Our 2nd Anniversary Disneymoon - Aug. 30 to Sept. 6! *We're home! 9/7*

[DisneymoonJess07]

I like having plans. That way, I know exactly what I'm deviating from!

Do you have your LGMH??

 

[nu2wdisneyw]

Yes I do...if you go back and view my PTR you will see that I raided the paint dept. at HD!!

 

[Mickey_Dust]

I love your Pre-Trip Report! I hope you post pictures of your book, it sounds like you have it all planned down to the minute. Looking forward for more.

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Yes I do...if you go back and view my PTR you will see that I raided the paint dept. at HD!!

I went and looked - you're right! I felt bad yoinking just a couple, but I love what you did with them!!!

I love your Pre-Trip Report! I hope you post pictures of your book, it sounds like you have it all planned down to the minute. Looking forward for more.

As soon as I finish and maybe make it look a little more pretty (although, I'm using Walt Disney font so that part is actually quite cute!) I will print it here at work and post it. I've really enjoyed making it so far, so I'm excited to have it. It's also been a great project to help me think more concretely about the trip.

So, I asked this in a different thread, but I thought I would ask here as well... what are people's opinions about lanyards? I am thinking of getting cheap ones at our local Office Depot so that I won't feel too bad if we don't use them...or do I find ones that might be souvenirs from some place like eBay? Thoughts?

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

In other news - I decided that I can't deal with having to run from Chef Mickey's to Spectro - I'm having visions of having to run to Spectro and then missing it, or Chef Mickey's being slow since we have special meals.

Anyway. I got Chef Mickey's for lunch on the 3rd (our sleep in day) and then changed the Monday dinner to the Plaza for 6:30, I think. I need to run this by Raif but I think it makes total sense. I also need to call Disney Dining and get kosher meals added and cancel Chef Mickey's for Monday, but I will do that on lunch on Thursday, when my officemate is back so I can get her to answer phones while I'm playing with Dining. Fun stuff!

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

You're plans all sound good, seems like you have plenty of time to do everything you want with out getting overwhelmed or burnt out!

 

[challer]

In other news - I decided that I can't deal with having to run from Chef Mickey's to Spectro - I'm having visions of having to run to Spectro and then missing it, or Chef Mickey's being slow since we have special meals.

Anyway. I got Chef Mickey's for lunch on the 3rd (our sleep in day) and then changed the Monday dinner to the Plaza for 6:30, I think. I need to run this by Raif but I think it makes total sense. I also need to call Disney Dining and get kosher meals added and cancel Chef Mickey's for Monday, but I will do that on lunch on Thursday, when my officemate is back so I can get her to answer phones while I'm playing with Dining. Fun stuff!

Agreed - if you're at Chef Mickey's, don't ruin it by being stressed out by time constraints. IMHO, Spectromagic is worth skipping dinner altogether!

Last time I caught Spectro, I had jellybeans for dinner on the parade route.

Aside: don't you just need to let Dining know 24 hours in advance for your kosher meals?

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Agreed - if you're at Chef Mickey's, don't ruin it by being stressed out by time constraints. IMHO, Spectromagic is worth skipping dinner altogether!

Last time I caught Spectro, I had jellybeans for dinner on the parade route.

It's the only parade that I'm really interested in seeing - and it's the one I'm going to be nostalgic about. I remember it vividly from our trips when I was little.

Aside: don't you just need to let Dining know 24 hours in advance for your kosher meals?

According to the Disney website, yes, 24 hours in advance is enough. I'm not sure I'd want to mess with that! I'm figuring I'll get on to cancel Chef Mickey's and get the kosher stuff all at once.

 

[hhockman]

Great update Jess! It sounds like you're doing a really good job with touring plans. You are SO far ahead of me (but then your trip is 3 weeks earlier, so I'm okay, right?). Once All-Stars is over I've got three weeks before fall ball starts to work on Disney stuff.

I wouldn't take the chance of missing Spectro either. You did the right thing.

Can't wait to see pictures of the, uh, "booklet" (or book, as the case may be)!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Heather, you are totally okay! As long as you take advantage of that break you have, I think you are fine!!

I can't believe how close it's getting!!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Double Post and a little bump.

I've been thinking about doing a countdown calendar, but I'm trying to decide what interval to do. I suppose 30 days seems to be the most common one I see around here - and then I'd have to figure out what kind of chart I'd like to do. I'm thinking about getting more mickey paint swatches, but we'll have to see about that one. They were pretty darn cool though. Also, I want to plan some days of Disney as well. We have a bunch of Disney movies on their way through Netflix - we watched Transformers last night, which was the last of the non-Disney stuff before the Disney ones. I need to check the list to make sure it's ones I actually want to see again I'm open to suggestions about other Disney-themed things we could do!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Just went to the touringplans website - and our week has suddenly jumped to 10s for the whole week. BLACH! It seems really random to me, especially looking around on Dis at the weekly thread an whatever - not that many people seem to be going for our week.

Or maybe the rest of the Disers are just smarter than us and not going that week - oy.

Thoughts?

 

[trinaweena]

Hey hun! Long time no talk, I haven't even had a chance to log back in since we got back from our trip a few weeks ago!

Looks like yours is getting close you must be excited! I wouldn't worry too much about it jumping up to a 10. It was supposed to be really busy when we were there but I have to say the crowds were not bad at all! Hopefully I'll be starting a trip report very soon!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Hi Trina! Thanks for coming by!!

Anyway, I checked again today, and it's back to 5 and 7, which is fine. We'll figure it out, etiher way!

In more exciting news, I got our luggage tags! YAY!!! We're really, really going!!!

I've also bought our blank shirts, got the transfer paper, and know which Disigns I want to use - the shirts are going in the laundry this weekend so I can start working on them hopefully on Sunday. So that's exciting as well.

Other than that - same old same old! Thank goodness! I've had enough excitement for a while!!

 

[challer]

OK, now I'm jealous.

Get excited.

 

[hhockman]

Hey Jess, sorry I've been MIA. Just crazy busy. Now that all the summer stuff is over and school starts back next week we can get back into a routine and I think I'll have more time to DIS...which I NEED because we're down to like 54 days or something.

And YOU'RE down to 34 days!!! That's crazy. I'm so excited for you. The luggage tag package is the best.

I haven't even looked to see how busy it's supposed to be while we're there...mostly because I haven't bought the Unofficial Guide yet and I don't want to pay for a subscription when I know I will buy it.

Anyway, my isn't thrilled apparently that I'm up at 3:30am, so I guess I'd better get to sleep. Looking forward to your next installment.

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Hi Heather! No worries about being MIA - I know how life gets in the way!

I can't believe how close we're getting. I need to decide how I want to do my 30 day countdown!

We washed the shirts for the transfers yesterday, so hopefully I can continue working on that one. The problem is that the yellow shirt, the one that was going to have tinkerbell on it, got some blue stuff from one of the stupid washer/dryers in our apartment building. It's happened before to some other thing we had in there once, and it is lame. I have to figure out how to get that out, although luckily it is on the back and not hugely noticeable. Any suggestions are welcome.

Otherwise, chugging along and dreaming of Disney!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

I have transfers!!!

I printed them a few nights ago and they look awesome! The only problem is that I am missing the second disign that I was going to use for one of DHs shirts. Which is important when there are only two that he wanted to do anyway, but one of the ones he wanted wouldn't print correctly So that's something I am still working on. But the rest of them look great. I am hoping to get that done maybe Saturday night or Sunday.

Other than that, there really hasn't been a lot of planning going on. In my office, I have a big boss and two intermediate people that I assist. One of the intermediate people is new and arrived at the beginning of July, and the new big boss is starting on Monday, so he has been here training all week, which has been crazy. I also just got word that there is a possibility that my other intermediate boss is leaving. She is burnt out and hates her bosses so I can understand why she would want to leave. It'll be tough, and I'm sure there'll be an extensive search committee to replace her. It's made for a stressful week though - I keep coming home and taking like a half hour nap before I'm even awake for dinner or anything. So, I am looking forward to the weekend, but I think this next week (big boss' first week) is going to be just as stressful.

 

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Ooo I can't wait to see pics of your shirts!! I'm sorry about your stressful week, I hope it gets better for you!!

 

[DisneymoonJess07]

Thanks!!!

It's exciting!!

I am at 30 days!!! I am going to put up a countdown for that hopefully on Saturday - too much going on right now! But we're getting so close!!!!!! Totally crazy.

Otherwise, I am really, really looking forward to having some down time!!