Shir Kahn
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Hello all and welcome to my second attempt at a PTR! My last one kind of grew into a full-out trip report and ended up taking so long it ran into the trip after that!
The link for that one is in my signature.
Cast of this one:
DW - Tammy
Myself - Jason
DBiL - Tim, or Indy as he likes to be called
DFiL - Len
DASMiL (er, Disney Almost Step-Mom in Law, these acronyms are getting a bit ridiculous!) Carla
Tammy, Tim and I have all been to WDW before, Len and Carla haven't, although Len has been to Disneyland a few times. Tim has Downs Syndrome and while his favorite place on earth is the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, he'll settle for the Indiana Jones show in WDW.
Tammy
Me
Tim
Don't have pictures of Len or Carla to upload quite yet, but I'll add them when I can.
One thing about my trip reports, I am an absolute picture-taking lunatic and I love to upload them. On my last trip report, I was working away at it and all of a sudden photobucket one day decided to rearrange the order of all my pictures, so I had no chronological order to them. I'm prepared for that this time though! I've just bought a new Canon SD880IS that I'll be taking the majority of my pictures with. I'll also have my Olympus Evolt 420 with me, which is perfect for the parks, as it's water resistant and compact. Tammy will have her Canon S5IS with her and we'll be using a Panasonic HD flash camcorder for video. It's getting easier to upload video nowadays, so I'll be including some of that in my trip report.
So we had originally planned to head off to WDW for spring break, just Tammy and me, as she works as an educational assistant and can only get certain times of the year off, such as spring break, summer break and winter break. I work in retail sales, so I can't be taking off winter, as that's peak sales time. For the past few years we've been going at spring break and then again in the summer, usually in August. So after we announced to the general family that we headed back yet again, Len said something about wanting to see what all the fuss was about WDW. He really has no idea how big it really is compared to Disneyland. So Tammy and I decided to skip the spring break trip and plan a July trip for all 5 of us instead.
We love driving down and usually always do, although it is a 32 hour drive each way.
We live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, which is pretty much the geological center of North America. It's also almost exactly the same distance from both WDW and Disneyland. 32 hours to WDW and 31 hours to Disneyland. Tammy and I will be riding in our car and Tim, Len and Carla will be going in theirs. We'll be leaving on July 5th and taking 4 days to drive down, about 8 hours a day. Normally we do the drive in 2 or 3 days, but we've got lots of time this trip and it'll be nice to take it easy. I just bought a nice $700 Garmin GPS for a measly $150 recently (one of the perks of working for an electronics store) and I'm really looking forward to trying it out on a long trip. It has the ability to have customizable voices, so Darth Vader will at some point be telling to turn left in 150 feet. 
We're going to be checking into Pop Century on July 9th and Len, Carla and Tim will be staying until July 19th. Tammy and I decided to make this trip a bit more epic so we're staying until the 29th!
Yep, 20 days booked at Pop Century!
Just imagine how many pictures I'm going to have of Spaceship Earth this trip!
We're buying annual passes, as it's much cheaper than getting two 10 day park hoppers.
The Plan so far:
July 9th - Epcot
Supper at Coral Reef
July 10th - MK
Breakfast at CRT
July 11th - AK
Supper at Tusker House
July 12th - MK
Breakfast at Crystal Palace (Booked really early so we can go in the park before it opens!)
July 13th - DHS
Lunch at Sci-Fi
July 14th - Epcot
Supper at Rose and Crown
July 15th - AK
Lunch at Rainforest Cafe
July 16th - Typhoon Lagoon
Supper at WCC
July 17th - MK
Supper at LTT
July 18th - AK
Supper at the new T-Rex restaurant in DTD
July 19th - MK
Supper at Tony's Town Square
July 20th - Epcot
Lunch at Le Cellier
July 21st - AK, then DHS
Supper at Hollywood and Vine, Fantasmic Package
July 22nd - DHS
July 23rd - Epcot
Supper at Tutto Italia
July 24th - MK
July 25th - AK
July 26th - DHS
Lunch at 50's Primetime
July 27th - AK
July 28th - Epcot
Supper at Chefs du France
July 29th MK
I haven't quite finished the dining plans yet, but everything listed has been reserved so far. I ended up waiting too long for my ADRs so I wasn't able to get everything I wanted, such as supper at Le Cellier, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got so far. I'll keep trying for the ones I've missed until I hopefully get lucky. Strangely enough, every trip, I've been easily able to get CRT reservations.
We're going to be changing this plan as we get closer, likely we're going to head to US and Seaworld at some point during this trip. I'm even thinking about doing the Discovery Cove dolphin swim. I'll keep you updated with anything new that we decide. Thanks to anyone who reads my PTR.

Cast of this one:
DW - Tammy
Myself - Jason
DBiL - Tim, or Indy as he likes to be called
DFiL - Len
DASMiL (er, Disney Almost Step-Mom in Law, these acronyms are getting a bit ridiculous!) Carla
Tammy, Tim and I have all been to WDW before, Len and Carla haven't, although Len has been to Disneyland a few times. Tim has Downs Syndrome and while his favorite place on earth is the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland, he'll settle for the Indiana Jones show in WDW.

Tammy

Me

Tim

Don't have pictures of Len or Carla to upload quite yet, but I'll add them when I can.
One thing about my trip reports, I am an absolute picture-taking lunatic and I love to upload them. On my last trip report, I was working away at it and all of a sudden photobucket one day decided to rearrange the order of all my pictures, so I had no chronological order to them. I'm prepared for that this time though! I've just bought a new Canon SD880IS that I'll be taking the majority of my pictures with. I'll also have my Olympus Evolt 420 with me, which is perfect for the parks, as it's water resistant and compact. Tammy will have her Canon S5IS with her and we'll be using a Panasonic HD flash camcorder for video. It's getting easier to upload video nowadays, so I'll be including some of that in my trip report.
So we had originally planned to head off to WDW for spring break, just Tammy and me, as she works as an educational assistant and can only get certain times of the year off, such as spring break, summer break and winter break. I work in retail sales, so I can't be taking off winter, as that's peak sales time. For the past few years we've been going at spring break and then again in the summer, usually in August. So after we announced to the general family that we headed back yet again, Len said something about wanting to see what all the fuss was about WDW. He really has no idea how big it really is compared to Disneyland. So Tammy and I decided to skip the spring break trip and plan a July trip for all 5 of us instead.
We love driving down and usually always do, although it is a 32 hour drive each way.


We're going to be checking into Pop Century on July 9th and Len, Carla and Tim will be staying until July 19th. Tammy and I decided to make this trip a bit more epic so we're staying until the 29th!



The Plan so far:
July 9th - Epcot
Supper at Coral Reef
July 10th - MK
Breakfast at CRT
July 11th - AK
Supper at Tusker House
July 12th - MK
Breakfast at Crystal Palace (Booked really early so we can go in the park before it opens!)
July 13th - DHS
Lunch at Sci-Fi
July 14th - Epcot
Supper at Rose and Crown
July 15th - AK
Lunch at Rainforest Cafe
July 16th - Typhoon Lagoon
Supper at WCC
July 17th - MK
Supper at LTT
July 18th - AK
Supper at the new T-Rex restaurant in DTD
July 19th - MK
Supper at Tony's Town Square
July 20th - Epcot
Lunch at Le Cellier
July 21st - AK, then DHS
Supper at Hollywood and Vine, Fantasmic Package
July 22nd - DHS
July 23rd - Epcot
Supper at Tutto Italia
July 24th - MK
July 25th - AK
July 26th - DHS
Lunch at 50's Primetime
July 27th - AK
July 28th - Epcot
Supper at Chefs du France
July 29th MK
I haven't quite finished the dining plans yet, but everything listed has been reserved so far. I ended up waiting too long for my ADRs so I wasn't able to get everything I wanted, such as supper at Le Cellier, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got so far. I'll keep trying for the ones I've missed until I hopefully get lucky. Strangely enough, every trip, I've been easily able to get CRT reservations.

We're going to be changing this plan as we get closer, likely we're going to head to US and Seaworld at some point during this trip. I'm even thinking about doing the Discovery Cove dolphin swim. I'll keep you updated with anything new that we decide. Thanks to anyone who reads my PTR.
