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The "Wait you put a Disney PIN in the recycling?!?!!" TR Updated 9/15
Hello everyone I am happy to start my PTR for the trip that almost didn't happen, but thank god I saved it ! It all started with a joking conversation on the deck with DM about her challenging me to plan a trip with a $2,000 budget, now I can't say no to a challenge especially a Disney challenge so as I sat there goggling and pulling up every airline in existence I was on a mission....Meanwhile DM mentions something we got in the mail from Disney a week ago and I say well what is it she says i don't know something with a number on it and I freaked and asked her if she still had it and thank god it was in the recycling I'm noticing now how lucky I was because it was the day before garbage day !
So there we had a free dining pin for dates starting in august perfect for a trip before DM has to go back to work so I found semi not to expensive flights and had a call into our travel agent and bam there we were way way over budget and I was thinking great DM will never go for this when my TA mentioned the cost of our trip last year and how we were saving about $1,000 now that caught DM's attention so there we had it although we were a little ok a lot over my $2,000 budget we were still saving a lot of money so after a few days of DM "thinking about it"
she gave me the green light to call our TA back and book the trip
So now that we have the back story out of the way lets introduce the duo
We have me Michele 22- Disney addict and travel lover this will be my sixth trip! I do all the planning for all of our trips and I love to plan
DM- (Bev) I will say late 50's as to not get yelled at She also loves Disney and swore we weren't going back every year but that seems to be whats happening
(no complaining here)
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Alright so I have some extra time today so lets get started on our journey shall we
Dates Aug 26- Sept 3rd
Staying at POFQ (unless CSR or POR opens up but I am not counting on it)
So far I have all ADRs done we usually plan on two parks a day do one in the AM have a break at the hot part of the day and go back in the evening to another park so some of my days are only half done so ANY input would be great I see to have a planners cramp lately ....
DAY 1 Monday AUG 26th
We depart at 8:50 am on our Jetblue direct flight landing at 11:20
When we get to the hotel we will check in and see if our rooms are ready we seem to have pretty good luck with this anyways we will probably eat something at the hotel and stroll around since its our first time at POFQ when are room is ready we will drop our stuff and probably take a short nap since we will have to be up early
Around 5 we will head to Mk for our ADR at Liberty Tree Tavern at 6:45
After that I think we will hit up all of our favorites POC, HM, and IASM ! I plan on staying for the fireworks and maybe the parade although I don't love it as much as Spectromagic :
Day 2
I'm not really sure what we will do this morning I cant decide but the evening will go like this...
ADR Hollywood & Vine at 7 which we loved this restraunt at first and then it wasn't too great on one of our trips so we took a few years off so were going to give it another try. After that we will head to Fantasmic!
Day 3
We will head to Animal Kingdom in the AM and head to KS and walk around AK is a part we have a tough time with because I dont ride anything crazy with DM so I think we are going to try so exploring for the morning!
Lunch we have a ADR at Rainforest Cafe at 1:15 we usually go to the one in DTD so we decided to change it up a bit
Evening we will go to EPCOT for some walking around WS I haven't decided where to go for our CS EPCOT of POFQ or POR
Day 4
In the morning I really don't have any great ideas maybe shopping in DTD and a CS there would be good any suggestions for a CS??
In the evening we have ADRs at DRUM ROLL PLEASE
BE OUR GUEST ! 4:05 I am SO excited for the ADR B&B is by far my favorite Disney movie story line I love all of the characters and I was having a really hard time making the ADR so after lots of trying I finally got one
After that we will stay around MK fireworks and the parade
Well that is a good start I would love any input for my open time I try and do something new on every trip so I will welcome suggestions !
Up next the rest of our days and our Things we have yet to do list!
For your free time, have you ever rented a boat at one of the marinas - e.g. Downtown Disney/Yacht Club/Polynesian etc. That's something we really enjoy doing - it's always fun to go out on the water and just enjoy yourself whizzing around. Also, a spa treatment might be another plan, depending what your budget is or a behind the scenes tour?
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Great start and plans I'm so glad you were able to recycle the pin for better use You may want to stroll over to POR and watch yeehaw Bob at the River Roost Lounge.
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The "Wait you put a Disney PIN in the recycling?!?!!" TR Updated 9/15
so as I sat there goggling and pulling up every airline in existence I was on a mission....Meanwhile DM mentions something we got in the mail from Disney a week ago and I say well what is it she says i don't know something with a number on it 
She also loves Disney and swore we weren't going back every year but that seems to be whats happening 
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when are room is ready we will drop our stuff and probably take a short nap since we will have to be up early 
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