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Audrey took every bit of energy out of me this weekend and I’m not sure if I can work up a funny comment. All I have to say is Melissa, you should work on your people skills. j/k
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Melissa and Andy, Charleston SC, February 2008.
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Coming up: July 2010 - Animal Kingdom Lodge for Mel's 30th Birthday!!!!!
Audrey took every bit of energy out of me this weekend and I’m not sure if I can work up a funny comment. All I have to say is Melissa, you should work on your people skills. j/k
Shut up Andy
(If you aren't watching Flight of the Conchords on HBO, YOU SHOULD!!! It's great!...and that's where that banter came from)
Now to the good part... THE EATING PLAN
We do have the dining plan for this trip (DH just loves that thing, and he's a bit sad as we may longer be using it in the future.....this will be explained as another change later in the TR)
So here are our ADR's....
Saturday - 7/7
Lunch - ??? Andy has an ADR somewhere.....
Dinner - ??? Again, Andy...ADR...
Sunday - 7/8
Dinner - Biergarten (A first for us, I'm excited about the liter of beer )
Monday - 7/9
Dinner - Sci-Fi Dine In (another first....shooting for a backseat seat ) (we plan on splitting a TS here b/c I plan on having an adult milkshake as my dessert)
Tuesday - 7/10
Lunch - CRT (another first - just for the heck of it to say we did it)
Dinner - Alfredo's (This is another change... we started out with Nine Dragons, which would have been a first, but when we heard Alfredo's was closing we had to try it once before it went away...) (we're going to use the other TS from yesterday here since we'll have had a late lunch)
Wednesday - 7/11
Dinner - Whispering Canyon Cafe (another first, and another change, this one was added after all the ADR's had been made)
Thursday - 7/12 (my birthday)
Breakfast - 2nd annual birthday breakfast with Stitch at 'Ohana (this time Maureen is joining us b/c we share a birthday)
Dinner - 2nd annual birthday dinner at Le Cellier (Thank you Mattnkatsmum for making me forever call it Luh Seyay in my head)
Friday - 7/13
No ADRs on this day, but we will be making our final stop before heading home at Earl of Sandwich...
Last week I got a PM from Maureen asking if we wanted to do breakfast with her this year... we tried last year but we weren't able to add her to our ADR. But this year, we were, so now she'll be joining us for breakfast
So the change board is now showing...
Change #1 - April 9 - 13 to July 8 - 13
Change #2 - POFQ to WL
Change #3 - adding a day at the beginning, so now it's July 7 -13
Change #4 - First night at POFQ then staying at WL for the rest of the trip
Change #5 - My plan for Andy on Saturday
Change #6 - Brunswick - -St. Augustine - - Brunswick - - Orlando
Change #7 - Nine Dragons ADR changed to Alfredo's ADR
Change #8 - Adding WCC ADR
Change #9 - Adding Maureen to our 'Ohana ADR
Now, I think that about covers all the changes made to this trip.... so the next thing you shall see will be the complete and final itinerary.
You weren't kidding about the Mighty Morphing Birthday trip! But your final (there aren't any more changes coming are there?) plan looks good! And now after reading about your ADRs, I'm hungry!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Your plans look great to me - and I can't wait to hear about Biergarten and the litre of beer! How neat that Mo's joining you for breakfast with Stitch - that should be really fun!
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