Team Renfroe trip report with TONS of pics & reviews

[Moonlitdreams82]

Your DS is an amazing eater for an 11 year old boy! He is so grown up with his taste buds at such an early age! Good for you!

 

[vassar36]

Great TR

Thanks so much for writing it and all the pics...

 

[Strommie]

Just finished reading, and it was one of the best TR ever! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful trip with us

 

[alan_renfroe]

Part of the fun of writing the pre-trip report is we get to come along for the ride while you try to make up your mind on when to go, where to stay, and when to book your ADR's. Whenever you start it, you can count me in.

Great point! I guess I haven't read enough pre-trip reports to know how to do it. I'll read up on some pre-trippies and decide how I would like to format my own. Thanks!

Alan,

I'll have to chime in and 2nd this request!

...and thanks for the wings picture on the other thread!

No problem! I'll figure out how I want to present it, and start one soon. Hope you had a great 4th weekend!

Great trip report, Clark...ummmm, I mean Alan Your family is beautiful! I have a question for you...I see you took a pic of Tony's menu and noticed that my favorite, Cannelloni, is not listed...was there another page or did you notice the Cannelloni on the menu at all? I have an ADR there in Sept and do not want to cancel because it was at the request of a friend going with us...I simply do not want to have my tastebuds set on Cannelloni, get there and it not be available. My tastebuds and I thank you for any help you can provide

They had made some changes to the menu. We had researched all the menus on the allears site, but the menu had been updated. I was hoping for the spinach & artichoke dip as an appetizer, but they had taken it off the menu. (However, the "Taste of Italy" antipasto appetizer was amazing!) Anyway, I don't think the Cannelloni was on the new menu.

Thanks for the compliments! I am watching "Vacation" right now!

Your DS is an amazing eater for an 11 year old boy! He is so grown up with his taste buds at such an early age! Good for you!

We are starting to work on DD's tastebuds as well. DW & I both love all kinds of foods and we hope to introduce our kids to new experiences. We have a wonderful chinese restaurant near our home and our DD used to ask to stop by a McDonalds to get a burger to take with us. Our server would pretend he was stealing her french fries! She loved that! Anyway, he talked her into trying some fried rice and she loved it! Now she will eat eggrolls, sweet & sour chicken, etc.

Great TR

Thanks so much for writing it and all the pics...

Thanks, vassar36! I'm glad you enjoyed the trip report!

Just finished reading, and it was one of the best TR ever! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful trip with us

Thanks Kathryn! That's very nice of you to say!

 

[englishrose47]

Hi Alan ! I will be subbing to your PTR when you start it! I did see on the Disney Food pix arequest for you to name the dishes you posted !!

 

[MAJ RN]

Alan, I am definately on board for a pre trip report!! When do you plan to return? How all is well.


Melissa

 

[alan_renfroe]

Hi Alan ! I will be subbing to your PTR when you start it! I did see on the Disney Food pix arequest for you to name the dishes you posted !!

I'll post something on this thread when I get a new PTR started. It will probably be pretty soon, since we are already discussing our next trip!

 

[alan_renfroe]

Alan, I am definately on board for a pre trip report!! When do you plan to return? How all is well.


Melissa

Hi Melissa! We plan to go in May '09. We LOVED being there in May - great weather, low crowds.

 

[Snowy-girls]

It will probably be pretty soon, since we are already discussing our next trip!

Glad to hear it Alan .How are all of you? Doing well i hope.x.

 

[alan_renfroe]

Glad to hear it Alan .How are all of you? Doing well i hope.x.

Doing great, x! We are taking a trip to Panama City Beach & Destin, Florida week after next. Should be fun!

Hope you are having a great summer!

 

[Snowy-girls]

Doing great, x! We are taking a trip to Panama City Beach & Destin, Florida week after next. Should be fun!

Hope you are having a great summer!

Sounds great.We are doing fine,we went to see The Wiggles last Sat,dd3 ended up poorly with a stomach bug but she's doing fine now.Dd7 is doing a speech next fri on The Fire Of London in her school leavers assembly,so we will be going to watch that,can't believe she will be going to 'big school' in September.Dd3 will be starting Nursery in Sep/Oct.Time goes so quick with your children that is why i hang on to every second+minute of each of there days,blink+you miss it.
SUMMER WHAT SUMMER!!!It has been torrential rain+thunderstorms where i live since Sat,but today i must admit has been sunny-but not great.Take care Alan+family.x.

 

[englishrose47]

Hi Melissa! We plan to go in May '09. We LOVED being there in May - great weather, low crowds.

We are leaning towards May 2nd thru 10th! Leaning pretty hard too!!

 

[jns]

I just spent the last couple of hours reading through your whole report. I sooooo enjoyed all the posts.
great photos
Thanks for sharing and you have a wonderful family!!!

 

[OU1247]

I just want you to know that I blame YOU!!!

It is 9:26 pm My dinner dishes are not put up, my kids have not taken a bath, I have not put water in the dogs bowls...WHY I have read this cover to cover!!!

We leave Tuesday morning to make our way from OKLAHOMA to DISNEY WORLD! In a car...LOL

I pray ours looks half as fun as yours....and I think I gained 10 pounds looking at all your food pictures.

 

[Michelle_and_Aaron]

Alan I am so jealous of your trip to Panama City Beach! One of my dear friends lives there but we have way too much to do and way too little vacation time left to squeeze in a trip this summer. I hope your family has a blast. It is a wonderful place!

 

[supersuperwendy]

Alan...

Wow..what a wonderful trip report! I saw your pics on the CSR thread and followed your link to your trip report! I started reading it last night and finished it up this morning..I didn't want it to end!

Thanks for the journey!

Wendy

 

[alan_renfroe]

Sounds great.We are doing fine,we went to see The Wiggles last Sat,dd3 ended up poorly with a stomach bug but she's doing fine now.Dd7 is doing a speech next fri on The Fire Of London in her school leavers assembly,so we will be going to watch that,can't believe she will be going to 'big school' in September.Dd3 will be starting Nursery in Sep/Oct.Time goes so quick with your children that is why i hang on to every second+minute of each of there days,blink+you miss it.
SUMMER WHAT SUMMER!!!It has been torrential rain+thunderstorms where i live since Sat,but today i must admit has been sunny-but not great.Take care Alan+family.x.

Sorry to hear that DD3 was not feeling well. Hope she's doing better!

We had a HOT summer here in Alabama. Highs in the 90s with high humidity. Air-conditioning is a good thing!

We are leaning towards May 2nd thru 10th! Leaning pretty hard too!!

I am thinking May 16 - 21 for us.

I just spent the last couple of hours reading through your whole report. I sooooo enjoyed all the posts.
great photos
Thanks for sharing and you have a wonderful family!!!

Aww...thanks VERY much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I just want you to know that I blame YOU!!!

It is 9:26 pm My dinner dishes are not put up, my kids have not taken a bath, I have not put water in the dogs bowls...WHY I have read this cover to cover!!!

We leave Tuesday morning to make our way from OKLAHOMA to DISNEY WORLD! In a car...LOL

I pray ours looks half as fun as yours....and I think I gained 10 pounds looking at all your food pictures.

LOL!! I'll take full blame! I hope you all have a wonderful trip. Don't worry about those 10 pounds...you'll walk them off, I promise!

Alan I am so jealous of your trip to Panama City Beach! One of my dear friends lives there but we have way too much to do and way too little vacation time left to squeeze in a trip this summer. I hope your family has a blast. It is a wonderful place!

Hi Michelle & Aaron! We love PCB. We used to go every summer, but last summer we went to Myrtle Beach, SC instead. We enjoyed that very much, but this year our big trip was WDW. This is sort of an extended family gathering trip. Now that we've been to Disney, we want to go back SOOO bad!

Alan...

Wow..what a wonderful trip report! I saw your pics on the CSR thread and followed your link to your trip report! I started reading it last night and finished it up this morning..I didn't want it to end!

Thanks for the journey!

Wendy

Thanks very much, Wendy! I'm glad you enjoyed the report! I had a blast working on it!

 

[galnar]

Alan, I love your report. You're a lucky man to have such a beautiful family. You guys will remember this trip forever and your kids will be telling their kids about it some day.

 

[englishrose47]

Alan the first time I went to Disney I only went '*** DD insisted ! So having booked I started researching, found the Dis and with their help planned the trip! After my first day at Disney I knew I had found my Happy Place ! Just LOVE it!!The latest on our next trip now is September and we have another family coming too ! This is going to take some planning! I am relly excited to plan for 2 families !

 

[alan_renfroe]

Alan, I love your report. You're a lucky man to have such a beautiful family. You guys will remember this trip forever and your kids will be telling their kids about it some day.

Thank you SO much! I definitely am a lucky man, and I greatly appreciate my good fortune with having such a wonderful family. We had SOOO much fun on this Disney trip that we are now trying to save up for another trip in May on 2009.