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That is my most Disney song When it comes on my iPod I have to play it a few times coz it's just not long enough. Ray is my fave character from the film too Great ADRs, I can make mine on June 2nd so I'm excited.
We love Ray! We were so sad with the way things ended for him, but Disney made up for it by letting him sit beside his Evangeline in the night sky I hope you got all of your ADRs on Saturday!!
Since we are leaving so late on Thursday, I figured I would combine our departure with our Day 1 plans
Our flight is scheduled to leave JFK at 7:15 pm on Thursday, getting us to Orlando by 10:15 pm. Chris will be working until 2 pm this day, so while the girls are at school I'll spend the day packing up the last of our things. I'll have Chris pack everything into the car when he gets home, then at 3:30 we'll head up the block to pick the girls from school. After a quick snack and change of clothes for them, we'll jump in the car to make the trek out to Queens hopefully by 4 pm. The trip should only take an hour, but that's without traffic and there is rarely no traffic when heading through Staten Island
I'm going to use the power of wishful thinking that there are no delays that evening and we arrive in Orlando on schedule , especially since it's going to be a late night even if we get in on time. Since it will be so late, we'll grab our own luggage before heading over to DME. I'm hoping I'm being generous with my estimate, but I expect to be checked in at POR by midnight.
We'll take it easy the next morning, hopefully sleeping in a bit (yeah right, I know the girls will be up bright and early - who am I kidding, I will be too - excited to be in Disney!) I think we will spend the morning checking out the resort, I know the girls are excited about the pool and the fishing hole, so those are definitely on the list. Here's a tidbit of info, I read somewhere that they use hotdogs there as bait for the fish Who knew that fish liked hot dogs?!?!
I think we will probably grab a quick lunch at the POR foodcourt, and at some point in the afternoon head over to the MK. This night is the last MNSSHP, so it will be a good time to see the Halloween deocorations before they are taken down. After a few hours at the MK we will head over to the CR for our 6:30 pm dinner at Chef Mickey's. I HAD to get us an ADR here this trip, since last year I got so much flack from the girls for not including it in our plans I decided to change it up from our normal breakfast here and try dinner instead.
We've never spent a lot of time at CR, so after dinner I think we will spend some time exploring the resort. Depending on how we feel, we might head over to the Poly to watch Hallowishes from the beach. Does anyone know if they pipe in the music for the party fireworks over there too? My BFF and her family arrive this evening, so they may join us for the fireworks too
150 days to go!
The evening star is shinin' bright. So make a wish and hold on tight. There's magic in the air tonight, and anything can happen.~ Princess Tiana
fish love hotdogs.....who knew is right. Arnaud and I were on an NCL crusie a few yrs ago and on the private island this crazy lady was bringing hotdogs from the buffet set up into the water and really hand feeding the fish.....it was so bizarre, I couldn't believe it.
You MUST head over to the Poly beach and watch Hallowishes!!!! Yes the music is piped in. I just wouldn't sit close to the pool as that noise can be loud. The party fireworks are just amazing from that beach, they take over the whole sky......it is a sight to see for sure, and since you will be right there, you have to!!!!
Great nice and relaxing plans after a late night of travel. Your girls are gonna love the resort and the pool, definitely take some time to enjoy it while you are there. I agree that the Poly beach is the best resort to watch wishes and if you time it right you might be able to catch the electric water parade too.
fish love hotdogs.....who knew is right. Arnaud and I were on an NCL crusie a few yrs ago and on the private island this crazy lady was bringing hotdogs from the buffet set up into the water and really hand feeding the fish.....it was so bizarre, I couldn't believe it.
You MUST head over to the Poly beach and watch Hallowishes!!!! Yes the music is piped in. I just wouldn't sit close to the pool as that noise can be loud. The party fireworks are just amazing from that beach, they take over the whole sky......it is a sight to see for sure, and since you will be right there, you have to!!!!
Well, then, it's settled! We WILL go see Hallowishes from the Poly If anyone gives me any lip about being tired, well I'll just tell them that Linny says we have to
That is totally wierd about the lady feeding the fish hotdogs from the buffet
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plans sound great so far
Thanks, Holly!
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Great plans! Sounds like a nice relaxing first day after a late night of traveling. Your girls are going to love to resort pool.
They are so excited about the pool! They've watched about a million videos of it on You Tube already
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Great plans!
Thanks, Mayra!
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Great nice and relaxing plans after a late night of travel. Your girls are gonna love the resort and the pool, definitely take some time to enjoy it while you are there. I agree that the Poly beach is the best resort to watch wishes and if you time it right you might be able to catch the electric water parade too.
I don't think we could skip the pool, even if I wanted to! The girls will not stop talking about it I totally forgot about the electric water parade, thanks for reminding me! What time does that usually run? I'm assuming the party fireworks will be at 9:30 like usual, so maybe it will be around 9.
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Before I get to my next update, I wanted to share with you a photo of our countdown! I had planned on crafting something with those Home Depot paint chips, and waiting until we got to the 30 day mark to start counting down BUT after the girls knew that I made our ADRs they were asking everyday how many days were left! It didn't take me long to tire of that , so I decided to make a simple countdown using calendars I printed from Disneyjunior.com. I hung it on the back of the girls' bedroom door, so now each morning they take turns removing one of the little post-its to find out how many more days to go. Surprisingly there has not been one fight yet over who gets to pull off the sticker! Don't worry though, we've got plenty of days to go
I do believe that it starts around 9pm, hope you get to catch it.
This does sound about right, I know everytime we watch any party fireworks there, we see the parade either right before or right after.
I found the actual times for this once before on some website.....I'm sure someone can chime in on where to find it.
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When it comes on my iPod I have to play it a few times coz it's just not long enough. Ray is my fave character from the film too 
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, especially since it's going to be a late night even if we get in on time. Since it will be so late, we'll grab our own luggage before heading over to DME. I'm hoping I'm being generous with my estimate, but I expect to be checked in at POR by midnight.
- excited to be in Disney!) I think we will spend the morning checking out the resort, I know the girls are excited about the pool and the fishing hole, so those are definitely on the list. Here's a tidbit of info, I read somewhere that they use hotdogs there as bait for the fish 
Who knew that fish liked hot dogs?!?! 
I decided to change it up from our normal breakfast here and try dinner instead. 
fish love hotdogs.....who knew is right. Arnaud and I were on an NCL crusie a few yrs ago and on the private island this crazy lady was bringing hotdogs from the buffet set up into the water and really hand feeding the fish.....it was so bizarre, I couldn't believe it. 
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