Part 3
Ok so were good to go.
Have airline and hotel ressies, DDE and APs, time to make some ADRs! I asked the kidlets where they would like to eat. They were each allowed to pick one meal. LizzY picked Chef Mickeys
, WinniethePooh93 picked Crystal Palace
, and Tinkerbelle 1024 picked CRT
for breakfast. I knew that Chef Mickeys and Crystal Palace would be easy enough to get but was pretty concerned about CRT both for availability and for $$$$$. So I told Tink that Id do my best but that there might not be any openings for CRT. That night I discussed this meal with DH. Its the most expensive breakfast well ever eat, but this is the summer between elementary school and middle school for Tink and I think so much magic ends once the kids start Middle School. Tink loves the princesses, but who knows how long this will last
may be our last chance! We decide to go for it and I cross my fingers that well get that ADR.
The next morning, I call CRO at 7am. The first thing I ask for is CRT breakfast, amazingly it is available for 8:10 on the Friday morning of our trip!!!
Book it. Also got ADRs Spoodles for Sunday night, Chef Mickeys for Thursday night (with Nsalz and family), Crystal Palace for lunch on Monday (also with Nsalz and family). I also made an ADR for Prime Time Café for lunch on Tuesday, because everyone in my family wanted to go back there! Figured the rest of vaca wed wing it because I dont like to be overscheduled!
By this time Ive become a member of the Secret Green Club
so all I really had left to do was go to HD and do some major swipin of the DISer version of gold... the LGMHPCs!!!! Went to a couple of different HDs to get my stash!
Well, at the beginning of June, I get an e-mail from SouthWest about $59.00 specials from ALB to MCO for our dates and continuing right into October. I was pretty bummed until DBil tells me I can change my ressies if my flight is available and get the $59.00 rate and a credit for future flights! So I go on the site, find out my flights are available (I actually had to keep checking back during the special, because the first few times the flights were not available). Well Im paranoid that I am going to mess this up and end up with no ressies, so I called Southwest and have the Southwest CM walk me through the process. Get the flights plus $40.00 credit on each flight, each way. I originally planned to use the credits next April when LizzYs band is playing in the parade at MK, but it turns out the credits were only good until the end of February. The credit is good for a year from your original booking, not a year from your flight.
Well only one thing to do in a case like this! DDs have a long weekend off from school the last weekend in Sept/first weekend in October. Flights were $59.00 through the middle of October
..so I booked a vaca from Sept 28 Oct. 2. Free Dining, and after the credit was applied, only had to pay $19.00 each way for each person on the flight! Well be staying at POR. Very cool! Two
Disney vacations booked!
Hope you had fun at POFQ!
Finally DH goes over to valet booth to inquire as to when the *&#$% we'll be getting our car and they say it's right there it's been here about 15 or 20 minutes and point to the car that is waiting for peeps....Nope, that's not our car! So they have some poor slob run throught the pouring rain to go get our car. He quickly brings it back and we're off! We went to the amgic kingdom because we always go there first. Main Street must be my first experience every trip. I just have to look at the castle, smell the popcorn and those other distinctly Main Street USA smells and have my little weepy moment because we're back!!! 
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