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Nice work on the FP+ ressies! I hope you got everything you wanted!
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How could I have missed this PTR??? I spent a good hour totally enjoying all the plans and changes to plans for your adventures! Can't wait to hear how you are going to do the reveal. AND we get to see you (and maybe Dave and the littles) before we have to leave on Monday! So looking forward to that. Best of luck with your FP+ ressies!
thanks! I wasn't expecting that, but not gonna argue! :
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Excellent score re the FPs getting accomplished. Just keep checking it off.
Slowly but surely getting it done!
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Nice work on the FP+ ressies! I hope you got everything you wanted!
There were a few changes...
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The plans are looking great!! Congrats on making your FP+!
Thanks! Lucked into that!
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Congrats on getting your FP+!
thanks! One more thing complete!
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Great FP+ plans!!
Thanks!
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How could I have missed this PTR??? I spent a good hour totally enjoying all the plans and changes to plans for your adventures! Can't wait to hear how you are going to do the reveal. AND we get to see you (and maybe Dave and the littles) before we have to leave on Monday! So looking forward to that. Best of luck with your FP+ ressies!
Can't wait to see you and Bob! And Dave definitely would love to catch up before you leave...any match-ups?
I will have to sit down and write up the final...and I hope I mean final...plans! Won't be long now!
In my previous update, I was awaiting our Wednesday FP+ day. On Sunday, I logged on to select a few things for the days I would be there before the rest arrived. I was goofing off and said, “Let’s see if it allows me to book for days beyond the 4 I am there. And it DID! Wait, what? Well, let’s see if it will let me book it for everyone, AND IT DID! Now I’m excited, and kind of at sixes and sevens, not sure what to think. But I knew what to do! I booked those fastpasses! If nothing else, it was good practice and I could go back and re-do them if they disappeared later!
A few minor changes occurred while I was online and some seat-of-the-pants juggling, but I think we have a pretty good plan in place!
Sunday 25 Sept.
Remains the same, check in, pool time, dinner at WCC at 5:25 then back to the room for an early night so we can get an early start in the morning.
Monday 26 Sept.
Up early, breakfast in the room, MK for rope drop.
Photo pass photos, visit Mickey, see what we might be able to ride without FP. Then onto the monorail to Epcot around 11.
Epcot:
Spaceship Earth 12:10-1:10
Meet Disney Pals 1:50-2:50
Test Track 3:05-4:05
Probably eat around the World for lunch. The littles are good eaters and always will try something once!
Then hop onto a boat to DHS for dinner
Minnie’s Seasonal Dine at H&V 5:15
Hoping to then pop out and find a good spot for the fireworks if they are having them. Park closes at 7:30. We will either head back to the resort or Epcot depending on how everyone is feeling.
Tuesday 27 Sept.
In room breakfast
The plan still calls for Blizzard Beach fun. Lunch at one of the counter services at BB. Leave early afternoon and return to room for a rest, then head to Animal Kingdom around 5:30.
Tusker House dinner – 7 PM
Safari Spectacular starts at 9PM –Midnight. We will see how long the littles last after a day at BB!!
Wednesday 28 Sept.
In room breakfast
Disney Hollywood Studios
Toy Story Mania 9:10-10-10
Muppet Vision 3D 10:20-11:20
Star Tours 11:55-12:55 –this may be just Papa and DGS, but hoping to talk DGD into trying. If not, we may wander around and take some photos.
Lunch maybe counter service at the Backlot.
Once this is done, hoping to head to see Kylo Ren and Chewie if we didn’t see them on Monday. The schedule for this and the fireworks are not available. Make us make these plans so far in advance and not give us all the info we need to do so is getting really tiresome. Rant over.
Then head back to Epcot for dinner.
Garden Grill – 4:45 (I’m gonna keep checking and see if I can slide this a bit later)
I did try to switch everything on Monday and Wednesday around but it just didn’t work. Besides, we don’t mind the boat ride between the two parks. We may try to see if we can get a fp to Soarin’ once we get done over at DHS. Then early night back to room as another late night is a’comin’!
Thursday 29 Sept.
Magic Kingdom all day and night!
Buzz Lightyear 9:20-10-20
7DMT- 10:35-11;35
Barnstormer 11:55-12:55
Lunch is Casey’s Hot Dogs!! Must have my Casey fix!!
We may take a break here and walk back to BL and go into the pool, or take a nap, or we may find something else to ride. (the carousel!!! ) It will depend on how everyone is feeling, temperature, all that good stuff. I want to also get a start on our packing
Then, it’s dinner
Liberty Tree Tavern 4:45 (again, I’d like to see if I can push it a bit later. Right now the only other option appears to be 6:45, and I don’t want to wait that late.)
Then we have MNSSHP!!! Will the littles make it to the end?
Friday 30 Sept.
Departure day.
Up early, breakfast, finish packing then take bags to airline precheck.
A quick walk over to MK, which has morning magic hours today, so doubt we will make rope drop, especially after a late night the night before.
Jungle Cruise 9-10
Haunted Mansion 10:10-11:10 (I hope the scrim is down!)
It’s a Small World” 11:15-12:15. Papa is definitely not keen on this one, but it’s for the littles, so he’s sucking it up. I’m sure I will have a lip poking out a bit at me.
It’s a tight race to lunch at
Jungle Navigation Co. Skipper Canteen…12:20.
After lunch, its back to BL to await our Tragical Express ride to the airport…it will probably be around 2 as our flight is 4:55.
I’m done changing things. These are the plans, good, bad or indifferent! I’m also currently juggling plans for a January trip and I find myself losing track of what I am doing. I may still try to shift the 4:45 dinners (GG and LTT) to a bit later, but it’s ok if I can’t.
WE are 55 days away, I’m getting excited! I have a work trip next week, so that should help the time pass, though I’m not a fan of week-long seminars, I’ve managed to avoid them the last few years, it figures my luck ran out. So I’m off to Columbia, South Carolina. In August. Yay! It’s just helping keep me ‘in shape’ for WDW in Sept!
I don’t think there will be any additional updates on this PTR. I think we are set!
Thanks for reading!
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Plans look great!
Ugh, stay cool in Columbia. We're headed there the 12th to move our oldest back down to school for his second year at USC. I always think DC is so hot and humid, but it is so much more bearable than Columbia. Hope you don't have to go far between your hotel and seminars.
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Plans look great!
Ugh, stay cool in Columbia. We're headed there the 12th to move our oldest back down to school for his second year at USC. I always think DC is so hot and humid, but it is so much more bearable than Columbia. Hope you don't have to go far between your hotel and seminars.
How funny! I'm leaving to come home on the 12th, and I will be at USC!! I'm at a seminar at the National Advocacy Center there on campus from the 8-12 of August. Luckily, our rooms are right there in the same building as the meeting rooms. I only have to go out of an evening for dinner as breakfast and lunch are provided. And they have the BEST food! If it's too horrible outside, I can get by with a salad from the bar and call it good. Lunch is mostly the main meal for me when I go.
Love your plans! Now for a couple of months to elapse so you can live them! I had to check, but now I'm excited. We are in MK on the morning of September 30 and our FP+ time for Haunted Mansion overlaps a bit with yours. Ours are for 10:45-11:45. Can we meet????
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Wait, what? Well, let’s see if it will let me book it for everyone, AND IT DID! Now I’m excited, and kind of at sixes and sevens, not sure what to think. But I knew what to do! I booked those fastpasses! If nothing else, it was good practice and I could go back and re-do them if they disappeared later! 
Make us make these plans so far in advance and not give us all the info we need to do so is getting really tiresome. Rant over.
Will the littles make it to the end?
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