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I enjoyed reading about your trip. I'm glad everything worked out for you. Maybe it's just meant that only the two of you should go this time. What could be better then going during Christmas. The two of you will have an awsome trip. Looking forward to reading more.
Glad the switch was easy and will still be delicious!
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Glad that you found another restaurant that you liked to replace Flying Fish. Sounds like you will have a great time. I know Kona for breakfast looks good.
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Disney at Christmas is a dream of mine. If I have to wait until the children are all grown up, I plan to visit before Christmas one year and see the decorations.
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I enjoyed reading about your trip. I'm glad everything worked out for you. Maybe it's just meant that only the two of you should go this time. What could be better then going during Christmas. The two of you will have an awsome trip. Looking forward to reading more.
Thanks All! I can't wait to go! I am so very excited and can't hardly wait for this trip! A little bummed that I'm not going during the Food and Wine Fest, but there's always 2012! lol
Probably later today I'll be adding another snippet to this PTR.
Wow. I completely forgot to list up our flight info. How could I have forgotten that? Well, The good news is, I didn’t forget what the info is! Since we’re going for a long weekend we wanted to get the most out of the trip. Arrive Early and Leave late, and that’s Exactly what we did!
I logged into Southwest’s page every day for about 3 weeks before they added December, and when they did I was so pleasantly surprised! My dates wound up working perfectly! We had a morning flight the day we wanted to leave and a night flight on our last day.
So Thursday morning we’re on a 6:50AM flight which should arrive in Orlando at 10:10AM!!!! That’s so early!
Then Sunday night, we’re not leaving until 7:20 PM which will get us home at 10:05. (ummm isn’t that a shorter flight time? Weird)
Both of our flights are Non-stop direct flights, which is awesome. I’ve signed us up for Disney’s Magical Express, so we won’t have to worry about our luggage much, which is a plus!
Beth lives about an hour away, so she’ll come to my place Wed night after work so we can get up and go, since the Airport is only 15 min from my house. Thursday morning we’ll get up and either take a shuttle to the airport or have my dad take us. Yellow Tags on our Luggage means we won’t have to worry about our bags until we get to the resort! What a great thing Magical Express is!
Then, on Sunday when we leave, we just have to be back at the resort by like 4:00 to hop a bus to the airport. They say to give 3 hours. I don’t think we’ll need it, but Disney has more experience than I do with this. I think we’ll eat dinner at Macaroni Grill at the airport before the flight. I think. Then have Dad pick us up to head home. (I think I’m taking Monday off too, so I can recover, but who knows.)
Great plans with the flights. And yeah, it is a shorter flight time on the way back, but it's usually because there's a tail wind. I wish it was like that on the way down!
Phew! Now that I’ve told you all about our dates, and our Resort, and our ADRs and our Flights… I don’t know what else to tell.
Oh! Right, I forgot! We heard that Via Napoli was opening so we added a Lunch!! I logged in the DAY it was available for ADRs and it was almost fully booked. But I got a Lunch! 2:00 Lunch sounds like a plan! We’ll get pizza and be great, and then have diner at the Captain’s Grille at 6:00…
Wait a minute. That sounds like a horrible idea! We’ll be too full to eat Clam Chowder and Pork Chops! We have to get rid of one.
Or…. I know. Let’s see if we can make it earlier! 11:30 lunch? But wait... I think we’ll be rushed and won’t have a great time. Let’s just pick one. Yeah. Let’s do that! I’ll see if Via Napoli has anything open for dinner, then we can make up our minds.
7:00? Via Napoli at 7:00? Uhhhh yes. That sounds doable. That way we won’t even have to leave World Showcase. That is perfect!
Let’s book it and we can decide which one we want to keep a little closer to the trip…
What’s that? Get rid of Captain’s Grille? Ok. Via Napoli it is.
Gee, that was easy. So, once again we’ve changed our plans. First it was Flying Fish, and then it was Captains Grille, now it’s Via Napoli. I think that’s all of the changes I’m willing to make. Any place else I want to eat we can do that in April when we have 9 days. (That PTR is starting soon. Almost 180 Days!!! OMG!!!)
all of your plans sound GREAT i hope you guys have a blast.
I hope so too! Thanks!
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Great work on the flights!
Thank you! My first time planning. it's easier than I thought!
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Great plans with the flights. And yeah, it is a shorter flight time on the way back, but it's usually because there's a tail wind. I wish it was like that on the way down!
I wish I didn't have to deal with planes at all!!!!
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