An unexpected DLR vacation PTR Feb 11-16th 2012 About This Page:

[mrsbruhaha]

Pardon me one moment while I do the single digit dance. Squeee!! I’m so excited! Only 8 days 16 hours and 34 minutes before we leave for California.
A little backstory; one day when my husband came home one day and asked me “if you could do anything right now what would it be?” I of course answered “get on a plane and go to Disney World”. He then told me to grab my computer and price out a trip. We start looking and passing ideas back and forth and in the end ended up booking a trip to Disneyland! We’ll be there from Feb 11th thru Feb 16th, which means both Valentine’s Day and my husband’s birthday.

Day 1
We’ll be landing just in time for a jet-lagged lunch! So after checking into the Disneyland Hotel we’ll be heading into Downtown Disney in search of noms. For lunches we plan on stopping by whatever is close and sounds good. The rest of the afternoon will be spent meandering thru Downtown Disney, with a mandatory stop at Build-A-Bear. Dinner will be at Rainforest Café. I’m collecting cups from each new city that I go to a Rainforest Café in. Afterwards, if we’re still awake and up for it we might head into California Adventure to check out ElecTRONica.
Day2
Getting up early shouldn’t be a problem thanks to the jetlag (yay?) to take advantage of the Magic Morning Hour at Disneyland Park. This is where we’ll probably spend the day, trying to hit as many of my must-do’s as possible. I’m really sad about the Matterhorn not being open; that was what I was looking forward to the most. I guess we’ll just have to come back again someday (oh noes! ). Dinner will be the Blue Bayou, probably the restaurant that I’m looking forward to the most. Sometimes atmosphere is more important than the food for me. I’m going to make sure to catch the fireworks show since it won’t be showing again while we’re there.
Day3
We’ll be spending this day in California Adventure. Dinner will be at Ariel’s Grotto and comes with a preferred seating ticket to World of Color. Provided my phone’s battery is doing ok (or I get a chance to charge it) I will be broadcasting the show LIVE via my ustream channel.
Day4
We’ll probably be spending most of this day in Disneyland again, though we’ll be leaving early to head back to the hotel to get ready for our Valentine’s Dinner at Steakhouse 55. Hopefully, we’ll have time to head back to the parks afterwards to catch the ‘Magic, The Memories and You!’ show. If we don’t, I’m going to try my best to get to it the next day.
Day5
Planning to spend most of the day in California Adventure, though again we’ll be leaving early. This is my husband’s birthday, so we’ll be having dinner at Napa Rose.
Day6
I am not in the best of shape, so by this point my feet are going to be ready to go on strike. So we’ll be taking this day easy and relaxing doing whatever we feel like before our flight back home.

I’ve already begun packing, but I’m forced into a holding pattern since there are a few things I just can’t pack yet. Early next week I’m going to do laundry and get all but the toiletries packed up and ready to go. I love packing for trips. I could easily spend weeks mentally packing and repacking. I have a bad habit of over packing too, though I’m always feeling like I’m forgetting something. Other than the obvious of clothes and toiletries, I’m planning to bring:
a small backpack (I actually have two! A small and a mini)
fanny packs
PassPorter (DUH!!)
wetwipes
tide to go stick
moleskin
ziplocs (snack, sandwich, and gallon size)
snacks (beef jerky, candied strawberries)
my Dingoo (mostly for the flight)
Nalgene bottles w/mio and drink packets
a small fan
a m&m tube of quarters and pennies (for the penny press machines)
spare pens/sharpies
some extra carabineers
small flashlight

And the apps I’ve gotten for my phone:
Magic Guide DL
Hidden Mickeys DL
Star Tours
Lines DL
Parktasiq
Disneyland Inside Out
Wishing Stars
Disney Mobile Site
Disney Gift Card (lets me keep track of my gift card balance)
Sorcerer Radio
Tapatalk (so I can keep checking the passporter boards)
Gowalla
Ustream




TL : DR I’m going to Disneyland!!!

[shnewell]

Woohoo!! Sounds like fun. Maybe we'll run into you at Electronica!

We are leaving a week from tomorrow just for a quick, long weekend trip and plan to go to Electronica on the 11th as well. Hope you have a great time!

[mrsbruhaha]

Well, i'll have my passporter button on so keep an eye out!


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[ilovedisney247]

Sounds like fun! I was in DL the week before Christmas and had a great time--I would advise just watching WOC--it's amazing!

[Colexis Mom]

Great plans! Have a great time!

[chezp]

What great plans! Have a great time!

[Shari2137]

Sounds like a great trip - Have fun!!!!

[mrsbruhaha]

Ooooooh! My documents arrived today!!
Ack, up til now i was able to keep the trip sometime in the ambiguous future. Now its here!! I'm getting the excited nervous butterflies.

[Colexis Mom]

Congrats on the Disney mail!

[chezp]

Congrats on the Disney mail!

[KMB733]

Great plans!!!! Congrats on the Disney Mail!!!

[ilovedisney247]

Congrats on the Disney mail! You're going to have a great time!

[PrincessSharon]

Sounds like it's going to be a great trip! Won't be long now!

[mrsbruhaha]

Oooh!! We leave tomorrow morning!!
I did submit an rss feed for the window seat boards, but just incase that doesn't work, i'll be posting pictures while i'm there as well at disneyphotomagic.tumbler.com



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[KMB733]

Have a Magical trip