So I'm sure you all have noticed that I am much more absent from the Dis as of late than per usual.
Is wedding planning a totally cliched excuse?
Well I'm using it anyways.
WOW theres a lot that goes into planning a wedding!!
Anyhoo.
That, combined with work keeping me busy, has led to less and less Dis time over the past few weeks. And you guys are SO GOOD at updating your TR's, well, you make me feel even more like a slacker!
But I will TRY to be here a bit more often than I had (read: I probably wont be back for around 3 more weeks, with another lame excuse to follow
), because I totally missed you guys while I was devoting my internet-ing time to various wedding sites and Googling things like more folders for my wedding planning binder.
(Have I showed you guys my wedding planning binder?)
(I bought this model because it was orange and pretty. And because DF said he would make fun of me for buying a Trapper Keeper. (I would have totally gone retro and gotten a Lisa Frank model because OF COURSE.))
Anyhoo. (Times two.)
Other than wedding planning, Ive now been doing Disneymoon planning, which, so far, is pretty similar to regular trip planning with the exception being that we have a bunch more activities already on our schedule. (Such as, say, the wedding.)
And so, it was recently time for that day we all await
ADR day!
I dutifully awoke before 6 AM EST (easy to calculate because I already live on eastern standard time), and started clicking away at the Disney site to make our dining reservations.
and, no dice.
I clicked around some more, and it was quickly evident that either the new system doesnt ADR rope drop at 6 AM anymore, or there was a site issue.
Wah.
I sat around until 7, tried the site again, which was still having issues, and then around 7:05, called the dining reservations line. Where I waited patiently (I do like that Disney Parks hold music!) for around 25 minutes.
(I should clarify at this point that we are flying down to Disney a few days before the wedding, so while a few of our ADRs are pre-wedding, most are technically during our honeymoon.)
I spoke with a nice CM who was able to make all but a few of our reservations. (2 restaurants were not accepting ADRs for no reason that we could ascertain, and California Grill is not accepting ADRs yet either, but I figured that would be the case)
When we were almost done talking, right as she was about to give me our confirmation numbers, I suddenly realized that I had made ALL of our ADRs under my name
which will not be my last name as of the wedding. (Yes, I know not to change actual official things like our flight info, but I wanted DFs (and my to-be) last name to be on the ADRs, since it will be our honeymoon and all!) I explained the situation, and asked if there was an easy way to switch the name on some of our reservations.
Nope. Id need to re-do the ones that I needed corrected.
Sigh.
(And no, making all of the ADRs under DFs name from the start would have been far too easy, which is why I didnt think of it until way after the fact.)
I got the confirmation numbers from her, figuring that at least I had ADRs, and if I was going to be finicky about how they were reserved exactly (yep), then I could change them.
This was then an ongoing process for several days, as I battled the new Disney website (am I the only one that finds it VERY frustrating?), which would either time out, say there were no reservations available, or not let me make my 180 +10 ADRs.
And then finally, finally, I was able to update them all*, much to the lack-of-fanfare from DF. (Its not really a big deal, so theyre under one name or the other.)
(He's so frustratingly reasonable sometimes.)
(*except for Crystal Palace, where I was originally able to score an 8:05 AM ADR on a non-EMH morning, so that was not changing to the 8:35 AM, which was the only other time I was able to find several days later.)
Are you sick of hearing about my ADR saga yet?
Now, I know I did the ADR game last time, and a bunch of you are doing it now, but Im figuring with the rate Ive been actually updating my TR, any game would probably be dragged out to mid-August by this point, so I may as well tell you now, before Ive changed my mind for any of our reservations.
(What? You and I both know the high likelihood of that happening.
)
Arrival Day: Dinner at Jiko (ADR not able to be made yet who knows why.)
Day 1: Breakfast at Kona Café
Dinner at Yachtsman Steakhouse (Again, ADR not able to be made yet who knows why.)
(This will be our first time there, so no relevant picture here!)
Day 2: Breakfast at Kouzzina
Rehearsal Dinner on the Croquet Lawn at the Boardwalk
(The most relevant picture I have, which doesn't show the space at all.)
Day 3: WEDDING DAY!
Day 4: Farewell breakfast at Fresh (in the Dolphin)
(I don't have a picture from Fresh already in my Flickr, so here's a picture from the Dolphin Fountain, right down the hall from Fresh.)
(Yep, this is a detailed and comprehensive TR right here...)
no dinner plans because I envisioned a giant troupe of us meandering around F&W at Epcot.
(I'd be lying if I said I also wasn't envisioning getting one of these...)
Day 5: Lunch at the Brown Derby (with my parents; DFs parents; and DFs sister, brother-in-law, and niece.)
(Haven't been here yet either, so another irrelevant picture..)
Dinner at Flying Fish
(Also our first time to be dining here...)
Day 6: Breakfast at Crystal Palace
Dinner at Boma
Day 7: Breakfast at Boma (I wonder if we should just sleep in the AKL lobby that night)
Dinner at Artist Point
Day 8: Breakfast at Whispering Canyon Café (sleepover at the Wilderness Lodge lobby?)
(First time here too!)
Dinner at California Grill (provided we are actually able to make an ADR!)
Day 9, AKA departure day: Lunch at 50s Prime Time Cafe
(Haven't been here in long enough not to have a picture!)
And BOMA. Favorite. We usually go to dinner there, but I'm thinking breakfast will have to get on the to-do-at-Disney-soon list. 
Glad to hear you made it work for the rest of the trip though!
now that I think about it... it was when I stayed at POR that we had SERIOUS issues. Like...no housekeeping for days...until we had our hair dryer catch fire. 
So maybe I am not sure why they are my favorite. Must be the grounds and main buildings... 
)
So, the jambalaya looked like how I'd serve it here in North Louisiana. Ahh, beignets....the Louisiana treat covered in tons of powdered sugar. Even though I was born and raised right here in Louisiana, I could live the rest of my life without another beignet and still die a happy woman. I much prefer funnel cakes (easy on the powdered sugar).
