Booked in at AofA on the 24th and checking out on the 31st!
Hello Everyone!
I live in Northern Manitoba, Canada, and coming down to WDW for the 3rd time. First was in 1984 when I was 8, second was in 2007. Yes, that long. I went to DL in 2010 as well. When my oldest dd turned 8, my mom thought that was a perfect age for Disney. Old enough to carry the memories forever, old enough to not need naps, etc. lol So she decided that she would take her grandkids as a treat when they turned 8 years old. Well the joke was on her as I ended up with 4 kiddos and my sister had 2.... luckily we had 2 of them in the same year so that cut down on one trip
haha! So yes, I have been with dd#1, then ds #2, and now it's dd#3's turn. She turned 8 last November, but my sister was battling a horrible cancer for most of 2013 and we just couldn't travel at the time. Actually, her and I had a last minute trip booked and everything as the last thing on her bucket list (she was Dobby on the disboards, HUGE Disney fanatic), but she passed away in September 2013 a week before we were due to leave. Years of teasing her for her Disney love and constant researching and planning, and I'm becoming JUST LIKE HER when it comes to planning the trips. Scary. lol So her love has transferred to me and I plan on letting it grow even stronger than it already was. This trip will be bittersweet, but my mom and I are very much looking forward to soaking in the Magic and feeling my sister spread some pixie dust on us.
ANYHOO..... just wanted to give a bit of a background on me and my Disney love.
I do have ADR's booked but I keep changing my plans. haha!
As of right now I have:
1/25 (MK all day) Crystal Palace (dinner)
1/26 (Epcot all day) Akershus (lunch)
Garden Grill (dinner)
1/27 (Epcot morning, DHS afternoon) Mama Melrose (late lunch - Fantasmic! package)
1/28 (AK and then DTD in the evening) Rainforest Cafe (lunch)
1/29 (MK most of the day) Chef Mickeys (breakfast)
Liberty Tree Tavern (late lunch)
1/30 (MK later in the day, not sure of the morning yet) The Plaza (early dinner)
Tomorrowland Terrace (Wishes Dessert Party)
1/31 NOT SURE!?! LOL!
We're on the
DDP so one TS per day, and we plan on just paying OOP for one of the TS unless I cancel one, as well as paying OOP for our last day there (31st) as we'll have checked out before heading to whatever park suits our fancy for the morning until we have to head back to catch the
MDE. We'll throw in our CS throughout the week for lunches/dinners and plan on using our snack credits mainly for breakfast (muffins, etc.) as we're not huge breakfast people.
I'm counting this correctly, right? We are there 7 nights so we should have 7 TS, 7 CS, and 7 snacks? And even if we check out early on Saturday and hit the park, if we have any remaining credits we have until we leave the park for the very last time on the Saturday that we fly to use them up, right? Same as having access to the parks, checking out doesn't mean we deactivate our last day on our MB's?
DS and I will be arriving Jan. 25 and staying for a week. I haven't made any plans yet, but just had to share the good news!! It's our first stay at the BWV and we're really looking forward to staying there.
Joining in, we will be arriving on Jan 9 through Jan 17 with our first ever split stay... POFQ and AoA! 
We are trying to do places we haven't done before, so that's the challenge. 
