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Keith, I am lovin' your energy and your organizational skills. You sound like a fellow Disney nut, all right! Your plans sound great, and you seem like the kind of person who can still "go with the flow" if some things take longer than you'd thought (like meals). You're sure to have a great time.
Having just returned from WDW and my first breakfast at Kona, I can heartily recommend Tonga Toast (stuffed with bananas and topped with strawberry compote). Delish!
Bon appetit!
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Thanks for the Great compliment!
Organizational skills I didn't know I had until I started planning this trip! It's uncanny. My family thinks I am insane. I'm just so excited! I feel like the Little boy in that commercial... "I'm too excited to sleep!!!"
The way I look at it is this: It's Disney World, If I can't enjoy myself, no matter what's happening, I probably am doing something wrong! My life motto is Go With The Flow, though I am not the most spontaneous person if there are already plans laid out. Unless I'm the one making the change. lol
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Last Thursday I got my DME mail. It's all coming together. I'm wondering if there's anything else on its way to me. This is the first time I've been in charge of a trip. I'm not sure what they send out and if I've gotten everything yet.
I started looking into a This day in Disney History type of thing to do a count down for Me and Beth, with interesting facts and I got hooked. I figure I'll pull up one fact for each of the days we have left for our trip and make it pertain to us or our trip in some way.
Today is 31 days out, so here's an example of what I found.
November 1, 1991 Disney released Fantasia on VHS and Laserdisc. Beth and I both love Fantasia, and Sorcerer Mickey is one of our favorite Disney Icons.
This is the type of interesting info that I'll be sending Beth in a Text message every day. I'll also be posting here every day with the days interesting fact. Unless people complain about it. hehe
Your plans sound great! I am now very hungry after reading about your meal plans. I hope you have lots of fun touring the parks. I will certainly enjoy your count down. Not only will I get intersting facts, but it will also mean that my family's trip will be closer too. Thanks for sharing!
On November 2, 2001 Monsters Inc. was first released! It was Pixar's 4th Animated Feature and at the time it was my favorite! "Mike Wazowski! Mike Wazowski!" I wish there were more Monsters Inc attractions, because I don't think we'll be able to make the Laugh Floor on our trip this December.
As an added bonus, Monsters Inc. 2 is scheduled to be released on November 2, 2012! According to the Wikipedia Article I read...
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Not long now! Great facts!
30 Days! It's so close I can taste it!
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Getting closer!
woot!
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Congrats on Disney mail!
Yay! When it showed up I ran atound the house waving it around whooping and hollaring. I think I scared my Kitties, but Come on! It's disney Mail!
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Your plans sound great! I am now very hungry after reading about your meal plans. I hope you have lots of fun touring the parks. I will certainly enjoy your count down. Not only will I get intersting facts, but it will also mean that my family's trip will be closer too. Thanks for sharing!
I'm thinking that after my trip is all said and done I won't be hungry for a week! We have so many meals planned! I only hope that we'll be walking around so much it evens out! I'm actually going to go over what makes my mouth water on those menus soon.
I hope my facts are all interesting to others. They looked interesting to me. I hope you enjoy them too!
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Nearly Disney time! Great fact, too!
I've been on Disney time for 6 months!!!! People where I work must think I go down every weekend the amount I talk about it!
Arrrgh I'm so jealous! We still haven't gotten our Disney Mail yet!! If it makes you feel any better, I'm driving all my friends and family nuts with Disneymania as well lol.
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On November 3 1977 one of my favorite movies when I was a kid was released.
Petes Dragon
I loved that movie. I loved that they lived in Pasamaquoddy and that Elliot was a big green cartoon dragon that most people couldn't see. I loved that Mickey Rooney's character was always Drunk, even in the morning. My sister and I must have watched that movie weekly at one point. It doesn't really have anything to do with this trip, but It's a piece of my childhood that I thought was cool.
Also, in 1950 the Goofy cartoon Hold That Pose was released. Goofy tries to get a photo of a Grizzly Bear. I remember this cartoon and I can tell you. it's funny! I'm a self Proclaimed Goofy Fanatic, so that may cloud my judgment, but still. I loved it.
28 Days! 4 weeks Exactly! I have to start packing! OMG!!!
November 4 was a pretty slow day in the History of Disney. My Fact is actually a very recent one.
in 2009 on November 4 Disney got approval to build an Amusement Park in Shanghai. Not the best or Most interesting of facts, But It matters to me because I'm stating here for the first time, I will go to that park once it is open. I want to make it to every Disney Theme Park at least once in my lifetime. I hope Beth is on the same page with that. Hehe.
In other Nov. 4th news, Walter Cronkite was born on Nov. 4. He was the narrator of Spaceship Earth for a while. At least the two times I went on it in 1988 and 1992 he was. That's one of the rides that I told Beth that we have to do this time around because it's been 18 years since I've been on it.
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Pete the Dragon is on of my favorite MSEP floats as he is done really well!
I'm pretty sure the Dragon's name is Elliot. Pete's the boy who he shows himself to. I wish I was seeing that parade, but we're going to MK on a Party night. No Electrical Parade that night. The next night I think they're filming, but we'll be in Epcot for Illuminations anyway... But I do remember it from when I was a kid.
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Neat bits of trivia - I love the Pete's dragon float at SpectroMagic - I am getting that right, aren't I? That is where it's from, isn't it?
I am pretty sure that float is in the Electrical Parade, not SpectroMagic. But I could be wrong.
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