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Love this dinner and the countdown.
Did I tell you I was telling Josie about your theme dinners and she now wants to do this, however she picked some hard ones......Hercules, Pochontas, Sleeping Beauty, Mulan (easy) and Cinderella.........oh and BatB ( ok that's easy too) But Hercules??? Really??
Linny, you can try to do Greek food for this one -- some stuff is kid friendly... gyros and such
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Linny, you can try to do Greek food for this one -- some stuff is kid friendly... gyros and such
OMG..........duh........that's a great idea, and greek food goes over very well in this house.
Ughh, how did I not see that one.
Thanks so much, awesome!!
I've never seen all of Hercules. You could have Greek food. Those are hard! Cinderella is French too. Dis has a thread all about themed dinners. I use it, google and my own imagination to come up with these meals. Oh, and Mike helps too!
Duh on the greek food. ARnaud did mention I should do a Thanksgiving meal for Pochohantas . You saw Sleeping Beauty's castle right, it's in Germany???
Duh on the greek food. ARnaud did mention I should do a Thanksgiving meal for Pochohantas . You saw Sleeping Beauty's castle right, it's in Germany???
The castle that Disney used to inspire DL's Sleeping Beauty castle is in Germany. And a quick google search says that's where the story is set as well.
We had movie night early this week (last night) as it’s a busy week and weekend. Thursday is Open House at Lukas’ daycare, Friday Dylan will have soccer practice, Saturday he has a game at 4:30pm and in Sunday afternoon we’re seeing some friends and their boys (there will be 7 boys under 7!). I haven’t uploaded the pictures yet so I won’t share the details.
Now for plans after the cruise. Our waitlist came through and we’ll be staying at BLT in a standard studio for 2 nights after the cruise. I’m sure we’ll be there by mid-morning with how everyone says you get off the ship so early. Our room probably won’t be ready so we may have lunch or enjoy the pool depending on the time. Not too much will take place today as there are big plans for the night! Tonight we are going to MNSSHP and Melissa & her family will be there too! Originally we weren’t going to go to ANY park, but I couldn’t resist being so close and not seeing the new parts of FL. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. I also LOVE Halloween so MNSSHP was an easy decision to make. Another exciting thing is I got us reservations at BoG! I hope we can still enter MK at 4pm, so we can get in a few rides before our 5:30pm ADR at BoG. By the time dinner is over the party should be about ready to start. Musts for the tonight & party are new FL, Pirates, Haunted Mansion, the parade, and fireworks. And of course it wouldn’t be a Halloween party without some dressing up! I hope it won’t be hot that night because our costumes will cover most of us. We’re going as Star Wars characters – Han Solo, Princess Leia, and two jedis (or padawans if you will). I went back and forth on ideas, but we had the costumes for these already so it was an easy choice in the end. I’m sure at the end of the night it will be a long walk back to BLT.
Friday we have no plans during the day. We’ll probably just hang out at the pool, take a ride on the monorail and explore the other resorts, maybe go to Downtown Disney is we didn’t make it there before the cruise or to the outlets. Since tonight is our last night of vacation I decided to go out with a bang. I scored us a 6:30pm ADR at California Grill. None of us have ever been before so the restaurant will be new to us even though it’s new as well. We’re really looking forward to it. We’ll either hang out or come back to see Wishes or maybe just watch from the Top of the World Lounge. Then it will be lights out as tomorrow will be a very long day!
Saturday is head home day. But not before one last dose of magic. (btw as I’m writing this I’m watching The Walking Dead for pretty much the first time (season 1) and holy crap!) Anyway, back to the happy stuff. We’ll be dining at O’hana for the first time at 8:30am. Then we’ll head back to BLT to finish packing up and then make the long journey home. I hope we can make it in one drive, but we’ll see about that.
I just did Ohana for breakfast on my last family trip in 2011. We loved it! We love Stitch anyhow, he is our family favorite character. We make sure to always get a family pic with him, so Ohana seemed the perfect place for us. I loved the breakfast potato wedges...they had a slight sweetness to them, that made them yum-O!
We are planning for Ohana breakfast for the next trip, on our departure day.
You are one busy family! Can't wait to hear about your meal.
Good plan to not rush home right from the cruise - that's too much of a shock to the system!
I'm not watching Walking Dead, but DH & DS are....DS can only watch them in the morning or early afternoon or he doesn't sleep that night!
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........that's a great idea, and greek food goes over very well in this house.
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