Ms. Shuttergirl
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2009
Well we are down to the wire now with only 2 sleeps to go so I thought hey let's get this Trip Report party started.
For the newcomers to my rambling TR's, here are the players:-
ME - 42 (cough cough), planner extraordinaire, pretty "pitcha" taker, stresser, food porn loving Disney-oholic, travel obsessed, proud mumma
DH - 41 (going on 60, old man lol) shopaholic, reluctant Disney visitor, sports mad, music mad, food loving, highly strung, hard working, proud dadda
DD14 - Diva-licous dancing queen, loves Disney as much as her mumma, loves desserts so free dining is her favourite thing in the whole world, stunning, super smart, super sweet, wants to be an interior designer, living in a fancy NYC apartment (a girl's gotta dream )
DS10 (turning 11 on the trip) - Sports mad feral beast, makes me laugh, makes me cry, is slowly evolving out of being a fussy eater (thanks to our last WDW trip), very OCD like his mumma and pappa, still young enough to be "cute" at Disney, super smart, mummy's little man.
and introducing
Grandma - nurse for 42 years, recently very sadly widowed, very social and fit, lawn bowler extraordinaire, great mother-in-law most of the time, loves her grandchildren, occasionally likes to point out my faults (should be fun right
)
Here is the plan as it stands right now. Things will be dumped along the way as tiredness seeps in and that's okay. I'm getting better at just going with it in the moment. However, if it's something booked and paid for, there is no shifting, we do it. Everything else is fluid.
MONDAY 25 March, 2013 - LONDON, ENGLAND
Arrive LONDON, private car to Apartment, afternoon settling in and wandering the neighbourhood
Dinner at a very well known local pub called The Churchill Arms
TUESDAY 26 March, 2013
Morning - Private Tour in Black Taxi Cab seeing:- Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, No. 10 Downing St. Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge, Marble Arch, etc.
Trafalgar Square for lunch and a wander
Afternoon - Hyde Park for the afternoon seeing Princess Diana's Memorial, Kensington Palace etc.
Dinner at my MIL's cousins restaurant called Entree:- http://www.entreebattersea.co.uk/
Kind of a mini family reunion with this branch on her family
WEDNESDAY 27 March, 2013
Morning - Westminster Abbey Private Tour
Afternoon - London Eye, Thames Cruise and shopping along Oxford St
THURSDAY 28 March, 2013
All Day bus tour to Oxford, The Cotswolds and Statford on Avon (home of Shakespeare)
FRIDAY 29 March, 2013
Morning - Tower of London
Lunch - Borough Market -famous food market
Afternoon - The Globe, Shakespeares Theatre and walk across Millenium Bridge
SATURDAY 30 March, 2013
Morning - Portobello Market
Afternoon - Girls to go to The Orangery for High Tea at Kensington Palace and boys to go to Lords Cricket Ground and Abbey Road
Evening - West End Show "We Will Rock You"
SUNDAY 31 March, 2013
Easter Sunday
Morning - British Museum
Lunch - nearby Museum
Afternoon - Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum
(may need to switch British Museum with Wax Museum as have been reading that the Wax museum is mayhem in the afternoons)
Late afternoon/evening - a local pub for music/food/etc.
MONDAY 1 April, 2013
All Day Tour to Bath and Stonehenge
TUESDAY 2 April, 2013
Morning - St. Paul's Cathedral
Afternoon - Harrod's and more shopping
WEDNESDAY 3 April, 2013 - EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Morning - catch train to Edinburgh
Afternoon - arrive, check in, go to Holyrood Castle nearby
THURSDAY 4 April, 2013
All Day Bus Tour to Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands
FRIDAY 5 April, 2013
Morning - hop on hop off bus tour around Edinburgh
Lunch and walk along the Royal Mile
Afternoon - Edinburgh Castle
SATURDAY 6 April, 2013
All Day Bus Tour to Rosslyn Chapel and the Roman Border of Scotland
SUNDAY 7 April, 2013 - DUBLIN, IRELAND
Morning - fly to Dublin, check in
Afternoon - wander around Dublin
Evening - dinner and show at The Merry Ploughboys Irish Pub
MONDAY 8 April, 2013
All day - Hop on Hop off Bus tour around Dublin, seeing many of the major sites including Trinity College
Afternoon - relaxing in a local pub I would say
TUESDAY 9 April, 2013
All Day Bus Tour to Cork and the Blarney Stone and Castle
WEDNESDAY 10 April, 2013
All day - Hop on Hop off Bus tour around Dublin seeing whatever we didn't see Monday
THURSDAY 11 April, 2013
All day bus tour to Belfast to see the Titanic Experience Museum and tour Belfast. Also taking a Private Political/IRA Taxi Cab tour through the affected areas.
FRIDAY 12 April, 2013
Guiness Factory and shopping and relaxing in a pub I would say
SATURDAY 13 April, 2013 - PARIS, FRANCE
Morning - fly to Paris, check into apartment, get supplies,
Afternoon - wander around Palais Royal area
Evening - out for birthday dinner for DS, walk home past the Louvre
SUNDAY 14 April, 2013
Morning - Private Walking tour along the Seine past most major sites
Lunch near Grand Palais
Afternoon - Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower, walk along the Trocadero
MONDAY 15 April, 2013
Morning - Opera Garnier and then shopping at Galleries Lafayette
Lunch then walk to Rue Montorgureil Market Street for beautiful food
Afternoon - wander through Jardin Tuilleries, hot chocolate at Angelina's, then up Rue Royale to visit famous shops like Maille and Ladauree and go to Madeliene
Evening - Me and DD to go to Moulin Rouge
TUESDAY 16 April, 2013
Morning - go into Notre Dame, St. Chappelle and Concergerie, icecream at the famous Berthillion, then on to Shakespeare & Co bookstore
Lunch in Latin Quarter than wander around this beautiful area
Afternoon - Luxembourg Gardens and St. Germain
Evening - walk across Pont Neuf and then take a Seine Cruise
WEDNESDAY 17 April, 2013
Most of day - Palace of Versailles
Afternoon - Musee D'Orsay
THURSDAY 18 April, 2013
Private Tour guide for the day
- morning Louvre
- afternoon Montmatre and Sacre Coeur
FRIDAY 19 April, 2013
Morning - Arc De Triomphe and Champs Elysees, then Place De La Concorde
Lunch
Afternoon - Invalides, Musee Rodin and Jardin Des Tuileries if haven't visited before or shopping
SATURDAY 20 April, 2013 - DISNEYLAND PARIS
Morning - private transfer over to Disneyland Paris, check into hotel
Afternoon - wander around park
Evening - evening show
SUNDAY 21 April, 2013
Day - rides, shows, parades, etc
MONDAY 21 April, 2013
Day - rides, shows
Afternoon - private transfer to airport, fly home
For the newcomers to my rambling TR's, here are the players:-
ME - 42 (cough cough), planner extraordinaire, pretty "pitcha" taker, stresser, food porn loving Disney-oholic, travel obsessed, proud mumma
DH - 41 (going on 60, old man lol) shopaholic, reluctant Disney visitor, sports mad, music mad, food loving, highly strung, hard working, proud dadda
DD14 - Diva-licous dancing queen, loves Disney as much as her mumma, loves desserts so free dining is her favourite thing in the whole world, stunning, super smart, super sweet, wants to be an interior designer, living in a fancy NYC apartment (a girl's gotta dream )
DS10 (turning 11 on the trip) - Sports mad feral beast, makes me laugh, makes me cry, is slowly evolving out of being a fussy eater (thanks to our last WDW trip), very OCD like his mumma and pappa, still young enough to be "cute" at Disney, super smart, mummy's little man.
and introducing
Grandma - nurse for 42 years, recently very sadly widowed, very social and fit, lawn bowler extraordinaire, great mother-in-law most of the time, loves her grandchildren, occasionally likes to point out my faults (should be fun right
)Here is the plan as it stands right now. Things will be dumped along the way as tiredness seeps in and that's okay. I'm getting better at just going with it in the moment. However, if it's something booked and paid for, there is no shifting, we do it. Everything else is fluid.
MONDAY 25 March, 2013 - LONDON, ENGLAND
Arrive LONDON, private car to Apartment, afternoon settling in and wandering the neighbourhood
Dinner at a very well known local pub called The Churchill Arms
TUESDAY 26 March, 2013
Morning - Private Tour in Black Taxi Cab seeing:- Big Ben, Houses of Parliament, No. 10 Downing St. Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge, Marble Arch, etc.
Trafalgar Square for lunch and a wander
Afternoon - Hyde Park for the afternoon seeing Princess Diana's Memorial, Kensington Palace etc.
Dinner at my MIL's cousins restaurant called Entree:- http://www.entreebattersea.co.uk/
Kind of a mini family reunion with this branch on her family
WEDNESDAY 27 March, 2013
Morning - Westminster Abbey Private Tour
Afternoon - London Eye, Thames Cruise and shopping along Oxford St
THURSDAY 28 March, 2013
All Day bus tour to Oxford, The Cotswolds and Statford on Avon (home of Shakespeare)
FRIDAY 29 March, 2013
Morning - Tower of London
Lunch - Borough Market -famous food market
Afternoon - The Globe, Shakespeares Theatre and walk across Millenium Bridge
SATURDAY 30 March, 2013
Morning - Portobello Market
Afternoon - Girls to go to The Orangery for High Tea at Kensington Palace and boys to go to Lords Cricket Ground and Abbey Road
Evening - West End Show "We Will Rock You"
SUNDAY 31 March, 2013
Easter Sunday
Morning - British Museum
Lunch - nearby Museum
Afternoon - Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum
(may need to switch British Museum with Wax Museum as have been reading that the Wax museum is mayhem in the afternoons)
Late afternoon/evening - a local pub for music/food/etc.
MONDAY 1 April, 2013
All Day Tour to Bath and Stonehenge
TUESDAY 2 April, 2013
Morning - St. Paul's Cathedral
Afternoon - Harrod's and more shopping
WEDNESDAY 3 April, 2013 - EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Morning - catch train to Edinburgh
Afternoon - arrive, check in, go to Holyrood Castle nearby
THURSDAY 4 April, 2013
All Day Bus Tour to Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands
FRIDAY 5 April, 2013
Morning - hop on hop off bus tour around Edinburgh
Lunch and walk along the Royal Mile
Afternoon - Edinburgh Castle
SATURDAY 6 April, 2013
All Day Bus Tour to Rosslyn Chapel and the Roman Border of Scotland
SUNDAY 7 April, 2013 - DUBLIN, IRELAND
Morning - fly to Dublin, check in
Afternoon - wander around Dublin
Evening - dinner and show at The Merry Ploughboys Irish Pub
MONDAY 8 April, 2013
All day - Hop on Hop off Bus tour around Dublin, seeing many of the major sites including Trinity College
Afternoon - relaxing in a local pub I would say
TUESDAY 9 April, 2013
All Day Bus Tour to Cork and the Blarney Stone and Castle
WEDNESDAY 10 April, 2013
All day - Hop on Hop off Bus tour around Dublin seeing whatever we didn't see Monday
THURSDAY 11 April, 2013
All day bus tour to Belfast to see the Titanic Experience Museum and tour Belfast. Also taking a Private Political/IRA Taxi Cab tour through the affected areas.
FRIDAY 12 April, 2013
Guiness Factory and shopping and relaxing in a pub I would say
SATURDAY 13 April, 2013 - PARIS, FRANCE
Morning - fly to Paris, check into apartment, get supplies,
Afternoon - wander around Palais Royal area
Evening - out for birthday dinner for DS, walk home past the Louvre
SUNDAY 14 April, 2013
Morning - Private Walking tour along the Seine past most major sites
Lunch near Grand Palais
Afternoon - Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower, walk along the Trocadero
MONDAY 15 April, 2013
Morning - Opera Garnier and then shopping at Galleries Lafayette
Lunch then walk to Rue Montorgureil Market Street for beautiful food
Afternoon - wander through Jardin Tuilleries, hot chocolate at Angelina's, then up Rue Royale to visit famous shops like Maille and Ladauree and go to Madeliene
Evening - Me and DD to go to Moulin Rouge
TUESDAY 16 April, 2013
Morning - go into Notre Dame, St. Chappelle and Concergerie, icecream at the famous Berthillion, then on to Shakespeare & Co bookstore
Lunch in Latin Quarter than wander around this beautiful area
Afternoon - Luxembourg Gardens and St. Germain
Evening - walk across Pont Neuf and then take a Seine Cruise
WEDNESDAY 17 April, 2013
Most of day - Palace of Versailles
Afternoon - Musee D'Orsay
THURSDAY 18 April, 2013
Private Tour guide for the day
- morning Louvre
- afternoon Montmatre and Sacre Coeur
FRIDAY 19 April, 2013
Morning - Arc De Triomphe and Champs Elysees, then Place De La Concorde
Lunch
Afternoon - Invalides, Musee Rodin and Jardin Des Tuileries if haven't visited before or shopping
SATURDAY 20 April, 2013 - DISNEYLAND PARIS
Morning - private transfer over to Disneyland Paris, check into hotel
Afternoon - wander around park
Evening - evening show
SUNDAY 21 April, 2013
Day - rides, shows, parades, etc
MONDAY 21 April, 2013
Day - rides, shows
Afternoon - private transfer to airport, fly home
Let the fun and packing begin, oh my
. There cases are out, that is where I am up to.
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. Perhaps they will be better behaved and the need to growl will be lessened. Regardless, I am excited that we get to take her along. She has had a rough few years and this will be a lovely adventure for her.
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