That was a great update Allan. Your pictures of the parade are great. IMHO I think that is one of the best parades Disney has. It really amazes me how they do all that.
People don't care that there are spots on children's clothes in Disney. Heck I think Don and Mike had on their 'eatin shirts' almost everyday. Ok, they aren't children but they eat like them. Always dropping something.
It was nice you got to meet your friend and his family.
Your plans for your solo trip look good to me for sure. I would do that too but daughter Sheri would never let us go without her.
Ginny
The secret is... don't tell them
. Though, it may be considerably tough since your family is so close.
Alan, love the update and the pics are awesome.
Love the selections above--we've done most of them. If you want to change to a meal at AK rather than elsewhere, we really enjoyed Yak & Yeti for table service. The only reason we didn't do it last month is that we did not get to the AK on the "mini" trip.
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. I looked at Yak & Yeti (and almost did it for this trip), but I'm a pretty (ok, very) picky eater and not much really jumped out at me. I don't eat fish, or poultry, or any seafood, or (much) pork... so that really eliminates a lot of places and a lot of "good" meals. At least I don't get bored of food very easily, so beef every night works just fine for me!
Enjoying all your updates and your AK pictures. Great shot of the 4 elephants and the lion. I have yet to get a good lion shot and I have been there a million times (ok, not a million, but you get the idea).
Love your tentative plans for Feb. Love Teppan Edo and Artist Point. I also love LTT for lunch. yum Good luck with your ADR's.
Can't wait to here where you guys go next.
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. After reading several other TRs, I had pretty low expectations of the lion being out. But there he was, sitting right on the rock sunning himself. If we had gone 20 minutes later, we would have seen the lioness up and about too, as she was out for my friends who were almost right behind us.
I'm really looking forward to those as well. I had originally not planned on LTT, since I didn't particularly care for dinner offerings (not a big turkey fan, or cranberries, or... the list gets longer!), but then I looked up the lunch and it looks good. I am a little disappointed that there will be characters while I'm there (they have them early Jan through 2/15 to cover for the CP refurb), but oh well.
loving your TR. Emily is sooo cute. sounds like you are having fun so far. cant wait to hear more!
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. The fun is only beginning. The real fun pretty much started on Wednesday when I started to step up more into the title role of this TR (and a certain little girl let that word slip a few times too...). There's some more of Tuesday to get through first, but it's not all fun and games!
Yep! That site is blocked, darned the luck. Don't worry about it. I can read from home, it's just hard to do with a four year old interrupting every coherent thought I have! I'll manage!
That's just strange. Wonder if someone in the office was a guild member and got it "flagged" by your IT dept. Or maybe they just blocked all game related sites. I do have a plan though. I have another domain under the same account/server that I can use, I just have to reupload all the photos to that portion (which is very simple, since I don't depend on stuff like photobucket uploaders and such). It should work if you can get to
www.disneybase.net (which I really need to get working on again, it's been stagnant for a couple months now). Try that site, if you can get to it I'll start calling them from there instead. (And, ignore the content for now, it's a work in progress(ish))
Hmmm. We were supposed to be at EPCOT on the Wednesday evening...but we weren't. Almost nothing I planned on this trip went according to plan. At least as far as what days we went where. Can't give too much away. If I'm not careful, I'm going to tell everyone about my whole trip and defeat the purpose of a TR....that I'm never going to write anyway.
Oh well.
We probably didn't cross anywhere...but I'll know as you move along.
I'd tell you to hurry up with the next installment, but you're already making me look bad, so I won't.
Oh trust me, I know all about "The Plan". Many of the things I originally planned for didn't happen either as you'll see in the next chapter (or installment, or update, or whatever the heck you want to call it).
I'll be going through this soon enough, pretty much every morning I update before starting on work (which, may be why I'm so far behind on work this week... hmm..)
I just subscribed- I love your TR! Emily is adorable & I can't wait to read more.
I am planning a solo trip in January (14th-18th) & I am enjoying your pre-trip planning for February- I can definitely relate to struggling to choose places to eat! By the way, I went this past February (2-6) & it was a great time to go.
Welcome and thanks
If only you guys could hear her talking and stuff, the adorable factor goes up by 10. She's so smart and well spoken for being so young. She's also already developing a real sense of humor, and purposely makes her mom laugh by doing silly things (knowing that they're silly). I really could go on about her all day! (And sometimes, I do).
Speaking of which, once I reach Wednesday, I'll have videos to post here too! Though, I'm not entirely sure how to post them, and may have to just link to the video on my own site to do it...
Now, you others may have noticed that site I'm having Mel try this time. It was a project that I started working on and put aside for a bit. It was to be another of these WDW info sites, but this one relating specifically to dining (for now) with reviews, menus, photos, and all that. It started as I originally wanted to give Beth all the menus for all the restaurants before I did the ADRs (so she could help me decide), I started writing them up in Word and thought "There must be an easier way!". Well... this wasn't easier, but it would end up being easier for others. Of course, I got busy with work over the summer and it slid into obscurity. But I still have the plans and the ability to code it up, so will likely restart on the project. (It also served as a format for me to learn a specific programming language, which I learned a lot about in doing it).
And lastly, I've been in Feb a couple times before, though more typically toward the end of the month when we had winter break back home (us way-up-Northerners would get a week at the end of Feb and a week at the end of April off, though always different than the weeks that Massachusetts (yay, first try!) got). It'll be nice after so long though (was about 18 years before this past trip, which was my 9th or 10th, we were a Disney family before it became popular!). The planning is more difficult this time around though, I guess it's mostly due to the fact that I'm going DxDDP, so have much more to choose from. I think with this plan though, assuming I can get most of those ADRs (and I have no problem being up at 2am CDT) it'll go great. Now, I may need to book 2 seats on the plane ride home though...
I'll hopefully be pushing another update out tonight, partly to test the other site and see if Mel can see those (well, she'll be able to from home, but work is the issue). I may not though, it all depends on if I get around to it and remember.
Well, this was a long random rambling from me this time. Good thing we're not on "that other site" or I may be reprimanded for going "off topic"
(even though, the topic of this TR is basically me.. so everything I say is technically "on topic"!)
Have a good evening everyone.
Do you use photobucket or something else? 
. It's a good idea and makes perfect sense though!)
. I felt bad about it, but there was no way in heck that we'd have been able to handle it that evening. Derek and his family were going to eat at Rainforest Cafe and invited us along, but I even told them then that we had ressies over at Boma (so you can see how late we decided not to go).
The gorilla pictures are so great.
Connie
