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How fun!! I am very much looking forward to reading your new adventures!!
Tara
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Yay for another trip! Those APs are downright dangerous! It'll be so much fun to have your friend and her daughter along, too.
Thanks! It will be fun!
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Yay!!! Can't wait to hear all about it.
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Sounds like a lot of fun will be had with such good friends going. Having just finished your other TR the other day, I'm looking forward to reading this one too.
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Great start and it's so close! Aren't Disney friends the best? And it's so great that your girls are so close too.
Thanks! Yes, it's funny - no matter how different they are now - they are still always so connected
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Yay, another TR! Great start!
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Sounds like a great trip will be happening soon!
Thanks! Almost too soon!
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Yay! New trip coming up! I look forward to reading about friends touring together - parents and kids.
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Off to a great start! So great that you'll get to spend it with friends!
Thanks! Yes, we are hoping for some adult time, the kids are old enough to do their thing.
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Great Intro! Looking forward to reading more! Sounds like a good time with wonderful friends!
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Perfect! TR ends, PTR begins!
Thanks! Yes, I fought hard to finish the other on time!!!
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What a great start....I wish the girls had the week after Easter for their Spring Break, the crowds are much more bearable then. Every time I think hey we will go for Spring Break I think of the crowds and I cringe (their Spring Break always falls from Holy Thursday and then the week following Easter - so no Spring trips for us.
So great that your friend can join you and that Emily will get to spend time with Caitlin on this trip.
Thanks! Yes, we usually have from Good Friday thru the week of Easter, and there is no way I would even consider it - so this works!
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Great introduction. You will be in the bubble very soon.
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Great start - wow, you will be back soon!
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Great start. How awesome to go both in April and August!
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Great start Lisa!
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Well, technically our "first" day will begin the day before our trip. Our flight is super early in the morning, and we have found that doing a park n' fly package at a hotel near the airport works very well for us (it usually does not cost much more than just the regular parking). I was able to find a hotel that will accomodate all 5 of us in one room (so we can split the cost ) but will also allow for us to have both cars (remember Joie is coming home 2 days before us). So on Saturday April 11th, we will head up to the Sheraton at Providence airport around dinner time. We will most likely pick up a pizza and salads to just have in the room, and watch a movie or something and just start to unwind before the actual vacation begins! Things have been super busy for us (with work, the craft room renovations, etc) and also with Joie with her work - she runs a full dept at one of the local casinos and has been going through changes in her dept - so she is ready to get this vacation going! So hopefully we will be able to unwind, everyone get their showers, and to bed early as we will have a 4:15 am wake up call .
We will leave our cars at the hotel, and take the shuttle across the way to the airport for our 6:15 a.m. flights on Southwest! I am sure we will make a pit stop in the airport at Starbucks! I am hoping to catch a nap on the plane! And the girls are excited because they are now old enough that we will let them sit together, while us adult sit together!
Our flight is scheduled to land in Orlando at 9:15 a.m. We will grab our luggage ourselves (I still can't bring myself to not have instant contact with my bags!!! A little OCD ) and bring them to DME where I am hoping we will not have to wait long for our bus to depart! We are hoping to be at SSR no later than 11am. And if luck will be with us that day, I am hoping that our rooms (or at least one of them) will be ready immediately so we can drop bags and such!
We will then head straight to Magic Kingdom! If you have followed my TR's before, you know that we hit the ground running!!!
We have our first fastpasses booked for the 1:30-2:30 hour for Space Mountain (another one of those if you have followed my TR's in the past, you know this is Emily's MUST DO first attraction!.............although we have prepared her for "just in case" we get there earlier and can get on something else, you might have to "suck it up"!!!
Our next fastpass will be for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, followed by Splash Mountain!
Then we will hightail it over to Epcot (although I am sure we will have grabbed some sort of lunch by this point somewhere along the way!) because I want to see the Village People!!! They will be performing for the Flower Power Concerts. I have actually seen the Village People perform before, and they are so much fun!!!
We originally had Via Napoli booked for this evening, but we could only get it for 4:30 p.m. and I have been stalking the website trying to get a later time, with no luck (even tried to get it another night we would be at Epcot with no luck). We have decided to cancel this reservation (spread magic to someone else! ) so that we are not tied to get somewhere at a specific time (other than 1 of the 3 showings for the Village People ). We all decided this past weekend that we would be happy with grabbing counter service somewhere around World Showcase or even visiting some of the special food booths set up for the Flower & Garden Festival (I recently printed out the menus for each one and they are looking yummy! ). I was okay with cancelling Via Napoli as we have it booked for our August trip.
I am not sure how late we will hang out at Epcot as we will have had an early start to the day, and I am sure we will all be exhausted by this point!
Up Next: Day 2 Plans
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Great plans for the night before the flight and your first day! Can't wait to read more
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I am very much looking forward to reading your new adventures!! 
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trying to get a later time, with no luck (even tried to get it another night we would be at Epcot with no luck). We have decided to cancel this reservation (spread magic to someone else! 
) so that we are not tied to get somewhere at a specific time (other than 1 of the 3 showings for the Village People 
). I was okay with cancelling Via Napoli as we have it booked for our August trip.
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