We leave in 21 days!! Woo! It has gotten HOT here in Kansas, and I about died taking the dog for his mid-day walk yesterday. I really need to acclimate myself to the heat before we arrive in FL!
@Krisshay13 this is our second meet-up too and I also felt a little lost the first time! Not that we didn't have a great time (or we wouldn't be coming back for another one), but I don't think we were very strategic in our approach to rides/food. I hate having to plan anything at UO, but I feel like it might be good to have a rough outline for the meetup nights. One of the people in our party isn't a big thrill rider (or she's not sure if she is--she hasn't been on any coasters before and tends to get motion sick), so who knows how that will affect our agenda.
Our rough plan for our week is to go to the parks in the late afternoon when we arrive Thursday for a few hours and then grab dinner at either Toothsomes or Margaritaville. I have reservations for both at the same time, so we'll decide when we get there that day I suppose. Leaning more towards M'ville, but we'll see. Friday we'll probably go to the parks for a bit in the AM until lunchtime (maybe hit the water rides before we go?) and head back to the hotel to enjoy the pool/rest/freshen up. Saturday is likely pool day, and we're thinking of trekking over to Cabana Bay since we've never been there before. Lots of RnR to rest our feet and chill before Saturday night. (Of course I say that now, but we might talk ourselves into some park time Saturday AM too, especially since we have EPs for our entire stay.) Sunday we can sleep in a little but we'll probably do the parks most of the day since our flight doesn't leave until 9pm! We have reservations for Islands Dining Room for breakfast buffet Sunday AM.
We're a little up in the air about midday meals. I think we'll play it by ear since it's hard to know where we'll be when. If we're at the hotel and wiped out, I would hate to have to trek back to the parks or CW just to eat. We'll have our meetup gift cards we can use too, but I don't know how/when we'll use those. We enjoyed Cowfish, but not sure where we would work that into our week. Maybe Sunday before we head home? We also liked Breadbox on previous trips. There are too many options! I probably won't use our GCs inside the park since we can eat that food for free during meetup hours.
Again, I feel a little out of sorts not having a more concrete agenda but I really want this trip to be relaxed and go with the flow! (Which completely goes against my nature! HA!)