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| TroianRae\'s Crazy Adventures in the World - DAY 5, PART 1- UPDATED 8/15 <font color="blue"> <u>Pre-Trip Report</u> <u>Our Cast of Adventurers:</u> : Me (Jana AKA TroianRae) - 32 - 4th trip to WDW DH (Nathan) - turning 32 at WDW on 7/13 - 3rd trip to WDW DS (Benjamin) - 6 - 3rd trip to WDW DD (Troian Rae) - 2.5 (horrid age!) - 2nd trip to WDW <u>Our Journey</u>: We leave home Friday, July 1st and arrive at WDW on Sundy, July 3rd (we're driving - like always). We'll be at WDW from July 3rd - 14th. We leave for home Thursday, July 14 and should be home by Sunday, July 17 (we're stopping in St. Louis for a day). <u>Our Hotel</u>: POP CENTURY (that was decided after Annabel & Andy's TR's from last year) <u>Our Special Plans:</u> PP Meet with Christiejay at POP CENTURY at 2:30 pm on 7/4 Lunch at the Crystal Palace on 7/5 Lunch at the Whispering Canyon Cafe on 7/8 Meet up with Christie(christiejay) and Annabel at Pop Century on 7/8 Afternoon Tea at the GF Lounge with Annabel and Becki (tink and co) on 7/10 Lunch at the Sci-Fi Restaurant on 7/11 PP Meet at Ghiradelli's 9 pm on 7/12 Breakfast at Chef Mickey's to celebrate DH's 32nd birthday on 7/13 ![]() PP Meet at Spectromagic at MK at 8:30 pm 7/13 <u>Pre-Trip Background</u> We knew that we were going to go back this year as soon as we got home last year from WDW. We had had such a miserable trip that I told my husband to give me several months and I'd be ready to plan going back. While we were down there in May/June 2004, I had a cavity abcess on me, I had already pulled some tendon in my foot the morning we left for WDW, and I seemed to catch some stomach bug when we got down to Florida. Needless to say, I did NOT have the most enjoyable trip. I couldn't walk, couldn't eat, and didn't want to eat what I could eat. We raced home from Florda, and I ended up having emergency dental surgery. They ended up pulling 3 teeth (the abcessed wisdom tooth and my other two wisdom teeth) since they had to put me under anyway. So that's the NOT a great trip. ![]() By September I was ready to plan our trip; I was actually ready to go back. My mom was plannig on going down to the Destin area for some meetings so we decided to go with and make it over to Orlando. Guess what?? Mother Nature intervened; Florida kept having hurricanes hit them. I figured we'd be good to go, but at the last minute, my mom refused to let us go because of the kids and took off without us. (Sidenote - she got down there and they evacuted where she was staying so she had to turn around and come back home.) ![]() So, I dealt with that as best I could and threw all my energy into planning our 2005 trip. We decided to go over the 4th of July and Nate's 32nd birthday to utilize some built in vacation days. I then researched and found a TA in October of 2004, and I thought we'd be good to go. As time went on (by January 2005), I realized that I did not have a good TA at all so I turned to the passporter boards for advice and they helped immensely!!! ( ) I was very fortunate that Maureen agreed to take us on. She made our hotel reservations and all of our PS/AR's for us with such ease; it was amazing. ( Maureen!!!!) I had already started looking through the Checking Your Itinerary forum and realized that a lot of Passporters were going to be down there while we were. So I posted about setting up some meets and PM'd some people so they knew that I'd started a post about July meets. Things really started to come together then. Christiejay contacted me, and we set up a meet. ( Christie!!) Then I heard from tinksmom (Tenya), SharonK5027(Sharon), and some others, so we set up a Ghiradelli's meet for July 12.(Sidenote: We're up to 18+ people with Passporters and their families.) Then buzzspal2 (Tammy) contacted me a few weeks ago about any meets after 7/12, so we set up a Spectromagic meet for 7/13; now we've added several more people and several other possibles to that meet. Then ANNABEL started posting that she might be going to WDW. I kept thinking that it would be really great if her trips dates coincided in any way with ours. So I started posting on her threads, trying to keep up with her process on deciding if she was going to go. After many anxious hours, Annabel finally posted that she was going - then I had to get her to tell me WHEN she was going. July 7-14 she posted. I screamed (and I do mean screamed); I was so excited. DH came running into my office to see what was up since he knew that was an excited scream; he took one look at my face and said "I take it Annabel's going when we are??" Such a smart man!! I was just bobbing my head up and down, speechless. I knew that I had to see if she would be able to come to one of the meets we'd scheduled - good news, she was in for Ghiradelli's. Next I invited her to meet me for tea; I knew from her posts that she wanted to have tea and I was going alone so why not go together?? So we're on for tea - YEAH!! So now I'm down to the last 29 days.............waiting to go to Walt Disney World. The suitcases are mostly packed; I've been packing since January (okay I'm strange, I know it). I've been collecting quarters and pennies for the pressed pennies. I've redone our schedule multiple times, even just over the weekend due to some changes in EMH days/nights. I'm still buying DH some new tshirts; for some reason, he has less clothes than the rest of us do. I even had to start packing his clothes in his own suitcase because I took an entire suitcase just for me. Oh well. ![]() In the meantime, I've been keeping busy reading all the wonderful trip reports that have come out in the last few weeks; they will sustain me until it's my turn to enjoy the magic. </font> |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report Yayy, I'm so psyched at getting to meet you Jana (and appear in your trip report ) Wow, 18+ at the Ghiradelli's meet, how is that! A great start to your report. I'm sorry you had such a rough time of it last trip and the dental surgery afterwards, yikes I'm really looking forward to having afternoon tea with you Not long now ![]() |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report Great start Jana!! Hopefully we will be able to meet up with you, we are arriving at the Grand Floridian on July 10th, my 40th birthday!! |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report [ QUOTE ] Great start Jana!! Hopefully we will be able to meet up with you, we are arriving at the Grand Floridian on July 10th, my 40th birthday!! [/ QUOTE ] Thanks for the kind words! Congrats on the upcoming birthday!! July is a good month - DH is the 13th and I'm the 25th. I hope you're be able to come to the Ghiradelli's and/or Spectromagic meet; it will be fun to meet everyone. I've got a thread going to the Backyard Forum about the July meets, which I keep updated for everyone. Hope to see you there.............. |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report [ QUOTE ] How lucky you are! Your PP meets are going to be awesome. Be sure to tell us all about it when you return! [/ QUOTE ] I hope to. That's why I started the pre-trip report; I'm working up the courage to do it. |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report Jana, I'm looking forward to Spectro Magic. I wish Lisa and I were not going to be stuck in Denver for 3 HOURS. I'd love to go to ghirdelli's with everyone. See you there ![]() |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report <font color="blue"> <u>More PreTrip Report 6.3.05 Part 1</u> Well, after putting an additional $1100+ into our van today, we're getting closer to being ready for WDW. (And a lot poorer after today.) Plus I'm still shopping for our trip and picking up odds and ends - more diaper wipes, more Disney Pez dispensers, more Color Wonder markers and coloring books, and more. A 17-day trip with two kids always means I have to have a little bit of everything with us. Benji is keeping me entertained though; he keeps telling people we're going to Pop Century in 3 days. He knew yesterday was 30 days so he thinks the 0 doesn't count which makes it 3 days. Plus he's constantly asking to see pictures of Pop Century!!! I started all this by showing him Annabel and Andy's Pop Century pictures last year; had I known that he would want to see these pictures multiple times daily I don't know that I would have shown him the first one. (Yeah, I probably still would have.) So I've loaded them into a folder on the office computer so that he can just go and get his Pop Century fix, but now he wants to look at them on my laptop (stupid me, my desktop is a picture of Pop Century's front sign). That kid is too smart!!I'm also still working on finalizing our daily itineraries; I'm trying to sort through all the EMH's and the AR/PS's so I know we're in the right place at the right time. I'll add that info to this pre-trip report as soon as I've got it ready. I've been busy adding the info from my wipe board to my passpockets; thank goodness for that wipe board - dry erase is a wonderful thing!! (I came across a 16x20, maybe bigger, dry-erase wipe board at a garage sale earlier this spring - for $.50) Gotta go for now!! I'll try to add the daily itineraries tomorrow. </font> |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report Sounds like everything is coming along! I like Benji's way of thinking! We're almost down to 100 days. If only those 2 zero's didn't count! ![]() |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report <font color="black"> 6.3.05 Part 2 <u>Daily Itineraries</u> </font> <font color="blue"> <u>Sunday, July 3</u> Arrive about 3 pm Check-in at Pop Century Go shopping at Downtown Disney (now debating going to a park on this day) Have supper at Earl of Sandwich or Baskerville's at Grovesnor Resort <u> Monday, July 4 </u> Epcot EMH at 8 am (Test Track, Turtle Talk, Innoventions, and much more) Lunch at Trail's End Buffeteria at Fort Wilderness PP Meet with Christiejay at Pop Century at 2:30 pm Afternoon swimming at Pop Century MGM in the evening Watch Wishes fireworks from Polynesian beach <u> Tuesday, July 5 </u> MGM EMH at 8 am, stay until 10 am (Test Track, Muppet Vision3D, Tower of Terror with chicken exit) Lunch at Crystal Palace at 11:30 am Stay at Magic Kingdom throughout afternoon (BTMRR) Share A Dream Come True Parade at 3 pm Supper at Tusker House or FLame Tree Barbaque in DAK DAK EMH 7-10 pm (FOTLK, Tarzan) <u> Wednesday, July 6 </u> Magic Kingdom EMH at 8 am, stay until noonish (Buzz Lightyear, BTMRR, Fantasyland) Afternoon - EPCOT or swimming at Pop Century MGM in the evening Fantasmic at 10:30 pm <u> Thursday, July 7 </u> DAK at 9 am Swimming at Pop Century EPCOT EMH 9 pm -12 am <u> Friday, July 8 </u> Take boat from MK to Wilderness Lodge Lunch at Whispering Canyon Cafe at 12:00 pm Swimming at Pop Century?? Meet up with Christie (christiejay) and Annabel at Pop Century Spectromagic at 9 pm Wishes at 10 pm MK EMH 11 pm - 2 am (Buzz Lightyear, BTMRR, Haunted Mansion, POTC) <u> Saturday, July 9 </u> DAK at 8 am (Kilimanjaro Safaris) Swimming at Pop Century EPCOT Illuminations at 9 pm <u> Sunday, July 10 </u> Afternoon Tea with Annabel and Becki (tink and co) at GF Lounge at 3:20 pm MGM EMH 10 pm - 1 am (Great Movie Ride, VOTLM, Playhouse Disney, Star Tours, Muppets 3D) <u> Monday, July 11 </u> EPCOT EMH at 8 am, leave by 11 am Lunch at Sci-Fi Restaurant at MGM at 12:10 pm MGM in the afternoon Spectromagic at 9 pm Wishes at 10 pm MK EMH 11 pm - 2 am <u> Tuesday, July 12 </u> MGM EMH at 8 am MK in the afternoon PP Meet at 9 pm at Ghiradelli's with Annabel, tinksmom, SharonK5027, Grammy Grumpy, and hopefully lauren-roxy <u> Wednesday, July 13 </u> DH's 32nd Birthday MK EMH at 8am, leave by 10 am Late Breakfast at Chef Mickey's at 11 am MGM in the afternoon PP Spectromagic Meet at MK at 8:30 pm with Buzzspal2 and possibly several others Wishes at 10 pm <u> Thursday, July 14 </u> We leave for home. </font> |
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| Re: TroianRae\'s crazy adventures in the World PreTrip Report Looks like a relly nice schedule Jana!! You have picked some great places to eat!! |
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