Who can't say no to a PIN Code?!? WE CAN'T! 11/18-11/21 PTR: Day 1 and 2 added

[princessallegra]

I never thought we would be making our way BACK to WDW after just having our dream Disneymoon do-over trip this past June...BUT we received another 40% off PIN code via email, and we just couldn't say no, so here we go! We are so excited to be going back to the World at our most FAVORITE time of year, November! The weather is great, the crowds are manageable, and best of all...MICKEY'S VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS PARTY!!! So without further ado, here is your cast of characters:

Moi-Allegra, 28. Huge Disney nut (Vintage Snow White tattoo and all), lover of magic, food, fun, and DRINKS! My favorite Disney characters are Snow White and Ariel. My favorite park is Magic Kingdom, with EPCOT coming in a close second. I just love the fun, magical feeling that MK gives me.

DH-Mike, 30 (going to be 31 on the first day of our trip!). Mike is a big kid at heart, and would probably spend a month at WDW (or more) each year if we could afford it. He is also a lover of magic, fun, and food, and CHRISTMAS! His favorite character of all time is Belle, in fact, I think he might leave me for her! I better watch out!

The above pic was taken on the boat to Fort Wilderness/CR on our trip this past June.

When we first started planning this trip, we were booked at GF RPC, our dream location. Then I did a lot of thinking and realized we really weren't going to be in the resort at all to enjoy the lounge, and the amenities, so we decided to change to a Theme Park View room at GF. Well as the months went by, things changed a lot for us, in unexpected ways. I got a new job, which is AMAZING and I'm super happy! BUT- I am still working my way up the ladder, and am currently making a lot less moolah than I used to. We started to do some hard number crunching, and the only way we would be able to swing this birthday trip would be to do a Value Resort. As much as we wanted to be at GF or WL (our fave!) for the convenience of transportation and location, we knew we couldn't do it. So we picked All Star Music, where we've stayed before.

We really like that it seems to be (for us) the least crowded of all the Values, and has decent bus service. We were able to use our PIN and got a great deal on a preferred room at ASMu. When we stayed there in 2007, we had an amazing room, king bed, not facing the pool. I made the same request this time, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for pixie dust that we get it!

This is trip is short and sweet, and FULL of fun! It's a 3 night trip, with regular DDP. We have one Park Hopper left from our first Disneymoon that has no expiry, one base ticket with our MYW package, and one night of MVMCP. We have some really fun ADR's, AND we're meeting up with my bestie Dis-bud iheartpluto, Joanne! So stay tuned everybody, I'll be detailing our plans soon to come!

 

[princessallegra]

We are on a 7 am flight to Orlando, getting us in at 10:00 am. We will be using Magical Express for this trip, as we usually do. Hopefully we will be at ASMU by noon at the latest. We're doing online check-in (for the first time, I'll let you all know how that goes), and are praying for our room requests to be met, and our room to be ready! If not, we'll leave our stuff with Bell Services while we have a light lunch.
We're planning on having lunch at ASMU and just kinda chilin for a little bit. We may go to DTD for some Christmas shopping, but it all depends on time. We're hoping to be able to get into MK a tad bit early with our MVMCP tickets. We'll keep our fingers crossed for that. In years past, we've been able to get in as early as 4 pm. As long as we're in by our 5:30 CRT ressie, we'll be fine! We really both can't wait to eat in the Castle for DH's birthday! It will be our first Character Meal together, so it's a big first for us!
After dinner, the Christmas Party should just be starting. Our plan is to do our character meet and greets right off the bat, we've learned from previous experiences! We are really hoping that the Seven Dwarves will be making an appearance, so that's where we're headed first. Once we're done with all our Characters, we'll see how the lines are for rides and get some ride time in! Unfortunately the shows at MVMCP are not what they used to be, so we'll be skipping those, but we will be there for the parade and fireworks of course.
The park is open until Midnight for Party goers, but I don't know if we'll make it all the way to midnight. We have an 8:05 am ressie at Crystal Palace the next day, so we're going to need our sleep! And the next day is a BIG, LONG, FUN day so we need our energy!!!

Here's a pic from our last MVMCP trip!

 

[msnwithers]

I'm in! ASMu is still a great resort. It's Disney after all.....

 

[pixiegirl]

That's awesome that you guys get to go back!!! I have always wanted to meet Beast. Hopefully next time!!

 

[princessallegra]

I'm in! ASMu is still a great resort. It's Disney after all.....

Hi!!! I know right?!?! That's what we said!! It's still Disney and we would stay there every time if it meant we got to go!! We can't wait, thanks for joining in!!

That's awesome that you guys get to go back!!! I have always wanted to meet Beast. Hopefully next time!!

HIIII!!! Great to see you around!!! I just gave Abby a bath today, she's all fluffy now. Beast was super cool to meet! He's HUGE!! Hopefully you get to meet him.

 

[princessallegra]

So this is going to be possibly THE longest day we've ever had in Disney! Hopefully we will have gotten some sleep after MVMCP, because we have to be at the bus stop just after 7 am in order to get to MK for our early morning breakfast ressie. We're hoping to get a few great pictures of Main Street and the Castle with very few people. We're also both really excited for Crystal Palace, we've never done a Disney buffet together and this one is supposed to be one of the best. We're hoping to be done eating and out at rope drop (inside the park!!) by a few minutes before 9 am at the latest. We didn't get to ride Space Mountain last time, so we're headed straight there!! We passed by SM a bunch of times on our last trip, and it was closed down every time! Crazy! So let's pray to the ride gods that we get on this one!

After hitting up Space Mountain (and grabbing a fp for it for later) we'll troop on over to our other favorite mountain, Splash Mountain! I'll have my poncho on for this one though, I hate getting wet!! I super duper hate that they added that water jet at the beginning of the ride that SOAKS the back seat people. It used to be that you could avoid MOST of the water by sitting in the back row, but now you get splashed no matter where you sit! Bummer!! After Splash we'll see what the line is looking like for BTMRR, and if it's not too bad we'll hop on that. I'm hoping then to walk over by the Jungle Cruise, which I don't think I've ever done before. I know crazy! So hopefully the line won't be too bad and we can get on that ride. I know us, and at this point we'll be starting to get hot! We can hop over to Mickey's Philharmagic OR the Monsters' Inc Laugh Floor. Hopefully one of those won't be too bad, and they're fun and nice and cool. After that our FP window for SM should be open, and we'll grab one more ride on that baby. Then it's lunch time!!

I know we will eat lunch at Columbia Harbor House, which is our favorite place to eat in MK. We love it there! After lunch we'll say goodbye to MK and hop on over to EPCOT, where an afternoon of fun and friends awaits us!!!

When we get there our first mission is to get ourselves set up for Kim Possible, so that when iheartpluto and her Prince Eric meet up with us, we'll be ready to go! We'll get our check-in point and time, and then head over to Test Track to FP it for later. Normally we'd be heading over to Soarin' to FP it, but there are night EMH that night, and Joanne and I can't wait to ride Test Track at night! So after grabbing our FP we'll head over to Mission Space, which is one of our favorites! Hopefully the line won't be too long for the Orange side, it usually isn't bad at all, and we'll get to ride. If it's feasible we can even go grab the Kimmunicator for our group and get our first mission so we can start! We've talked about starting out in Canada and making our way all the way through each country. When we get the Kimmunicators I'll ask if they can start us in Canada (they've helped us start where we need to in the past), and hopefully we'll be all good to go!

It should be getting to be around the time we meet up with Joanne and Eric!! Can't wait to see them!! Part 2 of Day 2 will be next...

 

[disneysis2]

Cant wait to here more!

 

[pixiegirl]

HIIII!!! Great to see you around!!! I just gave Abby a bath today, she's all fluffy now. Beast was super cool to meet! He's HUGE!! Hopefully you get to meet him.

I always our dog Gizmo looks like a cloud after he gets a bath. They are so cute when they are like that!!

I really wanted to do the Kim Possible thing when we were there but didn't get a chance. Let me know how it is!!

 

[princessallegra]

Before meeting up with our Dis-buddies, we will make one last stop into Mexico to pick up a couple of YUM YUM Patron margaritas to go! Way to start off the afternoon! We have plans to meet up with iheartpluto and her Prince in the late afternoon around 4 pm. Once we're all linked up, the plan is to head to England and start our Kim Possible/Drinking Mission! DH and I did a KP mission on our trip in June and it was really fun. We had a blast. We did the Pretzel Factory challenge in Germany. We can't wait to do all the countries! I'll see what kind of Martinis they have in England, because I'm not a big beer drinker. Then off to France for one of my faves,the Grey Goose lemonade slushie. Knowing me I'll pass up the drinks in Morocco and Japan (not a big Sake drinker), and maybe even again in the US!! Hey I have a long night ahead! In Italy Joanne and I want to get the Italian Margarita with limoncello. Sounds divine!! Again, the beer in Germany is a no-go for me, so maybe we'll skip to some plum wine in China. I don't know what kind of drinks they have in Norway, but that is where we'll be ending up for DH and my 7:00 pm Akershus ressie.

We'll split up with Jo and Eric for dinner, and meet up again just in time for Illuminations! Can't WAIT to enjoy that together. We got to share in the SNTFS together over the summer and it was great. After Illuminations we'll head over to Future World for a late night ride on Test Track! YES! This seems like so much fun in the dark. After that, we don't have a very solid plan for the rest of the night. We'll see what our buddies are up to and take it from there. We do have another early morning start the next day!

 

[princessallegra]

Here's another fun pic from our last MVMCP in 2007! Snow White is admiring her portrait on my arm! She didn't like the apple at all!!

 

[princessallegra]

This day starts very early in order to make morning EMH at DHS. Our plan is to get breakfast from the food court and eat in the room while getting ready. We need to be out by the buses by 7:15 at the absolute latest so we have to be right on schedule!
When we get into DHS we are going straigh for TSM to first grab a FP then hop on the standby line. I know, I know, it's a mass exodus, etc. etc. If it's that bad we will just take the FP's and head over to ToT and RnR. I really REALLY want to see the Beauty and the Beast Show, which I've never seen before. And DH being such a huge fan should want to see this too, no? Well he's kind of indifferent for some reason, but I'd like to see it. So we will try to catch the first showing. We have an 11:55 am res at Sci-Fi Dine In, which we're really excited for. We've never dined here before and I know we'll be hungry by then.
After lunch we will try to catch LMA! which is DH's favorite show. If we're able to we'd also like to fit in American Idol Experience, which we did for the first time last time and really enjoyed it. We will have our TSM FP to use as well! At 3:40 we have to check in for our flight from my blackberry for Southwest. Then I'm sure we'll need a snack, so off to Starring Rolls! We want to be ready and over by the Osborne Lights fairly early. We're thinking of upgrading to hoppers for that one day now and hopping over to MK which is open until 11 pm now that day. Yes we are willing to do this in order to get just a few more precious park hours in! We're hoping to get out of DHS and onto a bus to WL by 7 pm at the absolute latest. Since HS is open an hour later now thanks to extended hours, we will hopefully have a much easier time exiting the park. We will catch the amazingly short, one stop bus from WL to MK and enjoy MK and Wishes on our last night!
We will most like get a CS dinner quickly in MK, and just take in the atmosphere. We cannot wait to see Wishes again together We'll stay in the park until the 11 pm closing time and then hop a bus back to ASMu.

 

[Leshaface]

UUUMMMMM!!!! WHY wasn't I aware of this?!? Or was I and I just forgot to subscribe?!?!

ANYWHO......HIIIIIIII!!!!

I haven't heard from you in FOREV! Yay! I'll catch up on your PreTR and join you for the ride!

P.s...i decided to just do a TR on my last trip, since I had hundreds of pics...I thought it would be selfish of me to not share them with others!! So unselfish right?!?!

 

[Leshaface]

Giiirl your trip is in a few weeks and you haven't reported back yet?!?!

Where are yoooouuuu!!!???