January 2009. . . Calling all Snowbirds ~ Part I !!!

[Disney Mommy 3]

Somehow in my mind I'm still in my early 20s. I've often said I stopped growing at age 21. Don't know why.

And I love that Disney allows the kid in me to just come out! No apologies!

So, anyone have a question of the day?
~~Carrie[/QUOTE]

Same here Carrie-- I am sorta hung up on 23 and I can't for the life of me figure out why?

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

I know!! Usually people call here and ask "Is your mommy home?" I guess I sound little too!! I just say I AM the mommy!!

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

Gillettes--Hey--I was 34 on the 25th!!! July is such a good month

As for the QOTD.... I love Cinderella, and Snow White--Mary Poppins--Alice--Tink--Peter Pan & Wendy & little Michael(actually married one ). It's tooooo hard to pick one!! I must say since Belle came along I had to add her to the list because she's a book worm just like me!!
Also, Pinnocchio, Gippeto, Jiminy Crickett..... Once on main street we saw the aforementioned, did autographs, and then I went into the picture place, next to Tony's. Gippeto came in and kissed me on the head!!!It was great!! My hubby said, well--good for you!! I was sooo excited--I had to remind myself I was grown---not 9!!!! I know I smiled about that all day!! It doesn't take much to make me really happy!!

 

[trixiequilts]

Okay, you're going to think I'm a weirdie, but Mater is my favorite...you know, like Tuh-mater without the Tuh!

 

[MzEeyore]

We just finished making all of our PSeatings and we got every restaurant that we wanted and the exact times we wanted which in May and Dec hardly ever happens haha. We are so excited now--counting down the days now. =)

Jan 17th--O'hana's dinner

Jan 18th--Crystal Palace--breakfast
Liberty Tree Tavern--dinner

Jan 19th--Donald's Breakfast
Rainforest Cafe AK-dinner

Jan 20th--Chef Mickey's--breakfast
O'hana's--dinner (can you tell this is DH's fav)

Jan 21st--Boatwright's--breakfast
50's Prime Time Cafe--dinner

Jan 22nd--Spoodles=breakfast
1900 Park Fare--dinner

Jan 23rd--O'hana's-breakfast
Cape May Buffet--dinnner

Jan 24th--Whispering Canyon--breakfast

So there you have it =) We are eating and playing good this year ha ha.

PS: My favorite character has always been Eeyore---don't know why but that little donkey makes me smile everytime I see him. He is followed closely by Mickey and Cinderella =) My DD's favorite is Stitch, DH's favorite is Tigger and my mother's is and always has been Jiminy Cricket which we finally after 9 trips we got to meet and see last Dec =) She was so excited =)

Joanie

 

[nala87]

Hello snowbirds! Disney is going to be with us in Janurary!
I feel like I haven't been on here in forever, probably because I haven't.
I have decided my DH and I will be staying at POR for our honeymoon so he can go fishing and I can force him to take a carriage ride! I have yet too book it b/c I am cheap and want to wait until November when hopefully they will tell be there is a super duper rate that I can use!
1/4 we will be doing behind the seeds, a tour I've wanted to do since I was very small!!!
1/5 we will be having breakfast at Kona
1/6 will be Boma dinner
1/8 will be Cape May dinner (yay for buffets!)
I am using these meals to introdue my DH to my two Favorite resorts and convince him they really are worth the money...

We won't be doing to dining plan, so the rest will be CS and peanut butter crackers!

Answer to question fo the day: Figment!!!!!! Not Figzilla, he scares me, but figment with Dreamfinder. I always wanted to go to EPCOT first when I was little to see figment and ride his ride over and over again!

 

[BellaSoleil]

Hello snowbirds! Disney is going to be with us in Janurary!
I feel like I haven't been on here in forever, probably because I haven't.
I have decided my DH and I will be staying at POR for our honeymoon so he can go fishing and I can force him to take a carriage ride! I have yet too book it b/c I am cheap and want to wait until November when hopefully they will tell be there is a super duper rate that I can use!
1/4 we will be doing behind the seeds, a tour I've wanted to do since I was very small!!!
1/5 we will be having breakfast at Kona
1/6 will be Boma dinner
1/8 will be Cape May dinner (yay for buffets!)
I am using these meals to introdue my DH to my two Favorite resorts and convince him they really are worth the money...

We won't be doing to dining plan, so the rest will be CS and peanut butter crackers!

Answer to question fo the day: Figment!!!!!! Not Figzilla, he scares me, but figment with Dreamfinder. I always wanted to go to EPCOT first when I was little to see figment and ride his ride over and over again!

We will be there the exact same time as you! DH and I did POR (French Quarter) for our Honeymoon and LOVED it!!! It was small and very quiet.

Also... I just wanted to let everyone know that I bought Ariel's Beginning and it is great so far. I would suggest it for any Ariel/Princess/just a plain ole' Disney fan.

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

MzEeyore-- are u on the Deluxe Dining Plan? Or do you do oop---just wondering --we are debating on upping our regular d plan to deluxe.

 

[debbieandroo]

My favorite Disney character? probably Piglet....he's so supportive of friend with little brain, much more than I would be!

This reminds me...I haven't seen a Disney animated movie in years! Hope to change that in the next few months.

Trixiequilts, I need to do some research to figure out who Mater is...

 

[kaos928]

My favorite Disney character? probably Piglet....he's so supportive of friend with little brain, much more than I would be!

This reminds me...I haven't seen a Disney animated movie in years! Hope to change that in the next few months.

Trixiequilts, I need to do some research to figure out who Mater is...

From Cars! Larry the Cable Guy

 

[trixiequilts]

Trixiequilts, I need to do some research to figure out who Mater is...

Debbieandroo-this is Mater:

 

[Wilsonfamily4]

1/6 will be Boma dinner

We will have an early dinner at Boma on the 6th as well!

 

[MindyLuvsMickey]

Ahhh . . . I can finally relax and enjoy some Dis!

Today was my son's birthday party. A VERY LONG DAY.

Good news is that it went off without a hitch and he had a blast.


My favorite Disney characters. I would say that I have three.

Top choice is Mickey. Next would be Goofy and Mater. I love the silly ones, I suppose.

As for all of you people who don't look your age I look every bit of 40. Too bad I'm only 32. OK, It's not THAT bad. I've not been carded in a very. long. time.

 

[sarbah77]

Oh nooo! Yep I used to do the same thing only sans water in the privacy of my living room Ariel's my favorite princess but tinkerbell is probably my favorite character.

Hey, has anyone booked over the internet? I know there's a difference in terms, but what's the advantage to calling CDO over booking online?

Also, I'm trying to decide between Tutto Italia and Chefs de France, any advice?

I ate at Chefs de France in February 2007. It was just one of my good friends and myself and the WHOLE trip we'd had MISERABLE service. Terrible, rotten, no good, very bad we didn't leave tips sometimes. We were thinking we were cursed. We got to Chefs de France, wary. Our waitress? Awesome. On the ball. We weren't rushed or ignored. Our food was great, there was a semi-decent view of the fireworks and we just had a really nice meal. it was the standout of that trip for all the good reasons (Big River Grille was the standout for all the bad reasons - bahahah!!).

As for favorite Disney characters? Belle! I'm a brunette (though I don't look good in yellow ) and I love to read and I always hoped for some magic in my life. My prince is a nice guy, but we started dating when he was a grad student, so it certainly wasn't for his money.

 

[Remmy]

Hello Snowbirds,

Life has been busy but I finally caught up after 35 pages of reading. I am so happy to hear I can finish making the rest of my ADRs. I thought I would give them all to our travel agent to do in October but now I can do them all tomorrow. I made 2 before on my room only, so I will change those over to my package plan. Thank you all for posting the information here on this thread.

I loved seeing all the pictures. The last 2 times we went we thought we took enough pictures but after seeing all the trip reports, we know now how many opportunities we missed. Even though we are staying at the POP, we will resort hop one day and make certain to see the All Stars Resorts for all their photo opportunities. My son loves Toy Story. I have been practicing all summer with all our day trips to make certain I took lots of pictures. I want to get into the habit of seeing the moments but also capturing them. I have also practiced at one out of town restaurant taking food pictures. Yes, people stared and some even pointed but all in our party just laughed along with me, and no one said anything. I will not worry at Disney about taking food pictures. Luckily my DD and DS are not yet at an age where it would be too embarrassing for me to do this with them present.

I am getting worried about the rising prices of gas, since we will be driving. I am keeping an eye on prices but I still don't want to fly since we are going down for 13 days and the stuff we wish to take won't fit in one suitcase each. Plus all the great merchandise the children will want to take back.

One good thing happened this weekend. We have waited and waited to obtain passports since we are told we don't require them until June 2009 if we are going by car but we still thought it would be a good thing to have. My dad said he would pay for them for us. One less cost for us. Woo hoo. I hope to travel to the nearest city that has the passport place on Hallowe'en. My hopes are that not too many people will think to go there that day. One less thing to worry about for our trip. Thank you dad!

I too wonder if they will have a Pirate and Princess party in January. I check almost daily and still it says to keep checking back. That would be the icing on our Disney trip.

Keep up with your questions of the day. I love reading all the great responses.

I have a question (not question of the day) --Does anyone have a Pal Mickey? Do you think it is a good investment? Did your kids look at it again after Disney? Did it help you in the parks as much as you thought it would? We are thinking of buying one for the kids to share, since we will be going down again eventually so we thought we should maybe splurge this trip. Last time in 2006 we saw another family have one while waiting for transportation to MK. The little girl, I would say 7-8 was having great fun with it while it told her jokes or trivia. I am on the fence on buying one.

 

[debbieandroo]

Debbieandroo-this is Mater:

Ha -- well, as you can tell by now, it's also been a long time since I've seen any Pixar movies, too! Thanks for the heads up -- when I see the movie, he'll probably be my fave too -- just my kind of goofy.

 

[debbieandroo]

Bella Soliel and anyone else down in La --

how are things going with y'all? I have some friends who live in Metairie [20 min away from NO] whose weekend visit to Memphis for a wedding turned into an evacuation! We're planning to have some of their NO friends [40+] stay in family homes and at our church until Gustav leaves the area. A couple of the friends had to drive back down to NO tonight before the city was closed down so they could get their heavy-duty trucks out of the area - I pray that this isn't too hard for them to do with everyone else trying to leave.

I can't even imagine!

 

[gtpro]

that sucks, i planned on going but mom just got notice of diployment and now she's gone

 

[BellaSoleil]

Bella Soliel and anyone else down in La --

how are things going with y'all? I have some friends who live in Metairie [20 min away from NO] whose weekend visit to Memphis for a wedding turned into an evacuation! We're planning to have some of their NO friends [40+] stay in family homes and at our church until Gustav leaves the area. A couple of the friends had to drive back down to NO tonight before the city was closed down so they could get their heavy-duty trucks out of the area - I pray that this isn't too hard for them to do with everyone else trying to leave.

I can't even imagine!

I live in northwest LA, so I'm clear from the actual hurricane. We are expected to get heavy storms on Tuesday and Wednesday. The govenor made an executive decision to close all schools until Thursday. We are really just getting loaded down with evacuee's in my parts.

I just read that it's downgraded to a Cat. 3, so hopefully it will continue to lose strength.

 

[Monny2AE]

Hoping everyone in the path of Gustav (and possibly Hannah ) stays safe!!!


I was up late last night mapping out all of the park hours, extra magic hours, parades and shows during our week stay AND I called and made my last ADR for us too!!! So excited to check that off my list!

We're still deciding on the QSDDP- need to do the math yet on that one . We are trying to keep dining costs to a minimum so we are only doing two character breakfasts during our stay and that's it- Crystal Palace Jan 28 @ 9:05 and Chef Mickey's Jan. 26 @ 8:30.

So far Disney only has one attraction closed and unfortunately it's my mom's fave- Hall of Presidents. She's disappointed and wants a discount on her ticket b/c of it

Still crossing my fingers for some codes!!!