"You Just Did What?" 1st time on property. Updated 11/6/09 - Off We Go!!!

[PrincessRora]

OMG! I'm a ball of excitement right now that really can't be contained. Or rather it probably can, I just don't want to let it. My absolutely wonderful amazing, fantastic Fiance, booked us a three night stay at the world. Yes it'll be another short trip, but he found a way to make a dream come true.

But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. I should probably introduce our little family first.

Me - Nikki. I'm a twenty three year old Master's Degree student. I'm attending Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. I've been a disney fanatic since I was three or four. Totally into princesses growing up, and I have a special place in my heart for all of Disney's animal movies. I'm also the planner in our family. I need order whereever I go, especially Disney because for my family it could always get chaotic without one.

DFiance - Stephen is a twenty-six year old security officer/EMT. We started dating a little over a year ago, and got engaged last December. As of right now, his opinion on Disney is he can take it or leave it (working on changing that) but he's always willing to go "because I know it makes you happy". He truly is my prince, my diamond in the rough.As for planning, Stephen's more of a go with the flow individual, and doesn't quite understand my necessity to have things planned well.

Anyway, to our Disney Story. Stephen and I have been two disney twice this year so far. Not for big long trips by any means. The first trip was in January for one day alone. We were planning on driving to Tampa to visit his dad for a weekend, and my mother suggested stopping for a day at the Kingdom. She even gave us some money as an engagement gift and booked us a dinner at Chef Mickey's. So we stayed two nights at a small hotel off property and celebrated our recent engagement at the Magic Kingdom.
For my birthday in June, Stephen and I went on a cruise, leaving from Port Canaveral. After the cruise we went to visit his dad again, who decided to take us, and Stephen's sister to Hollywood Studios for the day. Hence the two trips thus far.
Our third trip has come as a surprise. I worked for a couple of months at our local disney store this summer. I didn't think I'd been working there long enough to receive any benefits, but at the end of July I received two 1 day park hopper passes. WOW! They don't expire for a while, but we began talking about when to use them. My school schedule this semester gives me Monday and Friday off, so we decided to use them soon and aimed for November.
"So I booked the hotel for Disney," Stephen called to tell me from work while I was out shopping with my mother and aunt a couple of days ago.
"Are we staying at that place we stayed last January," I asked. I was sure that was the plan. We'd talked about it enough.
"Not exactly. I found one a bit closer to the parks with a lot less hassel," he told me.
"Where is it?"
"How does the Disney All-Star Movies sound?"
I nearly fainted. I have only stayed on property once. A long long time ago. I don't remember it well. So here's my wonderful Fiance telling me he's found a way for us to afford it. In addition the package includes the dining plan and two more one day park hoppers. So we're staying a grand total of three nights from Nov. 6 - Nov. 9 at the All-Star Movies and visiting the parks for two days. I'm thrilled.
Then he tells me one more thing "Your the Disney expert, I did the leg work. You get to do the planning." Oh boy, less than 45 days till our trip, and now I have to make ADRs - fun!

 

[PrincessRora]

Ever notice that when you have something really great to look foward to and to plan, you tend to avoid doing all the things that you really should be doing, like work and homework? Or reading an endless cycle of scientific research papers so you have one to talk about with your advisor in two days... or is that part just me?

Anyway, the point was, Stephen just handed me the reins of our entire vacation. I am very very Type A personality. You can't do that and expect not to have a plan of some sort in place way before we get to Disney. Plus, just over a month to plan said trip is a little scary. As much as I would love a longer trip, I would need way more time to plan. But I can handle a weekend thing.

The first part of the plan was when to leave. Thursday night and drive half way, or really early Friday morning. Leaving Friday would save money, but we'd be exhausted when we arrived at the World, and being as it's our first time on property, I kind of want to wander the hotel and maybe check out the pool if its not too cold instead of taking a nap before going to our first ADRs. That and we might miss our ADRs if we have any. So leaving Thursday and spending the night at a motel 6 or super 8 has become the perferred travel date.

Next was to look at park hours, and for the first time take into consideration EMHs. I'm so excited, though I haven't the faintest clue how they work. I will have to figure that out. After checking calanders, it has been determined by me (and agreed on by Stephen) that we will start Saturday at Animal Kingdom and finish it with Epcot and illuminations. Sunday we will start at MK and then go to Hollywood Studios and then back to MK for EMHs.

Lastly the race to get ADRs. We're late in the game so I knew we wouldn't have a lot of choices, but I'm actually rather happy with what we ended up with. We'll be doing the O'hana dinner at the Polynesian Friday night, late just in case driving down Thursday doesn't work out. Saturday we have Askershus Princess Storybook lunch. Stephen agreed to that for me because he knows I love the princesses. We really wanted the Garden Grill for Saturday, but they were booked solid, but there was an opening on Sunday, so we'll be taking a detour from Hollywood Studios on Sunday to Epcot for dinner before we head to the Magic Kingdom for the night.

Next steps: Discovering how Extra magic hours work and how the disney dining plan works and how to check into the hotel online (and what that does) and what to expect when we get our keys to the kingdom. AND I am on a mission this time. I want to make the trip special for Stephen because he really has no idea how to feel the disney magic.

 

[PrincessRora]

So last time I had posted, our plan was to drive down Thursday-Friday from the mountains of North Carolina to Orlando. Its a 10 hour drive. Its not so bad for going there, though we might be a little tired on check in day. The problem was driving home. We'd be checking out on Monday, driving back, straight through. I have classes on Tuesday. So this whole idea was not very appealing to me or Stephen. We'd be absolutely exhausted, staying at the parks on Sunday till close, and then getting up very very early for the drive home. So we did a little engineering, and... We're FLYING!

Ok, so I love to fly. Stephen does too. But its so expensive. Well, we looked at airfare and it wasn't too bad. So, we hopped on it and booked the flight. So I'm thrilled. I just have to get the Magical Express set up so we have transportation to the hotel. I tried today, but the reservation system is down. The very nice CM told me to call back tomorrow. I will do just that.

Now I just have to refresh my memories of what is allowed in carry ons and stuff. We won't be checking our bags. Too expensive, and we're going for 3 days, so carry on isn't impossible. Gotta look up the 3-1-1 rule... luckily Stephen's best friend works for an airline. He'll be stuck answering all my preflight questions.

But now the hotel is set, the park tickets are set, and the flight is set, we even have our seats selected (Stephen in the aisle, me in the middle cause I'm nice like that ). I called Stephen to tell him about our now booked flight and about the Magical Express.

"But won't we still need a car?"

"What would we need a car for?"

"Well, how will we get to Down Town Disney?"



"What? Baby, I'm serious!"

I love him to death, but I really must teach him the ways of Disney. I had to swifly remind him that we would indeed not need a car because Disney provides transportation on their property, and DTD is indeed Disney property, so we would have no worries there.

So we discussed our plans a bit more. Now that we'll have a bit more time on Friday, thanks to my awesome decision to fly we'll be able to check out the hotel a bit more, hopefully include the heated pool, maybe hit down town disney, be able to shower and make our reservation at Ohanas for dinner. YAY. Saturday will remain the same, Animal Kingdom and Epcot with Princess fun because my DF loves me so much (and I love him for enduring a meal with lots of very girly disney characters ) and finishing with Illuminations (Dad recommends America as our watching place... I'm going to have to do more research here). Sunday will get a bit switched up. Instead of MK in the morning, we'll do EMH at DHS (the ONLY ride that's a must is Toy Story Mania - I missed it in June 2008, Jan 2009, AND June 2009 because of long lines so we're definitely doing it this time ). Then off to MK for the afternoon and maybe watch the day parade. Then monorail to EPCOT for the Garden Grill, and back to MK for EMH.

I'm still a bit unsure about how EMH works. So people have said braclets, and others said you present your key at every ride, so I have to figure that one out. So I'll still be doing more research on that. But I have decided not to do Online checkin in since its my first time on property and I MIGHT have questions to ask . And I did find out how the dining plan works so YAY there. And I might have an idea how to make the trip a little special for Stephen, and maybe get him feeling the disney spirit his parents didn't impart on him as a child (of course he's well aware our children will be disney lovers like their momma) . I've just got to see if I can pull it off.

 

[PrincessRora]

So last time I posted, we'd decided to fly to Disney instead of drive, and I had yet to make our Magical Express reservations due to the system being down. I called two days later, and made the reservations, so things are all set. And our documents from Disney have come. We have a free round of mini golf, a voucher for a sea raycer (does anyone know how to use it? Or even what is entails - DF has the paperwork and has yet to let me see it). I need to have him give it to me. He tends to misplace thing. I'm not exactly sure how he does it, but he never fails to loose track of importants stuff.

So everything is officially in place. ADRs are as good as they're going to get and we're rather happy about it. Then his dad calls and wants to have dinner one night while we're there Now I love my future father-in-law. He's one of the nicest men I've ever met, but he couldn't have suggested that we meet for a meal before I'd made our ADRs?

He wanted to join us for dinner friday night and I was going to call reservations and see if it was possible to add a third party member. Unfortunately before I could even do this, Stephen told his dad what time we were eating. We tried to get an earlier time, but they're booked, so it was either cancle and get something else, or find another day. Stephen and I are both really looking foward to Ohana's so, finding another day to meet his dad became the priority.

Now I think we're going to meet his dad around 6ish at DTD for dinner at either the rainforest cafe or T-rex. He took us to T-Rex on our June trip and everyone loved it, especially DF, and just being at disney is special for me, so I want to do as much as I can to make this trip special for him. So we'll be doing animal kingdom in the morning and then shooting over to EPCOT no later than noon. We have ADRs at 3:45 for Askershus, then we'll probably have to go straight to the bus to meet his dad at DTD, and maybe make it back for illuminations. Right now I'm thinking illuminations might be a lost cause for that day, so maybe we can change dinner to like 8:30ish, and spend more time at EPCOT since it's DF favorite park. We have an ADR at 7:30 Sunday at the Garden Grill, so maybe we can see illuminations then instead. Does anyone have advice on that?

So plans for sunday changed a little. We'll start the morning at HS EMH for a couple of hours - Straight to Toystory mania, then RNRC and TOT, and maybe check out the American Idol experience. Then straight to MK for the rest of the day, till around 6:30 to catch the monorail to the Ticket center, then switch to the Epcot monorail, to make dinner at the garden grill at EPCOT, now do illuminations, and get back to MK for EMHs.

We're gonna go to the Polynesian on Friday a couple hours early and watch Wishes from the beach. Does anyone know if they pipe in the music? Or if there's a better place open to the public to watch? Our ADR at Ohana's isn't till 9:40pm.

So, everything got changed around a bit by the sudden dinner request. But over all I hadn't gotten too stressed out. Yet! I was waiting for the other shoe to fall, so to speak. And it did, a little over a week ago. DF's bosses decided to tell us that they didn't know if they could give him the time off. Basically they told us at first that it wouldn't be a problem, and they they discovered that one of the sites Stephen works at is a special site that only a few people can be trained to do, DF and his supervisors.

Well, the supervisors don't want to work it because the company has to pay them 2x more than a regular officer to do a site. So they're not sure what to do about it yet, and wanted to let Stephen know our trip was an "inconvience" for them. Now I'm not saying my DF is better than anyone else, but he works very hard for this company, and will go cover an extra shift for them with no more than an hour notice sometimes. He drops everything he's doing to help them out of a bind when they have an emergency situation or something. The least they can do is give him a few days off. His schedule is MTSS, so all he really needs is SS and M of the next week. And just don't put him on call TF like they usually do.

Anyway, we're now just over 2 weeks away from our trip and we still don't know. But I'm doing my absolute best to stay optimistic, because well, the trip isn't entirely refunable, and our airfare definitely isn't. But I'm wishing on stars every night and sending out pixie dust and warm vives to his bosses that they can find a way to make it work.. Stephen is very hopeful. He thinks the guy that they had out there to help him this weekend was there to learn how to work it so someone can cover the site while he's gone. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

In the mean time I've started doing the necessary things such as getting my extra tickets from home and purchasing travel stuff. We're not planning to check any bags at the airport, so my liquids must be 3 oz. So far so good. Stephen just needs travel deodorant, tooth paste, andcontact solution. He'll use the bath products at the hotel. I, on the other hand need everything. I'm hoping we can find a drug store at the airport to pick up some breakfast items, and find a place to get a disposable razor and gell for DF.

And since we don't live together, and I won't be at his place for more than 6 hours between now and when we leave for the airport, I made a packing list for him to follow, or he will forget something. Hopefully the list helps. It did for our cruise. He said it was the first time he didn't forget anything.

So packing list started. I'm resisting the urge to actually start packing cause I don't want to pack something I might need between now and our trip. However, considering it's currently 30 degrees in the mountains of NC, I don't think I'll be needing my shorts and tank tops that I was planning to take, so they may find their way into my luggage.

Ok, time to go back to the real world now and work on yet another homework assignment.

 

[nichrismom]

Sounds like you're going to have a wonderful time. What a wonderful fiance you have. I would love a surprise like that, mind you with two kids surprises are a little harder to come by.

We are going to be in Disney World the first week of November.

Enjoy your planning, only a few weeks to plan would stress me out

 

[PrincessRora]

Sounds like you're going to have a wonderful time. What a wonderful fiance you have. I would love a surprise like that, mind you with two kids surprises are a little harder to come by.

We are going to be in Disney World the first week of November.

Enjoy your planning, only a few weeks to plan would stress me out

Aww, I bet your kids are going to have a blast though. That's one thing we both can't wait for. Taking kids to disney. If my niece didn't live in New York I would have probably taken her with us.

 

[PrincessRora]

Just when I thought I finally had everything figured out, things get changed again. And this time it's Disney's fault. Luckily this change was actually for the better in my opinion.

Originally according to disney's park calenders, EMHs for DHS and MK were on the same day. DHS at 8am, and MK at 9-12pm. So the plan was to hit both these parks on that day to maximize time. Keep in mind we went to MK in Jan and DHS in June. There's only a few things we want to do at DHS because we missed them or they are favorites. EPCOT is DF's favorite park and I wanted to have a lot of time there, but it was going to be coupled with AK, the only other park we haven't been too.

Well, I was writing out our itinerary last night so I could send a copy to our parents and I decided to check the park hours again, just to be sure. Turns out DHS has their EMH at 8am on Saturday, and MK has EMH from 9-12pm on Sunday! Ok yes, this does through my plans through a loop but it works out so much better, for me to make DF very happy.

Stephen is not a let loose type of person. He doesn't smile a lot or show that he's happy, and the guy did not feel the magic on our last few trips. He kept saying "I just don't get excited about amusement parks."

I did my best to be supportive, but I was kind of lost in the magic like I always am. I love him so much, and I want him to start to feel the magic, so since just being at WDW is enough for me, I have dedicated myself to making this trip the most memorable for him in as many little ways as I can. And even though he isn't in on any of my little secrets, he did say to me last night "you know, I think I'm getting excited about Disney". I was thrilled to hear it. My mind control device must have started to work.

So, DF finished EMT school in May. He is not a very school oriented person and never did well. He only had a couple semesters of college at a community college before he ended up quitting. He tried online school, and maintained a very high GPA, but couldn't dedicate himself to it. He was just never able to stick to anything, until EMT school. Yeah, it was shorter, about 6 months total, but he started it, kept his grades up and finished. At the end of May he took the National EMT test and passed and was award his official license by the US government. I was so proud of him. We're still waiting on reciprocity from NC though. Now in June, DF's little sister graduated with a four year degree. She got a party and tons of gifts, and her parents couldn't stop saying how proud of her they were. She is their pride and joy. All Stephen got was "good job" and it was never acknowledged again. His father even told him, he would never be anyone in life without a degree.

I don't agree with this view of life, despite working towards my masters. I'm doing it because I want a career in this field. Neither of my parents have a four year degree. I am the first in my family. DF got a license to help people. He's even used his knowledge a few times to help people, including his father. His sister and mother told him to help his dad because only he could follow him into the men's room, and not because he was an EMT. They were convinced Stephen's father was having a heart attack and wouldn't listen at all to what the certified EMT said. It was very frustrating. Anyway, the point is, DF's sister has a degree in criminal justice, and wants to be a professional bar tender. Still, she is a much better child then their son? DF is subpar without a degree.

But I've digressed. The point of that all was that I want to celebrate him and his achievement. So he doesn't know, but I've added "personal achievement" to all of our dining reservations and I plan to call WDW again right before we leave to tell them too. I don't want to do it yet, because I'm afraid he might call them and find out. He deserves to be congratulated and I figured Disney is the perfect way to do this.

I've also dedicated EPCOT day to him, with the exception of the princess lunch he insisted I book for us. Stephen worked for Raytheon in Anarctica (He likes the cold) and he doesn't know about the new Sum of all thrills attraction sponsored by Raytheon at Innovations East in EPCOT. So, my plan is to bring him there at some point in the day, and put him in the line, then explain what it is. AND because I know how much he loves the math and engineering stuff, I'm going to turn the reigns completely over to him. I'll close my eyes and let him design the entire ride, and I will ride it right next to him. 10 to 1 odds he chooses a fighter jet instead of a coaster or bobsledge. Anything he wants to do at EPCOT we'll do (with the exception of making me try new foods My biggest fear in life. Not sure where it came from because my parents made me try things all the time).

This is why the rescheduling of EMHs came in handy. We can spend a max of 2 hours at DHS on Saturday morning and spend the rest of our time at EPCOT, and do AK on Sunday with MK.

My goal is a simple equation DF + Best day ever at EPCOT =
here's hoping that it can be accomplished.

Wow, that was longer than I thought it would be, AND I was supposed to be doing genetics research before my lab. Oh well, I do have some time left. Time to go be good and do the other things I need to.

 

[nichrismom]

Another option to celebrate such an awesome achievment is to check out Disney Florist, they have tons of cool stuff that you can have delivered to the room. I'm doing the mickey's big birthday bash for my son's 3rd birthday. The premise is that mickey and pals 'break in' and leave birthday gifts! They might have something just right for your fiance.

 

[PrincessRora]

Another option to celebrate such an awesome achievment is to check out Disney Florist, they have tons of cool stuff that you can have delivered to the room. I'm doing the mickey's big birthday bash for my son's 3rd birthday. The premise is that mickey and pals 'break in' and leave birthday gifts! They might have something just right for your fiance.

Thanks for being my first and maybe only reader
I didn't think I'd get anyone.

And I definitely will. I'd love for him to get a surprise.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Hey, Joining in! Sounds like ya'll are gonna have a great trip!

 

[PrincessRora]

Hey, Joining in! Sounds like ya'll are gonna have a great trip!

Thanks. I'm excited for it.

 

[PrincessRora]

So, a few weeks back I told you all that there was a good possibility that DF's job might not give him the time off that we needed for our vacation. They said that it was an inconvience and giving him the time off would definitely be difficult.

So for the last few weeks I've been worried and praying and wishing. and sending out pixie dust to whomever (cause you know, that pixie dust can be some powerful stuff). And I would hav thought that you know, it being vacation and all, they would have let us know something. Well, the days had been going by with nothing but "Tell your fiance we are working on it" to hold me over. Schedules for the following week are created over Wed-Thursday and are given out on Friday.

Today is friday, and our trip is next week, so all morning at school in Boone, NC, I'd been trying to keep myself busy. I cleaned my room to keep from thinking about it, cause my fiance is in Charlotte, 2 hours away, unable to tell me in person. I stared at the phone all morning, worried that when it finally rang it would be no. I am a pessimist sometimes. Especially if I want something. Anyway, 10 o'clock came and I had a meeting to go to. So for the next hour, I at least had work to focus on. I got back to my lab and my cell phones and I had a text message from Stephen. "Pack your bags. They said yes. We're going to WDW"

It really took all my self control not to start dancing in the middle of a crowded behavioral ecology lab. They might have sent me off to the pyschology department. But I will tell you that I was so excited. I want to run home right now and start the packing I've been holding off on, but I can't cause I need to be responsible and actually do work in my lab today. So I'll have to wait till this afternoon, but I will admit, the excitement is hard to contain.

In other news, DF found out about Sum of all Thrills. So my surprise ride is out. But he still doesn't know about me celebrating his EMT certification. I'm going to call Disney this week and add the celebration to our reservation. I'm hoping he'll wear the "I'm celebrating" button, but well see. I may have to use hypnosis to make that happen

And DF has a cold! Yep, he's ill a week before we go to Disney. I love the man to death, but he's so much worse than me when he gets a cold. So hopefully symptoms will go away this week so he can be pleasant for our weekend at Disney.

So, since I've neglected a bit of background, and since I'm so excited I figured I'd tell you a bit more about myself and DF. And since we've been lacking photos:

Here's one of the two of us last January celebrating our engagement at MK. I have a rule for this trip: sunglasses off in at least SOME photos.

So there's me, Nikki:

Like I said before, I'm a 23 yr old behavioral ecology masters student. I just came up with my thesis last week. I like being outdoors, and hiking, at my own pace. I hate having to keep up with my avid hiker professor, cause I'm just not in the same shape he is and Boone is very mountainous! I want to be a teacher of some sort once I've gotten my masters, and most of all, I want to be a mom. I love disney. I have since I was little. Animal Kingdom is my second favorite park (only cause MK has a very special place in my heart). Depending on time, I might have to convince DF to watch the bird show with me at AK, but if it comes down to it, I'd probably choose MK just cause that's the core of what WDW is to me. How can you go to Disney and not go to MK?

So for this trip I'm most looking foward to:
Dining: O'hana
Ride: EE and Splash Mountain (it was closed in Jan).
Park: AK

Then there's DF, Stephen:

Stephen is a 26 yr old EMT/Security Officer. He calls himself a rent a cop, but I'm proud of him for what he does. He is my world, and I love him so much. I can't even remember what life was like without him, cause he's that important to me. We're putting off getting married till I'm out of school for financial reasons, and I can't wait to be his wife. Anyway, Stephen loves being outdoors and has been dog sleding for 23 days, hiking in the Appalachian mountains for 23 days, he's flown planes and even trained a bit as a White Water rafting guide. But his biggest adventure was 6 months in Anarctica.

He doesn't love WDW as much as I do, but he's looking foward to a vacation, and he goes because he knows it makes me happy. He's even agreed that he'll let me turn any children we have in the future into disney lovers.

He's looking foward to:
Dining: O'hana
Ride: Mission Space and Soarin'
Park: EPCOT

Stephen and I are also planners, and while we're at least 5 years away from bring any children into the world, we both have things at WDW we can't wait to do with our future children. Stephen wants to stay in a pirate themed room at CBR, and let any of our sons do he Pirate League and or pirate cruise. We both want any of our daughters to have an opportunity to do BBB. I stop in at the World of Disney store every time we go just to watch and see all the little girls done up as princesses. I can't wait to do that for my own kids.

Anyway, this chapter's probably been way to long. Next time, which might be the last, I'll post our final itinerary. Happy trip planning to everyone else.

 

[PrincessRora]

So, it's 5 days until we leave for the first leg of our trip , and with all my homework and tests due this week, I'm trying to stay ahead so I won't have anything do to during vacation. So, being that it's really bad weather here, I've done chores and homework all morning. Currently doing laundry so I can pack.

DF and I worked out our itinerary last night finally. We wanted to wait until we were able to actually go, so here's the plan for this coming weekend. Let me know what you all think

Thursday 11/5/09:
12:30 pm Leave Boone, NC
3:00 pm Arrive in Charlotte, NC
Transfer two bags into one
Cook dinner and Watch Disney Movies till sleep
Friday 11/6/09:
4:15 am Wake up
5:00 am Leave for Charlotte Airport
7:20 am Depart CLT
8:40 am Arrive Atlanta
9:50 am Depart Atlanta
11:30 am Arrive Orlando
12:00 pm get on ME
Arrive at ASMo around 1:30-2:00pm
If the room is ready, settle in. If not, explore resort and pool
Spend the evening at the hotel and DTD (visit World of Disney to purchase toy Jasmine tiara for princess lunch Saturday)
8:00 pm watch Wishes from Poly Beach, then explore resort
9:40 pm ADRs at O'hana
Saturday 11/7/09:
At bus stop by 7:30 am
8:00 am Arrive at HS for EMH
Straight to Toy Story Mania
TOT and RR
10:00 am at latest Depart for EPCOT
Get FP for Soarin'
Ride MS first
3:35 pm ADRs at Askershus
More EPCOT
8:00 pm Depart EPCOT
Meet DFIL-to be at DTD for Dinner
Sunday 11/8/09:
At bus stop by 8:00 am
9:00 am make Rope Drop at AK
EE, Kali, KS, Dinosaur
12:00 pm at latest arrive MK
Splash, HM, Buzz, POTC, BTMR
6:15 pm Depart MK
6:45 pm Arrive EPCOT
7:20 pm ADRs at Garden Grill
9:00 pm Illuminations and depart EPCOT
10:00 pm arrive MK for EMH till 12:00 am
Monday 11/9/09:
7:30 am ish Depart ASMo via ME
10:30 am Depart Orlando
12:20 pm Arrive Atlanta
3:10 pm Depart Atlanta
4:20 pm Arrive Charlotte
Stop at parents home for an hour or so
6:00 pm Leave Charlotte
8:30 pm Arrive Boone, NC


So there you have it. Not gonna go too crazy with what rides to do at what time, nor will I let DF know that I added specific times. He is very anti-schedule. But I need to make sure we're at ADRs on time, especially lunch Saturday because that one charges us if we don't cancle before 2 days before. So yeah, I think we'll get a lot of what we want to done. Here's keeping my fingers crossed.

I think we're gonna watch some old disney movies that I have at home on VHS. 101 Dalmatians, Jungle Book, Fantasia, The Lion King. We'll see what else. All depends on my ability to sleep. LOL. DF will have no problem sleeping... if I let him.

Laundry's almost done so I can fold it and pack. Time to go clear off the camera disk so I have plenty of room for pictures this weekend. I don't know how I'll make it through till Thursday/Friday. May have to watch some movies on my own. DF will be here Wednesday Night if he doesn't get called into work, and Thursday morning if he does. So I gotta make it all on my own. Oh well, I'll probably lurk around here where's there's plenty to keep me entertained.

 

[PrincessRora]

So I got everything finalized. I added the EMT celebration to all of our dining reservations and our resort reservation, so I hope Stephen gets the "I'm celebrating" button when we arrive. I varified that our room preference was on our reservation without actually asking for it. I just really want to be in the dalmatians building because it's my favorite movie of all 5 at ASMo. We don't have a floor or view preference.

I had Stephen find out about purchasing disposable razors at the hotel. I also took care of finding out about transportation "home" from dinner Friday night. Looks like we're busing to DTD from the Poly, then from the DTD to ASMo. It'll be fun. Just haven't told him that that's what we need to do. The less he knows, the better.

We even got plans finalized to meet DFIL-to be at Rainforest Cafe at 8:30 since we did T-Rex in June. And my intinerary was set. I was packed, and happy. And then....

"What are we doing at 6:00 on Friday night?"

"Um... swimming. I told you that."

"So nothing important? Not Wishes, or dinner, or something, just the pool?"

"Yes baby. Just the pool."

"Good. You need to cleaned and ready to go by 5:30."

"Go where?"

"Not telling. I've got a surprise. "

And me:

So now my plans for the day have been hijacked and I have no idea what to expect. But my two BFFs know and so does my mother, and they have all assured me and him that I will love it. So we'll see what my non Disney expert has come up. I'm so proud of him for getting into the magic.

Ok, off to take an ecology exam.

 

[PrincessRora]

Woke up yesturday, went to class, and got picked up by my wonderful fiance at 12:15 pm, and then started a series of crazy errands that didn't end till 10:35 pm. I'll recap those in the TR when we return.

Anyway, it's 4:50 am at the moment, and I'm wide awake and just about finished getting ready for the airport, and Stephen, all though he's dressed, is still in bed. LOL.

Anyway, our flight leaves at 7:20 am, and we still have to check in, so it's off to the airport we go. See everyone soon. I'll probably write the TR here, but change the title. We'll see.

I'm going to Disney World!!

 

[disney<333]

I'm here!
Looks like you just got back yesterday. Hope you had a magical trip. I can't wait to hear what DF planned for you. Patiently awaiting your TR.
How was the weather? And the x-mas decorations?
I'm going next week so anything will help.
Subbing!
Barbara

 

[PrincessRora]

To anyone who's interested in the TR, here's the link: "How Come Cinderella's Feet Don't Hurt?"