1st plan acctually on paper!!

[lesley]

well here goes

friday16h july day 1. all the boring stuff travling flying etc find hotel (enclave suites on i-drive) unpack explore sleep.

saturday day2. AK for when it opens (9am) till close(6pm)
then Epcot for dinner and fireworks

sunday day 3. MGM all day. fantasmic dinner package booked
(4.30) at H&V

monday day 4. water park (could be BB, TL, or W&W )
evening in i-drive and dinner

tuesday day 5. seaworld all day

wednesday day 6. MK all day with break for tea at grand
floridian

thursday day 7. beach (clearwater or st petes haven't decided
yet)

friday day 8. universal studios all day
dinner somewere on city walk

saturday day 9. spare day (shopping, exploring i-drive,
chillin out)
evening old towm kissemee

sunday day 10. Epcot all day
evening ???

monday day 11. IOA all day

tuesday day 12. boggy creek airboat ride, gator land
medievil times dinner show

wednesday day 13. return to a park or parks we feel we
need to

thursday day 14. this day is blank we want to end our holiday in a memorable way any sugestions greatly recived.

friday day 15. free morning
4pm leave for airport
:cry: :cry: :cry:

how does this look ? picked light days for parks and with early starts we hope to only visit every park only once. have list of other small things we want to do if we get a spare few hours:rolleyes:
peabody ducks
electric water padgent
pirate mini golf
wonderworks
ripleys
to name but a few

well what do you all think?

lesley

[ulsterscot]

Looks good but I can't ever quite get my head round all these carefully thought out plans.

I live my life to a diary and a schedule. Most of my day at work is mapped out and then disrupted by calls to go to courts or police stations.

I think there is a lot to be said for just getting over there and seeing how you feel. Last year we had a rough plan before we went which included doing both Disney and Universal. However, within a few days it had fallen apart and we ended up just doing Disney.

The reason it fell apart was that we took it easy for the first few days and just relaxed into the holiday. Then, when we started doing the Parks (with the VERY early starts) we decided that we would get more out of it if we took a clear rest day by the pool between them. Thus Universal was abandoned and we started saving to go back this year and do the next instalment.

Maybe it is just us, but I think that a holiday has to have a lot of relaxation built in and a certain amount of "go with the flow". It's good fun to plan, but remember that your holiday is the one time of year when you can do whatever the heck you want!

All that having been said, I'm sure that you will have great time. I don't believe that there can be anywhere better than Orlando to kick back and enjoy life.

:cool2: :thumbup:

[poet123]

Plans!!!!!I very carefully constructed our plan for Disney for this July and proudly offered it to DH for his congratulations on how organised abd wonderful it all was!! He refused to look saying he wanted to pretend we didnt have a plan and each day could i just say"lets go to AK or MK or whatever and pretend it was a spur of the moment thing!! regardless of how long it had beeen planned or of the PS.
He said I live each day by my diary and want to at least PRETEND to be spontaneous on holiday.
So Dibbers my plans are between us only.
:confused: :confused:

[Earthbound]

Poet - you must have a battle plan!! The spontanaity (sp) will be the plan of attack for the rides etc - obviously he's not in the planning mood!! LoL
I had a sit-round- the -table meeting with my family on Monday night & they were more than pleased to see a plan - at least it gives them an idea of what we intend to do as a family.

Lesley - plan looks good. A memorable end - possibly check out for a shuttle launch in the early hours of Friday 30th - approx 2amk if I'm not mistaken!! :thumbup:

[mnis]

Lesley
I thought your plan looked pretty good:) We're going at exactly the same time as you so Earthbound can you tell me where I could confirm about the shuttle launch, cause I know DH, DS and nephew would love to see that.
Ulsterscot, I know where you're coming from re planning etc, I too temd to "plan" my home/work life but I want some sort of agreement from us all as to what we want to see and how we best work it out so we get to see/do as much as possible (along with the rest time built in!!) But I don't want us going thinking its all got to be set in stone, so I liked Earthbound's idea of the sponteity(sp!!!!!) being how we "do" the parks once weare in!!
mnis:)

[Earthbound]

Originally posted by mnis
....Earthbound can you tell me where I could confirm about the shuttle launch, cause I know DH, DS and nephew would love to see that.


Hi there!!

Follow this link www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches/scheduleStatus.asp?dDate=10/25/2004&intPage=1 - at the bottom you'll see 30th JUly launch click on that & it'll take you to the details. It looks like you may have to make reservations - good luck :thumbup:

[falcon46]

Following on from EarthBound's info.

I have previously phoned KSC. And they confirmed the following.

"They may open the KSC center for the launch but this won't be confirmed until approx 1 week before the shuttle launch."

If they don't then it's just a case of driving to a suitable spot perhaps on the Cocoa beech and watch the launch. That is if your not to tired 2am Gulp !!!!