has been a nightmare; DH is at Urgent Care with DD as we speak cause the hives have spread to her face and neck... Her pediatrician said she should be fine, but to get her checked out any way.
Yay for extending your May trip and YES to celebrating birthdays there! We did DD1's 2nd birthday there and now we are going back for DD2's 2nd birthday! I have also celebrated my birthday there several times and nothing beats a birthday at Disney!
Oh heavens is your daughter toooooooo cute!!! OMG! i love that age! she is just a giggly little girl! I want to squish her! OHHHHHH Love DD red outfit of being a future CM! How cute is THAT!
She's too much. I have to get some good video of her to post. She has a photographic memory so anything she sees, or hears, she can recall. This is a wonderful skill for learning songs! She knows just about every Disney song, and I swear we don't let her watch a ton of tv.
How did you like Disney character warehouse? Might send you a PM on this..
We liked it! I go to the one down here about once a season. The prices are AMAZING. I got two tall, glass cups for $5 retail was $15 and both the stuffies DD got were $3. The place was a zoo though. If that's the only reason you're going to the outlet mall I'd skip it, but if you want to do some shopping it's worth popping in. The stuff I look for is their seasonal stuff (like the holiday stuff) cause it's always at a HUGE discount. I wish they had more clothing though. Mom got a super cute shirt with Darth Vader riding Dumbo for $12, but they have mostly small sizes, which does not work for me...
Great being able to switch over to cars. it is roomy isn't it?!?! Oops on not bringing a stroller? Let's blame it on the sun?? Yeah that's it!
I love those suites! I want to stay in a Nemo one next time we stay at AoA. That resort is one of my faves!
That stroller will always be with me from now on. Always.
Umm so when would that be???
Cool!I know it's a terrible photo but that's our family with Chef Morimoto himself!! It's a fantastic restaurant, kind of a once in a lifetime thing for us, but it was mom's birthday so we went! If you're able to go. You totally should.
I've heard good things about this place.We all rested and showered and decided to try to get dinner at Chef Art Smith’s Homecoming in DS.
Yikes. What a way to end a vacation.Well it being at 3 pm on a Sunday they were closed, as were the 4 other places I called… We drove the rest of the way on the spare, at 50 mph… Took us about 3 hours instead of 2.
Then, on Monday, my apartment flooded with toilet water so I left work early to help clean it up; we still have the dryers on the carpet from the shampoo job we finished yesterday. To top it all off DD had an allergic reaction to the carpet shampoo and is covered in hives. I stayed home from work today to take her to the doctor. Oye vey. I totally should have just stayed in WDW!
Awesome!But in good Disney news we have officially extended our 2017 trip to be from Friday May 5th-Friday May 12th! I'm also very close to convincing DH that we should celebrate DD’s 3rd birthday in WDW!
Following along! We finally booked our trip for next May, but the week after you will be there. My DS will only be 20 months at the time, but we decided we just can't wait. At least my mom will be joining us, if not DH's parents as well. We booked a Little Mermaid room of AoA, partially for the splash pad. We were going to book Pop (which feels like our home), but I think DS will really like the splash pad at AoA.
I'm out of the loop. I didn't know they changed anything on the DDP. I guess I'll need to do some more research before we plan our next trip.
Yeah, some pretty serious changes, but they work well for us. They removed the desserts from QS meals, but have added an additional snack per day. I'm planning on eating my weight in Mickey bars
Cool!
Right?! He was so nice. The food is amazing, pricey but really good.
I've heard good things about this place.
Being from South Florida we are geographically very Southern, but not at all culturally. The restaurant was a perfect southern style meal full of comforting, fried goodness! Definitely go next time your in WDW,
Yikes. What a way to end a vacation.
It really only got worse... DD had hand, foot, mouth disease, likely from one of the pools in WDW. It lasted 10 days and my DH got it. We were a mess.
Awesome!
I got that from DS 4 years ago. It was actually during the Olympics. He had it for a couple of days and I was kind of excited to get to stay home with him for a couple of days and just watch the Olympics. He didn't seem to have a severe case. He had a low fever, a few spots and was over it in just a few days.It really only got worse... DD had hand, foot, mouth disease, likely from one of the pools in WDW. It lasted 10 days and my DH got it. We were a mess.
I got that from DS 4 years ago. It was actually during the Olympics. He had it for a couple of days and I was kind of excited to get to stay home with him for a couple of days and just watch the Olympics. He didn't seem to have a severe case. He had a low fever, a few spots and was over it in just a few days.
Then one evening I came home from work and just felt exhausted. I laid on the floor playing with DD who was only about 3 months old and I fell asleep. I woke up freezing cold and had a 103 degree fever. I caught it from DS and I have never been as miserable as I was with hand, foot and mouth. I ended up being the one in our family to be knocked out with it for about a week and a half. Just brutal. I'm glad that you got past all of that stuff.
Thankfully we didn't share it with DD and DW.
Brutal is definitely the word. Lucky that your wife and then little DD were ok. I actually caught it and had no symptoms, but DH was in really bad shape; fever, cold sweats, awful.
The worst part is I had never heard of this illness before! SO the thing took us totally by surprise. We took DD to the Ped cause the rash/reaction wasn't going away after we gave her benedryl. It's an odd illness, for sure!
DD2 just caught hand foot and mouth on Tuesday. It is no fun. She was miserable with a high fever and her poor throat was covered in blisters. She is starting to feel better, but now we are just trying to make sure DD1 doesn't catch it (or DH and I for that matter!)
I am here and still reading along!