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Glad to hear you weren't effected by the flooding. Congratulations on scoring a ADR for BoG! How lucky that you got to see the Beauty and the Beast off Broadway show. My sister and I were lucky enough to get to see the show on Broadway and it was amazing! Your plans for your MNSSHP day sounds great!
I haven't been on the boards so I think I missed out on the start of this. So glad you are back!
Glad you got to add an extra day on and also the extra day at Port Canaveral.
Your dining plans sound great so far. We LOVED Via Napoli! I think their pizza is so delicious.
I am glad you are going to MNSSHP again. I am sad that we skipped it last year. Not sure when I will be back during that time frame. Girls are both in HS now and can't miss anymore for family vacations! Boo!
It is almost time!!!!
Thank goodness you weren't affected by the flooding, that's sounded horrendous. I hope the Interstate re-opens in time for your trip.
Your plans for the Halloween Party day sound wonderful.
Yes we were very lucky! Thank you!!!
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Great day! I've only done Kona Cafe for breakfast, so I can't wait to hear about your dinner!
Me too I've only done it for breakfast so I'll try to take as many pics as I can and share!
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Sounds like a wonderful day planned!
Happy Birthday btw!!! I followed on Instagram and you looked like you were having awonderful time!
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Your plans sound perfect!!! The Kona café is terrific and I agree this party ROCKS!!! It sounds like you guys will have a blast!!
I'm so excited, I keep singing the boo to you parade song LOL
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Glad to hear you weren't effected by the flooding. Congratulations on scoring a ADR for BoG! How lucky that you got to see the Beauty and the Beast off Broadway show. My sister and I were lucky enough to get to see the show on Broadway and it was amazing! Your plans for your MNSSHP day sounds great!
yes I was so excited! You are so lucky to see it on Broadway. It was wonderful right???
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Congrats on BoG! Glad you're not affected by the flooding! Great plans!
Thank yiou
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I haven't been on the boards so I think I missed out on the start of this. So glad you are back!
Glad you got to add an extra day on and also the extra day at Port Canaveral.
Your dining plans sound great so far. We LOVED Via Napoli! I think their pizza is so delicious.
I am glad you are going to MNSSHP again. I am sad that we skipped it last year. Not sure when I will be back during that time frame. Girls are both in HS now and can't miss anymore for family vacations! Boo!
It is almost time!!!!
Hey girl!!! I've missed talking to you! I'm not on facebook just Instagram and Twitter so I miss a lot of what my passporter friends are doing anymore I'm so excited to hear that about Via Napoli!!!!
We too skipped it last year and what a mistake I really missed oding that party!
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Your plans sound great. I love the idea of another down day before the party. All of your options sound great as well as your dinner plans.
That party lasts so long and I want to get my money's worth so I love the down time before.
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So, what's been going on? Well mostly just packing and figuring out what toiletries we need etc. Of course once you pack you realize what you lack. I need toothpaste and hairspray and Eric needs a few odds and ends too.
So, our suitcases are out, I'm all but nearly packed minus what I'm wearing now and a few last minute things.
We are trying to decide the best time for DTD on Saturday right now. Feel free to share you opinions on this but I'm thinking with so many changes and F&WF that maybe going early on during the day on Saturday from like 3-7pm. Then we could go back to our hotel and chill by the bar and walk around. See the electrical parade and then head to bed.
Anyway, Lets do another Disney day by day.
Monday October 26th plans:
We have plans to do Animal Kingdom this day. I know that most other don't share a love for this park the way we do and that's fine more park for me!!! We put this for our first day because we love it for one. We also wanted to do a dinner reservation this night and the only way was to do a park that closed early. The other is they had EMH this day for an hour I believe.
Our original fast passes were spaced really far apart this day but I changed it and tweeked them this past weekend to flow better and give us more time to get extra fast passes once they expire.
Plans would be for us to get up and get going early on this day. Generally we are up by 7 or 730. We will grab a bus early as possible and hopefully get to AK by 9am.
We have a fast pass for the Safari first thing from 9-10am. We will go over that way before this expires and hop on.
We will just explore the trails there and walk around until our next fast pass for EE at 10:20am
Once that expires we will just explore that area and then eventually head over to Dinosaur where we have a fast pass at 1120.
Our plan is to eat lunch once they all expire, either Resturauntosaurus or Flame Tree BBQ.
Once done with lunch we have all afternoon to do what we want which would be Bug's Life, Conservation station, Safari again, a break at the Dawa bar for my fave amber beer and then EE again I'm sure.
We need to leave this park by 4:30pm to DTD.
Does anyone know if a bus still runs to DTD from AK park????? if it doesn't then we have to go to AKL to catch a bus down there.
We have a 5:45pm reservation at Portobello's for our first time at this restaurant. I'm overly excited to eat here as I love creamy Italian bad for you food!! YUM!
Once done we have from 7pm till 10pm or so to walk around DTD and explore which we are so excited to do!
So, this weekend we have plans to grab the last minute stuff, set everything out, finish our envelope system and get it all ready to go! We leave next Friday early on as Eric has decided to try to take a half day for us to do things around the house like take the trash, clean up the house, mow the lawn and be ready to leave around 3pm.
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We are trying to decide the best time for DTD on Saturday right now. Feel free to share you opinions on this but I'm thinking with so many changes and F&WF that maybe going early on during the day on Saturday from like 3-7pm. Then we could go back to our hotel and chill by the bar and walk around. See the electrical parade and then head to bed.
We were there from about 1pm to 7pm this past Saturday and it was certainly crowded, but Boathouse and Splitsville were completely fine! We finished with sundaes at Ghiradelli and there was a little line but nothing bad. When we were finishing up there were just people everywhere and the traffic was a nightmare. I think they've gotten enough stuff reopened that it's manageable now, it's just a sea of people in the narrow walkways with all the walls still up.
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We need to leave this park by 4:30pm to DTD.
Does anyone know if a bus still runs to DTD from AK park????? if it doesn't then we have to go to AKL to catch a bus down there.
No they do not We did AKL to Disney Springs and it's a very long bus ride because they have to go a sneaky way around the traffic. Just keep that in mind!
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Your plans sound wonderful! I'm pretty sure that there is a bus to DTD from AK but hopefully someone else can confirm for sure! The 3-7 pm time should be a good time to go to DTD too It can get pretty packed down there at dinner time!
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The Kona café is terrific and I agree this party ROCKS!!!
It sounds like you guys will have a blast!! 
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Glad you're not affected by the flooding! Great plans! 
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I hope the Interstate re-opens in time for your trip. 
I was so excited! You are so lucky to see it on Broadway. It was wonderful right??? 
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AK too!! It is a lovely park to just enjoy and it is ever changing!!
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