Returning to our Happy Place: Pre-trip report - UPDATED 09/08 - Page 8 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Thanks for all of the pixies everyone. I have gone through all of the testing and seen my surgeon today. Friday I will have the surgery and hopefully I will be able to come home later that day. It will work out well since Scott will be home with me all weekend and on Monday and by Tuesday I am hoping to be feeling like my old self again.
Now on to the Disney plans.
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Today will start out at DHS. I plan to be there at park opening which is at 9am. We will get to sleep in a bit (until 6 which is sleeping in for us). First up I think we will head straight to TSMM and get fast passes and then jump into the stand-by line. I don’t have any strict touring plans for DHS but I do know that as a family we will try to hit these attractions:
Beauty and the Beast (must do for every trip)
The Great Movie Ride (new for us)
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Muppet Vision
One Man’s Dream
Voyage of the Little Mermaid
Star Tours (if Abby is 40 inches)
Studio Backlot Tour
Some that are questionable for us will be:
Lights, Motor, Action (did it before-this will be up to Scott)
Disney Junion (not sure if Abby will want to do this one again)
I will be riding the ToT and RnRC in single rider if I decide to ride them. Scott is not really a fan of these types of rides and I don’t think Abby will be tall enough or would enjoy these yet.
We have an ADR at T-Rex in DTD at 3:30 so we will head out of DHS around 2:30 and head over to DTD. I do plan to go to the lego store and let Abby look around and if we buy anything we will send it back to the resort so we don’t have to carry it around with us.
After our late lunch, early dinner we will head back over to DHS and try to do any of the other attractions that we have missed or maybe even try to do TSMM stand-by line again. Our plans for the evening are to get to see Fantasmic! At 8! We are pretty excited about this show since we have heard such great reviews. I also want to try to get some pictures of us in front of the hat since we have never really been in DHS after dark.
The park will close after Fantasmic! So from that show we will head over to the bus stop wait for a bus to AoA.
Up Next:
Plans for day 4 and finally getting to eat breakfast with my favorite alien!
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Check out my Pre-Trip Report for our 9/18-9/23/12 trip here:
Glad to hear things are in place to take care of your surgery. I'm sure you'll be feeling so much better afterwards. Good thing Scott will be around to take care of you...and Abby!
Plans look great!
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Hi everyone! Sorry I have neglected this PTR! My life has been...well crazy!
After my surgery and recovery in may/June My family and I went on a short trip to Florida to the beach. When we returned we decided to put our house up for sale. After 3 days on the market the house SOLD!! we hadn't even started looking for another place and the new
Homeowners eager to get in the house. We have moved to my husband's family's lake house and things are just starting to settle down. We are 10 days from Disney!! Once we return from vacation we will begin to seriously look for a new home as i cannot stay here for long!!
Online check in completed and room requests done.
We are so exited to be able to head back there in just a few days and to be going to MNSSHP!!
I will try to update again as much as possible before and during the trip but it will be done from my iPhone since we have no Internet here at this time.
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I hope all goes well with the surgery! 
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