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OK... still can't figure out the pictures! Doh! I'll play around when I have some more time.
I originally planned this adventure to leave on Thursday night so that Mo could attend school all day on Thursday. (She has the 15th-25th off from school.) Since I booked, they have decided to take the April Vacation away (they've had 9 snow days --> really 8 snow days and 1 clean of the roof day). So I'm thinking since she's going to miss 4 days of school (Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) anyway, what's one more?? So here are my new-ish plans:
Thursday 04/14 - Flight out. No evening EMH, so I may stick to my original plan of DTD and hanging out at the resort. Maybe head to MK if that's what Mo wants to do (it is her trip afterall)
Friday 04/15 - Wild Africa Trek (I'm so excited!!!) This will take 3 hrs. By the time we get done we'll walk over to EE and KRR and see if we can walk on (I'm assuming by this time all of the FPs will be gone). Won't "really" need to do the Safari, since we'll have just completed it. Maybe check out FotLK, but We'll go easy that afternoon (I'm assuming we will have walked a lot that morning!)
I'm thinking of trying to get into HDDR for dinner tonight as well...
There's EMH at EPCOT that evening, so maybe we'll head over there for EMH and Illuminations. (Although if we do HDDR we'll probably just take the boat to MK from FW.)
Sat 04/16 - EMH in AM at HS (will we get up that early??)
Lunch ADR @ CP. Not sure if this will change or not (Our friends from the area may be coming over to visit.)
Sunday 04/17
EMH @ EPCOT in am, EMH @ MK in pm. If our friends come visit we may not be able to take advantage of EMH because they won't "technically" be resort guests. And I know recently they've been actually checking people's resort IDs.
Monday 04/18 -
EMH @ HS in AM
Tuesday 04/19 -
EMH @ MK in AM
Lunch ADR @ Le Cellier (so excited! I love me some Red Meat!!!)
EMH @ EPCOT in PM (probably this will be our plan since we have a late lunch ADR, so we can watch Illuminations and check out the extra hours at Soarin and all that good stuff!)
Wednesday 04/20 -
EMH @ AK in AM -- not sure if we'll do this or not. AK has never been our "last park".
Which brings me to another point... why cant DME pick you up to bring you to the airport from a park? Why do we have to go back to the resort first?? I know the Cruise Line will pick people up from a park (AK I think?)
I'm hopefully going to book airfare this weekend. I can't seem to get the price down to anything remotely decent. I think it's mostly due to the fact that I'm traveling the week before Easter. I've decided that the prices are not going to go down in the next 60 days (and if they do maybe I can convince the airline to bring me down to that price too...)
Hmm... I wonder if the Easter Parade schedule is out yet... Haven't been there at Easter time since 1998, so I just remembered that there's special decorations for Easter too. WONDERFUL!!! This trip keeps getting better and better!
Great plans, Shan!
For the pictures, here's what I (just!) figured out - my pics are on Snapfish. If I open the large view of the picture, and then right click on it, I can then click "copy". Then I go into the body of my message on Passporter, and click "control V" to paste.
Good luck!
Oh, and I assume you have a 1BR at SSR? Studios, sadly, don't have the washer/dryer. We did miss that on our last 2 stays, as we did studios at OKW and VWL in order to save some points, since they were only 4 day trips.
This is a pic from our last "solo" trip to WDW - for my 30th Birthday. This was at the airport before we got on the plane. She's calling her dad to tell him that we're going to Disney World!
Great update! I don't think there is an Easter Parade anymore! Good luck finding airfare! We've gone spring break before in April (when Easter was in March) and it was the most expensive airfare we've ever paid going to Orlando!
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This is a pic from our last "solo" trip to WDW - for my 30th Birthday. This was at the airport before we got on the plane. She's calling her dad to tell him that we're going to Disney World!
So glad my instructions worked!! I'm pretty proud of myself: figured out how to do my own pics, AND helped someone else!! (Of course I also need to thank Marnie, as she got me started in the right direction! Marnie!)
Great update! I don't think there is an Easter Parade anymore! Good luck finding airfare! We've gone spring break before in April (when Easter was in March) and it was the most expensive airfare we've ever paid going to Orlando!
Doh! I was hoping for an Easter Parade. (Which I had totally forgotten about LOL)
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Maybe we'll see you at some point, as we'll be in Epcot for dinner on 19 April as well...
That would be too funny if we ran into each other!
Thanks all for the wishes on the air fare. Gonna need them... maybe my next husband should be a pilot? It would be a perfect relationship - he'd only be home sometimes and I'd get cheap plane tickets... (the wheels are turning...)
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uploading the photos - once you get the hang of it, it's pretty straightforward. 
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Good luck finding airfare! We've gone spring break before in April (when Easter was in March) and it was the most expensive airfare we've ever paid going to Orlando! 
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