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Boy oh Boy, Out With the Old and In With the New: 12/29-1/11 PTR
I can't believe that I am finally starting this report. I thought this day would never get here.
Our Dates: December 29, 2009 through January 11, 2010
Our Party
None of us have been to WDW. We are all excited.
Me- Trish, frequent visitor to Disneyland.
DH- Don, frequent visitor to Disneyland.
DD8- almost 9 has been to Disneyland 8 times
DD4- has been to Disneyland 4 times in the first year and a half of her life and
hasn’t been since.
My mom and stepfather will be joining us in our celebration.
DM- Cheryll, Lives in L.A. Area been to Disneyland many times.
DStepDad- Victor, Lives in L.A. Area been to Disneyland many times.
They are as excited to be going as the girls and can’t wait to experience. It is
thanks to them we are staying as long as we are. They are RCI members and we
are using their points to stay at the Boardwalk and a condo off property during
the second half of our trip.
Joining us later in the trip will be our best friends the Ruzicka’s. We have not
seen them in over 15 years since they moved to Kentucky. It will be great to
finally meet their boys and for them to meet our girls.
The Ruzicka’s have been to WDW many times. They are part of the reason we are
finally going to WDW.
We will be staying at the Pop Century for the beginning of our trip and then
transferring to the BWV after New Year. Our final destination will be Cypress
Point for the last couple of days thanks to cheaper airfare.
UP NEXT: Plans and Dining.
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Trish ,
Me and the family Magic Kingdom New Years Eve December 29, 2009-January 9th, 2010
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I forgot to give you all a little back story on us. First off the title, Boy, oh Boy came from a Mickey Mouse birthday card I got last month from a friend. Out with the Old and in with the New has to do with the fact that we will be there to ring in the New Year. I thought that it was perfect for the title since I am so excited to visit the Mouse and that we will be at the best place to end 2009 and start 2010. I have been planning this trip for years. This site and the book have been VERY helpful tools. It was exactly what I needed to further my planning.
Thanks Dave and Jennifer !! AND my fellow PassPorter’s of course!
When I first started planning (486 days out) we were going to go in April so that my DH could do some Tarpon fishing in the gulf area and bass fishing at Lake Okeechobee. But after talking with some friends they advised us to go in the winter time because of the heat and humidity in April, so we decided to book for January for 8 days. Tarpon fishing will just have to wait for a future trip, say in another 5 years or less. Well, I might get him a fishing excursion for Christmas, I haven’t decided yet.
Well, one week turned into to two when I noticed that all the holiday stuff was ending 4 days prior to our original arrival. Since DD8 will be on winter break and that this might be the last time we get to WDW (not likely) that we should take advantage and see WDW winter festivities and change our dates to December 29th arrival adding 4 days onto our trip. Then… return airfares were not cooperating in the slightest so we just had to go with the cheapest flights which ment staying an extra 2 days. Oh darn!!
Here our Lodging:
12/29-1/2 Pop Century
1/2-1/9 Boardwalk Villas
1/9-1/11 Cypress Pointe
Plans:
I tried to go real easy on detailing the plans and just planned around the evening EMH as to where to schedule our dining reservation. Since we are coming from the west coast most of our reservations are for late in the evening so I didn’t have any problem making them. We are on the Basic Dining plan and have hopper passes.
12/29-Travel day
Epcot EMH – Hope to catch CP this night, but if not we will do it tomorrow.
Late res @ Coral Reef
12/30-Epcot am
5:00 Candlelite Processional (unless seen night before)
Lunner at Akershaus
MK for EMH til 3am (12am our time) If we can go that long.
12/31- MK Day/HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Nothing scheduled until
5:00 BBB for the girls
9:30 res @CRT
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Possible EMH @DHS til 3am (probably not)
1/1- FREE DAY
Sleep in
Hotel hop to see Christmas Decorations
DTD dinner
1/2- AK/DHS DAY
Change hotels
AK
DHS Osborne Lights til closing
Dinner Raglan Road for Parents
1/3- MK DAY
In and out of MK all day
CS dinner
Meet-up with Ruzicka’s at some point
EMH til 1am
I will post the rest tomorrow for those of you who are interested.
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Trish ,
Me and the family Magic Kingdom New Years Eve December 29, 2009-January 9th, 2010
I have to tell you all that I cannot wait for my trip to get here. It has been a trying year for us. Here is the rest of the days. I have already made a change or rather an addition to 1/2/09. I added Tusker house for lunch because Raglan Road has yet been added the DDP list and I didn’t want to loose a TS credit.
1/4- DHS DAY
DHS EEMH til 11pm
Dinner 50’s Primetime
1/5- FREE DAY
Relax by the pool (if warm enough)
Dinner Hoop Dee Doo for 10
1/6- AK DAY
AK EEMH
Dinner Whispering Canyon
1/7- FREE DAY
Whatever Floats our boat
Dinner 1900 Park Fare
1/8- EPCOT/WHATEVER DAY WS EEMH Dinner CS
1/9 LAST DAY @ WDW FREE DAY/ PROB MK Brunch Cape May
1/10 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
1/11 TOUR ORLANDO ‘TIL WE HAVE TO GO TO AIRPORT
4:00 FLYING HOME
I think that I have bought almost everything to go. I just need to get some snacking stuff for the plane and the room. My girls don't know exactly when we are going and they don't know that we will be going to CRT or BBB. It will be a Christmas morning surprise (if I can keep the secret). I still have to make shirts for each of us and put some decals on the girl's sweatshirts.
TTFN
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Trish ,
Me and the family Magic Kingdom New Years Eve December 29, 2009-January 9th, 2010
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