SURPRISE boys; get your butts out of bed because we are going to Disney today, PTR!!!!!!! - Page 9 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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I just got all caught up on your PTR. It is fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing your plans. I hope you have a wonderful time. Only a couple short days away.
This day sounds fantastic! Can't wait to hear about your mother daughter breakfast! I think its great that you found something for all the boys to do!
Thanks, I hope everyone enjoys there special adventures.
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Sounds like tons of fun for the whole family. And it's always nice to get some girl time. Good luck on getting your todo list done before you trip! It will be here before you know it.
Thank you, after being surrounded by boys all the time, its nice to spend some time with my Mom. making progress on the list but still have a lot to do.
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Originally Posted by shena_03
Can't wait to hear about the Pirate adventure.
Me too, I am a little nervous about sending him on his own, I hope there are no phone calls.
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Originally Posted by Cam22
Great idea for the mother/daughter breakfast!
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by ilovedisney247
Great plans for the MK morning--I love that there are separate surprises for everyone!
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by bsblady01
more please
On it's way.
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Originally Posted by JKnott17
Great surprises planned for the morning! I hope everyone enjoys them
Thank you me too.
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Sounds like a great day planned!
I think everyone will be happy.
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Originally Posted by mcc0313
Sounds like a great day with everyone doing a little something special...glad you and DM will have some one on one time as well.
Thank you, I love spending time with my Mom.
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Originally Posted by KMB733
More great plans!!! getting everything done before you leave!!
Thank you, things are getting done but I think I am starting to go into panic mode.
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Originally Posted by lazanya
More great plans!
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by tylerdylansmom
I just got all caught up on your PTR. It is fantastic. Thanks so much for sharing your plans. I hope you have a wonderful time. Only a couple short days away.
Thank you, I am glad you are enjoying my PTR, only a little over 30 hours to go.
Day 7 Part 2
Wooooo-hoooo a little more than 24 hours before we leave, let the final countdown begin.
The plans for our night time fun are due to reading the PTR of Jen (jovigirlnj) and the TR of Jenn (JKnott17). In Jen’s (jovigirlnj) PTR she mentioned how the camp sites at FTW were decorated to the nines and renting golf carts to see it all. Well when I gear Christmas decorations and golf carts together, I am there. You see we love decorating the outside of our house at Christmas, you can’t miss our house it is the brightest one on the block, so when I hear of people who share our passion I just gotta check it out. As far as the carts go, I don’t know what it is about them but I have always wanted to drive one and now on our trip I can check it off the bucket list. So thank you Jen for sharing such a wonderful idea.
So sometime around 3:30 we will head over to FTW pick up our carts and start exploring. I know it won’t be that dark yet, so it will give us some time to familiarize ourselves with the resort while it is still light. We have a 4:30 ADR at Trails End, so we will drive over there and enjoy our first meal there ever. After dinner it will be dark enough to go check out all those amazing campsites.
Part 2 of our amazing night, I have to thank Jenn (JKnott17), in her TR her family had a wonderful time at the campfire and movie, making s’mores and visiting with Chip and Dale. We have been to a campfire and movie at the Grand Floridian but there were no characters, so we will head over there after our decoration tour. After the movie I am going to drive that cart for as long as I can, I wish I could drive it back to the Poly, before we turn it in and call it a fabulous night.
As we head back to the Poly, it will be bitter sweet knowing that this was our last night at WDW but we sure will have some great memories.
High lights that I am looking forward to:
ADR at Trails Ends
Finally being able to fulfill a lifelong dream and drive a golf cart
Tour all the campsites for holiday decorations
S’mores by the campfire
That sounds fantastic, I LOVE FW. Trails End was good food, very filling! Sounds like a great way to spend the evening. We rented a golf cart when we stayed there and had so much fun. Look for the armadillos!
I hope you have a wonderful evening at FW, it sounds like a great night planned! You will love the campfire, and I'm sure the decorations will be awesome! We saw a couple of campsites who were starting to get their decorations up, I wish we could have seen more
Well I can’t believe it’s finally the night before we leave. Today was a crazy day, I starting running around at 6am and haven’t stopped yet and probably won’t. So this morning I ran to Lowes, Kmart, Target, AC More and Office Depot and dropped one dog off at the kennel. I still had some t-shirts to make and packing to do among other things, so DH took the boys off to the in-laws so I could get some of that stuff done. Six hours later 21 shirts done, packing almost, boarding passes printed and my other dog dropped off at the sitters but there still is a lot to do, I seriously do not think I will sleep tonight.
We plan to reveal the surprise tonight because there’s just too many things out of place for my kids not to notice. As far as keeping a WDW trip a secret from your kids, it hard work and down right exhausting. Although I enjoy the concept of the surprise I don’t think I would do it this way again. I believe that it is more fun to include them in on the planning process and therefore less stress for Moms and Dads.
Well that’s it for now, gotta keep moving and get things done. I don’t think that I will fall asleep (TOO EXCITED) but I have the alarm set for 3am just in case. Thanks for following along on my PTR, I enjoyed having you here and I hope you join me for a LIVE TR starting tomorrow at 4:30am.
See ya soon!
That sounds fantastic, I LOVE FW. Trails End was good food, very filling! Sounds like a great way to spend the evening. We rented a golf cart when we stayed there and had so much fun. Look for the armadillos!
I can't wait to drive on of those babies, someday I would like to stay at FW just so i could have one for more than a day. Will be on the look out for the armadillos.
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Sounds like it's going to be a great night!
Thanks, I sure do hope so.
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Have a great trip.
Thank you, only 8 more hours to go.
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Originally Posted by JKnott17
I hope you have a wonderful evening at FW, it sounds like a great night planned! You will love the campfire, and I'm sure the decorations will be awesome! We saw a couple of campsites who were starting to get their decorations up, I wish we could have seen more
Thank you, I will post some picture while I am there.
I am so excited for you, I can't wait to hear how the surprise goes. Wish I was going with you lol, only 27 days til we leave, but its still so far away lol! Have an awesome trip!
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