Welcome back and I join in with the "glad you made it home safely"!!
me too, I think we lucked out with our travel dates!
So excited to hear about your trip!
We (well, mostly me) are in the throes of planning our DL trip now too. We will be there in 2 months! I have to sit down with the family and decide on some meals. Not too many - probably only 2 sit downs. I've been reading menus a lot lately.
Also trying to squeeze in a day to sight see off property. Thinking Sunday so there's less traffic to deal with.
Hope you can get all the de-decorating done and start your TR soon. I'll be there!!
Hmmn, probably depends on what it is you want to see as to when the best day would be. I will look forward to seeing what you pick and what you think, I may need a pre-TR installment sneak peek update from you!
Cool!
I would recommend hitting the Ralphs it's on the corner of Chapman and Euclid. There is a Food 4 Less on Katella, but unless you are buying just packaged goods, I don't recommend F4L meat or produce.
Perfect, I am very familiar with Ralph's. Do they have decent seafood there? Historically we have salmon on Easter and it'd be nice to do that. The more I look at things I really hope Evan performs Monday. We don't land until 4:30 and it might be just as easy to wait on the grocery store till Sunday, hit it after church. Won't know until about 3 weeks out I think though.
I don't know why I thought Easter was on 3/23 this year???? Schooner or Later in the Long Beach Marina?
Yes, Schooner or Later in Long Beach. Very yummy breakfast! It would kind of depend on where we end up choosing for church, if we can fit church in, if Evan performs, all kinds of variables on Easter itself. I kind of figure no sense in even really thinking about it until I know the schedule.
Easter is crazy late. It's the first time since Evan started school that our spring break has overlapped with Easter and of course we have a band trip over it! Usually it's been great as our break is late and so we miss any spring break crowds. Not this year.
My best days to come out would be either Monday or Wednesday, afternoons are better so that I can get some work done earlier in the day. Tuesdays are band, and I'd probably rather come out before the last day. We want to do it on a park day for you, there's a great place we can go. The E's would probably be bored, but maybe we can sneak off for adult time.
They are pretty good at most things and dining experiences, you should have seen how long we were at the Animation Gallery. I have to admit it was nice to dine with just them for a couple of days after dealing with my sisters picky kids (well one in particular). It was SOOO much easier!
Let's plan on Monday if that work's best. I won't know performance times until about 3 weeks out I think but I'd imagine it will be easy enough to work around even if it is Monday afternoon. Evan wouldn't be able to join us, it would be my folks and Eric with me.
Trader Sam's is awesome (again adult time), but Steakhouse 55 has a new chef starting at the end of this month and we are looking forward to eating there on our February trip.
I definitely plan to hit Trader Sam's! I have never been and it's on the must do list. Very likely Saturday night even lol. We will have to figure out how to work it with the kids. Depending on where we eat Saturday, I could see an arrival drink there before kids are cut out and then maybe again Tuesday night and leave the kids back in the room. I don't like them begin at the pool without us but they might both be ready for an in-room movie while the adults go out.
We will likely be keeping most of the meals a bit more casual given the 9 night extravaganza of eating we just had, I would like to try Carthay Circle but not sure if it will make the cut. I haven't been able to quite justify steakhouse pricing for the kids...which is silly when I think about how much Biergarten of all places cost for New Years Eve! Have you heard anything good (or bad) about Naples? Could be an easy first night option. Last time we were there we went to JT Schmid's. Which was ok but overpriced we thought and we weren't over the moon over the beer. At least that's what I recall but it might be worth another shot. I'd love to find something along those lines as my dad would like that but I also would prefer not to drive. LOL! We also had a decent spontaneous lunch at Tortilla Joe's so that's an option for the 1st night as well. I wouldn't mind narrowing down counter service in park options for a lunch and a dinner though, just not sure how much villa eating for lunch we will do. Ugh, need to figure it out but I guess I have over 3 months to figure it out and a good month or more before I can make reservations. Not sure how fast some of those would go anyway.
Of course as I look at the menu's the kids might prefer Cafe Orleans over Blue Bayou but the experience of BB is so cool and one of my most memorable childhood memories....ugh, I don't know! Seems silly to eat at both, it'd be nice to have one DLR and one DCA but the only reasonable sit down option there seems to be wine country trattoria. Not sure if the dinner package is needed or makes sense for WOC.
but I am happy to say virtually all of it was consumed!
That's so awesome. And it's at DL?? 
actually we spent a lot less that I'd expected so that was good. Of course we spent it elsewhere so it's not like I saved but...
Welcome back! Glad to hear it was a great trip
back girl. 
Can't wait to read about this trip. I loved your FB pics.
