Until now..... I didn't. However since you brought it up, now it is totally stuck in my head!!!!! hahahaaaDoes anyone else get the Beach Boys' song stuck in their head whenever anyone talks about CBR?
"Aruba, Jamaica, oooh I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahamas, come on pretty mama..."
#Kokomo
Until now..... I didn't. However since you brought it up, now it is totally stuck in my head!!!!! hahahaaa
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Ok, so now that I got that little bit of excitement out of the way... I can now proceed with my update. #UpdateAlert
Yesterday at our 30 day mark, I decided to try out a DisBoards popular service called "Garden Grocer". I have never used this service or ANY type of delivery service in all of my trips to WDW. #FirstTimeForEverything Basically Garden Grocer is a cool thing where you place an online order for all things that you can possibly find in a Grocery Store including toiletries, fresh fruits, cases of sodas and bottled water, chips, frozen foods, and even beer!
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Basically its like a virtual shopping trip where they show you the pictures of each item with the price, and you just CLICK and it adds directly to your shopping cart like Amazon or any other online store.
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When I logged onto the page just being curious, there was a message stating that if you place an order 60 days in advance you get 7% off of your order, and if you place your order 30 days in advance you get 5% off of your order. #LoveToSaveMoney So it was by sheer luck that I happened to look at this website exactly on our 30 day mark and was able to receive a discount! #WoooooooooooooooooooooHoooooooooooooooooooooo
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So, I forgot to mention why we even were looking into a grocery delivery service... #Derp Being newly diagnosed with a Gluten Free intolerance, and since this is our first trip to WDW since this diagnosis, I wanted to make sure that I had some convenient Gluten Free granola bars for me to carry in my purse. #SnackAttack
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We will have the Disney Dining Plan which covers 2 meals per day: 1 Table Service Meal and 1 Quick Service Meal. Generally we use those DDP meal credits for Lunch and Dinner each day and we normally grab breakfast of bagels and muffins in the Food Court of the Disney Resort that we are staying at and sometimes using our DDP SNACK CREDITS. My husband and I were discussing saving a bit of money this trip by getting our morning coffees at the food court with our Disney Refillable mugs and then eating granola bars and fruit instead of food court food. This way we can actually use our DDP snack credits for SNACKS instead of breakfast items! #WeAreSmart
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We ended up placing a small order with Garden Grocer to TRY them out and to see how this all works! Basically I clicked on the Breakfast Items tab, the Fresh Fruit tab, and the Gluten Free search for our items. #EasyPeasy We ended up ordering:
8 Bananas
6 Fuji Apples
1 Box of Kashi Bars
1 Box of Natures Valley Peanut Butter Granola Bars
4 Bakery Fresh Blueberry Muffins
1 Box of Enjoy Life Sunbutter Crunch Bars
1 Box of Glutino Gluten Free Apple CinnamonToaster Pastries
1 Bottle of International Delight French Vanilla Coffee Creamer
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I entered my resort that we are staying at, and what time frame that we would like our food delivered. I then entered my Credit Card information and I was finished. Literally it was super easy!
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The cool thing is that about 2 minutes after I placed my order, I received a real Telephone Call from Garden Grocer to confirm my order AND to let me know that they will deliver my order to Caribbean Beach Resort between 8am and 12am on our arrival date and our resort will keep it refrigerated for me. #VERYImpressive I love good customer service!
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So, I am very interested to see how this service works out.... AND if our order comes in complete. We do have 2 Breakfasts at WDW resorts schedule for our 8 days (Ohana and Tusker House), but it will also be interesting to see how well the granola bar and fruit eating goes for us! I think that it will also allow us to sleep in a little bit longer because we will be able to eat at the bus stop each morning
Has anyone else used a grocery delivery service before? If so, what types of items did you buy?
hope you have a very magical trip!
It's right around the corner now!!!!
Hello to you all and Welcome to my Pre Trip Report!
Please be patient with my pre trip report... I am not the most eloquent writer. I wanted to share with you our plans for our upcoming trip! #ICanDoThis. I hope that some of you will read my report and maybe even subscribe! If you do.... #ThankYou!
This September will be my 16th vacation to the Happiest Place On Earth and I'm so excited! We were very fortunate to be able to spend the week of Christmas at WDW this past December, and we had the absolute most MAGICAL Christmas I've ever experienced. However, 2 months after our Christmas trip, while still being deep in post Disney Blues, I asked my husband if we should book another trip for this September, he said "SURE, why not!!" #MatchMadeInHeaven
My name is Aimee, and I have a serious love for all things Disney. Seriously. I love all things Disney. If I could live / work / eat / sleep on Main Street USA, I would be the happiest person in the world. I have 2 sons who are ages 13 and 20. However, for this vacation in September, my oldest son will unfortunately not be joining us. Instead my traveling companions will be my husband, my 13 year old son, and my father who normally also joins us in WDW because he probably loves Disney as much as I do.
My husband and I are super dorks... like we love to act silly and we may or may not have tried to Drink Around The World at EPCOT more than once. #FailedMiserably #WeWontBeDefeated
Here is a photo of my husband and I at Halloween 2 years ago:
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And..... this was us at Halloween last year:
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As you can see... we are completely normal and very serious people. #WeAreSuperFun
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These are my 2 boys Ethan and Zack with Drizella, who by the way was absolutely hilarious:
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This is my youngest Ethan who will be joining us on this trip:
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And... here is my super cool father Rob (our normal WDW trip companion) who was getting his birthday cupcake at Chef Mickey's!
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My dad loves all WDW resorts, but especially Port Orleans French Quarter! #POFQLove
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For this trip in September, we have lots of plans, and ADR's and we just booked our FP+ 2 days ago... so I have so much to tell you all!
If you are still reading this.... THANK YOU! I will hopefully be updating this frequently over the next 58 days until our trip. Oh... I forgot to tell you all the details!! #Ooooooops
When: September 3 thru 10, 2016
Where: Caribbean Beach Resort
Who: Myself (Aimee), my husband (Kevin), my 13 yr old son (Ethan), and my crazy father (Rob)
Why: Because we need to try to drink around the world again!
Another reason why: Because we LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Walt Disney World!
I hope to hear from some of you, and please ask any questions that you might have! #TillNextTime
Also.... Let me know if you are going to be in WDW while we are there!
I don't think I would've been able to refrain for going to Disney
I've already started packing and we're only at 44 days. #werebothcrazydisneyladies
What a coincidence to have found this thread. We are also staying at CBR (Aug 30- Sept 10) It will be my DH, and 2 DS (13,9) We can't wait! Our bands arrived yesterday!!!! Anyways......
We have used garden grocer a few times - we love it! They will hold our order til we arrive and keep cold stuff cold and deliver to room once we check in. We usually order fruit, light breakfast foods, a few snacks, and beverages. I was able to order and get the discount this year too - bonus
Thanks for creating one! LOL. I love reading PTRs leading up to my trip. I like seeing what other people are doing too, especially when we have many things in common for our trips haha.
Oh good, I hope you enjoy the lobster bisque if you decided to get it...and if not then... well... they must have changed the recipe since I had it!
I would love to make rope drop, but we seem to have very late nights in the parks, so I'm not sure it will ever happen. But there is always Disney magic haha.
Your trip looked awesome. I love beach vacations! I can only imagine how hard it was to be so close to Disney and not go haha.
Garden Grocer sounds like a great idea. I always think I should do that and order a case of water for the room. I just don't like Desani water, I find it has an odd taste. I wonder if it is the salt in it.
You have made the 30 day mark!!!
). In fact, looking at that picture, I think we might have even stayed in that condo complex before. Love it there! 
I'm happy to hear you had such an awesome trip!!! We did ours yesterday! I requested Aruba near transportation. #hopethatwasagoodcall #ilikethearubabuildingbecauseitspink
Does anyone else get the Beach Boys' song stuck in their head whenever anyone talks about CBR?
"Aruba, Jamaica, oooh I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahamas, come on pretty mama..."
Ok, so now that I got that little bit of excitement out of the way... I can now proceed with my update. #UpdateAlert
Yesterday at our 30 day mark, I decided to try out a DisBoards popular service called "Garden Grocer". I have never used this service or ANY type of delivery service in all of my trips to WDW. #FirstTimeForEverything Basically Garden Grocer is a cool thing where you place an online order for all things that you can possibly find in a Grocery Store including toiletries, fresh fruits, cases of sodas and bottled water, chips, frozen foods, and even beer!
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Basically its like a virtual shopping trip where they show you the pictures of each item with the price, and you just CLICK and it adds directly to your shopping cart like Amazon or any other online store.
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When I logged onto the page just being curious, there was a message stating that if you place an order 60 days in advance you get 7% off of your order, and if you place your order 30 days in advance you get 5% off of your order. #LoveToSaveMoney So it was by sheer luck that I happened to look at this website exactly on our 30 day mark and was able to receive a discount! #WoooooooooooooooooooooHoooooooooooooooooooooo
Joining in on your Pre-Trip fun! Loving the report so far!
YES! We love Chef's de France. Some of our best Disney meals have been there. One time we had an incident where my younger brother was basically assaulted by another guest who was "pranking" people and filming it to post on the internet. Security was called, and in all the chaos of filling out an incident report and such, we ended up missing our ADR, which was awful because it was my aunt and uncle's anniversary. Disney stepped in and got us a table at Chefs de France, even though it was totally booked, and we had an AMAZING meal there, at a table right next to the front window. We were actually the last people to leave the restaurant that night, and I just remember the staff was incredible to us the entire meal. One of my favorite Disney memories!!!
When my family goes to the beach, we ONLY stay at Madeira Beach/Treasure Island with occasional side trips to Clearwater. It's our 2nd favorite place in the world (after Disney, of course
Keeping my fingers crossed for Martinique for you!
We LOVE Aruba. It's the best pick if you don't book Preferred.
Ummmmm yes. Every time.
We may have to try this this time! We always drive down so we usually bring our own bottled water and some snacks for late night munching, but it's a real pain to lug 24 packs of water to the room along with all of our luggage. It'd be totally worth it to have it delivered. Lol.
Can't wait to read more! You're getting so close!
The Condo Complex that we stayed at was called Madeira Norte and is directly across the street from Johns Pass #PERFECTION!!
#MagicBandDecorating!!
Here is a thread where people have posted their recreations on the DIS: http://www.disboards.com/threads/ha...ic-bands-please-show-us-the-pictures.3190181/
This time around, we got free Magic Your Band "stickers" from our DVC rental broker so we are going with them. They have customization options so you can create your own. They are about $6-$8 per skin. They are removeable and reuseable as long as you keep them nice and keep the backing that they come on. This is my first time using them so I'm really curious how they will turn out. I'm kind of on the fence about how they look. But #easy!
Last trip, we all decorated our bands with paint pens or sharpies and then brushed over it with top coat nail polish. It worked pretty well. People talked about the nail polish cracking. We didn't have that problem. I used OPI top coat. I dabbed instead of rubbing. Rubbing made my tiger stripes smear. After a hot and sweaty trip to Disney, our bands held up well; they were worn a bit where they clasped on our wrists from rubbing against our clothes, bags, etc but we expected that. The tops still looked great, though! And at the end of the week, we didn't care.
Here is our final product:
Mine was the orange tiger stripes. Because we were staying at AKL. We got white and black paint pens from JoAnn fabric using two 40% off coupons (there were two of us going through the line). We used a thin black sharpie to color in the Mickey heads on the front. I like to do this to all my MBs regardless of whether or not I'm decorating them. (As you can see, my dad was a party pooper and he didn't want any decorations on his gray band.) My sister (yellow) used a sharpie to create the birds. My other sister had a pink MB and used painter's tape to mark out the triangles for the argyle look. She did the black triangles in black paint pen, then the white paint pen for the dotted lines. She also used silver nail polish for her Mickey head.
We felt extra special with our decorated bands and we got lots of compliments!
#CaptainPlanetHesOurHero Anyone remember that old cartoon? That's what this pic reminds me of. Our MBs look really shiny in this pic but they weren't that shiny in person.
My boyfriend refuses to get any color other than red,
