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thanks everyone! it is really soon! i think my count down is something like 27 days. actually...thinking about it now...four weeks from right now we will (hopefully) still be at bluezoo post epcot night! woo hoo!!!!!!
ok...i'm posting on here like mad today, it seems! purpose of this post: i added a day to my trip! i now have four full days to do my research. i was kind of freaking about about how i'd do it all in three days, and now i feel much better. i'll be away from work longer, but that's going to have to be ok. this is me committing to this project. and to possibly getting some sleep during this trip. yay! so excited! stay tuned for the new and improved, one day longer plan!
thanks for the many congrats, everyone! i figure it is worth the cost of an extra night to be less stressed, right?
ok...so my new and improved one-day-more plan looks like this:
day 0--
arrive 9pm. sleep
day 1--
MK all day, 9am-8pm
break during day to check out monorial resorts
lunch at kona cafe
before wishes, exit for WL
8:30 dinner at Artist point
cab to CSR
write/sleep
day 2--
Epcot all day, 9am-9pm
1:00 lunch at Chefs
friend joins me in the afternoon
9:45 dinner at Bluezoo, Dolphin
cab to CSR
sleep
day 3--
AK all day, with friend
12:00 lunch Yak and Yeti
friend leaves
5:00ish, bus to BWI
check out BWI
Epcot until Midnight
9:30 dinner at Via Napoli
bus back to CSR, write/sleep
day 4--
HS all day, 8am-?
12:35 Lunch Brown Derby
Afternoon--transfer at POR for MK
Evening--MK until 9:30pm
9:45 dinner at Citricos
cab back to CSR, write/sleep
day 5--
fly home, wait for it to be may when i return with my mother!
hmmm. even with my extra day, i'm not getting very much rest at all. ah well. that's what the flight back is for, right?
in summary, here's what i will have accomplished in four days...research at/during:
-1 full day at each park, and an extra evening in MK and Epcot.
-Poly, GF, CR, WL, BWI, POR, and CSR
-Kona Cafe, Artist Point, Chefs, Yak and Yeti, Via Napoli, Brown Derby, Citricos
-totally non-related to research: hanging out with florida friend for an afternoon, evening, and morning!
i know that i need to remember, this is a research trip, not a vacation. but even with that fact, is this too much??? i guess we will have my answer in my trip report, sure to be written soon after i return!
Congratulations on all your changes (day, parks, meals). Looking forward to reading your blog while you are on the trip. Hope you have great weather, I know you are tired of snow, we are too. We have not been to school yet in February, yes you read right. We have been out of school for 9 days. Blizzards, more snow, more snow and new record freezing temperatures have been the driving factors in our February.
Congratulations on all your changes (day, parks, meals). Looking forward to reading your blog while you are on the trip. Hope you have great weather, I know you are tired of snow, we are too. We have not been to school yet in February, yes you read right. We have been out of school for 9 days. Blizzards, more snow, more snow and new record freezing temperatures have been the driving factors in our February.
oh my goodness! that's terrible! i guess i should not complain about our seven snow days, then!
i'll be posting during the trip on a different blog--one i've deemed 'iPhone only', as iPhone posting is less...well formatted than i'd like. i'll be posting a link on here to that site the day before i leave, but here it is for you, now: Virtual Passenger. right now it only has a few test posts, so nothing exciting until i leave...in less than three weeks!!!!!
Definitely sounds like a lot to me! The hard part, I'm guessing, will be the energy to write things up once you return to the resort at night--knowing you have to get up early to hit the parks again.
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