W minus 429
Sci Fi Dine in Theater now
serves breakfast! All I have to do is
think the word “grid” and they change stuff!
September 13, 2015
W minus 417
Two years to the day
that we returned from Disney World, we finally reduced the number of digital
photos to a level we can print for albums, now begins the uploading. This means either A) We take too many
pictures, or B) We need a better sorting algorithm. Honestly though, I think it is C) We
shouldn’t lose our folder of reduced photos and have to do it all again. On the positive side, we’ll get them uploaded,
ordered, printed and into a book just in time to start seriously planning for
the next visit.
September 23, 2015
W minus 407
Jock’s Bar, an Indiana
Jones themed establishment, opens in the new Downtown Disney. Between that and the Jungle Cruise Skipper
themed restraint in Adventureland, I believe the spirit of the Adventurers’
Club is being preserved.
September 28, 2015
W minus 402
Pirates reopens after a
long refurbishment with enhanced effects.
There’s something extra awesome about the fact that Disney goes out of
their way to make sure this old favorite remains the state of the art in
animatronics.
September 29, 2015
W minus 401
Downtown Disney is
officially renamed Disney Springs. I’m
sure I’ll start calling it that right after I stop referring to one of the
parks as “MGM.”
October 1, 2015
W minus 399
Pecos Bill’s redoes
their menu adding fajitas, burrito bowls and other such items. The giant
fixin’s bar remains and takes a decidedly taco-ish slant. Just when I think I can cross a place off the
grid, they pull me back in!
October 7, 2015
W minus 393
Looks like Pecos Bill’s
neighbor has also redone its menu. The Tortuga Tavern now has Flame Tree
Barbecue like fare. That will make me even sadder when it’s closed every time
we go.
October 15, 2015
W minus 385
Duffy fired from
EPCOT! I guess it wasn’t too big a deal
as I didn’t find out about it for eight months.
October 19, 2015
W minus 381
small world
refurbishment planned August-September 2016…good thing we’re going in November
next time.
October 26, 2015
W minus 374
Minnie hosting Dinner
year round in MGM Hollywood and Vine.
Here’s hoping the kids grow out of Doc McStuffins and Sofia by next
year.
October 29, 2015
W minus 371
Due to another burst of
concentrated effort, we have the pictures printed from the last Disney
trip. Due to normal levels of chaos in
our lives, the next burst of concentrated effort won’t come for a while meaning
we’ll miss the goal of having albums more than a year before the next trip.
November 5, 2015
W minus 364
Hyenas in Kilimanjaro
safaris! YAY ED!
November 12, 2015
W minus 357
Big family effort for
the home stretch: Rosa uploading and
checking them all, me sorting them, and Anabelle arranging them in the
sleeves. Yes, we finally have Disney
Trip Albums from the last adventure. And we finished just slightly less than a
year before we go back, but slightly more than a year from when that trip is
due to end.
November 17, 2015
W minus 352
Grandma’s knee
replacement. As with every single
element of her interactions with the orthopedist, the decision is based around,
“I need to walk through all of Disney World with my grandchildren next year.”
November 23, 2015
W minus 345
The already horrifyingly
mammoth World of Disney store in Disney (used to be Downtown) Springs is now
six thousand square feet bigger.
Anywhere else on earth this announcement would keep me from going
anywhere near the place. However, Disney is awesome and not only made it bigger
but added decentralized checkout lines, information booths, directional signs,
and other features to make the place more navigable. I think it’s going to need a voice activated Star Trek the Next Generation type system to keep me from getting lost.
November 24, 2015
W minus 344
With less than a year to
go, and multiple attempts to guess at hours and crowd levels corresponding to
when we’ll be there, it depressingly sinks in that the state of change is at
such a constant level in Disney World that most of my homework is for naught
and I’ll need to largely wing it once the planning really starts.
December 3, 2015
W minus 336
The Backlot Express at
MGM changes their menu to a Star Wars theme. This includes “Vader
waffles.” Pardon me, but I think there’s
something in my eye. *sniff*
December 4, 2015
W minus 335
Garden Grill lunch
substitutes sausage and peppers for the fish, massively reducing my ability to
eat there, so much for that idea. May
have to do breakfast…where I’m really not supposed to eat any of it, but I’d
rather be bad with bacon and biscuits than sausage and peppers.
December 5, 2015
W minus 334
The Sunset Showcase
opens in MGM. The first use of this venue is an indoor character dance party,
Club Disney. Guess everyone else liked
that idea as much as we did. At least
this one isn’t a “ticketed event.”
December 6, 2015
W minus 333
Captain
EO finally gets the
boot. The replacement is a salute and 4D
showing of Disney and Pixar shorts. With
that level of customizability, sadly, that probably means Honey I Shrunk the Audience is never coming back.
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