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Sorry you had a rough weekend! At least you got your ADRs made and they sound fabulous!
As far as 1900 PF vs. CM, I'd say CM. They characters are a lot more gender neutral and the dinner food is good...I prefer the CM dinner over breakfast!
However if you dont end up getting CMC, definately go to 1900 PF your first night because it was one of our favorite meals on our last trip! Good food and great character interation- but more fun for girls/people who love Cinderella.
MNSSHP dates are out and found out when fantasmic is going to be while we are there so I've got some tweaking to do. Hopefully not too much. I was able to get CMC as 2 seperate ressies at the same time so I have a perty of 6 and a party of 5. I'm going to call and see if I can convert it to a party of 11.
So I reworked a few things around and out new revised plans are...
Fri 10/14
Arrival Day and dinner at Chef Mickey's
Sat 10/15
MK in morning
Epcot in evening
Group activity is IllumiNations
Dinner in Italy
Sun 10/16
Studios all day and Fantasmic tonight
Lunch at Prime Time Cafe
Perhaps booking the Dinner package once they become available
Mon 10/17
Our "Specials day"
Pirate Cruse
Tea
DTD
Watching Wishes and MSEP and hopefully the Dessert Party
Tue 10/18
AK All Day
Lunch at Rain Forest Cafe
Finish with MNSSHP
Wed 10/19
Open Day
No ADR's or Group Acticity Planned
but hoping to do Beaches and Cream and maybe the campfire program at FW
Thu 10/20
No plans for the morning
Dinner is Hoop-Dee-Doo
Fri 10/21
Morning in Epcot with Lunch at Teppan Edo
Dinner was supposed to be a Prime Rib Buffet at Shades of Green but I contacted them to confirm that still offered it, and they no longer do.
So now I booked 1900 Park Fare for dinner. They have Prime Rib and my niece just loves Cinderella.
Then we are returning to the Poly for drinks on the beach, the water paegent and HalloWishes.
Sat 10/22
MK in morning
Lunch at Whispering Canyon
evening is open
Sun 10/23
Breakfast at Cape May Cafe
right now I have 2 resservations at the same time, one for a party of 6 and one for a party of 5. I'm still trying to get one ADR for all 11 of us together.
Flight home
I hope that is everything but who really knows for sure.
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Thanks Everyone for following along and the well wishes and congrats for my ADR's.
Today’s date: 05/05/11 Wish list for Evan and myself (MagicKingdom)
Since the park hours came out I’ve been tweaking our plans around little by little. The MNSSHP dates are now available and the dates for the Wishes Dessert Party and Fantasmic dinner packages have been released. However, you can’t book the dinner or dessert party yet. I’ve been checking online and I even called and the CM told me the dates are out but nothing available in their system to book. So I’m still checking everyday to see what I can do.
I contacted Shades of Green to confirm some things there and found they no longer have the Prime Rib Buffet so I booked 1900 Park Fare instead, since it is close and they offer prime rib. I’ll keep you all posted as to what we actually are able to book when everything does open up.
Since this is Evan’s first trip to the World, everything is new to him. Even though he has never gone, he does have a few things he wants to go on. I have a list as well – both of new stuff and must do’s. So stealing Susan’s (islandgirl) idea, I’m making a to-do list for each park/area.
Today I’ll start with my favorite place is all “the World” and all the world, the MagicKingdom. If I could live here – I would. There is just something so magical about it. I think my absolute favorite thing is seeing Main Street all light up at night. It is so beautiful. I think one of the reasons I this park so much is because it was the original. It has touches of Walt himself and it is the park I’ve spent the most time in.
Having had several trips where the only theme park was the MK and then a couple where it was just MK and Epcot. The MK just holds a special place in my heart. I can remember my brother and me when we were about 12-13 years old, we stayed at FortWilderness and we could come and go as we pleased. We would head out to MK really early in the morning while our parents were still sleeping and we would ride SpaceMountain over and over again. I think our record was 8 times with out a wait and then we would ride some more with a 15 minute wait (way back before the fast pass invention).
I can remember being so scared on the HauntedMansion and Pirates on my very first trip but now I just adore both of those rides. I thought flying over London was the coolest and can remember my Dad trying to squeeze into a Dumbo elephant with me. His knees where up into his chin. This was back in the 70’s so the ride vehicles were a little different then today’s.
So I think having so many MK memories has made this my favorite.
Epcot is my next favorite followed by Studios and AK. In all fairness the Studios is climbing my list while Epcot is lowering (and with Evan this year I think the Studios will climb more). AK is my least favorite but really because one, it is so hot and two I just haven’t been able to explore it the way I want. I think if I could really take my time and enjoy all the little details I’d like it more. But I don’t think that will happen this trip. Evan is too little to allow me that luxury.
I digress…here are our MK lists
Evan
Big ThunderMountain Railroad
Steam Train
Monorail (are you catching a theme here??)
Peter Pan
Goofy’s Barnstormer – I’m trying to steer him away from this when he looks at the guide books because I don’t think the new version will be up when we go.
Speed way - race cars (of course I STILL call it the Grand Prix)
Buzz
Meeting Mickey, Goofy, Donald, Pluto Captain Hook and Peter Pan
Me
MSEP I’m SOOO excited this is back and truly love this. To me this is Disney. I don’t think Spectro can hold a candle to this one. I think the music is the absolute best thing evah! And I get goose bumps just thinking about the introduction “Ladies, and gentleman, boys and girls, Walt Disney World Proudly presents…The Main Street Electrical Parade”
Wishes
HalloWishes – new this trip
MNSSHP – new this trip
Peter Pan
Haunted Mansion (new queue this trip)
Pirates
Buzz
Carrousel of Progress
Wed way or whatever it is called now TTA- people mover – it will always be WedWay to me
The mountains Space, Splash, Big Thunder
Monorail
Hotdog from Casey’s – new for me this trip
Mickey ice cream bar
Dole whip – new to me, I need to be able to make an honest comparison
Shopping at the Emporium
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However, you can’t book the dinner or dessert party yet. I’ve been checking online and I even called 
and the CM told me the dates are out but nothing available in their system to book. So I’m still checking everyday to see what I can do.
so I booked 1900 Park Fare instead,
since it is close and they offer prime rib. I’ll keep you all posted as to what we actually are able to book when everything does open up.
I think one of the reasons I 
This was back in the 70’s so the ride vehicles were a little different then today’s.
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TTA- people mover – it will always be WedWay to me
– new for me this trip
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