38 days!
Our flight leaves DTW on Friday at 10:40 am. Still trying to decide if we want to get a room near the airport that night. Will depend on whether or not we need to drive ourselves to the airport and pay to park. (Parking would be included in the hotel cost.) We're due to arrive MCO at 1:22. We'll take the Superstar Shuttle to Royal Pacific Resort.
What we do from there is up in the air. If flights go on time and we arrive at a decent time, I may go ahead and add a day to our tickets and we can head into the parks. Since we'll have the express pass, even if we only have a couple of hours, it would be worth the small amount of money to go from 3 day tickets to 4 day. As of right now, IOA is open until 8 and USF until 7. We may end up wanting to just explore the resorts, but if I know DD, she'll be dying to get into the parks. When we were going to stay at Cabana Bay, it wasn't really worth it, but with express... well, well see.
In any event, dinner that night will be at Margaritaville to celebrate her 21st birthday, which is 12/29.
Saturday we'll eat breakfast in the room and lunch at Three Broomsticks, and mostly spend the day exploring both Harry Potter areas (the whole reason she wanted this trip!) We'll leave around 5 and head back to RPR to go to the luau for dinner.
Sunday we'll have breakfast in the room and lunch at a CS place in Universal - not sure which one, although I'm reading good things about Thunder Falls. Dinner will be something simple - maybe a pizza at Red Oven after the parks close.
Monday we'll have breakfast at Leaky Cauldron, since she doesn't see anything on their lunch menu she'd like. We'll also do Shutterbutton's that day, and re-ride and revisit anything we extra loved. It's our last day and we'll be sad! I'm thinking dinner at Hard Rock Cafe, DD has never been to one and I think she'll enjoy it.
Tuesday our flight home leaves at 3:10 so we'll be able to sleep in a little bit, check out, and then maybe go wander around Citywalk for a while before meeting our shuttle back to the airport. Where we will be sad!
Looking forward to this so much.