May 2011 PTR - First Drive, One Year Old = Magic!

[DisneyWorldPlanner]

Hello All you Disney Fanatics! I have finally found a place where I feel completely at home, Love these Dis Boards! Thanks in advance to all those out there who have posted AWESOME tips. My favorites are list of what everyone brings in the park and I LOVE trip reports with many photos! So Fun!

I have so enjoyed reading trip reports I thought I should start my first Pre-Trip Report, and hopefully someone out there will enjoy it!!

My Family Consist of:
Josh – My sweet wonderful Disney loving husband!
Amber – My crazy Disney obsessed self. I will be 25 weeks pregnant when we venture to Disney this trip… Oh Boy!
Austin – Our sweet handsome One year old son! This will be his first trip to Disney! Start ‘em Young!!!

Family Picture on Vacation Last Summer to Michigan.

19 weeks Preg #2!

Sweet lil' guy Austin!

We will be driving to Disney this year. This will be our first time Driving! Lord Help Us!!! The trip should be anywhere from 16-18 hours just depending on traffic, stops, food… and anything else that may slow us down. We will be leaving our home in Indiana at 8 p.m. and plan to arrive in Lake Buena Vista, FL the following day at around 11:30 a.m.
Our stay will be at the Lovely Caribbean Beach from May 8-16! Thanks to a Disney Pin I received we have the DDP included for Free! Yipeee. If we wouldn’t have gotten the Pin I wouldn’t have done the DDP this year. I find it can be a little constrictive and with a 1 year old I want to be as flexible as possible.

More to come!

 

[mrssmith06]

I'm here, can't wait to hear all about your plans! Austin is so cute!!!

 

[pinkxray]

I'm joining in.

Austin is so adorable! Congrats on the pregnancy

I can't wait to hear all about your plans. Looks like it should be an interesting trip.

 

[sahm2two]

I'm here too, going a couple weeks after you, looking forward to hearing your plans

 

[DisneyWorldPlanner]

Okay,
Sorry I have been way behind on this but here is what we have so far:

I used http://touringplans.com/walt-disney-world/crowd-calendar to view the Disney crowed Calendar for our trip duration to help assign each day a park and corresponding food reservations. This time around we didn’t get a park hopper so I had to be very aware of where our Dinner Reservations were to ensure I didn’t put us in two parks on one day.
Today I had my Dr Appt which confirmed Austin would be welcoming a little sister home in August. I will be buying some Disney Girl Outfits while in Disney!!! Yeah!!!

Took the Van to get checked out and only needed an Oil Change! Can Check vehicle off my list!

Friday, May 6 – Depart from Indiana at 8p.m. (Austin normally goes to bed between 730 and 800 so this should be just right! If by chance he was acting tired earlier we will just bump up the depart time).

Saturday, May 7 – Arrive at Holiday Inn Downtown Disney Area around Noon. We got this one on Priceline for about 50.00. We didn’t want to “waste” a day at Disney with my husband being so tired from the drive so this is our Recoup Hotel. Daddy and Austin will most likely take a nap in the room while Mommy goes to the outlets! Yes!!! I made sure to pack 1 bag with just the clothes we would need while at this hotel so DH wouldn’t have to bring in everything. We will probably go to Bahama Breeze which will be down the road for dinner. We LOVE that place!

Sunday, May 8 – Check out of Holiday Inn by 11 and head over to Caribbean Resort! I already checked in online so hoping this will be a quick process. I will be spending the first initial time unpacking and having DH take our empty suitcases out of the room so we aren’t tripping over them. Then I have a feeling the boys will be napping again.
*6:35 p.m. Captains Grill

Monday, May 9 – Magic Kingdom! Austin will be getting his First Hair Cut at the Barber shop at 12:30p.m. Called and made reservations just the other day! Can’t Wait!
*No Dinner reservations tonight just going with the flow!

Tuesday, May 10 – Probably Animal Kingdom or if it is extremely warm this day we may just have a nice resort day!
*No Dinner reservations tonight just going with the flow!

Wednesday, May 11 – Not sure on the park but we will eating at 5:15 p.m. Cape May Café.

Thursday, May 12 – Epcot and eating at 11:45 a.m. Coral Reef!

Friday May 13 – Not sure on the park. 5:15 p.m. Spirit of Aloha!

Saturday, May 14 – Hollywood studios. 12:25 p.m. 50’s primetime café! 8:00p.m. Ohana!

Sunday, May 15 – Epcot! 6:40p.m. Chef de France!

Monday, May 16 – Check out Caribbean, Check into Animal Kingdom. I rented points for just one night so we could see if we liked it for our possible November Trip.

Then Home we come!

 

[Villainess]

Joining in and congrats on your princess-to-be!!!