sept 2010 PTR- -- because this is how we roll to disney:)

[deslynnpatterson]

YAYAYAYAYAYAY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay:

SOOO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your plans sound great too!! Awesome you get a 2 am EMH at MK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We looooove Earl. I love the Caprese sandwich YUM!

thanks so much I cannot wait!!! I am very excited for the EMH till 2am!!! the way we love MK we might stay till 2am LOL

I looked up what the caprese was yesterday and it sounds so good i might have to try that during one of the two trips

 

[deslynnpatterson]

How exciting for you that you are getting two trips!!!!

I know!! I am so excited I cannot even believe this is al happening

 

[deslynnpatterson]

How exciting for you that you are getting two trips!!!!

I know! I cannot even believe this is all happening i cannot wait!!

 

[deslynnpatterson]

I am so excited for you. I hate that we are going to miss each other by 3 days though. The spur of the moment trips are the most fun because you don't spend all the time building them up in your head. I think that is why our 4th of July trip last year was so much fun.

i know Dana-- I am sad we are going to miss each other too so close to actually being able to met!!! maybe next year This is the first spur of the moment trip i have ever done-- and you are right i think this is why its so exciting-- do you think with the may crowds we should be able to do each park in one day? or the main attractions? If we get to the parks by like 9am? I am nervous about the may crowds compared to sept! But i am just going to go with it I think we are going to skip animal kingdom for the may trip and just go to MK twice! Since its a big park might take the most time to finish up and of course i have to say goodbye to the castle the last day-- but u can see-- see you in sept once i leave I am exctied about staying at SSR its all just such a thrill and feels like a dream

 

[deslynnpatterson]

I bet, I would love to go twice, of course I am going to disneyland so I guess that counts! We're doing the qsdp, it's what we would get with the free dinning plus we felt like we would waste too much time having to go and take a long dinner every night. It is an awesome deal! I'm so excited for you! Can't wait to hear all about it!

disneyland will be so exciting too you will have to tell me all about it! I am so excited for the Free Dinning-- we got the regular dinning since we are staying at CSR, but we are going to do the quick service plan when we go in 11 days!!! I have a lot of disney gift cards i am going to use toward the plan for my mom, brother and I i am excited to try it and it will be great since its a short trip -- and i will get the sit down meals in sept!

 

[deslynnpatterson]

so-- since all i have on my mind is my May trip-- i will put the Sept PTR on hold till i get back I have butterflies in my stomach i am so excited about going ! 9 days!!! Tomorrow my mom and I are going shopping I have a really good coupon for Express-- that i hope to use-- there are a few tank tops i would like to get for my trip sat i am going to get my suitcase out and start packing I have to try to go tanning most days this week so the florida sun does not fry me I have been tanning since April so i have a pretty good tan so i hope i will be okay! I am just hoping we can get a lot done in out short trip! I think we will be okay as long as we get to the parks when they open and get FPAsses----- i am really looking forward to what my brother thinks of everything since its been so long since he has been there. I know for sure that he will love soarin and i can't wait till he gets to go on it I am also really looking forward to the Flower and Garden festival and we get there just in time-- the last day-- of the festival we will be there!! I will be sure to post lots of pretty flowers pictures when i get back I hope that may is comparable to sept with crowds-- i am very scared of the crowds but i just have to think positive and we will get everything done we are fast walkers

well i am off to work out-- and sit outside for awhile its a very pretty evening in pittsburgh

 

[BabyEeyore]

Single digit countdown!! YAY!

 

[racefanof88]

Girl, I am so jealous. You are going to have so much fun . The May crowds are not bad, no worse than Sept. You will love the F and G festival. I hate that we are going to miss it. We saw it in 2008 and 2009 and it is so pretty. There won't be anything special going on when we are there, but it will still be Disney . I know you are going to love SSR. You will have to let me know how you like it because I really want to stay at a deluxe one day.

 

[deslynnpatterson]

Single digit countdown!! YAY!

i know!! I can't wait!!!

 

[deslynnpatterson]

Girl, I am so jealous. You are going to have so much fun . The May crowds are not bad, no worse than Sept. You will love the F and G festival. I hate that we are going to miss it. We saw it in 2008 and 2009 and it is so pretty. There won't be anything special going on when we are there, but it will still be Disney . I know you are going to love SSR. You will have to let me know how you like it because I really want to stay at a deluxe one day.

oh Dana I cannot wait!! I am so excited!!! I am glad crowds are kinda comparable to sept I am so excited I get to see the F and G Festival-- and on the very last day too!! We will just make it in time! I am excited about trying SSR out I will let you know all about it Have you ever looked into renting points? its the only way i think we will ever be able to stay deluxe with keep renting points LOL!! Now i am going to be addicted and want to keep going with renting points and try all the resorts I get to try CSR during my sept trip-- but next i want to try either animal kingdom or one of the monorail resorts Disney truely is my happy place!!!! I bet you are getting so excited too about your trip-- i am going to start packing today!! I week from today and i will be on my way to disney!!!

 

[deslynnpatterson]

i wanted to stop by o stay happy mothers day to all of you mommy's out there I on the other hand enjoyed the day wiht my fur babies LOL!! they made me a cup of coffee this morning It was a very good day-- i got to spend the evening with my family I got my mom a new white visor for out upcoming trip and a new iron-- she loved it-- oh and a strawberry pie from eat n park, and my dad ordered pizza-- so the diet was a little no existent today oops i will get back on track tomorrow-- this has to be a good week because I leave on sat and next week in disney will be eating bad! I got some stuff packed today!!! I did laundry so all my summer clothes that i am packing that sat in my dresser drawers for a year are all fresh I got a few new ****s for this trip-- but don't want to spend much extra on this trip-- the sept trip is when i will buy some more tops I did however have to get new shorts which i will wear on this trip! I am going to run to the mall on tuesday to see if i can find any other shirts-- and wed i have my first therapy session-- so its going to be a busy week! I have to make sure i get in my hour workout this week, pack, clean, and tan I am very excited!

Oh a update for our sept trip-- i got our customized maps in the mail yesterday I was very excited they are so colorful!!! Also did anyone see the new free disney dinning commerical? Its so cute i love it I am so greatful for free dinning in sept I am very greatful for both trips!!! I am just loving life right now

Well i hope everyone had a great weekend!!! I will be back tomorrow

 

[KatMark]

i wanted to stop by o stay happy mothers day to all of you mommy's out there I on the other hand enjoyed the day wiht my fur babies LOL!! they made me a cup of coffee this morning It was a very good day-- i got to spend the evening with my family I got my mom a new white visor for out upcoming trip and a new iron-- she loved it-- oh and a strawberry pie from eat n park, and my dad ordered pizza-- so the diet was a little no existent today oops i will get back on track tomorrow-- this has to be a good week because I leave on sat and next week in disney will be eating bad! I got some stuff packed today!!! I did laundry so all my summer clothes that i am packing that sat in my dresser drawers for a year are all fresh I got a few new ****s for this trip-- but don't want to spend much extra on this trip-- the sept trip is when i will buy some more tops I did however have to get new shorts which i will wear on this trip! I am going to run to the mall on tuesday to see if i can find any other shirts-- and wed i have my first therapy session-- so its going to be a busy week! I have to make sure i get in my hour workout this week, pack, clean, and tan I am very excited!

Oh a update for our sept trip-- i got our customized maps in the mail yesterday I was very excited they are so colorful!!! Also did anyone see the new free disney dinning commerical? Its so cute i love it I am so greatful for free dinning in sept I am very greatful for both trips!!! I am just loving life right now

Well i hope everyone had a great weekend!!! I will be back tomorrow

Glad your furbabies made you coffee. And thanks for your wishes. I can't believe your trip is so close.

 

[GinnyBear's_mom]

So jealous of your 2nd trip- and it is even better that you barely had to wait for it!!!

 

[racefanof88]

2 DAYS

2 MORE SLEEPS AND YOU WILL BE AT DISNEY WORLD .

 

[deslynnpatterson]

hello everyone!! I am back from my 5 day May trip!!! It was a wonderful trip with my mom and brother-- my brother has not been there since he was 12 and is now 26 and he loved it!! i am going to do a mini trip report in my sept PTR

Day1: May 15th: we left pittsburgh airport on a 3:17pm flight it was a very smooth flight to orlando. we flew airtran-- i love that they have free xm radio on flight-- except it woud figure that my seat was the seat without the working xm radio oh well-- i occupied myself by eating cherry licorice nibs and jelly belly jelly beans LOL!!. We landed in orlando on time-- and then went to get the MME-- which came pretty quickly i believe after we got our luggage and go on the bus it was around 6pm. I always enjoy the ride from the airport to the resort. We rented DVC points and stayed at SSR resort-- the lobby was beautiful!! we had a easy check in-- and added on our QS dinning plan-- we were put in congress park-- which was about a 10 min walk from the mail building-- and we carried our luggage the whole way-- SSR really is a beautiful resort!! the fountains and beautful and the view from downtown disney is wonderful at night-- and you can take a ferry to DTD, bus or walk. The only issue we had with SSR was that its SOOO BIG!!! its very spread out-- and it was a little confusing getting around--but thankfully we were placed in a good section that was close to the bus stop and a short walk to the main building.

After we got checked in-- and changed-- we headed over to DTD we took the bus-- we got dinner first since we were staring and we went to Earls i got the Earls Best BLT and my mom got the Earls Club and we had half of each-- it was soo good!! While we were eating they had some guy by earls getting everyone involved in dancing and had a little dance competition it was so much fun to watch after dinner we walked around in the shops-- and walked down to Bongos and had a beer. They have a area set up outside with little wicker chairs, and had candles lite-- it was so nice-- and there was a nice breeze blowing! It was a beautiful night! After our beer we walked around a little more-- and then took the ferry back to SSR-- the ferry was a nice relaxing ride-- and got us back to the resort really quick! We got back to the resort unpacked and went to sleep

Next up day 2 epcot!

 

[KatMark]

hello everyone!! I am back from my 5 day May trip!!! It was a wonderful trip with my mom and brother-- my brother has not been there since he was 12 and is now 26 and he loved it!! i am going to do a mini trip report in my sept PTR

Day1: May 15th: we left pittsburgh airport on a 3:17pm flight it was a very smooth flight to orlando. we flew airtran-- i love that they have free xm radio on flight-- except it woud figure that my seat was the seat without the working xm radio oh well-- i occupied myself by eating cherry licorice nibs and jelly belly jelly beans LOL!!. We landed in orlando on time-- and then went to get the MME-- which came pretty quickly i believe after we got our luggage and go on the bus it was around 6pm. I always enjoy the ride from the airport to the resort. We rented DVC points and stayed at SSR resort-- the lobby was beautiful!! we had a easy check in-- and added on our QS dinning plan-- we were put in congress park-- which was about a 10 min walk from the mail building-- and we carried our luggage the whole way-- SSR really is a beautiful resort!! the fountains and beautful and the view from downtown disney is wonderful at night-- and you can take a ferry to DTD, bus or walk. The only issue we had with SSR was that its SOOO BIG!!! its very spread out-- and it was a little confusing getting around--but thankfully we were placed in a good section that was close to the bus stop and a short walk to the main building.

After we got checked in-- and changed-- we headed over to DTD we took the bus-- we got dinner first since we were staring and we went to Earls i got the Earls Best BLT and my mom got the Earls Club and we had half of each-- it was soo good!! While we were eating they had some guy by earls getting everyone involved in dancing and had a little dance competition it was so much fun to watch after dinner we walked around in the shops-- and walked down to Bongos and had a beer. They have a area set up outside with little wicker chairs, and had candles lite-- it was so nice-- and there was a nice breeze blowing! It was a beautiful night! After our beer we walked around a little more-- and then took the ferry back to SSR-- the ferry was a nice relaxing ride-- and got us back to the resort really quick! We got back to the resort unpacked and went to sleep

Next up day 2 epcot!

Yeah...so glad you are back and doing a little trip report. Loved the arrival day and can't wait to read more.

 

[deslynnpatterson]

May 16th: epcot day!! I was the mover and the shaker of this trip-- i woke up before 7 and for showered and ready then i woke my mom and brother up today was our epcot day!! we got to epcot around 9:10-- we stoped at the main buidling first to fill up our mugs at Artist palette-- and we got on the bus at the springs bus stop. I was a little nervous about the may crowds-- since i am so used to going in sept-- but the crowds seemed to be very manageable. We went on spaceship earth first-- which is one of my favoritres-- then we headed over and soaring only had a 40 min wait-- so we waited then got a fast pass when we got off, then we headed over to the land ride. Our fastpass was for 12:30-1:30 so we decided to eat lunch around 11:30-- we went to the electric umbrella--I had a chicken nuggets basket with fries-- and chocolate chips cookies for dessert! The basket was HUGE i think there were 8 or more nuggets and ons of fries so good! Of course i couldnt eat it all-- but it was delicious!! After lunch we went back and used on fastpass for soaring. After that we decided to go around the countries. We stopped a morocco for a adult beverage-- my brother got a beer and my mom and I got a strawberry daquiri-- it was just okay to me-- a little strong so my brother drank the rest of mine. Then in german my brother and my mom got a beer-- i just had water--- and we got all around the countries and it was looking like rain so we decided to get a test track fast pass and went into universe of energy-- that show is just okay to me-- its very drawn out-- went we came out it was raining pretty hard-- so on went the good old disney ponchos then we went to club cool so my brother could of course try the beverly he of course thought it was horrible LOL! Then didn't have my favorite Kinsley this time-- but a few were good we then went on test track which my brother loved-- and we went on the clammobiles, and decided we should find a place for illuminations-- but decided we wanted a snack so we walked a little past mexico and there is this little place that has strawerry sundaes they are soo good! we each got a sundae-- and tried looking for a Illuminations place-- but we werent finding a good spot-- we were tired-- i made a huge disney mistake that day and wore flip flips the bottons of my feet were killing me-- so we decided we would skip illunmiations and go back to the resort for dinner. We ate at atrist Pallete and we got the meal special for the day which was meatloaf, mashed poatotes, and corn-- it was pretty yummy Then we decided it was a nice night to soak in the hot tub-- we changed into our swim suits-- and went to the quiet pool near congress park-- we met some nice people in the hot tub who were DVC members and who were telling us about different resorts its always nice metting new people then we headed back to our room close to midnght and got ready for bed. Overall the crowds at epcot werent bad at all-- the crowds reminded me a lot like sept-- May might be my new fave time to go the weather is so much less humid and there is a brreze in the air!! it was great!

next up MK day with EMH!

 

[deslynnpatterson]

Yeah...so glad you are back and doing a little trip report. Loved the arrival day and can't wait to read more.

thanks so much i am glad you are reading along i have to catch up on your PTR later too! I have a lot of catching up to do on the boards - but i guess that is what happens when you are in disney LOL

 

[deslynnpatterson]

may 17th
today was our very long MK day I was again being the mover and the shaker-- its sometimes frustrating getting my mom and brother going in the morning LOL!! we got to MK around 10am-- later than i wanted-- but since we had EMH till 2am it was all good My brother and I started with Space Mountain he wanted to go on it so bad-- so we got in line-- it was only a 30 min wait not to bad-- this was the only day of the week we saw crowds at the parks- MK was pretty crowded this day-- but it think it was because it closed at 5pm the day before. afer mission space we did carousel or progress, the tomorrowland transportation, and decided we would hit everything else later in that area since the lines were pretty long! We then decided it was lunch time---we went to pecos bills we all got the same-- the pulled pork sanwhich with the fries, and cookies for dessert! It was soo good!!! after lunch we went on thunder mountain, pirates , and did everyhting in adventureland, and frontier land-- after hauted manison we started heading to fantasyland and it looked like rain and we needed a brek-- my mom and brother found a seat in Pinnichios and i ran and got us a popcorn to share while they got drinks for us. as soon as i got the popcorn it started raining-- and once i got back inside Pinnichios it was pouring! So we took our popcorn break-- and drink break after the rain finally cleared we did what we could in fantasyland -- and then decided we would go over to the poly for some drinks-- the park was just getting too crowded at this point-- and we needed to get away for a little while-- we had till 2am ! So we took the monorail over to the poly-- and we got some drinks I got my first Pina Colava-- i love this drink!! It was delicious!!! We stayed at the poly for a little while relaxing-- and staying cool-- then decided to go back-- and get a spot for spectro and wishes. There were 2 showing of spectro this night-- we watched the 9pm show, and we had a spot up top in the front ot MK were the train leaves off-- we could see everything good-- execept for the people trying to squeeze in and take spots up-- we were like sardines! but i wasnt moving i wanted to see spectro and wishes!! I got a lot of good pics of spectro and wishes that i will try to post later. we stood for 2 hours watching them almost-- but it was worth it after there were so many people pouring out of the parks we didn;'t even know that many people were in the parks!! we tryed to stay out of the way for awhile-- and then went to Cosmic Rays for dinner-- i got the chicken and rib combo-- that came with mashed potatoes, green beans, got the triple choc cake for dessert and a large diet coke it was soo good!!! after we ate-- we stated hitting a lot of the rides and attractions we missed earlier---we ended up being in MK till around 1:30-- the longest we waiting for anything was for Dumbo LOL my mom loves dumbo so it was worth the wait. As soon as we got back to SSR we got in pjs and bed it was a long productive day!! it was a great day

up next Hollywood Studios day-- and stopped over to see coronado springs for our sept trip.. did i love it? or hate it? find out soon!

 

[KatMark]

may 17th
today was our very long MK day after we ate-- we stated hitting a lot of the rides and attractions we missed earlier---we ended up being in MK till around 1:30-- the longest we waiting for anything was for Dumbo LOL my mom loves dumbo so it was worth the wait. As soon as we got back to SSR we got in pjs and bed it was a long productive day!! it was a great day

up next Hollywood Studios day-- and stopped over to see coronado springs for our sept trip.. did i love it? or hate it? find out soon!

My DH LOVES Dumbo and we always ride it...if he pays for our trips by working away his summer it is the least I can do for him.

Not very nice leaving me hanging about the CSR.