Renda Family WDW Holiday Pre Trip Report

OK I worked on a little more!

Day 2 Dec 8:

We'll be headed back to MK this morning for our first breakfast ADR. My mother in law loves Winnie the Pooh and friends so we have an ADR at Crystal Palace at 8:30 AM. I am hoping to get there a little early to get a few snap shots of the castle and other parts of the park... Albeit that the parade hasn't taken over by then. Because we were there the night before, we will leave this park a bit early today and head over to Epcot via monorail (have to figure out where to park the car).

My husband wants his parents to see the World Showcase during daytime so we will spend the day traveling around the world. We don't have any other ADR's planned for this day so I am assuming we will be nibbling on lunch around the world.

After we have had our World Showcase fill, we will be heading over to HS to watch Fantasmic and Osborne lights. The night will be filled with shows rather than rides as I don't think we will have enough time for rides when we get there... Unless we get the magic bands and FP+ which then I will book us a ride on TSM... Once, or twice, or maybe three times!

After this fun filled day, we will head back to our resort where we will either gather around the table for some late night snacks. The next day will be a tad more relaxed.

Day 3 Dec 9:

There is no rushing this morning as we are going back for some daytime fun in HS and the park doesn't open until 9 AM. We will most likely get breakfast in the resort and take our time getting there.

We have an afternoon ADR at 50's Prime Time Cafe.. Which I haven't really discussed much with the group.. Hoping someone gets caught for something! After all, that IS part of the fun of dining there and I wouldn't want to give that away. We will be spending most of the early part of the day at HS, riding rides, watching shows, shopping.... Eating cupcakes.....!!.... And then will head back to the hotel for some swimming and relaxing before heading to Epcot.

We have a dinner ADR at San Angel at 7 PM that night and will hopefully get there before that so we can get in some shopping and site seeing. This will be the night that we sit and watch Illuminations.... From where, I'm not sure! I have always watched them from England... But I'm thinking about switching it up this time...

After Illuminations we will retire back to our room and do some late night snacking and chatting again. Maybe make it back before the pool closes and take a dip! Who knows?

Thanks! I feel like it's a LOT to accomplish in 6 days but I'm ultimately going to tell them all the plan... If they don't want to keep up with me then I don't want them to feel like they HAVE to. I want them to go at their own pace...Not mine.. I'm a maniac when I get to Disney... I have to see it all, do it all, and there's really no stopping me... I've already warned my husband that I may be gone early in the morning... And that he can find me at MK rope drop if I am... lol. They will all know the ADR's and those can be our meeting points if they feel like I am going too fast for them.

Continuing on....

Day 4 Dec 10:

My husband and I agreed that we would take a day off in the middle of the excitement to relax at the resort and hang by the pool. We have a breakfast ADR at Olivia's, which after looking at DFB, I am pretty excited about! After breakfast we will probably suit up and head down to the pool. I also wanted to use this day to resort hop and check out the different Christmas decorations. We will probably also do some DTD shopping, since we will have the time. I haven't decided yet if this evening will be the evening we do MVMCP. If we do it at all, this will be the night. We do however have an ADR at Raglan Road. So this day is still kind of up in the air. It's nice to be able to have 1 day to play with.

Day 5 Dec 11:

We have another breakfast ADR this morning at Kouzzina on the Boardwalk. I have heard that the breakfast there is something that you really shouldn't miss. After breakfast we will walk over to Epcot and spend our time in Future World. My in laws are not very big on rides... My father in law refuses to go on Haunted Mansion because, well, he doesn't like elevators. . But we are trying to convince them that Soarin' is a must do... Even for non-ride lovers. Neither of them have motion sickness issues.. and they seem up for it. Also, I want to take my father in law on Test Track. He works for the company that makes the strobe lights that go off when your picture is taken on rides... And I think Test Track's camera is easiest to see. (He really wants to see it). Also, he's not afraid of speed or anything, just elevators, and feeling the confinement of say, Rockin' Roller Coaster seat straps, or Stitch's Great Escape seat straps. They are going to do great. After some riding and shopping, and possibly some character meet and greets, we will be eating lunch at Coral Reef. My sister in law and mother in law are big animal lovers so, I thought this would be a cool place to take them.

We will probably head back to our hotel after lunch and relax maybe take a dip in the pool... Before heading to MK where we will spend the rest of the night. We don't have any dinner ADR's for this night... So we might have to make do with a nutella waffle for dinner. .

I just bought our tickets! woo hoo!! As soon as I finished my purchase, I was able to.... Customize my Magic Bands! I'm getting Magic Bands! Yay!!

Does anyone know when you can make your Fastpass+ selections?

Ok... I took a break from this as there were some changes being made to our schedule. Always trying to make things better... But I will just continue on and tell you the changes afterwards.

Day 6: December 12th

This day is my sister in law, Tara's, birthday. She is turning 23 and this is her first trip to Disney World. A few weeks ago she was joking around with my in laws about how they never took her there and she never got to meet the Princesses when she was younger... I don't take things said like that lightly... lol.

Anyway, we are going to start out our day at Animal Kingdom. Tara is a vegan and she loves animals, so I figured this would be a great place to start her birthday. I know from DFB that they have some awesome vegan and vegetarian food stands there, that I figured we could try for lunch. We'll do some rides and some animal sight seeing along with the Nemo musical and Lion King. Then we head to EPCOT for the duration of the day.. We have a Fastpass for Test Track and then a dinner reservation at Akershus. What about those princesses again?

After dinner we will hang out in the park for a bit until it closes at 9:30.

I think that's a pretty good birthday for an animal lover who has never met the Princesses. haha.

Yay! Either night would work for us! We have a Fastpass for Fantasmic at 6pm on the 8th and we're heading to Osbourne Lights afterwards. Would love to meet up at some point! That would be so much fun!

It's almost time....

Thanks so much guys!

The packing has begun! We are so excited.

Well... we're leaving Connecticut today to go to my in laws house in New Jersey! Takes about an hour and a half to two hours to get there... We have all of our things packed and ready to go. Tomorrow we pick up our rental car at 3:00pm and then we hit the road at 8:00pm! Yippee! My GPS is telling me roughly 17 hours but I'm still betting on 20.

Also, if you want to follow along with my trip (live updates and pictures), be sure to like Karli in Wonderland on facebook! (If you haven't already) The link is below

we are back! we had a great time! lots of pics posted on the facebook page. Some pics on the camera. Will TR soon.