Gotta love bounceback! 10th ann. & family vaca PTR-9/201o-WE'RE BACK!

[KatMark]

I'm so glad you found the Blackberry and that you get to see Jenn! Have a great visit.

 

[oboedm]

We were planning on doing MK on 9/10, but then switched it when we heard they were closing early for Night of Joy. It sounds like you have a great plan to fit everything in.
We LOVE Philharmagic, but never watched the parades last year. We are a lot like your mom and Joe!

 

[All7OfUs]

HI Sophia, this is the last time I think I may talk to you before I actually see you IN WDW!!!! I'M sure we'll hook up by phone before then, but I'll be off the boards now, MOSTLY, until I get back. Have a great week.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

I'm so glad you found the Blackberry and that you get to see Jenn! Have a great visit.

Thanks Kathy!

We were planning on doing MK on 9/10, but then switched it when we heard they were closing early for Night of Joy. It sounds like you have a great plan to fit everything in.
We LOVE Philharmagic, but never watched the parades last year. We are a lot like your mom and Joe!

We're going to try and fit in what we can. Since we're going to MK more than once, I think it will work.

I think I'm alone in my love for parades.

HI Sophia, this is the last time I think I may talk to you before I actually see you IN WDW!!!! I'M sure we'll hook up by phone before then, but I'll be off the boards now, MOSTLY, until I get back. Have a great week.

Hi Liessa,

I cant wait to meet you in WDW! I wish you safe travels between now and when we meet.

 

[charming23]

Glad you found your phone.

Have a great visit with Jenn!!!

 

[inkedupmomma]

today..today..today is the day!! woot!

 

[HeatherBelle614]

Hope you ladies have a great visit!!!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Sigh, day 9 plans. I wish I could stay for that long! All your plans look great!

 

[Stefy]

Yay for finding your phone and that you are getting a new laptop, must have been really frustrating not being able to work properly.

Hope you are having a blast with Jenn and the kids, looking forward to an update on the Fair

 

[charming23]

Hope you are having a great visit with Jenn. Can't wait to hear all about it.

BTW I started my PTR for our January trip if you would like to come on over. The link is in my signature

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

today..today..today is the day!! woot!

Hope you are having a great visit with Jenn. Can't wait to hear all about it.

BTW I started my PTR for our January trip if you would like to come on over. The link is in my signature

Glad you found your phone.

Have a great visit with Jenn!!!

Hope you ladies have a great visit!!!

We had a great visit! I'm so mad at myself though. We went to the fair and I took the camera....minus the battery! So I have NO PICTURES! ZIP! ZILCH! NADA! Jenn did take some so I am hoping that she posts her pictures.

We had a nice visit, although it was way too short. The kids are just too cute for words. I love them.

We all love Bob too, including my mom. She thinks he's very nice.

Jenn got in late on Friday night/early Saturday morning. Despite being super tired, we got up and went to the fair on Saturday. After the fair we went to the mall in the hopes of finding a Disney Store, but they closed it! Joe grilled when we got home later that night.

Sunday we got up and took it slow. We spent the majority of the day shopping. I had a migraine though which totally stunk. When we got home, I took something and went to nap while everyone else went to Dave and Busters.

Monday morning Joe and I both had to work. Jenn left mid-morning but ran into horrible traffic in Ohio.

I can't wait until our next visit. I am hoping that next time we can scrapbook while we're together.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Sigh, day 9 plans. I wish I could stay for that long! All your plans look great!

Thanks. I have a couple more days to go. I hope to finish our plans this week sometime.

Yay for finding your phone and that you are getting a new laptop, must have been really frustrating not being able to work properly.

Hope you are having a blast with Jenn and the kids, looking forward to an update on the Fair

We had a great visit.

I was so scared that I wouldn't find my Blackberry. I'm glad that I did seeing as I have not had it a month yet.

 

[KatMark]

Sophia, glad that you and Jenn and the kids had a great visit. I'm sorry you had a migraine during part of the stay. Hopefully, Jenn will post her pictures.

 

[inkedupmomma]

OMGOMGOMGOMG had SO much fun! Bob LOVED you guys, and said he could hang with Joe all the time! he also said it was nice to see me so myself and so relaxed Thank you again Sophia! we all really had a great time! I have pics, but i realized, no one took pics of us I have a ton of jack though lol and those cute pigs from the fair

Seriously though, the drive was super easy (minus that horrendous stand still traffc on the way home ) and I see many trips in our future! and hopefuly you will visit as well love you guys!

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

OMGOMGOMGOMG had SO much fun! Bob LOVED you guys, and said he could hang with Joe all the time! he also said it was nice to see me so myself and so relaxed Thank you again Sophia! we all really had a great time! I have pics, but i realized, no one took pics of us I have a ton of jack though lol and those cute pigs from the fair

Seriously though, the drive was super easy (minus that horrendous stand still traffc on the way home ) and I see many trips in our future! and hopefuly you will visit as well love you guys!

I'm so glad that you came to visit!

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

So, I left off at Day 9 -- dinner plans.

Guess what? I am still clueless. No plans. Zip. I really want to stay at MK until they close at 7. We can really go anywhere for dinner since it will still be early. I have a couple of suggestions and want to know what you guys think since I need to get my ADR made. So, here they are:

1. Kona - we have never done dinner at Kona and I really want to try it.
2. Kouzzina - I really would like my cousin to experience Kouzzina -- we're going there earlier in the trip though.
3. Earl - well, need I say more?
4. The Wave - never been there either

Any suggestions? Comments? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where we spend the rest of the evening will depend on where we decide upon for dinner.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Day 10 will begin with breakfast at Roaring Forks, yes again. Man, I hope Roaring Forks isn't gross!

The plan is that we will go back here:

We'll stop and see if we can find ourselves here again. We never can seem to remember where we are:

I hope to see the rest of WS today. This time, we will start here:

I'd like to see O Canada. I have not seen it in a while. I keep looking for one of our buildings during the city scenes, as we're one of Canada's largest employers. So far, no luck.

After Canada, we will move to the UK. I have not spent as much time as I'd like here so we plan to spend more time in the UK this year. I love, love, love the tea store and tend to bring home way too much of it while we are there.

Someone down the street from us has one of these booths in his front yard.

If we didn't get to try this yet, we will have lunch here:

Next we will move to Morocco. I'm not a big fan of this pavilion, but we'll most likely stop and check it out.

After that, we will most likely take the boat back to FW and check out a few things.

I'm sure my nephew will want to ride Test Track again.

I'd like to visit the Character Connection since I never have done that before.

Also, we'll probably go through Innoventions again and then end our time at Epcot shopping here.....

I have to go check it out to see if it still smells like poop!

After some shopping we will go back to the resort for a break before dinner.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Dinner tonight is going to be at The Maya Grill. Joe really, really liked it here last year when we stayed at CSR.

Before dinner though we are meeting Kathy and Mark (KatMark) . We're meeting at the Laguna Bar at CSR. Joe and I are excited to get to meet them both.

After spending some time with Kathy and Mark, we will head into dinner at Maya. I already know what I'm getting:

And then this...which I will share with Joe:

Last year we walked up without an ADR and were seated immediately. For some reason, we didn't have high hopes for our dinner but it was awesome. We loved it.

Here are a few pictures of CSR from last year.

After dinner we will head to DTD to do some last minute shopping and get ready for our trip home the next day.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Day 11 - Ugh, I hate this day.

We have a mid-afternoon flight so I think we will have time to go to a park. Right now, I think we're going to DHS. If so, we will great breakfast at Starring Rolls before we head to DHS or we will go to DTD and have breakfast at Earl before heading to DHS.

If we don't go to DHS, we will undoubtedly go to MK. I love ending our stay at MK but what I don't like is how long it takes to get out of the park. My thought though is that if we end at MK, we will take the boat over and the boat back. We can then get in the car there at the resort instead of having to take the monorail and then a tram back to the car from the MK parking lot.

So, what do you think? Which park should we end our stay with?

I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions on our plans.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

I don't know if I mentioned this, but we finally got our Mickey Mail.

Question: Did the tags change this year? I can't remember what they looked like last year?

Also, what do you all think about the new coupons? I don't know if I like them. They seem larger and bulky or something.