Is there still room on the bus? 
Hi Billie! I just read through your whole PTR so far! Fun, fun, fun! 
I agree--the more organized/planned your trip is, the more good times you can squeeze in. (And you have to do as many fun things as possible with DBF since you don't get to see him all the time.)
I wanted to tell you that my best friend that I grew up with is also named Billie. Her real name is Wilhelmina (a big name for a little girl), she was named after her aunt. So her nickname was always Billie. Very near and dear to my heart.
And you know what else? I am taking my first ever solo trip to WDW the same exact dates as you and your DBF!!
Dec 1 - 7 can't come soon enough! I'm booked at ASMu but have been thinking on and off (driving myself crazy) of upgrading to CSR. It looks like such a beautiful resort. So, I don't know...I guess I'll keep thinking...
Keep up the posting! This is enjoyable reading. Thanks.
Kim
Awww, aren't you a sweetheart!
Of course, there's always room on this bus, honey!
I was actually named after my cousin! Well, second cousin. My mom's cousin. Something like that.
STORY TIME!
I guess there is or once was a wives tale about how if a pregnant lady mixes her pee with bleach, whatever color it turns will tell you the gender of your baby. Well, my cousin Billie Jo, who is my mom's age, swore by this test, and convinced my mom to try it when she was pregnant with me. Well, whatever color it turned I guess was supposed to indicate that my mother was pregnant with a boy. Mama argued with her, because she said she just had this "feeling" that she was carrying a girl. So they went back and forth, back and forth. Finally, my mother told her "Fine. I tell ya what. When this baby is born, and if it's girl, I'm going to name her Billie Jo, so that you can
never forget how wrong you are." And that, as they say, is that.
That's right, I got my name from a stinkin' bet.
Anyhow... Not to be the bring of bad news, but at this point, you're probably going to have a hard time upgrading to CSR because of Pop Warner. I looked last week, was going to try and add a night on at the end of our trip as a surprise for DBF. The ONLY resorts showing available after Dec 4th were Animal Kingdom Lodge, Saratoga Springs, and Ft. Wilderness Cabins.
Awww Thanks for the offer Billie. No worries. I'll just look back and forth between yours and the one I'll be creating. Hopefully I won't need to make the font too small. Wouldn't want to need to use a magnifying glass to read it! 
LOL. Well, mine is done in an 11pt. I dunno about you, but depending on the font, I can usually see fine anything down to an 8pt. Be sure to show us whatever you come up with!
I been out of sorts but I'm caught up now. I love your spread sheet, It looks like we will be in Epcot on the 4th together we have ressies at Coral reef for 7:10 that night and I have to say Epcot is my favorite park as well. I aslo agree about flipflop cute as a button hurt like crazy can't handle them between toes have to wear slide sandals. I even prefer shoes with no back I am a comfort girl and if it hurts I ain't wearin it no matter how cute it is.
I have yet to try Coral reef, but I think I'm going to include it as a "Must Do" for next year! This year I'm determined to get more World Showcase restaurants, since the only two I've ever doe are Biergarten and Rose & Crown.
Great spreadsheet! It's so funny how when putting everyone's ideas together, we can come up with some many variations to organizing and keeping track of all of our info!!!! Good job! You will be busy in the next 8 weeks playing around with your times, schedules, etc., I bet! We all change the plans a million times! I think that is in part because when you make ADR's, the times look one way in your mind and then when you work them into your itinerary on paper they look totally different! I know mine do and I am thinking about changing some around again!! Ahhhhhhhhh!
So very true!
I know in my case, I had to pick my original ADR choices before park hours came out. Then when they did, I didn't have much time to re-think things. As the last 4 weeks have gone by, and I've done alot more organizing and planning, as well as getting ideas from the DIS... I ended up re-doing every single day of our trip!
It our compulsion to make everything just perfect we have to tweek everything at least once or we aren't happy. I've rewritten mine 3 times you know more time in Epcot less time here , do I really need to rest then? I could be eating here and then I don't need to hop. Ok I think I have it. Maybe???? I think thats half the fun of planning.
I dunno if ya'll noticed, but that's the one thing I didn't schedule us for... daily breaks/rests.
And still intending on being at rope drop every morning, and closing down a park every evening. Except for the one day in the middle of our trip, I did decide to give us a half-day to laze around the resort. I think DBF would have killed me otherwise.
I'm here, too. Just booked my trip for February! Thinking of starting a PTR.
Welcome!
You should definitely do a PTR! They're so much fun to follow and chat with people in, it really does help the time go by faster!
I would definitely subscribe!
My major problem is that I'm having too much planning overlap between my Oct and Dec trips!
Oh, geeeeez.
Poor you!
I'm impressed. I hope you don't mind but I might adopt this style spreadsheet of yours.
It would be much easier to have everything on ONE page rather than a day per page. I've been doing mine in Pages (Mac equivalent to Word - yes, I'm a loyal Mac user) and, even though it is pretty, it's annoying having to constantly flip through pages. I'll definitely want to have this sort of layout for my 10 day trip next year. Not sure if that will fit all on one 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. Guess I'll find out soon enough! Great work
