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So I figured with tomorrow being Wednesday I would add an extra post tonight regarding dining and then starting tomorrow will do a day of plans each day until we leave.
As usual dining is never easy for us, we have so many places we love it is always so difficult to decide where we want to eat. This year was no exception and in all honestly I cannot even tell you how many changes we have made (up until this past weekend).
For awhile I just gave up on dining and the girls took over, the only way I knew they were making changes were the constant emails that kept coming to my email. After the first few I just stopped looking.
Jasmine loves reading the blogs and decided that we do not enjoy counter service enough, so we added a few more counter service meals to the spreadsheet.
Also after a lot of consideration, we cancelled our Be Our Guest Dinner (I know shocking) and ended up adding the lunch to the plans. The girls enjoyed our dinner there last year but after I raved about my lunch there in October they decided they wanted to try it.
We also ended up cancelling our California Grill dinner, Jasmine just wanted to make this a more laid back trip. While she loves dressing up she did not want to feel we had too in the heat and she knew the boys would be happier (even though they were willing to get dressed up for me). The day we had it planned is one of those...we might do this or we might do that. I was a bit sad as I was looking forward to it but as a consolation she added it to our ADRs for our November trip.
So what did we end up with?
August 7th - Sanaa for lunch (for mom who will visit with Heather). The kids will grab CS at DTD.
August 8th - Crystal Palace for breakfast
August 9th - Tusker House for lunch
August 10th - Coral Reef for lunch
August 11th - 1900 PF for dinner
August 12th - Sci-Fi for lunch (for me, Angel and Alexa) - Mama Melrose for dinner.
August 13th - The Plaza for lunch - The Wave for dinner
August 14th - Teppan Edo for lunch
There you have it....our dining for this August Adventure (this should be the final draft as I doubt I will make any more changes but you never know )
Your dining choices all sound great!!! And I agree about not wanting to dress up in the heat - we ended up taking a taxi for one of our dress up dinners as I didn't want to be a sweaty mess when we got there (Flying Fish).
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I would like to invite the girls along on my next trip so they can take care of the dining details! It looks like they've done a great job. While I sometimes prefer an evening ADR, I also see the logic of sticking to breakfast and lunches for your group (and, I see you do have one dinner at 1900PF) Especially in the summer months. There are so many good CS places to sample.
1 week and 1 day - not long before you are on vacation!
Love the descriptions of your cast of characters! AKL/BCV will make for an awesome stay. And all your ADRs are delicious ones. Sanaa is now mine and Luke's favorite WDW restaurant.
Looks delish....I am jealous of Sanaa as that is one place Izzy really doesn't enjoy but I love....hence I think the last time I ate there was with you a few years back!
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Some great dining plans even if cancelling BOG! That's awesome that your Mom will have lunch at Sanaa with Heather! I know this is Heather's fave in WDW! We have discussed possibly doing this on a future trip as we both love it!
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I had to come looking for this after talking to you today! (which it was great catching up a bit again!) I love that you are introducing more to your love of Disney and it sounds like everyone will get a long great. We love AKL too and BCV will be a nice ending. All the dining looks great as well. Yay for Sanaa with Heather!!!
I miss my Disney dining, considering it is one of the things we have the most fun with in terms of planning
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Great plans & I completely agree with Jasmine.... We don't dress up in Aug heat for dinner.
What CS locations are you thinking of?
BOG is one, I raved about my lunch there that I had in October so the girls want to try. Flame Tree is also a favorite for us so we will probably try to find some time to grab a meal there. At Epcot we love Sunshine Seasons and of course snacking around the WS (I love the Cantina in Mexico). Hollywood Studios is the only place I really never enjoy CS in which works well that we have a lunch and a dinner TS on our DHS day.
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Your dining choices all sound great!!! And I agree about not wanting to dress up in the heat - we ended up taking a taxi for one of our dress up dinners as I didn't want to be a sweaty mess when we got there (Flying Fish).
We thought about the FF when we were at the BC and in the end the girls decided if they feel like dressing up for dinner they will, if not they can just wear their shorts and shirts and they will be more than happy.
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I would like to invite the girls along on my next trip so they can take care of the dining details! It looks like they've done a great job. While I sometimes prefer an evening ADR, I also see the logic of sticking to breakfast and lunches for your group (and, I see you do have one dinner at 1900PF) Especially in the summer months. There are so many good CS places to sample.
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We normally have more dinners, lunches just worked out in the schedule this trip but we have a few dinners, 1900 PF, MM and the Wave so it will be a nice mixture of meals.
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Great dining plans! A few a those places are a "must do" for our family whenever we go Your girls did a great job
They did good...I laugh as our list is totally different than our first batch of ADRs, I am surprised that they got everything as they made changes pretty late in the game. The 1900 PF reservation they just got last week (2 weeks before the trip) and at 5:50 so normal dinner time. I guess patience pays off as I think my daughter was stalking the Disney Dining site.
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Great dining choices. I had to cancel Tusker House once I decided not to get PH. I was really looking forward to it! Maybe next trip!
We have not been there since 2008 for breakfast. I had gotten sick (not the food everything was delicious I think something just did not settle right for me, I am not one to eat breakfast often, think it was just too heavy) so I kind of passed over it for a bit. The girls were excited to get back so we are excited to try lunch.
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Love the descriptions of your cast of characters! AKL/BCV will make for an awesome stay. And all your ADRs are delicious ones. Sanaa is now mine and Luke's favorite WDW restaurant.
I love Sanaa, the girls enjoy but they were willing to pass it up this trip so they could all go to DTD and visit DQ and Bongo's take out (their loss...LOL)
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Looks delish....I am jealous of Sanaa as that is one place Izzy really doesn't enjoy but I love....hence I think the last time I ate there was with you a few years back!
danielle
We did not make it back there last year , I missed it terribly. The last time I was there was when we had lunch there with Heather.
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Some great dining plans even if cancelling BOG! That's awesome that your Mom will have lunch at Sanaa with Heather! I know this is Heather's fave in WDW! We have discussed possibly doing this on a future trip as we both love it!
I love Sanaa, we did not get back there last year and I have missed it. When the kids decided they wanted to head to DQ I messaged Heather, I knew if she was off she would be up for a lunch at Sanaa (even if the kids are deserting me...LOL)
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I had to come looking for this after talking to you today! (which it was great catching up a bit again!) I love that you are introducing more to your love of Disney and it sounds like everyone will get a long great. We love AKL too and BCV will be a nice ending. All the dining looks great as well. Yay for Sanaa with Heather!!!
It was so great to catch up today, it has definitely been too long. I am looking forward to Sanaa, I love the food there and it will be nice to catch up with Heather.
So our flight leaves at 7:20 AM so we will leave the house around 5:15 AM. It only takes 15 - 20 minutes to get to JFK from my house at that hour. Normally my dad takes us but since we have 6 of us we would not fit into his car so I called my wonderful brother and said "Don't you want to drive us to the airport?"
He being wonderful and all said "of course"....got to love him, he is giving up an extra 90 minutes of sleep for me. Of course I will owe him big time now....LOL
We arrive at MCO at 9:50 AM, will head over to the DME area and hopefully before long we will be off on our 2nd ride of the trip (as the girls call the MCO monorail their 1st ride).
We will arrive at AKL, check-in, it would be nice if our room was ready but if not no worries. The kids (I keep correcting myself as I keep typing the girls) will head over to DTD as Jasmine knows the boys will love DQ and I will meet up with Heather and enjoy lunch at Sanaa.
After my visit with Heather and the kids fun at DTD we will meet up at some point at Epcot. We have Fast Passes set up for later in the afternoon.
Our Fast Passes for the afternoon are:
Spaceship Earth
Test Track
Mission Space (Angel, Alexa, Hugo and Leeor)
Character Spot (Me and Jasmine)
Mission Space is one of the two rides I do not enjoy, did it once before the green side was developed and no matter how much Angel tells me I would be fine on the green side I just can't get myself to try this attraction out again, so instead I will have some one on one time with Jasmine as we visit with some of our favorite characters.
Dinner will probably be at Sunshine Seasons today (or we will grab something at the World Showcase while we watch Illuminations).
After Illuminations Jasmine, Leeor and Hugo and the After Hours Wind Down booked at the UK, this is up in the air we might actually cancel it this weekend. Jasmine is worried they might just be exhausted after the long day.
So with Alexa, Angel and I, or all of us will then head back to Animal Kingdom and get an early night in so we can have a fresh start tomorrow.
Nothing like hitting the ground running! . Day one looks pretty awesome...fingers crossed you have some pixie dust and the rooms are ready early. We had dinner at Sunshine Seasons in June...this is normally a lunch spot for us but we really enjoyed our meal here. The dining area is much less chaotic than lunch time and it was a delicious but not overly indulgent meal.
Danielle
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I know this is Heather's fave in WDW! We have discussed possibly doing this on a future trip as we both love it! 
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, I missed it terribly. The last time I was there was when we had lunch there with Heather.
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