so sorry ladies- had the flu for a week, then work has been super crazy busy.
So on 9/11, i was up early to make our ADRs. i planned to get up at like 5:45am CST, but DH was up at 5am to hit the gym, so i just got up. I was on the phone at 6am CST/7am EST. I was on hold for 25 minutes- yep, 25 minutes. at least speaker phone on my new iphone works well. and hey, who doesn't enjoy a little easy listneing music, disney style? after 25 minutes, i was helped by a wonderful CM.
i was able to make all our ADRs, but it took a solid 45 minutes or more! we are there for 10 days, so we had 10 sit down meals to make (for our free dining!). Plus, we are paying out of pocket for Hoop Dee Doo and booking BBB. So I had quite a few to make. And I started with the hardest to get ones-----Le Cellier was not available for the night we wanted (at least not at a decent time). So we moved it to another night. check one----Then i also booked BBB the best package for my niece and the 'cool dudes' hair thing for the boys.
I also booked a dinner at JIKO for my sister and her hubby- they are doing a special dinner separate (newlyweds!) one night. they will miss Sci Fi dine in for JIKO.
So I I had booked all the meals except JIKO and BBB- the CM was checking on BBB, apparently the day was not released in the system yet to let her book, so she was asking for help/support. I was on hold and got hung up/disconnected somehow. So i had to call back, this time I didn't wait on hold long and was able to get the final confirmation numbers from another CM.
So all the ressies are made! and yes, we do love to eat. all the great dining at WDW is a highlight for us and we do enjoy at least one sit down meal per day, to give everyone a break and get out of the heat/cold or rain. We usually are pretty smart about touring the park, using FP, EMH etc, so we typically don't have an issue with long lines or giving up time for a sit down meal once a day. I do fear we will get a bit tired of all the sit down eating and might end up cancelling one or two- we will see how it goes. it is difficult to seat a party of 14 and our DS is pretty tough to entertain and keep seated at mealtime right now (almost terrible twos). we will see.
Now my sister Wendy also made some of her own. She wants to take her daughter to a meal at the Castle, which I think is great- it will be a real treat for them. I've done the castle before and enjoyed it, but don't nee do it again right now (maybe if i have a girl one day!). - so she was able to book breakfast for them there. She also booked Trail's End Breakfast, 1900 Park Fare breakfast, Chef Mickey's breakfast and also a dinner at 1900 Park Fare for them (instead of Chef Mickey's on night one). Not everyone is doing all these extra out of pocket meals. We (DH and I)simply can't eat that many sit down meals with a 2yo that is antsy and won't sit still. Plus I hate to take away from my precious early morning-non-crowded park time. So we are passing on the extra breakfasts. I think they have a sit down breakfast literally everyday except for one. I am not a breakfast person anyhow- give me a granola bar and I am good! My mom does need to eat a good meal early for her medicine and to get her energy up- remember she just had major brain surgery a few months ago.
After making all these other ressies- they also decided since we couldn't get Le Cellier for our 'drink around the world' night like we wanted, that they would book Shula's steakhouse at the Dolphin instead that night. this was supposed to be a 'graduation celebration' dinner for my BIL for getting his Associates after going back to school while working FT. So now we also have a Shula's dinner.
So yeah- it is a LOT of meals. So we (my hubby and DS) are doing just the 10 free sit down meals, plus the Shula's dinner and the HDDR. so that is 12 sit down meals in 9 days. While we are there for 10 nights, we arrive about 8pm the first night and leave by 10am on the last day, so those two days don't really count.
My sister I think is doing the original 12 meals, plus 5 more meals on top of that.....so 17 sit down meals- ouch! I think one day, they haev a sit down breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am sure plans will change maybe later and some might be cancelled.
so here is everything else we got:
- Le Cellier dinner
- Chef Mickey's dinner (first night)---Wendy's family doing 1900 park fare dinner instead that night
- O'hana dinner (last night)
- Crystal Palace breakfast
- Norway Princess breakfast
- Sci Fi Dine Inn dinner (Mandy/Jeff doing JIKO instead)
- 50s Prime Time dinner
- Coral Reef lunch
- Whispering Canyon Cafe lunch
- Boma breakfast
- Hoop Dee Doo Revue (7:15, first tier seating, out of pocket)
- Shula's dinner (out of pocket)
- Trail's end breakfast-everyone but us (DH, DS and I)
- Chef Mickey's breakfast (sisters, parents and aunt doing this one)
- 1900 park fare breakfast- (everyone but us- DH, DS and I)
- Castle breakfast -(wendy's family, parents and aunt)
But for now we are all booked and ready to go in terms of ADRs. We got pretty good times for everything too. I'll post up our official itenerary day by day this week! so stayed tuned!!!!!!!
I can't wait to scrap this trip - even though, like you, with a 2yr old and full time job - where will I find time?!
I've got to re-do my dinner ADR for that day, since probably we'll just eat dessert for dinner. Why not? We're on vacation!! 
I don't actually plan to stick to such a strict itinerary, I just like writing it all out so I know approximately when we will be doing what, and how much time it should take.
you posted your ressie numbers on public boards. Be careful hun!
You're right. That's a definite red flag----I'm going to delete my quote just to make sure if the original post is modified, the ressie numbers don't hang around in my post.
