GETTING GOOFY ON THE DISNEY MAGIC OCT 29th-Nov 7th 2010 PRE TR **WITH PICTURES**

[nenner1]

WOOT! I'm Onboard!!

I love how you calculate your bugdet....I always just stop at the X3 part!!!

Can't wait to read more planning, as we count down to the big day!!!

 

[knewton64]

WOOT! I'm Onboard!!

I love how you calculate your bugdet....I always just stop at the X3 part!!!

Can't wait to read more planning, as we count down to the big day!!!

......YYEEAA!

I am "officially back" and on THIS trip report to stay -
(I have been completing my ABD trip report from Sept 2009 as listed below)



details coming up -


TTFN

 

[dizzi]

I have not come up with a budget yet.......
Although i will this year. Have not done any, on our past 2 cruises. BUT this is gonna be a budget cruise for us,as our family JUST KILLED US....during our family reunion. (THE VACATION I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN)

OUR sailing is all paid off so that is a BIG PLUS!

I will just have to keep the excursions and the drinkiing to a minimum.

 

[knewton64]

I have not come up with a budget yet.......
Although i will this year. Have not done any, on our past 2 cruises. BUT this is gonna be a budget cruise for us,as our family JUST KILLED US....during our family reunion. (THE VACATION I WILL NEVER DO AGAIN)

OUR sailing is all paid off so that is a BIG PLUS!

I will just have to keep the excursions and the drinkiing to a minimum.

Minimum?? What's that?

 

[knewton64]

.... a little bit of Key lime cookies and some jalapeno cheedar cheese cookies Y-U-M!

Just put in an order for both of these (From Byrd Cookie Company) and they should be arriving in a few weeks. I am hooked on these two as they go great with margaritas.

Anywho...I finally got unpacked from my Adventures by Disney trip a few weeks back and I am now on the prowl to do something different. My mood may just take me in a different direction before these next 10 months or so.
Per se, I love the ABD's "Emerald Isle" trip, "Backstage Magic" or....I am also looking at taking a 8 night / 9 day trip to WDW but .... But like we say, the best part of vacations is the vacation.....BUT it's the packing is what just stinks!
But....I am beginning to now get packing into quite a science....me - one person - I can now take a 10 day vacation just using ONE sUiTcAsE!
It took me the LONGEST of time to understand that I could actually go on a vacation just using one suitcase I fought it and fought it but now I am seeing that Rizzo the Rat (from the Muppets) and I have a lot in common.......:

***********WE ARE BOTH PACK RATS**************

Anywho -

But ther best part of this trip report is I just wanna continue to have fun and see different parts of the world I haven't seen before - like Key West.


oh.....and the Vista Spa!

COMING UP NEXT:
Some interesting things I have found out about the Vista Spa "Alone Time" and other what nots.

T.T.F.N.

 

[dizzi]

............Is hopefully less than what we spent on our last cruise.

 

[knewton64]

I just called the Adventures by Disney call center and just booked a vacation with them! So....I will be on a "Backstage Magic" trip in about 116 days before I go on this Halloween DCL vacation.

Look below and follow along (as the days roll on by) in the below trip report and enjoy -


T.T.F.N.

 

[knewton64]

Well.....I've been reading other DISsers trip reports and chanced across a picture that just really did not make my day.



Ok.....to set this one up it has to do with the DCL / WDW / DL dvd promotional that shows a lady promoting the jacuzzi section of the Disney cruise ships. So, I was thinking that the jacuzzi would be outside out on the balcony.

Now combine that with about a month ago, I saw a picture on a fellow DISsers trip report that showed the "Alone Time" room with the jacuzzi section of it INSIDE the room; not outside as I thought.

So......"Alone Time" is out for me as an option.

Ah well....back to the drawing board. Just gives me more options but one thing is for sure, I will be hitting the Vista Spa every am for those heated recliners.


On a different note, my cookie order from the Byrd cookie company came in a few weeks back and yup, these cookies - (1) Jalepeno cheedar cheese & (2) key lime - are the ones I will be re-ordering right before this trip so I can have a few good things to nibble on while sipping a margarita ....or two..


UP NEXT:
OK.....so I need ideas for a Halloween costume and just where in the heck can I find a dvd of the Disney movie, "Aladdin"?????? I am having fits trying to locate one so I can watch it.
My local library - don't have a copy of it.
would Blockbuster have it??



T.T.F.N.

 

[knewton64]

Oh, to bring you up to speed on what I am doing, here is what we have so far:

(photo of me in the Vista Spa; Disney Wonder - Jan 2009)


Ok....so I was just a dreaming of those heated recliners as I wish they could be purchased at your local Walmart. Just an FYI here....reading does you noooooo good while in one of those recliners! I felt myself going to sleep 6 times w/in the first 15 minutes I tried one of them out! Finally, I put my book down & "rested my eyes" 4 a bit.

Anywho -
my vacation to the House of Mouse is beginning to take shape as here is the update on what yours truely is up to:




Friday October 29th:

Depart from DFW at 6:50am and arrive at POFQ around 1pm.
1) get to MK around 4pm - but before hand, head on over to their food court 4 some wonderful Cajun food.
2) Rock MK's world until it closes via MNSSHP! ** CROSS YOUR FINGERS AS TICKETS HOPEFULLY WILL Be going on sale in early Aprill.
3) Boogy on back to POFQ around 2am and...
4) relax & unwind in the room and finally lay my head down on the pillow around 2am (after trying out the Fantasmic Mousekeeping toilteries) ...the shampoos make for GREAT bubble bath material!


Saturday October 30th: "LEAVE POFQ & GO TO DCL DAY"

1) get up at 5:3oam (SAY WHAT?????????????????????)****** OH How I just love Cocoa Cola (LOVE THOSE REFILLABLE MUGS!) & a rice krispy treat(S) in the am! that's my equivalent of coffee while visiting the House of Mouse *******
2) leave POFQ at 6:30am for the internal bus system.
3) leave POFQ at 7am for Polynesian or ?? I can obtain a character breakfast (Chef Mickeys??).
4) arrive there at about 8am "ish
5) Have a wonderful breakfast with as many Disney characters as possible (they are better than an alarm clock ).
6) Leave at 10am ish from (the Contemporary? - TBD) via ME for the port.
7) arrive at port at 11:30am ish (SLEEP ON THE BUS!!!)
Board the Disney Magic around 12 noon & have continue the Magic !

followed by 2nd seating dining.
8). Dismeets "meet & greet?" - time? Place??
9). HALLOWEEN PARTIES!


Sunday October 31st: Key West Florida day
(go jogging up on deck 4 at wwaaayy tooo earlly in the am)

1) ** 2 hrs via VISTA SPA /SALON "RAINTREE FOREST" WEEK PASS ** SAY AROUND 9AM?
*** does Walmart sell those Vista Spa HEATED recliners???? ***
2) DISNEY' art of Entertaining (11am)
3) Key West Florida "Catamaran Sail & Snorkel Tour" (shore excursion) at 12:30pm
4) 4pm-6:30pm "ish": Walk around Mallory Square - have late lunch at Margaritaville (YUM!), do some shopping & see the sunset but before I get back on the Magic....I just gotta have my Key Lime cookies and my Margarita(s) Y-U-M!!!!!

5) and of course, 2nd seating dining .
6) then another "DISmeets" get together"??
7) relaxing out at the Rocking bar D, etc while having fun checking out the Halloween & costume parties.


Monday November 1st: Day @ sea
(** go jogging wwaayy tooo early up on deck 4 ) ****

1) Attend Disney's "Art of Entertaining" & ?? - I wanna learn more how to make dem towel animals.
2) ** 2 HRS VIA THE VISTA SPA /SALON "RAINTREE FOREST" WEEK PASS**
3) Wine tasting? Where? Time?
4) Skip the evening's theatre show?? reason - I have been hearing mixed reviews on it....
and of course, second seating dining.
5). Relaxing out at the Rockin Bar D, etc.


Tuesday November 2nd: Grand Cayman day
(** Go jogging up on deck 4 at way too early in the am** )

1) Cptn Marvin's Stingray City Reef and Snokel (shore excursion)- 10am to 1pm.
** ressies made for this 02-01-10; confirmed 02-03-10** Afterwards,

2) ** 2 HRS IN THE VISTA SPA /SALON "RAINTREE FOREST" WEEK PASS**

but without a doubt......SEE "TWICED CHARMED"!!!!!
...and ya gotta have a margarita with yer meal at 2nd seating dining!
3) "DISmeets get together??"
4). Relaxing out at the Rockin bar D, etc.


Wednesday November 3rd: COZUMEL Day"

1) "Mexican Cuisine Workshop & Tasting" (shore excursion).
2) ** 2 HRS IN THE VISTA SPA/ SALON "RAINTREE FOREST" PASS
and of course....2nd seating dining.
3) "Dismeets" get together?
4).


Thursday November 4th: "SEA DAY"[/b]
*** Go jogging way too early up on deck 4 ***

1) ?
2) ** 2 HRS IN THE VISTA SPA /SALON "RAINTREE FOREST" PASS**
3). Do while I am nibbling on some key line cookies and a Margarita (hey.....doing laundry stinks so why not make it fun???)
4). another Dismeets get together??
5). relaxing out at the Rocking bar D, etc.


Friday November 5th: "Castaway Cay Day"
(*** jog the 5-K??) at 8:30am****

1) 2 hr Bike rental in the am.
2) ** 2 HRS IN THE VISTA SPA /SALON "RAINTREE FOREST " PASS
and....of course - 2nd seating dining....w/a margartia!
3). Watching the fireworks during the Pirates in the Caribbean party.
4).


Saturday November 6th DISEMBARK DAY

1) Slowly make my way off the ship (decided against renting a car cuz what I had wanted 2 do at KSC starts at 8:30am...and well....the earliest we can disembark off the ship is 8:30am....so rats! Oh well...
2) Head off with others on the DCL motorcoach back to WDW &.....
3) arrive back at POFQ around 11am & then boogy on over to Epcot for their Food & Wine Festival.
4) Park hop?
5)
6)


Sunday November 7th: WWAAA! BACK TO REALITY DAY

1) character breakfast?? - where?? TBD
2)
3) 2pm: Make my way back to POFQ
4) 3pm: Leave for OAI ***** BBOOOOO!!! *****
4) Leave OAI at 6:30pm
5) Arrive at DFW at midnight, thus making my way to the nearest Walmart & buy the latest WDW movie & buy some food.....boogy on back to my home, pick up my best Buddy (13 year old Beagle named "Ladybug") & watch the movie til we both fall asleep with nothing but a basketfull of fantasmic memories of a wonderful adventure of a lifetime.




Ok....stay tuned for the more wacky adventures of this Commando solo traveler! And yes - I welcome suggestions on how to fill in some of these gaps in my plan listed above.

I am still thinkin' about that Halloween costume. Like Winnie the Pooh says, "I'm thinkin! think -Think- Think!


T.T.F.N.



UP NEXT:

(exterior shot of Hollywood Tower Hotel @ Disney's Hollywood Studios - January 2009)



Oh - the pain of restarting my diet.......AFTER APRIL 3rd & vowing NOT to hold onto my seat when I ride TOT (April 1-3rd while out at DL).

 

[flafan]

HI,

I just finished all your reports. So I am just warning you I am totally invested in your Disney life now. I am so jealous, before my daughter was in school full time we use to go all the time now it is hard but I can live through your experiences. Hope you don't mind. Anywho, I saw Alladin on sale on EBAY this morning if you still need it. I have a VHS copy I could try to get a copy of it for you but not sure of the quality. It is an old VHS tape that has been watched many time. Well got to go but will be checking in often.

Happy Planning

Diane