[DrDolphin]

Cast: Terri (33) – celebrating 33rd birthday and walking the 10k (birthday - 9/27)

Cheryl (28) – celebrating 28th birthday and walking the 10k (birthday - 10/1)

Dates – Oct 9-13

Resort – Animal Kingdom Lodge- Savannah View



Pre-caps and planning



Ok – Cheryl and I have been running marathons and long distance races since 2000 when we met in Washington DC training for the Marine Corps Marathon. We discovered that both of us not only enjoy running long distances races – but we love to travel to them. We registered to run the Disney Marathon in Jan 2001 before we ever ran the MCM!



So – now we speed forward to Aug 29, 2003… Terri now lives in Jacksonville, FL – Cheryl still lives in Virginia. While driving home from work on the Friday before, I was rear ended on I-95. It totaled my car and messed up my back. I ended up starting physical therapy – and the first thing my therapist said is “you aren’t running anywhere – but you can WALK”. So I called Cheryl and told her that the trip was on – but if I started the race – I was walking the complete distance due to my newly injured back. Its gonna be a long 6.2 miles!!!!



Because of my back – I spend a lot of extra time on line reading Disney stuff and planning. I have already begun to put together a bag of must-takes with me and doing even more reading and planning…. So since I so have Disney on the brain – here are my plans for our trip.



So – here is a quick look at our plans:



Thursday, October 9 – 11:40pm – Cheryl arrives in Jacksonville via AirTrans.



Friday, October 10 – 6:30am – leave home, head to Winn Dixie for groceries, bottled water and ice.

7:00am – on the road to Orlando

9:30am – arrive Animal Kingdom Lodge – check in if possible – if not, leave bags and head to MGM.

1:00pm – PS at Prime Time Café

2:30pm – Downtown Disney – shopping!

Back to hotel for rest, unpack, swim, soak – etc

7:00 – Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party!!!!



Saturday, October 11 – 8:30am-2:00pm – Keys to the Kingdom Tour

Afternoon – Magic Kingdom – do anything remaining that we missed from the tour.

5:00pm – Race packet pickup at Disney’s Wide World of Sports

7:00pm – PS at Boma!!!!



Sunday, October 12 – RACE DAY

7:00am – Disney Classic 10k!!

9:30pm – Back to AKL, change clothes and head to Animal Kingdom

Stay till park close

Head to EPCOT!!

7:00pm – PS at Le Cellier

9:00pm - Illuminations!!



Monday, October 13

Check out of AKL

Spend the day at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure

4:00pm – Drop Cheryl off at MCO

Terri drive home to Jacksonville.



Ok folks – there is the plan – we will see if it goes as planned!!!



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