Single Digits, Baby!

We have officially hit the "get excited" mark as we are down to NINE DAYS before our whirlwind adventure begins! Erin says she's already started packing, which I guess is a good thing because she is now sick as a dog. And top it off she has to work! Poor girl!

Cannot wait to blog from the road!

19 Days and Counting!

We've hit the teens! It's getting so close I can taste it, kinda, sorta, not really. Can't taste much of anything now that I have a massive head cold. I've been scrapbooking this month to pass the time, and reliving our last trip and getting excited for the next.

Erin informed me this weekend that our schedule is outdated. That I need to update it, so I will do that now before logging off of the computer to scrap some more.

Ultimate Magical Road Trip
November 7 - 24, 2010

November 07: Seattle, WA
November 08: Bakersfield, CA
November 09: Amarillo, TX
November 10: Baton Rouge, LA (with a short stop in Dallas-Fort Worth area)
November 11: Coronado Springs Resort (AKA WALT DISNEY WORLD)
November 12: Magic Kingdom
November 13: EPCOT
November 14: Disney-Hollywood Studios & Pirates Cove Mini Golf
November 15: Animal Kingdom & Disney-Hollywood Studios (Extra Magic Hours)
November 16: Magic Kingdom (Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party)
November 17: Whatever day - Mini Golf, Downtown Disney, etc.
November 18: Animal Kingdom & The Hoop-Dee-Do Revue
November 19: EPCOT
November 20: Magic Kingdom
November 21: New Orleans, LA
November 22: San Antonio, TX
November 23: Albequerque, NM
November 24: Salt Lake City, UT (Toni flies out to go home, arrives on the 25 in Anchorage, AK)

Happy now, Erin?

ONE MONTH AWAY!

Okay, technically it's not a month until tomorrow, but by this time next month I will be doing the last minute packing scramble so it counts as ONE MONTH to our most awesome road trip adventure yet!!!!!!!!!!!!! FREAKING EXCITED!

Now the Countdown will really start...

On Sept. 27 we will hit the 45 day mark. That's the time that Disney designates that packages must be paid in full - well, we were paid in full earlier this summer when the discounts came out in abundance and we ended up with free dining. So we've just been sitting here waiting and hoping. Still no two beds in our room, we're still in teh king room. However if we hit 45 days and there's not one to be had we can wait and ask about 5 days out when they do the room assignments and see if we can possibly slip in, but still pay the king price. I don't care if we don't get refunded, that's not why we want the standard room. We just want our own bed lol

All of our dining plans have been made, hotels on the way down and back are set. Tours in New Orleans and San Antonio are planned. All that's left, really, is for me to buy a plane ticket to Seattle. Yes, that's right, still haven't done that one yet, but hopefully soon. PFD is being announced tomorrow so hopefully AlaskaAir will give a sweet deal for trips to Seattle. One can hope anyway, if not it's going to be over two hundred dollars for a one way ticket, which I guess is not that bad, but then they charge for baggage and all these others stupid hidden fees and it just frustrates me.

Oh well, the trip is just around the corner. Final week of work for me started today (yay!) so I am definitely ready for VACATION!

Just a Video

We hit double digits for our trip (starting November 7 when I fly down to Seattle and Erin drives over from Montana) yesterday. In 102 days we will be driving into Walt Disney World properties! Check in at CSR and then head over to AKL for dinner at Boma! YUM! Cannot wait!

Free Dining? Sign me up!

News broke this morning that Disney had extended their Free Dining Promotion for dates through December. Our trip started one day before the promotional dates, but a quick-ish call to Disney Travel had us with a one day room only ressie for the 11th and then the rest of our trip we were the same only FREE DINING.

This also means we are PAID IN FULL! Three months ahead of schedule! Insanity!

It's getting so close I can smell it, can't wait to take a bite!

Countdown continues...

We're just under five months on our trip, actually at this point in time five months from now we will be pulling into our hotel in Bakersfield, CA.

Nothing really new to report. Our ADRs are all made, got everything we wanted (of course), and now we're just impaitently waiting for November.

We're all booked...

Woke up at 1:45 am Alaska time to be online at 2am to get first dibs on ADRs when the window opened... and I have success. Check them out:

November 11 (arrival): Boma @ 8:30pm
November 12: Chef Mickey's @ 7:45pm
November 13: No ADR
November 14: 50's Prime Time Cafe @ 12:55pm
November 15: Tusker House @ 8:30am (was hoping for earlier, but le sigh)
November 16: 1900 Park Fare @ 4:45 (we are doing the Christmas Party this night)
November 17: California Grill @ 7:20pm (MK FIREWORKS @ 8!!!)
November 18: Hoop Dee Doo Review @ 9:30pm
November 19: Akerhaus @ 7:00pm
November 20: No ADR

I am so excited!