We hit single digit day today, which always deserves a few dancing bananas!
We are headed back to the Boardwalk next Wednesday - after staying there last September, we can't imagine staying at any other resort. We are staying 11 nights this time and we're really glad after the winter we have had so far!
We fly out early from Toronto and should get into MCO around 9:30am, then it's off to the Magical Express and on to the resort. We booked a water view room this trip and we're both secretly hoping to get the same room as last time.
Our magic bands will be waiting for us and once we get checked in, our plan is to head over to Epcot, with a quick stop at guest services. We want to check on upgrading our 10 day park hopper to an annual pass. Not sure if we will do it, but we at least want to check the cost. We do plan to go back to WDW in the fall, so it would save us a little money.
First stop will be France for a grey goose lemon slush and then on to Germany for a beer for Ken and I guess we should have a snack as well. Dinner our first night is at The Flying Fish, one of our favourite restaurants.
We (more like I) booked fast pass selections for half of our days and left the other half open, as we like to just go with the flow. We booked DHS on Thursday, MK on Saturday, AK on Monday, Epcot on Tuesday and then another round at DHS on Friday (gotta get at least 2 rides on TSM!).
We are doing the Keys to the Kingdom tour again this time on our first Friday. The first time we did this was in 2010, so we are looking forward to doing it again. We booked a morning tour so we can get into MK before it opens.
Saturday we have breakfast reservations at the GF. We are trying our the Grand Floridian Cafe as so many people have said they love it for breakfast and Ken wants to try the Lobster Eggs Benedict. Then it's on to MK and dinner at BOG. I got a dinner reservation a few months ago that someone had cancelled, then I was checking again yesterday and there were quite a few available for the Saturday night, so I was able to change it to a little later. If you're trying to get in, just keep trying, especially when you are getting closer to your travel date. It worked for us.
Monday we are headed to AK, with lunch at Yak & Yeti - we love this place. My plan is to try the Kobe beef burger this time based on everyone's recommendation. We then have dinner reservations at the Cali Grill, just in time to catch the fireworks at MK.
This is all we have booked so far for meals, but we want to go back to Tokyo Dining and we also want to try Jiko at AKL this time.
We are planning to meet up with mrhub and scrappy when we are there, which I know will be a lot of fun. Ken will be taking pictures as usual and we will try to provide daily updates like we did in September. All that's left now is to get packed and put in 6 more days of work.