This PTR needs a name!!! Hope to see you real soon!! Well, not too soon!

[ash-n-brensmom]

Hey! I hopped over from your post on another PTR I was reading because I noticed you were going in March too! It look like our dates overlap a little too! We're not arriving until the 4th. I haven't started a PTR yet because I'm still working on my Nov/Dec TR and Jan Half Marathon TR but here's our tentative plan:

March 4:Arrive at 11am, rent car, check-in at Sheraton VIstana (timeshare), lunch at DTD, shop, maybe MK, Health & FItness Expo, Dinner at Kona (our favorite restaurant)

March 5:EPSN 5k, Animal Kingdom, Epcot DiveQuest, Via Napoli

March 6: Epcot, lunch at Le Cellier

March 7: My mom's bday, off day, dinner at Narcoossee's

March 8: HS, Fantasmic! dinner package at Mama Melrose

March 9: Magic Kingdom, dinner at 1900 Park Fare

March 10: Breakfast at 'Ohana.

Now, this next part is a secret. My mom has no clue but this day, we're leaving and going on a cruise to the Bahamas on the Disney Dream! I won't be including that in my PTR because my mom reads it and well, we're not telling her until we get the port. Anyway, it's the 10-13 then:

March 13: Driving back to Disney, hanging out at MK and staying at Old Key West for the night

March 14: Departure Day... 1 pm flight

So, it looks like we may run into each other the 4th at MK and maybe one or two other times but I got a little lost on your plans when you switched your HS and Epcot days.

Either way, it looks like you have an awesome trip planned and I LOVE the autograph books, passports, and t-shirts that you made!

Hey! Thanks for joining us!
You just hit the 3 week mark today!

We are going to eat at Kona on the 4th as well...what time is your dinner? We will be there at 5:05 then heading over to CR for the Pirates and Pals cruise. We will be at MK that day as well so if that's where you end up, keep an eye out! Plus it looks like our MK days overlap on the 9th as well!! Are you in the facebook group from the March thread? I'm going to be reading some of your TR so I can get to know you a bit! And then when you get back from this trip I will be picking your brain about your cruise!!! I think we will be booking this weekend or on Tues at the latest for our cruise in Nov!!

 

[jenseib]

Are you on the same facebook march group that I am on?

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

Are you on the same facebook march group that I am on?

Yep! I'm Kara!

 

[jenseib]

Yep! I'm Kara!

I don't know how I didn't realize that.

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

I don't know how I didn't realize that.

Probably because my name here has nothing to do with my real name? Whereas I had you figured out already because of your name on here! KWIM?

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

This has nothing to do with this trip, but it DOES have to do with Disney!! We booked our cruise!! My awesome cousin has totally come through for us and is going to watch the girls while we cruise for 3 nights from October 27-October 30 on the Dream!! We are so excited!! We will be adding a night prior to our cruise and spending one day at Epcot drinking around the world and hopefully getting Illuminations dinner ressies at the new restaurant in Mexico!!!!

Now to figure out our ticket situation..we have 6 day base tickets no expiration that we need for our trip next month. So do we upgrade our tickets to 7 day no expiry or do we buy one day base tickets for our day at Epcot in October? That is the question...any answers? I will be looking at Cheshire Figment's sticky to try to figure it out myself, but I am thinking someone may have already done something like this before and can just give me the quick and easy answer?

Edited to add: Got my answer thanks to some of our knowledgeable friends on the Theme Parks board!!! Gonna be cheaper to buy two one day tix!!

That's the big news so far!! Hope everyone is having a nice weekend and spending time with their honey's for Valentines
DD's are at my cousin's this weekend so we went out to dinner tonight, Ferb got me roses with a really sweet card!! I haven't given him his gift yet...waiting til tomorrow maybe? I unfortunately have to leave for work soon...won't be home until tomorrow morning and then sleeping all day until we go pick up the girls so maybe his gift will need to wait until Monday.
Gotta go get ready for work...
But only 18 days til Disney!!!!

 

[m2zjj]

YAY for booking your cruise!

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

Thanks!!! YAY!!!

 

[wdwgirl03]

Wow, I am so jealous you're going on one of the cruises. Yay for booking and yay for 18 days!

 

[amandaluvsgoofy]

Woohoo for the cruise!!!! And glad you figured out the ticket situation! I always thought that if we go on a cruise we'd have to fit in a day at the parks (before or after) to get my Disney fix!

 

[jenseib]

Probably because my name here has nothing to do with my real name? Whereas I had you figured out already because of your name on here! KWIM?

Thats probably why. Are you going to do any facebook updates when you are on your trip?

Yay for getting booked. I was going to say do the math about the tickets, as I wasn't sure, but I know the no expiration price always sems high to me.

 

[teachermommy78]

I am so excited for you!!! How much fun is this!

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

Wow, I am so jealous you're going on one of the cruises. Yay for booking and yay for 18 days!

Lovin' the numbers on our countdown calendar now!!

Woohoo for the cruise!!!! And glad you figured out the ticket situation! I always thought that if we go on a cruise we'd have to fit in a day at the parks (before or after) to get my Disney fix!

For a few moments I actually thought that we would only be doing the cruise and not a night at a resort and park...WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?!?!

Thats probably why. Are you going to do any facebook updates when you are on your trip?

Yay for getting booked. I was going to say do the math about the tickets, as I wasn't sure, but I know the no expiration price always sems high to me.

Our phone doesn't work that way..so no live updates...I had thought about getting a new phone but it's not worth it for just the one week.

I was totally reading the info wrong when I first figured it out...and that is why I rely on the experts here!

I am so excited for you!!! How much fun is this!

Thanks we are totally psyched!!!!

 

[BMC423]

hey just checking in been really busy so haven't had some free time... I saw the t-shirts they look wonderful! Congrats on the cruise I'll check out that PTR later on today. Happy V-Day!

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

hey just checking in been really busy so haven't had some free time... I saw the t-shirts they look wonderful! Congrats on the cruise I'll check out that PTR later on today. Happy V-Day!

Thanks, we had fun making the t's..it was a little stressful figuring them out, but once we got started it was pretty cool seeing them all come together!! We are just a little excited about the cruise !!

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

My countdown ticker has never been right! I thought it would catch up after February started...but it just never did! And it's got me feeling very anxious !
I mean, I KNOW that we have 17 days left...it's not that hard to count to our departure day, especially this close..but my countdown ticker insists we only have 16 days. I want to agree with it because 16 is definitely better than 17, but I know I would be lying and that has me all stressed out!!!!!!
HAHAHAHA!!!!
That's the kind of stress I can handle!!

BTW, 17 DAYS!!!!!!

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

16 DAYS!! WOW!!! I need to come up with some kind of fun last week countdown!! Maybe embarrassing pics or something like that...

 

[BMC423]

16 DAYS!! WOW!!! I need to come up with some kind of fun last week countdown!! Maybe embarrassing pics or something like that...

thats the spirit!

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

Embarrassing pics!!! Ferb said we don't have any, so of course his will be first!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Here he and Stitch have a "smooth" landing from a water slide at Typhoon Lagoon!

For some reason Ferb insists on taking pics of my behind

Once again my behind!!

Okay, maybe not embarrassing, but funny? Rapunzel enjoying a lazy afternoon poolside at CBR:

Ferb was getting silly and put on some fuzzy light up ears!!

My silly face on SPE!!

Stitch has NO idea what lurks in the Fairy Gardens at Epcot!!

There's no pizza in the world like Disney pizza..apparently:

And there is no pop in the world like Disney pop!! HAHA!!

Okay, I know I'm excited to be at Disney, but WHAT is that look on my face?!?!

Well, most of these were embarrassing, a couple cute...but it's fun to go through pics no matter what you are looking for...getting me even more excited..maybe not as excited at that pic?! Seriously, what was I thinking?

 

[ash-n-brensmom]

Okay, trip update!! As I am sure all of you already know..and if you don't what rock are you living under, WDW has changed the park hours for March. We knew this was going to happen mid Feb..that's the norm. And I assumed that Touring Plans would need to update their Crowd Calendar to account for these changes. What I assumed was that it wouldn't effect our week too much because we are the first week of the month and no one has break that week. Well!!! I was wrong!!! URGH!!! I hate being wrong, but even more, I hate when I am wrong and then get some not so pleasant news along with it!!
So, these are the numbers I had before WDW changed the park hours and TP's changed the Crowd Calendar, I'm not breaking any rules here because these numbers were available for free for awhile. I will only be posting the hours that affect our park of the day.
March 3-arrival day, no park
March 4-MK WAS 9-8 now 8-8 WAS level 2.4 went up a bit(can't say how much, sorry)
March 5-Epcot WAS 9-9 stayed the same WAS level 4.6 went up a teeny bit
March 6-DHS WAS 9-8 w/one Fantasmic at 7 now 9-9 w/added Fantasmic at 8:30 WAS level 4.3 now YIKES!!! (That's all I can say)
March 7-Rest day no parks(We're gonna need it after that day at DHS!)
March 8-Epcot WAS 9-9 stayed the same WAS level 5.0 went up a bit
March 9-MK WAS 9-11 now 9-9 (WTH?) level WAS 4.3 went DOWN!! (Probably because hours were shortened..which is okay, but still bummed about those hours)
March 10-AK WAS 9-7 now 9-8 WAS level 7.2 went up a teeny bit

I have read that some people are affected more because the recommended park days have changed in some instances. We only followed those when it was convenient so I haven't even checked those. I'm not too upset about these changes. I'm glad they added a second Fantasmic, we really want to finally see that and the second show helps with that. And as for the MK day that was shortened, well, if it keeps crowds from visiting that day we are cool with it, and we have never been very good about staying late anyways so if they kick us out at 9 so be it. I was a little bummed only because we have committed so much time to dinner and the Pirates and Pals cruise on our other MK date. I hope we have enough time there, that's all. We usually take a break in the afternoon, so if we skip that like planned we can get more done on that day. All in all..it is what it is, and as long as we are there we will be happy, park hours won't kill that for sure!!