I Have a Feeling We're Gonna Cry Our Way Through This Trip!-Updated Feb 23!!

[katt789]

Oh hey! Didn’t see ya there!! So, I figured that there are 17 days until we leave for Disney World, so I should probably put some of my plans on the disboards. I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those people who likes to check out who’s gonna be there at the same time as me, and possibly arrange some Dismeets and such. However, before we get into that, or anything really, we’ll get into some introductions and all the important details!

Who:

First off, there’s me; Katt:

Ballroom dancer and Disney enthusiast by day, and bartender by night at your local Dinner Theatre (up here in Calgary Canada that is!) I’ve been traveling to Disney for a nearly two years now and have experienced something new and amazing with every trip that has occurred. My dream for life right now involves performing with Disney in some form, whether I’m *friends* with a character, performing in a parade, or even hanging out with Chip and Dale, it’s all cool. My ultimate dream job would be to be the Blue Bird Dancer in the Festival of the Lion King Show. UGH! LOVE!!

My favorite characters include: Tink, Periwinkle, Rapunzel, Ariel, Tigger, and the Bimbettes from Beauty and the Beast, I have a huge love for Splash Mountain, the music loop from Adventureland, and falling down stories in broken service elevators!

Now, the person I’m taking with me on this trip, is Paige:

She’s recently turned 19, and had the amazing birthday/Christmas present surprise of this trip! We have travelled together to Disney once before, last Sept, and had the trip of a life time. This girl is the sister I never had, and I will keep going to Disney with her until we’re dead (and let’s face it, at that point, we’ll be the newest residences of the Haunted Mansion, lol!) Her favorite characters include Tink, Rapunzel, Ariel, and Jack Skellington, and she loves flying through Space, terrifying elevators, racing through the Himalayas, and most importantly, exploring Mickey’s imagination!

When: Sunday February 24 to Saturday March 2
-We had originally planned for the weekend right after my dance competition, but I realized that’s opening of the next show at work and I couldn’t take that off, so we bumped it a week, then I checked crowd calendars, yeah, not happening! Eventually we replanned to a low week of the month and we were all set to go!

Where: Disney’s Pop Century Resort!!
-Since I was gifting the trip to Paige, as much as I would have loved to stay at a Deluxe or Mod, I was only wanting to spend the money for a Value, and Pop is the nicest (minus AoA, but we had stayed there last time, so it’s all good!)

I like staying at different resorts every time too, it adds to the experience for Paige, and I love Pop, it is a really nice resort for the price, plus, I got a pretty nice discount with my AP

Plans!

Sun Feb 24: Arrival, head into Magic Kingdom a bit before heading out for an ADR for dinner

Mon Feb 25: Disney’s Hollywood Studios, with an excursion for a quick service lunch!

Tues Feb 26: Magic Kingdom

Wed Feb 27: Wizarding World of Harry Potter, followed by Epcot. We have an ADR dinner here as well! Yay.

Thurs Feb 28: Animal Kingdom. Tonight we have a special dinner show to attend, and there’s a *very* strong chance I will be attending a look alike audition today!

Fri March 1: Park hopping!!
-Start at DHS
-To Animal Kingdom
-End at Magic Kingdom with a VERY special and amazing dinner that I was very lucky to get an ADR for with such short notice!

Sat March 2: We depart! Sad face! I had originally booked us in at Kona for a pre-flight breakfast, but I couldn’t find a return flight later in the day that fit our price range, boourns!

Anyhow, those are our plans so far, and I’ll be sure to go into more detail and show lots of pictures in the rest of the updates! I also thought, since everyone kinda does it now, we could do the ADR guessing game! We’ve got four in total, I listed minor details up there, they’re all in the parks that we will be in, unless otherwise stated, anyone wanna take some guesses??

 

[happybelle]

Joining in.

 

[katt789]

Joining in.

Hi! Glad to see you're here! Thanks for reading along!

 

[katt789]

Found these cute surveys around the Dis and figured it'd be a nice way to get to know us and kill some time before we leave for Disney, so here's Paige!

Disney Survey!

1. What is your name?:

Paige

2. When was the first time you went to Disney World?:

Sept 2012


3. When was the last time you went to Disney World?:
Sept 2012

4. When is the next time you will be in Disney World?:
February 24


GETTING THERE

5. How do you usually get to to Disney World?:
Flying

6. What do you do to pass the time while getting there?:
Listen to music, colour, read, attempt to sleep

LODGING

8. What is your favorite place you have stayed at and why?
Loved Art of Animation, but excited to stay at Pop Century


MAGIC KINGDOM

10. What is your favorite attraction in the MK
Move it, Shake it, Celebrate it parade!

11. What is your least favorite attraction in the MK?
It’s a Small World, Hate the song..


13. What is your favorite place to eat in the MK?
Main Street Bakery, but can’t wait for Be Our Guest

OTHER DISNEY PLACES
28. Which water parks have you been to and which one was your favorite?
I haven’t been to one, but when I’m back in August I’m looking forward to Typhoon Lagoon.


38. What is your favorite extinct show/parade?
I haven’t been there enough times to have a show be extinct lol

RANDOMS
39. What is one thing you MUST do every time you go to Disney?
Tower of Terror! Fantasmic!

40. What is one thing you MUST eat every time you go to Disney?
Mickey Pretzel! Can’t get them anywhere else

41. What is something you haven't done yet that you look forward to doing?
As scared as I am, Rockin’ Rollercoaster!

42. What is something you have done and have no interest in doing again?
The Dinosaur ride in AK. No thanks!

43. Who is your favorite Disney female?
Tink & Rapunzel

44. Who is your favorite Disney male?
Peter Pan and Flynn!

45. Who is your favorite Disney villain?
The Shadow Man!

46. Your earliest Disney Park Memory:
Dancing at the Magical Music days in Disneyland in 2005.

47. What other Disney Parks have you been to outside of Disney World?
Disneyland

48. Have you ever had to explain your love for Disney to someone who just didn't "get" it?
Yep lol

49. Blasphemous I know, but where is your favorite place to travel outside of Disney?
New York!! I am obsessed with Broadway!!!!!

50. Which Disney character reminds you of you?
Maybe Rapunzel..? lol She is able to find happiness in the little things and she enjoys everything! She’s cute and innocent but isn’t afraid to stand up for what she wants or thinks is right! I try and life my life like that lol



Favorite Park: Hollywood Studios
Favorite Magic Kingdom Rides: Space Mountain
Favorite Epcot Ride: Soarin’
Favorite World Showcase Country: U.K
Favorite Hollywood Studios Ride: Tower of Terror.
Favorite Disney Princess: Rapunzel
Favorite Fab 5 Character: Goofy
Favorite Winnie the Pooh Character: Eeyore!
Favorite Disney Movie: Tangled
Favorite Pixar Movie: Brave

Favorite Disney Songs: idk!!
Favorite Day of the Trip: Day 1


Favorite Magic Kingdom land: Tomorrowland
Favorite World Showcase country: the U.K.
Favorite show: Fantasmic!
Favorite character: Rapunzel, Peter Pan, Tinkerbell
Favorite table-service restaurant: Tusker Grill
Favorite counter-service restaurant: anyone that has Uncrustables
Favorite snack: Mickey pretzels!

 

[katt789]

And here's me!! Katt!!

(and yes, in case you were wondering, the use of ridiculous pictures was intentional, if you're going to read along to Paige and I's TR after this, you should be aware that we are ridiculous!)

Disney Survey!

1. What is your name?:

Katt

2. When was the first time you went to Disney World?:

April 1997 for Disney Land, and May 2011 for Disney World


3. When was the last time you went to Disney World?:
November 2012(over thanksgiving weekend)

4. When is the next time you will be in Disney World?:
February 24


GETTING THERE

5. How do you usually get to to Disney World?:
Flying! It would take far too long to drive, seriously, I mean, that wouldn’t stop me from doing it, but I still would!

6. What do you do to pass the time while getting there?:
Listen to music (Disney themed of course, I’m listening to Wishes as I type!)

LODGING

8. What is your favorite place you have stayed at and why?
Dear God, there’s so many!! I think I would have to choose Animal Kingdom Lodge though, there was never a time coming into that lobby that it didn’t take my breath away!



MAGIC KINGDOM

10. What is your favorite attraction in the MK?
Splash Mountain!! It’s a zipa dee do da day!

11. What is your least favorite attraction in the MK?
Stitch’s Great Escape, no thanks, never again, did NOT like that!


13. What is your favorite place to eat in the MK?
Be Our Guest! Le DUH! It’s absolutely amazing, and I nearly cried eating lunch, won’t lie!

OTHER DISNEY PLACES

28. Which water parks have you been to and which one was your favorite?
Can’t comment on this, never been to any of the water parks, so I’ll say that the Big Blue Pool at Art of Animation is my favourite!


38. What is your favorite extinct show/parade?
The main parade at DL was the Lion King parade when we went, and it was totally awesome. I also got to dance & play an instrument in it once!

RANDOMS

39. What is one thing you MUST do every time you go to Disney?
Watch Festival of the Lion King, hands down and obviously, walk down Main Street

40. What is one thing you MUST eat every time you go to Disney?
Grand Marnier Slush in France in Epcot, and the Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcake from Starring Rolls in DHS, and UNCRUSTABLES!!!!

41. What is something you haven't done yet that you look forward to doing?
Any of the backstage tours!! Specifically the MK ones!

42. What is something you have done and have no interest in doing again?
Stitch’s Great Escape, Dinosaur

43. Who is your favorite Disney female?
Ariel, Periwinkle, Tink, Rapunzel, Lottie from PaTF

44. Who is your favorite Disney male?
Flynn Rider, Prince Naveen, Gaston

45. Who is your favorite Disney villain?
Gaston & Scar

46. Your earliest Disney Park Memory:
Being in DLR, and watching Fantasmic and absolutely loving it and making my Mom be okay with watching it every night we were there!

47. What other Disney Parks have you been to outside of Disney World?
Just DLR, but I really do want to go to the overseas parks, they seem absolutely awesome!

48. Have you ever had to explain your love for Disney to someone who just didn't "get" it?
Yes actually, it happens quite a lot being the age I am and having so many friends say “why not go to Mexico or Vegas instead?”

49. Blasphemous I know, but where is your favorite place to travel outside of Disney?
Dear god, I don’t even know, I’ve spent most of my time traveling to Disney, but places with really nice beaches, like Australia!

50. Which Disney character reminds you of you?
Belle and Rapunzel. They both want so much more in life, and aren’t sure what, they’ve got these big dreams and will do anything to achieve them, and they’re both strong and awesome female characters!



Favorite Park: Magic Kingdom
Favorite Magic Kingdom Rides: Splash Mountain, Phillharmagic, Winnie the Pooh.
Favorite Epcot Ride: Soarin (the smells!!)
Favorite World Showcase Country: France!
Favorite Hollywood Studios Ride: Tower of Terror.
Favorite Disney Princess: Rapunzel
Favorite Fab 5 Characteronald!
Favorite Winnie the Pooh Character: Tigger!! He’s my boyfriend! Eee!
Favorite Disney Movie: The Little Mermaid
Favorite Pixar Movie: Up

Favorite Disney Songs: Part of Your World, The Mob Song, When Will My Life Begin, I’ve Got A Dream, the Adventureland Loop Music
Favorite Day of the Trip: The first full day.


Favorite Magic Kingdom land: Main Street U.S.A.
Favorite show: Festival of the Lion King!! Wishes!! Fantasmic!
Festorite character: Ariel, Naveen, Tink, Rapunzel!
Favorite table-service restaurant: Le Cellier
Favorite counter-service restaurant: Be Our Guest
Favorite snack: Red Velvet Cheesecake Cupcake

 

[katt789]

Day 1 will start with us getting up BRIGHT and early, or maybe staying up all night, who knows? We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, as we have to be at the airport for something like 4:30am so that we can get our little butts over to the airport for our flight!

I won’t bore you with the details, but after a quick stop in Denver, we’ll arrive in Orlando at 3:32pm! HECK YES! I LOVE EARLY FLIGHTS!! Hence why I booked these ones, and they were the cheapest I was going to get, let’s be serious! We’ll take a nice little ride on the Magical Express:

And obviously, we’ll soon be arriving at Pop Century (I’ve already done online check in, so hopefully we’re somewhere CLOSE to Classic Hall!)

We’re hoping for a nice and quick check in and walk to the room as we’ve got plans! We’ll both be changing before heading out, as it’s DAPPER DAY in both Disney World and Land on Feb 24. For those of you that don’t know, Dapper Day is a guest planned event where you are invited to “dapper up” in nice clothes and enjoy the parks like they did back in the day, obviously 50’s wear is the big “theme” that you go for! I’ve picked up dresses and jewelry for the two of us and it’s going to be great. Paige and I will be heading to:

Magic Kingdom!! Our plans don’t revolve around much today, but we do have some idea of things to do! Since I know Periwinkle will officially be leaving thanks to it being Spring, we’re going to say our goodbyes to her! See, Paige and I are Tink and Peri! We’re a lot like sisters, and I’ll cal Paige “My Tink” and I’m “Her Peri” kinda thing. For MNSSHP last year we dressed as them, so obviously a good bye is in order!

See! We’re adorable!! I am really sad Peri’s leaving, but I understand that frost fairies don’t mix so well with other seasons! And this means that Rosetta, Terrance and Vidia will be returning to pixie hollow! Yay!

Another character that we’ll be having to say farewell to this trip is Naveen! SUPER SAD FACE! See, with the opening of Fairytale Hall in New Fantasyland, chances are we’re going to see Tiana in there, and Naveen will say good bye. Obviously, (for those of you who have read previous TRs you know why we want to go hang out with Naveen for a bit!)

There are a few Dapper Day meet ups in the Magic Kingdom today, we’ll most likely end up missing the first couple of them, but there’s one at the carousel at around 7pm, so we’ll hang out around there for a little while and talk with our fellow Dapper friends! Since we’ll be back in Fantasyland, there’s naturally only one thing to do either right before or after the ride;

NEW FANTASYLAND OF COURSE!!! I’m dying just thinking about all of it, like it’s absolutely amazing. I’ve had the opportunity to see all of it in November when I was down there solo, but I can’t wait to share the whole thing with someone else, especially Paige! Chances are we’ll just have a little look around, and depending on the time, and how much time we’ve got, we can pop in to meet Ariel, or take a Journey Under the Sea quickly!

When it hits around 8:00, maybe a tad earlier, it will be time for us to now head out of Magic Kingdom, and onto my beloved monorail, as we’ve got an ADR for dinner, so we’ll be heading over to the Grand Floridian!

We’ve got dinner booked over at 1900 Park Faire, where we did our “last day breakfast” on our last trip, and it wasn’t that good…now, neither experiences I’ve had with breakfast have been as good as I would like them to be, but dinner I’ve had here before was amazing, so I’m hoping it lives up to that too! I’m personally just really excited about the delicious food, and the Tremaines, I mean, they’re always such a blast!

Om nom!! Chances are after dinner we’ll both be pretty wiped, so we’ll look around the resort beforing hopping back onto Disney transportation, and heading back to Pop, as it’ll be time for bed, we’ve got a full week ahead of us!

 

[elleinad16]

Hi, Katt!
Looks like we're gonna be at EPCOT the same day! (And resort neighbors...I'm staying at AoA!) I'll be sure to keep an eye out for you. Have a great trip!
-Danielle

 

[katt789]

Hi, Katt!
Looks like we're gonna be at EPCOT the same day! (And resort neighbors...I'm staying at AoA!) I'll be sure to keep an eye out for you. Have a great trip!
-Danielle

Hi!! Glad to see you're reading along!! How fun!! We'll have to keep an eye out for each other!! Ah! AoA is awesome, have a fun trip!!!

 

[katt789]

Well, it’s officially Day 1 of our trip, and we have a jam packed day full of fun planned for today! Depending on how we’re feeling, we might either just get up and have a small snack in the room, or head down to the food court to grab breakfast and fill up our mugs!

Yum!! Disney food! Words cannot express how excited I am to eat the deliciousness that is Disney food again!! With our bellies full we’ll jump on a bus and be on our way! UGH, I CANNOT WAIT for the busses, is that weird? Lol. I love the little announcements they have on the busses the whole “Welcome aboard!” kinda thing, LOVE!

Hopefully the bus will still look like this too, I’m not a big fan of the new designs. I mean, c’mon Disney, you can’t redesign the princesses AND the busses all in one year, that’s just too much for us Disney fans! Lol. Today Paige and I are headed off to Hollywood Studios! Here’s hopin we’ll get there right for rope drop!

The first stop of the day will be Toy Story Mania of course, probably standby after grabbing a fast pass for later!

Then it’s time for our big rides of the day, naturally, one of our favorites, Tower of Terror is in order!

And after warming up with the dysfunctional elevator, we’ll be braving something that neither of us have done before, and we’re both actually pretty scared about, but hey, sometimes you gotta man up and do it!

It’s time for Rock n Rollercoaster!! IEEE! I’ve always been too chicken to go on it, and Paige didn’t want to go in Sept, so I didn’t go either. It should be interesting to see how we both react to it, and who knows, maybe we’ll end up going more than once, or maybe the one ride on it will be more than enough!! With the hard core rides done, we’ll probably want to take it easy for a bit, so a journey under the sea, or a very 3 DDDDDD adventure, or just tons of pictures will be in order!

Somewhere in there we’ll use our Toy Story Mania fast passes, and probably take another few rides on Tower of Terror, we got up to 6 rides on it last time, and we want to be able to beat that this trip!

Naturally, we’ll want to catch some of the shows, I heard through Mousesavers (I think) that the Beauty and the Beast show would be closed while we were there, but on the WDW website, it says nothing of the sort, so who knows?! If it’s open, we’ll DEFINITELY be stopping there!

I also want to check out Disney Channel Rocks, and possibly the parade, as we missed them both last time, and they’re pretty high energy, and I do like them, so hopefully Paige will too! We’ll probably pick either the Indiana Jones or Lights Motor Action show, and catch one of those too, but soon enough, it’ll be time to head out to lunch/early dinner, and that involves a nice little walk over here:

Where we’ll be headed over to the Beach Club (?) lol, for Beaches and Cream!

Yum!! We’ll most likely take it slow and use this as our midday break, explore the resorts over there a bit and the Boardwalk before heading back to DHS as there’s really only one thing left for us to do at this point!

Yup!! It’s time for Fantasmic!! It’s a hands down favorite of both Paige and I, so there’s no missing it! We’re both such emotional saps that we can’t make it through the first few minutes of the show, and within the last five minutes, Paige can’t make it past Steamboat Willie driving the boat around, and I can’t even think about the moment when Mickey pops up on top of the mountain at the end without dying!

Some imagination huh? AAAGGGGHHHH, my feels! If we’re not too sleepy or done at this point, we might pop over to Downtown Disney tonight, shop for a little bit, maybe grab a nighttime snack before heading back to Pop for sleep!

 

[happybelle]

Wonderful info, love the plans.

 

[katt789]

Wonderful info, love the plans.

Thanks!!

 

[shan23877]

Plans!

Sun Feb 24: Arrival, head into Magic Kingdom a bit before heading out for an ADR for dinner

Mon Feb 25: Disney’s Hollywood Studios, with an excursion for a quick service lunch!

Tues Feb 26: Magic Kingdom

Wed Feb 27: Wizarding World of Harry Potter, followed by Epcot. We have an ADR dinner here as well! Yay.

Thurs Feb 28: Animal Kingdom. Tonight we have a special dinner show to attend, and there’s a *very* strong chance I will be attending a look alike audition today!

Fri March 1: Park hopping!!
-Start at DHS
-To Animal Kingdom
-End at Magic Kingdom with a VERY special and amazing dinner that I was very lucky to get an ADR for with such short notice!

Sat March 2: We depart! Sad face! I had originally booked us in at Kona for a pre-flight breakfast, but I couldn’t find a return flight later in the day that fit our price range, boourns!

Anyhow, those are our plans so far, and I’ll be sure to go into more detail and show lots of pictures in the rest of the updates! I also thought, since everyone kinda does it now, we could do the ADR guessing game! We’ve got four in total, I listed minor details up there, they’re all in the parks that we will be in, unless otherwise stated, anyone wanna take some guesses??

I'm here!

And here are my guesses!

1900 Park Fare
Beaches and Cream
Le Cellier
Hoop De Doo
Be Our Guest


OOPS! I didn't realize that you'd started revealing! I did pretty good!

 

[tinkerbell87512]

Joining in! Hope you two have a BLAST!!!

 

[ronnmel]

I didn't know you had started this!

For the last three ADRs I'm going to guess
La Hacienda
Spirit of Aloha
Be Our Guest


The Beauty & the Beast show at DHS was closed while I was there in early January, so I doubt it will close again in March.

 

[lvcourtneyy]

I'm joining in! Your plans looks great and I'm excited to hear how the audition works out.


As for ADRs, obviously you said

1900 park and beaches and cream.

My guesses are:

Le Cellier
Spirit of Aloha
Be Our Guest

Your trip is so soon! How exciting !

 

[Pluto0809]

I'm here! Getting ready to head home from work now so I'll try to catch up later tonight or tomorrow sometime.

 

[Pluto0809]

All caught up! Your plans sound great so far. I thought about going to Beaches and Cream for lunch on my HS day but I have an early dinner at Mama Melrose and I don't think I can do both in one day!

I know one of your other ADRs!

 

[katt789]

Glad you're all here to read along, some of you are going good with the ADR guesses, obviously when it comes to the end, you'll all get five hypothetical points for each one you get right!! Yay. Also, yes, I'm being lazy and not doing chapter links, lol.

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Welcome to Day 3 ladies and gents! Today is Tuesday February 26, and today we will be up bright and early, probably with a light breakfast in the hotel room before we head down to the bus stop, as we’ve got to get to the park early to catch the rope drop!

MAAAAAGGGGIIIICCC KIIIINNNGGGGDOOOOMM!!!!!! Yayayayayaya!! Obviously we want to head to the park early so that we can get in for the rope drop show!! Last year we caught it and were both naturally the emotional wrecks that we are, cried through it, lol.

We’ll head down Main street, probably stop for a photopass or two along the way, but our target will be to go straight through the castle, and head in to the Fantasyland Expansion!

Obviously Enchanted Tales with Belle will be our first thing of the day, as the lines for it just get worse as the day goes on, and it’s a pretty cute experience. Since the crowds will be better we’ll pop through the Expansion to check it out with less people in them.

Hopefully we’ll have some time to go through some of Storybook Circus, or any of the rest of Fantasyland, mainly stuff like Peter Pan that will need at least a fast pass!!

Paige and I will have enough time to get through Fantasyland for sure and maybe either a quick character meet or grab some fast passes for Space Mountain, and then it’ll be back to the expansion, we’ve got some very important lunch plans, and we’ll want to be there early to make it quick!

That’s right, it’s time for Lunch at Be Our Guest!! We’ve got to experience it as many times as we can, I mean, it’s absolutely beautiful in there!!

We’ll finish up and explore the rest of the park, taking time for Frontierland, Adventureland, and some of our favorite character greets around the park too!

(of course this won’t be happening….as Splash is down for refurb, but we’ll be sure to hit up BTMRR) Thanks to Paige and I really loving all the parades and shows, we definitely won’t be missing the Move It Shake It Celebrate It, maybe even watching it twice, AND of course dancing around doing all the choreo from it. We’ll Celebrate our Dreams Coming True, and even spend some time Dreaming Along With Mickey!

And of course we’ll be sticking around for the evening entertainment, especially Wishes! Gotta love those fireworks!

Naturally, we’ll be having lots of fun snacks and fun times during our Magic Kingdom day, there will be lots of repeats of rides and we’ll be meeting practically all of the characters that we can! I really want to spend a lot of time in the FLE playing around, and taking lots of different photos in fun places, especially since I was solo last time I was down there, and I’ve seen some awesome photopass spots around the area too!

Places Paige and I will probably cry today:
-Rope Drop Show
-Being inside FLE
-Eating at Be Our Guest
-Dream Along with Mickey
-Wishes

Once we have completely emotionally exhausted ourselves for the day, we’ll very slowly make our way out of the park so that we’re not caught in the gong show mess of the busses, and head back to Pop!

 

[Fratthouse]

Following along! Sounds like you've got a great trip coming up!! So jealous you will be in WDW in less than a week!

 

[lvcourtneyy]

Your MK plans make me wish I was there lol!

Looks like a great day and I definitely fully support the crying at all mentioned occasions.