Dee's 1st trip to the world. A very early pre-trip report. Updated 10/21/11

So we've made a few changes to our trip.

We are going to go to MVMCP :santa:on Tuesday Nov 29 so we've switched some days around.

We will arive at Pop sometime around noon on Nov 26th. We are going to check in and head to Earl of Sandwiches for lunch and a little DTD shopping (not much this time) then we are going to hit MK sometime just to see the castle lights and maybe wishes.

Sun Nov 27 - Disney Hollywood Studios

Mon Nov 28 - Epcot

Tues Nov 29 - MK (MVMCP):santa:

Wed Nov 30 - is our off day. We get to sleep in after the MVMCP. That afternoon I'm headed to DHS to check out the lights one more time

Thurs Dec 1- Animal Kingdom

Fri Dec 2 - Epcot

Sat Dec 3 - Magic Kingdom

Sun Dec 4 - we are going to do a late breakfast at Kona Cafe before heading home.

So that's our changes now. I'll get to make our ADR's on Memorial day oh the the things we do for Disney. We are off from work that day & I'll get up early to make ADR's. ;)
 
Joining in ... we will be there 11/25 - 12/4!!! We haven't decided on the 11/29 or 11/30 MVMCP yet. Waiting for hours to come out so I can start figuiring out our dining!
 
So we've made a few changes to our trip.

We are going to go to MVMCP :santa:on Tuesday Nov 29 so we've switched some days around.

We will arive at Pop sometime around noon on Nov 26th. We are going to check in and head to Earl of Sandwiches for lunch and a little DTD shopping (not much this time) then we are going to hit MK sometime just to see the castle lights and maybe wishes.

Sun Nov 27 - Disney Hollywood Studios

Mon Nov 28 - Epcot

Tues Nov 29 - MK (MVMCP):santa:

Wed Nov 30 - is our off day. We get to sleep in after the MVMCP. That afternoon I'm headed to DHS to check out the lights one more time

Thurs Dec 1- Animal Kingdom

Fri Dec 2 - Epcot

Sat Dec 3 - Magic Kingdom

Sun Dec 4 - we are going to do a late breakfast at Kona Cafe before heading home.

So that's our changes now. I'll get to make our ADR's on Memorial day oh the the things we do for Disney. We are off from work that day & I'll get up early to make ADR's. ;)

There's no better reason to change around your plans than getting tickets to the MVMCP! I'd love to go to the party!

Memorial Day will be here before you know it and you'll be making ADRs like a mad woman. :laughing:
 
We got our MVMCP tickets in the mail today and one of them is Donald. :) So I know which ticket is mine lol

Only other news is 20 days 14 hours 43 mins till I get to make our adr's. :)
 

joining in. We'll be in Disney same time as you and maybe even in Epcot same day :)
 
I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend.


So we made some changes right before we made our ADR’s Monday. So I’m just going to list the new plan with our ADR’s. Now we are pretty much set we won’t change anything else.

Friday Nov 25 we plan on leaving around 1:00pm. We are going to do the whole black Friday shopping thing. We will stop over in Kingsland Ga for the night. This will only leave us a 4 hour drive to get to Disney.

Sat Nov 26 I want to be on the road by 8:00am so that we get to Pop around noon. The plan is to get checked in if the room is ready we will unload the car then head down to DTD and grab some lunch at Earl of Sandwiches and do some shopping. Around 5:00 or so we are going to head over to DH to check out the Osborne Christmas lights. :santa:

Sun Nov 27 is our first full day in the parks. We have a 8:10 ADR at Crystal Palace so we will spend the day at MK. This is what my aunt is looking forward to breakfast with Eeyore. Emily & I are betting on many tears from my aunt this morning of course happy tears but still. After breakfast we are going a different way normally it is left to POTC but my aunt wants to ride IASW so we are heading over there 1st this year. Then we will just kind of glow with the flow. The park closes at 7:00 this night. Depending on my aunts energy level will determine what we do. We may go over to the Grand Floridian and check out the ginger bread house, may go swim at the resort if it’s not too cold or may head to DTD for some more shopping.

Mon Nov 28 we are heading over to Epcot I hope to be there pretty close to opening. This will be my aunt’s first really long day the park is opens at 9:00 and doesn’t close till 9:30pm. We have a dinner ADR at Via Napoli at 7:00pm. We are looking forward to seeing if this is as good as everyone says. We are going to try and catch the Christmas story tellers and see Journey with Figment we’ve never done this one and even though everyone says it’s lame I would still like to see it.

Tues Nov 29 is our Animal Kingdom day. Not my favorite park in fact if my aunt wasn’t with us we would skip this park all together. No worries thought there are things we like it’s just not a favorite park so we will still have fun. We were informed my nephew that we “HAD” to watch the nemo show so since he couldn’t come with us we are going to do that and just kind of go with the flow here. We will head out around 4:00 and catch the bus to wilderness lodge for our 5:00 ADR at Whispering Cannon. Which we are little bummed the bourbon pecan pie isn’t on the menu anymore  Emily was looking forward to that more than the meal. After dinner we are going to catch a boat over to MK for MVMCP. At the party we are going to try and do just party stuff and not ride so many rides. We will close down the park at 12:00 and head back to POP.

Wed Nov 30 is our off day. The only plan that is set is a ADR at Ohana’s for 5:15. We are going to sleep late (I hope) and just relax some. We’ve talked about going to walmart and the outlets. Then we’ve talked about swimming and heading to DTD. So who knows what we will do. We also have an extra park ticket we could use after dinner if we wanted to head into one of the parks for a few hours. If we haven’t down the resorts on the monorail loop yet we will do that as well.

Thurs Dec 1 we are headed back to MK. I’m not sure if they will be doing any of the parade taping this day or not if they are the plan will be to avoid the area around the castle till later in the day. We will probably go left this time to POTC. Since my aunt was so excited about breakfast with eeyore and Emily & I have wanted to try CP for dinner we have a dinner ADR at CP for 5:35. The funny thing when we made this reservation it said they may split our party of 3. It didn’t matter what time I picked it said. I don’t think they will split 3 people so no worries. 

Fri Dec 2 we are headed back to Epcot. The calendar is out yet but it should be extra magic hours here and the park should be open till around midnight. I know we would stay that late but I just like that we have the option to if we want. We have a dinner reservation at the Garden Grill for 5:35. I love me some Chip n Dale.  Today we will try to catch the rest of the story tellers and just take our time looking around.

Sat Dec 3 we are finally going to make it for a full day at DHS. So of course we will have to be there when the park opens so we can do Toy Story mania. We have dinner at 50’s prime time for 5:20. I know this place gets mixed reviews but we come here every time we love. We’ve had good and bad service but the food is always good. I do hope we get a cousin that wants to play along since it’s my aunts first time. I know that I will close the park down hanging out in the Osborne lights. :santa: When we get back to the room that night we get to start the dreaded task of packing up.

Sun Dec 4 check out day. We have a late breakfast set for 10:45 at Kona café. So we will load the car up and check out before heading to the Poly. I’m leaving the car at Pop and we will catch a bus over to MK then take the monorail or boat to the poly. When breakfast is done we made head to DTD for a little bit or may just suck it up and head home. Either way I would like to be on the road by around 2:00 we will have a 9 hour drive home.

So there you have it our new and shouldn’t change plans for our trip. Now we’ve just got to wait the 179 days 1 hour and 50 mins to get there. Not that I’m counting or anything.
 
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The item of the Month is a Birthday Card from Mickey. :) We are going to mail my aunt a pop out Mickey Mouse card. We bought confetti we are going to stuff in it so when she will open it confetti will fly :lmao:.

We are also going to do a mini surprise party for her. Her b-day is next week and all of her children are going to be gone. Emily, and her youngest son are going to the beach with me and we are taking Abby & Logan with us. (the 2 kids from the start of the pre-trip report) Mark & Laura are going to FL for their 10th annv. (yep stopping to see Mickey for a day on their trip) and my aunt's oldest son is working at a Christian camp for the summer at the beach.
So all of that to tell you she is going to meet us a yogurt mountain for us to pick up the kids and JD to go to the beach. When she gets their we are going to have some balloons Mickey & Tink and some cupcakes and b-day gifts. I got her a eeyore t-shirt for our trip. :) Emily has her a disney gift card so she can buy something for herself at disney.

So that's all that is going on for now. :)
 
The item for the month of July is a disney world "planning" book brought to Dee by none other than Jiminy Cricket.

We have all kinds of info here from facts about the drive down, parks, rides and walt himself. We have our adr info park hours. Also info on how fast pass, Dining plan, and hidden mickey's work and so on.

Here's a few pictures of how it looks.

the cover
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The pages inside

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and photobucket is acting up so that's all for now.
 
Side note this is what I was up to today. I made a b-day cake for Abby. Her 3rd birthday is today and her party is Saturday and she's having a "Fairy cool pool party" at our hosue. It's Tinkerbell themed and here is a picture of the cake.

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Very cool cake! I hope she had a wonderful party!
 
Thanks everyone! It was fun to make it. The party is this saturday she's excited.
 
OMG I want that cake! It looks fab
 
So I haven't posted anything in awhile. We are less than 3 months from the trip now. We've got free dinning which is a great help. We've had some up's & down's here at home. We lost my grandma (my aunts mom) in March & then just a week ago we lost my grandpa (my aunt's dad). So we've lost 2 very important members of our family in less than 6 months time. I'm going back in forth between ready for the trip and just waiting for something else bad to happen.
 
So I haven't posted anything in awhile. We are less than 3 months from the trip now. We've got free dinning which is a great help. We've had some up's & down's here at home. We lost my grandma (my aunts mom) in March & then just a week ago we lost my grandpa (my aunt's dad). So we've lost 2 very important members of our family in less than 6 months time. I'm going back in forth between ready for the trip and just waiting for something else bad to happen.

Oh my gracious! I am so sorry for the family's losses. I can sympathize with you as my father passed away in April (many years ago) and then my grandfather passed away in June that same year. Just a year after that, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It's definitely tough to go through but I will be thinking about you and praying that you and your family will have the strength to endure these bad times.

On a happier note: :banana: that your trip is in less than 3 months!
 
Thanks. Yea they say it happens in 3's. My brother (not biological but my brother non the less) died 15 months ago in a coal minning accident so my grandpa was the 3rd close person to me that died in 15th months. It's just hard and a lot of stress. I'm trying to give it all to God and lean on him but sometimes you just want to stay in bed and hide from the world awhile.

I'm trying to read trip reports and get all excited again about disney. It's still my aunt's first trip and we want to make it the best we can. Thanks again.
 
2 months till the trip. Wow So I guess it's time to get into the real pre trip report now. I mean I’ve given you pretty much what we are doing, but w/ everything plan that early things change.

So the cast will only be
Me= Beth 31 I am the trip planner and instigator I’m always trying to get or next trip started. My favorite characters are Donald Duck and Chip & Dale. Goal for the trip is to get my picture made with space Chip & Dale.

Emily 32 My cousin/roommate/best friend. She enjoys Disney as much as I do and hates to plan, so she gladly hands me the reins to plan our trip. Her favorite characters are Tinker bell, Captain Jack, Peter Pan. Goal for the trip to make sure her mom has the best 1st trip ever.

Debbie aka Dee 50 something - Emily’s mom, my aunt. This is her very 1st trip to the world she has listened to us talk about our last 4 trips and really wanted to go. So we worked it out so she could go with us. Her favorite character is no other than Mr. Eeyore. Her goal for this trip is to get her picture made with Eeyore.


Our fellow DDFL (Disney Dork's For Life) club members aren't going to get to come this year.

We are going Saturday Nov 26 – Dec 3. We are staying at Pop in a standard room with the regular dinning plan.

We are leaving on Nov 25 (Black Friday) I'm not sure of the time but I know I want to be on the road about 1:00 we will drive 7 hours to palm coast fl and stay for the night at a hotel there for the night. hoping it won't be to dark to take my aunt down to see the red sand beaches, if it is well do it in the morning before we leave.

Saturday Nov 26 we are leaving the hotel at 9:00am for short 1:45 min drive to Pop. we will get checked in and if the room is ready unload if not we are heading down to DTD to get some lunch at Earl of Sandwiches. Then we will shop till we drop or till our 7:15 ADR at Raglan Road. This is a 1st for us and I'm looking forward to it. The fellow DDFL ate their this summer on the annv trip and really liked it so we thought lets give it a try. After dinner it will be back to the room to settle in our disney beds for a good nights sleep. (I hope)

Sunday Nov 27th 1st park day and you can't take someone to disney for their 1st trip w/ out starting at Magic Kingdom right? And when said person can't wait to see eeyore what better way to start it off than with a early 8:10 ADR at Crystal Palace. The goal for today is to hit the rides it's a MVMCP night so the park closes at 7:00 so no fireworks or parades. Depending on everyone's energy level we may go check out the gingerbread house at GF before heading back to the resort.

Monday Nov 28th Epcot day. This is my favorite park I just love everything about it. We have a dinner ADR @ 4:45 at Garden Grill and other than that we are just going to go w/ the flow. We do want to get in the behind the seeds tour on one of our epcot days.

Tuesday Nov 29th Animal Kingdom. I'm just not a fan of AK I don't know why but I’m not. Emily isn't a fan either but w/ it being Debbie's 1st trip we've got to take her. We are going to try and get in both the Nemo & Lion King shows. We haven’t seen either of them and Logan (nephew) says "we have to see Nemo". After AK we are going to do dinner at Whispering Canyon at 5:00. Then the crazy people we are and pushing things to the limit have a MVMCP to get to after dinner.

Wed Nov 30th is our off day. We are going to sleep till we wake up and then maybe go to the outlets and look around some. We have a 5:15 dinner at Ohana's and after we are going to try and get to DHS just for the lights.

Thursday Dec 1st back to Magic Kingdom (yes we know they may be taping the ABC christmas parade but it's really the only way we could work 2 days of MK in without doing back to back days) so the goal to avoid main street at all cost and just enjoy our time. We have ADR's w/ eeyore again at 5:35 that evening then we are going to catch the parade and wishes before heading out.

Friday Dec 2

Is our 2nd epcot day again no big planning going on here. We have a ADR at5:45 for Via Napoli (a first for us)

Sat Dec 3rd
DHS finally I know we've probably jinxed ourselves into rain and more rain because we've only got one day at this park. We have a 5:20 adr at 50's prime time

Sunday Dec 4th we have a late breakfast ADR at Kona for 10:45 then we will start the long drive back home.
 
I'm liking the sound of your plans. If I were taking somebody to Walt Disney World for the first time, I'd start with the Magic Kingdom too. I'm betting Aunt Dee is going to love the breakfast at Crystal Palace and meeting Eeyore.

We've done the Behind the Seeds tour three times and loved it every time. If you have AAA or a Disney Visa, you get a slight discount. Oh and there's usually a coupon in the back of the Birnbaum's Official Guide to Walt Disney World too.
 














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