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Get up Sleepy Heads!
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Mickey1984
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Best thing about coming from England to WDW is that the first day or so you can get up mega early for the parks as you have a good version of jet lag, when you come home it hits you hard though 
When we came over 2 years ago for the half marathon (oh 2 years ago this week, how nice) we flew out 2 days before the race, and as you have to get up at 4am(ish) on the day of the race, we got up at 4am the day before as well so that we kept in the swing of getting up, was nice to walk around the resort at that time of day.
Generally Disneylife sets in, and by the end of the holiday I am struggling to get up for breakfast, but hey Disney will always grab me out of bed in the end!! Good morning Mickey shapped waffles and pancakes!
When we came over 2 years ago for the half marathon (oh 2 years ago this week, how nice) we flew out 2 days before the race, and as you have to get up at 4am(ish) on the day of the race, we got up at 4am the day before as well so that we kept in the swing of getting up, was nice to walk around the resort at that time of day
.Generally Disneylife sets in, and by the end of the holiday I am struggling to get up for breakfast, but hey Disney will always grab me out of bed in the end!! Good morning Mickey shapped waffles and pancakes!
s&k'smom
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As much as I try to sleep late I'm usually up well before the others but last time I have to tell yeah it was awesome, I'd have my coffee then go for a quick swim all by myself!!! The pool was heated and to hear the morning come up was so great. Then I'd go for my shower and cereal and they are just getting up. And frankly it's the only time I'm alone during the trip!
MattC
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I'm like you and up and out the door early for work. So when it comes to Disney sleeping in till 7-7:30 is late for me and the wife. We have no problem drinking coffee and eating breakfast at a leisurely pace and still making rope drop.
copcarguyp71
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We usually rise between 6:30 and 6:50...DW and I get some coffee in our bodies and pull ourselves together. DW takes a bit longer to put her face on so after DD and I are all ready we take a sunrise (we go Sept/Oct) walk around the resort. Great time to take in the resort and excellent photo ops that time of day. We go back to the room after a good twenty minute walk or sometimes take a little longer and bring back a QS breakfast sammich for momma bear...then we are off to the parks. We usually do rope drop at MK once per trip but have found RD at other parks to be kind of anti-climactic so we just get an early start without the fanfare at the other three parks.
I am a rope drop person. My family begrudgingly goes along with it. Being there early is the single best thing you can do to maximize your day. On and early EMH day we can have all of FL done by 9 and usually fit in Splash, HM and BTMRR before 10.
bmarkelon
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We are pretty good about rope drop at the start of the trip. I have to see the opening show at MK at least once, it always gives me goosebumps and makes me misty-eyed! But as we get into our week there I slow it down a little for the kid's sake. But we are almost always up by 7 at the latest. Some mornings, when we have an ADR to get to or Jedi training to sign up for, I feel like a drill sergeant. It's always me that gets everyone moving; I always try to prepare everyone the night before for what the following morning is going to be like. And I always allow for at least a couple definite sleep-in/take it easy mornings.
erstwo
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I'm up early, but unless I make myself, I'm typically not up early enough to run at Disney. I'll run one or two days max. My morning schedule at home is a finely tuned thing - at Disney I need the time I usually alot for running to be used for 'travel time.' Travel to/ from the food court for breakfast, travel on the bus, travel TO the bus. That sort of thing.......
That sort of thing.......
lunchbox1175
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Well, it kind of depends on who i am with. I am a bit of an early riser, so if its a big family trip, I will meet my Dad at the Roaring Fork Cafe for coffee and a pastry. If I have the DD's 11 and 13, then DD13 and I usually go get something to eat before the others wake. If its just the two of us, then its up an hour and a half before we need to be somewhere for an ADR for breakfast, we almost always do one everymorning.
real mad hatter
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Well I make this " Matrix " with our days that have early morning hours,so like last year our first eight days it was Stitch alarm time at 6.30am and the rope drop at MK,Epcot,and HS.
zurgandfriend
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I am up very early, I shower, shave and shine and gentle shake my dear wife to get up then go out get a cup of coffee and tour around the resort, maybe hop on the monorail and visit some other resorts as well. When my dear wife and son are up and ready they'll call and we will meet up.
ddbowdoin
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that's awesome!
bmarkelon
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It's all the little things.
My dad is so great, I do all the trip planning and I swear he tells me each trip, throughout the trip that it's the best one yet; thanking me over and over. We never actually went as kids, my first trip was when I was 21...so I took him on his first trip years back and he "got the Magic" right away!!
rsoxguy
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Early. I have to have stayed up until 2 a.m. for EMH to actually sleep later than about 7 a.m.
Strange, but the older I get, the earlier I rise. I used to be able to sleep until noon until my early thirties, but now I awake at the crack of dawn. I refuse to get to the point in life where I use the phrase,"in my day". Just kill me first.
Strange, but the older I get, the earlier I rise. I used to be able to sleep until noon until my early thirties, but now I awake at the crack of dawn. I refuse to get to the point in life where I use the phrase,"in my day". Just kill me first.
LowesChevy
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Rope drop kinda people here. I usually find myself going to be at 9:00 PM at WDW because after a day at the parks you are exhausted. I like to rise early, grab breakfast and be at the parks at rope drop then we can come back and swim before heading back to the parks for dinner. It would drive me crazy to get up later everyday and arrive at the parks prime time 10-11 AM when the rides are getting jammed!
Sans Souci
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We have never been to a rope drop. We usually get to the parks at 10. For us, a vacation about relaxing and not frenetically running around.