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It's Official....now to hope the weather co-operates
The pixies came through and the trip is happening and, of course, PIF!!!
Now back to the details.
Feb. 5th- I have work and the kids have school today My husband will pick up and load the rental. He will then pick up the kids and their homework(we are hoping to keep it under wraps until several hours on the road are out of the way). I want to make it well past Atlanta before we stop for the night, since driving through Atlanta is my least favorite part of the trip.
Feb 6th- Wake up and get moving by about 9. Drive the rest of the way to Orlando. I am hoping to make it there by about 1 or so. Now I could not get a Disney Reservation for this night. : It kept popping up ASMu was available but I don't want to move across property and I had hoped to spend most of Saturday shopping at DTD. This idea lent itself to staying at a DTD resort. We are booked at the DoubleTree Suites for this night and have a 7:30 reservation at T-REX. After dinner I may decide to go back and sleep or we may check out DisneyQuest.
Feb. 7th-Check-Out about 7:30 or 8. Drive over to POR and check in. I know our room won't be ready but we'll need our KTTW cards for today. We have a 9:30 ADR at Donald's Safari Breakfast. We will spend the day at AK with special emphasis on the parade and seeing NEMO. We will head back to the room at park closing and will either meet up with the In-laws(who live an hour from the magic) or spend the evening at Fort Wilderness at Chip and Dales campfire.
More plans...and buy do I love it when the magic is in my favor
So we last left you on February 7th and the Animal Kingdom....
Monday Feb. 8th- This is our first MK day and I am SO excited about it. We got to do very little at the MK on our first trip and I have a huge list of must do's that include parades, character meets, and rides. We start the day with an 8:45 ADR at Ohana!! We ate there last trip and I loved it. After breakfast we will monorail over to the MK. While at the MK we will accost every photopass photographer, find our way to pixie hollow, and spend HUGE amounts of time taking photos in Toon Town while we can. I hope to spend all day here and do parades and fireworks but if we get tired we can go back to the resort, I did plan a second MK day just in case
Tuesday Feb 9th- Today is our down day. I managed to get last minute(booked yesterday) reservations for the kids on the Pirate Adventure at POR I will enjoy a leisurely breakfast with my DH while they say ARG! We will probably end up seeing the in-laws today but I am unsure if we will go to them or they will come to us.
Wednesday Feb 10th-Epcot. The kids are not as thrilled with this park so we are only doing one day here. I want to get them passports and let them go from country to country. We hope to find Mulan and maybe even Marie(I've seen your photos people I know she exists and my DD wants badly to see her). I am also hoping to ride Soarin and Test Track this time. We have a Garden Grill reservation at 4:30p. I figured we would do midmorning brunch and then the early dinner.
Next up...Our last few days and can I surprise the kids at this late date with a makeover?
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My husband will pick up and load the rental. He will then pick up the kids and their homework(we are hoping to keep it under wraps until several hours on the road are out of the way). I want to make it well past Atlanta before we stop for the night, since driving through Atlanta is my least favorite part of the trip.
: It kept popping up ASMu was available but I don't want to move across property and I had hoped to spend most of Saturday shopping at DTD. This idea lent itself to staying at a DTD resort. We are booked at the DoubleTree Suites for this night and have a 7:30 reservation at T-REX. After dinner I may decide to go back and sleep or we may check out DisneyQuest.
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I will enjoy a leisurely breakfast with my DH while they say ARG! We will probably end up seeing the in-laws today but I am unsure if we will go to them or they will come to us.
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