[NanaTink]

So, the Psychic Psysters began to trade emails and make plans, and discuss options….and make plans,….til all was laid out. It was decided that since my ADR date came first, I would make the ADRs for the group. (at this time, Gin7274 and Baxter weren’t going to be there until the 19th, then she sorta added a day to the front end of her trip…..) So discussions went back and forth. When Sulley and I were at WDW in April, our last day there was May 1st, the day the party tickets for MNSSHP and MVMCP went on sale. The plan was to go down and get four tickets for the 22nd of October for SouthernBelle, Grumpy and us. At this point in time, Gin7274 and Baxter hadn’t joined up with us. So down I trotted and soon had four tickets for MNSSHP on the 22nd and 2 tickets for MVMCP for Sulley and I on 4 December.

Everyone was in agreement, we wanted a Le Cellier dinner, so it was decided that on the 20th of July (my 90 days date) I would call for an early dinner at Le Cellier for the day of the party. If I couldn’t get that, Tony’s or LLT were our backup goal. And I was to try for at least an Le Cellier dinner or lunch once while the whole group was together. Sulley and I invited the group over for drinks in the villa followed by dinner at the Turf Club on the 20th, and we decided that the 21st would be a grazing around in the world kind of day. Starting with Mexico and Margaritas! It has been suggested we end in France with Grey Goose Lemonade, but then that leaves out the UK and stout and Canada and Cheddar Cheese soup….

Anyway we were set, and we were only waiting for that magic day to come. I decided I wanted to be brave and try the online booking system and see if that worked, but was ready to abandon ship if it did not. There had been issues with DVC ressies before with the website not able to pull them up so I was a little worried. I took the day off of work.

The 20th dawned and I logged on……

At first I couldn’t figure out how to book anything, but I soon figured it out. It still has issues, imho, but I was soon able to pull up my SSR ressie and began to work. First up, the coveted 22 October Le Cellier…….SCORE!!!! I got a great early booking and we were on our way.
By the end of my time online I had booked (**marks new ones for us):

18 Oct…Fultons Crab House 6PM, Sulley and NanaTink
19 Oct…Hoop Dee Doo Revue 7:15 seating 1 S & NT **
20 Oct…Turf Club…6:45, following drinks in the villa, all six of us
21 Oct…eating around the World, no ADR needed!
22 Oct…Le Cellier…4:50 PM for all six
23 Oct…Coral Reef, 6:30PM, S & NT (it’s been a long time since we’ve eaten here)
24 Oct…Restaurant Marrakesh 6:30PM S & NT (we’ve only eaten lunch here before)
25 Oct…Yachtsman Steakhouse, 6:10PM S & NT **
26 Oct…Liberty Tree Tavern 6:05PM, S & NF (ony lunch before)
27 Oct…Le Cellier, 5:15 S & NT ( we ‘did it again’! )
(we wanted a restaurant in Epcot because there was a possible PP meet somewhere in Epcot being planned for that evening, and Owner’s Locker has a Wine meet at 7 in France)

That was the end of my ten day window and I had to stop, even though I had more ADRs to make! What’s a planner to do? Call each day!
On the 20th I logged on and the online system wouldn’t let you book further than 90 days…no + 10 was showing up. In fact it wasn’t even showing 90 days out. So I called and got a CM who was not going to let me make an ADR. I could only have ten ADRs from my check-in date. Period. I explained I knew that and that this was now the next day and I could now make another ADR because it was 90 + 10 again. She argued and argued with me until suddenly the light went on somewhere and she got it. Whew!!!
So for the next four days I called or got online and made the rest of the ADRs.

28 Oct…Whispering Canyon Café, 6:10PM, S& NT **
29 Oct…Kouzzina’s 6:05PM S& NT **
30 Oct…Narcoossee’s 6:55PM S& NT ( a fave..the plan is to watch Wishes from the beach as this is our last night in WDW )
31 Oct…Grand Floridian Café 8:15AM for breakfast. Though I am toying with the idea of switching it to Cape May instead since I keep hearing such wonderful things about it….

NEXT UP: A surprise email and a question for SouthernBelle and I…