Okay my fellow March travelers. I need some help making a couple decisions. You all know that this is a surprise trip so I am unable to just ask DD what she would prefer to do. We arrive on Tuesday the 12th and the next day is DD's birthday. We are doing MK all day that day as it is her favorite park. There is one definite for the day and that is the Wishes dessert party that night at 9:00. The rest is what I need help with.
I have a breakfast ADR at CP for a 10:20 breakfast so we have time to ride some rides early before it gets crowded. I think I am going to keep this.
I have a 2:00 ADR for Tea at the Grand Floridian. I am having a hard time deciding whether to keep this or not. We've never done it before. Part of me thinks she would really like this and its kind of a girly thing we can do together. The other part of me thinks we should be back at the resort swimming or napping and resting up for our evening in MK.
Then I have two dinner ADR's. Please don't flame me, the system let me do it and I do plan to cancel one of them by the end of this weekend.
The first is CRT at 4:10 or 1900 PF at 5:40.
I think that DD would prefer the castle. But I'm not real excited about dinner there, it just doesn't really sound all that good, and its so pricey. I'd love to get that $112 back. 1900 PF is fun and I know that she does love to eat there too. But the ADR time is 5:40 and I'm worried that they will be running late as they often do. DH doesn't really care for eating in the castle because he thinks its over rated. He figures we've done it, don't need to do it again. Since he's not with us, I keep thinking it would be a good time to let DD do it again. BUT, again, its just so expensive and this trip is supposed to be more budget and the menu choices don't really excite me.
If we do one of the dinner ADR's I'm thinking that we really need to cancel the Tea. But I want to order a mini cake, or chocolate slipper or something at wherever we end up going so I need to decide so I can call about the cake.
What are your thoughts? DD will be happy about whatever I choose for us to do because we'll be in Disney and she won't know what the other options were. So I'm not really worried about disappointing her.
Part of me is leaning towards the Tea and cancel the dinners altogether since we have the dessert party. I could have the cake delivered there and its definitely something we wouldn't take time to do on our family trip. But part of me thinks, its her birthday and what better way to celebrate then in the caastle for dinner. But if you don't know that that was an option wouldn't it be just as much fun to do the Tea? But if we do Tea at 2:00 will we have time to take a break before our evening? I guess we could head back to AKV for a late afternoon break and then head back to MK around 6 or 7 and stay until we're tired. The park is open until 1am think.
I think I'm rambling at this point. Any thoughts? I would ask my DH but he's tired of hearing about this trip and my lack of ability to make a decision would drive him nuts.
Let me add this though, as much as he's a grump about Disney, he loves seeing DD there and I'm worried that he would be really sad about missing her having a birthday dinner in the castle. Even though he doesn't really like to eat in the castle. He's going to Vegas next week which is why I was able to talk him into letting me take DD on this trip. But I know he's kind of sad to be missing out on this trip too. I did promise him no BBB since that's his favorite thing to take DD to in Disney.
