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COngrats on single digits! It will be so much fun for you to be taking someone new along. Just warn her NO sleeping in!
Paula
I have been calling her every morning at 8:30 to get her out of bed.
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How exciting that Courtney gets to go with you. That will be so much fun. I know you are anticipating this trip. I'm doing the single digit dance with you!
Congrats on your single digits too. I can't wait to get there
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Congrats on single digits!!! And I enjoyed seeing the pics and hearing about your past trips. Ahhh, to stay at the Poly....
The Poly is one of the best places to be able to swim & see the castle or watch the fireworks from the beach is great.
The next change came from Disney on our ADR. I think out of the 12 ADR that we wanted 2 of them we actually get the time and date we wanted. On July 7th I was up at 5:45 I jumped on the computer & got all set up for doing some online dining. We were going to call at 7 to get most of them but I was worried about LeCellier. At 6am I got on to try to get LeCellier for Oct 9 for dinner. I couldn’t get anything so I tried lunch & was able to get some to snag a 12:30 for lunch. I check for the other day we are at Epcot & was able to snag a 6:05 at LeCellier. After that we waited until 7am to call & get the rest of them. Since at that point of time we were using my reservation at the Poly. Most of the reservations were in my name. The ones we did online are in my Mom’s name. When we switch to BLT & got rid of the Poly ressie. We called to make sure the dining is OK. My mom called DVC to change something & asked if all of dining was still OK since we cancel the ressie. She asked my name & couldn’t find it. Great don’t tell me that we lost all of ressies. She asked my mom for a confirmation number of one of our ADR. It came up right a way. They spelled my last name wrong & switching 2 of the letter. So I printed out envelopes for our dining by putting what name & confirmation number on each envelope. We make up envelopes for the tips & just grab them out of the coupon pouch that we take.
So on with the food. I did add on Courtney’s graduation & first visit to all the ressies.
Oct 5th- 1900 Park Fare at 6:55. This is a first time for us but excited to check it out
Oct 6th-Tony’s Town Square at 6:55 Another first for us.
Oct 7th-Crystal Palace 10:10am We ate here last year & loved the food. Oct 8th-Planet Hollywood at 7:00pm This is one of Shayne’s favorite & figure Courtney would get a kick out of it.
Oct 9th- LeCellier at 12:30pm. This will be the first time for lunch.
Oct 10th- Spirit of Aloha at 8:00pm We did this last year & figure Courtney would really enjoy it. Oct 11th- Chef Mickey’s at 5:35pm
Oct 12th- Ohana’s Breakfast Buffet at 10:00am. I love me some blue Alien!!!!!!!!!!
Oct 13th-50’s Prime Time at 12:00pm This one is my mom’s favorite.
Oct 14th-Cape May's Breakfast at 10:10am. LeCellier at 6:05pm. This is a must every trip
Oct 15th- Kona Café at 7:55pm. I think everyone likes this. This will be our third time to eat there. YUMMMYY!!!!!!!
Oct 16th- It tradition ever since our first trip departure morning Chef Mickey’s for breakfast at 10:00am. Last year was the only day that we didn’t go on departure day. That was because we had an earlier flight & need to leave the hotel earlier so we knew we wouldn't have time.
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Hi Amy!!
I just found your TR. I have been so busy lately, no time to read trip reports
You all remind me of myself. I have such a hard time deciding on a resort. Glad you got it all figured out. I hope Courtney has a WONDERFUL time!! Congrats to her on Nursing School! That is great!
Well, it won't be long now! Are you all packed? Have a great time, come back and tell us all about it!
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Hi Amy!!
I just found your TR. I have been so busy lately, no time to read trip reports
You all remind me of myself. I have such a hard time deciding on a resort. Glad you got it all figured out. I hope Courtney has a WONDERFUL time!! Congrats to her on Nursing School! That is great!
Well, it won't be long now! Are you all packed? Have a great time, come back and tell us all about it!
I just got most of my stuff packed. Just a few last minute things.
Sorry about the delay. We had Courtney’s graduation ceremony Thursday night. It was beautiful & we are so proud of her.
On to our schedule & actually it was not safe from changes including one made 2 weeks ago.
Mon Oct 5th-This day & the last day are switch on the schedule that I will post a picture of. Last minute changes. Blizzard Beach is today, our flight arrives at Orlando at 9:20 & last year we were at the hotel by I think 10:30. We think we should be there be 11:00am. We are not sure if we are having a counter service at the hotel or Blizzard Beach. First thing on agenda is family raft ride. We have not done much at BB before so we might explore. We are not sure about mini golf. We might do that today, another day, or not at all we haven’t decided yet.
Tues Oct 6th-MNSSHP night. We had bought our MNSSHP tickets in May before all the Changes came. So we already had them 7 normal wouldn’t do the party our first full day there but we got to roll with the flow. We are going to have a chill out morning if we want to do anything we can but probably will explore the hotel some. We will eat at Tony’s at 6:55pm, hoping to get a table outside for the atmosphere. We are using the same outfits from last year except for we now have Elizabeth Swann joining our crew. Thank you Courtney. I am not sure if my dad or Shayne will be Jack this year. Hopefully we will have some Photopass pics with Jack in them this year.
Wed Oct 7th -MK. Today we will be at MK all day. We have CP for breakfast & probably a counter service at the park. Tonight there is a Spectro & Wishes. I don’t know if we will watch them that night or another night.
Thurs Oct 8th- TL. This is our favorite water park. We usually eat breakfast at the hotel before heading out then get a snack there. We are planning on spending the whole day there. We are eating at Planet Hollywood at 7:00pm
Fri Oct 9th-Epcot Future World. We do have lunch at LeCellier at 12:30pm. This is the first time we will be eating lunch here. We will do some favorites at Epcot. CS will probably be something at FW. The game plan is to walk over Beaches & Cream later so that we can get the Kitchen Sink. I am hoping to see Illumination one of the days we are there.
Sat Oct 10th- Chill out day. We are going over to the CBR to have lunch & rent boats. I think the guys are getting a little braver because they think they might want to rent boats at CR too. We have the luau at 8:00pm. We are going to head over early to do our own photo shoot on the beach.
Sun Oct 11th-Magic Kingdom today is MK EMH PM. We are thinking we would like to get up in the morning & head over. Come back to the hotel for an afternoon break then head over again after dinner. MK is open until 2am with EMH. That is the latest it has ever been open when we are there. Most of the time it was 11pm with EMH. We are excited about that. We have dinner at Chef Mickey’s at 5:35
Mon Oct 12th-DTD a shopping & DQ day. We will be having breakfast with my favorite blue alien at Ohana’s at 10am. Sandwiches at EOS will be later whenever we get hungry
Tues Oct 13th-Hollywood Studios. We have lunch at 50’s Primetime at 12:00pm. We will probably get fast passes for TSM. They have 2 Fantasamic showings so we will probably watch the later one. We missed it when we were there last year
Wed Oct 14th- Epcot World showcase let the food & FAB start. We have breakfast at Cape May’s again this year at 10:15am. We had such a good time last year we are going to try it again. We have LeCellier at 6:05pm. It is extra magic hours so we plan our take our time tour the countries.
Thurs Oct 15th- AK today. We are heading over to do our favs. This is not a full day park for us & we like to be able to go back in the afternoon after the parade & Start packing up. We are going to try Yak & Yeti for a CS. Dinner will be at Kona Café at 7:55pm.
Fri Oct 16th- Departure day such a sad day, except for we will be back in least than a year to enjoy a trip with my brother & kids. We did EB check in for SW & have breakfast at Chef Mickey’s at 10am. We will head over to MK for last fix & probably get lunch somewhere before we leave. Our flight home is at7:25, with DME it will probably leave around 4pm. We will arrive at Pittsburgh at 9:40pm
So that is our schedule. I will try to do another update tomorrow with all the little odds & ends that I made. I will be doing some live updates. Up Next: Hopefully little odds & ends.
What great pictures from the graduation, what a proud moment for everyone. Your plans look great, and you got some wonderful ADR's (how lucky to get Le Cellier twice )
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