April 2010 ABD Backstage Magic : California Here We Come!!!

[katscradle]

I'm packing and making ready to catch a night flight to Orlando tomorrow, merry here I come! I'm looking forward to seeing Katherine and John again, and meeting more of my fellow adventurers!!!

Kat - are you loving BLT?

Yes we are!
There are a few small flaws that I can see, but I plan to go to the meeting this week and let them know.
Call us when you get here.

 

[DisneyKevin]

I assume Kevin can answer this ...

Since Pete is handing over his "baby" to Corey, I was curious ... Is he still coming on this trip with us? I assume yes, but I hadn't heard anything either way. Just curious.

Jennifer

I cant believe I missed this.

Nothing has changed as far as our Adventure.

Pete, Walter, John and I have every intention of being right there with you.

 

[katscradle]

I cant believe I missed this.

Nothing has changed as far as our Adventure.

Pete, Walter, John and I have every intention of being right there with you.

Thank god that has not changed!
We would not do this without you guy's!

 

[stenogoddess]

Everyone at DAP, y'all have a little extra fun for me okay?! I'm green with envy!

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

Bill and I hop on a flight tomorrow with DS4 (Cole) on our way to DAP!

DS9 (Will) and DD7 (Emily) still don't know where we are going. They are under the assumption it is a business trip for Bill and we are tagging along. We assumed they were going to be absent last week from school because of our WDW trip and we didn't want them missing more school. However, as previously explained, we came back early and they were in school last week. Sadly, it was too late to add them to our DAP trip (plane ticket, room too small for our family, DAP events tickets, etc ...) So, we are still going without them. They have the WDW trip in late Jan/early Feb to look forward to.

Jennifer

 

[slapwhitey]

We hopefully hop on a flight tomorrow as well. Hoping the weather cooperates. Fingers crossed.

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

We hopefully hop on a flight tomorrow as well. Hoping the weather cooperates. Fingers crossed.

Good luck on your flight!

Jennifer

 

[TheTXTaylors5]

We have allot of ice here near Dallas today. It should be melted by the time I pick the kids up from school. Tomorrow, we are clear for flying. It will be warmer.

I checked the Lake Buena Vista, Florida weather forecast for the upcoming DAP weekend.

Here's what The Weather Channel website says we can expect:

Thursday
Dec 10
Showers
High 74°
Low 54°


Friday
Dec 11
Cloudy
High 71°
Low 63°

Saturday
Dec 12
Partly Cloudy
High 81°
Low 66°

Sunday
Dec 13
Few Showers
High 81°
Low 63°

They now say there is only a 10% chance of rain on Saturday for the Toy Story Mania Party. To me, rain or shine (or rather moonlight) we were going to be there having fun. The ride and Character Meet 'n Greet are inside anyways. Even though we were just at WDW, we can't get back soon enough!

Back to laundry, packing and cleaning the house. My Mom is staying with the kids over the weekend at our house. The house is clean, but it has to be "super" clean when "Granny" comes over. I think it's a Mother/Daughter thing. Bill jokes I have to get the "fake house" ready. If any of you have watched Everybody Loves Raymond, you'll know what I am talking about.

Jennifer

 

[tmli]

Was there an ABD meet planned? Did we miss it or were we just not invited?

 

[spokanemom]

While most of you are out having a great time in FL, I am sitting here, cold, only reading about the festivites, I came across some item about Disneyland in April 2010. The Corn Dog Cart will be down for refurbishment until May. The Corn Dog Castle in DCA will be closed until May also. What am I supposed to do now? That is always on my list of stuff to eat at DL.

Corn Dog
Dole Whip
Churro
Chicken Fusilli Pasta at the Pizza Port

AND... My beloved Aladdin Musical at the Hyperion Theater will be closing in 2010 as well to make way for yet another Toy Story thing...

Yup, my pity party is in FULL swing!

 

[Dodie]

It was GREAT meeting you all this past weekend. We are going to have so much fun on our April trip! I'm glad I can start to focus on that now!

...and of course I can't wait to hear what Kevin and John have up their sleeves that is "going to make our heads explode."

 

[Dodie]

Where IS everybody?!!! It's time to get the countdown toward this party started now!!!

 

[slapwhitey]

We are here. Trying to dig out our ABD paperwork to resend it before they take our trip away.

What is this that's supposed to make our heads explode? News to me....but sounds pretty frickin' cool.

 

[spokanemom]

I'm all for exploding heads... Can't wait to find out!

 

[DisneyKevin]

And now the focus shifts to our ABD trip.....

With DAP an awesome memory, we can now begin the planning and talking and obsessing over our Adventure.

At the risk of furthering my reputation for "taunting", I let it slip that John was working on something "special" for all of us.

As we do not have confirmation as of yet.....I have to hold back on the details. My reasoning for doing this is that we really dont like disappointing people and if I were to share our plans...and they dont / cant happen...it would be a disappointment to everyone. There's no sense starting a trip with a disappointment.

If we can pull this off....there will be exploding heads. That's all I can say for now.

In looking at Dodie's signature parade....it looks like we only have 119 days until our Adventure begins.

I cant wait till our Adventure guides play the "let's get to know each other" game on the first night.

Are they ready for 40 DISers? I doubt it.

Let the countdown begin in earnest.

California....here we come.

 

[DisneyKevin]

We are here. Trying to dig out our ABD paperwork to resend it before they take our trip away.

What is this that's supposed to make our heads explode? News to me....but sounds pretty frickin' cool.

We dont want to have to scold you or KAB407 for not getting your paperwork back in time......

 

[DisneyTaylors]

And now the focus shifts to our ABD trip.....

With DAP an awesome memory, we can now begin the planning and talking and obsessing over our Adventure.

At the risk of furthering my reputation for "taunting", I let it slip that John was working on something "special" for all of us.

As we do not have confirmation as of yet.....I have to hold back on the details. My reasoning for doing this is that we really dont like disappointing people and if I were to share our plans...and they dont / cant happen...it would be a disappointment to everyone. There's no sense starting a trip with a disappointment.

If we can pull this off....there will be exploding heads. That's all I can say for now.

In looking at Dodie's signature parade....it looks like we only have 119 days until our Adventure begins.

I cant wait till our Adventure guides play the "let's get to know each other" game on the first night.

Are they ready for 40 DISers? I doubt it.

Let the countdown begin in earnest.

California....here we come.

The last time we heard about the possibility of heads exploding, it was pretty impressive. Hopefully everything works out and this comes to fruition. We were already excited about this trip, but we are completely jazzed now after meeting several of you at DAP. "California here we come..." (glad you can't hear my singing voice ). Talk to you all soon.

- Bill

 

[slapwhitey]

We dont want to have to scold you or KAB407 for not getting your paperwork back in time......

Just returned from the fax machine....hopefully it goes through this time.

OOPS...did I give it away that I'm DISing at work.

 

[kab407]

We dont want to have to scold you or KAB407 for not getting your paperwork back in time......

Sorry Kevin

I'll look for it tonight and get it to the ABD folks. Most of my life is sitting in boxes in my basement that this moment.

 

[kab407]

OK, I've closed on my new home, did massive amounts of redecorating, moved and have survived DAP. I can officially start to get excited for this trip.


As you guys have clearly shown, go big or go home. My money is always on the Genius.