WDW/DCL Western Caribbean Honeymoon Extravaganza!! 7/19-8/1 PTR

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Okay, so of couse, it's all still running through my mind as I was trying to go to sleep and I thought I'd change the Palo time to 11 instead of 10 in case my character breakfast is scheduled for that day...but I'll do it tomorrow...

OF COURSE, now that time was not available when I checked this morning. Now I'm going to obsess over it for the next two months waiting for another time to open up...

But there is some good news! Originally I wanted the Dolphin Encounter in Grand Cayman but all that was showing up was the EXTREME Dolphin excursion, which is $30 more per person. I was fine with that so I booked it. Well today when I was checking on my reservations (for the 12th time), I noticed that this excursion was now listed!! When I clicked on it did say "new" so I cancelled the EXTREME and snagged the one I originally wanted.

YAY!! I'm so happy you were able to get everything you wanted!! We also had Palo brunch on Key West day- it was nice, you can see Key West from Palo as you dock. You'll be done in time for that 12:15 excursion, it won't be a problem. It sounds like they have alot of different excursions from when we cruised just this past November! Can't wait to hear all about them!!

Just curious- why no Palo for dinner? It's very romantic.

Thanks!! I don't know why, but Palo dinner just didn't appeal to me. The brunch sounded more our style. Besides, that will just give me an excuse to go on another disney cruise..."Oh we HAVE to do Palo dinner next time..." You know!

 

[knewton64]

Okay, so of couse, it's all still running through my mind as I was trying to go to sleep and I thought I'd change the Palo time to 11 instead of 10 in case my character breakfast is scheduled for that day...but I'll do it tomorrow...

OF COURSE, now that time was not available when I checked this morning. Now I'm going to obsess over it for the next two months waiting for another time to open up...

But there is some good news! Originally I wanted the Dolphin Encounter in Grand Cayman but all that was showing up was the EXTREME Dolphin excursion, which is $30 more per person. I was fine with that so I booked it. Well today when I was checking on my reservations (for the 12th time), I noticed that this excursion was now listed!! When I clicked on it did say "new" so I cancelled the EXTREME and snagged the one I originally wanted.




Thanks!! I don't know why, but Palo dinner just didn't appeal to me. The brunch sounded more our style. Besides, that will just give me an excuse to go on another disney cruise..."Oh we HAVE to do Palo dinner next time..." You know!

....YYEEAAAA. Ya got what ya orig wanted! good fer you.
can't wait to read more about yer tr -

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

YAY!! I'm so happy you were able to get everything you wanted!! We also had Palo brunch on Key West day- it was nice, you can see Key West from Palo as you dock. You'll be done in time for that 12:15 excursion, it won't be a problem. It sounds like they have alot of different excursions from when we cruised just this past November! Can't wait to hear all about them!!

Just curious- why no Palo for dinner? It's very romantic.

Oh good! That sounds nice about seeing Key West from Palo as we pull in. Yeah there were A LOT of excursion options that weren't in my 2008 Passporter.

AND, we decided to go for Palo dinner after all! Day 4 - Grand Cayman. I picked that day because it was just a regular rotation dining night. I DO NOT want ot miss a special party! I would have liked Day 3 - Formal night but it was unavailable.

....YYEEAAAA. Ya got what ya orig wanted! good fer you.
can't wait to read more about yer tr -

Thanks!!!

 

[knewton64]

Oh good! That sounds nice about seeing Key West from Palo as we pull in. Yeah there were A LOT of excursion options that weren't in my 2008 Passporter.

AND, we decided to go for Palo dinner after all! Day 4 - Grand Cayman. I picked that day because it was just a regular rotation dining night. I DO NOT want ot miss a special party! I would have liked Day 3 - Formal night but it was unavailable.



Thanks!!!

....I found this out from my very first WDW / DCL trip in January. And that is that if you choose to post videos (from Photobucket.com) it won't let you post any onto your trip report IF they are over a certain amount of MB.
Which stinks cuz I have a lot of videos shot but I can't post most of them cuz they are way too large of MB!

Anywho - DISsers...please feel free to chime in and give your opinions too on what I am about to say.....

I am guessing then I am going to keep my future WDW / DCL videos at about or under the 2 minute range - thinking I will be under the max MB I can use and still post them to my trip report.

Looking forward to reading more about you Magical trip
I have never been to Palo's so ya gotta let us know whatcha think -

C-YA

 

[anetnmike]

Hi! Just read your whole TR so far! LOVE your beautiful dress, sorry you had such an awful experience with the seamstress. You looked stunning in the picture! Loved the invites! Your plans so far are so exciting-it is so much fun to follow along with you-trip AND wedding plans!
I just have to add that the people who want to buy you stuff that is not on YOUR resgistry are not buying for YOU. Not very toughtful.However maybe you can take their gifts back and get $$$ for your trip
Also, I am with you on missing both Bea and the Backlot. May both RIP
I have snorkeled in Cozumel-however not thru Disney- it is incredibly beautiful!!!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Just a couple of updates...

-made an appointment for marriage license...
-made an appoinment for a cake tasting...
-starting thinking about planning bachelorette party and I think we're going to go to Great Adventure!! It's like a Disney preview but not nearly as good! I thought that would be a fantastic thing to do for the BP, and excuse to get all the girls today for a fun day! And I'll spend way less money than I would at the other option...Atlantic City!

Hi! Just read your whole TR so far! LOVE your beautiful dress, sorry you had such an awful experience with the seamstress. You looked stunning in the picture! Loved the invites! Your plans so far are so exciting-it is so much fun to follow along with you-trip AND wedding plans!
I just have to add that the people who want to buy you stuff that is not on YOUR resgistry are not buying for YOU. Not very toughtful.However maybe you can take their gifts back and get $$$ for your trip
Also, I am with you on missing both Bea and the Backlot. May both RIP
I have snorkeled in Cozumel-however not thru Disney- it is incredibly beautiful!!!

Thanks for all your kind words! I'm glad you are reading!

 

[knewton64]

Just a couple of updates...

-made an appointment for marriage license...
-made an appoinment for a cake tasting...
-starting thinking about planning bachelorette party and I think we're going to go to Great Adventure!! It's like a Disney preview but not nearly as good! I thought that would be a fantastic thing to do for the BP, and excuse to get all the girls today for a fun day! And I'll spend way less money than I would at the other option...Atlantic City!



Thanks for all your kind words! I'm glad you are reading!

pics! we must have pics of yer cake. What kinda cake??

Now on the WDW side of Disboards, here is a trip report to check out:


Wedding Crasher: Lurkyloo’s 4 Parties in 3 Nights with 2 Cameras and 1 Fabulous Hat
...she works for Passporters and her wedding stories are very funny. She also has her own wedding Disney story trip report as well.
Thought you might like a little wedding blip as you count down the days.


P.S. yes - ya gotta check out the hat "Lurkyloo" (in her trip report) is wearing! It's priceless....and
speaking of wearing things, fair to say we are gonna see pics of u in yer Disney brides ears in a few weeks????

T.T.F.N.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

pics! we must have pics of yer cake. What kinda cake??

Now on the WDW side of Disboards, here is a trip report to check out:


Wedding Crasher: Lurkyloo’s 4 Parties in 3 Nights with 2 Cameras and 1 Fabulous Hat
...she works for Passporters and her wedding stories are very funny. She also has her own wedding Disney story trip report as well.
Thought you might like a little wedding blip as you count down the days.


P.S. yes - ya gotta check out the hat "Lurkyloo" (in her trip report) is wearing! It's priceless....and
speaking of wearing things, fair to say we are gonna see pics of u in yer Disney brides ears in a few weeks????

T.T.F.N.

Sorry! I missed this post of yours!!

Yes, there wil be plenty of pics of cake and me in bride ears!! Cake tasting went so-so. The designs that I had printed off the internet were all fondont ones which, for some reason, would cost us $200 extra. So we have to think of another plan for making star designs on a buttercream cake....I'm thinking of making white chocolates if I can find a star mold but I have to call the baker and make sure that's something that can be added to the cake. He said if I find something, he can put it on. Even it the stars are not edible, they can just take them off before cutting up and passing out the cake. I'll keep you posted on that!! Other than that, we just picked white cake with chocolate moose filling. Simple.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

I feel so bad that I'm slacking so much with this PTR! Unfortunately, my desktop computer has been out of commission for about a month now and we've finally found someone who (we hope) can fix it! Then I'll be able to upload pictures, which you know I LOVE to add to TRs! We even got a new awesome camera and I haven't been able to upload any pics I've taken with it yet!! INCLUDING, pictures of my favorite restaurant (which I've spoken about before) Jose Tejas! It's so Disney-like, I can't wait to show you all pics.

SOooooo, yesterday was my bridal shower. It was not a surprise, which I was happy about. It was very strange to have all the people you know from different places all together at once.

I received a grand total of $1230 on my Disney Honeymoon Registry!! There was $950 when my package was due so I put that toward the room. Since then I received more so I have $280 left on that to take to Disney. On top of that, I received $250 Disney Dollars, a $200 Disney gift card and $150 total from various people who specifically said in the card to use the money for Disney...


So that brings my Disney money gifts to a grand total of.....

$1830!!!!!

I really can't believe it!! I never expected that DHR would be so successful! I though I'd get a couple hundred, maybe. I know that a lot of people like to give an actual gift but I was so happy that people really did use that as their primary gift. My peeps know me well!!!

Other than that, the shower was good, complete with an actual shower which kind of put a damper on things. It started raining as I was opening presents so I flew through them (which was nice) and everyone went inside my mother's tiny house that is not meant to hold 50 people!

The food was awesome! My mom ordered from Shop-Rite and they do a great job. We had some sandwiches and some hot dishes. My favorite part was the soft pretzel tray from the Philly Pretzel Factory! If you have one near you, you HAVE to order from this place. It is sooo good! Unfortunately, not only do I not have my desktop to upload pics, I forgot to bring my camera, otherwise I defintely would have taken a picture of this pretzel tray to show you all!

I got almost all of the gifts I registered for....and then some! Remember the red toast oven debacle? Oh, it was there and it was HUGE! I got a lot of cake decorating supplies, which I decided is going to be my new project. I got on this kick of making chocolates from parties and I decided I'd be really good at cake decorating so I registered for a lot of that stuff. I also got lots of little gadgets. I LOVE things that are useful...if it's not useful, I don't want it. Unlike Tom, who has a room full of action figures and statues....but that's a different story. There were a few things that I'm going to take back but overall, I was very happy with the gifts received. Between the rain and my niece needing attention, I'm not sure my sister wrote down all of the gifts and the cards got all mixed up so some peope may be getting a generic, "Thank you for your gift" card.

AS SOON as someone sends me some pictures from the day, I will be sure to post them!

Five weeks from today I will be full of 'Ohana and drinky drinks and ready for my first night at the Poly!!!

 

[anetnmike]

Hooray! You are back! Sounds like you had a great shower. Can't wait to see the pictures! Even of the red toaster oven!
5 weeks to go

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

I am getting married exactly 1 month from today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good news! My desktop computer is back and fixed. After a month of being without it, I had pretty much given up hope but we found the best guy who fixed in less than a week and saved all of our pictures/music/documents, etc. Soooooo, last night, I printed out all of my Make a Wish announcements (basically saying we made a donation instead of giving favors). I had just spent hours formatting it just right when my computer crashed and I was so worried I would have to start from scratch. So as soon as I got my comp back, that was the first thing I did! One more thing to check off the list.

Next thing is to make my Mickey Head Fan programs. I'm not really sure I will end up using them. After all, our wedding isn't in WDW and we have a LOT of subtle disney elements in our wedding, I'm worried the fan will be too "in your face" disney, ya know what I mean?

ALSO, now that I have my computer back, I can upload and share more pictures!! So you can look forward to that soon, as well!!!!

 

[podsnel]

I am so happy your shower was so wonderful!!!! And those pretzels are the BEST! I bought them for our Variety Show concessions- $.24 a pretzel (in bulk) and sold them for $1 each- AWESOME!!!

The RAIN....O.M.G.!!!!! We had our 4th grade picnic yesterday- how lucky are WE???

Only 1 month to go??? WOOHOOOOOOO!!!

Can't wait to see some shower pics!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

So yesterday I posted that I'm getting married in exactly one month. Well today I can say....

In exactly one month from today, I will be on my way to DISNEY WORLD!!!!

I am so happy your shower was so wonderful!!!! And those pretzels are the BEST! I bought them for our Variety Show concessions- $.24 a pretzel (in bulk) and sold them for $1 each- AWESOME!!!

The RAIN....O.M.G.!!!!! We had our 4th grade picnic yesterday- how lucky are WE???

Only 1 month to go??? WOOHOOOOOOO!!!

Can't wait to see some shower pics!

Those pretzels are awesome! Unfortunately, I did not bring my camera to my shower! What was I thinking?! Hopefully, someone will send me some picture from that day so I can put some on here.

 

[anetnmike]

 

[knewton64]

.....you are givin me ideas since I head out my for Adventures By Disney "Spirit of America" vacation; late Sept 2009 .....and the 1st leg of the trip is in Philly.

Never been to Philly, Wash DC and Williamsburg VA and lookin forward to it. My trip report has changed a little, it's now:

www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2201584

Anywho - glad to see u r back and that all is well.........say.....we gotta have a pic of that red toaster - pplleeaassee?????????????

looking forward to your tr.

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

I am SOOOOO glad this came out as nice as I wanted it to. I'm usually very apprehensive about ordering clothes online because things don't always fit me properly but when I saw this tank top and THIS graphic that you can personalize with, I HAD to make a shirt for the honeymoon!! It's a little snug but definitely wearable!! What do you think of this?!

 

[NikkiLovesWDW!]

Oh and look where I passed by the other day! Who knew, right over the Outerbridge Crossing, I could find the Animal Kingdom so close to home!

 

[WDWboy]

Welcome to Staten Island LOL

 

[anetnmike]

that tank is A-dor-a-able!!!
you will certainly get compliments on it at WDW!

 

[knewton64]

I am SOOOOO glad this came out as nice as I wanted it to. I'm usually very apprehensive about ordering clothes online because things don't always fit me properly but when I saw this tank top and THIS graphic that you can personalize with, I HAD to make a shirt for the honeymoon!! It's a little snug but definitely wearable!! What do you think of this?!

Love the tank. Somehow that graphic needs to hang somewhere in your home.