Welcome, welcome, everybody welcome. I'd be surprised if any of you recognize those lyrics, I'm an EDM fan and have started to turn Mark also. Not what you'd expect from mid 50 yr olds. I do love a variety of music and enjoy being different.
Time for another update. I realized earlier today that I forgot to mention that Mark and I don't have any kids and are able to enjoy Disney in adult style even if we do act childish sometimes. As you've probably already guessed that means cocktails when we wish.
A tequila flight a couple of Jalapeño margs and chips w/ queso from La Cava is the best way I can get Mark excited about going to a park.
We fell in love with these margarita's so much it compelled us to create our own at home. Every year now we grow Jalapenos so that we can infuse it in our favorite tequila we use for margs. A little cointreau, organic lime juice and a fresh pinched basil leave to finish it for aromatics and hint of flavor. Oh yum, too bad I'm at work I'd make myself one. I'm sure I'll be indulging tomorrow night when I'm off (well tonight if I don't get this update done by midnight). We also grow Habaneros and make a hot vodka for our Bloody Mary's. We'll also grate habanero into our kosher salt for the rims. Gotta say this years batch of salt is exceptionally hot. Yo mamma the lips tingle for a few minutes afterwards.
Our last trip to Disney was to be for the Epic Girls only trip in May 2019 (yeah Mark invited himself to that). Unfortunately we had to cancel that because my real estate business was super busy. It ended up being for the best that we cancelled because the day before we were to leave my mother had to be hospitalized. I can't tell you how disappointed I was to miss that trip. I was so looking forward to meeting & drinking with so many ladies from the boards. I did get to live it vicariously through their post on their FB page in real time and then again in their TR's. So glad they took the time to share I loved it. Let's not forget their Chuncky Dump started by (
@Steppesister), Liesa you crack me up. Jackie
@missjackiemcg I loved that you thought of me & sent me a pic of your Miller lite at the airport. Can't tell you how many times I think of you when I open one.
Maybe at this point I should share some of our preliminary plans. Preliminary because it's Disney and most of us change our plans several times, but it's more significant now with the Disney's limited reopening phase. We wanted to stay in MK area resort and thought WL would be nice (read most affordable). Our Marvelous
TA got us reservations for WL for Sept 27'th-Oct 3'rd way back in April. Hopefully they will open up WL and not just their DVC by then. I'm thinking come next Sept it would benefit Disney to have all MK resorts open, they know with the celebration they can ask top $ during that time. But then again it's Disney and some of their decisions still baffle me. So resssy's made in April and earlier this week I've already asked my TA to change our ressy's for Oct 3-5 to AKL savanna view. Unfortunately DVC isn't open there yet so not possible at this time. Hope that will change.
Our last trip we stayed at POFQ & then GF in all of it's Holiday hussle and bussel. By the end of that visit we we're wishing we were at a quite resort. We thought it would be nice to unwind our last few days of this trip at AKL. We have stayed AKL SV twice now and really enjoy the quite of the resort. Not to mention I can hardly draw myself away from watching the animals from the balcony. If they open up we plan to spend a resort day laxin on our balcony and the pool. We'll finish our final park day at AK for my favorite ride FOP and hopefully a coveted ADR at Tiffins.
I'm really hoping that several of the Dissers I missed last May will be there. I believe Ariane
@CruellaNY, Su-Lynn
@chunkymonkey, & Kelly
@buzzrelly will be in the world for the 50'th as are a few others I can't remember. Will you be there for the 50th?
Ok so I got side tracked with the plans........so tentatively
WL Sept 27'th-Oct 2'nd and AKL Oct 2'nd & 3'rd.
We have 7 nt's but only wanted 5 days of tix, so parks for now are
Mon Sept 27'th arrival day resort day, DS for dinner maybe, I'd really like to check out the Edison. Or do the Snow white dinner at WL if it's brought back.
Tue Sept 28'th DHS ADR at 50's PTD or Brown Derby
Wed Sept 29'th Epcot ADR at Space 220 if open
Thur Sept 30'th DHS ADR at 50's PTD or Brown Derby
Fri Oct 1'st MK for the big birthday kick off. If F.P don't open up guess we're just walking the park & people watching I expect it to be extremely busy. ADR for breaky at Crystal Palace if open and if my cousins join us. OOP's I let the cat out of the bag. More on this in a future post. Not sure where we're going to watch the fireworks from this night but maybe one of my DVC friends will have us as a guest up at TOTW. This is a longtime Disney dream only achievable with friends that are DVC. Or I might be able to score the coveted Cali grill dinner during the fireworks. Done it before and it was awesome.
Sat Oct 2'nd no way we are going into a park this weekend. Maybe fishing.
Sunday Oct 3'rd Cali grill brunch then transfer to AKL to sit pool side and balcony. Dinner will be Zebra Domes, LOL I really don't know but doubt we'll be very hungry after Cali grill brunch. I'm sure it will be something from Mara.
Monday Oct 4'th Breaky at Boma, AK and Tiffins later.
Either arrival day or Saturday Mark wants to do one of the Disney guided fishing excursions. He's wanted to do this for a long time. We had it reserved for a our last trip but you now know how that ended. I can't remember Renee's screen name on here but her husband Chad was going to join Mark then. I haven't reached out to her yet to see if he might be interested in doing it next year. I thought that while Mark was doing that I'd go to a breakfast or DS. Then today he talked me into going too. He really wants me to take pics for him but what lured me in....see what I did there.... was that I would be able to see aspects of the World I wouldn't see most any other way. We'll see what happens.
Gonna stop right here and pick it back up next week. If you're interested there are links to my previous TR's in my siggy. See ya.