Gina-Gina-Bo-Bina
Life is short. Live it well.
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2008
We're in!! Reservation made!
I'm getting more than a little excited .
We're in!! Reservation made!
I'm getting more than a little excited .
With the most recent revisions, it now looks like this:
Friday: late afternoon arrival & a pool night at the Vistana
Saturday: Gatorland during the day, Rocco’s Tacos for dinner (assuming you are free to dine with us that evening, @chiamarie ), Old Town’s Halloween Haunt in the evening [with @DontRushMe and you too, @chiamarie , if you don’t have to work too early the next day]
Sunday: SeaWorld, with the Animal Ambassadors Tour [meeting up with @verleniahall ]
Monday: Aquatica
Tuesday: breakfast at Boma (and touring around Animal Kingdom Lodge), dinner at Trail’s End, and the Return to Sleepy Hollow event & dessert party at Fort Wilderness in the evening. Between breakfast and dinner, we have no plans……maybe a pool day?
Wednesday: Discovery Cove
Thursday: SeaWorld, with the Sea Lions Tour
Friday: Disney Springs during the day [meeting up with @afan ], and the Ferrytale Wishes Dessert Cruise at night [preceded by Hash House A Go Go for dinner with @pattyw …. Patty, did you and Joe decide if you are also coming along to the fireworks cruise?]
Saturday: morning flight home
You will have to let me know if Saturday night works for you for dinner....if not, I'll start reworking the plans . Do you generally have to work early on Sundays?
Definitely let me know if you end up reserving for that day. If that's the case, we'll absolutely plan to meet up and say hello!
And I'm happy to say.....we pulled the trigger and booked DC for October 31st!
Yes, dinner on Saturday works. However, I am usually early on Sundays, so i will probably will head off after dinner.
I'm starting to get excited now that my SF trip has passed. We check-in in 51 days so I leave in 50! I'm watching hurricane Florence due to friends and my house in NC, I think it'll just be a lot of rain. My house isn't in a flood plain and is on a hill so my only concern would be trees from across the street that hopefully the power poles would stop and limbs from my oak trees. I think the trees are big enough they will be ok, but my inept management co never did get them trimmed like I asked multiple times so fingers crossed I don't mess up my neighbors fence.
I'm also FP stalking trying to change one to Flights of Passage and one to Slinky Dog on days my friend is there, I have both after she's left. But we have plans in place otherwise because all of the planning is done. No clothes to buy, do need to get the hair done and the running in but that's it which is kinda nice. Knock on wood nothing else pops up for me.
We aren’t pass holders anywhere this year (thanks to a precious baby girl who joined our family this year), so I can’t see the pass holder site for Discovery Cove. How much was the normal DC day pass holder rate (without dolphin swim)?
Yay for signing up for another Discovery Cove day! @$99 how could you not?
Watching Hurricane Flo this morning, living in Coastal Georgia, we are kind of on the edge, not supposed to get anything serious, but not out of the woods yet.
Your trip sounds amazing - just like the all do. But I'm thinking that your arm isn't too bruised up by all the twisting it took to convince you to book DC for your trip! Hehehe!
DC question- is it possible to use an actual camera in the aviary and by the otters? I have a water-camera, but I'd prefer to use my Nikon if it's possible
I heard this morning that Florence has lost a bit of her steam (which is awesome) but that she's still poised to dump a crazy amount of rain regardless. Sending good vibes your way that your home weathers the storm without incident, and that your friends remain safe. Did they evacuate?
It's crazy how close our vacations are creeping up, isn't it?? Fingers crossed that the Disney Gods smile on your Fastpass efforts: it would be super fun for you to experience those new attractions with your friend.
You can enter and exit the aviary without having to get wet or be in the water (though you can also enter the aviary through the Wind Away River if you so chose as well). There's a direct path from the walkway to the aviary entrance. For the otters, though, the only path to them is through the water: there's no way to avoid getting wet. So you will likely want to use your waterproof camera when taking pictures of them in the Freshwater Oasis.
None of my friends are on the coast, they are all inland in the Charlotte area or Raleigh area. So they are looking more at all the rain since Flo seems to have slowed to a crawl.
It is crazy. I still haven't figured out how we're already in September
Loving all the DC pictures! Makes me so excited that we'll be adding on a DC day next month! and at $99!!!
I think you said adding the enhanced drink package wasn't worth it?
Have you heard any updates on how your house, and that of your friends', are faring? I've seen some of the news footage, and OMG....the rain . Some reports said that some areas could get 2.5 feet before its all over......I can't even wrap my head around that. I am praying that you are spared any flooding.
We would have been just as satisfied with wine and beer that was included and saved ourselves $60. It just lacked "value".