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Background, Our food!!: Our food plans have been modified a bit too with all the changes! But here are our ADR's that we have had since January.
Thursday-We are planning on chilling out and hanging around Pop Century, maybe going to Downtown Disney that night. Thursday and Friday we are NOT on the dining plan. We have reservations only. Our dining plan doesn’t start until Saturday when we check into Wilderness Lodge. So we will be eating counter service and splitting meals and starving ourselves until the dining plan starts! LOL
Friday- Whispering Canyon Cafe at Wilderness Lodge (meeting my Aunt and Uncle who live Haines City for dinner.) This is an out of pocket meal, so we may not eat all day Friday. (ha ha)
Saturday- Luau at the Poly! (A tradition on the Saturday night of our trip)
Sunday-Liberty Tree Tavern for dinner
Monday-Sci Fi Drive in for lunch
Tuesday-Coral Reef for dinner (This is a kid pick, this will be our 4th trip here. My kids love it, I would have rather booked Le Cellier or something different, but mom didn’t get her way!)
Wednesday-Ohana breakfast at the Poly
Thursday-Hollywood and Vine Fantasmic Dining Package OR Primetime (still deciding with the change in Fantasmic being offered each night. Not sure if Dining package is worth it?? Opinions??? Both restaurants we have never eaten at. (New thing!)
Friday-1900 Park Fare at The Grand Floridian. Have always wanted to visit the Grand Floridian. So we are eating w/ Cinderella for my daughter is this is our last meal. (sniff sniff)
Saturday-Our flight leaves at 6:00 pm back to Ohio. So we will have the morning in a park, grab a counter lunch and head back for Magical Express. (Don’t want to think about this part).
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No, Sunshine Family, no trip reports from the Park for me. I work in the IT realm and I have always had a firm NO LAPTOP DURING MY VACATION policy. Or, I will end up working or feel like I should check my email. When I'm gone, I'm gone. But I will do a full trip report when I get back telling you all about our trip!
Can't believe its only a week now! The summer has flown by! Of course things always pop up before vacation. We have 2 dogs, a lab/shepherd mix and a chocolate lab, who normally don't like other dogs. Last week we came home and a Brown Cocker Spaniel was layingon the porch w/ my dogs and barked at ME like he was protecting our home. It was in bad shape, had been on the run for awhile. My husband fed him ( need I say more?). We tried to find him a home for a few days, posted stuff online that we found him, but after a week we decided to take him to the vet. So now we have a new 1 year old brown cocker spaniel. Our older dogs are "farm" dogs. They are outside and you feed and water them they are fine. This little dog is now a worry. My in laws are going to watch him, but he still isn't trained on our underground fence, so we are leaving in a week and feel bad. So this is a distraction. PLUS, my daughter had a terrible tooth ache and she needs a root canal! So now, we are on antibiotics and going Monday to a specialist. Hopefully the pain and work is done by Thursday when we fly out. So of course, alot going on and alot of distractions. But I guess I haven't worried about the flight with these other things? LOL
I haven't even begun to pack yet. I'm so out of sorts!!!
We were at WDW in June and we went with friends. It really made the trip extra special. Between us we had 3 boys and a girl too. Hannah ended up getting spoiled rotten since she was the only princess!
Being able to switch from CSR to Wilderness Lodge is fabulous!!!!
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No, Sunshine Family, no trip reports from the Park for me. I work in the IT realm and I have always had a firm NO LAPTOP DURING MY VACATION policy. Or, I will end up working or feel like I should check my email. When I'm gone, I'm gone. But I will do a full trip report when I get back telling you all about our trip!
I hear you on that. For my vacation, the blackberry stays BEHIND! And I always leave behind my remote access fob so I can't check email (well, I can but since we're not DVC members, I will only check work email if work will pay the fee.)
I normally am super organized and I am not this year! I must get started tonight! I am certain I will forget something! Yes, even though Bailey acts like she hates being the only girl, it does have it advantages! We just finished up the baseball season with my son, and he had football camp this week...hopefully this weekend includes some much needed home time getting things done around the house and packing!
Nick and Ryan' Mom- We were looking forward to CSR, but when WL was only $200 more it instantly became worth it! I think CSR is so pretty. But we do go when its brutally hot, and having inside corridors is a big advantage! It just has seemed everything worked out well (so far) for this trip. They need it and we need it! So CSR will still be there next time!
Sunshine Family- I am taking my Blackberry because I can't live without it, but am NOT checking email and I make sure my personal phone is not attached to my work email! LOL
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Thanks everyone! Made some headway last night. My daughter is packed and it all fit. Just have to weigh it and work on the next kid tonight.
We were going to take the kids to see POC On Stranger Tides tonight after work (due to the baseball season that begun in May and was every weekend, we didn't get to see it yet). We were surprising the kids after work as a treat before Disney, to get us ready for the REAL Pirates. . I checked to order tickets online and its no longer playing in our town. Its in Columbus, but that's about 50 minutes away and not on the North side thats closer! Ugh. What a bummer! They already saw Cars 2, so we aren't sure now what we are going to do. I was pretty bummed it wasn't showing anywhere else around out house!!
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