A Sister & Brother Return! AKL Bound! 8/1 Update pg. 46! AND WE'RE OFF!!

[Nicole786]

I like I Stand too.

Its awesome!

Soooo we're in the homestretch aren't we?? Tomorrow I am officially packing (its my day off) picking up a GPS..i'm thinking Garmin or Magellan, any opinions?? and than we don't have much longer after that, do we?? I plan on posting the itinerary cards before we leave, even though dining isn't final really, at least we can keep track!! I've actually figured out a way to put the itinerary cards on my iPhone which is going to be REALLY handy!! So where will we be next week?? Disney!! We will be on our second day in Disney!! We will be waking up and heading to pepper market and than heading out to:

I hope to see

Because David has never seen it...

We will wake up and be there all morning until its time to break back at CSR! Where we will relax, nap and swim! Time for dinner!! Tonight will be....

Chef mickeys!! David ate there for breakfast and didn't like it but we have never eaten there for dinner so i'm excited to give it a try!!

Straight from Chef Mickeys on to a relaxing evening at DHS! Im not planning on getting the oppurtunity to get on toy story this day but we have 2 showings for fantasmic so lets see what time we get there, i definitely want to see either one!!

Time for our LAST NIGHT at CSR!!! Tomorrow we move to AKL!!!

 

[Native NYer]

Yay you're leaving so soon!!!!!

 

[Charleston Princess]

I can't believe that this time next week you will be spending the day at Animal Kingdom, eating at CM, and going to DHS! What a great way to spend a Tuesday (or any day for that matter)!

 

[MeMom]

Oooooohhh - I love it when you get to say, "This time next week ...."!!!

 

[TCKK]

It's getting so exciting, isn't it. It's almost time!!!! Have fun packing tomorrow!

Cathy

 

[Nicole786]

Yay you're leaving so soon!!!!!

I know!!

I can't believe that this time next week you will be spending the day at Animal Kingdom, eating at CM, and going to DHS! What a great way to spend a Tuesday (or any day for that matter)!

Its a wonderful way to spend a tuesday youre right, i cant wait!!!

Oooooohhh - I love it when you get to say, "This time next week ...."!!!

I love that game!!

It's getting so exciting, isn't it. It's almost time!!!! Have fun packing tomorrow!

Cathy

We are all so close!! I hope we get to meet up!!

 

[scottny]

that is exciting. can't wait to hear all about it when u get back. the final days are the slowest for me. they just drag.

 

[troobabiee7]

I'm glad your back on the DIS!!! When I was in NY, I was at 30 rock like once a week hanging out observing...and each and everytime i would seriously look for you, even if I was just going to the bathroom I loved being there, and its a shame we didn't get a chance to hang out! I'm thinking of coming back in the fall for my bday, so i'll let you know! I was going to Pace University. I was in brooklyn ALL the damn time, my family lives in Redhook so that was like my weekend home. Most people go to the hamptons, I go to redhook lol. Isn't Idina Menzel great?? She was amazing live, what a sweet person!!

Too bad we never ran into each other in Rockefeller Center! It would have been so much fun to hang out, especially considering you were in BK all the time. Pace is a great school, my cousin's starting this fall at the Westchester campus. Definitely let me know if you're coming back, we need to plan a day of "Disney in the City!"

Is your family originally from around here? When I watched your cruise-surprise video your parents accents sounded very NY

I can't believe you leave so soon, I'm jealous! Have an amazing time!!! And as for a GPS, we have a Magellen and LOVE it. Definitely check them out.

 

[Native NYer]

I hope you're having a good time packing. Packing for a trip is always fun. It's the unpacking when you get home that stinks!

I cannot wait to read your tr!

Some of our Disney days overlap. I'll be there from 8/9-8/16.

 

[Nicole786]

that is exciting. can't wait to hear all about it when u get back. the final days are the slowest for me. they just drag.

Yeah they're dragging on lol

Too bad we never ran into each other in Rockefeller Center! It would have been so much fun to hang out, especially considering you were in BK all the time. Pace is a great school, my cousin's starting this fall at the Westchester campus. Definitely let me know if you're coming back, we need to plan a day of "Disney in the City!"

Is your family originally from around here? When I watched your cruise-surprise video your parents accents sounded very NY

I can't believe you leave so soon, I'm jealous! Have an amazing time!!! And as for a GPS, we have a Magellen and LOVE it. Definitely check them out.

Yes i was born in Brooklyn, and they grew up in brooklyn (hence the accent) and moved to westchester at around 10 years old...I moved here in 2005 If i make it there i will definitely let you know, that would be so much fun!!

I hope you're having a good time packing. Packing for a trip is always fun. It's the unpacking when you get home that stinks!

I cannot wait to read your tr!

Some of our Disney days overlap. I'll be there from 8/9-8/16.

I wonder if we'll bump into eachother!! I hate packing either way, i've been up for a while and just have zero desire right now to get up and pack! Even though its for disney!! lol

 

[KatGarcia]

I am so jealous! I swear these 3 weeks seem soooooo long I'm slowly dying...I just wanna get there!

 

[Native NYer]

We may bump into each other. I wonder if any of our ADRs overlap.

 

[Nicole786]

I am going to the Mets game in an hour or so, but that leaves me plenty of time to share with you a few things, such as the final mousekeeping envelopes, itinerary cards, and a fun video!!

So lets start with the mousekeeping envelopes!

Now here is the "main" daily card...its an at a glance so you can see what park we're at each day and what restaurant, it really came in handy and i'll use this method in the future!!

Every card looks the same in terms of the color scheme and graphics, the only thing changed is the actual content and specifics!

here is the hard rock

here is the coronado springs

here is the akl!

and here is a video I made!! All previous times, i've had to take my handy dandy daily cards and print them out and carry them with us in the parks. This was the one downfall of them, was having to sort through the papers which eventually got so dirty and wet that a lot of times became illegible! I had to rely on my memory (and i do have a lot of it memorized!) to read them. This year I figured there HAD to be a way to get them on my phone, theres gotta! So i tried several things and long story short, I got it to work!! I took a video, but realized that the lights were off and it was very dark, so I re-shot the video but this time, we are interrupted by a call from David (totally unplanned!) To give backstory on the call, he had slept over a friends house last night but was coming with me to run some errands (buy GPS, get a haircut etc) and it was about 12:30 and after not hearing from him I called and got no answer--so this was him calling me back about an hour later, enjoy!

 

[Native NYer]

I love your mousekeeping envelopes and itinerary cards. What program did you use to make them?

 

[Charleston Princess]

How did you make your cards??? Those are sooo cool!

 

[Hedy]

I love my Garmin.
Soo close!

 

[declansdad]

Cool idea with the cards on your phone.

 

[Disney8704]

Hey Nicole. I compared our schedule with yours and looks like we're gonna be in the same places a couple times:

Aug 6th - We will be in MK all day

Aug 7th - We will be in Epcot all day

Aug 11th - We also have a Donalds ADR that morning, ours is at 8:05am, whats yours? We will also be in AK all day

Aug 12th - We will be in MK all day except for dinner we're going to Hoop-Dee-Doo, so we will be gone from about 4pm to about 7:30pm

Maybe we will see you guys around sometime in the parks, if not maybe around AKL.

 

[princessjv]

First of all your voice is sooo cute. I love putty a voice to DIS friends.


So, you are too smart. I was planning on keeping my spread sheet booted up on both mine and my dh's iphones, in order to follow the SAME plan at all times.


I love you envelopes! So crafty!

 

[Nicole786]

I am so jealous! I swear these 3 weeks seem soooooo long I'm slowly dying...I just wanna get there!

I know how you feel!!

I love your mousekeeping envelopes and itinerary cards. What program did you use to make them?

Thanks!! The mousekeeping graphic I made in photoshop and than used MS Word to print it on to the envelope

How did you make your cards??? Those are sooo cool!

Thanks!! I used a program called Keynote which is very similar to Microsoft Power Point!

I love my Garmin.
Soo close!

We are close!! I actually got a Magellan. I bought the Garmin first, but didn't like that it lacked some of the features that the Magellan had for $20 more (like text to speech) either one is cool, I know Garmin is the industry leader, if I had the money I would have bought the Garmin with text to speech lol!

Cool idea with the cards on your phone.

Thanks!!

Hey Nicole. I compared our schedule with yours and looks like we're gonna be in the same places a couple times:

Aug 6th - We will be in MK all day

Aug 7th - We will be in Epcot all day

Aug 11th - We also have a Donalds ADR that morning, ours is at 8:05am, whats yours? We will also be in AK all day

Aug 12th - We will be in MK all day except for dinner we're going to Hoop-Dee-Doo, so we will be gone from about 4pm to about 7:30pm

Maybe we will see you guys around sometime in the parks, if not maybe around AKL.

Sounds good, i'm sure we'll bump into eachother, although a few days may not work out like the 7th we're not gonna be in epcot except for dinner which i'm actively trying to switch to another day!

oh we have the breakfast at 10:30am, maybe we'll still see you though!

First of all your voice is sooo cute. I love putty a voice to DIS friends.


So, you are too smart. I was planning on keeping my spread sheet booted up on both mine and my dh's iphones, in order to follow the SAME plan at all times.


I love you envelopes! So crafty!

Haha thats the only time ive heard my voice called 'cute' although i've heard "new yorker!" totally keep the spreadsheet on the iphone, i know this is going to be a real lifesaver! Did you get the 3G??

and thanks for the compliments!! WHeres your next chapter, missy??