Lovely to see you Melinda!!!!!
YAY...…….another visit to Universal...…...how exciting...…….oh temptation is so easy to indulge at times.....love it!!! Have you decided where you`re going to be staying or made any plans? Love hearing about others plans...…...
I`m so happy to hear you`ve enjoyed this one...….we had such a good time despite the rain that we seemed to have a lot of, particularly in the evenings.....which of course then we HAD to spend so much time in Strongwater Bar
Thank you for the lovely comments.....I really appreciate them
...…..always lovely to hear...…..oh hope you enjoy the tea...….
It's kind of a convoluted mess right now and lots of plans still up in the air. We made plans a long time back to spend Thanksgiving week in Orlando when I found an unbeatable rate for the Dolphin hotel over at Disney. So we booked that and are all sorted out for Saturday to Saturday with two rooms and my mom coming with us to celebrate the holiday doing something unique. We all have Disney annual passes so it's meant to be a leisurely trip where we're not too worried about getting on all of the rides since it will be so busy. I wanted to do a Universal day or two because R's birthday is on November 21, and Thanksgiving day November 22 so for a birthday present I thought we could do Universal and we all like it so well and haven't been there in a while. So I went ahead and booked the night at RPR - even if no one ends up spending the night sleeping in the room it would give us a place to go back to for a rest, a nicer place to park than the massive garages, and Express Pass.
Well, R's mom had some changes of plans and ended up booking a resort for the same week in Orlando and they aren't Disney fans like we are, so they were talking to R about joining us for the Universal days so I thought we had a nice plan ready. But then (!!!) R's mom let him know that she and her husband are considering eyelid surgery (mind you all of this is coming through secondhand reports so if it sounds like nonsense it's not my fault!
) and R comes up with saying he didn't think we should spend all that money on the Universal part.
AND to make matters more dramatic, Universal just announced the three or six extra months on annual passes and the lowest pass is so close to just a two day ticket. Plus, I already paid for the RPR room and telling him all of these things I think I have done a good job "selling it" and pretty much got R back to wanting to do our Universal days regardless of whether his mom and her husband join us those days.
So it's a mess right now! But I am catching up slowly on all your lovely reports since you do such a nice job showing off all the great things at Universal. Now I want to spend even more time there so we have the leisure time to enjoy Strongwater and Sal's and NBC Sports Grill (and, and, and... can you tell we like to eat?)
But if we go for the APs we will definitely be back and can enjoy all those nice restaurants.
It's funny to "catch up" with all of your Disboards pals through reports. After reading all of your posts I always feel like I know you and Tom so well and of course that's silly since we've never met. But it was so nice to read about Tom retiring and Kyle doing so well with his job and to hear about your house updates and everything else. We had a wedding since the last time we were at Universal! In case you are silly like I am and like to keep up with Disboard friends' real life I posted some pictures here on my Disney report thread:
https://www.disboards.com/threads/n...ing-around-epcot.3693417/page-5#post-59534889
Thanks again for all the time you take to write such nice reports.
I'm almost caught up on September's report and then will go back to July! I have my trip report time machine ready!!!