WIZARDS, REAL AND AMAZING, CHRISTMAS PARTIES AND CANDLELIGHT- PTR - Page 29 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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We go on to the joy and through the tears
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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Nice creative spin with Orlanjo! Almost in the teens now!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
Now that we are just under three weeks out, (and also because I am incredibly bored today as I sadly sit here watching the Eagles) I looked over our schedule and I am quite happy with it!! We have tweaked a few things, but I think, in a good way and I love posting our plans before I go to see what we change while we are there. (And there is always something!)
These are our final plans!! I am sure that we will stick with most of them and probably change a few up as well!! For the next post, I copied and pasted the Disney portion from MDE, so it looks weird but saved me lots of typing! Let me know if you guys spot anything that doesn't mesh. Anyway!
Saturday, December 3rd- Arrival day, Portofino Bay and Sea World:
We are just as excited to do this part of our trip as we are to do the Disney part!! We are very much looking forward to experiencing the holidays here as well as seeing the new Harry Potter attractions and we haven't been to Sea World in years!!
We will be up bright and early this morning and be at the airport by 8:30 AM for our 10:30 AM flight after stopping at Starbucks for a drink. When we get to the airport, we always get breakfast at McDonald's. That is our good luck tradition!!
We are scheduled to arrive at MCO at 12:30 PM. We most likely won't get out of there until around 1:15 PM. We then have to get in the taxi line to catch a cab to Portofino Bay so I am guessing we won't arrive until around 2:30 PM.
As soon as we check in, we are planning on catching the next available shuttle to Sea World. It is open until 10:00 PM tonight and we are thinking we will probably close it down. We have a Christmas show package booked with reserved seating for the holiday festivities! We will wing dinner in there somewhere and end the day by having a night cap at Portofino Bay.
Sunday, December 4th- A whole day at the parks
Today, both USF and IOA ARE OPEN FROM 9:00 AM - 8:00PM. Since we are staying onsite, we can get into USF at 8:00 AM so we plan to start our day there. We just found out that Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey is down for rehab and while that is a little disappointing, at least we already got to experience that attraction. We plan to park hop today as it is very easy to do!!
We plan an early dinner at Cowfish and then we really, really, really hope to see Mannheim Steamroller!! We love their music and have most of it in one form of media or another!! I have to say here that while I certainly appreciate the fact that this is a free concert, I am very nervous that there are no ticket sales for the event. We will make the best of it in any case!
Monday, December 5th- A half day at the parks and enjoying our resort
This morning we are planning to return to the Parks to enjoy what we missed yesterday and/or return to what we'd like to do again. We can again get into USF at 8:00 AM, so that is what we will shoot for.
We need to be back at Portofino Bay by 12:30 PM to get ready for our massages!! Remember, Muffin does not know about this and I am really excited to surprise him with it!!
We have our dinner for BICE scheduled for tonight at 6:30 PM and we are also very much looking forward to this experience!!
After dinner, we don't have any set plans so we will see how we feel. We may hang out at Portofino Bay or we may head back to City Walk.
We also have to pack up tonight because we are planning to leave early tomorrow morning to head to AKL.
Plans look very good with some very active days! The massages sounds like a great idea and you also have some nice meals included, Mannheim Steamroller concert (hope you get in!) and some relaxing time in the bar and resort!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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For the next post, I copied and pasted the Disney portion from MDE, so it looks weird but saved me lots of typing! Let me know if you guys spot anything that doesn't mesh. Anyway!
I have to say here that while I certainly appreciate the fact that this is a free concert, I am very nervous that there are no ticket sales for the event. We will make the best of it in any case!
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