First PTR For Fantastic Free Fall Food with Family and Friends!

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Picked up an awesome toiletry bag yesterday that I just had to show you all because it's so neat!

I'd seen toiletry bags recommended here on the DIS. I found this one at walmart and it has pretty much the same features as a more expensive model. It comes with four travel bottles, one spray bottle, one soap container and one toothbrush holder. There are compartments for each. those are in the outer compartment. The bag opens up to reveal two inner compartments and a hook to hang it up in the bathroom.

Yeah, can you tell I'm getting excited about my trip when I get giddy over a toiletry bag?

 

[Native NYer]

I'm really enjoying your ptr!!!

I love your toiletry bag.

 

[Step]

Eeeeee! Your trip is so close! I can't wait to read about how it goes

I'm in love with my new toiletry bag

 

[Native NYer]

Eeeeee! Your trip is so close! I can't wait to read about how it goes

I'm in love with my new toiletry bag

Have you started packing your toiletries?

 

[MomofCKJ]

Signing on!

Sounds like you have a fun bunch going on your trip! And I love cruising! Our last one was 4 years ago, DH and I did a cruise out of NY for a week to celebrate our 10th anniversary. It was fantastic! All that wonderful food!

Allyson

 

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Signing on!

Sounds like you have a fun bunch going on your trip! And I love cruising! Our last one was 4 years ago, DH and I did a cruise out of NY for a week to celebrate our 10th anniversary. It was fantastic! All that wonderful food!

Allyson

I had so much fun I'm thinking of doing a small cruise for our anniversary trip next year.

Have you started packing your toiletries?

No not yet. I went to Shopper's Drug Mart and used my 40,000 points to get $100 worth of trip supplies last weekend. I got $30 worth of sun screen! I also bought extra toothpaste, floss, water ear plugs, rolaids and some aloe vera. I already had some stuff leftover from the cruise.

I'll start packing it all up next weekend I think. I have a few supplies left to buy once my end of the month pay comes in.

 

[PISCESANGEL]

LOVE how the toiletry bags hangs!

 

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The amazing fool proof plan!!

It's time to share my trip plans with the world!

I figure that not much is going to change at this point unless I get an unexpected cash windfall.

August 31st

6:30 pm - Leave London and drive to Detroit
9:30 pm - Check in to Fairfield Inn and Suites in Detroit
11:30pm - My mother arrives in Orlando and checks in at The Wingate

September 1st - DHS

7:00 pm - Drag our butts out of our comfy hotel beds. Free breakfast!
9:00 pm - Drop off the car at the shuttle lot and head to Detroit International
12pm-3pm - Flight to Orlando International! Lunch OOP
3:30 pm - Meet my mother at the disney store and catch ME
4pm-6pm - Check in at ASMU and eat some food, 1 CS
6:30 pm - DHS for the rest of the evening, Fantasmic meet at 10:00

September 2nd - Epcot

7:30 am - ADR Cape May Cafe, 1 TS... Hello Goofy! I'm back!
9am-12pm - Epcot!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Yakitori House, 1 CS
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:00 pm - ADR San Angel Inn, 1 TS
6-9 pm - Epcot till closing, Poor man's globe-less Illuminations


September 3rd - AK

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Animal Kingdom!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Flame Tree BBQ, 1 CS
1pm-6pm - More animal Kingdom. It's gonna be HOT
7:15 pm - ADR Boma, 1 TS... Yum yum yum!


September 4th - MK

6:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
8am-12pm - Magic Kingdom!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Peco's Bills, 1 CS... love the peanut butter mousse!
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:15 pm - ADR Ohanas, 1 TS... I love Poly
7pm-10pm - Magic Kingdom till closing! Wishes and Spectro, hurrah!

September 5th - DHS

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Disney's Hollywood Studios!
12:00 pm - Lunch at some CS place, not sure yet, 1 CS
1pm-4pm - More DHS. Again with the HOT.. stupid Night of Joy
5:00 pm - ADR Kona Cafe, 1 TS... Favorite TS EVER!
7:00 pm - Downtown Disney, Shopping!, possibly

September 6th - MK again

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Magic Kingdom again. (Typhoon Lagoon if I get extra $$$!!!)
12:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
1:00 pm - Lunch at ASMU Food court, 1 CS
5:15 pm - ADR Spoodles, 1 TS... not gonna think about live calamari.. blech
7pm-10pm - Magic Kingdom till closing.

September 7th - Epcot

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Epcot again... but Epcot needs two days
12:00 pm - Lunch at Tangierine Cafe, 1 CS
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:40 pm - ADR Chef's de France, 1 TS
7pm-2am - Epcot till close, then Downtown Disney and Adventurers club

September 8th
4:00 am - Mom catches ME for her 7am flight!
10:00 am - Sleep in after our night out
11:00 am - OOP lunch in ASMU food court
12:00 pm - Catch ME
3:30 pm - Fly back to Detroit
6:30 pm - Start the drive home to London

There. That's the vacation in a nutshell. What's weird is that typing that out felt like I was actually going through it. I even felt sad when I got to the end

I should mention that on my last trip on the final day, I had breakfast at Cape May, spent the day in epcot and had lunch at Chef'd de France. I decided to start my trip with a Goofy breakfast this time around.

I have a thing for Goofy:

When I gave Goofy this kiss he said "Hyuck! Gawrsh!" I love the little touches at Disney World.

I swear I wasn't thinking about my breakfast with Goofy when I bought that shirt!

 

[PISCESANGEL]

September 2nd - Epcot

7:30 am - ADR Cape May Cafe, 1 TS... Hello Goofy! I'm back!
9am-12pm - Epcot!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Yakitori House, 1 CS
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:00 pm - ADR San Angel Inn, 1 TS
6-9 pm - Epcot till closing, Poor man's globe-less Illuminations


September 4th - MK

6:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
8am-12pm - Magic Kingdom!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Peco's Bills, 1 CS... love the peanut butter mousse!
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:15 pm - ADR Ohanas, 1 TS... I love Poly
7pm-10pm - Magic Kingdom till closing! Wishes and Spectro, hurrah!

OMGosh! We are in Epcot on the same day (Tuesday) and MK on the same day (Thursday)! I just might see you there!!

And what are the Poor man's globe-less Illuminations?

 

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OMGosh! We are in Epcot on the same day (Tuesday) and MK on the same day (Thursday)! I just might see you there!!

And what are the Poor man's globe-less Illuminations?

I've heard that Illuminations may be missing the big globe while we're there. I guess they are repairing it?

Where do you normally stand to watch Spectro and Illuminations? Maybe we can have a mini meet (You may want to PM me that in case you don't want other people knowing where we'll be at that time, lol)

I also noticed we're eating at Kona on the same day, lol. You have good taste! I love Kona
My ADR is 5pm... is yours anywhere close to that?

I don't know if I'll be doing MNSSHP that night... it was my original plan but I don't have the extra $$$ for tickets.

 

[PISCESANGEL]

I've heard that Illuminations may be missing the big globe while we're there. I guess they are repairing it?

Where do you normally stand to watch Spectro and Illuminations? Maybe we can have a mini meet (You may want to PM me that in case you don't want other people knowing where we'll be at that time, lol)

I also noticed we're eating at Kona on the same day, lol. You have good taste! I love Kona
My ADR is 5pm... is yours anywhere close to that?

I don't know if I'll be doing MNSSHP that night... it was my original plan but I don't have the extra $$$ for tickets.

I didn't hear about them repairing the globe, but that's a bummer if so because I've only seen the show once... which leads to my next answer, I honestly don't even know of a place to stand. If you want to PM me and tell me where you'll be, I can try to find you!

I think our Kona is a different day though because I saw that yours is Friday and that is the day we leave, so we are actually going there on Wednesday...

As for MK, we usually are somewhere near Cosmic Ray's but no designated spot necessarily...


Let me know if you wanna say hi at Epcot though or MK, and let me know what name I should call you if I do!

 

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I didn't hear about them repairing the globe, but that's a bummer if so because I've only seen the show once... which leads to my next answer, I honestly don't even know of a place to stand. If you want to PM me and tell me where you'll be, I can try to find you!

I think our Kona is a different day though because I saw that yours is Friday and that is the day we leave, so we are actually going there on Wednesday...

As for MK, we usually are somewhere near Cosmic Ray's but no designated spot necessarily...


Let me know if you wanna say hi at Epcot though or MK, and let me know what name I should call you if I do!

Yeah, my mother and uncle have never even been to Disney World, so they miss out on the globe.

Sorry about the Kona thing... yeah I think I got confused since I'm doing Magic kingdom on Saturday as well.

Maybe we could have a lunch meet or something on one of those days? I plan to eat in the parks and then head back to the resort to escape the afternoon heat.

...and you can call me Step, Steph, Stephanie... whichever.

 

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Not much to report on the pre-trip front. I ordered a started set of pins on eBay that I hope we'll arrive on time. It saves me about $20. If it doesn't come in on time I'll still have the pins, and if it never arrives I'll get a refund from PayPal, lol.

I'm thinking of changing our Chef's Du France reservation in Epcot to something outside the parks so we may be able to go to magic kingdom that day instead. My mother has to get up really early for her flight and she may just not bother to sleep... so staying in the park until midnight would be nice.

Any suggestions for a good restaurant that may have openings on Sept 7th?

 

[Lady Lallie]

I'm caught up! I can't wait to read more, especially since we will be there at the same time!

 

[tiggerbell]

Any suggestions for a good restaurant that may have openings on Sept 7th?

My first suggestion for a resort restaurant is Boma... I love that place!!!

Raglan Road?


Kona Cafe is sure to have openings!


We will be at Earl of Sandwich and Ghirardelli's that night... ooohhh, fancy!

 

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My first suggestion for a resort restaurant is Boma... I love that place!!!

Raglan Road?


Kona Cafe is sure to have openings!


We will be at Earl of Sandwich and Ghirardelli's that night... ooohhh, fancy!

Already got Boma and Kona booked for other nights ^^
Haven't tried Raglan Road yet.

I was thinking maybe a resort restaurant that I haven't done yet. I Prefer one outside the parks so I can be flexible about which park we go to that day.

My current ADR's are:

Cape May Cafe
San Angel Inn
Boma
Ohanas
Kona Cafe
Spoodles
Chef's de France

I could pay OOP for my cape may breakfast, so a 2 TS place isn't out of the question.

 

[tiggerbell]

Right now, the only things going through my head are The Wave, Beaches 'n Cream, and Narcoossee's (but that one probably only because it's fun to type!).

I've always wanted to try Jiko also.

 

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It's done! We voted as a group and picked a restaurant. I canceled Chef's De France and booked Artist Point. I'm psyched because when I was a kid I always wanted to go to Disney World and the resort I wanted to stay at was wilderness lodge.

Also...


30 Days till Disney World!!!!

 

[Lady Lallie]

It's done! We voted as a group and picked a restaurant. I canceled Chef's De France and booked Artist Point. I'm psyched because when I was a kid I always wanted to go to Disney World and the resort I wanted to stay at was wilderness lodge.

Also...


30 Days till Disney World!!!!

WOO HOO for 30 days!!

 

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The updated plan:

Originally we were going to get our 2nd night of Magic Kingdom fun in during MNSSHP. It looks like we won't have the extra cash, and even if we did have the $50 we'd rather add the water parks and more option.

I noticed Magic Kingdom is open until 12 am on our last night, which is perfect! With my Mom catching such an early flight back we need to be out late having as much fun as possible until she has to go. (She's not even planning to sleep until she gets on the plane

I had to cancel our dinner at Chef's De France so that we aren't forced to go to Epcot on our last day, so we booked dinner at Artist Point.

With that done, I decided we'd visit Epcot on Friday to go to the EMH evening, and visit DHS on Saturday to go to the EMH morning.

Anyway, here are the changes:

August 31st

6:30 pm - Leave London and drive to Detroit
9:30 pm - Check in to Fairfield Inn and Suites in Detroit
11:30pm - My mother arrives in Orlando and checks in at The Wingate

September 1st - DHS

7:00 pm - Drag our butts out of our comfy hotel beds. Free breakfast!
9:00 pm - Drop off the car at the shuttle lot and head to Detroit International
12pm-3pm - Flight to Orlando International! Lunch OOP
3:30 pm - Meet my mother at the Disney store and catch ME
4pm-6pm - Check in at ASMU and eat some food, 1 CS
6pm-11pm - DHS for EMH evening, Fantasmic meet at 10:00

September 2nd - Epcot

7:30 am - ADR Cape May Cafe, OOP... Hello Goofy! I'm back!
8am-12pm - Epcot! EMH Morning.
12:00 pm - Lunch at Yakitori House, 1 CS
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:00 pm - ADR San Angel Inn, 1 TS
6-9 pm - Epcot till closing, No globe at Illuminations

September 3rd - AK

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Animal Kingdom!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Flame Tree BBQ, 1 CS
1pm-6pm - More Animal Kingdom, EMH Evening. It's gonna be HOT
7:15 pm - ADR Boma, 1 TS... Yum yum yum!

September 4th - MK

6:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
8am-12pm - Magic Kingdom! EMH Morning.
12:00 pm - Lunch at Peco's Bills, 1 CS... love the peanut butter mousse!
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:15 pm - ADR Ohanas, 1 TS... I love Poly
7pm-10pm - Magic Kingdom till closing! Wishes and Spectro, hurrah!

September 5th - Epcot

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Epcot!
12:00 pm - Lunch at Tangierine Cafe, 1 CS
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:00 pm - ADR Kona Cafe, 1 TS... Favorite TS EVER!
7-10 - More Epcot, EMH Evening

September 6th - DHS

6:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
8am-12pm - Disney's Hollywood Studios. EMH Morning.
12:00 pm - Lunch, 1 CS
1pm-4pm - More Hollywood Studios
5:15 pm - ADR Spoodles, 1 TS
7pm-10pm - Downtown Disney or Boardwalk

September 7th - Magic Kingdom

7:30 am - ASMU food court breakfast, OOP
9am-12pm - Magic Kingdom or Typhoon Lagoon
12:00 pm - Lunch, 1 CS
1:00 pm - Return to ASMU for pool/naps/air-conditioned bliss
5:40 pm - ADR Artist Point, 2 TS
7pm-12am - Magic Kingdom till close! EMH Evening

September 8th
4:00 am - Mom catches ME for her 7am flight!
10:00 am - Sleep in after our night out
11:00 am - OOP lunch in ASMU food court
12:00 pm - Catch ME
3:30 pm - Fly back to Detroit
6:30 pm - Start the drive home to London