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Okay, I am going to listen to my more experienced Passporter friends and make ADRs!! Time for more research! I'll let you know how it goes... Is it true that if you time it right you can see Illuminations right from your seat at R&C? (I know, probably dreaming too big to get that ADR, but hey, a girl can hope!!)
We will be taking our DD5 to GKTW September 17-23, 2007 and are thrilled! Lots of research has been done, but we have found that the most accurate help and information is to be found from other Wish Trip families and their trip reports. Is anyone else going around that time?
Haven't been on our trip yet, tomorrow our MaW coordinators are taking us out to dinner....IN A LIMO!!!! We are supposed to get our itinerary and our spending money(!) then. DH and DS know that we are going to dinner with our MaW people, but none of the details
We've had some changes in our plans. Mostly b/c I am an obsessive overplanner in a spontaneous family. I will try to post tomorrow morning how things are looking *at this point* <cough>
Okay, I am not getting the picture posting thing, but I will have DS help me (in the most condescending teenager way) when he gets home from school.
Anyway, our dinner out with the Wish Grantors was amazing! They picked us up from our house at 6 pm in a LIMO. Ally, my Wish kid had no idea we were meeting with our MaW people or going to dinner or anything. So when the limo *backed* into our driveway (it's kinda funky and narrow) she jumped up on the couch to see, and had to process for a minute. Finally it all clicked and she spun around with hands on hips and gave me a "what have you been holding out on me" look "HEYYY!! They are the WISH PEOPLE!!" Then she was gone. I don't think she would have been upset if they left us behind, she was sooo excited.Oct07 MaW.jpg
The entire (well most of them) staff of the restaurant was waiting for her when she came in, and they presented her with roses, and escorted us to our table, which was all decorated with balloons and glitter. She got to order fillet mignon, which she loved, and the staff all came out again to present her with an ice cream cake that said "Ally's Dream Comes True" The chef made a little speech about how honored they were to have her come to eat there before her wish, it was wonderful.MaW oct07.jpgOctMaW 07.jpg
As a child who spent a lot of time in and out of a doctors office and hospitals. I hope you have fun. It was hard to hear about all the fun vacations that happened while I was home. I didn't get my first WDW trip until I was in high school and after my final surgery. It was a blast.
Have a great trip and don't forget your Mickey Ears!
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Aug. 2004- Hurricane Charlie POR & FWCG/July 2005- Grand Villa OKW
Feb. 2006-Pop/Feb. 2007- AS Music, WL, AS Movies
Sept. 2011- Disney Med Cruise
Just wanted to say Thank You to those of you who posted such good advice about the ADRs... I didn't make any though, and this is why.
Our last family vacation to DL (in 2004) was amazing. DH is NOT a traveller, and so we took the train as a compromise, and it was a grand adventure. We got to relax, they had an awesome observation car, and Forest Rangers that came on board to tell us about the scenery, and all the time we were getting closer to *the happiest place on earth*. We had 5 day ParkHoppers, so no hurry and worry, just took our time. By the fourth day, DH, who is usually Mr HyperResponsible, was running gleefully through the parking lot with his precious *baby* girl precariously perched in her stroller giggling hysterically. I was the one saying "Slow DOWN, you're going TOO fast!!"
It is MY dream to have ADRs and eat at cool places. Ally's dream is to have a great time with all of us, but esp. her Daddy, who sometimes gets too busy at home with his responsibilities for her liking. I think he and all of us will have a better time if I don't schedule anything for this trip, and we'll just eat wherever we end up. That way there will be no pressure to get anywhere. Other than Ally's commando touring, that is. Besides, this way I can say *I will do that next time* and maybe DH will buy into another WDW trip before too long. Oooh, I AM a schemer!
So, for those one or two of you who are still reading here is what I do have planned:
Day 1- Epcot All Day (DD's pick)
Day 2- Animal Kingdom (DD's #2 pick)
Day 3- Discovery Cove, and possibly Sea World after (we'll see...)
Day 4- IoA and poss. US
Day 5- MGM and poss. MK (I know, I know)
I'm not putting MK last b/c we don't want to go there, but we DID just go to DL in Feb. (without DH) So we are trying to see the things that we can't see at DL, just in case we can't come back. Who said that? We WILL be back, we WILL be back..
So I'm sorry we didn't take everyone's advice, I just came to realise it's not what Ally wants, so I tried to scale back. I want this trip to be everything she dreamed of, and I think this will work.
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Time for more research! I'll let you know how it goes... Is it true that if you time it right you can see Illuminations right from your seat at R&C? (I know, probably dreaming too big to get that ADR, but hey, a girl can hope!!)
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Wish Trip September 17-23, 2007
I will try to post tomorrow morning how things are looking *at this point* <cough> 
Then she was gone. I don't think she would have been upset if they left us behind, she was sooo excited.
She got to order fillet mignon, which she loved, and the staff all came out again to present her with an ice cream cake that said "Ally's Dream Comes True" The chef made a little speech about how honored they were to have her come to eat there before her wish, it was wonderful.
I didn't make any though, and this is why. 
We had 5 day ParkHoppers, so no hurry and worry, just took our time. By the fourth day, DH, who is usually Mr HyperResponsible, was running gleefully through the parking lot with his precious *baby* girl precariously perched in her stroller giggling hysterically. I was the one saying "Slow DOWN, you're going TOO fast!!" 
That way there will be no pressure to get anywhere. Other than Ally's commando touring, that is. 
Besides, this way I can say *I will do that next time* and maybe DH will buy into another WDW trip before too long. 
Oooh, I AM a schemer!
here is what I do have planned: 
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