Sisters Trip Oct. 2013 - "Hakuna Matata" - UPDATED

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Never to late to start a trip report right lol....we're only 8 days away...so here's our story...welcome anyone who follows along!

Who:
My sister
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and me
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What/Why:
We're going to celebrate my sisters 21st Birthday (her bday was July 6th) but we wanted to do Food & Wine Festival.

Where/When:
We're staying at Art of Animation "Little Mermaid" section!
October 13 - 17th

The Details:
After getting up at the crack of dawn on our 180 day mark to get dining reservations and following park hours and suggestions from Undercover Tourist....we came up with our game plan...and after weeks of going what if we did it this way or that way....our trip theme became "Hakuna Matata"...we can only plan so much but at the end of the day we're going to have a blast, take lots of pictures and create memories for years to come.

...I present our literary...
Sunday
Depart BUFFALO at 08:00 AM
Arrive ORLANDO at 10:40 AM

AK
Back to hotel
Dinner: Ohana at 6:50pm
MK

Monday
Epcot
Lunch: downtown disney
Hollywood Studios
Dinner: Mama Melrose at 5:50pm

Tuesday
All day MK
Dinner: Be Our Guest at 6:40pm :yay:

Wednesday
All day Epcot for Food & Wine Festival
Dinner: 1900 at 6pm

Thursday
open

Depart ORLANDO at 6:50 PM

Other goodies:
We were picked to test out the magicbands! Kind of excited about this. :thumbsup2 At first I didn't read a single magicband or fastpass+ post....figured why bother. But then we got them and was like oh now I should read about it. Biggest concern was the park hopping for Monday. It's the only day so far that we picked out our fastpass+ tickets before hand. We got RnR coaster, TSM and Fantasmic! One thing it'll be nice not to have to whip out the card everytime to pay, get into your room or enter the parks. So we shall see...follow along and see if there are any horror stories or magical experiences!

Think that's the intro lol thank you all who read through that and again welcome to anyone who follows along. I have the app on my phone if I can figure out how to post photos while were there I will otherwise stay tuned for updates.
 
You are so so so close and I am majorly jealous but I hope you have a blast celebrating the 21st bday
 
6 DAYS TO GO!!!
:banana:

beyond excited and anxious...it's so hard to focus...I have the list running over and over for what's coming up this week between working m-f from 830-5 then after work stuff going on. Add in watching the weather forecast, which is huge I know you can't control the weather, heck we can get all 4 seasons in one day in Buffalo. But its HUGE that it'll be high 85/low 67 with 0% precip and sunny while we're there. Currently like 58 degrees today (in Buffalo) raining and windy. I'm so ready to be in nice weather again. I don't look forward to fall or even winter (yuck snow)

Also need to clean up space on my ipad to add movies and magazines for the plane. My camera is charged and cleaned ready to go!

Wednesday is packing day! and Friday we're going to get our nails done!
 
We will be at the F&W Fest on 10/16/13 as well!

:goodvibes


(PS, my DBF is from the Buffalo area and is a HUGE Bills and Sabres fan)
 

T-46 hours to Takeoff!

first things my attention span today at work is nonexistent, just have to survive to 4pm. Then my sister and I are going to get a mani/pedi for mickey :woohoo:

Wednesday was packing day! can't believe I'm finally packed and I'm not saying is it too early yet? How early do you pack? My sister and I coordinated our outfits and matched to the parks we're going to that day. It was a lot of work to find the perfect tank tops that match each park. Let me say after various shopping trips and tons of photos back and forth. I'm excited about my packing selections. Things to mention I didn't bother to pack jeans or capris. I'm from Buffalo anything over 70 is short weather for us. I also didn't pack a hoodie or long sleeve shirt. It's one of the traditions, I always get a new hoodie while were there. Then bring that on the plane back with me, bam no suitcase space lost.

If you want to check out my outfits and fabulous packing job - look here

Couple things - shoes! omg I read posts and posts of the best sneakers and flip flops to bring. I really think it's personal preference and what you are use to. I'm more a sneakers type of person where my sister can live in flip flops all day. Needless to say I packed both and 2 pairs of each.

1.) Nike comfort flip flops
2.) b.o.c. Cersei sandal
3.) black/pink Reebok sneakers
4.) blue/green Reebok sneakers

Can't wait to later to get our nails done...post pics afterwards!
 














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