bluejasmine
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So... While I am a Disney Authorized TA it started as a side job.. Last Aug I lost my 9-5 job.. We went to WDW on our honeymoon in 2008 and we have gone back every yr since then for our anniversaries.. Didnt think we were going to make this trip with the job loss but my Sweetheart of a MOM knows how much these trips mean to us, and so she paid for it!
We were originally booked for POFQ but between the Room Only Code and the 10% ($415) I saved buying Disney Gift Cards at Target we were able to upgrade to CR Tower Room with Bay Lake VIEW!!
We stayed at CR back in 2011 for a night also Tower BLV and we were really impressed!
Now the introductions:
My name is Tasha mother of 3 teenagers (Ds21,DS19,DD16) I LOVE all things Disney, I love both MK and EP and my favorite resort is a tie between Poly and GF! My favorite characters are Minnie Mouse, Evil Queen and Maleficent!
DH is Tommy and he works as a Crew Leader at a Pipe and Precast Company and is my true soulmate
He truly is my DREAM Man! He has always loved Disney but only went once in Highschool with his school but he fell in LOVE with WDW in 2008 on our honeymoon! His favorite resort is Poly and favorite character is Mickey Mouse!
The Plans
We will arrive in Orlando the morning of Sept 8 ( DH always insists we leave at 430 am) will arrive at DTD around 1030/11 amand have lunch at RFC, I remembered the other day that since my birthday is at the end of Aug I will have a $25 reward on my Landry's Select Card so we choose RFC!
Will shop for awhile then check into Holiday Inn Express LBV, got a great rate on Orbitz. Now we always stay in a DTD resort and I thought I was booking one, BUT this right around the corner so thats ok.
Figured we may swim for an hour or two or just relax and then dinner is at Paradiso 37, we have always wanted to try it!
The morning of the 8th we will have the complimentary breakfast at HI and rush over to Contemporary Resort and check in and hop the monorail to MK!We always do MK first and POTC is the traditional first ride!
Lunch is at LTT (we have DDP), in my 20 something trips I hadnt tried LTT b/c I just wasnt interested in Thanksgiving Dinner. Then this past Dec we tried it for lunch and I LOVED the Freedom Pasta and the Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake! OMG I honestly think it was my best meal of that trip!!
Figured we would hop the monorail back around 2 and unpack and swim for about an hour and head back to MK around 6 have CHH for lunch and Im hoping that we can score Wishes Dessert Party Reservations for that night PLUS its an evening EMH!
We always follow our first MK day with Epcot! We adore Epcot! The cultures, the food, the cocktails, the shopping!!!
Im dying to get the ham and cheese croissant at the new Les Halles so I plan to have lunch there!
As a surprise I booked the Behind the Seeds Tour at 430, DH is a gardner (veggies) and expressed interest in this tour once so I thought Id surprise my Dream Man! Ill be bored but its an hour I can do an hour for my baby right?? 
Dinner is Coral Reef, this is the one ADR DH asked for. He fell in love with CR on our honeymoon. I think its the memories of it tho. In 2008 you could email someone at the restaurant and they would make a menu with your name and pics on it and you could have scuba Mickey come down the tank and hold a sign up , and you decided what the sign said. I did both for DH and he was so shocked and touched, he actually got teary eyed while the restaurant litterly went AHHHHHHH! LOL
The 10th is a down day, take monorail over to Poly and Capt Cooks for TONGA TOAST
Then back to CR to hang by the pool until about 1230 and drive over to DTD for lunch at WGPE for another favorite, bacon wrapped meatlof! YUM! I normally dont even like meatloaf! Head over to DQ another place that has alot of memories from our honeymoon, Im so happy the 2013 packages include 2 vouchers to DQ!! Later at 7 we meet a couple of another families at Ragland Road for dinner!! I met these friends on the Disney Fantasy last Sept and I just love them!
The 12th we will need to catch the early bus to AK for Tusker House reservations! You know why I made these reservations? One word. DONUTS!
Tommy adores DONUTS but rarely gets them here at home, Im always watching my weight! Ak is normally a half day for us so I figured we would come back around 1230 have a snack and a cocktail around the pool and swim! Dinner is at THE WAVE and then we drive over to POR for another surprise for Tommy! Carriage Ride!!
The 12th is another day in Epcot more shopping, cocktails and rides! Oh I cant wait to try the Tipsy Ducks in Love cocktail in China!! 
Lunch will be Katsura Grill for sushi and dinner is at Via Napoli another favorite! YUM!
The 13th is our anniversary! Ill have a card and a bottle of champagne! Some flameless tea lights, rose petals to decorate the room with! Breakfast is a monorail ride away at GF! 1900 Parke Fare we love the Lobster Eggs Benedict here! Grab the bus from GF to HS for half the day come back and swim and relax until our dinner ADR at San Angel Inn another honeymoon memory! Then its on the boat to HS for the Villains Party!!
oh I cant wait! I LOVE the female Villains like, Evil Queen, Cruella, Maleficent!!
The 14th is our last day.. sadly..
Of course we will end it with the MK! Dinner that night is at Be Our Guest, we had lunch here in Dec and loved it so very happy I got this ADR and a 6pm to boot! 
Will shop our way back down Main St USA and pack at the resort that night.
The 15th sleep in a bit (730 is sleeping in for us) we have a 9 am ADR at the WAVE for the breakfast buffet and then swing by DTD for sandwiches at EOS for the road trip home!
We have several cocktails we want to try: Pimms Cup in UK, Grand Marnier (had it before ) in France, Tipsy Ducks in Love in China, sparkling sake (get it every trip ) in Japan! Mowie Wowie at Tune In Lounge at HS! One of my absolute favorites that most WDW TS restaurants make is the Pina Colava the pina colada with raspberry puree...
We love the monorail so are very happy to be at a MK resort, I would have never dreamed we could afford it this trip! We stayed at Poly CL twice and GF CL so Im really excited to be back at CR! While the resort itself reminds me of an airport the rooms are amazing!! Wouldnt some pixie dust to move us to CL be magical?? LOL no Im not expecting it!
So now as of today June 28 we have 71 more days and it feels like an ETERNITY! Time better NOT fly once we get there!
Until my next update
to all my friends here at DIS! 
We were originally booked for POFQ but between the Room Only Code and the 10% ($415) I saved buying Disney Gift Cards at Target we were able to upgrade to CR Tower Room with Bay Lake VIEW!!
We stayed at CR back in 2011 for a night also Tower BLV and we were really impressed!
Now the introductions:
My name is Tasha mother of 3 teenagers (Ds21,DS19,DD16) I LOVE all things Disney, I love both MK and EP and my favorite resort is a tie between Poly and GF! My favorite characters are Minnie Mouse, Evil Queen and Maleficent!
DH is Tommy and he works as a Crew Leader at a Pipe and Precast Company and is my true soulmate
He truly is my DREAM Man! He has always loved Disney but only went once in Highschool with his school but he fell in LOVE with WDW in 2008 on our honeymoon! His favorite resort is Poly and favorite character is Mickey Mouse!The Plans
We will arrive in Orlando the morning of Sept 8 ( DH always insists we leave at 430 am) will arrive at DTD around 1030/11 amand have lunch at RFC, I remembered the other day that since my birthday is at the end of Aug I will have a $25 reward on my Landry's Select Card so we choose RFC!
Will shop for awhile then check into Holiday Inn Express LBV, got a great rate on Orbitz. Now we always stay in a DTD resort and I thought I was booking one, BUT this right around the corner so thats ok.
Figured we may swim for an hour or two or just relax and then dinner is at Paradiso 37, we have always wanted to try it!
The morning of the 8th we will have the complimentary breakfast at HI and rush over to Contemporary Resort and check in and hop the monorail to MK!We always do MK first and POTC is the traditional first ride!
Lunch is at LTT (we have DDP), in my 20 something trips I hadnt tried LTT b/c I just wasnt interested in Thanksgiving Dinner. Then this past Dec we tried it for lunch and I LOVED the Freedom Pasta and the Ooey Gooey Toffee Cake! OMG I honestly think it was my best meal of that trip!!
Figured we would hop the monorail back around 2 and unpack and swim for about an hour and head back to MK around 6 have CHH for lunch and Im hoping that we can score Wishes Dessert Party Reservations for that night PLUS its an evening EMH!
We always follow our first MK day with Epcot! We adore Epcot! The cultures, the food, the cocktails, the shopping!!!
Im dying to get the ham and cheese croissant at the new Les Halles so I plan to have lunch there!
As a surprise I booked the Behind the Seeds Tour at 430, DH is a gardner (veggies) and expressed interest in this tour once so I thought Id surprise my Dream Man! Ill be bored but its an hour I can do an hour for my baby right?? Dinner is Coral Reef, this is the one ADR DH asked for. He fell in love with CR on our honeymoon. I think its the memories of it tho. In 2008 you could email someone at the restaurant and they would make a menu with your name and pics on it and you could have scuba Mickey come down the tank and hold a sign up , and you decided what the sign said. I did both for DH and he was so shocked and touched, he actually got teary eyed while the restaurant litterly went AHHHHHHH! LOL
The 10th is a down day, take monorail over to Poly and Capt Cooks for TONGA TOAST
Then back to CR to hang by the pool until about 1230 and drive over to DTD for lunch at WGPE for another favorite, bacon wrapped meatlof! YUM! I normally dont even like meatloaf! Head over to DQ another place that has alot of memories from our honeymoon, Im so happy the 2013 packages include 2 vouchers to DQ!! Later at 7 we meet a couple of another families at Ragland Road for dinner!! I met these friends on the Disney Fantasy last Sept and I just love them! The 12th we will need to catch the early bus to AK for Tusker House reservations! You know why I made these reservations? One word. DONUTS!
Tommy adores DONUTS but rarely gets them here at home, Im always watching my weight! Ak is normally a half day for us so I figured we would come back around 1230 have a snack and a cocktail around the pool and swim! Dinner is at THE WAVE and then we drive over to POR for another surprise for Tommy! Carriage Ride!! The 12th is another day in Epcot
more shopping, cocktails and rides! Oh I cant wait to try the Tipsy Ducks in Love cocktail in China!! Lunch will be Katsura Grill for sushi and dinner is at Via Napoli another favorite! YUM!The 13th is our anniversary! Ill have a card and a bottle of champagne! Some flameless tea lights, rose petals to decorate the room with! Breakfast is a monorail ride away at GF! 1900 Parke Fare we love the Lobster Eggs Benedict here! Grab the bus from GF to HS for half the day come back and swim and relax until our dinner ADR at San Angel Inn another honeymoon memory! Then its on the boat to HS for the Villains Party!!
oh I cant wait! I LOVE the female Villains like, Evil Queen, Cruella, Maleficent!!The 14th is our last day.. sadly..
Of course we will end it with the MK! Dinner that night is at Be Our Guest, we had lunch here in Dec and loved it so very happy I got this ADR and a 6pm to boot! Will shop our way back down Main St USA and pack at the resort that night.The 15th sleep in a bit (730 is sleeping in for us) we have a 9 am ADR at the WAVE for the breakfast buffet and then swing by DTD for sandwiches at EOS for the road trip home!
We have several cocktails we want to try: Pimms Cup in UK, Grand Marnier (had it before ) in France, Tipsy Ducks in Love in China, sparkling sake (get it every trip ) in Japan! Mowie Wowie at Tune In Lounge at HS! One of my absolute favorites that most WDW TS restaurants make is the Pina Colava the pina colada with raspberry puree...
We love the monorail so are very happy to be at a MK resort, I would have never dreamed we could afford it this trip! We stayed at Poly CL twice and GF CL so Im really excited to be back at CR! While the resort itself reminds me of an airport the rooms are amazing!! Wouldnt some pixie dust to move us to CL be magical??
LOL no Im not expecting it!So now as of today June 28 we have 71 more days and it feels like an ETERNITY! Time better NOT fly once we get there!
Until my next update
to all my friends here at DIS! 
