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Your ADR's look wonderful! I am so of your extended stay at the Poly! You are going to love it. It's really a beautiful hotel. I can't wait to hear more.
What a great line-up of ADR's! Your trip is coming up so soon . We have just planned an impulse trip and will be overlapping you by 1 day! We fly in on Oct. 4 and will be at Epcot for the evening- so it looks like we'll miss you....Have fun!
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Your ADR's look wonderful! I am so of your extended stay at the Poly! You are going to love it. It's really a beautiful hotel. I can't wait to hear more.
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What a great line-up of ADR's! Your trip is coming up so soon . We have just planned an impulse trip and will be overlapping you by 1 day! We fly in on Oct. 4 and will be at Epcot for the evening- so it looks like we'll miss you....Have fun!
Our schedule has changed some due to us & WDW. We have had most of schedule done other than a few little changes here & there. This is going to be a long detail version of our schedule for all of you detail junkies like me. For those of you who don’t want to know all of the flight time & details I will put up a shorten version in the next post if you would like to see it. Well let’s get on with the show. I had about half of this typed up yesterday & the power went out. I am going to post the first 7 days of our schedule this post & then will post the rest tomorrow. Then I will post the shorten schedule tomorrow or the next day depending on time.
Tues Sept 23rd- Rise & shine about 3am get ready & need to be out the door about 3:45am no later 4am. It takes about 45 mins to get to the parking service that we use. Get our car checked in & off on their shuttle to Pittsburgh Airport. We are hoping to get to the security line by a little after 5am. We want to grab a little breakfast before catching our flight at 6:45am. Our flight is schedule to arrive in Orlando at 9am. Hopefully with a great flight we will arrive in great time. Go to DME to check in & get in line for the Poly. We are hoping that our room is ready but not counting on it. We will have swimsuits & towels packed in our carry on. So we could change & relax by the pool until our room is ready. Once the room is ready we will then head over to MK. If the room is ready then we are going to drop off our carry on & head over to the MK for shopping. Eventually either way we are hoping for some time to relax & freshen up. We will either have lunch at the hotel or Peco Bill’s depending on where we are at. We are going to get ready for our Poly Photo Shoot at 7pm. This was originally schedule for another day until Disney decided they were going to raise the price. This is the last day that we can get it for the $25. Then we will head over to the Spirit of Aloha at 8pm. We have never done this one & since we are staying here also my dad wanted to try it. We will probably fall into bed after we get back. As a surprise to the family I am going to have a cake delivered to the room while we are gone that night.
Wed Sept 24th-We will probably be schedule a wake up call for 7am get up & ready to head to MK. We are going to try to be over there for the opening ceremony so that we can watch that. In all the trips that we have been on we have never seen an opening yet. We are just not early risers. After watching that we will head in to check in for our KTTK tour. We are doing the 9:30 tour. We had to wait until this year because Shayne was not old enough. We will be having lunch at Columbia Harbor House with the tour. After the tour we will start tour MK & take our time. We didn’t schedule an ADR today because of the tour taking up a big part of our day. For dinner we will probably eat at Cosmic Ray’s whenever we get hungry. We might stay & watch the fireworks before heading back to the hotel to relax & chill out for a bit.
Thur Sept 25th-Orginal today we had planned to go to TL for the day but Disney has other plans for us. Since BB is closing on Sun which was the day we had planned to go. We are going to go to BB today. We are also going to Mini Golf while we are there & check out some of the slides at BB. We will go back to the hotel to change & head over to WL for dinner at 6:35pm at WCC. After that we will chill out at the hotel & do some laundry. Head off to bed for the night.
Fri Sept 26th-We are heading over to EPCOT today to sample some of the food & wine. We are having breakfast at Cape May with Goofy for Shayne at 10:00am then we will head into the world showcase to make way around the world. We will definitely be shopping & in case you didn’t notice we do like to shop a little! We another ADR at Le Cellier at 8:20 I have tried to call several times to reschedule so I could make it to the PP meet at Italy but no such luck. So I will try to make it over after dinner. Then we will head back to the hotel.
Sat Sept 28th- We will probably sleep in today then head over to DHS. We have an ADR at 50’s Prime Time at noon. We will tour around DHS until we have enough. We would like to be able to the new ride out. We haven’t decided if we are going to stay & watch Fantasmic or not yet. MK is open until midnight tonight so we might head over there for a while before calling it a night. Sun Sept 28th-This is a chill out day until evening. We are going to head over to CBR because we want to take a look at the pool & my dad likes doing the boats there. We will probably have lunch while we are there. I am not sure if we are going to do laundry before we go or when we get back. We get ready to head over the MK for MNSSHP we have dinner reservation at Liberty Tree at 5:05. We are dressing up for the party as Jack Sparrow & his crew. We trick & treat until they kick us out.
Mon Sept 29th- We are heading to TL today & so we will probably eat breakfast at the hotel I am dying to try some Tonga Toast. Then we will head to TL for some relaxing time floating around on a lazy river. Once we get back & clean up we head over to Kona Café for our ADR at 5:30pm. After dinner it is EMH at MK so we will probably head over there for a little while.
I'm going to chime in. You forgot to tell everyone that one of your pictures of the clouds won you a second place ribbon and a little moola at the county fair.
That's AWESOME!! Which one?? This one??
or this one??
They're both fantastic!!
Just caught up on your installments! Your ADRs look and your plans look Looking forward to more
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That's AWESOME!! Which one?? This one??
or this one??
They're both fantastic!!
Just caught up on your installments! Your ADRs look and your plans look Looking forward to more
Auctually it was the second one. I love taking pictures & thought this year I would try to enter at the fair. I was so excited that I actually got second place. I can't wait to see what pictures I get from this year.
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Hope all your plans go off without a hitch!
I hope that is doesn't rain alot. Pixie dust for nice weather.
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Tues Sept 30th- it’s a shopping day! DTD wooohooo! We will be eating breakfast at Ohana’s which is a first for us. Since Stitch is one of my favorites I am so excited. After breakfast we will hop a bus to DTD to shop until we drop. We will be eating a CS somewhere in DTD whenever we get hungry. My guess will be EOS. Today is also another schedule laundry day.
Wed Oct 1st-We are heading over to AK for the day. We will start our day off with some breakfast at Donald’s Breakfast Safari @10:30am. This is the first time for being here. Last year when we were there it was at the old place. We are hoping to catch Festival of Life & Nemo since we have not done either one of them. For a counter service we will eat at AK or Hotel we are not sure yet. AK has EMH tonight which we have never done there before so we think it will be fun.
Thur Oct 2nd- It’s my B-Day. Well at least in Disney eyes. I will be back with that in another post. We are having B-day breakfast at Crystal Palace @ 10:05. We will be enjoying MK for the rest of the day until they kick us out for MNSSHP. We head back to hotel & probably chill out at the pool. I am hoping to catch the MNSSHP fireworks from the beach tonight.
Fri Oct 3rd-We are heading to Epcot to do future part. We have lunch schedule at Coral Reef at 12:00pm. This is a first time for us & my dad really wanted to try it. Depending on how much time we spend over there we might head back over the worlds for more food & wine. For dinner we will either grab something at EPCOT or back at the hotel.
Sat Oct 4th- Today was suppose to be original check out day but since we added a day we thought we would just stick to what we had schedule. We will head over to the Contemporary for some breakfast at Chef Mickey’s at 10:15am. This is usually are farewell breakfast we have done this every year our last day. Since we won’t have anytime the next day we figure we just keep our old plans. We need to check in for our flight either at the Contemporary or Poly. We will head to the MK for one last hooray on all of our favorites. Spend some time soaking it all in to last for the next year until we come again. We will head back to the hotel to start packing up & do the rest of the laundry so that when we get home we don’t have a mountain to do. We have a dinner ADR at Ohana’s for 8:15pm. When we first schedule it we had a 9:30pm ressie so at least it is a little earlier.
Sun Oct 5th- We are checking out. Our flight leaves Orlando at 11:45am so we figure DME time will be somewhere between 8:30-8:45am. After everything is ready to go we might try to grab some breakfast at the hotel before we leave our happy place. We should arrive back at Pittsburgh around 2:00pm.
So that is our full schedule. Here is the schedule that I typed up. We also have an idiot’s guide that we hang on the wall at the hotel so that we know what going on each day. This really helped my dad & brother out last year so that could just look to see what is going on for the day.
Tues Sept 23 Arrive at 9am DME to Poly. MK-shopping Poly Photo Shoot 7pm ADR at Spirit of Aloha 8pm
Wed Sept 24 MK KTTK tour 9:30am CS-Columbia Harbor House ADR-none another CS Cosmic Ray’s Hopefully wishes
Thur Sept 25 BB/Mini Golf CS-BB or Hotel ADR-WCC at 6:35 Laundry Pool time/chill out time
Fri Sept 26 Epcot CS-none ADR- Cape May Breakfast Buffet 10:00am & Le Cellier 8:20pm World show case tour
Sat Sept 27th- DHS ADR- 50’s Prime Time CS-DHS or Hotel Tour DHS/Possible MK evening
Sun Sept 28th- Chill out morning Laundry Boats at the CBR/checking out the new pool ADR-Liberty Tree at 5:05pm CS- CBR MNSSHP
Mon Sept 29th- TL ADR-Kona Café 5:30pm CS-Breakfast at hotel MK EMH
Tues Sept 30th- DTD ADR-Ohana’s Breakfast 10:10 CS-EOS Shop until we drop Laundry
Wed Oct 1st- AK ADR-Donald’s Breakfast at 10:30am CS-AK or Hotel AK EMH it will be a first for us
Thur Oct 2nd- MK ADR-Crystal Palace at 10:05am CS-Pinocchio Village Haus Spending my Disney 30th B-day at my favorite park Staying until we get chase out for MNSSHP Watch fireworks from the Poly
Fri Oct 3rd- Epcot ADR-Coral Reef at 12pm CS-? Doing the future part & maybe heading over to the world’s again
Sat Oct 4th- MK ADR- Chef Mickey at 10:15am & Ohana’s at 8:15pm Catching all our favs one last time Packing up
Sun Oct 5th- Checking out ADR-none CS- maybe breakfast at hotel. Fly home morning flight.
Here is our schedule & idiot’s guide we hang on the wall
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of your extended stay at the Poly! You are going to love it. It's really a beautiful hotel. I can't wait to hear more.
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. We have just planned an impulse trip and will be overlapping you by 1 day! We fly in on Oct. 4 and will be at Epcot for the evening- so it looks like we'll miss you....Have fun!
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