Hi everyone,
I so miss this board. I have a lot of catching up to do. My friend from Canada will be leaving on Wed. We are having a good time. We took her to the beach yesterday. Kicking back today and most likely hitting the mall tomorrow. Tomorrow is also my birthday, so maybe I'll buy myself something
Mary...thank you for posting the GKTW video. Can't wait to wait it. I also need to go over the meds on airplane better too.
Hope you have a wonderful day!!!
On another note, can anyone recomend a "fun" restaurant at US or IOA?
and if so, do I need ADR's for there? I just thought I would try and line up places to eat there (instead of winging it) if they have someplace fun.
Supposed to go to a Make a Wish fundraiser on Sunday, if we feel better
Nicky and I both have pretty bad colds, and Nicky has some kind of rash that the doctores think is an allergic reaction, but I don't know what to
All I can do is give him Benedryl.
On my iPhone.... But if u guys want something from GKTW PM me and I can get it and ship cheaper. Also... If u r a past wish family, u may get free shipping... Check your bunny book. Or u can call GKTW and they may be able to help with that. I love my GKTW magnet!
I didn't see those at the front desk so it may be somethign you have to ask for. Its too bad because I was really looking for something to bring home from GKTW. I would have loved to have had a car magnet.
I hope you guys are feeling better soon. Poor Nickey with teh reaction. I find Benedryl works pretty well. You may want to ask the dr about whether you can give more than the dose stated on the meds. Its often based on age but if Nicky's weight warrants it, they may up the dose and it may work better for him.
We made ADR at Mythos in IOA. I wouldn't necessarily call it 'fun' since there's no characters or antying but it was really cool inside. I was really glad I made them. Did it there because figured between Harry Potter and Seussland, we'd still be in that area around noon. They also handled Sydney peanut allergy really well.
Check you PMs!
The directions fromt he airport were good but I don't recall receiving that much to get to and from other areas aside from a very small map. We brought our GPS and relied on it a lot. I'm not sure how much they are to rent but it may be worth your while. At the very least I'd get an official Orlando/ Kissimee city map to follow.
Gotta say, we were really disappointed in 1900 Park Fare. We had done BBB that morning and CRT for lunch and then 1900 Park Fare for dinner. Despite noting that it was DD's wish trip, and having a 5pm ADR, we were seated way in the back far from everyting. The character barely stopped. Anastasia was wonderful and even helped DS2 put his sandles back on so he could get up for a picture with her 'mom' but I was disappointed in the time spent. They really seemed rushed. we had done the breakfast a few years ago and I said I wouldn't go back for the same reason but thought we'd try the Cinderella meal because I had heard such great things. We ended up in the same seats as the first meal there so that may have had something to do with it. We were so far from Cinderella dancing that the kids didn't even see it which was really too bad. The final price was actually the same as CRT except at CRT, the picture was free. We wanted the pic so made for that too which raised the price actually higher than CRT which shocked me. We had a great experience at CRT and that was a surprise really. They took all the time in the world with the kids and especially Sydney. They were wonderful. Just thought I'd throw in another experience so you don't get your hopes up too too much.
I'm still planningin on doing a Trip Report. I promise. Work has taken over and school is starting next week and both boys have bdays in September but I have two days done so I'll post once I get the pics downloaded.
I am almost done with my itenerary, so I will update my PTR.
One question though. We are renting a car and driving from GKTW to Disney. But we will be doing some park hopping on a couple days. For example, we have breakfast reservations at Chef Mickey (contemporary) and then we plan to spend the day at MK. And then on another day, we will start the day at Animal Kingdom and end at Epcot.
For the Chef Mickey day, should we park our car and MK and take the monorail to the Contemporary and then back to MK after breakfast?
What about on the AK/Epcot day. I don't know if technically we are supposed to use their bus system (since we are not staying on property), but the last time we went, we took the monorail to the Luau for dinner, and were surprised that when the luau was over, the monorail was closed for the night, so we had to take a bus from the luau to the transportation center, and then wait for another bus to get us back to our hotel (in the pouring rain)and it took forever.
I am rambling on, but the point is that I don't want to drive my car from park to park, but I don't want to get stranded with my car on the other side of the world either.
Where would you get an official Orlando/Kissimee map? We won't have a GPS so I thought of just printing some maps from on-line. Should we get an official map?
Along the lines of Jen-y's ?... I'm starting to over analyze parking/driving! On Friday of our trip we were thinking of possibly hopping from Epcot to MK, BUT we are playing by ear so we may just end up at Epcot all day (note: we are going to MK for a full day earlier in the week). We have never been to Disney so we want to see what the kids like. Where do I park for that day?
I know I'm overthinking this, but I don't know how far Epcot is from MK, etc. Should we just park at TTC incase we hop to MK, or park at Epcot then drive to TTC IF we decide to hop.
Thanks for you help.
The dinner will definitely last past 8pm I would think. CRT breakfast is about an hour from teh time you check in, take pictures and get food. Now, if there are no pcitures at dinner (which I'm not sure), that'll make things a bit faster but you could eat slower. The thing is too though that it starts at 8pm at the front of main street. It will be going slowing down mainstreet and once you start to see it, I figure it lasts a good 20min or more. So, will you STILL be inside to see the whole parade... I doubt it. The other issue is seating... hence the need for fairy dust I asked for seating near the window or at the very least in the main room. They did their best and we were in the main room but we were on the complete opposite side of the windows. It could have been night out and we wouldn't have known it. Have you tried to change your time? I spoke with someone at MK that got a walk up to CRT for lunch one day in mid August 
Anything can happen!
