Our *R&R* TR 7/31 - 8/6 Wilderness Lodge We Are Home! Update Page 6

[TinyDancer]

Gearing up for this week.. Hoping it FLIES by. DC have Bible School Mon - Fri. I have Zumba Mon, Tue, Thurs, Sat. I have one baby shower and one birthday party to attend. So hurry up last week of June & be over already!! Once July 1 hits... the 20-ish days countdown until I see DH is ON!!!!

I do have some plans for when he arrives. The kids & I are wearing red, white & blue..and picking him up from the airport. We'll spend the night in Charleston, then drive home the next day to his parents' house.
We'll be having a surprise Welcome Home BBQ for him!

I'm not sure exactly what day this will be yet... but hoping around 27th of July.. Then we'll have a few days of rest, so DH can hang out & relax for a few days before we are off to Disney!!!

 

[TinyDancer]

It's been a long time since I've updated! We survived the week of VBS, and thankfully we have yet another busy week ahead.
I have our two days at MK mapped out. Here's the plan..please someone tell me if you think this is too much for two days!

Arrive at MK for rope drop, head straight to Fantasyland. Ride Dumbo, Pooh, Peter Pan, IASW. High tail it over to Toon Town, do the Hall of Fame, Barnstormer, Mickey & Minnie's houses.. back to Fantasyland for

Carousel, Mad Tea Party.. Now.. we have lunch ADR's at WCC for 11:45. What time do we need to leave MK to get there on time???

Continuing.. Lunch at WCC, nap in the room, back to MK. Back to Fantasyland, Snow White's Scary Adventures (?), Mickey's Philharmagic.. then head to Tomorrowland... to see

Buzz Lightyear, Monster's Inc, Stitch's Great Escape, Speedway Transit Authority.

This is day 1 of MK. Is it too much? Not enough? I would really appreciate some input.
My plan is to continue day 2 of MK with the other side of the World...
Frontierland, Liberty Square, Adventureland..

 

[TinyDancer]

I just saw that the Transit Authority is closed, so scratch that from the list!

 

[jeffiner1978]

I'm right there with you on planning by myself. Hubby doesn't care where we eat, sleep or anything else for that matter. Thank god for this board.

 

[jeffiner1978]

Love the box for your hubby.

 

[TinyDancer]

I'm right there with you on planning by myself. Hubby doesn't care where we eat, sleep or anything else for that matter. Thank god for this board.

Gotta love it though right! It's kind of fun to be able to make all the decisions with no input from anyone else

 

[TinyDancer]

Happy Fourth of July!!! 3 weeks until R&R!!!

 

[TinyDancer]

We are now in the 2 week R&R range. WOW!!

Here is a quick rundown of our itinerary

Day 1
Downtown Disney, Dinner at TRex

Day 2
HS
Toy Story Mania, The Little Mermaid, Playhouse Disney, Lights, Motor, Action, Muppets, The Great Movie Ride, Parade, Theatre of the Stars..
Lunch at Toy Story Pizza Planet

Day 3
Magic Kingdom
RUN to FantasyLand - Dumbo, Pooh, Peter Pan, IASW
ToonTown - Hall of Fame, Barnstormer, Mickey & Minnie's
Fantasyland - Carousel, Mad Hatter's Tea Party, Lunch at WCC
nap / pool
Fantasyland - Snow White's Scary Adventures, Mickey's Philharmagic,
TomorrowLand - buzz, Monster's Inc, Stitch, Carousel of Progress

Day 4
Animal Kingdom
Breakfast with Donald at Tusker House
Kilimanjaro Safaris, Pangini Forest Trail, Flights of Wonder, Kali River Rapids, Mahara Jungle Trek, Dinosaur, Finding Nemo, Triceratop Spin, The Boneyard
Dinner at Flame tree BBQ

Day 5
Magic Kingdom
Frontierland - Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Railroad Mountain, Country Bear Jamboree
Liberty Square - The Haunted Mansion, Liberty Belle Riverboat
Adventureland - Pirates of the Caribbean, Magic Carpets of Aladdin, Swiss Family Treehouse, Enchanted Tiki Room, Jungle Cruse
Dinner at Tony's Town Square
Wishes Fireworks

Day 6
Epcot
Soarin', The Seas, Spacehsip Earth, The Land, Living with the Land, Circle of Life, Test Track
World Showcase.. Maelstrom..
Dinner at Coral Reef

Day 7
Breakfast with Lilo & Stitch

 

[TinyDancer]

TWO weeks until WDW!!!!!!!

 

[Raecheal]

Congrats on being at 2 weeks away!! Are you getting excited? I love Your daily plans... I think Day 4 and Day 5 are my favs!!!

 

[TinyDancer]

Thank you!

YES, VERY excited!! We are at the one week mark, and only four days until we actually LEAVE for FL!!!


Not to mention... I picked up my dh from the airport yesterday morning! First time I had seen him in nearly 7 months!!!

 

[TinyDancer]

We are AT Disney RIGHT now!!!!

 

[TinyDancer]

Here is our first family pic after I picked my dh up from the airport!! The kids & I were SO glad to see him!!

We were all anxious to get our vacation started, so we left the following day, drove to Gatlinburg where we spent a couple of days, then on to Panama City Beach..

Finally, after 4 hotels in less than a week it's time for us to actually GO to Disney!! I had to make a few changes to our itinerary...we are going to Epcot on our first day, and I had to cancel our Lilo & Stitch breakfast so we can drive home.

Anyway... do you want to see some pics of our first day at Epcot?

 

[TinyDancer]

Our first time to WDW!

We bought our tickets the night before at SoG, so after activating them (and adding the water park feature to my ds' ticket) we are ready to go.. we get in line at the gate about 8:30am. Both dc need to go potty, so off we run to the restroom, back in line & the gate is OPEN! Off we go! My dh is wondering why in the world all of these people are running?

My plan is to RUN (well walk as quickly as we can) to Soarin'. I guess that was the plan of about half of the other people there too! It was like a stampede! We get there pretty quickly, get in line, dh & ds go first while I take the rider switch pass & sit with dd. We wait for maybe 20 minutes before we see them exiting the ride. Ds & I get quickly back in line..and he starts to cry. It scared him so bad he wouldn't ride again. So.. we walked straight through to the exit. The ONLY ride I was SUPER excited about.. and I didn't get to ride. I DID get a FP to come back at 12:30 so that was good!
We rode Living with the Land & then went to The Seas before our 11:55 lunch ADR's at Coral Reef.

DD isn't too sure about that boat ride!

Up next.. Coral Reef & our trip around the World!

 

[TinyDancer]

We had lunch ADR's at Coral Reef! This place is SO cool!

DH had catfish

I had Mahi Mahi (which was wonderful!)

The kids shared the salmon meal

Sadly, these are the only food pics I have so far. I keep forgetting to take pics before we eat!

After lunch, dh takes the kids & I go use my FP for Soarin'! LOVE this ride!! I find dh & the kids cooling off..

We decide to walk around the World Showcase then head back to the hotel. Everyone is tired, hot, and we want to go to the WL to check in.

And we are off to WL!

 

[TinyDancer]

View from our balcony on the 5th floor

Tomorrow... shopping for the girls, Blizzard Beach for the boys, Downtown Disney and TRex for ALL!!

 

[Disneychix]

Your family is so cute! You all looked so nice in the matching outfits! That room in the WL is great! Nice view!

Have fun!

 

[TinyDancer]

Day 2 ~ DH & DS went to Blizzard Beach, so DD & I went to the outlets! It was way too hot for me to be in the mood to shop for fall clothes, so we weren't there for long. We went back to the room, had a very light lunch & got ready for Downtown Disney!
We decided to take the bus instead of driving our own vehicle. The kids loved that!

We walked around DD and went to the Disney Store. I love that place!! It was really crowded though. Then we went to TRex! SO cool!!

They seated us in the ice cave!

Sorry no food pics this time. I had the chicken salad sandwich and it was DELICIOUS.

We left after we ate & went back to the hotel for a swim!

 

[TinyDancer]

Day 3 ~ Hollywood Studios!! I LOVE this place! We made it to the park about 8:45, just in time for rope drop! My DH is wondering why all of these crazy people are running?! We walked very quickley to Toy Story Mania. DS is a little scared, since the day before he rode Soarin' and was terrified.
We stood in line for maybe 15 minutes and finally get up there, Zaylor sees what ride looks like & decides it might be ok. He rode with me, Briar rode with DH. We ALL loved it!! SO much fun we got a FP when we got off the ride!
Guess who we saw after we rode TSM?!

No way!! These guys are so cool! AND funny!!

Here is Briar riding around in the stroller..

Next we went to The Little Mermaid.. this show was SO wonderful. I LOVEd how it looked like we were underwater!! We went straight to PlayHouse Disney after The Little Mermaid. That was a lot of fun for the kids, and nice & cool.
After lunch at Toy Story Pizza Planet (the pizza was pretty good!) we saw the Muppets 3D show, then we met these guys!

My DS is pretty obsessed with Cars... and especially Lightning McQueen... but Lightning was revving his engine just a little too loud so DS wanted to stand by Mater!

Soon it was time to use our FPs for TSM, so back we went. After riding again, we got to meet...

Our very first characters...

My family pics are on the photopass cd.. I can't post those just yet!

Zaylor was really nervous to meet them. He thought Buzz was just the coolest!! His first autographs at WDW at from Woody & Buzz Lightyear.

 

[KELLY]

Love the pics of WL. We stayed there right before I got pregnant the 1st time.