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Plans are looking really great! I can't wait to see the cake they come up with, the girls are going to love it I'm sure. I always wondered if they could make those specialty cakes allergy friendly, good to know that they can!
Glad all the girls made it through the concert!!
I am excited to see what combo they make with Olaf & Stitch!!!
Plans are looking good! We have never done Rose & Crown, curious what you think about it.
Almost time!!!!
I like the change with Rose & Crown. I've never ate at Coral Reef or R&C, but have generally heard mixed reviews of Coral Reef and good ones for R&C. Will be interesting to see the cake as it seems like a good combo with the characters.
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You know, we started to talk about it last night and then of course, were derailed onto another subject...and then another...and we never made it back to the changes!
Like everyone else...can't wait to see pics of the awesome split persona cake. Plans look fabulous; so glad you all can enjoy a water park day!
Danielle
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Meg, I'm joining in mid way here and gosh if I haven't said it before, you are really theee coolest mom ever!!!
I LOVE the newbie additions and it just adds more fun for you as well I'm sure.
I like your ADR's. I have to say we have been more "lunch" ADR people lately..........I think for us it's staying CL and wanting to take advantage of what they are offering and getting use of the parks at nighttime. IDK....I love your choices and now I'm going back to read some more.
Give My Leo baby some b-day love from me please XOXO
Two days! You have to be excited. I can't sleep the last few days before we go. As far as dining reservations, I love them, love the sit down places as the food is sooo good, but I also like being real flexible with what park we want to go to and all that. It is a trade off for someone who doesn't like to live by a schedule on vacation. But you have to to get into the more popular places at WDW.
We can't wait to see how things go and the reactions of the boys. I love living in the Disney bubble. Everything is always nice, top notch, taken care of. Anywhere else we go now gets compared to Disney and comes up lacking.
Your plans are looking good - I'm intrigued to see what the change is to your final day....
Will be posting the last two days (and the last change) tonight
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I'm intrigued by the idea of an Olaf and Stitch cake. Can't wait to see it!
I will tell you I am pretty intrigued myself, when we were discussing it the cake manager seemed so excited when I told her, guess she will have fun using her imagination for this one.
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Originally Posted by PhilsEagles08
This exactly!!! Lol
Your plans sound great!
Thanks
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Originally Posted by shazza
Olaf and Stitch - perfect combo.
I like the Rose and Crown addition.
Only 2 days until travel time!
We have eaten at Coral Reef and Rose & Crown, we love the desserts at the Coral Reef (I guess that is what we were thinking about when we made the reservation) but we love the atmosphere of R&C
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Can't wait to see the cake! Wish I could be there to have a piece... or two, with lots of icing!
We will enjoy one for you Kenny
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Originally Posted by kingfamily1129
your plans and changes sound great! I can't wait to see what that cake combo looks like! LOL
Thanks, will post pictures of the cake, I promise.
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Originally Posted by Colexis Mom
Sounds like a great couple of days!
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Originally Posted by TinkerbellJenn99
Great plans Meg!
Thanks
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Originally Posted by JKnott17
Plans are looking really great! I can't wait to see the cake they come up with, the girls are going to love it I'm sure. I always wondered if they could make those specialty cakes allergy friendly, good to know that they can!
We have done a few and they were amazing. I will mention I like the chocolate (allergy free) better than the vanilla ones. Will definitely give a review when we are back.
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Glad all the girls made it through the concert!!
I am excited to see what combo they make with Olaf & Stitch!!!
Plans are looking good! We have never done Rose & Crown, curious what you think about it.
Almost time!!!!
We have had some fun meals there. The atmosphere is always nice, we enjoy the food and Jasmine thinks the guys will enjoy so it was a good change I think all around.
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Originally Posted by SuperDave
Glad everyone survived the One Direction concert!
I like the change with Rose & Crown. I've never ate at Coral Reef or R&C, but have generally heard mixed reviews of Coral Reef and good ones for R&C. Will be interesting to see the cake as it seems like a good combo with the characters.
We love the desserts at Coral Reef and I have had some great meals (I dont eat seafood but their chicken dish is always pretty good), but we love the atmosphere at R&C, we had one off meal there but for the most part always enjoy so hoping it turns out to be a good change of plans.
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You know, we started to talk about it last night and then of course, were derailed onto another subject...and then another...and we never made it back to the changes!
Like everyone else...can't wait to see pics of the awesome split persona cake. Plans look fabulous; so glad you all can enjoy a water park day!
Danielle
I remember that, I always laugh how our conversations go from one thing to another so easily. I just realized I never did tell you the changes
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I as well can't wait to see the cake.
And Sci-Fi - love! That's a must do for us every trip!
We always have fun at Sci-Fi, Alexa was really looking forward to this meal.
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Originally Posted by Cam22
More great plans! I can't wait to see how the Olaf/Stitch cake turns out.
I am pretty excited to see it
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Meg, I'm joining in mid way here and gosh if I haven't said it before, you are really theee coolest mom ever!!!
I LOVE the newbie additions and it just adds more fun for you as well I'm sure.
I like your ADR's. I have to say we have been more "lunch" ADR people lately..........I think for us it's staying CL and wanting to take advantage of what they are offering and getting use of the parks at nighttime. IDK....I love your choices and now I'm going back to read some more.
Give My Leo baby some b-day love from me please XOXO
Will definitely pass the birthday wishes along.
Not sure if I am a cool mom or just insane but guess I will let you know when I get back...LOL
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Originally Posted by Timon-HakunaMatata
Two days! You have to be excited. I can't sleep the last few days before we go. As far as dining reservations, I love them, love the sit down places as the food is sooo good, but I also like being real flexible with what park we want to go to and all that. It is a trade off for someone who doesn't like to live by a schedule on vacation. But you have to to get into the more popular places at WDW.
We can't wait to see how things go and the reactions of the boys. I love living in the Disney bubble. Everything is always nice, top notch, taken care of. Anywhere else we go now gets compared to Disney and comes up lacking.
I am pretty excited to see the boys reactions, I can't think about going to Disney and not staying onsite. I love being in the bubble.
So I am finishing up at work, then heading home to do the list of 100 things that I have not done (like pack) but I promise I will get an update done tonight with our last two days plans.
Ok so semi-packed (well the kids are packed I am the last to have to finish).
Brother is coming in...wow 6 hours.
But I promised the last two days plans so here they are
Day 7 Plans (are we really almost at the end already )
Today we are planning on a morning by the pool, just a nice relaxing morning.
Now we have lunch booked at the Plaza and dinner booked at the Wave. With the new planned morning at the pool we are probably going to cancel the Plaza and just enjoy dinner but that could change.
Told the girls they can think about it but I have my reminder set so I can cancel one of them.
We will spend out last evening at Magic Kingdom.
Our Fast Passes are:
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Jungle Cruise
Splash Mountain (for all but Jasmine)
Pirates of the Caribbean (Jasmine)
We will close out the park and then head back for our last sleep at Disney
Day 8 Plans
It might be out last day but we still have some fun planned
Our flight is not until 7:50 PM so with our DME pick up around 4:50 PM we have pretty much a good portion of the day to run around and have fun.
Once we do the resort airline check-in and stow our bags with Bell Services we will head over to Epcot.
Our Fast Passes for the day are:
Spaceship Earth
Soarin
Maelstrom
Our last change of the day....we said goodbye to Teppan Edo. We missed having Mexican. We have an ADR at San Angel Inn, but we might end up cancelling it and just eating at the cantina.
We also made a last minute change tonight (I know we leave those changes till the last minute). We ended up cancelling our breakfast at Boma. We really wanted to eat there but when we looked over the days plans, we much rather sleep in a bit and then head to the park then get up early for breakfast (I know we are lazy, I mean Boma is right downstairs....LOL - but heck we are on vacation, I guess a little being lazy is ok).
So there you have it....our plans. It will be interesting to see how many stay and how many change.
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