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Your forgettery must be working overtime, Toodles, if you read through all my blather.
We got a new minivan in April that we're driving to WDW. We drove the old one there last fall and were wowed to discover what a pleasant drive it is, splitting the 16 hours into 9 to Atlanta and then 7 on into Lake Buena Vista to the Downtown Disney Hilton that's just across the street from the Marketplace entrance the night before our resort check-in.
Worked so beautifully for us last fall that we may have started a tradition.
Honestly, I don't know that we'll ever again fly to WDW unless we both get so decrepit we can't manage that long a drive. Driving there turned out to be so much less stressful and far more relaxing than flying once we found a really nice place to overnight in Atlanta to break the trip into two pretty easy days on the road. Although, the trip home wasn't nearly as much fun and seemed a loooooooot longer, yanno?
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Really getting eager now that we're a bit less than two months out.
FP's all done, got the absolute must-haves including Mine Train twice, even Anna/Elsa which I could easily have survived without. Will probably tweak those a bit, and we're hoping to get an FP for BOG on our first park day as we've decided Tony's with both Tutto Italia and Via Napoli later in our stay may be more Italian than even we want to eat. Too much of a good thing, though we both love Italian food, can simply be too much. Plus, we really enjoyed lunch at BOG last year and are definitely not interested in waiting in line.
So, I think I'll just shuddup for the interim since DH's periodic windowshopping the Disney Store is making me quite excited enough to be ON THE WAY NOW! He almost bought us both HM t-shirts that glow in the dark, but I said Noooooooo. "We have ENUF Disney shirts, and you know we'll find much better ones at WDW than are sold at the online DS," I insisted. I've lost 15 lbs. in the last four months and had just pulled a storage bag containing SEVEN size small Disney tees out of the closet that I will be able to wear again without resembling a sausage. No WAY either of us needs one more Disney tee even though I know we both will buy MVMCP shirts as many compliments as I get on mine from last year.
Okay, that does it. Now, I'm getting all Disney-cited, and we all know how dangerous that is!
TTFN, everyone. [Ta-ta for now]
Dot
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I started tallying approximately how many Disney shirts we have altogether, Cam, and had to quit. Even a guesstimate got scary!
The ones we really love are the long-sleeved denim ones we got mostly at Disney Store. In fact, the blue shirts we're wearing in my sig pic are some of those. I especially love mine. It has Pooh and Friends scattered in a regular pattern all over the shirt, and they're embroidered, not just printed. I've had so many people ask where I got that great shirt.
We don't wear them often, and they are really made well, so they all still look great after over ten years! Sure wish Disney would bring those back as they are classy-looking, comfy in cooler weather and durable. Enough of fleece and hoodies all over the place!
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Postscript: Does any WDW veteran ever stop changing ADR's?
Since I swore this PTR had ended, I won't bore you all with yet another revised-and-updated list of ADR's.
Suffice it to say that having gotten the BOG FP invite, we went for it in place of Tony's for lunch on our first full day there. And we reinstated Akershus but at breakfast this time. DH Drewness claims it's just that it fit the only convenient opening we had and we had two credits we had to put somewhere, but I know he simply couldn't stand missing out on all that Princess-gazing.
We keep saying that this is Absolutely Positively THE FINAL LIST. But we said that three months ago, too. I appreciate far more by now how dangerous the ADR change bug actually is, believe me. Good thing we're PassPorter's Club members. If I erase our meals worksheet very many more times, it'll be worn through, and I'll have to print out another. I told DH Drew I'm not transferring any of our ADR's onto Passpockets until we're on the way there for fear we'll change them!
Okay, gotta quit (again!) because I'm getting all excited to be there, and we've three weeks to wait.
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