We're Going to Disney World!!---TR started 4/29!

:woohoo: for almost being done with midterms!!!! School is so stressful... I know I've said it before but the summer seriously can't come soon enough. UGH!

I can't believe your 24 days away!!!!!!! It's right around the corner!!!!!!!
 
YAY for less than a month!! We are in the process of changing everything.. or keeping it the same- however things work out- if we change them they will be earlier.. and I am excited about earlier!

I feel you on midterms.. sucky! I had those right before my spring break.. the rest of the semester I will be really busy.. and don't want to think about it. So I will be like you.. wanting to dis but can't!


Good luck on the rest of them!! :upsidedow
 
Heya hun, how are you? Sorry I have been MIA, I went down to Mum's for Mother's Day and still no net. Anyhoo, I can't believe its less than a month till you go, how exciting. Any new updates?
 
YAY for less than a month!! We are in the process of changing everything.. or keeping it the same- however things work out- if we change them they will be earlier.. and I am excited about earlier!

I feel you on midterms.. sucky! I had those right before my spring break.. the rest of the semester I will be really busy.. and don't want to think about it. So I will be like you.. wanting to dis but can't!


Good luck on the rest of them!! :upsidedow

I'm sooo excited its less than a month!! :yay: I'm gonna head over to your PTR and see what the new update with your guys in just a minute.

Midterms stinkkkkkk! Only one left now which is Monday so I need to start studying NOW instead of the night before. :laughing:Good luck with the rest of school with you! :goodvibes

Heya hun, how are you? Sorry I have been MIA, I went down to Mum's for Mother's Day and still no net. Anyhoo, I can't believe its less than a month till you go, how exciting. Any new updates?

Heyy Ariel, I'm doing much better right now then I was at this time yesterday! How was your Mom's? I have some new updates butttt I just haven't had time to post it so look out for one coming before this weekend :goodvibes

:woohoo: for almost being done with midterms!!!! School is so stressful... I know I've said it before but the summer seriously can't come soon enough. UGH!

I can't believe your 24 days away!!!!!!! It's right around the corner!!!!!!!

One more midterm to go! Summer needs to come asap, except that I might end up taking a summer class too :laughing: Now Disney, that can't come soon enough!!
 

Oh my goodness!!! Your trip is getting so close!

Good luck on the rest of your midterms. You're going to need to hibernate after all this work!
 
Sorry! I miss you toooo! Chris and I ran to the mall after school before and then I fell asleep when I got home :laughing: I just texted you though :goodvibes

Haha, yes I am talking to you right now..but I can't believe that April is almost here!
 
okay....i didn't realize i was 50 pages behind. holy crap -i don't know that i can catch up!!!! :rotfl: i did read the first couple of pages. i wanted to tell you that ray and i went last year in late april and the crowds were great. the weather was the best thing though - it was AWESOME! i don't remember sweating even a little bit and it was just chilly enough for a light hoody. i think it rained for 1 hour our entire 7-day trip. :thumbsup2

do you remember where your itinerary and ADRs are posted? i wanna check them out!

good luck on the last of the midterms!
 
I'm just catching up with reports, so I'm sorry I missed wishing you the best through the most stressful tests. I'm glad you've already made it through the roughest ones. Maybe you can reward yourself with a Disney movie and some DIS time this weekend before you finish out the rest of your school obligations. On your last day, I want you to yell so loud I can hear it in my classroom!

Hang in there with all the school stuff. It'll pay off in the end. And as for the trip, once you're inside thirty days, it seems to woooosh by, so it will be here before you know it!
 
Now Disney, that can't come soon enough!!


I know, I know-tell me about it. If school and work weren't keeping me up crazy hours-I'd be "too excited to sleep". I even started packing. It's probably a good thing I started so soon, because I have a typical bachelor's apartment, and have lots of:laundy: laying around, and trying to find stuff is:eek:. Less than 24 Days to go :cheer2: until all of the mid-April DISers are on :cloud9:
 
Ooo your doing your midterms aren't you? Well good luck hun, I am sure you will be absolutely fine with all the work you put in. It will pay off soon, although it always sucks at the time. And just think, you will be at Disney so soon.
 
Yuck, I hated midterms! But on the bright side you are going to Disney World sooooo soon! :cool1:
 
Oh my goodness!!! Your trip is getting so close!

Good luck on the rest of your midterms. You're going to need to hibernate after all this work!

Yesss its so close!! Just one midterm next and when I'm done, DISing and hibernation are on the agenda :laughing:

Haha, yes I am talking to you right now..but I can't believe that April is almost here!

Almostttttttt :goodvibes

okay....i didn't realize i was 50 pages behind. holy crap -i don't know that i can catch up!!!! :rotfl: i did read the first couple of pages. i wanted to tell you that ray and i went last year in late april and the crowds were great. the weather was the best thing though - it was AWESOME! i don't remember sweating even a little bit and it was just chilly enough for a light hoody. i think it rained for 1 hour our entire 7-day trip. :thumbsup2

do you remember where your itinerary and ADRs are posted? i wanna check them out!

good luck on the last of the midterms!

:laughing:Ok you don't have to read everythingggg I wouldnt expect you to! I'm so happy that you just told me how great it was in April! My worst fear right now is that it's going to rain the whole time, I would be CRUSHED but hopefully we will have good luck like you and ray.

I don't remember where I posted my ADR's and itinerary but I'll repost them...maybe tonight...maybe right now since I'm not busy lol :cutie:

I'm just catching up with reports, so I'm sorry I missed wishing you the best through the most stressful tests. I'm glad you've already made it through the roughest ones. Maybe you can reward yourself with a Disney movie and some DIS time this weekend before you finish out the rest of your school obligations. On your last day, I want you to yell so loud I can hear it in my classroom!

Hang in there with all the school stuff. It'll pay off in the end. And as for the trip, once you're inside thirty days, it seems to woooosh by, so it will be here before you know it!

Aww thanks MeMom! I just have one test left and I'm so much less stressed. I'm going to do an update in a few minutes. I just got home from work and ate dinner and now its time to unwind and DIS. After I'm done with school you will definitely here me all the way in TN, without a doubt :thumbsup2

I can't wait until I'm totally finished and certified. I really want to be able to make kids like history...if thats possible :laughing: Only 23 more days until we leave, I can't contain myself!!

I know, I know-tell me about it. If school and work weren't keeping me up crazy hours-I'd be "too excited to sleep". I even started packing. It's probably a good thing I started so soon, because I have a typical bachelor's apartment, and have lots of:laundy: laying around, and trying to find stuff is:eek:. Less than 24 Days to go :cheer2: until all of the mid-April DISers are on :cloud9:

:lmao: I definitely can feel you on the "too excited to sleep" thing. I haven't started packing yet, I think my BF would laugh in my face if I started or asked him to start. I never pack early. But BF's room is COVERED in :laundy: so he better get on that soon! We will certainly be on :cloud9: and we owe it to ourselves!

Ooo your doing your midterms aren't you? Well good luck hun, I am sure you will be absolutely fine with all the work you put in. It will pay off soon, although it always sucks at the time. And just think, you will be at Disney so soon.

Yep, one more midterm to go. I'm pretty sure I did well its just so stressful! Disney is getting me through it day by day ;)

Yuck, I hated midterms! But on the bright side you are going to Disney World sooooo soon! :cool1:

I hateeee midterms! When I graduated last summer I thought I was done with them...then I went back for my masters lol Can't wait to get to WDW! :thumbsup2
 
Ok so I have some time to write an update! This trip is approaching soooo quick I am more excited than I can even explain. Only the wonderful people here on the DIS can understand what I mean :goodvibes

I need to make a list of things I still have to do. I need to still get us ponchos and an over the door shoe hanger for our toiletries and...I can't think of anything else right now but I'm sure I'll think of something. We ordered our groceries from Garden Grocer the other night. It was soo exciting to do it because it means that our trip is even sooner! :thumbsup2 We ordered 2 boxes of cereal (we eat it at any time of the day), some junk food (of course, its vacation right?), refrigerated bagels, peanut butter, bowls, plates, forks, spoons & knives, clorox antibacterial wipes and a 32 pk of water. The groceries themselves were pretty reasonably priced, similar to the prices here at home. It came to around $50 and then it asks us what we would like to put for gratuity so we just put $5. So we get to the next page and the total is......$71?! I was shocked! They charge you $12 just for delivery! (I should have probably checked into it before I ordered lol) My mom orders grocery delivery for my grandma from peapod.com and she pays $4.95 for delivery!! Anyway, we still ordered the stuff obviously, we just thought $71 was a little extreme. I didn't order milk or anything cold, we can just get that from the food court at ASMo.

Dawn (punkin143) asked to see my itinerary and ADR's so I figured nows a good time to post an updated itinerary so here it is...pretty much the same as before, just a few differences.

Sunday April 19th---
-leave house at 3:45am (OMG, so early) to get to JFK at approx 4:30 for 6am flight out of NY
-land in ATL at 8:46am for layover and then take off again for MCO at 9:50am landing in Orlando at 11:25am (yayyy we're here!!! :woohoo:)
-get luggage and head to ME counter (we decided to just let ME get our luggage and deliver it...wish us luck!)
-arrive at ASMo at approx 1pm, check in, hopefully our room will be ready
-grab lunch at ASMo food court
-go back to room, unpack and get situated
-maybe some pool time and a nap, we will be pooped from being up so early, maybe walk around the other AllStars
-wake up around 4-5ish, freshen up and get some dinner either at Big River Grill and Brewing Works or ASMo food court
-walk around DTD after dinner for a while OR head to the MK! (i just checked and the MK has EMH until 3 am!!! so even if we don't get there until 6 or 7 we can get 5 or 6 good hours and still be back to the room by like 1am to sleep)

Monday April 20th---
-wake up and get ready for morning EMH at Animal Kingdom!!
-be at AK by 8am...head straight for Everest to ride it and get fastpasses for later
-head to the safari to ride it early before our breakfast ressie at Tusker House for Donald's Safari Breakfast at 9:10am!!
-hit Dinosaur, Kali River Rapids, It's Tough to be a Bug, Primeval Whirl, Pangani Trail, Maharajah Jungle Trek, Finding Nemo musical, Festival of the Lion King, use our EE FP's and meet some characters
-grab CS lunch at Flame Tree BBQ or Pizzafari
-be out of the park by 3ish (is that completely un-doable??)
-if we're there late enough we'll also watch the Jammin Jungle Parade
-head back to ASMo hopefully getting back around 4
-relax and freshen up and head over to DisneyQuest by 5:30ish
-DQ until we feel like leaving, probably catching dinner at CS inside
-if time, walk around DTD a little more and then call it a night

Tuesday April 21st---
-wake up and have a quick breakfast either in the room with things we order from Garden Grocer or at the ASMo food court
-head to Universal's Island of Adventure either by taxi or Mears bus (when I was staying at ASSp in 2005 there was a Mears bus that ran at scheduled times that you had to sign up for to get you to Universal...does anyone know if this is still around?)
-IOA all day, CS for lunch and depending on how we feel, Margaritaville for dinner
-leave IOA (not sure what time because I'm not sure how long it will take us to do everything we want to hit)
-if we get back to ASMo early enough, resort hopping
-we want to see the GF, Poly, WL, BC&YC, and spend some time on the Boardwalk

Wednesday April 22nd---
-up early to head to Blizzard Beach by opening (10am)
-quick breakfast again either in the room or at ASMo food court
-spend day at BB doing everything possible
-lunch at CS inside BB
-leave BB by 3pm-ish
-head back to ASMo to shower and relax
-go to DTD and/or Boardwalk (depending on what we did the night before)
-grab CS dinner or just snacks

Thursday April 23rd---
-up early with quick breakfast at ASMo food court or in room
-head to DHS for rope drop at 9am!!
-go right for Toy Story Mania (along with all the other crazys) and ride it once, grab FP's for later
-head over to Tower of Terror and Rockin Rollercoaster and hopefully be able to ride both
-hit Muppets 3D, the Backlot Tour, Walt Disney: One Man's Dream, The Great Movie Ride, Lights! Motor! Action! stunt show, Disney Animation Studio, Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Indiana Jones show, Star Tours, American Idol Experience, Beauty and the Beast show, the HS Musical show (if possible), use TSM FP's and of course, Fantasmic!
-do as much as possible before lunch ressies at Sci-Fi Drive In at 11:30am (we might just get appetizers here so we're not too stuffed for dinner)
-take an afternoon break back to ASMo if necessary
-head back to DHS if we took a break to hit a couple more things before dinner ressies at Mama Melrose at 4:45pm
-after dinner do as many more rides as we can until we have to go over to see Fantasmic!

Friday April 24th---
-up early with quick breakfast at ASMo food court or in room
-head over to Epcot (my fave) for rope drop (9am, also nighttime EMH)
-head right to Soarin' and ride it and grab FP's for later
-ride Test Track, Mission:Space, Spaceship Earth, The Seas with Nemo and Friends, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, The ImageWorks-Kodak Labs, Innoventions pavilion, Imagination pavilion, Turtle Talk with Crush, the Kim Possible adventure, use Soarin' FP's all the countries including riding Maelstrom, Gran Fiesta Tour, and seeing as many of the performances in each country as we can
-lunch ressie at San Angel Inn at 12:30pm
-take an afternoon break if necessary
-come back to Epcot and do things we didn't get to do before the break
-dinner ressie at Teppan Edo for 6pm
-do more exploring and then watch Illuminations (give me your best viewing spots so I can write them down!!)

Drinks to get in Epcot::
-rainbow margarita
-Gran Marnier orange slush
-grey goose slush
-tangerine daquari (thanks Ariel!)
-beer flight (for Chris)
HELP ME COME UP WITH SOME MORE TO TRY!!

Saturday April 25th--
-up early to head straight to Magic Kingdom!!! try and get there early enough to see the morning show but definitely be there by rope drop
-head straight for Splash Mountain and grab FP's for later and then ride Big Thunder Mountain (Space Mountain is CLOSED while we're there :guilty:)
-grab breakfast at Main Street Bakery
-hit Country Bears Jamboree, Mad Tea Party, Philharmagic, Monsters Inc Laugh Floor, Snow White's Scary Adventure, Pirates of the Caribbean, Buzz Light Year Space Ranger Spin, Jungle Cruise, Mickey and Minnie's houses, Peter Pan's flight, Winnie the Pooh. Carousel of Progress, Liberty Square river boat (maybe), Goofy's Barnstormer, Haunted Mansion, use Spalsh Mountain FP's, SpectroMagic, and of course, Wishes! (give me your favorite viewing spots for both!!)
-lunch ressie at The Plaza Restaurant at 1pm
-take an afternoon break if necessary
-come back to MK if we left and do whatever rides we still need/want to do
-dinner at CS Columbia Harbor House preferably
-cry alot because its our last full day :sad1:

Sunday April 26th---
-wake up and cry more because we have to leave
-breakfast ressie at Kona Cafe at 7:30am
-grab ME and head to MCO to get a 11:50am flight back to NY

I wanna know what everyone thinks! For one thing, we cancelled our ADR at Raglan Road. While the atmosphere sounds great, I checked the menu on allears and realized there's pretty much nothing there that Chris will eat and VERY little that I will eat. Not gonna work. So we nixed that. We'll either eat at Big River Grill or just at the food court. That will depend on the next thing...whether we go to the MK that night. I knew that there were nighttime EMH there that night but I didn't know they were until 3am!! So I told Chris and we figure that we would have time to get situated at the hotel, swim, nap, freshen up, eat dinner and still make it to the MK by 6ish. What does everyone think? I know that many people like to start their vacations at the MK and since we're not going to use all our visits on the ticket we have anyway, we might as well. We'll see. The only other thing I really changed was I got us an earlier lunch time at Sci-Fi for our DHS day. We'll eat lunch there at 11:30 but probably just get appys so we can enjoy our dinner at Mama Melrose.

I put in for $50 of my Disney Visa rewards for my parents anniversary. My billing cycle ends today and I should have $32 left for us to use in April. I'll send for those at the beginning of the month.

Here's the big question..I know if I post it here someone will definitely have the answer. We got the 7 day MYW ticket with the water park option through the 4/3 deal. We're only going to use 4 (maybe 5) days of it. So Tammy (onetreehilladdict) had said something to me a few months back about upgrading it to a 10 day pass. I thought of it yesterday and checked how much the difference is between 7 days and 10...its only like $6 each! So we want to do that. Then on our last day before we check out, we want to add no expiration to everything we haven't used yet. CAN THIS ALL BE DONE!? :confused3 We totally hope so because it would be well worth the money. That way when we go next March with Tinkgurl and her BF, we won't have to buy tickets! Let me know guys!

My cousins wedding reception is this Saturday and then I'm going to be studying most of the day on Sunday but I'll be around. Just maybe not too active on here. I hope everyone has a great weekend!! Thanks for reading ;):goodvibes
 
Your plans look great! Just be sure to prioritize everything since you have a lot of things you want to do in a short amount of time. I don't know if you'll be able to get everything done, so make sure to know what you want to do first. Which I'm sure you knew already ;) :laughing:

I really don't know about the tickets but I'm sure someone else can help there. For your day at IOA though, you have to go to Mythos!!! They're open for lunch and it's one of the greatest restaurants. It was ranked the best theme park restaurant in the world for the past, like, five years and the foods SO GOOD! The atmosphere's also crazy... it's like you're in the lost city of Atlantis with waterfalls and faces and figures carved into the walls. It's really cool! I'm definitely gonna miss it this trip since it's the first time we're not going :( Margaritaville is also REALLY good! It's actually my favorite restaurant ever - it's TOO MUCH FUN!

I can't believe how close your trip is!!!!! :woohoo:
 
Your plans look great! Just be sure to prioritize everything since you have a lot of things you want to do in a short amount of time. I don't know if you'll be able to get everything done, so make sure to know what you want to do first. Which I'm sure you knew already ;) :laughing:

I really don't know about the tickets but I'm sure someone else can help there. For your day at IOA though, you have to go to Mythos!!! They're open for lunch and it's one of the greatest restaurants. It was ranked the best theme park restaurant in the world for the past, like, five years and the foods SO GOOD! The atmosphere's also crazy... it's like you're in the lost city of Atlantis with waterfalls and faces and figures carved into the walls. It's really cool! I'm definitely gonna miss it this trip since it's the first time we're not going :( Margaritaville is also REALLY good! It's actually my favorite restaurant ever - it's TOO MUCH FUN!

I can't believe how close your trip is!!!!! :woohoo:

OMG i know we have so much planned for a short amount of time! I wish we could go longer or more often but since we can't we're gonna have to just get as much done as we can.

You and Ariel have both raved about Mythos! If we do a TS at IoA I'll definitely keep it in mind along with Margaritaville. 23 dayssssss! :dance3:
 
Good lord, 3:45 a.m. is SO freakin' early! :headache:

I've been to ATL a few times! I think I found a Starbucks there! :laughing:

Oooh take pics on ME!

That'll be a good idea to relax around the hotel before heading out for dinner. Especially since MK is open until 3 am! :woohoo:

But, I do have a question...what time are you planning on waking up the next day for AK morning EMH's? :laughing:

I vote for lunch at Pizzafari!

What time is the Jammin' Jungle Parade? I thought it was 4 or something. Just wondered, because you said you wanted to be back to your room around 4.

I've never been to DisneyQuest, so take some pics for me!

Everything you want to see at DHS looks good to me!

Yum, Mama Melrose!

Ooh, I love getting cinnamon rolls at the MK Bakery! Yum!

Oh my lord, you're eating at Kona Cafe for breakfast? You have to get Tonga Toast!

Okay, overall everything looks great. We gotta decide what you're gonna call me on/at. And I'm so excited I got mentioned in this post!
 
OMG i know we have so much planned for a short amount of time! I wish we could go longer or more often but since we can't we're gonna have to just get as much done as we can.

You and Ariel have both raved about Mythos! If we do a TS at IoA I'll definitely keep it in mind along with Margaritaville. 23 dayssssss! :dance3:

I'm sure you'll have time for most of what you wanna do. Either way, it's fun just being there... and you'll be there in 23 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Your itinerary looks great! I can't believe you'll have to leave at 3:45...and I thought when we've left at 5 that was early! LOL.

As for your ticket question, I don't know how the whole adding on thing works if you already have a ticket so hopefully someone else can answer that. But the no-expiration option is great. We've done that our past couple trips (getting the 10-day hopper with no expiration) and it works great. Because our trips have been shorter we can usually use the same tickets for a couple of trips. That way even if you end up having a change in plans you can still use them! I know that I will be doing that again when I buy mine! :thumbsup2
 








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