Pre-trip report
Hi again whoever happens to be reading this (or, if this is the first time you’re reading something from me, just “hi”). So we’re about 7 weeks away from our next Disney trip (our 10th as a family), which means…PTR time.
The title is a nod to a stupid joke that the kids and I do (it's more stupid than funny. For example, I'll tell Steph to grab a granola bar for breakfast before going to school. A few minutes later I'll ask if she grabbed one, and she'll reply with "I grabbed alllll the granola bars"). We've basically found a way to add the word Allll to anything we're asked now.
OK, here goes
So who’s coming this time
No one different from the other 9 times.
I'm not sure who Kait is, but Rob must really like her...
There’s my DW Tammy, our brown-belt daughter Steph, our red belt son Liam, and me (Graham). If you’ve read some of my recent trip reports you may remember that Liam was the only one in karate (he’s going for his black belt in the fall). I don’t know if Steph got tired of being his practice dummy or what, but she decided to join about a year ago, and is now only 1 belt behind him. I could be in a lot of trouble in a few years if they turn on me…
Here's the kids at a tournament a few months ago.
I think as long as I keep them happy I'll have a security detail until they move out
Details
When: August 20th-August 29th
Where: Animal Kingdom Lodge – Kidani village (we had stayed at Jambo back in December (trip report here: http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/completed-surprise-christmas-road-trip.908924/) and loved it, but the kids missed having the community hall, so we decided to switch back to Kidani this time)
Anything new this time?
Let’s see…
1) It will be our 18th anniversary on August 22nd.
2) We booked a tour this year – The kids are still too young for the bigger tours (Keys to the Kingdom, Behind the Magic, etc), but there was one tour that looked interesting and they were over the minimum age. After talking about it a bit, we decided to book the Marceline to the Magic Kingdom tour on the 25th of August. It’s aprox. 4 hours long and was only $32 (with the DVC discount) each. It will be interesting to try something new
ADRs
We’ve booked a few restaurants, although we have left a few days unbooked to just kind of do things on the fly. Here’s what we’ve got so far:
• Liberty tree for lunch (we’ve done dinner a few times, but have never tried lunch)
• ‘Ohana – probably our favourite. We’re going here on our anniversary
• T-Rex – Steph’s choice
• Rose and Crown - Liam’s choice (he was going between this and Tepan Edo, but the surf and turf item on the menu won out)
• Yak and Yeti - our last night – we want to close it out at the Animal Kingdom
It wouldn’t surprise me if we book at least one more restaurant before we go, but we’ll see.
I really can’t think of anything else right now, so I guess that’s it. See you all in a few weeks…
Hi again whoever happens to be reading this (or, if this is the first time you’re reading something from me, just “hi”). So we’re about 7 weeks away from our next Disney trip (our 10th as a family), which means…PTR time.
The title is a nod to a stupid joke that the kids and I do (it's more stupid than funny. For example, I'll tell Steph to grab a granola bar for breakfast before going to school. A few minutes later I'll ask if she grabbed one, and she'll reply with "I grabbed alllll the granola bars"). We've basically found a way to add the word Allll to anything we're asked now.
OK, here goes
So who’s coming this time
No one different from the other 9 times.
I'm not sure who Kait is, but Rob must really like her...
There’s my DW Tammy, our brown-belt daughter Steph, our red belt son Liam, and me (Graham). If you’ve read some of my recent trip reports you may remember that Liam was the only one in karate (he’s going for his black belt in the fall). I don’t know if Steph got tired of being his practice dummy or what, but she decided to join about a year ago, and is now only 1 belt behind him. I could be in a lot of trouble in a few years if they turn on me…
Here's the kids at a tournament a few months ago.
I think as long as I keep them happy I'll have a security detail until they move out
Details
When: August 20th-August 29th
Where: Animal Kingdom Lodge – Kidani village (we had stayed at Jambo back in December (trip report here: http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/completed-surprise-christmas-road-trip.908924/) and loved it, but the kids missed having the community hall, so we decided to switch back to Kidani this time)
Anything new this time?
Let’s see…
1) It will be our 18th anniversary on August 22nd.
2) We booked a tour this year – The kids are still too young for the bigger tours (Keys to the Kingdom, Behind the Magic, etc), but there was one tour that looked interesting and they were over the minimum age. After talking about it a bit, we decided to book the Marceline to the Magic Kingdom tour on the 25th of August. It’s aprox. 4 hours long and was only $32 (with the DVC discount) each. It will be interesting to try something new
ADRs
We’ve booked a few restaurants, although we have left a few days unbooked to just kind of do things on the fly. Here’s what we’ve got so far:
• Liberty tree for lunch (we’ve done dinner a few times, but have never tried lunch)
• ‘Ohana – probably our favourite. We’re going here on our anniversary
• T-Rex – Steph’s choice
• Rose and Crown - Liam’s choice (he was going between this and Tepan Edo, but the surf and turf item on the menu won out)
• Yak and Yeti - our last night – we want to close it out at the Animal Kingdom
It wouldn’t surprise me if we book at least one more restaurant before we go, but we’ll see.
I really can’t think of anything else right now, so I guess that’s it. See you all in a few weeks…
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