That's great you made your Hotel ressie and ADR's! Looks like you have some great meals planned
Thanks
. Really looking forward to them. I decided to go DxDDP based on the fact that there were just so many I wanted to do and I couldn't cut them out. So I figured, it's not much more, let's do 'em all!
so, happy to hear that you are booked and your ADR's are made (except for Yak & Yeti--but, I'm sure it will be easy enough to add...)SO, you don't have too long to wait and you'll be celebrating the 
before you know it! 
The big huge Oct 27th thread in the Restaurants forum kept me (and many others) going throughout the day. I don't know if I would have bothered if not for hearing success stories and details about how each call was going by that gang. It was a great feeling of camaraderie (at least for me) with all those involved.
Just over 4 months out now. I like these short countdowns. I get to celebrate my birthday there too! 50s PT should be super fun for that, and then Yachtsman will be a very nice celebratory dinner.
I am SOOOOOOOOOO happy that you are going back to CSR. I could dance a jig...and it made me smile to read your news (and I've had a really bad day so I needed it (you can see my bad news near the end of this link
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2311326).
Keep trying for Yak & Yeti...sometimes that one they don't allow as far out and for the dining plan, they haven't signed up yet so that may be why you can't get it either.
Yup
, I knew you'd be thrilled when I made the choice! And really, one of the clinchers (as if that place needs any...) is the bus stop location at all the parks. Right up in front at all 4, can't beat that.
Sorry to hear about your troubles
. Sounds like they're on their way to dealing with the guy at least, hope all that goes well. I know it's rough going through it all. Hoping Mark's stuff goes well too.
For Yak & Yeti, I'm sure it's either not added in the system (CRT Breakfast and Lunch were like that yesterday) or they haven't signed the dining plan contract yet (Teppan Edo was like that yesterday too, but I didn't have the plan until after I booked there). It's not like it's one of the super in-demand places out there though (e.g. Le Cellier, CRT, etc), so it shouldn't be too difficult to get. If all else fails, I could walk-up Maya Grill that night for dinner instead. I know, that would be SUCH a shame if I had to do that
(Well, if I get Y&Y for lunch, I could still go to MG for dinner... hmmm....)
Is she giving the bird? I have about a hundred of my DD doing the same.
Michael
Heh, she certainly is. I swear she didn't learn it from me and I doubt from her mom, so I'll blame the father! (Granted, it's more than likely pure coincidence and happenstance that she just randomly arranged her fingers that way, but I like to blame "The Jerk".
I honestly admire anyone who can do that. I'm so shy, I won't hop into a line to ride a ride by myself and I feel wierd riding by anyone who I don't know. I just feel like I can't be myself. However, when we went to Dollywood at the beginning of September, I wanted to ride one roller coaster so badly, that I was willing to go it alone. But - the line was short, so I didn't really have to wait in line by myself. I'm wierd! I know!
I'm also a person who doesn't like to eat alone.
On the smoking thing, yes, it's bad for you, but the socialism part of it is part of the addiction! Trust me - I understand!!!
So, kudos to you, my friend! I wish I were more like you in that regard. And I totally know you're gonna miss your girls while down there. Every little thing you see is going to spark a memory or make you wish you had them there to share the experience. But, while you are there, you can be planning the next awesome vacay with them!
You'll come up with so many ideas!
One more thing I forgot to comment on - your ADR making fiasco!
Bless your heart. But you were persistent, and you got pretty much everything you wanted (w/ the exception of Y & Yeti). So yay!
I'm actually quite shy a person too, to an extent. I'm not as outgoing as I used to be in my youth (I know I know, I'm not old yet!), but I will be social if someone starts it up. It's more of a very overbearing sense of "I don't want to bother anyone" than it is of being shy. Couple that with a perfect ability to entertain myself at will (often for hours, doing stupid stuff), and it works out pretty well.
Eating alone in a restaurant is a strange thing, and even though I do it from time to time around here, it still just feels a little odd, but oh well, I'll be at Disney surrounded by Castles and Mice and all sorts of stuff. I think I can handle feeling "a little odd" for a little bit each day
And yeah, I know I'll be missing the girls pretty badly, especially when I pass (or ride) certain things. But, at least they're only a phone call away. I'll be one of "those" people on their cell phones in the park without a problem at all! Assuming I get decent signal... we remember how that was in Animal Kingdom...
And lastly, yup, we're planning to go at the same time in 2011 (which means, I'll get two birthdays in a row in Disney! No, I didn't plan it that way at all...
) so I'll be able to get a general feel before we go as well as attempt to plan a bit better and have a better overall expectation of what's there. It was quite difficult to know what to expect out of certain things when I hadn't been since I was 12 or 13, lots of things had changed and there is that whole other side that I had never even known existed before.
As far as the ADR fiasco goes. It was something alright. I just feel for all the CMs who had to put up with it yesterday, between frustration at their systems not working to one of the largest volume days ever to customers yelling at them because things weren't working right or weren't loaded yet, (like it was their fault...). I know it was NOT a "magical" day for any of them, yet there were so many reports of amazing and outstanding service that day that I just have to /cheer for all of them that had to put up with it.
thumbsup2 Kathy!)
And there's always random people to chat with (smoking may be very bad for you, but at least it's fairly social!)
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