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Want to know a secret?...Promise not to tell?...I was standing next to a wishing well..and sooooo I'm planning for THREE Halloween parties...Shhh...it's our little secret...tee hee...Karen won't know what to think...
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I thought it might help if I share my vaction schedule for the 10 days we will be going for...one days schedule per day until either I'm to exhausted or the schedule runs out which ever comes 1st....sadly I'm sure it will be the Schedule.. 
To begin with alittle background info: On October 23 2011 to November 2nd (When karen will take me back to the airport...screamin' and kickin' the whole way...careful, I spit....
We will be staying at the Caribbean Resort in one of the Pirate Rooms next to some kind of water (so says ye pirate booking wench Arrr...)I hope it has a view of the lake so I can be on the look out for any and all gators...the kind with ticking clocks in their belly or any other kind....coming from Iowa I'm not to fond of lizards with more teeth than I have. (On the upside though I do love sweet corn). So we fly out of St Paul Mn early in the morning so that we can arrive early enough to enjoy half a day in the Magic Kindom (hey, poppa din't raise no fool)....now what Karen DOESN"T KNOW is that we get to stay longer 'cause if I'm guessing right we're going to MNSSHP (fingers and eyes crossed) but I'm starting to get a head of myself (which is more than the headless horseman can say I'm guessin').The 1st thing on our...um..."my" list of things to do is become a full fledged pirate by joining the Pirate League. 
After I get the look and the duds to go with it, it's time to seek out the Photopass people, after that any rides that we can fit in before Dinner at Cinderella's castle...I promised Karen we could do "It's a Small World" as the 1st ride....I lied...ain't I a stinker! Haunted Mansion here I come!!! Hope the ghost steals my head which is ironicly the opposite of what I hope the Headless Horseman does to me)
and that pretty much sums up day one of my plans...and since my excitement meter is rising I think it's a good place to pause until tomorrow...
magical vacation! Having a husband who loves WDW and is willing to go the extra mile to "plus it" (as Walt would say) and make the journey special, is a wonderful thing. I should know! I have one of those men too! I hope you both have a wonderful time!
Since we will be attending MNSSHP the 1st night for our 2nd day we will sleep in alittle and than go Hang out with Winnie the Pooh & gang at the Cyrstal Palce for Breakfast where I can have a glass of whole milk and not have Karen scold me...I mean really, what she gonna do in front of the bear?!? 
Especially if I slip him a "smackeral" of hunny under the table...us bears gotta stick together...silly ole bears...We'll be in the Magic Kingdom all day and with the extra evening hours we'll have plenty of time to play. I bought a pressed coin book and thought it would be fun to go on a "treasure hunt" 
for as many coins as I can find or until my money runs out...and/or both. Cinderella's lunch will be around 12:30 and I don't even have to look to hard at the menu because Major Domo's pie has been calling my name ever since we left the Magic Kingdom...yeah buddy it was that good!!! A little surprise for Karen will be the Pirate & Pals fireworks
and then where ever our travels take us as we hunt pressed coins in the Magic Kingdom, eat Mickey Mouse candy bars, and look for some cool Disney pins and things to take home.....then it's home to sleep in our pirate ship bed and dream of the next days adventures....
Breathe John, Breathe..On October 25 after the previous days hunt of pressed coins I hope to awaken to the sound of Karen counting my treasure into stacks like Uncle Scrooge might do. 
Breakfast this day is with Cinderella and friends at her castle where I will keep a close look out for Snow White ( ...she had me at hello along time ago). Karen has informed me that since Tinker bell's Treasure shop is gone and you can't wake up Tink anymore that I can sit still and not squirm in my seat during breakfast....Last time I snuck down to the rope drop while she finished eating (Note to self: Karen doesn't like to eat alone)
After playing in the park and maybe trying to find a paint brush at Tom Sawyers Island it's Lunch at the Crystal Palace. If anyone has advice on what is good to eat during lunch I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. After lunch we have a long time to walk around the park to "work off" all the food we ate at lunch...On a side note, I can't help but remember when Winnie the Pooh ate so much that he got stuck in Rabbits hole as he tried to leave..
Sadly I have to work tonight and I'm so pumped up that I may not be able to take a little nap before I go in....but on the upside I think work will rush by and I can listen to disney tunes to get me in the mood to call early 
.....Sooooo anywwwaaayyy, on October 26th we are going to....oh wait a sec, I almost forgot to tell you about the tour I added for the 25th. It's called Family Magic Tour and it's a scavenger hunt AND I'm doing the Pirate League on the 25th cause it works better for timing...I certainly don't want to be late, late for a very important date!!! 
Now then, back to the 26th. Breakfast with Donald and friends at the Tusker house where a whole mess O' fruit juice will be enjoyed by the both of us....I think it's one of my favorite memories from our 1st trip. Since dinner will be the next meal at Jiko's The cooking place after the Animal Kingdom closes, it will give us plenty of time to see the animals and hunt for the mystical Yeti 
....and see and do as much as we can in a day. After Dinner maybe we can sneak over to another park or just enjoy our "Pirate room quarters", pig out on Halloween candy, Mickey mouse chocolate bars, or Snow white Fruit gems and fall asleep in a sugar induced state to dream about the next days adventures 
....Sigh...only 175 more days to go....
in a half hour, but just had to post that I got tickets for MNSSHP for the three days I was hoping for Oct 23, 25 and Halloween night AND the tickets are supposed to be here TOMORROW...ZIPPITEE DE DO DA INDEED!!!
(hey one of the guys name has "Handy" in it so I figure he must be good in the kitchen) If the little Einsteins are anything like how "the little Worleys" were as they were growning up it should prove to be interesting. Ironically my youngest graduates next Sunday...I'll have to remember to pack his breakfast plate and eating utinsils in his "college moving box" should he try to put his dish back in the cupboard I will break out the song I've been practicing for just this occasion "Put- that- thing -back -where -it -came -from- or -so -help me!!!"....I'm thinkin' about writing a play about it. 
but I digress....After breakfast it's off to grab a fastpass for "Tower of Terror" I'd ride it right after breakfast, but I'm kinda thinkin' maybe we should wait alittle if you know what I mean 
It is my hope to run into my favorite Monsters Mike & Sulley today...After riding rides and trying to leave my footprints at the famous Hollywood theater, we eat lunch at The Pizza Planet where I hope they have a real claw machine where I can grab a little green alien dude....or 4....I promised my kids I'd bring them all a green alien. (yikes!) I hear tell that somewhere in Disney's Hollywood studio you can have an animator draw a sketch for a custom made watch, and I'd like to consider getting one or at least watch them make one. after more rides and shows we eat a early dinner at Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano for tickets to Fantasmic 
and some kind of Italian food...(Speaking of food, I forgot to share that I was able to get every meal reservation we were hoping for Yay!!!) Having never seen Fantasmic, we're both looking forword to it and then drifting off to La-la land to rest up for the next days adventure. 
which of course means that we'll be eating breakfast with the Princesses at the Akerhus Royal Banquet hall with autograph book and appetite in hand....sylin' in Red Mickey Mouse crocs and Mickey Mouse ears. 
it's off to fill our Epcot Passport and look for Kinder Eggs....I sure hope they have some in Germany, they are the coolest chocolate eggs 
EVER cause they have toys in the middle of them! Epcot has so much to do there that we want to be sure to take our time, find the rides, and learn all about the real important cultural questions of each land...like, what time do they eat lunch in Japan, and are we gonna be late? More importantly, will there be desert? To discover the answer to these burning questions we will be eating lunch at Teppan Edo which I'm guessing is Japanese for "Quick!, hide the food, it's that guy who doesn't know when to stop eating and always asks if Snow White will be arriving anytime soon!" Rumour has it that Snow White hangs out somewhere in Epcot, so after lunch it's off to....well you get the picture... That night after filling our minds all day with knowledge and appreciation for different people & different lands, it's time to hang with crush the turtle 
and learn about the ocean...or at least ask him to point the way to the Coral Reef for dinner. We think this place is so cool that we're eating there twice during our trip. One time for steak and one time for sea food...and both times for light up Buzz lightyear and Tinker bells!....after Dinner it's off to find more illumination by watching...uh, illumination....oh yeah...and pressed coins for my pirate swag Arrrr......
what's up with that!?!.....To pass the time I was able to do some more planning and read every blog I could think of (Sigh...)Soooo anyway I'll try to do my best to maintain my sanity as I share some cool things we will be doing....can't promise though. When I asked Karen to marry me 25 years ago, I was in the Army and had to decide if I was going to stay in or get out as it was time for my enlistment to end. At the end of the day, all really I knew was that I didn't want to spend anymore time away from Karen and since I had to give the Army an answer real soon I decided to ask Karen to marry me....I couldn't do it in person, so I called her on the phone and fullfilled ever girls dream ...and proposed over the phone...I have thought about how lame this was over the years and from time to time Karen has teased me about how she was asked. Of course I have to remind her that her answer of "I'll think about it" didn't exactly help me decide what to do next in my military and life experiences....anyway, a light bulb went off in my head, and so I called Cinderella's castle and asked if they could help me propose the right way...kinda like a do-over. So after all these years after we have dinner at the Castle on the 23rd and during desert, they will bring out a covered platter. Underneath the platter will be a minature Cinderella carriage and in that a Tinker Bell 
ring on a bed of rose petals...right then I will get down on one knee (um...as long as my knees hold up...gulp) and ask her the right way...to spend the rest of our lives together now that our kids are grown....then it's off to the Halloween Party...Shhh, Mums the word....
in the Contemporary Resort and a "Yak and Yeti" sit down dinner for the 26th when we are at the Animal Kingdom....on another side note we just received our Mickey Mouse Club Sweatshirts with our names on them and Club Logo 
for the Halloween parties.... Finally we will be joining the upper crust (and with any luck 
)for a Garden View Tea setting at the Grand Floridian Resort where we will be celebrating our unbirthdays with tea and tarts...or perhaps tart tea even. Now then, back to the 29th. The whole day will be spent at Epcot consentrating on becoming great detectives in the vein of Sherlock Homes,
Basil of Bakerstreet, or even Kim Possible..Hey, if you can get Karen to eat snails for lunch in France anything is "possible"...but yet again I digress....Speaking of France, we will be eating said snails at "Chefs de France" during when"Remy" is due to come out to talk to people, which is funny now that I think of it because as much as I am bothered by the thought of gators, snakes, and Hobo stew, she is afraid of mice....um, remind me to tell you about the time I was in a deep sleep and Karen screamed a "Fay-Wray-as-loud-as-she-could" scream of terror about two feet from my ear when she saw a mouse
....my ears are still ringing....did I tell you sometimes I digress..Ahem....anyhoo, after spenting time in the World Showcase traveling to China, Germany, Italy, America, and France we have dinner at LeCellier Steakhouse in Canada. My goal is to be able to spend some good time discovering things in the World Showcase and then concentrate on the front part of Epcot another day....Well, that and discovering what smells so good in the Magic Kingdom....
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