Third Time's A Charm-Pre Trip, Oct 2012

[Adora]

It's ADR day tomorrow!
We aren't booking a huge amount of ADRs as we want to save some TS credits back for last minute decisions when we are there (considering Fulton's, but haven't totally decided yet, and will probably try for Raglan Road).

So, here's the ones we're booking.


Cinderella's Royal Table for our first morning. Hoping for an 8am time so we can get in the park before it opens and then spend the day in MK.


California Grill on 30th Oct for a 7pm time. Fireworks are at 8pm that night I believe, so we can nip out to watch them and then enjoy the rest of our meal.


Le Cellier on the 3rd Nov at 5pm. We'll be spending the day in the park from opening, but don't plan on staying for Illuminations, and will probably head over to the Boardwalk in the evening.


Narcoossee's for the 4th Nov at 7pm. Looking at my plan, we don't have anything organised for that day, but we have Epcot the day before and Universal the day after, so I imagine this will be a relaxing day.


Boma on the 7th Nov at 6pm after our day at Animal Kingdom. We did originally opt for Jiko as I wanted to eat there on our honeymoon when we stayed at AKL, but we couldn't get a table. After looking at the menu and Matt vetoing nearly everything on the menu, I thought Boma would be a safer bet-he loved the food that was available at the AKL conceirge level on our honeymoon, so he must be able to find something to eat from the buffet here.


Liberty Tree Tavern on the 9th Nov at 4pm. We're going to the MVMCP that night, so thought an ealry ADR in the park would be a nice start to the party, and means we can have a proper sit down meal before the TS restaurants close for the day.


And lastly, we have Ohana on the 11th Nov at 6pm. Wishes is on at 8pm I think that night, so if we can watch them from the beach then that would be great and a nice way to round off the evening.

[pcnine28]

Plans look great, love the choice of ADRs.
How's the weight loss going?
17lbs already seems remarkable!
Happy planning and congrats on hubby with his remission

[tink3]

Wow, it sounds like you have an amazing trip planned.

Looking forward to more updates.

[Guest]

All sounds fab how exciting.Hope the ADR's all went okay xx

[Adora]

Originally Posted by pcnine28

Plans look great, love the choice of ADRs.
How's the weight loss going?
17lbs already seems remarkable!
Happy planning and congrats on hubby with his remission

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Thankyou. Weight loss is up to 19lbs now, not much more progress but at least it's in the right direction!

Originally Posted by tink3

Wow, it sounds like you have an amazing trip planned.

Looking forward to more updates.

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Thanks!

Originally Posted by Steph0188

All sounds fab how exciting.Hope the ADR's all went okay xx

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Thanks, just about to do an ADR and ticket update.

[Adora]

ADR's done!
We managed to get all the dates we wanted, and the most deviation in the times we wanted was for Le Cellier, which was for 5.25pm instead of 5pm. We even managed to get Boma and Whispering Canyon for bang on when we wanted. I don't think I mentioned Whispering Canyon above as it was on our original ADR list, but we couldn't decide on what day we wanted to eat there, and thought with it being in our own resort that we could hold off booking and maybe even sneak in an on the day reservation. After speaking to someone in reservations at WDW, who advised that the restaurant does get very busy and fills up fast, we opted for Nov 6th at 8pm.
We're planning to do a manatee swim that day, so will probably not want to venture out of the hotel that evening due to the very early start, so it seemed the best day to choose.

We've also booked and received our tickets for the MNSSHP and MVMCP!


MNSSHP is booked for Nov 2nd and MVMCP is booked for Nov 9th, so the last and first of each party. Hope they're not heaving, but I suspect they will be. We've got an ADR for Liberty Tree Tavern for the afternoon of the MVMCP date, so we can have a sit down meal before the party starts.

[scotsprincess]

Love the wedding pic

You'll love wilderness lodge, it's a beautiful resort

Looking forward to reading all about your trip

[Adora]

We went to Manchester Airport last weekend. Just for a look, my husband loves airports and I wanted to watch 'our' flight take off. Unfortunately due to traffic we didn't get there until 11.30, so we went to the viewing park for an hour and watched lots of the smaller planes take off from terminal 1. At about 12.30 we drove over to terminal 2, had a walk around the airport, watched people checking in for the 2.05 Virgin flight to Orlando, and went up and down the travelators.
It was really nice actually, it was quite exciting knowing that we'd been back there in a few months time, checking in for our own flights. We saw the 2.05 flight take off, so even though we didn't see our own flight it was still nice to see one of the Orlando ones go.
Bet I sound really sad now, but I do love airports.

Oh, and I've just realised we're into the 4 months and something category now!

[Bobsledwheels]

OOOh I am so excited about your trip as we are aiming to go the same time the following year! Exciting!

Your wedding pic is lovely and well done on the weight loss - Slimming world is so good (i just need the disney motivation haha)

You've got some great ADR's lined up as well, Looking forward to the trippie! xx

[Adora]

Thanks, we've booked for next October staying at Saratoga Springs off the back of our expectations for this holiday. Some of my family go for Halloween every year an refuse to go any other time, so we had to see what it's like, I've always wanted to experience a 'proper' Halloween, and we'll get to see some of the Christmas celebrations also.
I've had a bit of time off from Slimming World but I really need to get back in gear as I'm still hoping to lose about 40lbs before we go and I've only got 5 months left now. I really want to be able to wear a bikini when we visit the water parks and won't be doing it if I don't get some weight shifted soon!