missangelalexis
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Your last two days sound great! I am sure you're anxious to get the details about your plaid!!
This sounds amazing!!!!!What we've asked for:
Hollywood Studios: Slinky Dog Dash and Tower of Terror (will add Toy Story Midway Mania if there's time)
Animal Kingdom: Na'vi River Journey and Flight of Passage
Epcot: Test Track and Soarin' (will add Spaceship Earth or Frozen if we have time)
Magic Kingdom: Peter Pan, Splash Mountain, 7DMT, Happily Ever After
You will not regret doing all 4 parks in one day with the tour guide! I did this on my last full day in Disney one time and it was absolutely amazing. All the major highlights and the guides bring you through other entrances and right up to certain attractions so you barely waste any time. I even got to see Lion King with the guide and sat on the very first bench in the elephant section. AMAZING!!!Happy Monday! Happy One Week 'til Christmas Eve!!
We are 12 days away from our trip, how did that happen??
L plays cello, and has since 6th grade (X played violin in 6th and 7th grade, but quit to take a leadership class that conflicted with it - plus he hated it ), and this year the students were able to get free tickets to the Philharmonic Orchestra, so we went to see that yesterday afternoon. L's 6th grade low strings teacher is 2nd chair cello, so he was excited to see her and say hi. We stopped by a holiday mural thing downtown to take a random selfie:
I'm not looking at the camera, L's face is BLUE for some reason...we are bad at pictures!!
Here are the boys looking very tall (and L desperately in need of a haircut)
I called them out on being on their phones too much this weekend, so I had to be a good role model and leave my phone off most of the weekend too
No Candy Crush. I'm not sure how I survived.
I heard from Signature Services yesterday, so let's keep going with the PTR...
Chapter Eight: Plaid Day (and everything we had to change because of it!)
So as exciting as getting a tour guide is, I freaked out a little over how much we'd have to change to make it work. I decided to embrace it and yesterday I switched things around.
We're getting our guide on New Year's Day, and we have them for 7 hours.
Originally our NYD was going to be split between Epcot and the Magic Kingdom. We were going to spend the morning at Epcot, have lunch at San Angel Inn, then move on to the MK in the evening and do the Happily Ever After dessert party (the after fireworks version, garden view).
Well, that's all off the table!
I wasn't sure how to plan a day with a guide, but I knew I wanted to use them to see Happily Ever After, since the whole point of us booking the dessert party was to get the viewing area in the garden. HEA is at 8:00 that night, so we're starting our day with the guide at 1:00pm.
We're going to stay up and watch the midnight NYE fireworks from the Polynesian, sleep in, and just lounge around the resort and have lunch before they pick us up. I have NEVER slept in or relaxed at the resort in the morning. Ever. The boys are thrilled. I'm not sure how I'll manage, LOL!!
At first I thought we'd just do the whole day at the Magic Kingdom, but then I decided that if we're going to have this opportunity with a VIP guide, we should make the most of it!
We're going to do all four parks in one day!!
What we've asked for:
Hollywood Studios: Slinky Dog Dash and Tower of Terror (will add Toy Story Midway Mania if there's time)
Animal Kingdom: Na'vi River Journey and Flight of Passage
Epcot: Test Track and Soarin' (will add Spaceship Earth or Frozen if we have time)
Magic Kingdom: Peter Pan, Splash Mountain, 7DMT, Happily Ever After
We had planned to be at the Magic Kingdom on 1/2 and tour there that morning, but because we're going to now be spending the evening there, we're switching to a full day at Epcot, and I picked the three rides I had fast passes for. If we have time, I want to add Big Thunder, HM, Pirates, and Meet Mickey.
Signature Services said our list looks doable in the time allowed, and hopefully we'll be able to add on the extras if we get ahead of schedule.
MK is open until 11pm, so I also made fast passes for Big Thunder and Haunted Mansion for after HEA, just in case.
The changes we're making to January 2 include cancelling Crystal Palace breakfast , switching to a full day at Epcot (I made FPs yesterday, and was able to get Soarin', Spaceship Earth, and Living with the Land.) Shula's dinner is still safe and in place, and we've added the Frozen Dessert Party at Epcot that night.
I was really happy to see good Fast Pass times still available on 1/1 at Magic Kingdom AND 1/2 at Epcot for most rides.
I'm actually looking forward to letting someone else be in charge of our day - that's a big deal for me!!!
That's it for now!! Have an awesome Monday!!
I think you're making the right call doing 4 parks in one day while you have the guide! It's going to be so awesome skipping the lines for all the big headliners- and getting to do them all in one day! Along with HEA! So excited for you and can't wait to hear how the day turns out
This sounds amazing!!!!!
You will not regret doing all 4 parks in one day with the tour guide! I did this on my last full day in Disney one time and it was absolutely amazing. All the major highlights and the guides bring you through other entrances and right up to certain attractions so you barely waste any time. I even got to see Lion King with the guide and sat on the very first bench in the elephant section. AMAZING!!!
Wow!! How exciting is that!? Also, I think we'll also be at MK on Jan. 1. Maybe we'll cross paths that night if Nathan and I don't crap out after HEA.
Yay!! I'd love to see you again if we can work it out!!
If you've followed along with me before, you know my in-laws can be...challenging.
And no, they didn't say thank you. Sometimes I swear they just complain and freak out b/c they know DH will just take care of it and do whatever they want.
Now that we're down to the wire, what do we have left to do??
Basically everything.
I've been wanting these for a long time, and they were on sale, so it's a double win!!
Expect the trip report to just be me in leggings and the same old Disney shirts you've seen me in for the past few years
I panic over outfits and then just wear the same things, LOL!!
Yesterday afternoon when the boys hugged me goodbye before leaving with their grandparents, I realized just how much bigger than me they both are now, and I got really sad. Hopefully our castle pictures aren't just me bawling...but I guess that's what my sunglasses are for, right?? Covering my red, crying eyes! My outfits won't matter, everyone can just look at my puffy face
I was having a real sense of everyone taking advantage of me this December. I know how you feel. But I am sure it is good that you do these things for the In-Laws.And no, they didn't say thank you. Sometimes I swear they just complain and freak out b/c they know DH will just take care of it and do whatever they want.
Love these.... Maybe I should look and see what they have.
I've been wanting these for a long time, and they were on sale, so it's a double win!!
I have been feeling the same way, Morgan my oldest is 6" shorter than me. And it makes me sad sometimes.esterday afternoon when the boys hugged me goodbye before leaving with their grandparents, I realized just how much bigger than me they both are now, and I got really sad. Hopefully our castle pictures aren't just me bawling...but I guess that's what my sunglasses are for, right?? Covering my red, crying eyes! My outfits won't matter, everyone can just look at my puffy face
These are things you think about before buying a house!
These are not old people, by the way. Both are educated adults. They're supposed to come stay at our house with our dogs while we're gone, tried to cancel on us Christmas Eve (we leave in three days), so we had to pay to fly SIL in to help my MIL, and then MILs long time boyfriend (like, 9 years of togetherness) will come stay here. The dogs like him more anyway, LOL. DH venmo-ed an old college friend some money to take them dinner and hang their curtains. All is calm for now, and MIL is happy SIL is flying in.
I was like, why don't I know about this when I'm in Denver??? But if Disney is cheaper I should probably just plan another trip, right?We'd been considering a summer trip to Colorado, and they have a similar rhino experience at the Denver Zoo that I wanted to book...can you believe it's cheaper at Disney?? I was excited to see I could combine my obsession with Animal Kingdom with my rhino obsession
Oh boy! Your in-laws make me feel better about mine. Wow.
Ugggh! It's such a tough call...do you ignore and not enable them, or do you give in to keep from prolonging the agony... Nathan and I are mostly in the give-no-attention-and-don't-reward-bad-behaviour stage with his family right now, but sometimes it's easier just to pick your battles and keep them happy.
This feels so relatable right now.
These are so cute!!!
As long as you're wearing something, all that really matters is that you're comfy and having fun. But cute, themed, functional outfits are fun to play with.
Awww! I can only imagine how it feels to watch your boys growing up into young men! It's sad. But it's also awesome to know that you're putting two confident, kind, intelligent men out there into the world to go kick butt!
I was having a real sense of everyone taking advantage of me this December. I know how you feel. But I am sure it is good that you do these things for the In-Laws.
Love these.... Maybe I should look and see what they have.
I have been feeling the same way, Morgan my oldest is 6" shorter than me. And it makes me sad sometimes.
I hope you get everything done that you need to get done! And enjoy your trip!!!!!
Yes it is!
That's crazy that she would try to cancel on you last minute.
Ugh I'm sorry had to deal with all that but glad it worked out!
Love the Snow White TOMS!
Eeeee, you leave tomorrow?? How exciting! And a plaid!!!
Sorry about your MIL. That's so stressful, not only trying to cancel last minute but also just all of the calling/complaining... Thankfully my ILs are pretty great, but I have a crazy father, so I guess that's my trade off.
I was like, why don't I know about this when I'm in Denver??? But if Disney is cheaper I should probably just plan another trip, right?