A Princess & her Prince are finally going to Disney!W/PICS! *UPDATED 11/17*

[BellaSwan]

Hi BellaSwan!

I have seen your name on ariel2007 TR and now I finally "get" your name!!! Can you tell which books I have just finished?! I discovered the Twilight series a few weeks ago and consumed them!! So now my daughter is reading them and we can't wait to go see the movie!
Have a great trip to Disney! You are going to have so much fun. I had to laugh when I saw your Moleskin package, we loaded up on that too. I have also read the not so good reviews for Sci-Fi but we enjoyed it, just the atmosphere is worth going. It's fun to get a light-up ice cube for your drink. I'll watch for your report....

I really LOVE Twilight!!!!!! I can't wait for the movie too, I really think that it is going to be good. I am really glad to see another Twilighter

Thank You! I can't wait I have started the count down...I can't believe it is less than a week away, I feel so unprepared even though I have spent months planning it. I just feel like there is still so much to do. I am such a dork I can't believe that I took pictures of the Moleskin and tolitries LOL I just have to laugh at myself sometimes.

I had heard iffy reports about Sci-Fi but I thought that it looked cool so I decided to go for it! It is one of the places that I am most excited about so I am really glad to hear that you liked it. I have already thought of having to have me some light up ice cubes lol

I will defintly do a report. I am so glad that you joined me. I am going to update before I leave. Everything has just been so crazy.

 

[BellaSwan]

ONLY 5 MORE DAYS!!!



Okay now for a long over due update. I have been so busy the past few weeks it seems like. Although I do hang my head in shame that I have not updated. It has been absoultly crazy around here. I took over my friends Avon business because she stared going to school and no longer has time for it. Which while I have found really fun because I love make-up and girly stuff it is really a lot of work. Just putting in the orders and seprating the products takes me a few hours as I took over all her customers. Which I am grateful for it is extra money for Disney and future trips.

Which leads me to one of my topics, and I know this sounds a little nutty seeing as I have not even went on my first trip to Disney World yet (but it is only 5 days away) DH and I both really believe that we will love it, and have decided to book the bounce back for free dining again next year if it is offered to us. (Even if it is'nt thanks to the fab Disers I know the extention and the codes to ask for and it is all written down in my nifty planner in case the flyier fairy chooses not to sprinkle her pixie dust on my room.) We won two nights at the Swan/Dolphin thanks to the Dis Unplugged Podcast and we couldn't fit it in this time so this gave us a perfect excuse! LOL As if I really need one.

Next order of business:

Updated Itnerary

Wendsday, September 17th

We are leaveing around 5 am (boy that sounds ambisious)
We hope to arrive in Orlando by 7:30 pm
Check in to the Regal Sun Resort for 1 night (Thanks to the great rate I got on priceline.com)
Head over to the Boardwalk and try to get into the ESPN Club for Dinner (DH is really wanting to eat here so I really hope we can get in as I have heard that it is kinda crazy over there)
Then early to bed as we have an exciting next day ahead!


Thursday, September 18th

Get up early and check into ALL Star Music
Then the moment that I have been waiting for since I was 6, we are going to the Magic Kingdom and I will finally get to see Cinderella's Castle.
Not sure if we will stay all day or take a break but we have an ADR at The Plaza and we are going to see wishes for the first time.
Then it is back to the hotel for a good nights rest.

Friday, September 19th

We are doing the morning at the Animal Kingdom
Then the eveing at DHS
For dinner we have an ADR at the Sci-Fi Dine In

Saturday, September 20th
Our 5 year anniversary!!!

We have a breakfast ADR at Kona

Then on to Typhoon Lagoon

That evening I have booked a photo pass session at the GF before our ADR at Narccossees.


Sunday, September 21st

This is our EPCOT day.

We are going to spend the whole day here and have an ADR at Rose and Crown and then watch Illuminations.


Monday, September 22nd


DisneyQuest

Downtown Disney

Pleasure Island


Tues, September 23rd

ADR for breakfast at The Crystal Palace

This part I am still unsure about we will either stay in the MK then in the evening go to DTD again or go to Blizzard Beach and MNSSHP

Any Suggestions???


Wensday, September 24th

This day we are going to sleep in and then head to DHS for the day.

ADR for dinner at 50's Prime Time.

Then stay for Fantasmic


Thursday, September 25th

Our last full day

Morning Epcot

Evening Magic Kingdom to see Wishes one last time before heading home



Then Friday we head home and I begin to plan our next Disney vacation.

I am sorry if there is a lot of typos and spelling issues in this update, I am not on my reg computer and don't have spell check lol please look over me.

Next up: what we are most looking forward to and what I still have left to do lol

 

[trixiequilts]

For Tuesday, I think you should leave it open and see how you feel. You may be up for something big, or you may want to take it easy, you should just go with the flow and decide then.

ONLY 5 DAYS!!!

 

[Lady Lallie]

I agree with Trixie. It's nice to have a day where you can just decide what to do at the last minute.

 

[BellaSwan]

For Tuesday, I think you should leave it open and see how you feel. You may be up for something big, or you may want to take it easy, you should just go with the flow and decide then.

ONLY 5 DAYS!!!

I agree with Trixie. It's nice to have a day where you can just decide what to do at the last minute.

I think that you all are right. I am thinking that I should too, it is just really hard not to plan LOL.

 

[BellaSwan]

Well here I sit playing around on the Dis when I should be doing something productive to get ready for my trip. Not that I am making excuses but it has been a loooooooooooooong week. All I want to do is veg out in front of the computer and relax.

It is going to be a crazy busy weekend. Tomorrow DH and I are going to my family reunion which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't 2 1/2 hours away. In a way I am looking forward to it in a way I am screaming I have too much to do! But alas I say that and here I sit not doing any of it. lol

To help me get back on track here is a list of TO DO'S:

1. Clean my house and try to make it look as if no one lives here. It really sounds crazy but my BFF and her fiancé will be coming over to feed Hermie (my kitty) and I want the place to sparkle lol

2. We are cleaning up our car really good for the drive down.

3. A trip to Wal-Mart or Target to get the final essentials.

4. Finish packing.

5. Make a detailed list to help BFF do my Avon order the week that we are gone. Make sure I have everything laid out to help make it easy.

6. Finish scrapbook for BFF to thank her for feeding Hermie and getting my Avon order handed out. As a surprise to her I am making her a scrapbook of her and her fiancé. She loves scrapbooks but she doesn’t scrapbook. I am going to have it waiting for her on my dining room table all wrapped for her when she comes to feed Hermie the first night we are gone.

It doesn’t really seem like that much for four days when I type it out but with work two of those days and a family reunion it seems overwhelming.

I really can't wait till the trip DH and I both need a vacation. This week of work has proved to me how much I am in need of one. We switched over to a new computer system at work and it has proved to be quite the little migraine. But what are you going to do right? But tomorrow will be only 4 more days!!!


Everyone dance with me!!!!



Thanks for listening to me


UP NEXT TIME: What we are looking forward to the most!!!!

 

[trixiequilts]

Everybody Dance Now!

 

[Lady Lallie]

I totally feel your last minute crunch. I had that myself when I was trying to get ready.

Let's Dance!!

 

[BellaSwan]

Everybody Dance Now!

Thank you for helping me dance!

 

[BellaSwan]

I totally feel your last minute crunch. I had that myself when I was trying to get ready.

Let's Dance!!

I have tried to be so prepared but it really seems like now that it is crunch time I still have so much to do!

Thank you for dancing with me.

 

[BellaSwan]

I think that it just hit me today that in 3 days I will be leaving for Disney World. I can hardly contain my excitemen!!!!



So my family reunion was today. I was kind of dreading it but I ended up being really glad that I went. I would post pics but I really don't think any one would be intrested. LOL It was just a typical reunion with lots of food and mostly fun.


For today I thought that I would pick a few things that we are really looking forward to:

ME

1. Everything - dose that count as an awnser lol
2. Seeing Cinderella's Castle for the first time in person.
3. Meeting Mickey
4. Spending a vacation with DH
5. Riding the Monorail
6. Seeing the world by walking through EPCOT
7. WISHES, Illuminations, and Fantasmic
8. Resort hopping
9. Shopping at DTD
10. Going to Goofy's and getting a snack.

Rides

The Magic Kingdom
1. Space Mountian
2. Big Thunder Mountian
3. Splash Mountian
4. It's A Small World
5. Pirates of the Carribean

EPCOT
1. Space Ship Earth
2. Soarin'

DHS
1. Hopefully riding Rockin' Roller Coaster
2. Hopefully riding Tower of Terror
3. Toy Story Mainia
4. Seeing the Beauty and the Beast stage show

Animal Kingdom
1. Kilinmagaros Safari
2. Expidition Everest
3. Seeing the Animals

Resturants
1. Narccossees
2. 50's Prime Time Cafe
3. The Crystal Place
4. Boma
5. Kona Cafe

Robbie

1. Being off work a week and a half
2. The whole Disney Experience *wants to see what I see about Disney as a whole*
3. Asking Minnie to be his girlfriend
4. Going somewhere he has never been

Rides

Magic Kingdom
1. Pirate of the Carribean
2. Big Thunder Mountian

Epcot
1. Test Track
2. Innoventions

DHS
1. Tower of Terror
2. Toy Story Mainia


Animal Kingdom
1. Expedition Everest
2. Killinmajaros Safari

Resturants
1. Narccossees
2. Sci Fi Dine In
3. 50's Prime Time
4. Boma
5. Rose and Crown
6. ESPN Club
7. Tony's Town Square

You will notice that on my top rides to try under DHS it says hopefully Rockin Roller Coaster and hopefully Tower of Terror. This has become a point of debate amoung DH and myself. He is not too comfortable with roller coasters that have loops as he has never ridden one and I love them. I am not so sure about falling on the ToT. At this point we have both agreed that if the other rides the ride that they are unsure of that in turn the other would ride their ride. This is a great idea in theory however DH always seems to get out of this. So only time will tell how this will go.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Here is my advice about Toy Story Mania since we just got back. Try to be at DHS at opening. If you don't get there at opening or can't...RUN there (it's in the back of the park). The line is horrendous. Seriously, it's the only line we encountered all week but by the afternoon the wait was up to 90 minutes. If you get there early morning and there isn't a line- ride it and grab a fastpass in case you want to do it again. If there is a huge line (when we got there at 10, the line was already 50 minutes), grab a fastpass right away. They are usually out of fastpasses by the afternoon. Our return time for our fast passes was 4 hours after we got there. It's a great ride but not worth all that time in a standby line. Needless to say, since everyone seemed to be at Toy Story Mania, you could walk onto ToT and RRC.

 

[Lady Lallie]

We got to DHS at park opening specifically to ride Toy Story Mania, just be aware that the Cast Members block all shortcuts to Toy Story Mania and they do not let you run. I saw them stopping people from running so not to cause a stampede. I am sure that if you get there after the opening that they won't stop you from running. I saw a lot of people get derailed from trying to take shortcuts. I was probably in the middle of the pack and had to wait about 10 mins for our fastpass, but we got a return time between 10:30 and 11:30, so not too bad.

 

[trixiequilts]

When do you leave? Not long to go now! Woo-hoo!

I'm so worried about Tower of Terror! I don't really like heights and hate that freefall feeling. Do you know if the drops are pretty small? Or do they let you fall the whole way and then shoot you back up?

 

[BellaSwan]

Here is my advice about Toy Story Mania since we just got back. Try to be at DHS at opening. If you don't get there at opening or can't...RUN there (it's in the back of the park). The line is horrendous. Seriously, it's the only line we encountered all week but by the afternoon the wait was up to 90 minutes. If you get there early morning and there isn't a line- ride it and grab a fastpass in case you want to do it again. If there is a huge line (when we got there at 10, the line was already 50 minutes), grab a fastpass right away. They are usually out of fastpasses by the afternoon. Our return time for our fast passes was 4 hours after we got there. It's a great ride but not worth all that time in a standby line. Needless to say, since everyone seemed to be at Toy Story Mania, you could walk onto ToT and RRC.

Thanks for the advise about TSM. I can't wait to ride it. We will defintly get there early. You said that you just got back...How was your trip?

We got to DHS at park opening specifically to ride Toy Story Mania, just be aware that the Cast Members block all shortcuts to Toy Story Mania and they do not let you run. I saw them stopping people from running so not to cause a stampede. I am sure that if you get there after the opening that they won't stop you from running. I saw a lot of people get derailed from trying to take shortcuts. I was probably in the middle of the pack and had to wait about 10 mins for our fastpass, but we got a return time between 10:30 and 11:30, so not too bad.

We are going to try to do park opening at least one day for each park. Thanks for the tips to get to TSM, I am so clumsy if I tried to run there then I would trip over my own feet lol.

When do you leave? Not long to go now! Woo-hoo!

I'm so worried about Tower of Terror! I don't really like heights and hate that freefall feeling. Do you know if the drops are pretty small? Or do they let you fall the whole way and then shoot you back up?

We are leaving on 9/17. 1 more day!!!!! I am worried about ToT too! I don't like the feeling of falling. I am not sure how the drops are, from what I have heard I think that it is small drops then you go back up then you drop again. I told DH I would ride it so I will try my best. I will let you know how it goes if I manage to talk myself into it lol.

 

[BellaSwan]

ONLY 1 MORE DAY!

I still have so much to do. I did finish the scrapbook for BFF and have gotten most of my house **** and span. Not much of an update, I know. I will write more tomarrow. I TiVod Prison Break and while I have a free minuite I am off to watch it. But I just have to say it again 1 MORE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[trixiequilts]

We are leaving on 9/17. 1 more day!!!!! I am worried about ToT too! I don't like the feeling of falling. I am not sure how the drops are, from what I have heard I think that it is small drops then you go back up then you drop again. I told DH I would ride it so I will try my best. I will let you know how it goes if I manage to talk myself into it lol.

Good luck!

 

[BellaSwan]

We are leaving at 6 am in the morning.

I may be able to check in from the hotel tomarrow night. But if not I just wanted to say thank you for following along with me on my planning journey and for all the tips that you all have provided. I hope that you all will join me in my trip report when I get back.

 

[DisneyTiger]

Sorry that I have been lurking around and not posting much! I just had to say bon voyage and have a WONDERFUL trip I can't wait to hear all about it. Be safe and have a blast

 

[trixiequilts]

Have a great time, and hurry back with all the details for us!

Of course, I mean hurry after you're home, don't hurry while you're there, take it all nice and slow and enjoy yourselves!!!