ariane37
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One Week Till Disney!!
and less than 3 months!!!
and less than 3 months!!!
See, I had to go back to the green for a second to refer to my original Nov. trip lol. But on to next Saturday!! Today I went to NJ to meet up with all my college friends (I went to college in NJ) and of course they're all jealous of my adults only getaway, with the exception of my 2 friends with no kids! It's always great getting together with the whole group but this time was even more special as my friend Amy is pretty preggers. It's been quite some time since I've had a pregnant friend! Pregnant relatives yes, but at 45 your pregnant friends are few and far between
She actually looks better with this pregnancy than she did with her first two!! The more we talked about my trip the more excited I got. So two things about this trip:1. As @Jfsag123 now knows, neither Steve nor I have ever been on Ellen's Energy Adventure
Now that it's closing this will be a must-do for us next week. Works out well that it'll be hot; gives us a nice break! Off hand I can't remember if they've given a closing date, but I'm kind of hoping it's still open for our Nov. trip so the kids can experience it.2. A couple days ago Steve asked if I wanted to stay in a hotel Friday night since we have to leave home so early Sat. morning to get to the airport. I think I mentioned this in the very beginning of this PTR, but we're flying out of Hartford, CT because that's where we got the best rate. It's about a 2 hour drive from here so we have to leave about 4:45am. I'm a terrible sleeper and he thinks if we stay at a hotel 5 mins from the airport I'll get more sleep. We wouldn't get to the hotel until about midnight though because he works until 9-9:30 Fri. nights making pizza at his friends restaurant, so I figure maybe I'd be asleep by 1? But we wouldn't have to leave the hotel until almost 7 so I could feasibly get 5 hours of sleep. At home I'd probably get up by 3:30 just to make sure everything was in order before we left and I doubt I'd be sleeping before 11:30-12.......thinking staying in a hotel in Hartford would work out better. I hate the thought of leaving the boys a few hours earlier even though that sounds stupid since the majority of those hours we'd all be sleeping!
Now for November!
1. I kept thinking about our Tokyo Dining ADR and the menu change there. A few days ago I checked their menu on both Allears and the Disney site and they're still different. So I showed Chris that menu and a couple others since he was with me -Skippers Canteen and Chefs de France. He actually got a little excited over both Skippers and Chefs! So at dinner that night I told Ricky and Steve; Ricky asked what was on those menus but didn't want to take the time to look at them
but Chris remembered a few things and Ricky also seemed ok with either. I told them since Steve and I are eating at Skippers next week we'll see what we think, and when we're back I'll pick that or Chefs. We ate at Chefs back in 2012 and liked it; it wasn't mind blowing which is why we haven't been back but really it wasn't bad in any way and I'm not against going again. 2. I think I'm going to have to take another look at what I had planned as far as AK in Nov. I know I haven't posted our day by day itinerary yet, but I was planning a late afternoon/evening there, assuming something would be going on at night. Now that it's a definite JB won't be, but NOT definite ROL WILL be, I'm thinking the actual hours won't be solid until way after I make our FP's next month and we may or may not want/need as much time. So how I rearrange AK for Nov. will depend on what Steve and I think of EE/Safari at night, the Tree of Life awakenings, and some of the street entertainment that I *think* begins in like late afternoon. I know none of you will have sympathy for me, but it's kind of a pain planning more than 1 trip at a time
That's all for now! Taking the boys and a few friends to our local waterpark tomorrow to try and squeeze as much $$ out of our season passes as I can. Last year they went multiple times a week but this year, Ricky especially has almost zero interest which stinks because he can go alone with friends! I'm not a fan of water parks and don't enjoy going, but Chris and his friends are obviously too young to go without an adult. So myself and a few other moms occasionally go together and then take turns sucking it up for the others and taking the kids alone lol.
Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend
I know!! I get motion sick pretty easily including on Soarin' so the idea of both of those rides make me nervous, on top of the no SW interest. Ellen we've actually considered before but it's always a time crunch thing 
Now I feel like a loser that there are 3 attractions I've never done lol. Maybe besides Ellen I'll try ST........
I've made sure to open for the castle at the end though! I do want to see the new version, just not sure how much I'll actually see lol.
Bummed about your schedule for our visit though 
Ricky's friends' Uncle (yeah, I know how that sounds!) works for Disney and has been working on ROL for awhile now. His friends is currently at his Uncle's house in Fla. and I told his friends mom to try getting the inside scoop on ROL while they're down there. If I receive any info I will without a doubt report that here!
I love that ride - went on it 3 times in June lol. And Soarin' hurts as well. I'm sorry they give you both trouble!
Definitely going to do a smallish TR within a PTR when we get back and I'll fill you in on Skippers! And we've booked our hotel for the night before 
. But I thought it was pretty cool that they called. We've stayed at AKL, Poly, an BWV when a refurb of some type was going on and other than the standard issue refurb letter, have never received a call. Nice little touch!
Hopefully it's a 24 hour thing or even a 48 hour thing and she's feeling better quickly! Not just because she's staying here starting Friday night, I don't like when mom is sick. We can always get one of my stepsons to stay here Friday but I'll feel better going if she's feeling better. 
Okay he didn't actually ditch me, us moms were trailing them but they were walking so fast and it was ungodly hot in that school, so two other moms and I decided to hang in an air-conditioned classroom and chat while they roamed the halls. I think it'll hit me on the first day, when I have to wake him up almost an hour earlier than last year to catch the bus at the ridiculous time of 6:33 a.m. What makes it worse is that I have to get up almost an hour earlier than last year to get him up to catch that bus!! Me likes me sleep!!!
