Lady Lallie
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Thoughts of our Disney Trip have been running around in my head non-stop for the last few days. It's all I have been thinking about lately. Some would call it obsessed, I call it...dedicated. Yup, that's it. Dedicated to planning the best vacation possible for Marc & I. 
I promised you obsessing over ADR's in my first post of this PTR and I think I have lived up to that. The obsessing is on overdrive this week. I blame it on the 90 day window. There are a few ADR's I think I am getting rid of. Well, at least I am not going to book them because yeah, I don't have any yet.
I'm not 100% on any of the "changes" yet so I am going to keep you in suspense a little longer. Just know that I have been glued to the food porn thread, dining reviews and of course the menus on allears. I swear that Marc groans every time he sees me on the allears website. 
We've also been toying with our dates.
We've been thinking about leaving on a late flight on Thursday May 21st. We wouldn't land until 10:30 so it would be straight to POR and sleeping but I think I'm okay with that. I know that I don't want to book a cheaper night at Pop or another value. It's not worth switching resorts the next day. I also like the fact that we would have some dining credits from that night that could be used for later in our vacation.
Now if we arrive late on May 21st...when would we leave....
How about Friday May 29th? Yes, that would be adding an extra night, technically. If we take the late flight we have been scoping out on the 29th that adds up to more WDW time than our September trip. This makes me EXTREMELY happy.
We started talking about adding an extra night last week when I got the good news at work that our Profit Sharing Bonuses were approved and we are recieving them this week.
Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Now the amount varies, but I am hoping that it will pay for all if not most of our trip balance. So with that of course extra night scheming came into play.
Ooops! I forgot to inform of something very important, which helps to explain why we are thinking of adding an extra night. We officially canceled our December 2009 trip and applied the deposit to our May trip. We are not feeling the December trip as much as we had been a few months ago when we booked. We have some debt to pay down and we want to be smarter this year with money. When we do our December Holiday Trip we want to go all out, deluxe resort, deluxe dining, a Deluxe December if you will and we can't do that this year so we rather wait. That hasn't prevented me from scheming about possible bounceback offers for the fall but we don't need to tell Marc about that yet....
So between canceling December '09, Profit Sharing Bonus and cheaper flights on the 21st and 29th, we've been thinking about doing a little bit of switching. We're going to wait to see how the money situation ends up but I am hoping that we can add a night. Also, some great Trip Report news, I have the week after our Disney Trip off, Marc will have to go back to work so I should be able to get our pictures organized pretty quickly to start the actual Trip Report. I'm excited.
I am wondering about how check in will work if we do go with a later flight. Does it matter how late you check in at Disney? Our maybe flight would land around 10:30PM, so I am thinking if we are lucky we could get to Disney a little after Midnight. I am also assuming ME is running that late. Does anyone know if that's true or not?
On a sad note, the beautiful Cotton Candy & Lavender Mickey Crocs I ordered for $17.99 do not fit!
Don't worry I ordered them in December so I haven't broken my no internet shopping rule for January. I was wondering if they would be tight since they are a Woman's 10-11 and I usually wear a straight size 11. I think I might exchange them for my coveted black mary jane crocs. That doesn't count as online shopping if I just exchange, right? 
I did some cleaning this past weekend and I as I was going through my clothes I found A LOT of shirts that are Disney worthy. I honestly don't think I need to buy anything except maybe some capri's. I also want to bring a few of the tee's I made for our September trip and maybe make ONE more. I am really trying not to over shop for this trip like I did last time because it was a condition we told ourselves when we booked it. It's so easy to get influenced on the DIS when you hear about others great shopping deals and such. I'm working on a shopping list for a future post which includes anything we need, including toiletries and such.
I feel like I have rambled for this entire update.
I promised you obsessing over ADR's in my first post of this PTR and I think I have lived up to that. The obsessing is on overdrive this week. I blame it on the 90 day window. There are a few ADR's I think I am getting rid of. Well, at least I am not going to book them because yeah, I don't have any yet.
I'm not 100% on any of the "changes" yet so I am going to keep you in suspense a little longer. Just know that I have been glued to the food porn thread, dining reviews and of course the menus on allears. I swear that Marc groans every time he sees me on the allears website. We've also been toying with our dates.
We've been thinking about leaving on a late flight on Thursday May 21st. We wouldn't land until 10:30 so it would be straight to POR and sleeping but I think I'm okay with that. I know that I don't want to book a cheaper night at Pop or another value. It's not worth switching resorts the next day. I also like the fact that we would have some dining credits from that night that could be used for later in our vacation.Now if we arrive late on May 21st...when would we leave....
How about Friday May 29th? Yes, that would be adding an extra night, technically. If we take the late flight we have been scoping out on the 29th that adds up to more WDW time than our September trip. This makes me EXTREMELY happy.
We started talking about adding an extra night last week when I got the good news at work that our Profit Sharing Bonuses were approved and we are recieving them this week.
Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Now the amount varies, but I am hoping that it will pay for all if not most of our trip balance. So with that of course extra night scheming came into play.
Ooops! I forgot to inform of something very important, which helps to explain why we are thinking of adding an extra night. We officially canceled our December 2009 trip and applied the deposit to our May trip. We are not feeling the December trip as much as we had been a few months ago when we booked. We have some debt to pay down and we want to be smarter this year with money. When we do our December Holiday Trip we want to go all out, deluxe resort, deluxe dining, a Deluxe December if you will and we can't do that this year so we rather wait. That hasn't prevented me from scheming about possible bounceback offers for the fall but we don't need to tell Marc about that yet....
So between canceling December '09, Profit Sharing Bonus and cheaper flights on the 21st and 29th, we've been thinking about doing a little bit of switching. We're going to wait to see how the money situation ends up but I am hoping that we can add a night. Also, some great Trip Report news, I have the week after our Disney Trip off, Marc will have to go back to work so I should be able to get our pictures organized pretty quickly to start the actual Trip Report. I'm excited.
I am wondering about how check in will work if we do go with a later flight. Does it matter how late you check in at Disney? Our maybe flight would land around 10:30PM, so I am thinking if we are lucky we could get to Disney a little after Midnight. I am also assuming ME is running that late. Does anyone know if that's true or not?
On a sad note, the beautiful Cotton Candy & Lavender Mickey Crocs I ordered for $17.99 do not fit!
Don't worry I ordered them in December so I haven't broken my no internet shopping rule for January. I was wondering if they would be tight since they are a Woman's 10-11 and I usually wear a straight size 11. I think I might exchange them for my coveted black mary jane crocs. That doesn't count as online shopping if I just exchange, right? I did some cleaning this past weekend and I as I was going through my clothes I found A LOT of shirts that are Disney worthy. I honestly don't think I need to buy anything except maybe some capri's. I also want to bring a few of the tee's I made for our September trip and maybe make ONE more. I am really trying not to over shop for this trip like I did last time because it was a condition we told ourselves when we booked it. It's so easy to get influenced on the DIS when you hear about others great shopping deals and such. I'm working on a shopping list for a future post which includes anything we need, including toiletries and such.
I feel like I have rambled for this entire update.
about the bounceback scheming... that bounceback is tempting. 
I hope we do! I am pretty sure we will, thinking of all our plans (and lack thereof) makes me veryyyyy excited. 
I think I'm a bit in love with the new Alice crocs that I ordered. So comfy even standing for 8 hours at my part time job, and I can actually pull off wearing them at my real job. (with pants at any rate). I tried to go back and order another pair, but the black ones in my size are all gone.
