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Time at the pool sounds great.
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Hope you get your computer up and running soon!

A tip on evening pool time. Pack yourselves some plastic wine glasses and tote a bottle with you. If wine's not your thing, bring something else. There are lots of places to relax in the evening (especially LATE evening) and it is so nice to enjoy the pool to yourselves.
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A tip on evening pool time. Pack yourselves some plastic wine glasses and tote a bottle with you. If wine's not your thing, bring something else. There are lots of places to relax in the evening (especially LATE evening) and it is so nice to enjoy the pool to yourselves.
I am definitely a wine person! That is an awesome idea
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Target has awesome plastic wine glasses that you could use for this evening! I'm sad that you've bailed on Victoria and Albert's as it is an amazing meal!
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Now that my computer is fixed, its time to get back into this PTR! As promised in my last long post, its time to achieve some goals! Our 3rd full day at Disney finally brings us to MK for a dedicated full day of exploring and enjoying all of the rides. As mentioned in an earlier post, DS was about 2 inches too short for many rides on our last trip. Well as is usually the case, in 2 years, he has managed to grow those 2 inches and then some. His entire goal for the next Disney trip was to be able to ride the following rides on his next trip: Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mtn, Space Mtn. It appears this trip he is going to be tall enough to achieve his goal for all 3


My initial plan is to get to MK in time for Rope Drop. On our last trip, a delay in buses made us 5 minutes late for the rope drop ceremony Not this time! We are going to allow plenty of time in the morning to ensure we are there in time.


The rest of the day will be spent bee-bopping around the park riding whatever rides have the shortest lines. I am hoping that since we are just past Labor Day weekend and most schools are in session that lines will be very small if not non-existent on most rides. For lunch we are just doing CS as I am not a huge fan of most of the TS in MK (the kiddos don’t want to do CP because Pooh and Friends just aren’t their thing). Last trip we did Pecos Bills, but I am not sure if that is where we will eat this time. Most likely it will be determined based on where we are in the park when we get hungry.


We do have an evening reservation at Kouzzina that I am extremely excited for! Greek is one of my favorite types of food and Cat Cora is one of my favorite Food Network chefs! Our reservation is for 6:50 and MK closes at 9pm that night so we will most likely make it an early night after dinner and try and get some sleep (by this point in the trip we will need it).


Up next…..a bit of mania mixed with saving the universe from the evil empire!
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Sounds like you have a full day planned We plan on Kozzinas as well but about 10 days after you Congrats to your son on making 2 inches needed to ride
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Sounds like a great day! I hope you get to make it to rope drop this time. We've never been able to make it there on time, its one of our goals for our next trip too! You're going to LOVE Kouzzina! We ate there last November and it was so yummy! It was my first experience with Greek food, but we were there with my aunt who has been to Greece many times and loves the food. She said it was some of the best she's had!
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Great MK plans! I'm still wanting to try Kouzzina's so I'll be interested in what you have to say after you all eat here.
I love greek so it is definitely one of the meals that I am looking forward too on the trip

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Sounds like a great day! I hope you get to make it to rope drop this time. We've never been able to make it there on time, its one of our goals for our next trip too! You're going to LOVE Kouzzina! We ate there last November and it was so yummy! It was my first experience with Greek food, but we were there with my aunt who has been to Greece many times and loves the food. She said it was some of the best she's had!
Good to know that someone who has been to Greece even loves it!
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It amazes me how busy the “lazy days of summer” can get! Every week seems to go by without me accomplishing all that I need to. At this point we are just about 5 weeks out from our trip and to be honest I feel frantic for this trip. At this point in our last trip I had so much more organized and together as far as planning for packing. I really need to buckle down one of these days and get a lot more together that we need for our trip…..may require a day off work ……..not that I am complaining about that


So last week we had the whole debacle with our Kouzzina reservation….and evidently I wasn’t the only one. Unfortunately time has not allowed for me to be able to call and straighten things out while the reservation line was open. While I really want to eat at Kouzzina, it was a hard choice between it and Whispering Canyon way back in the beginning. Just to be safe, I ended up changing our reservation to WCC. I would rather eat there and be very happy (I have heard nothing but great things) than show up at Kouzzina with a reservation that really is messed up and no table for us that night. Not to mention, since that is a MK night for us, this allows us to stay in the park a few more minutes than we would have been able to in order to travel to Kouzzina. I am also very curious to check out WL as well


As for the next day in our trip, it will be our DHS day!! I have to admit that on our last trip we only had 1 day in each park and by the time we got to DHS we were exhausted and left at like 1pm that day and missed SO much!! This time around I have planned better and allowed for free time to relax throughout the week in order to be able to truly enjoy every park this time around.



For DHS we have a few must-dos on our list that I am hoping to accomplish. Jedi Academy and TSMM will be the first stops of the day. The plan is for DH and I to split up with one signing the kids up for Jedi Academy and the other booking it to TSMM for Fast Passes. Hopefully we can accomplish both of these tasks!


This trip the backlot tour will be shutdown for refurbishment so that ride has come off our list, but in its place is the Great Movie ride, which we missed last time around. With DS being 4, going to see Lightning and Mater are requirements as well DD has requested as many trips on ToT as possible….she wants to beat her record of 7 in one day on this trip…..I say DH can help with that one and I will just go shopping


In the evening we have reservations at 50s PT and I am really looking forward to it! The food sounds delicious and the atmosphere sounds even better. The best part of this day though is in the evening. Last trip we didn’t get to see Fantasmic, and it just so happens that it is showing this night….YIPPEE!!!
So hopefully we can get good seats and end the night on a great night!
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