Hey Everyone!
OK - you've "sold" me - I WILL try Test Track, this year! I came very close to doing so, last year..........but the FastPasses literally ran out, the second that we were first in line for them, and we didn't have enough time to wait on the regular line. I guess I just get intimidated by the "VRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMM" noises that can be heard from below, while passing by, and seeing the cars tilted sideways on the track (although sideways motion never bothered me on rides like BTM)! OK - I will be brave and try it! I remembed kicking myself for not having ridden Splash Mountain sooner, after I did so last year! Thanks for all of your encouragement!
And thanks for your dining recommendations, too, Depply! I've been to the Crystal Palace (love that buffet and all of the characters!), and the Garden Grill and Liberty Tree Tavern (but not in about 13 years!). There are so many neat restaurants to try, down there, that it's so hard to figure out which ones we'll have time to "hit" on each trip! This year, we're going to our favorites at the Poly, the Kona Cafe and 'Ohana, the Brown Derby at the Studios, and trying Jiko at the AKL for the first time. We might visit a restaurant in the World Showcase, too (we love all of them, there, but we especially love Akershus in Norway and Marrakesh in Morroco)!
Hope that you are feeling better soon, Caroline! But it sounds like you did another amazing job at your recent Meet, regardless! Congratulations! Linda left for WDW on Tuesday - in fact, she and Tom should be "pulling in" to the World some time today, if I'm not mistaken!
I know that she will be in the MK tomorrow and the next day, and then we'll see her on Sunday night!
We're leaving at 5:00 AM on Sunday morning!
Colleen, Caroline, and Depply (and Emily!) - as Elaine, Linda, Angie, and Wendy know, every year I set up a little photo album page and upload our WDW pictures in "real time", uploading each day's pictures every night, so that people can see them (if they'd like to) while we're still down there. (That came in very handy on the trip on which Frank proposed to me - I took pictures of him, seconds after he proposed, and uploaded them.........and the next day there were all these congratulatory messages from our friends and work colleagues on our hotel room voice mail, because they had seen the pictures!
) I set up another page, this year, so here is the link:
http://photos.yahoo.com/lisaandfrankdisney2004
The page is empty, now, but hopefully it will start filling up with pictures on Sunday night or Monday morning! I will do my best to get our pictures uploaded each night (and definitely have all of the WDW pictures uploaded by the time that we leave for the Wonder on Thursday morning, because we won't have internet access on the ship!) So, if you'd like to see some great photos of Linda - and hopefully some somewhat decent pictures of me (!) - please check that link on Monday morning!
We'll be at the Disney-MGM Studios on Monday and maybe Epcot Monday night, at Epcot on Tuesday, and at the MK on Wednesday, so hopefully the pictures will be arriving onto that page in that order! And the
DCL pictures will be up there after we return, a week from Sunday. Putting our pictures into albums in "real time" also allows me to clear our digital camera's memory, so that we can take more pictures the next day (I don't think that my camera is sophisticated enough to use replaceable photo cards on which to store pictures in the interim). I will also try my best to post from down there!
Will check in again before we leave! We'll be thinking of you all, down there! Have a great day and thanks again for all of your advice / encouragement!
I know you and Linda will have a fabulous time
and I wanted it to come out good...!!!
) is having fun!!!!!
