Mickey with Minis
Real-life advice for touring Disney parks with littles in tow, from two sisters who've done it and lived to tell the tale.
Mickey with Minis
Pre-Trip Report for Our Sisters-Only RunDisney Trip - Episode 187
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Today Danielle and Hayley are talking about their plans for their upcoming sisters-only trip to Walt Disney World for their first ever RunDisney event!
Want to plan your own adventure? Danielle would love to help! Reach out to her today at daniellegriggs@fantasticalvacations.com to get started!
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Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. We hung out in real life yesterday. That was fun. IRL. Yeah. Yeah. We did our annual uh St. Patrick's Day New England boiled dinner yesterday. There were a weird number of people at that party who had never had boiled dinner before. That's so funny. Wasn't that so funny? Yeah. It usually is a big family thing. This year, like our dad was traveling, our mom has been under the weather, so she wasn't coming. So it wound up being mostly friends this time. And uh, you know, like siblings, like you were there, and John's brother and uh sister-in-law were there.
SPEAKER_00Um, but there there was like a crazy number of kids and people who have never come to boil dinner before, so they had never had it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and it was it was fun. I felt like um I I felt like I was out of the loop because I didn't go to most of your events last year because of having a horrible pregnancy and then a new baby, and so there were all sorts of um new faces there, so it was fun to meet a bunch of new people. Yeah, yeah, it was it was a fun, it was a nice mix of folks for sure. Yeah, one of my favorites. Um, we're just kind of like putting the house back together. There was so much powdered sugar all over my kitchen. Oh my goodness. Like would not vacuum up. I make a cake every year. It looks like a pint of Guinness, um, but you make it with stout and then it has like a cream cheese frosting. But every time I added more powdered sugar to the mixer, it just for some reason kept exploding upwards at me and all. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00So by the end of the night, I was absolutely covered. I had Guinness cake batter down the front of my shirt. I had flour all over me for making the soda bread. I had like crazy amounts of powdered sugar all over me. And there were like no leftovers, everything. Like we ate everything.
SPEAKER_01I felt like I actually appropriately planned for dinner this time, which is not typical. Everything was delicious. I mean, you just boiled great. It's all you got in. So um, it was really fun. But now we're just uh getting ready for the week. How about you guys? Yes. Um, yeah, we um didn't do a whole lot today. We were just home and then we had a little get together um for kids from Grace's school at a gymnastics place that she had so much fun. And yeah, now we're just kind of uh starting to think about the week as well. Yes, yes. It feels like a weird week because I I in my head I know that Easter is early this year, but in my head it's like because it's early, I think it's next weekend, but it isn't. Me too. Me too. It's not next weekend, yeah. Yeah, um because we're recording this on Sunday, and very soon after Easter, we go to Disney World again. Haley, what have we done? How did we get away with this? Honestly. How? Um so that's what we wanted to talk about today. We realized we haven't even finished like wrapping up everything we have to say about the trip we just took. Right. We are turning right back around and heading straight back for a very different kind of trip.
SPEAKER_00So we wanted to do kind of a preliminary pre-trip or pre-trip with that. Right. Um how did this come about? Do you remember?
SPEAKER_01This trip? Yeah. Um, I think it was because I talked you into doing a 10-mile race with me. He wore me down. She wore me down. You know that 10 miles is almost half a marathon. Yes, I do. Why do they even do a 10 miler? It seems like if you're gonna run for 10, you should just do the 13. Do 13.1.1. I don't know how long I don't know how long a marathon is. Um, yeah, crazy. This is crazy. Basically, yes, this is crazy. Haley was like, what if? And I was like, that's not a thing I'm doing.
SPEAKER_00And then she just kept saying, What if?
SPEAKER_01And then they announced the themes for this race, and it's of course Inside Out, which is like Haley's favorite. And I was like, Well, okay, it would be rude of me to keep her from this to not go, yeah. And I love that at the time you were like, Um, this will be really good because I'm gonna have the baby, and then I'm gonna I'll train as part of my you know, recovering from having the baby, and that'll be my like getting back to myself training. Nope, nope. How much training have we done? Um, I I did go to the gym once. I did, I did join, and then I went there one time. Okay. What did you do while you were there? Just in case there's any benefits. Um, I walked two miles. Okay. Well, so you know what? You can walk two eight miles. Yes. I'm gonna be relying a lot on like pixie dust and adrenaline, basically. Honestly, we might not finish. We might get swept, and that's fine. I'm not trying to be very fine with that because it is what it is, and we're gonna we're getting a Disney trip out of it. So I just I got to a point where like I the gym is like the only thing I do for myself.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like, I have a routine, it's working very well for me. I also got a full-time job, and I've been very, very busy as a travel advisor. I've had a lot a lot of awesome client stuff going on. So I just don't have a lot of time to be adding in cardio, like something is gonna have to give. And what wound up giving actually was just the cardio. I just didn't do it.
SPEAKER_00So yeah, we'll uh we'll see how we do. Do a little run walk, a little job.
SPEAKER_01It'll be it's gonna be fun no matter what. I'm just excited for like the vibes. I heard Run Disney races are so fun. Totally. So I'm excited. Yeah, so that'll be good. We go through our that was a basis for this trip. That was the justification we gave ourselves to legitimize what is actually a very irresponsible undertaking. So when are we going? I I didn't know this was a quiz. I'm not sure. I think it's April 16th. April 16th, you're correct. Okay, we're going April 16th through the 20th, so four nights. And really, we didn't need to go for four nights. We really meant to go for three nights, but the flights that week are insane. So it just made we I booked on points. Did you book on points? I booked one way on points, one way on cash. Okay, yeah, I booked all the way on points, and it was just bonkers to fly on Friday. So we wound up deciding to fly Thursday evening. I think we take off at 7:15. 7:15. Yeah, yeah. Um jet blue, of course. And so I have to figure out because I have work that day, I'm basically out of vacation time until like the new year rolls over.
SPEAKER_00So, what I'm gonna do is ideally duck out just a few hours early on Thursday, and we haven't decided yet where how rather I'm going to get to the airport because I will be in Worcester, which is in the center of the state.
SPEAKER_01Yes, and not where the airport is. And so there's a train, but it would take forever, so I don't want to do that.
SPEAKER_00Oh I can leave my van in the lot at work for the weekend, and like hopefully it will still be there when I get back. I don't work in the best area.
SPEAKER_01Um, and then I could even just Uber, it would be like a hundred bucks to Uber to Boston. There isn't really a good park and ride situation from there, if you can believe it. Because it because Worcester has its own airport, um, but it's right, uh the schedule is really limited. So there's not like a park and ride because people just fly out of Worcester. Yeah. Um but it's the schedule's super limited, so it wasn't gonna work for us to fly from there. Also, I think when we bought this, I didn't have a job. So, you know, there's I don't remember, honestly. Yeah, I don't think I had taken this job yet. My life has changed a lot in the last like five months. Yes. Um how I am getting to the airport or when, because we I think Nick is gonna be going to Ohio with the kids um at some point Thursday or Friday. So it kind of all depends where he's at, and we haven't really figured that out yet. So I have no idea, but I will be meeting you at the airport one way or another. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Um we are Haley, where are we where are we staying?
SPEAKER_01Um we are staying at All Star Movies. We are we're doing it. Um, I did have a moment, so so when we booked this trip, my plan was to bring Luke with me. Um, I am tentatively not bringing Luke with me anymore. I think he's um going to go to Ohio with Nick um to see his grandparents. Um so when we booked this, we were like, we're definitely not doing any split stay. We want to stay like the same place for four nights because it's just too much with the baby and blah blah blah. Today I was like, should we be doing a four-night split stay? Should we be staying at four different hotels? Do you think? But no, we are staying at um all-star movies. So we just we basically booked the cheapest thing we could that was on property because we we're not this is not gonna be a spend time at the hotel kind of trip. No, not at all. Okay, so yeah, so I'm then I'm working remotely on Friday. I'm gonna work yes, I don't know if I'll work because like when I was picturing myself like working from the hotel, yeah, I was absolutely picturing like working from the lobby of Wilderness Lodge or something, but we're sitting in the all-star movies, and I don't know if I want to work from that lobby.
SPEAKER_00So I didn't think about what I'm gonna do for that.
SPEAKER_01I know, and I thought I would have like a maybe a pool day, then I was like, I don't know if I want to hang out with like the all-stars pool. Is that weird? I don't know. So we'll see. Yeah, we'll see how we do. Yeah, um, yeah. So I think I mean I probably won't get up super early because we land at 10:30 at night, I think. Um, we do need to get to the expo at some point. So for Run Disney, they have an expo for every event, and you go there to pick up your bib and like any merchandise that you want to get. So we we have to figure out if we're gonna try to do that on Friday or on Saturday. Is there a preferred day to do that? I don't really know very much about Run Disney or running. I think only if you care about merchandise. I think if you care about merchandise, things do sell out very quickly. Okay. Um but if you don't really care about that, then I don't think it really matters. Okay. So I'm I'm not I'm not super there for the merch myself. Or me either. I I'm not even again, we're not like super anticipating finishing, so I don't know that I should commemorate that too hard. That's true. That's a good point. Good point. Here's here's a t-shirt of a race I didn't finish, you know what I mean? Yeah, it was questionable. Um so yeah, so maybe we go Saturday then, because Friday you'll be working remotely, and then we have Haleo at 7 p.m. at Disney Springs. Yes, which we've been meaning to try, but have just not made it to. So we're we're coming for you, saltful margarita. And I think how I might spend the day. Um I I'm thinking I might do Epcot because that's the park that I feel I got the less amount of time at on our last trip. You did, yeah. Several weeks ago. On our last trip that we just got back from. Yeah. So I'm thinking I would like to definitely hit Guardians, obviously. And then I think I just I have really not spent time in World Showcase, like just wandering in a very long time. Um, so I'm thinking that's what I'm gonna do. I'll hit a couple of booths if I can and just do a little wander. Um, is what I'm thinking. Now that you're saying this out loud, I want to take the day off. I'm I don't know if I have vacation days. I don't know. I'll look into it. Yeah. And you also don't have a park ticket for that day, right? As of right now. I don't have park tickets for anything yet. I'm glad I could have had a day. Okay. Yeah, so that's that's kind of what I think. I mean, also I we need to not be like incapacitated by the time we get to the race on Sunday morning. So I don't want to do the amount of walking and standing that I usually do at Disney. Um, so I think I'll, you know, stay for a few hours and then then maybe I will go back and hit the pool for a while until um it's time to go over to Disney Springs for dinner. Okay. I'm gonna I can't wait to document whether or not she does any of this to BH. Me? Yeah, you can we go to Jock Lindsay's too and get a drink? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely, we'll make it like a huge night out. This won't no.
SPEAKER_00This won't be like our adults only Epcot night on the last trip.
SPEAKER_01Yes. During which we were trying to describe, why did this conversation start? We were trying to describe the plot of a movie from the 90s. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, but we couldn't remember the name. And we were like, yeah, there's something like a blind, it's a blind horse, and it's like blind horses, and then my head was like, for some reason, all I could think of was white men can't jump, and so I came up, I was like, Oh wait, wait, no, it's blind horses can't jump, and then it just turns out like none of that is accurate. The horse is not blind, the girl has gone. Girls blind eventually. Spoiler alert if you haven't seen this movie from the beginning. Anyway, we got rowdy and very, very silly. We're very busy on this occasion because again, we have athletics to do on Sunday morning very how many beacon barrel reservations have you made? Um I know I know the answer. Is it four? It's five. It's five. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I try not to be one of those people. And after we talk today about our plans, I will or I will cancel some of them. But um, I wasn't sure when we're going to which park. So I've just been grabbing them as I see them. We have not planned for this at all because we planned so heavily for the last for the other trip. Yeah. Yes. Um and because when it's just two adults, it's easy to make plans on the fly. Yes, you know. Definitely. Um, okay, so Saturday. Assuming that I do still work on Friday and I don't have a park day. Yes. Like you fancy person with your AP. Um Saturday, what do we want to do? We want to get to the expo. The expo is where? I uh it's at the wide world of sports. How does one arrive there? They have um transportation from the hotels over there that runs like on a regular basis. Oh, okay, because of the races. Yeah, or I think we could probably Uber over there too, if like if we're coming from the park or something like that, that would also be fine. I wonder what the hours are. Do you know? I have not opened a single email from one to 12 to 3. 12 to 3 that day. Or at least, at least that's when the bid pickup is. I don't know if the expo is open different hours, but the bid pickup is 12 to 3. What time is the bib pickup on Friday? Um, on Friday, it is 12 to 7. So we could Friday. Like whatever time you finish work, pop over there and then go to Disney Springs from there. I feel like that's what we should do so we don't have it hanging over our heads in the middle of our only like uninterrupted park day. That's true. That's a good point. Yes. I'm not good at like, this is actually how I started going to the gym. I'm not good at like things that happen in the middle of the day. I will just like sit unproductively waiting for that thing to happen if it happens at 12. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01So in afternoon school, that's when I started going to the gym and the gym in the morning.
SPEAKER_00If I don't have a regularly scheduled plan on those days, it's gonna be three lost hours every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Right.
SPEAKER_01Um so yeah, okay. So maybe that's a thing to do. So maybe we squeeze that in on Friday. Yeah, and then that means Saturday we are foot loose and fancy free. Yes. Within days and within um, yeah. So basically we have two park days, two full park days. We have um all day Saturday, and then Sunday we have the race, but the race should be done by like nine o'clock in the morning. So we've basically got the whole day Sunday as well. Um yeah. And they also, I think they will probably extend park hours at some point. They just did them for the week before we're going, um, just a day or two ago. So I'll be on the lookout for that. And we may end up shifting some plans around, like depending on park hours too. Okay. Um, but yeah, for Saturday, did you have any initial thoughts on how we should spend the day? Well, we know we want to have some Magic Kingdom time. Yeah. Yes. I had a little bit of a vision. I'm not like tied to this, but tell me about your vision because I really have not thought this through at all. Um, I was just thinking it might be really fun to have like a very slow Magic Kingdom morning. Like we enter the park, we do some pictures, maybe we get coffee and just like a leisurely soak up Main Street, um, watch the Dapper dance, maybe catch one of the castle shows at some point, sit on the grass. Like that's that's a thought that I had. Okay. All right. Um, but we do have beacon barrel also at 11:30. So that too. Okay. Okay. Um, I would like to spend some time in the pirate area gift shop because we meant to get back to it, and that was when we realized that we were coming up on the silhouettes being should we get our silhouette stuff? We probably should. We probably should have ours from when we were kids somewhere in a box. Oh, cute. Yeah. Um are we going to do lightning lanes? Well, I think so. I think that's part of the I mean, usually, yes, we just say yes to this. You know what I mean? Right. And it's only two days, so it's not that expensive, potentially three days. Right. Uh I would, you know, as much as I would love to ride it at night, I don't want to pay for Tron. No, me either. I'm salty about it. I'm salty about the last one. I'm glad it got refunded, but um, and I just it's so short, it's so crazy. Yeah, no, I agree. It's I just don't like it that much to pay for it every time. No, no, it and I didn't mind last time either because I was like, here's a whole bunch of people who haven't been on it. You know what I mean? Right. But that's not the case. We are seasoned, seasoned veterans. I also um I don't mind doing Seven Doors Mine Train, but I'm also fine if we skip it because I think we did it three or four times in March. So I'm like, yeah, yeah. So I'm fine either way. Yeah. Um, Jenny last night, I don't know if you overheard, but my sister-in-law is going to Disney for I think what is kind of like her first real trip. I don't think she's been with Danny previously, but it was kind of just like off the cuff. This is like they're going for a length of time, yeah. Staying off property, but they have very on-property plans. Um, and so she has a lot of questions as they're getting ready for this. And she was asking Ella a bunch of questions last night, and she was like, Oh, what's this one? The dwarfs one, the seven dwarfs one. Like, did you ride that? And Ella was like, I rode that like 12 times. I wrote it over and over and over again. This is very funny. And she's like, not super wrong. Yeah, we did it was a big hit, so we did that one many times. Yeah. Um, yeah, so I don't mind if we do that or not do that. Okay. Um I the one I I would really like to do again, which no pressure whatsoever, I would love to ride Tiana's if possible. Um I can think about that. You definitely don't have to do it.
SPEAKER_00I know.
SPEAKER_01I, you know, the thing is that after John got off of it and he was like, I forgot how little there is to that ride track. Like, right, it's basically nothing, and then this one big drop, it's like, should I just kind of woman up and do it? Right. Um, and can I will I feel better about doing it when I'm not also terrified that my kids are on it? Because I was so nervous about the kids going on big things.
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SPEAKER_01So all right, so we think a slow atmospheric morning. Yeah. And what are our what other ride goals do we have? We said maybe Tiana's. Um, you definitely want to do pirates, right? Yeah, definitely. Um what didn't we get enough time with this past one? I'm thinking. I mean like I'm always down for haunted mansion. Yes. Definitely. We don't think Big Thunder's reopening in time, right? No, we don't think so. Um We didn't really spend much time at all in Tomorrowland, but I don't know that there's anything there that I'm like dying to do. I think they've been doing um some like previews for Buzz Lightyear reopening. Okay. So that might be reopened. So that'll be cool to check out, I guess. But there's nothing I'm like, oh, I must do this. If we did Space Mountain, that'll be cool. Yeah, because we didn't get on that last year. Yeah, we didn't get on that. Yeah. I always love the people mover. Yeah, a nice, like, chill. You always fall asleep on the people mover, though. Um, yeah, sometimes. Nice little doe, little Disney does.
SPEAKER_02Um, I don't know.
SPEAKER_01I think maybe we just kind of wander around. Yeah. You know, I haven't done fill harmagic in a very long time. That could be fun. That could be interesting. Yeah. So we'll just kind of see where the morning takes us. See where the things take us. And then so we if we've already done the expo, then the world is sort of our oyster. So are we are we hopping? And also, we didn't make any dinner plan on this night, and we should figure out something so we're appropriately fueled for the next day. Aren't you supposed to eat like spaghetti or something? I think so. Carbs.
SPEAKER_00Carbs, carb loading.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Um that's a question. That is Mama Melrose was depends on where we're gonna be, you know. I know. I know. Do you have any ideas? I mean, we should we should probably get to bed at by like, I don't know. I mean, I could get in bed at like seven, but I'm not gonna fall asleep, you know. So definitely by, I would say like maybe 9 30 or 10 would be. Yeah, 9 30 finish. Yeah. No, I think that's good. So yeah, we could um we could definitely hop. Do we want to hit? I know we want to do some Epcot booths. We do, but we also do we want to go to Animal Kingdom. We had said we wanted to do Nomad Lounge, but otherwise, is there anything we want to do there other than that? I mean, I felt we actually got a good amount of Animal Kingdom time. Time. Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01So I don't know if it's worth it to go over there just for nomad. What do you think? I mean, it might be. Okay. That's totally fine. I think I, you know what? Are we just like not planning this trip? Are we just gonna go and see what happens? The pre-trip that wasn't a pre-trip. The pre-trip that wasn't a pre-trip. The one without a plan, you know. Um, because like, you know, if early afternoon we feel like we're kind of done with Magic Kingdom, and especially if I'm able to not work on Friday, but if like you will have just done a full day at Up Cot, then maybe it is a little Animal Kingdom moment. And we do a little nomad and we do a little vibes. Yeah, you know, definitely. Um, I didn't do the Zootopia show because Luke was napping, so I would definitely it's cute be up for that. Yeah, my family really liked it. It's it's definitely cute. Um, and I mean I'd ride Everest again. Oh, yes, definitely. I did do flight of passage twice, so I'm not like I'm not committed to to paying for that or not. Me either. Yeah, I'm good. I think I think the park hours could determine some of this as well because although we did get to see it at night, it was not a relaxing night. That was so stressful for sure. As of right now, it's scheduled to close at six, but that could definitely change. Okay.
SPEAKER_02No, what is your thing?
SPEAKER_01Um so let's think. What are we gonna feed ourselves for dinner? I mean, if we're at Animal Kingdom, yes, we could hit some of the snacks that I always talk about and never get. Oh, yes, that but did you want did you want a carbload or do we not care about it? The race. That's right, the race, the race, Haley, doing the race. Um what does that even mean? Is it just is it literally just you eat spaghetti? I think so. Yeah. Um so places that places that have like lots of pasta options would be Tony's Town Square. Yeah. Um, Via Napoli, I think. I know they have pizza. I'm pretty sure they have pasta chicken. Um Tuto Italia is somewhere I've never been. The baby is awake now. Hello, baby. Hello, baby. Um, I don't really want to go back to Disney Springs if we can help it, because I just don't love going to Disney Springs. No, and it's always so busy at night. Um Tony's Town Square has the pastas. The pastas. We they also have the breads, which would be quite easy. Umia, we should read some reviews. Okay. Um but yeah, they've got all the Epcot, they've got all the pasta.
SPEAKER_00So much better, so much pasta. Okay.
SPEAKER_01So maybe we end up at Epcot and do Animal Kingdom Sunday, potentially. Yeah. Yeah. Um you know, we can do some food booths along the way, but um. Yeah. Oh my goodness, you have a lot to say, my friend. Okay, so we need to look at some some pasta menus and maybe some reviews. Um, so if we if we wind up over at Epcot, obviously we're gonna try to get on Guardians, right? We're gonna what? Get on Guardians. Oh yeah, I mean obvious things. Of course. Of course. Oh, and actually Viennapoly has a a good amount of pasta as well. I thought it was primarily pizza, and I've never been there. I've been there once and we liked it very much. People love that place. Yeah, we just did pizzas, but it was great. But we can give that a pump. Do some do a little research on that. Okay, we'll do that. But yeah, it sounds like if we want to carbload Animal Kingdom is probably not the place. So maybe we think about doing that Sunday. On Sunday. Okay, so yeah, a little um upcot, guardians, carbload dinner, maybe a few booths, and then bed by 9 30, 10 o'clock, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then um the next day, I think we're I think we're supposed to be on the bus at like 3 30, maybe. Oh my god. That's not the next day, that's that night. What's up? That's not the next day. That's like that's at night. That's at night time. I know it's crazy. Um but that's what we'll do. Okay, I need to reach out to some Run Disney people, um, like on the Facebook groups and figure out how I'm gonna approach this morning because I can go longer between pumps now. However, I can't go that long. So, like, if we have to leave the room at three o'clock in the morning and we're not gonna get back to the room until probably like what 10-ish, you think? Yeah, I need to I need to figure out a way to pump in that time period. So I have to figure that out. What I'm thinking is maybe bringing my pump and pumping immediately before like the start time. Okay. Um, so then I just have to get through the race. And then that I don't want to have to bring like a hand pump to like express during the race. You know, that sounds like a total nightmare. Um the only thing I'm worried about, I know I can check my pump at gear check. I'm just worried, um, will it get broken or something? Like, I don't know what they do with the bags left at gear check, you know? Um so I might see if I can find like a second hand pump to just use like one time, basically. And if it gets banged up, that's fine. Um, is what I'm maybe thinking. Okay. I don't think I'll have it in me really to pump before we leave the hotel room, just because that's all the earlier that I have to get out of the nightmare. So um and then that would be stretching it too for getting back to the hotel room. You know what I mean? Yeah, definitely. Um so that's that's what I'm thinking. So, and then after the race, um, and what's our plan for the race? Like, I know there's a lot of characters and stuff, but if we're in danger of getting swept, um we should probably only stop if there's someone we're like very psyched about, or if like we feel we've gotten a good head start on the balloon ladies. I do not really care too much about characters, but this is your favorite movie. So if there's anybody you want to see, we should do that. And I guess if we saw anxiety and I could get a picture of her for Ella, that would be great. Because that would be amazing. It's Ella's Patronus is anxiety. Um my goodness. Um I know, I love it so much.
SPEAKER_00Um, like a photo op or two, but um, you know, I'm not I'm just looking to see what the whole scene is, you know.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, definitely. So after the race, um let's see, they predict that the final finishes will be by 9 15. So we should be starting finish. I know not I think none of this is my business. I think it's in an Epcot parking lot. Okay, yeah. And then there's buses that take you back to your hotel. Okay, and are we is that what we're doing? Are we going back to the hotel? I'm a um, I'm assuming yes, because I think we'll need to shower, right? Wait, what? I'm assuming yes, because we'll both want to shower, right? I'll probably be pretty gross. That's important. Sleep doesn't matter to me, but showers too. Yeah. So maybe quick shower and then turn right, turn right back around and uh head to let's see. So what what are we what what have we hit already? We've hit up Cotton Magic Kingdom, we think um some vibes in nomad at Animal Kingdom. What are we feeling on Hollywood Studios? I wouldn't mind going back. I feel like there's I feel like we did a lot of Galaxy's edge. Yes. Um, but we didn't do a lot of like poking around. Yes. Is there a good brunch anywhere there? Let's think. About that. Do love, I do love brunch. Um, I know we're gonna be really hungry. I know. Um, if we don't do brunch there, maybe somewhere on like the boardwalk area, um, before we go into the birth B potential. Or we just lunch boxes and get Tata's. Yes, that is always an a bad idea. Yeah. Um Hollywood, Brown Derby does not do brunch. No. And let's see, um, Hollywood and Vine is like a buffet, like a character buffet. Um, not ideal. So maybe we do a little research. Maybe we do a little research about a post-grace meal. Okay. So if we do find somewhere in the vicinity of studios or boardwalk for brunch, maybe we go there first and then hop over to Animal Kingdom. Yeah. Because if we go to Animal Kingdom too early, Nomad won't be open either. Because don't they do they open at 11 or 10? I'm not sure. Let me look right now.
SPEAKER_02Sorry.
SPEAKER_01And I did check, I was not able to get a Geo82 yet. I have all the alerts set up, so I'll let you know if I get something. And yeah, then we'll have to like plan around that, obviously. But yeah, they open at 10 30. Nomads. Doing us either way is fine. Um okay, and then um we just have the rest of the day. We have no nowhere to be. Um, we have citricose at 7:30, right? Yep. We felt like this deserved a steak. Yes, for sure. You know, uh, I would love, if possible, to um grab a beverage at um I was gonna say Trader Sam's, but we're packing a lot in. I'm not sure. We really are, but definitely the bird, the bird, what's it called? The birdcage, the birdcage at no, the perch, the perch. It's the perch and Grand Floridian. The new bar. Yeah. And I mean Enchanted Rose is right there as well. That's true. That's saying that. Yes. Um so I don't know. Do we do we want to do more of that stuff and like pick a park to skip? Or what do you think? Or do we want to try to do all the parks? Or I wouldn't mind skipping Hollywood studios. And I I mean I'd like to get to Nomad, but I also wouldn't mind skipping Animal Kingdom. I feel like Epcot, there was a lot that we didn't get to like really like my family did Epcot, but I did it with kids and stuff. We didn't get to like World Showcase a Binch and Yeah. Um, there definitely are. I would like to do a little bit of booth for sure. Whenever a little bit of what the booths, yeah, and I mean Lacava, we didn't get to. Oh, I know. So, you know, I feel like I think we leave this pretty open and we follow our hearts. Follow, follow our hearts and dreams, and our stomachs and our livers, I guess. Um but then um if we if we are doing dinner 7:30 at Citricose, maybe we end up back at Magic Kingdom. If we're not if we're not literally dead on our feet by that, but maybe we do a little pop over to Magic Kingdom to end end the park time. And the park time. Maybe it's another uh maybe it's another astral orbiter. Yes, yes, we could do that at night. That's very fun. Um we just see where the the vibes take us. Yep. And then the next day we fly out. Um, I might be changing my return flight, but uh it will be later than yours if I do change it. Um right now we're scheduled to fly together. Yes. Um and then so we have to leave for the airport by probably like one. Although with the the way TSA has been, maybe we should be going earlier than that. But um, either way, we have a homecoming for 1115. Well, and we do have, I mean, we have pre-check. Yes, both of us. We're flying, I'm currently flying terminal C. I don't know what your if I change my flight. Is Terminal C only jet blue? I don't know. Okay, because if I if I do change my flight, I'll be on either Breeze or United. Okay. Um, and Breeze, there's no point getting there any earlier because if you check a bag, their bag drop doesn't open until two hours before the flight, anyway. So you keep sounds like a real thing. I know, I know. Like, I'm not checking a bag. Are you checking a bag? Well, I don't know, Danielle. You just gave me this whole skincare regimen, so now I think I'll have to check a bag because I have all the liquids. I think some managed to get mine down with me. I have very tiny versions of everything, and uh and I also do relax it a little bit on vacation okay because like if I have a travel size of a different moisturizer, it's like okay, I'm just gonna use that and that's how it's anyway, it doesn't matter. But I will try not to have to check a bag, will be my goal, but we'll see. But you have all your pump stuff to deal with too. Oh, look at that baby. I miss him. He's he is so sweet. He had so much fun at the party yesterday meeting all the people last night. Yeah, he's the best. We like him so much. I can't believe I'm maybe leaving him for four days, but I think it I think it's a good decision. I think it's a good decision. Sarah wanted to steal him from you so badly. So I'll know how it feels to keep him away from me for a few days. I know, I will. It will be a little hard, but I think it will be the right choice. Yeah. Um, the biggest thing, like I remember when I took um Cooper and him in January by myself. I thought multiple times I would not have liked doing this if it was hot out because I would have been very concerned about like keeping him cool enough and everything on my own. Yeah. Um, so that's that's kind of a big reason why I'm iffy about it. So um, but yeah, I will have to bring my pump stuff, which is a backpack. Um, and I think I don't think that counts as uh towards like my my carry-on stuff. So yeah, so hopefully I can get away with just that and a little rolling suitcase, but TBD. We'll see, we'll see how we do. I'm I'm not known for being an underpacker, so we'll just see. Although when I'm packing for just me, it's just so easy. Yeah, I think I might get another one of those athleisure dresses that I was so happy with. Yeah, you looked great in it. It was just so comfortable and like just simple to and it doesn't wrinkle, you know. So and then it was like, oh, I still feel cute, even though I'm like wearing workout clothes. Um yeah. So I might get another one of those, and that will be what I wear for our park days. Um another thing I was thinking too that would lighten my load a little bit is I I mean I'll have to pump while we're there, like probably I'll probably try to do three or four times a day, like I did on our family trip. This is not like too crazy, but uh I would I would have to freeze the milk to get home to him. I have to decide am I gonna commit to that and make that happen, or am I just gonna pump and dump just to keep my supply up while I'm there? Join a join a human milk for human babies Facebook group. I'm on so many meds, I don't think anybody wants my milk, probably. I would I'd throw it out there. Just list the meds and people can make their own choices because people are desperate and yeah, uh willing to do a lot. Yeah, okay. I'll maybe I'll look into that. And you know they're all safe for a baby, you feed your baby with them. Um but yeah, if I am pumping and dumping, I don't need to bring like a cooler bag, for example, because my parts can just be dirty and right. It's fine. So you have a collapsible cooler bag? I do, yeah. The one I brought on our trip with the family.
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SPEAKER_01So so we'll see. So that's something I need to ponder, but yeah, and so we'll do homecoming brunch, and I am excited again. I was excited on the last trip for this too. Yes. I am really happy that I'm eating again.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And like I like I felt so badly going down, like going to a nice brunch and eating like four bites and being full and like not wanting food after I see it. I'm that homecoming brunch, I am going whole hog. Better lunch out.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, the donuts. The donuts, I know. Oh my gosh, I'm I'm very excited, and the mac and cheese. Oh my goodness. I gotta pull up a menu right now. I think it's gonna be a whole thing. I'm very excited. That's a good thing. We haven't done that in a long time either. I know. I did it, let's see, 25 bring our luggage with us to brunch. I don't know. Is that allowed to bring luggage into Disney Springs? I don't know. Let me look into it because that would get a lot simpler to just get picked up, even though it has to deal with the rideshare pickup, which is like annoying, yeah, mild. So you need an Uber to get to the Uber pickup, it's insane. Yeah. Um that might be the best way to do back to the All-Star. It just gives us more time. Yeah, definitely. Um I I like Disney Springs just like during the day. I don't love it at night when it's so crowded.
SPEAKER_00Um donuts, they got the double eggs. I mean, you gotta have a biscuit, you know.
SPEAKER_01I think what did I get last time? I feel like I got steak and eggs, or oh my goodness. Yeah, chicken and waffle. There's so many options here that I want all of them. All of them right now.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, grits.
SPEAKER_01I love grits. Oh yeah, that's gonna be good. I'm gonna eat my weight. Especially if we especially if we do a full park day after doing a 10 mile jog walk. Right, right. So that's kind of the extremely loose plan for this trip. Yeah I just I think because I feel like we were so we had to be so regimented on the last trip. Right. I just don't I don't want to put any grounds on it at this point.
SPEAKER_00No I'm not super attached to anything.
SPEAKER_01Um yeah it's just gonna be it just goes how it goes and we're just gonna kind of relax and enjoy ourselves. I don't think I don't feel like I need to pay for flight of passage again do you no I don't feel like I necessarily need to pay for my trade but I could I don't know the only one I'm committed to is Guardians Guardians for sure. Yeah so you know we'll just see what happens well I am very excited either way very excited too hey if you're listening to this and it sounds like fun and you would like some help planning your own trip I would love to help you. Please reach out Danielle Griggs at fantasticalvacations dot com I have some fabulous client travel coming up this year. I'm like so psyched for people I have so many cruises booked Haley it's insane. Oh that's awesome so many people doing first time DCL I've got a handful of Alaska people I've got one like concierge suite Alaska seven nights like it's gonna be amazing I've got other folks on other cruise lines doing Alaska as well it's just so much good stuff is going on I'm excited for everything but yeah I'd love to help you get up to your own fiscally irresponsible travel if that's something you're wanting to do um so please reach out all right I'm gonna go get like ready for the week because we have still like how much time do we have like three weeks? This is three weeks yes um all right well see you real soon see you real soon