Kathy & Rick's late April trip report - finished!

[lowe@massed.net]

5/19/08 update: I decided to just put my report in one place, so it's all on my blog, kay-lo's world.

Back in March, I wrote:
Just back from a walk through the meadow and woods near our house - the same route I usually do on snowshoes. This is the ugly season in New England - and this year seems more so than ever. Lots of debris revealed by the melting snow, sand from the road all over the yard, mud everywhere, the last remnants of dirty snow, just the tiniest hints that anything is living out there - my daffodils are up about 3" on the south side of the house near the foundation. We've had a very cloudy March, with a good deal of rain and some snow, and I'm yearning for the sun. Good thing that in just 6 weeks DH and I will be returning to my favorite place!

I'll be covering the preparations and the trip here and on my blog.

For the first time ever, I have made TS ADRs for every day of our trip (we are NOT on the DDP). So far, these are our plans:

4/27
am ARRIVE at the Beach Club Villas!
pm Epcot - IllumiNations
L: 12pm Tokyo Dining, Japan, Epcot
D: CS*

4/28
am MK
pm MK - Spectomagic, Wishes fireworks
B: Captain’s Grille, Yacht Club
L: Liberty Tree Tavern, Frontierland, Magic Kingdom
D: CS*

4/29 DH's birthday!
am Ft.Wilderness Back Trail Adventure Segway Tour
pm Epcot - IllumiNations
B: Trail's End Buffet, Ft. Wilderness
L: CS*
D: Rose & Crown, UK, Epcot

4/30
am ?
pm Disney's Animal Kingdom - Extra Magic Hours
B: Spoodles, Boardwalk
L: CS*
D: Yak & Yeti, Asia, DAK

5/1
am Disney's Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM)
pm ?
B: Fresh, Dolphin
L: ’50s Prime Time Café, DHS
D: CS*

5/2
am MK
pm Epcot - IllumiNations, Extra Magic Hours
B: Kona Cafe, Polynesian Resort
L: CS*
D: Tutto Italia, Italy, Epcot

5/3
am Epcot
B: Room Service
L: Restaurant Marrakesh, Morocco, Epcot (Our first choice was Le Cellier in Canada, but that is booked solid. We'll hope for cancellations.)
pm DEPART for home

*CS=Counter Service. If we're hungry, we'll grab something quick in the park or back at the Boardwalk area.

We'll try and catch the afternoon parades at the MK, DAK and DHS once, especially the new Block Party Bash at DHS.

I'm vey excited about the Segway tour on DH's birthday. We did the tour at Epcot a couple of years ago and loved it. This one is on all-terrain Segways outside between Fort Wilderness and the Wilderness Lodge. DH chose the Rose and Crown for dinner that day, in honor of his birth in England (an Air Force brat).

This is our 11th trip to WDW, although we haven't been there since Nov/December 2006. (We DID go to DisneyLAND just this past December though.) We never tire of going - there is always something new to see - and even if there wasn't, just staying at the Beach Club Villas is a treat in and of itself. As DH says, it's a no-stress vacation - no driving, no worries, everything works, everyone's nice. Hakuna matata!

 

[JenH1969]

Hi Kay-lo- here in southern Ontario we still have tons of snow- we haven't seen the grass in a couple of months- so hearing about the mud sounds kind of appealing -

Sounds like you and dh have a lovely trip planned- only 37 more days!!!

Jen

 

[lowe@massed.net]

...I wanted JenH to know... :

True to tradition, we packed today, put our DME tags on our suitcases , checked our lists twice, and we'll be hitting the hay early so we can get up at 3 am to leave for our 6:15 flight from Manchester, NH. I estimate we'll be checking in at BCV before 11 am, and strolling into Epcot for our lunch at Tokyo Dining soon thereafter.

I'll be posting daily on my blog, kay-lo's world, with photos. Check it out! Just 13 hours to go!

 

[Marla Hellwig]

Welcome home

I am moving this over to the trip report board for you

 

[lowe@massed.net]

Welcome home

I am moving this over to the trip report board for you

Thanks Marla, but we are back and my trip report is complete on my blog, so you may want to move this again to completed trip reports. There are lots of photos and you can read about how I wiped out on my Segway tour at Ft. Wilderness.