Have been enjoying all of your posts, sooo....

My favs: I love, love, love Splash Mountain. I would ride that all day long with no problems. Also like Kali River Rapids, Pirates, Teacups, and Small World (yes, I'm the one...) and....well, really there aren't many rides I have a problem with at all, even though I try to space out the roller coasters. I enjoy the HS, but haven't been there in about 10 years so I'm anxious to see all the changes.
I haven't really ever eaten at many of the nicer Disney restaurants - has mostly been snacks or fast-food type stuff in previous trips. But we have several on the list to try and have made some ADRs already for ones we know we don't want to miss (Coral Reef, Biergarten, Yak & Yeti, etc) and the plan is that we're taking along a journal to document our trip for the scrapbook and to list anything we don't get to try this time around. This is my first time using a dining plan and I'm sure it will be way too much food for me, but Joe can finish anything I can't. Since we won't have a car, I wanted to make sure we had all our meals covered and I'd rather be over-covered than under-covered. I'm working on losing 15 pounds before we go so I can gain it all back while I'm there and still fit into my clothes when I get home.
Snacks: Um, any are pretty good. In "real life," I tend towards salty snacks and don't eat sweets a lot. But at Disney, I will try anything and like most of them. I have been looking at all the delicious cupcakes and am trying to figure out how I've missed those in my past trips!!! Definitely have those on the list this time.
Movies: My favorite new movie is Brave. I am also of Scottish descent and my hair, in it's natural state is EXACTLY like Merida's. That was the whole reason that I even wanted to see the movie, but I loved it when I saw it (hubs says I might also be a tad strong-willed...LOL) and getting pics with Merida are now top on my list. Mary Poppins is still one of my favorite classics and I think I can sing probably 90% of the soundtrack. I also love all the old, live action Disney movies (Herbie, Shaggy DA, Watcher in the Woods). Pretty much, I'll go for most Disney stuff although I do prefer the classics (probably just because they remind me of my childhood).

We will be going for 8 days - arriving early on September 28 and leaving late in the day on October 5 (yes, definitely planned that early arrival/late departure thing).
We have planned four days as far as the things we want to make sure to see, the places we want to eat, etc. We left 4 days open - at least one will be a water park day and I'm absolutely confident that part of one will be a shopping day. We tried to space our days out and leave some open time so that we can circle back around and hit anything we miss on our "planned" days and so we can have some time to enjoy the resort (POR). We haven't made ADRs for those unplanned days because we want to look at everything before we decide. We will be very flexible with those days, so if we see an absolutely "must try" place, we can be open to time if they can squeeze us in (my theory being that it's not that hard to squeeze in just two if they are willing to eat whenever....). We are definitely "rides" people and I'm not sure if we'll be able to get on everything in the time we planned, so having those additional "free" days will be helpful for that.
We are hitting all of the parks and I'm so excited because this will be my first time ever spending more than 1/2 day at EPCOT. We've planned a day & a half there and I'm thrilled. When we were trying to plan that park, we kind of had to give it up because there is just SO much we want to do there. So we just listed the big things we knew we had to do and will play the rest by ear.
This will be my first time in October and I'm so looking forward to that. All of my previous trips were in July or August and just too humid. I live in NC, though, and we both feel that October will be perfect. The warmth we like, but maybe a smidge less humidity. We're doing MNSSHP and are working on some not-too-over-the-top costumes. And I just saw that the Go-Gos will be there while we're there and since my husband has the hugest crush on Belinda Carlisle, I'm sure I'll get him to that.
We've bought some matching shirts for most of the days - surprisingly, my husband went along with that so, yes, we're going to be [i]that[i] couple. I'm most excited about our anniversary tees - Mickey & Minnie on the front and we had printed: "The Olivers....8 Magical Years" on the back. Not really fancy, but I'm so excited to wear those together.
We're still working on some planning, but about 85% of it is done.
Wow - well, this got really long and I really should head back to work - - but will check in with you all later!