Celebrating A 5th Birthday with Mickey & Rain,May 2009! Completed..

[bouncycat]

I'm not sure they ever caught the guy. We do have a magnetic door, and can be selective on who we let in, so I'm sure we'll be on our guard today. I got my "to be packed" list going, DH thinks I'm totally nuts. He keeps saying that he doesn't know what shorts he's gonna wanna wear...or shirt, he even told me he didn't know what underwear he wanted to wear this far out!! SO, mental note, can't count on him for AT LEAST another month!! DSM is busy with her 25th anniversary plans, and my brother's surprise birthday party to worry about disney yet...so can't count on her for at least another month!!! See my trend?? Which is why I'm going bonkers. I have NO OUTLET for this!!! Is it May yet???

 

[kaysmommie]

I'm not sure they ever caught the guy. We do have a magnetic door, and can be selective on who we let in, so I'm sure we'll be on our guard today. I got my "to be packed" list going, DH thinks I'm totally nuts. He keeps saying that he doesn't know what shorts he's gonna wanna wear...or shirt, he even told me he didn't know what underwear he wanted to wear this far out!! SO, mental note, can't count on him for AT LEAST another month!! DSM is busy with her 25th anniversary plans, and my brother's surprise birthday party to worry about disney yet...so can't count on her for at least another month!!! See my trend?? Which is why I'm going bonkers. I have NO OUTLET for this!!! Is it May yet???

That is funny about your DH not knowing what he wants to wear including the underwear. My DH can pack his own stuff, I'll just put the Disney shirts in his bag fro him . Sorry not May yet . I think in 2 weeks I'm going to start throwing some stuff into one big suitcase, just so I can see all we have to bring with us on the flight. DId I mention I wish I were driving now . I'm crazy.

 

[bouncycat]

OMG, you sound JUST LIKE ME!!! I keep changing my mind constantly!! Luckily my Dreams Unlimited lady is working with me very well. She knows I need to change dining places for September, but I'm not changing them as of yet. I'm just holding off to see if the plans change any more. I don't have much to work with for the may trip, just 2 nights, but I keep second guessing the Kona ressie for DH'S birthday. He's ALWAYS wanted to eat in the poly...which is why I chose there, but I'm just battling with it in my own head. I think I'm just gone....way too far gone!!! HAHAHAHA

 

[kaysmommie]

OMG, you sound JUST LIKE ME!!! I keep changing my mind constantly!! Luckily my Dreams Unlimited lady is working with me very well. She knows I need to change dining places for September, but I'm not changing them as of yet. I'm just holding off to see if the plans change any more. I don't have much to work with for the may trip, just 2 nights, but I keep second guessing the Kona ressie for DH'S birthday. He's ALWAYS wanted to eat in the poly...which is why I chose there, but I'm just battling with it in my own head. I think I'm just gone....way too far gone!!! HAHAHAHA

I'm torn right now with changing the schedule around again. Also with the airfare, thinking of earlier but Thomas has preschool graduation the evening before. So not sure I won't to be up at 4 AM. And of course I got a SW ding today after I already booked and paid for airfare. I think she keep Kona if your DH has wanted to eat there. Have you checked the menu for 'Ohana though?

 

[bouncycat]

Yea, Ohana is a buffet, and I've been sitting here looking at the pictures of inside the restaurants this afternoon, and Ohana seems really nice. I didn't want buffet for him tho, and Kona has steak, which he LOVES steak, so does DS. There's not much to do for the trip right now, so I'm just second guessing everything. Right resort, it's gonna be wierd on the rides with 5 in our party, that sorta stuff. The other teller here at work thinks I'm OCD Disney style!!! HAHAHA

 

[kaysmommie]

Yea, Ohana is a buffet, and I've been sitting here looking at the pictures of inside the restaurants this afternoon, and Ohana seems really nice. I didn't want buffet for him tho, and Kona has steak, which he LOVES steak, so does DS. There's not much to do for the trip right now, so I'm just second guessing everything. Right resort, it's gonna be wierd on the rides with 5 in our party, that sorta stuff. The other teller here at work thinks I'm OCD Disney style!!! HAHAHA

It's more like and all you can eat at your table. They also have steak but it is cooked on skewers, as well as other meat. It is a really good unique restaurant. Also they usually have some kind of entertainment like the Limbo and the Hula and the kids do coconut races. Kona is much quieter but the food is also good. Make sure you get the Kilauea torte for dessert, it's awesome!!

Oh and I changed my flight just now , we are arriving about 3 hours earlier than we planned since we are taking a morning flight. We have to get up at 4 AM to drive to Nashville though since it's 3 hours from here. I knew I should have just said okay well drive .

 

[my2disneyboys]

Yippee for being in Disney 3 hours earlier!!

 

[leamom2princesses]

It's more like and all you can eat at your table. They also have steak but it is cooked on skewers, as well as other meat. It is a really good unique restaurant. Also they usually have some kind of entertainment like the Limbo and the Hula and the kids do coconut races. Kona is much quieter but the food is also good. Make sure you get the Kilauea torte for dessert, it's awesome!!

Oh and I changed my flight just now , we are arriving about 3 hours earlier than we planned since we are taking a morning flight. We have to get up at 4 AM to drive to Nashville though since it's 3 hours from here. I knew I should have just said okay well drive .

See you on the flight Nichole

We did Ohana last year and loved it. We had more food than we could have dreamt of eating. Booked a later ressie so that we could watch Wishes from the beach. It was a neat experience.

 

[kaysmommie]

Yippee for being in Disney 3 hours earlier!!

It will be nice to have more time at the resort .

See you on the flight Nichole

We did Ohana last year and loved it. We had more food than we could have dreamt of eating. Booked a later ressie so that we could watch Wishes from the beach. It was a neat experience.

I love 'Ohana, October was the first trip we skipped it. It's also so convenient when you stay at Poly. I also love watching Wishes from the beach, so much better than in the parks. I was wavering from seeing HDDR and thinking about going back to 'Ohana . I guess well see you at BNA.

 

[leamom2princesses]

We're doing Ohana again this trip. Our meal at Ohana is where we fell in love with the look and feel of the Poly. One of these trips we will get to stay there. A friend of ours told us about HDDR. They had a great time. Have you done it before?

 

[ariel2007]

Ahhh I cannot believe I missed your report for so long, you should have told me you were starting one. I was just about to PM you today to say Hi as we haven't spoken for ages, and then I saw the link in your signature. Anyway I am so glad I found out, how are you all? I love your mini trip to AG, it looks like so much fun. I would move over to the USA just to take my children there . I love Atlanta, I hope to go back soon. And how was Chattanooga, I love it there too. We didn't do the Aquarium, only a lunch boat trip and Rock City but we really liked it there, and it was much bigger than we expected. Your Disney plans sound great, you must be so excited. I love the Pirates cake, its so cool. Did you decided yet?

 

[kaysmommie]

We're doing Ohana again this trip. Our meal at Ohana is where we fell in love with the look and feel of the Poly. One of these trips we will get to stay there. A friend of ours told us about HDDR. They had a great time. Have you done it before?

We love Poly too and hope to stay there again soon. You should definitely stay there sometime. We have never been to any of the dinner shows, it just never really appealed to us I guess. But after reading rave reviews of HDDR I think we should try it once for sure.

Ahhh I cannot believe I missed your report for so long, you should have told me you were starting one. I was just about to PM you today to say Hi as we haven't spoken for ages, and then I saw the link in your signature. Anyway I am so glad I found out, how are you all? I love your mini trip to AG, it looks like so much fun. I would move over to the USA just to take my children there . I love Atlanta, I hope to go back soon. And how was Chattanooga, I love it there too. We didn't do the Aquarium, only a lunch boat trip and Rock City but we really liked it there, and it was much bigger than we expected. Your Disney plans sound great, you must be so excited. I love the Pirates cake, its so cool. Did you decided yet?

Hi Ariel
Sorry I should have PMed you but figured since your pretrip ended maybe you were taking a break from the boards. Glad you here though! Thanks, Atlanta was fun. I would love to go the Aquarium there sometime, looks great. Chattanooga is also a fun town, never been to Rock City and I have lived here for almost 4 years well get there eventually. Have you been anywhere fun lately? I hope your are feeling better about the trip, and hopefully plan one again in the near future. Yes I'm pretty sure I'm going with the Pirate cake. Though that Mickey one is so adorable too.

 

[kaysmommie]

Animal Kingdom Plans

Must See

• Breakfast at Tusker House
• Nemo Musical (Never been yet)
  
• Ride the Safari (Thomas loves it and so do I )
  
• Everest
  
• Kali River Rapids (Kaylee's request since it was down last trip)
• Tough to be a bug (Thomas asked, I was going to leave it out this time)

Maybe List

• Flights of Wonder ( worth seeing??)
  
• Rafiki's Planet watch (never been here)
• Jungle Trek
• Pagani Forest trail
• Meet Stitch, Baloo, and hopefully Flik (Thomas loves him)

Not this trip

• Festival of the Lion King ( I do love this show)
• Dinosaur (yuck)
• Primeval Whirl yuck
• The boneyard
• Jammin Jungle Parade (have never seen it, but would love to fit it in)
  

So that's it for Animal kingdom. I went out of order since AK is easy to post, this will be Thursday's plans. I still have to post our Magic Kingdom day which is Thomas' Birthday! As far as AK, I think I remembered everything this time. I did plan on this being a half day park since I need to fit in swim time for the kids. Also I will need to pack up a bit before we go to our evening park. Looks like we will go to Epcot or MK on this night depends if we made it to Spectromagic yet or not. I really love that Parade and can't miss it, I just despise the crowds and rude treatment that you sometimes have to deal with to see it . When I look at everything I'm missing I think I need a 10 day trip to Disney .


Up Next: Magic Kingdom and Thomas' Special day!

 

[29apr00]

Yay for getting in earlier! Always great to have more time at WDW! And despite how early you'll have to get up....it's so easy to get up at 4am when you're heading to WDW!!

Regarding the AK plans....I would skip Flights of Wonder. IMO it's not worth seeing, and having all those big birds flying around and swooping over head is a bit freaky to me! Try and fit in Jammin Jungle parade instead! It's worth the wait!!

 

[bouncycat]

AK plans sound good!! Once I'm able to tell my mom, I'll get our "must do's" together. I do think Flights of Wonder closed, haven't heard it's reopened, I could be wrong tho, it was closed the WHOLE year we had our AP's, which was Aug 07 to Aug 08. So I haven't seen that. You'll LOVE the Nemo show, it was very nice. I don't much like the boneyard either, but DS loves it, so if we need to rest the feet at that point, I'll take him so Ma and DSIS can get a drink or whatever. But, the AK day does sound good.

 

[leamom2princesses]

Your AK plan looks great! We have done Rafiki's planet watch a few times. This is where we see Pocahontas. It's a nice train ride but other than that it's really just a petting zoo (with goats). We only go to see Pocahontas. I think we are skipping it this year.

The Jammin Jungle parade is neat if you've never seen it. The characters do come and shake hands with the kids etc. Too me its a little more personal than some of the other parades. I used to love the parade at DHS because the characters walked and spend time with the kids. Block Party Bash isn't near as cool to me.

 

[ariel2007]

Hi Ariel
Sorry I should have PMed you but figured since your pretrip ended maybe you were taking a break from the boards. Glad you here though! Thanks, Atlanta was fun. I would love to go the Aquarium there sometime, looks great. Chattanooga is also a fun town, never been to Rock City and I have lived here for almost 4 years well get there eventually. Have you been anywhere fun lately? I hope your are feeling better about the trip, and hopefully plan one again in the near future. Yes I'm pretty sure I'm going with the Pirate cake. Though that Mickey one is so adorable too.

No, I've been here the whole time. I'm ok about not going, I know its going to benefit us a lot more in the long run and thats what really counts. And hopefully we will be going back to WDW next year so I wont have too long to wait, although I hate not having anything to plan at the moment

We went to the aquarium in Atlanta and it was amazing, the best aquarium we have ever been to. Its so well themed and colorful and the whale sharks are awesome to see. I took Sophie on the backstage tour and it was so good, I hope we get to go again. And Rock City is great too. Its so beautiful and the views across the different states are amazing, especially if you go on a clear day.

 

[MaryAz]

Great AK plans. We may be there on thurs as well if we don't get to everything on Sun or want to do some things again. I am not a petting zoo fan so I hope to skip that as well as Flights of Wonder-not a bird fan either. We may do a later morning and check out the parade-sounds fun. We do have a lunch ressie at Yak-Yeti. We need swimming time as well.

 

[kaysmommie]

Yay for getting in earlier! Always great to have more time at WDW! And despite how early you'll have to get up....it's so easy to get up at 4am when you're heading to WDW!!

Regarding the AK plans....I would skip Flights of Wonder. IMO it's not worth seeing, and having all those big birds flying around and swooping over head is a bit freaky to me! Try and fit in Jammin Jungle parade instead! It's worth the wait!!

I guess FOW is kind of like the one at the Zoo here in Knoxville. I really want to see the Paade here but it's so hard to fit in since we planned on leaving this park by 12:30 or 1PM. how early do you generally get seats for this parade? I know it starts at 3:45 PM.

AK plans sound good!! Once I'm able to tell my mom, I'll get our "must do's" together. I do think Flights of Wonder closed, haven't heard it's reopened, I could be wrong tho, it was closed the WHOLE year we had our AP's, which was Aug 07 to Aug 08. So I haven't seen that. You'll LOVE the Nemo show, it was very nice. I don't much like the boneyard either, but DS loves it, so if we need to rest the feet at that point, I'll take him so Ma and DSIS can get a drink or whatever. But, the AK day does sound good.

So I guess FOW is off the list. I never even heard it closed. it was open when we went in october but we didn't make it back to the park in time because of rain. Well definitely skip the boneyard, they would rather swim anyway so that works for me.

Your AK plan looks great! We have done Rafiki's planet watch a few times. This is where we see Pocahontas. It's a nice train ride but other than that it's really just a petting zoo (with goats). We only go to see Pocahontas. I think we are skipping it this year.

The Jammin Jungle parade is neat if you've never seen it. The characters do come and shake hands with the kids etc. Too me its a little more personal than some of the other parades. I used to love the parade at DHS because the characters walked and spend time with the kids. Block Party Bash isn't near as cool to me.

I have heard Rafiki's is fun because they sometimes bring animlas out for the kids tosee and also Jiminy Cricket is there. If we can fit it in i guess we will. SO do you think I hsould go see the Paradeat AK instead of HS?? Maybe we will do that. Jungle parade does look really fun!

No, I've been here the whole time. I'm ok about not going, I know its going to benefit us a lot more in the long run and thats what really counts. And hopefully we will be going back to WDW next year so I wont have too long to wait, although I hate not having anything to plan at the moment

We went to the aquarium in Atlanta and it was amazing, the best aquarium we have ever been to. Its so well themed and colorful and the whale sharks are awesome to see. I took Sophie on the backstage tour and it was so good, I hope we get to go again. And Rock City is great too. Its so beautiful and the views across the different states are amazing, especially if you go on a clear day.

It's worth it to skip a year and get ahead in your jobs. but I know how hard you worked on those plans. Hopefully you will defintely go next year , then you can get back to planning. The GA Aquarium is on our list of weekend trips, Rock City is close so an easy day trip for us.

Great AK plans. We may be there on thurs as well if we don't get to everything on Sun or want to do some things again. I am not a petting zoo fan so I hope to skip that as well as Flights of Wonder-not a bird fan either. We may do a later morning and check out the parade-sounds fun. We do have a lunch ressie at Yak-Yeti. We need swimming time as well.

I might have to switch my schedule around again to see where i can fit in more stuff at AK. I guess we will skip FOW since it might be closed, and it doesn't sound that great. Maybe well see you there. I have read great things and seen food pics from Y&Y.

 

[dddisrunner]

Hey Nichole! Your AK plans look great! We have seen Flights of Wonder twice. Once in August of 2006 and then in April of 2008. The first time it was an informative show and actually we liked it..especially the boys who were 6&4 at the time. Last April, they added a "storyline" to it with this weird lady that acted as a tour guide...it was cute but she was SO ANNOYING and unfortunately it took away from the birds which really are AWESOME! Not sure if it is closed or not...it was located in the shade with fans blowing on you though...a rare thing in the AK park We liked Raifiki's planet watch. The boys got to see a racoon having surgery and of course Pocahantas is there! The jungle trek NOT SUCH A FAVORITE! by me mostly!! Do you subscribe to TGM? If you do supposedly Flik is stationed near the "secret exit path".