TR - A Gregarious Ghostly Gallivant - Final Thoughts Finally Posted!

[mnmrmustard]

Okay y'all. A couple of things to report finally. One big one is that OUR TRIP IS PAID OFF! YAY!!!!

Also, most of our costume stuff has shipped for the Mickey's Trick or Treat Party.

And lastly, as of today we're ONE MONTH OUT!!!!!

And of course in my overplanning wonderment I've updated our itinerary since I now have the October events calendar from DLR. I have confirmed that there will be nightly Halloween fireworks, although they are not yet posted on the events calendar.


UPDATED ITINERARY

Day 0 - Sunday, October 11th, 2009 - Packing Day

- Get everything together during the day and load up the rig that evening


Day 1 - Monday, October 12th, 2009 - Travel Day/Disneyland (park hours 8am - 11pm)

- Get up and stumble into the rig
- Leave for the airport at 5:30am
- Breakfast at airport - flight leaves at 7am - 2hr flight to LAX
- 1hr shuttle to DLR - get to resort around 10:30am
- Drop off bags at reception at DLR
- Early lunch at Rainforest Café - 11am
- Head in to Disneyland and just go where we feel like
- 3pm - leave the family in DL and go check in and get bags to room
- Make a run to Food 4 Less for breakfast stuff
- fam can do Jedi Training Academy at 3:30pm
- Catch back up with fam in DL
- Dinner at Blue Bayou - 5:30pm
- Watch Celebrate! A Street Party (6:30pm) if it works out
- Maybe hit a couple of rides
- Fantasmic! at 9pm


Day 2 - Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 - California Adventure (park hours 10am - 6pm)

- Breakfast in room
- Stroll in around opening time
- Check out where/when for characters
- Ride Soarin'
- Hit Toy Story Mania before it gets too crowded (get FPs right away so we can ride it several times)
- Finally get to ride California Screamin'!!!
- Do midway stuff and grab a counter service lunch
- Hit the Redwood Creek Challenge to work off lunch
- Hit the Grizzly River Run to cool off from RCC
- Back to the hotel to rest/hit the pool
- Come back and go straight to ToT (I'm assuming Bean will want to ride it at least 8 times to match her WDW record)
- See Disney's Aladdin
- Check out Monsters Inc. ride
- Might do Turtle Talk and Muppet Vision - up to the kids
- Ride Soarin' one more time
- Pixar Play Parade at 5:15pm
- Last minute rides before the park closes
- Dinner in our room or maybe McD's just outside the entrance


Day 3 - Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 - Disneyland (park hours 9am - 9pm)

- Breakfast in room
- Walk from hotel through DTD to DL main gate - try to be there for Main Street opening
- Check times for characters (everything below subject to change depending on where they are and when)
- Avoid the initial crowds by going towards Adventureland instead of Fantasyland or Tomorrowland
- Jungle Cruise
- PoTC a couple of times
- Indiana Jones Adventure
- Haunted Mansion a couple of times
- Splash Mountain
- Lunch at Stage Door Café
- Ride the Riverboat to let food settle
- BTMRR
- Back to hotel to kick back/hit the pool
- Come back and ride the train to the Toontown stop
- Stroll straight through to hit the classics in Fantasyland
- Maybe catch the Flag Retreat at 4:45pm in the Town Square
- Jump back on the train and do a full loop, ending in Tomorrowland
- Stroll to the monorail and ride it back to DTD and DLH
- PS for Goofy's Kitchen at 5:30pm
- have a relaxing evening


Day 4 - Thursday, October 15th, 2009 - California Adventure (park hours 10am - 5pm - plus MToTP)

- Breakfast in room
- Basically a general hit whatever we want to ride again morning
- More ToT, TSM, and California Screamin' specifically
- Everything in between
- Lunch wherever is convenient
- More rides
- Back to the hotel to rest/hit the pool
- Get ready for party
- Mickey's Trick or Treat Party - 6:30pm - 10:30pm


Day 5 - Friday, October 16th, 2009 - Disneyland (park hours 8am - Midnight)

- Breakfast in room
- Early entry to Toontown if we have the energy
- Roll over to Tomorrowland
- Finding Nemo before it gets crowded
- Space Mountain
- Buzz
- Star Tours
- Lunch at either Redd Rockett's or Tomorrowland Terrace
- Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
- Innoventions
- Back to hotel to rest/hit the pool
- Grab dinner somewhere
- Take monorail to Tomorrowland station
- Take train to New Orleans square
- PoTC & Indiana Jones if they aren't too crowded
- Stroll around until evening/light counter service dinner
- Fantasmic! at 9pm
- Stroll around/ride what we can
- Hit Main Street Shops
- Take train to Tomorrowland/monorail back to DTD


Day 6 - Saturday, October 17th, 2009

- Check-out from DLH/Fly home
- Pack up and check out by 11am
- Take the shuttle back to LAX
- Fly out at 12:55pm - 2hr flight
- Load up the rig and get home around 4pm and collapse

oh, and here's a pic of the tickets for the Trick or Treat Party ...just generic Disney tickets I'm afraid.

 

[mnmrmustard]

Oh, and I just put up our countdown calendar - Kris gets to take off the first mickey head. Underneath each day is a random number that represents a dollar amount in Disney Dollars. Each of them will end up with $25 Disney Dollars to spend :-]

 

[Trentmom]

WOO HOOTY on One Month




Your itinerary looks awesome


Those tickets are cute

I love the countdown calendar and doing the disney dollars with it...very neat idea

 

[Tat2ddisneymom]

It won't be long now! I bet the girls are so excited!

Wow, you will have a long day on the 12th! I'd be stumbling to the airport at that time of the morning too. Where is the Rainforest Cafe? Is that in Downtown Disney? Are you gonna make it by 11? Your itinerary looks like so much fun. The fam will have a blast, I'm sure.

Cool calendar. I'm sure they'll be happy with their Disney Dollars.

 

[mnmrmustard]

WOO HOOTY on One Month




Your itinerary looks awesome


Those tickets are cute

I love the countdown calendar and doing the disney dollars with it...very neat idea

Yup Sharky, we're getting close now

TY on the itinerary ...it gives us a starting point anyways. We'll see how well we stick to it

Yeah, cute tickets - very festive

I stole the dis dollars under the calendar days from someone else here on the boards, don't remember who

It won't be long now! I bet the girls are so excited!

Wow, you will have a long day on the 12th! I'd be stumbling to the airport at that time of the morning too. Where is the Rainforest Cafe? Is that in Downtown Disney? Are you gonna make it by 11? Your itinerary looks like so much fun. The fam will have a blast, I'm sure.

Cool calendar. I'm sure they'll be happy with their Disney Dollars.

Hey Tat! Right now the girls (and Kris) are recovering from their first week of school. I'm sure they'll get more excited as the days start really coming off the countdown calendar

Yes, combining a travel day with a park day is always challenging, but fun too! The Rainforest Cafe is in Downtown Disney, just a short walk from the Disneyland Hotel And when I made the reservation they said it was no problem if we were late, they'd still honor it.

We're hoping to have a good amount of fun, but still have some down time every day (except Monday) so we can rest. I figure I'll be down at the pool with the kids and Roxy will be snoozin' in the room

Yes, Kris has pulled his first mickey head off the calendar and so has Bean. She was a little disappointed because she only got a dollar and Kris got three. But I assured her that she'll get some bigger numbers as we go

 

[JennisSilly]

So I'm a newbie to your thread- but we're also going in October. I was there just a few weeks ago, and the lovely people in City Hall gave us a flier showing their "haunted holiday tour" was back this year (they had 2 years ago as well). Well this year it's even cooler- the attractions are different (you get to do the new "haunted" space mountain) as well as reserved seating for the new haunted holiday fireworks display for halloween...

You MAY already know this- but I thought I'd share it because I was super excited- also wanted to say I adore your shirt designs!

Have a great trip!!

 

[mnmrmustard]

So I'm a newbie to your thread- but we're also going in October. I was there just a few weeks ago, and the lovely people in City Hall gave us a flier showing their "haunted holiday tour" was back this year (they had 2 years ago as well). Well this year it's even cooler- the attractions are different (you get to do the new "haunted" space mountain) as well as reserved seating for the new haunted holiday fireworks display for halloween...

You MAY already know this- but I thought I'd share it because I was super excited- also wanted to say I adore your shirt designs!

Have a great trip!!

Hey There Jenn! Thanks much for stoppin' by

Yes, I have been reading on that tour and am tempted, have to see how things come together. I just hope the Santa Ana winds give us a break and the fireworks go off each night. The big thing for us will be the Trick or Treat party - we're going as pirates (along with hordes of others I'm sure) and are really looking forward to it

Thank you on the shirt designs ...let me know if you and yours would like any of the designs done up with your DIS Names. I can easily modify them from the photoshop templates and send you a link to download them

I see you're from Phoenix, I lived there for about a year and a half - just off of Deer Valley Road up at the north end of town. Loooonnnggg time ago though.

Have a great day!

 

[kaoden39]

I read a review about it and it counds like great fun. Maybe we will do it one year.

 

[mnmrmustard]

I read a review about it and it counds like great fun. Maybe we will do it one year.

It looks like fantastic fun for sure Michele. But after further talk about it, we just can't swing the extra $250 (after Disney Visa 20% discount) is would cost to do it this time. But something to keep in mind for our next Halloween adventure there!

Oh, and as an aside, I already know what our next Disney adventure is going to be! They've confirmed that the Disney Wonder cruise ship will be doing the Alaska cruise route starting in 2011 ...we hope to book a cruise on it for sometime in 2012!!!

 

[kaoden39]

It is a bit pricey if there are more than two of you isn't it? That always plays a part in my decisions concerning things like tours. I figure our kids are all getting old enough that Scotty and I can start doing the tours and things and letting the kids hang together as we do that kind of stuff.

 

[mnmrmustard]

It is a bit pricey if there are more than two of you isn't it? That always plays a part in my decisions concerning things like tours. I figure our kids are all getting old enough that Scotty and I can start doing the tours and things and letting the kids hang together as we do that kind of stuff.

Heheh, I'm looking forward to that ...but we're still a few years away from it

 

[Leger13]

Oh, and I just put up our countdown calendar - Kris gets to take off the first mickey head. Underneath each day is a random number that represents a dollar amount in Disney Dollars. Each of them will end up with $25 Disney Dollars to spend :-]

what a great idea with the Disney $$$.

 

[mnmrmustard]

what a great idea with the Disney $$$.

Thankyee Carla!

And the costumes came in for everyone except Kyra, who should have hers tomorrow

 

[Leger13]

Thankyee Carla!

And the costumes came in for everyone except Kyra, who should have hers tomorrow

Awesome!! Can't wait to see some pictures of them

 

[mnmrmustard]

Awesome!! Can't wait to see some pictures of them

Kyra's came in yesterday and we all tried them on - everyone's fits! Just have a few more accessories to get together for the kids and for my Barbossa pirate hat to come in.

We'll do some pics after everyone has everything

 

[JennisSilly]

I see you're from Phoenix, I lived there for about a year and a half - just off of Deer Valley Road up at the north end of town. Loooonnnggg time ago though.

Have a great day!

Ha- it must have been, Deer Valley isn't quite the north end of town anymore

Hope you have a great trip- I totally understand about the tour, thankfully for now it's just the hubby and me, so we are getting all these fun and fancy things in before the kiddos come around

 

[Leger13]

Kyra's came in yesterday and we all tried them on - everyone's fits! Just have a few more accessories to get together for the kids and for my Barbossa pirate hat to come in.

We'll do some pics after everyone has everything

oooo sounds like the costumes are fantastic! Glad everything fits so far!

 

[mnmrmustard]

Ha- it must have been, Deer Valley isn't quite the north end of town anymore

Hope you have a great trip- I totally understand about the tour, thankfully for now it's just the hubby and me, so we are getting all these fun and fancy things in before the kiddos come around

OMG! I just looked at the area and you are so very right. I used to go to Deer Valley Middle School (back when it was Deer Valley Jr High) and there used to be NOTHING around it ...now there's a whole world packed in around it.

oooo sounds like the costumes are fantastic! Glad everything fits so far!

They are pretty cool - thank you very much!

 

[mnmrmustard]

Hey All!

One step closer to the fun We are 18 days out from Disneyland and I got a call from Sandra, our AAA travel agent - our travel package was in!!!

I went down there and signed the last of the paperwork and brought home this:

I brought it in and it has our Itinerary, flight info, DLH vouchers, Disneyland Express vouchers, a bunch of misc stuff, and this:

Guess it's a very Goofy year down there - lol

Whoohoooooo!!!!

And Sandra said that the luggage tags were much cooler for DLR than WDW this year. Because you know it's all about the luggage tags

 

[kaoden39]

Oh this is when the trip becomes real. You actually are holding everything in yours hands. How wonderful!!