My very first PTR - Can you hear the music? ~ We're off tomorrow & it's MAYHEM here!

[MinnieNurse]

How was AsSp? DS really wants to try it and ASM one day. We plan to try one then alwasy change our mind. Maybe next time.

I must find the Fire Cheif. I didnt even know they had one.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Cute pictures

 

[lisalonglash]

Love the new pics!!!

Thanks!

Yes we reaaly lucked out with the tickets a bit of Pixie Dust for us!

Thanks I'll look for it!

That's great! I'll send it right after I post this

Joining in! Just found your PTR and read through! I am considering writing my first PTR but wanted to see others first!

Thank you and I know how you feel - it's hard to start one! So far, so good though - I'm having fun

Its her Dad's cabin. I will have to ask. I know its better not to visit in the winter where ever it is, cause she said the pipes freeze up in the winter. I have a terrible memory, not sure where, but I am going to ask her.

It's probably in Ontario and not BC then

How was AsSp? DS really wants to try it and ASM one day. We plan to try one then alwasy change our mind. Maybe next time.

We really enjoyed it! Very clean and friendly

I must find the Fire Cheif. I didnt even know they had one.

I didn't either, but we were just walking down Main Street and there he was!

Cute pictures

Thank you!

 

[lisalonglash]

This picture always (and I mean always) makes me giggle - every single time LOL!

Tigger, the Grinch, Mickey and Grumpy last year at US/IOA:

 

[inkedupmomma]

First off, GREAT pics! Love that last one with the grinch! almost makes me wanna try US/IOA! Now I am going to put the days we may be in the same places based on our preliminary, pre-knowing sept. hours plans!

OK, I've finished last week's HS reporting, so I thought I should share our tentative plans for our vacation. I can't wait to finalize our ADRs for our awesome TA - yay!!!

Here's what I have (of course, this could all change when the park hours come out LOL):

Day 1
~ Arrive at MCO at about 9:30am
~ Take ME to ASMu - I'm estimating we'll be at ASMu by about 10:30am
~ Check in (although I'm sure our room won't be ready yet) and drop everything off at Bell Services
~ Take our first WDW bus of the vacation to DTD for lunch and shopping
~ Return to ASMu mid-afternoon to get settled into our room, go for a swim, have dinner at ASMu and enjoy the pool activities/movie
We may just catch each other at DTD.. maybe!

Day 2
~ Tusker House character breakfast (8:05am)
~ Ride Safari
~ Hit our must-do rides (Everest, Kali, Dinosaur, Lion King (haven't seen that yet, looking forward to it) and Whirl)
~ Flame Tree for late lunch (hmmmm ... can almost taste those ribs!)
~ Do the rides/see the stuff we haven't done yet or want to do again
~ ASMu for dinner, pool time and movie

Day 3
~ Hit Epcot for rope drop
~ Ride Test Track then get a FP to ride again!
~ Hit our must-do ride (M:S (for dh and the boys, NOT me lol) and ride those we missed last time (Crush, Spaceship Earth, Universe of Energy (ds#1 will LOVE that one, guaranteed!)
~ Early lunch at Boulangerie Patisserie (ahhh, French food, LOVE IT!)
~ Wander around WS and take the time to enjoy each pavilion
~ Biergarten for dinner (6:00pm)
~ Back to ASMu for pool/movie

Day 4
~ Crystal Palace for breakfast (8:05am)
~ Hit our must-do rides (BTMRR, Splash, Buzz, HM, PotC & Tomorrowland Speedway) and get to those we missed last time (Country Bear, TTA)
~ Have a late lunch/early dinner at Columbia Harbour House (dh's request)

Day 5
~ Open day
~ Late breakfast/early lunch at ASMu
~ Hang out at resort, go to DTD, visit Animal Kingdom Lodge
~ Dinner at Boma (5:00pm)

Day 6
~ Hit MK for rope drop
~ Do whatever we missed on Day 4 or want to do again
~ Have an early lunch at Cosmic Ray's (chicken/ribs plate, anyone? lol)
~ Back to ASMu for dinner and pool/movie
You may run into Sophia!

Day 7
~ Hit DHS for rope drop
~ Hit our must-do rides (Star Tours, RnRC & ToT (again, for my men, NOT me lol) and TSM) and get to those we missed last time (Jedi show, Muppets, Great Movie Ride)
~ Late breakfast/early lunch at some counter service
~ Dinner at Sci-Fi (6:00pm), dh's request
~ Back to hotel

Day 8
~ Epcot for rope drop
~ Early lunch somewhere in WS (probably Boulangerie Patisserie)
~ Hit everything we missed on day 3 or want to do again - I'm doin' TT
~ Dinner at Chefs de France (6:00pm) because I love my dh (oh, and I love French food as much as he does! lol)
~ Back to hotel
I think we have this day togther!

Day 9 - last day...
~ Breakfast at Chef Mickey's (9:00am)
~ Check out of hotel, store bags at Bell Services
~ Go to DTD and get Goofy treats to take home

So, input? Advice? Whatever?

Boy, i thought we had more days together

 

[WDWRocksMySocks]

We love Universal, too! The RotM is one of our favorite rides -- period. So fun! We haven't been since December 2007, and it was so dead. We had our own car for most rides. It was a blast!

Oh, and I absolutely adore that picture w/ your boys, DH and the Grinch. His reaction is hilarious!

 

[lisalonglash]

First off, GREAT pics! Love that last one with the grinch! almost makes me wanna try US/IOA! Now I am going to put the days we may be in the same places based on our preliminary, pre-knowing sept. hours plans!

You should try it - so much fun! Oh man, that grinch was sooooo funny!

Boy, i thought we had more days together

I'm not worried yet - this could seriously all change when the hours come out kwim?

We love Universal, too! The RotM is one of our favorite rides -- period. So fun! We haven't been since December 2007, and it was so dead. We had our own car for most rides. It was a blast!

It took me a while to figure out what RotM is - I don't "do" motion simulators, so that one was a no-go for me, but dh and our boys it! Seriously, my boys are insane - ds#1's favourite ride at US/IOA was the Hulk Coaster (my dh's favourite too) and ds#2's favourite ride there was Jurassic Park!

Oh, and I absolutely adore that picture w/ your boys, DH and the Grinch. His reaction is hilarious!

Isn't that one the best?! It really makes me giggle (ds#1, not so much giggling though LOL).

 

[Diamondintheruff]

Hey there!

Popped over as soon as I realized you were doing a Pre-Trippie. Now I get to learn all about you and your family.

I use Christine at Fairytale destinations too. Well, once I didn't. I thought I could work my own way around the discounts by sticking with CAA and using their discount. I found out later there were some other discount codes available and I know she could have easily found me one so in the end I was sorry I didn't go through her. I've learnt my lesson.

I think you've put a lot of thought into your itinerary. I like that you have a rest arrival day (expecially due to your funky flight times). It sounds like your plans are realistic and doable.

Looking forward to hearing all about your trip and the lead up to it. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through you. Do me one favor okay? Be sure to include a melt down or two for me. Even if it's a description of the family beside you. Oh yeah, and another thing (boy I'm getting a little demanding here aren't I?) warnings before any major castle sightings are good too. Gives me time to get my kleenex on hand.

Hope you had a good Victoria Day Weekend!

 

[lisalonglash]

Hey there!

Popped over as soon as I realized you were doing a Pre-Trippie. Now I get to learn all about you and your family.

Hi Diamond!

I use Christine at Fairytale destinations too. Well, once I didn't. I thought I could work my own way around the discounts by sticking with CAA and using their discount. I found out later there were some other discount codes available and I know she could have easily found me one so in the end I was sorry I didn't go through her. I've learnt my lesson.

Oh yes, dh and I Christine and her agency - no way would we ever plan a Disney vacation without her. No way, no way, nuh huh

I think you've put a lot of thought into your itinerary. I like that you have a rest arrival day (expecially due to your funky flight times). It sounds like your plans are realistic and doable.

Thanks, I did put a lot of time into it (not sure about thought though ). Of course, the whole thing will probably change when the hours ever come out, but the arrival rest day will stay (that worked really well for us last trip).

Looking forward to hearing all about your trip and the lead up to it. Thanks for letting us live vicariously through you. Do me one favor okay? (1) Be sure to include a melt down or two for me. Even if it's a description of the family beside you. (2) Oh yeah, and another thing (boy I'm getting a little demanding here aren't I?) warnings before any major castle sightings are good too. Gives me time to get my kleenex on hand.

OK, here goes:
(1) Oh, I'll bet I can do that, no problem
(2) Yep

Hope you had a good Victoria Day Weekend!

Yes, we did thanks. I hope you and my other fellow canucks did too!

 

[lovemyblt]

Lisa I got my email thanks so much!!!! I have been playing around already!

 

[lisalonglash]

Lisa I got my email thanks so much!!!! I have been playing around already!

I'm glad you're having a good time with it, Cori! We need to have SOMETHING to do while we're waiting for hours, right?

 

[lovemyblt]

well I am holding out hope that the hours come soon!!! AUgust is all the way up sooo hopefully befroe the ADR window opens we will have ours!

 

[lisalonglash]

well I am holding out hope that the hours come soon!!! AUgust is all the way up sooo hopefully befroe the ADR window opens we will have ours!

I'm holding out hope right along with you! Oh, I put last year's September hours in the Excel sheet, so they'll probably change (but the planner in me needed to put SOMETHING )

 

[Diamondintheruff]

I actually liked the 180 day ADR thing. I miss it. I guess I will get used to the 90 day timing.

 

[MinnieNurse]

I really want to try US/IOA. I gave DS a choice this trip between that and a water park. He wanted to try a water park. Maybe next time we can do US/IOA.

 

[lisalonglash]

I actually liked the 180 day ADR thing. I miss it. I guess I will get used to the 90 day timing.

We only had one ADR last time, so honestly I don't know what I'm missing

I really want to try US/IOA. I gave DS a choice this trip between that and a water park. He wanted to try a water park. Maybe next time we can do US/IOA.

It really was a lot of fun - more of a thrill ride park iykwim? We can't wait until Harry Potter opens though - we'll have to take a trip just for that, no doubt

 

[MinnieNurse]

Can you get transportation from MCO to Universal? We do not like to get a rental car and try to find where we are going, thats why we love Disney we just hop on the bus and like magic we get there.

 

[lisalonglash]

Can you get transportation from MCO to Universal? We do not like to get a rental car and try to find where we are going, thats why we love Disney we just hop on the bus and like magic we get there.

I think that Mears has some sort of WDW-US bus service, but it's cheaper to just rent a car, really

 

[lisalonglash]

So, I've been working really hard at home today Well, maybe not

After my boys and I thoroughly checked out our new Rosetta Stone French program (which is awesome!), I set them up with some math to do and told them I had some work to do on the computer. Well, between you and me, not so much work to do as "not work" to do

I went to the Disney website and printed off the available on-site restaurant menus (which are so cool!). They don't have that many menus available, but those they do have look just like the actual restaurant menus Here's the website:
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/restaurants/

Then I filed them in my lime green "no, honey, it's not my Disney binder, it's just a binder that I put stuff in sometimes" binder in the restaurant menu section Nope, no planning for me

I also went to the Atlanta airport site to print off the airport information. Dh is just a teeny bit antsy about flying into and out of ATL, due to it's massive size and the horror stories others have been so kind as to share with him True, the airport has 6 concourses and we don't have a clue which gate/concourse our flight will arrive from and depart from - but hey, life's an adventure (and I now have maps!)

Personally, I'm looking forward to hearing that Southern accent again! Hmmmm.... we'll be landing at 5:54am and departing (for MCO!!!) at 7:55am - so I'm thinking I could get some grits and relive a tiny portion of the "Thelma & Louse" trip my best friend and I took many moons ago (you know, way fun but without the violence and driving off a cliff thing). Ooooh, maybe they'll have pralines there! I'm going to make use of that two hour layover

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

Yay for the update!

Don't ya love the Disney binder?