Two for One: Double Disney Birthdays! *Meg nonTR upd 9/23* // *Help out Katie! 10/22* [Archive] - The DIS Discussion Forums

Megablocks

01-11-2010, 11:48 PM

:welcome: to a 2-in-1 report by me (Meghan) and DisKate (Katie)!

This is going to be just what we said -- a two-in-one report. I am going to Disney February 10-17, staying at Pop Century, and Katie is going March 13-20, and staying at Boardwalk Villas. The reason we decided to combine our trips is because both of our former TRs from last year got moved to the "completed" trip report section due to us not having updated our respective reports from last year for a few weeks (mostly due to finals craziness.) Katie had the idea, and figured that if there are two of us working on the same thread, the chances of it getting moved due to lack of updating is much slimmer. I agreed with that logic, so here we are!

How do two girls from two different states (Massachusetts and New York) know each other, and how did they decide to do a TR together? The DISboards, obviously. We both posted on the thread of another DISer, and when we both started our respective reports, we were always reading and commenting on each other's reports (and sometimes following each other around the boards :upsidedow .) Pretty soon, we were friends on Facebook and had each other's cell phone numbers and were posting on Facebook and/or texting constantly, much to the amusement of my boyfriend (and I think Katie's boyfriend, too.) Fortunately they understand our friendship, and my boyfriend, Charles, knows exactly who I mean when I say "I was talking to Katie..." Even though we've only met in person once, we've become incredibly close over the past year or so, and she's one of my best friends. She's the one I text whenever something funny happens, and when Charles sees me furiously texting, or laughing at something on my phone, he assumes (usually correctly) that it is Katie. :)

Last May, when going out to Ohio to visit family with my dad and my younger brother, Katie and I got to make plans to meet up. I was strung out on caffeine and four hours of interrupted sleep, mostly due to travel anxieties (I don't always travel well), but I got to meet Katie and her boyfriend, Patrick, and we all had lunch together.

Katie is the on the left, representing Disney, and I'm on the right, representing...well, Boston. In my defense, I am holding the Eeyore that she picked up for me on her trip. :)

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Some background on my trip:

This trip is a do-over trip for us. Last year, my dad had a stomach bug or food poisoning that kept him from getting out for the first 2 or 3 days. My sister had a cold and then got some kind of small stomach bug just when my dad was finally getting out and was ready to go. It wasn't until towards the end of our week-long trip that we all managed to get out and about as a family. There were also two things (parasailing and an Epcot segway tour) that ended up not happening due to all the sickness. We still had a great time, but we were definitely anticipating a do-over the next year.

The cast of Megablocks' trip report:

Me (Meghan, 25) and DSis (Kailyn, 16 -- turning 17 on the trip!)

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My parents (will just be referred to as Mom and Dad)

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And, not a person, but rather an inanimate object...the glasses. Found sitting in an antique store in Ohio in the summer of 2008, these glasses have become a rather large part of our Disney pictures.

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The cast of DisKate's report:

Katie, her mom, and her younger sister, Kris

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and Katie's boyfriend, Patrick.

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Also, from now on, when doing updates, Katie and I will be using different-colored fonts. I'll be writing in red and Katie will make her color of choice known. :thumbsup2

Thanks for reading!

DisKate

01-11-2010, 11:49 PM

I'm here!!!!!

DisKate

01-11-2010, 11:59 PM

So now that I've secured my spot let me tell you a bit about my trip....This is my Graduation present. When I was about 3 years old (and Kris just born) my Mom took Kris and I to Disney. We went again when I was around 5 (Kris about 2). Since then they have not been back. I have been back 4 times without them with Patrick's family. All in the last four years. Since going back I have wanted to take my Mom and Kris to show them how wonderful Disney is, but it has never happened. So in order to make it happen I made it my one request for Graduation that we all go together. We are staying for one week at Boardwalk Villas and are arriving on Kris' 20th birthday....making it about 18 years since she or my Mom have been there. I am really looking forward to watching them experience Disney and hopefully they will come to love it as much as I do!

Lady Lallie

01-12-2010, 10:15 AM

I'm here! Great start. I've missed pictures of those glasses for sure! :3dglasses

Isn't DIS friendship the best? I'm so thankful that I have met Jen through here. :goodvibes

Lovemy3babes

01-12-2010, 10:24 AM

Oh how fun, a joint report. :) I'm glad you girls made such a strong friendship via the Dis. That's super neat. I can't wait to read more!!

Native NYer

01-12-2010, 10:27 AM

Joining in!

Great start!!!

MeMom

01-12-2010, 10:30 AM

I'm here! Great start. I've missed pictures of those glasses for sure! :3dglasses

Isn't DIS friendship the best? I'm so thankful that I have met Jen through here. :goodvibes

LL, you are supposed to be packing for a Disney trip, and you still beat me!
My kids are at Music, but if I type fast, there's a chance I could beat CP! :rotfl:

I'm going to be all over this report to get me through until June. We have had the privilege of meeting Katie and Patrick and Patrick's very nice mom. We hope to do that again someday,
and of course,
we have to meet our fellow Pop friends, too!

DisKate

01-12-2010, 10:41 AM

Hi Everyone! Thanks for joining! Meg and I are really excited to do this together...and hopefully we will keep up with this one better then last years!

Megablocks

01-12-2010, 10:45 AM

I'm here! Great start. I've missed pictures of those glasses for sure! :3dglasses

Isn't DIS friendship the best? I'm so thankful that I have met Jen through here. :goodvibes

Yay, I'm so glad you came over! I have missed posting pictures of the glasses. :rotfl2: I can't wait for more photo ops with them next month.

It really is the best, I'm so glad that I met Katie. Like you and Jen, Katie and I have a LOT of things in common, and it's so strange, but so cool!

Oh how fun, a joint report. :) I'm glad you girls made such a strong friendship via the Dis. That's super neat. I can't wait to read more!!

:welcome: I'm glad you came over! Thank you so much for reading!

Joining in!

Great start!!!

Yay, welcome! And thank you :goodvibes

LL, you are supposed to be packing for a Disney trip, and you still beat me!
My kids are at Music, but if I type fast, there's a chance I could beat CP! :rotfl:

I'm going to be all over this report to get me through until June. We have had the privilege of meeting Katie and Patrick and Patrick's very nice mom. We hope to do that again someday,
and of course,
we have to meet our fellow Pop friends, too!

You didn't beat LL, but you did beat CP! :laughing:

I'm glad to have something to get you through June -- your reports have done the same for me! I'm going to be sending pictures to Facebook, and I'll be sure to get you some palm tree pictures. ;)

Yes, we still need to do a big meet at Pop -- I'd love that!

Megablocks

01-12-2010, 10:47 AM

Hi Everyone! Thanks for joining! Meg and I are really excited to do this together...and hopefully we will keep up with this one better then last years!

At least this way we'll be able to prod each other along. :rotfl: I'm sure my mom (hi mom) will read, too, and remind me to update!

BrooklynnsMommy

01-12-2010, 11:16 AM

I'm here and I think I made the first page!

I did! I did!

manntra

01-12-2010, 11:35 AM

Hopping over from LL's PTR to join in the fun! :goodvibes

Tracy

Megablocks

01-12-2010, 11:36 AM

I'm here and I think I made the first page!

I did! I did!

Hi Jill -- you did! Thanks for reading :goodvibes

Megablocks

01-12-2010, 11:38 AM

Hopping over from LL's PTR to join in the fun! :goodvibes

Tracy

Hi Tracy! Glad you're here :goodvibes Thanks for coming over!

jenjolt

01-12-2010, 11:56 AM

I'm here I'm here!! Can't wait to read more!! Hopefully you will get a very uneventful redo!

Megablocks

01-12-2010, 03:36 PM

I'm here I'm here!! Can't wait to read more!! Hopefully you will get a very uneventful redo!

Hi Jen! Glad you're here :goodvibes I still haven't told my sister that Katie and I are doing this report because she (my sister) seemed to think that my writing a PTR for our last trip caused the bad luck. :rotfl2: That was the only time anything like that has ever happened on any of our trips, even non-Disney ones, so I'm hoping it was just some kind of weird fluke and we do have an uneventful redo!

DisKate

01-12-2010, 06:27 PM

Yay for two pages! :banana::banana:

koolcatshelby

01-12-2010, 07:52 PM

Can't wait to hear more

Charleston Princess

01-13-2010, 04:53 AM

Hi, Megan and Katie!!! How fun to have birthday trips!!!

MeMom, you beat me!!! :eek:

MeMom

01-13-2010, 05:29 AM

MeMom, you beat me!!! :eek:

Finally! :yay:

It'll probably never happen again, but I did it once! :rotfl:

Charleston Princess

01-13-2010, 07:04 AM

Finally! :yay:

It'll probably never happen again, but I did it once! :rotfl:

I shall have to be more vigilant from here on out when someone starts a new PTR/TR. :lmao:

MeMom

01-13-2010, 07:23 AM

I shall have to be more vigilant from here on out when someone starts a new PTR/TR. :lmao:

And I shall bask in my small glory of beating you ONE time! :rotfl:

If we're lucky, I think we might be getting some Titanic exhibit pictures around here soon. :)

kschafer

01-13-2010, 09:56 AM

I'm here too!!

karenmmk

01-13-2010, 04:14 PM

I'm here! Nice start ladies. :thumbsup2

and I see the glasses will be a part of our trip again....... :eek:

Megablocks

01-13-2010, 04:20 PM

Yay for two pages! :banana::banana:

I was so excited to see two pages. :rotfl2: It's the little things. How was the Titanic exhibit??

Can't wait to hear more

HEY! Glad to "see" you! How have you been??

Hi, Megan and Katie!!! How fun to have birthday trips!!!

MeMom, you beat me!!! :eek:

Hi, Jackie! I'm so glad you came over!

I love birthday trips, even when they are not my birthday. Kailyn has celebrated many of her birthdays in Disney, just because she's the one whose birthday falls at the best time for us to visit.

Finally! :yay:

It'll probably never happen again, but I did it once! :rotfl:

I shall have to be more vigilant from here on out when someone starts a new PTR/TR. :lmao:

I think MeMom came in under her camouflage. :rotfl:

And I shall bask in my small glory of beating you ONE time! :rotfl:

If we're lucky, I think we might be getting some Titanic exhibit pictures around here soon. :)

I am really hoping for Titanic exhibit pictures! I still need to tell Katie how to post pictures on here from Facebook. I've had a Mac for a few years, so I know it's a little different, but I'm pretty sure I remember how to do so on a PC.

There's a Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science, and Charles and I are going next Thursday before we go to the Bruins game, so if there's any Harry Potter fans, I want to post pictures.

I'm here too!!

Hi Katie! :wave2:

I'm here! Nice start ladies. :thumbsup2

and I see the glasses will be a part of our trip again....... :eek:

Hi, Mom!!

They will be a part of every trip. Who knew $12 antique-store glasses could provide so much entertainment? :rotfl:

DisKate

01-13-2010, 11:06 PM

Hi Everyone! Thanks for coming over and joining Meg and I here! We are both really looking forward to our trips and to sharing them with you!

Because of the exhibits policies I was not allowed to take pictures in the Titanic Exhibit, but if you ever get the chance to go see it, it is really good. Before arriving at the exhibit we had the opportunity to get close to a hawk that was on a local university's lawn:

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And our sunset when we were leaving the exhibit:

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After the exhibit we headed to dinner at Dinosaur BBQ and while we were there we learned something that led to an unexpected event. Our waitress asked us what our plans for the evening were and when we said we were heading home she said she was suprised she thought that we must be going to Disney on Ice since I had a WDW sweatshirt on...We didn't even know it was playing at the arena across the street from where we were! We ended up deciding to go see if we could get good seats. We did! The gentleman at the ticket counter even gave us a coupon for $10 seats!

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Right before the intermission started my camera died so I don't have any pictures from the second half to share with you but it was all about Cinderella. If I can get some pics from my friend's camera I will share them later this week. Sorry for the large size!

Charleston Princess

01-14-2010, 04:32 AM

Katie, Disney on Ice looks like a lot of fun!!!

DisKate

01-14-2010, 09:38 AM

Katie, Disney on Ice looks like a lot of fun!!!

It was a ton of fun! And so unexpected! The friend that we were with has never been to any Disney On Ice show, so she was thrilled that we ended up there! It was a really good show too, I might try to convince Patrick that we should go again when it's here in Buffalo next week :lmao:

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 10:14 AM

It was a ton of fun! And so unexpected! The friend that we were with has never been to any Disney On Ice show, so she was thrilled that we ended up there! It was a really good show too, I might try to convince Patrick that we should go again when it's here in Buffalo next week :lmao:

Do it! :rotfl2: Btw your pictures came out amazing. I forgot to ask you what the show was about when you texted me last night. It looks like so much fun and I'm so glad you got to go!

I decided to change my font color (to differentiate from Katie's updates) to a pretty purple color. I made some headway on trip-related things!!! I wanted to switch my dog Caesar's vet to the one that we board him with, just because it's actually much closer to me and much, much easier to get to. So, I did that -- I called to have them fax his records to the new vet, AND I scheduled his boarding!! I'm dropping him off the day before we leave, because our flight on the 10th leaves Boston a little after 7 am. I'm calling tomorrow to set up an appointment for his kennel cough vaccine. Just having those two things done takes a LOT off my mind -- we are leaving in 27 days and I'm finally starting to feel like a cross between this guy, :scared1: and this guy :hyper: . Next time I update, it will likely be about food (Disney food :cloud9: ), or plans and what we really, really want to do on this trip that we didn't do on our last trip. I'm probably going to wait for the food update until Katie finalizes her ADRs. :thumbsup2

manntra

01-14-2010, 10:20 AM

Ooohhh Dinosaur BBQ! Yum!! There is one in Syracuse...about an hour from me! Good eats!! ::yes::

Tracy

DisKate

01-14-2010, 10:29 AM

Do it! :rotfl2: Btw your pictures came out amazing. I forgot to ask you what the show was about when you texted me last night. It looks like so much fun and I'm so glad you got to go!

I decided to change my font color (to differentiate from Katie's updates) to a pretty purple color. I made some headway on trip-related things!!! I wanted to switch my dog Caesar's vet to the one that we board him with, just because it's actually much closer to me and much, much easier to get to. So, I did that -- I called to have them fax his records to the new vet, AND I scheduled his boarding!! I'm dropping him off the day before we leave, because our flight on the 10th leaves Boston a little after 7 am. I'm calling tomorrow to set up an appointment for his kennel cough vaccine. Just having those two things done takes a LOT off my mind -- we are leaving in 27 days and I'm finally starting to feel like a cross between this guy, :scared1: and this guy :hyper: . Next time I update, it will likely be about food (Disney food :cloud9: ), or plans and what we really, really want to do on this trip that we didn't do on our last trip. I'm probably going to wait for the food update until Katie finalizes her ADRs. :thumbsup2

You may not be waiting that long...Kris and my Mom don't seem to have any interest in where we eat (though my Mom has promised to look over a bunch of info I sent her and decide if we want to get the dining plan or not) so I may be making a bunch of reservations later tonight and then just canceling in a couple of weeks if we decide we don't want them. When I checked the other night the places we want were still mostly available.

Slight update: I attempted to schedule our ME pickup on-line (we are staying at BWV through RCI, our timeshare company) and it said it went through but then a couple of days later I got an email saying that they couldn't book our ME online b/c it is through RCI, even though the email you get from RCI said to book it online through a link they provided :confused3 So our ME is scheduled finally! Oh, and a small update from Sunday, I called to confirm our vacation with Disney b/c I had this weird feeling that something was wrong....I spent 45 minutes on the phone with them b/c they had no record of our reservation :scared1: This was after we have already gotten several confirmation emails from RCI and booked our airfare and bought tickets for something special (I'll share this info later when we do itineraries). Luckily after being on hold with Disney while they were on hold with RCI they found our reservation so all was well....just scared me half to death!

DisKate

01-14-2010, 10:33 AM

Ooohhh Dinosaur BBQ! Yum!! There is one in Syracuse...about an hour from me! Good eats!! ::yes::

Tracy

We go to the one in Rochester (but have driven by the one in Syracuse when we drove out there for Disney Store). It is a favorite place of mine....before our October Disney trip this year Patrick took me there and I told him it was the start of the greatest week of my life : Dinosaur BBQ and Disney! :rotfl:

Charleston Princess

01-14-2010, 10:38 AM

DisKate

01-14-2010, 10:45 AM

Megan, I am always the same way about scheduling Nala's kennel visit. Can't wait to hear about the Disney food choices (always my favorite thing at Disney -- well, one of my favorite things ate Disney).

Katie, thank goodness you decided to call! That's the stuff of nightmares right there! :eek:

It was definitely one of my worst nightmares! I'm off to work now, but I'm sure Meghan and I will be doing an official update very soon :)

BrooklynnsMommy

01-14-2010, 10:46 AM

What a great surprise to go see Disney on Ice!

koolcatshelby

01-14-2010, 03:14 PM

Hey guys, can't wait to hear about dinner ressies. I just booked mine for April but not too excited on what I got. Hope you both had better luck! Meghan, just a quick aside (and Katie will appriciate it also) I know how you are a Buffalo Sabres fan, will we took the boys snowmobiling this week and had dinner across the way from the Sabres' coach Lindy Ruff, who was also snowmobiling!! Pretty cool. Well, can't wait for another update.

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 06:19 PM

Megan, I am always the same way about scheduling Nala's kennel visit. Can't wait to hear about the Disney food choices (always my favorite thing at Disney -- well, one of my favorite things ate Disney).

I have such a hard time trying to figure out just when to schedule it -- I don't want to call too early, but then I worry about calling too late and having them be full, especially since we're going for part of the week that all of the schools in our area are on vacation. I'm so glad that our other pets are two birds and two guinea pigs. They're easy. :rotfl:

What a great surprise to go see Disney on Ice!

Katie texted me last night to tell me, and I was jealous but so excited for them -- I still haven't been, but I love seeing the pictures.

Hey guys, can't wait to hear about dinner ressies. I just booked mine for April but not too excited on what I got. Hope you both had better luck! Meghan, just a quick aside (and Katie will appriciate it also) I know how you are a Buffalo Sabres fan, will we took the boys snowmobiling this week and had dinner across the way from the Sabres' coach Lindy Ruff, who was also snowmobiling!! Pretty cool. Well, can't wait for another update.

Ooh, when in April are you going? Where are you staying?

We had pretty good luck with ADRs -- it was impossible to get anything on the day that they switched it back to 180 days, but once that craziness died down, it was really easy to book online. My mom was really excited about that, so she took advantage. I don't even know how many we have. :lmao:

That's really cool that you were right near the coach!! I do like the Sabres when they not are playing the Bruins. ;) We will hopefully update tonight or tomorrow!

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 06:33 PM

Slight update: I attempted to schedule our ME pickup on-line (we are staying at BWV through RCI, our timeshare company) and it said it went through but then a couple of days later I got an email saying that they couldn't book our ME online b/c it is through RCI, even though the email you get from RCI said to book it online through a link they provided :confused3 So our ME is scheduled finally! Oh, and a small update from Sunday, I called to confirm our vacation with Disney b/c I had this weird feeling that something was wrong....I spent 45 minutes on the phone with them b/c they had no record of our reservation :scared1: This was after we have already gotten several confirmation emails from RCI and booked our airfare and bought tickets for something special (I'll share this info later when we do itineraries). Luckily after being on hold with Disney while they were on hold with RCI they found our reservation so all was well....just scared me half to death!

Wait, did you tell me about this? I just re-read and noticed that -- now I am very curious! Are you holding back pertinent information from your very best DIS friend? :lmao:

Lovemy3babes

01-14-2010, 06:40 PM

What's RCI? I'm sorry your reservation was messed up!!

Love the Disney on Ice pictures! Someday I'd love to see it. :)

DisKate

01-14-2010, 08:05 PM

Wait, did you tell me about this? I just re-read and noticed that -- now I am very curious! Are you holding back pertinent information from your very best DIS friend? :lmao:

I'm pretty sure that I told you? Maybe I didn't...we just booked it on Saturday, so maybe not?

What's RCI? I'm sorry your reservation was messed up!!

Love the Disney on Ice pictures! Someday I'd love to see it. :)

RCI is a timeshare company that we own points with. I love Disney On Ice, it's always a ton of fun!

On a great note, I made some ADR's tonight!!! I ended up making more then we needed because we haven't finalized plans yet, but I'm going to cancel some this weekend when we finalize if we are getting the dining plan or not...

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 08:11 PM

I'm pretty sure that I told you? Maybe I didn't...we just booked it on Saturday, so maybe not?

It's hard to say. My memory isn't that great so I'm sure if you did tell me, and I read about it in an update, I'm going to suddenly remember you telling me. Charles gets so irritated with me because I have such a hard time remembering anything that is said. :rotfl:

My mom found our ADR list and printed me out a copy! We have eight altogether and two on two days. :eek: Definitely not keeping them all but I'm excited!

DisKate

01-14-2010, 08:20 PM

It's hard to say. My memory isn't that great so I'm sure if you did tell me, and I read about it in an update, I'm going to suddenly remember you telling me. Charles gets so irritated with me because I have such a hard time remembering anything that is said. :rotfl:

My mom found our ADR list and printed me out a copy! We have eight altogether and two on two days. :eek: Definitely not keeping them all but I'm excited!

I booked 10 :scared1: we have mulitples scheduled for 3 of our days! But that only happened because after I scheduled our first set I did some "wouldn't it be great if _____had a table available" and lots of them did :banana::banana: So I'm going to hold onto both until I know if we are paying OP or DP.....I can't decide which way I would prefer it, eat at all these great places or not be tied down to a set schedule for the whole trip :confused3 I wish you could do partial dining plans

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 08:28 PM

I booked 10 :scared1: we have mulitples scheduled for 3 of our days! But that only happened because after I scheduled our first set I did some "wouldn't it be great if _____had a table available" and lots of them did :banana::banana: So I'm going to hold onto both until I know if we are paying OP or DP.....I can't decide which way I would prefer it, eat at all these great places or not be tied down to a set schedule for the whole trip :confused3 I wish you could do partial dining plans

Yeah, part of the reason we don't do a lot of TS is because we don't really want to waste all the time, or be tied down to a set schedule for the whole trip. We like to have options, but we also like food. :rotfl2: Sooooo, you wanna do the ADR update? I need to note which ones we are keeping, which ones we might keep, and which ones we are likely going to cancel.

DisKate

01-14-2010, 08:37 PM

Yeah, part of the reason we don't do a lot of TS is because we don't really want to waste all the time, or be tied down to a set schedule for the whole trip. We like to have options, but we also like food. :rotfl2: Sooooo, you wanna do the ADR update? I need to note which ones we are keeping, which ones we might keep, and which ones we are likely going to cancel.

We can if you're ready! Though I'm going to look a tad crazy for booking so many :rotfl: Hopefully everyone on here will understand!

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 08:40 PM

We can if you're ready! Though I'm going to look a tad crazy for booking so many :rotfl: Hopefully everyone on here will understand!

Psh, they will. I sure do. :rotfl: I like having options! Going to make the list in a separate post. :)

DisKate

01-14-2010, 09:06 PM

ADR Update!

So I made a bunch of ADR's today...way more that we need and a few are on the same days as others. I feel somewhat bad about taking up multiple reservations, but they are for places that had several available and I know that I will be canceling some this weekend so that helps me feel a bit better about it. So here we go!

3/13-Arrival Day! So probably something at the Boardwalk because we are getting in late
3/14-Tonys @ 12 and 2:40, Coral Reef @ 7:20 (we will keep one of the Tony's if we don't do the DP, if we do we keep CR)
3/15-Whispering Canyon 5:10pm, Le Cellier 2:25 (really excited about this one!)
3/16-Probably Big River Grille for dinner after our special event
3/17-'Ohana 5:05 (most likely the one we will keep), Tutto Italia 5:40
3/18-Crystal Palace 2pm (Keeping this one regardless)
3/19-Raglan Road 3:15 (probably canceling this one), Tutto 5:20 (keeping if we get DP)

So thats our food for the week, depending on if we get the DP or not of course....If we get the DP then I'm going to be super excited about Le Cellier, 'Ohana, and Tutto! And if we don't then I get to look forward to Tony's, Crystal Palace, and Columbia Harbor House!!!! Either way, I'm going to be happy just to be in Disney with my Mom and Kris!

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 09:17 PM

The Megablocks' clan ADR list :banana:

Sadly, we're not going to keep all of these. We're not doing a dining plan; we're paying OOP for all of these. My mom mostly made them just to have them, and because after the craziness of the first day of being able to book 180 days out, it was incredibly easy to book online, and she loved having that option. :rotfl:

Thursday, February 11: Le Cellier @ 2:30 pm

I think we are keeping this. We were supposed to eat here last year, but we didn't, because my dad was still not feeling well and wouldn't have been able to eat anything. Kailyn is a pretty picky eater, but she's also not a big eater, so if anything, I think she'd make a meal on the bread and a side of potatoes. She doesn't like meat or any kind of seafood, except for shrimp, and she's picky about some kinds of veggies. So, this is a maybe. If we eat here, I want to try the cheddar cheese soup, mushroom steak, and the creme brulee. :cloud9:

Friday, February 12: Le Cellier @ 4:30 pm; Rose & Crown @ 6:45 pm

I'm almost 100% certain that we're canceling this Le Cellier, and most likely keeping Rose & Crown. It's a late night at Epcot this night, and if we're lucky, we would be able to see Illuminations. I'm dying to eat here so I can try the Yorkshire pudding (I decided after seeing it in LL and Jen's food countdown), so I'd probably get the Sunday Roast. I also really want to try a Welsh dragon. It even comes in a souvenir cup!

Saturday, February 13: 1900 Park Fare @ 4:30 pm

We are without a doubt keeping this one. This will be a first for us, and I am SO excited for it! It's a buffet, so Kailyn will definitely find something to her liking, and we are all dying to meet the stepsisters and Lady Tremaine. I've YouTubed videos from this and was cracking up at all of them. I'm also really excited to see the Grand Floridian in person.

Sunday, February 14: Kona Cafe @ 5:05; Tony's Town Square @ 8:50 pm

This is the day that we are also doing the Keys to the Kingdom Tour at Magic Kingdom!!! We are all really looking forward to this. I've heard nothing but good things about it, and Katie did it last year and said it was awesome.

If we keep one of these ADRs, it's going to be Tony's. I really, really want to eat at Kona one day, but it probably won't be on this trip. I'm okay with that, and I'm fine with Tony's. Either one would be a first for us, which is exciting. This is the day that MK is open late for EMH, so we're definitely going to be there, and my mom and I are determined to at least try to make it the whole time, just to say we did. The KTTK tour is at 9:30 am, but if we need to, we can go back to Pop and take a nap so we're all ready for a night at MK. Tony's is going to be there if we're hungry.

Monday, February 15: Les Chefs de France @ 2:30 pm

This is another first, so I'm hoping to keep this. The baked mac and cheese is calling my name, and it's something that Kailyn would most likely eat. The vanilla creme brulee is also something that I am dying to try. My only concern (not even really a concern because I am used to his craziness), is that my dad, being my dad, will blurt out random phrases like, "SOUP DU JOUR!," or try to order his food by sounding out the French words phonetically. My dad is an amazing guy with a great sense of humor, and sometimes he enjoys embarrassing his daughters. :rotfl: I am personally hoping that he says "bonjour" to our waiter or waitress and that they start speaking French to him, as my French-speaking aunt (my dad's sister) does to him sometimes.

Tuesday, February 16: Chef Mickey's @ 5:05 pm

We are definitely keeping this, because this Kailyn's birthday dinner. :bday: Chef Mickey's is a tradition for us; we have gone there on every trip since our first trip in 1994. It's also Kailyn's favorite, which is why we're eating here on her birthday. We've actually eaten here on a few of her birthdays. I love the atmosphere, and it's always so much fun for me to go because it holds so many good memories. I think I'd be lost if we ever went on Disney trip and didn't go here.

So, there is it -- the master list of ADRs. My mom and I are also hoping to get to the Poly so we can go to Captain Cook's for tonga toast. We didn't get to on our last trip and we both really want to try it. It looks like it's pretty big, so we are willing to split it.

If anyone has thoughts/ideas/input, especially on Tony's, Chefs, and 1900 PF, we would love to hear it!

DisKate

01-14-2010, 09:29 PM

CanadianWDWfan

01-14-2010, 09:41 PM

DisKate

01-14-2010, 09:54 PM

Thanks for the invite! I'm late but I soo glad to be here! :woohoo:

This is an awesome idea to have a joint PTR!

I look forward to following along...and laughing. The infamous "glasses" are the best!

I will spread pixiedust: all over here so this coming trip will be without any problems.

pixiedust: *** pixiedust: *** pixiedust: *** pixiedust: *** pixiedust:

I am curious about this 'Dino BBQ' place everyone is talking about.
I am close to Syracuse so maybe I need to check it out sometime.

I've never been to Disney on Ice. Was it the 'Princess' one you saw?

I really want one of those snow cones in a Tinkerbell cup....:rolleyes1

ADR's look great! I would eat at any of those places!

Thanks for joining! Dinosaur BBQ has places in Syracuse, Rocheser, and NYC...they also have some of the best mac and cheese! And it was the 'Princess' show that we saw! It was really good! And I wanted a snow cone but choose cotton candy again...I kind of regret that decision now, so next year I will probably have to get the snowcone.

Thanks for the pixie dust!

Megablocks

01-14-2010, 09:56 PM

You're ADR's look awesome! We are doing CP because that is one of the things that I really remember doing from when we were there all that time ago....You are going to have a blast on the KttK tour! It's so fun!

Yours look awesome as well! I am SO excited for the KTTK tour. I'm so glad that Kailyn is now old enough for these kinds of things. I also really wanted to do horseback riding at Fort Wilderness with her, as a birthday present from me, but our dad is severely allergic to horses. He's so allergic he can't even be around people who have been around horses, so we'd each have to shower (and be careful about touching anything in the room), change our clothes, and wash the clothes that we wore riding separately from everyone else's clothes. I need to talk to my mom and Kailyn, maybe Kailyn and I could do that and my mom and dad could go somewhere on their own... :scratchin

Thanks for the invite! I'm late but I soo glad to be here! :woohoo:

This is an awesome idea to have a joint PTR!

I look forward to following along...and laughing. The infamous "glasses" are the best!

I will spread pixiedust: all over here so this coming trip will be without any problems.

pixiedust: *** pixiedust: *** pixiedust: *** pixiedust: *** pixiedust:

I am curious about this 'Dino BBQ' place everyone is talking about.
I am close to Syracuse so maybe I need to check it out sometime.

I've never been to Disney on Ice. Was it the 'Princess' one you saw?

I really want one of those snow cones in a Tinkerbell cup....:rolleyes1

ADR's look great! I would eat at any of those places!

HI LANA! I'm so glad you got my PM and that you came to read!

Thank you so much for all the pixie dust. :goodvibes Kailyn is really excited and I'm hoping that it's a good do-over, especially for her and my dad.

I've never been to or heard of Dinosaur BBQ until Katie mentioned it. I want to go there, though! Let me know if you ever end up making plans to go to Syracuse -- that sounds like a possible DIS meet. :idea:

The glasses will make many appearances in pictures. I think I might devote an entire post to "glasses" pictures. :rotfl:

Charleston Princess

01-15-2010, 04:29 AM

MeMom

01-15-2010, 05:24 AM

Either way, I'm going to be happy just to be in Disney with my Mom and Kris!

Just what I like to hear! We are all so very, very fortunate to take trips like this, so it's silly for people to stress over little inconveniences or not getting the times and places they want to eat.

The Megablocks' clan ADR list

Saturday, February 13: 1900 Park Fare @ 4:30 pm

We are without a doubt keeping this one. This will be a first for us, and I am SO excited for it! It's a buffet, so Kailyn will definitely find something to her liking, and we are all dying to meet the stepsisters and Lady Tremaine. I've YouTubed videos from this and was cracking up at all of them. I'm also really excited to see the Grand Floridian in person.

Monday, February 15: Les Chefs de France @ 2:30 pm

This is another first, so I'm hoping to keep this. The baked mac and cheese is calling my name, and it's something that Kailyn would most likely eat. The vanilla creme brulee is also something that I am dying to try. My only concern (not even really a concern because I am used to his craziness), is that my dad, being my dad, will blurt out random phrases like, "SOUP DU JOUR!," or try to order his food by sounding out the French words phonetically. My dad is an amazing guy with a great sense of humor, and sometimes he enjoys embarrassing his daughters. :rotfl: I am personally hoping that he says "bonjour" to our waiter or waitress and that they start speaking French to him, as my French-speaking aunt (my dad's sister) does to him sometimes.

Tuesday, February 16: Chef Mickey's @ 5:05 pm

We are definitely keeping this, because this Kailyn's birthday dinner. :bday: Chef Mickey's is a tradition for us; we have gone there on every trip since our first trip in 1994. It's also Kailyn's favorite, which is why we're eating here on her birthday. We've actually eaten here on a few of her birthdays. I love the atmosphere, and it's always so much fun for me to go because it holds so many good memories. I think I'd be lost if we ever went on Disney trip and didn't go here.

So, there is it -- the master list of ADRs. My mom and I are also hoping to get to the Poly so we can go to Captain Cook's for tonga toast. We didn't get to on our last trip and we both really want to try it. It looks like it's pretty big, so we are willing to split it.

If anyone has thoughts/ideas/input, especially on Tony's, Chefs, and 1900 PF, we would love to hear it![/COLOR]

I'm glad you get to see the Grand. The lobby is beautiful! We're doing 1900 Park Fare for the first time this summer - just Jill, Brooklynn, and me as a special treat for Brooklynn.

Can you take the video camera with you to Chefs? I want to see your dad in action! :)

Bella gets her first Chef Mickey's meal this summer, too! :yay:

Tonga toast is big. You'll be able to split it.

I've never been to Disney on Ice. Was it the 'Princess' one you saw?

I really want one of those snow cones in a Tinkerbell cup....:rolleyes1

ADR's look great! I would eat at any of those places!

Disney on Ice is a great treat! It's especially nice when you can see it during long spells between trips.

Yours look awesome as well! I am SO excited for the KTTK tour. I'm so glad that Kailyn is now old enough for these kinds of things. I also really wanted to do horseback riding at Fort Wilderness with her, as a birthday present from me, but our dad is severely allergic to horses. He's so allergic he can't even be around people who have been around horses, so we'd each have to shower (and be careful about touching anything in the room), change our clothes, and wash the clothes that we wore riding separately from everyone else's clothes. I need to talk to my mom and Kailyn, maybe Kailyn and I could do that and my mom and dad could go somewhere on their own... :scratchin

I've never been to or heard of Dinosaur BBQ until Katie mentioned it. I want to go there, though! Let me know if you ever end up making plans to go to Syracuse -- that sounds like a possible DIS meet. :idea:

The glasses will make many appearances in pictures. I think I might devote an entire post to "glasses" pictures. :rotfl:

Maybe you can do the horseback riding if you ever have a girls' trip. That would be sad if dad got sick.

I hope you guys get that Dis meet sometime!

Lots of good eating between the two of you!!! Tuesday is my ADR day and reading all the great ones you both got has me super excited! Hurray for Le Cellier -- that's our number one wish for this trip!

Pretty exciting stuff to have ADR day approaching! :dance3:

Megablocks

01-15-2010, 10:41 AM

Lots of good eating between the two of you!!! Tuesday is my ADR day and reading all the great ones you both got has me super excited! Hurray for Le Cellier -- that's our number one wish for this trip!

I really hope we can keep it. We ate there years ago and I really want to go back. Yay for your ADR day -- I hope you get Le Cellier!

Just what I like to hear! We are all so very, very fortunate to take trips like this, so it's silly for people to stress over little inconveniences or not getting the times and places they want to eat.

I'm glad you get to see the Grand. The lobby is beautiful! We're doing 1900 Park Fare for the first time this summer - just Jill, Brooklynn, and me as a special treat for Brooklynn.

Can you take the video camera with you to Chefs? I want to see your dad in action! :)

Bella gets her first Chef Mickey's meal this summer, too! :yay:

Tonga toast is big. You'll be able to split it.

Disney on Ice is a great treat! It's especially nice when you can see it during long spells between trips.

Maybe you can do the horseback riding if you ever have a girls' trip. That would be sad if dad got sick.

I hope you guys get that Dis meet sometime!

Pretty exciting stuff to have ADR day approaching! :dance3:

I'm really really really excited to see the GF. I want to get there early just so I can wander and take pictures.

My camera has video on it so I will gladly get my dad in action at Chef Mickey's! :rotfl: I'm glad that the tonga toast is easy to split -- my mom and I have seen pictures and it looks pretty big, and we're not big breakfast eaters, so splitting it would be perfect. :)

I am hoping for some kind of DIS meet! I used to think that Buffalo and Boston were 6 hours apart, but I think it's more like 7 or 8, so Katie and I are hoping to at some point pick a halfway point to meet up. It's just tricky because we both have school and work, and Charles absolutely hates long drives. I might be able to convince him to go with me as a birthday present. :scratchin

Yeah, I think the horseback riding would be better for a girls' trip. We're in one room at Pop, and even if my dad wasn't in the room, Kailyn or I would have to shower quickly, and the other would have to wait outside. I'm going to ask Kailyn if there's anything that she'd like to do for her birthday that I can pay for.

DisKate

01-15-2010, 11:45 AM

I really hope we can keep it. We ate there years ago and I really want to go back. Yay for your ADR day -- I hope you get Le Cellier!

I'm really really really excited to see the GF. I want to get there early just so I can wander and take pictures.

My camera has video on it so I will gladly get my dad in action at Chef Mickey's! :rotfl: I'm glad that the tonga toast is easy to split -- my mom and I have seen pictures and it looks pretty big, and we're not big breakfast eaters, so splitting it would be perfect. :)

I am hoping for some kind of DIS meet! I used to think that Buffalo and Boston were 6 hours apart, but I think it's more like 7 or 8, so Katie and I are hoping to at some point pick a halfway point to meet up. It's just tricky because we both have school and work, and Charles absolutely hates long drives. I might be able to convince him to go with me as a birthday present. :scratchin

Yeah, I think the horseback riding would be better for a girls' trip. We're in one room at Pop, and even if my dad wasn't in the room, Kailyn or I would have to shower quickly, and the other would have to wait outside. I'm going to ask Kailyn if there's anything that she'd like to do for her birthday that I can pay for.

Don't know how you or Kailyn feel about heights, but what about the new balloon ride at DTD? Just a thought! I'm going to my Mom's for at least tonight, so I probably won't be on again until late tomorrow night or Sunday...Have a great weekend everyone!

Lovemy3babes

01-15-2010, 12:13 PM

Those ADRs look great! Le Cellier tops my must-do list next trip. Everyone just raves about it!

Megablocks

01-15-2010, 05:59 PM

Don't know how you or Kailyn feel about heights, but what about the new balloon ride at DTD? Just a thought! I'm going to my Mom's for at least tonight, so I probably won't be on again until late tomorrow night or Sunday...Have a great weekend everyone!

That is a really good idea! I'm okay with heights as long as I feel secure. If we end up doing the balloon ride, I might have to keep it a secret from Charles until after the fact because he is deathly afraid of heights and he was SO nervous about the parasailing. He felt bad that it didn't end up happening, but he was relieved, too. :upsidedow

Hope you have a good weekend :hug:

Those ADRs look great! Le Cellier tops my must-do list next trip. Everyone just raves about it!

Thanks! I really hope that we get to do Le Cellier, but if we don't...oh well, we're in Disney World :banana:

DisKate

01-17-2010, 09:56 PM

My Mom and I had a serious conversation yesterday regarding our families eating styles and about what we are hoping to do on this trip...we have decided to do the DP. And I think I have finalized our ADR's, though I will probably change some a few times :lmao: No actual finalizing for me!

So, here they are!

3/13-Dinner at Boardwalk after we get in (most likely Big River)
3/14-Tony's 8:05pm
3/15-Le Cellier 2:25pm
3/16-Whispering Canyon Cafe 7:45pm
3/17- 'Ohana 5:05pm
3/18-Crystal Palace 4:40
3/19-Tutto Italia 5:20

I think this is our finalized list....and hopefully our itinerary will work well...once I actually figure it out!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Megablocks

01-17-2010, 10:48 PM

I am so glad that you finally got to make some decisions about the dining plan and ADRs -- I felt bad that it was stressing you out. Crystal Palace was one of the places that my mom wanted to eat, but it's going to be closed for refurb most of the time that we're there. We do have lots of other good eats, though. I also want to try Tutto Italia and WCC at some point. I don't think 'Ohana would ever make the cut with Kailyn, because she won't touch meat. Sigh.

I can't wait for your itinerary, because before I finally deleted my one month worth of texts from my phone a couple of days ago, I checked to see if you ever told me about the surprise. I don't think you di-iiiiiid... :rolleyes1 :rotfl2:

My trip-related news: I realized that I can't schedule Caesar's vaccinations until Tuesday, because I forgot that tomorrow is a holiday. :headache: I've also started to have weird dreams about our trip. Right before I do something (anywhere from cutting off my hair to going to Disney), I have bizarre dreams about it. Last night, I had a dream that we were out in Ohio visiting family. I was looking at a calendar and noticing that our Ohio dates and our Disney dates overlapped, BUT my mom couldn't give me any definite details on our trip dates. I was thinking, "so are we going to fly out of Columbus instead?" I'm pretty the dream ended with me staring at the calendar, trying to figure out how such a thing could happen. Another trip-related dream from last night was that instead of Caesar's old vet faxing the new vet his information, all they got was a fax saying, "Caesar [our last name] had his rabies vaccine on (random date)", and that was it. Nothing about his other vaccines, just the rabies vaccine. :confused3 That dream freaked me out even more than the other one because I am diligent about keeping Caesar up-to-date on his vaccines, and it somehow just planted that little seed of doubt in my mind. Sigh. Silly subconscious.

I also went to Barnes & Noble last night, where I got Kingdom Keepers, which I really only know about because of the DIS boards. I haven't gotten very far at all, but it's awesome to read about all the things in the parks, and know exactly what they are talking about.

I hope everyone had a good weekend -- I am hoping to compile some of our "glasses" pictures and post them at some point!

DisKate

01-17-2010, 11:00 PM

Charleston Princess

01-18-2010, 07:33 AM

DisKate

01-18-2010, 10:29 AM

Katie, good job on finalizing your dining ressies! I think you will like the convenience of the dining plan -- we do it for all of our big trips and just love not having to think about budgeting for meals.

Megan, I always have weird freaky dreams before trips, too, where something isn't going the way it is supposed to. I hope you love The Kingdom Keepers! The kids and I have read the first two, and the third one is supposed to come out in April. We just get the biggest kick out of it a book that is all about our favorite place!

Thanks CP! I think I'm just going to have to tell myself to quit worrying about it and go with it. My Mom wouldn't have said yes to it if she didn't think its what will work best for us.

Meg,
I now have to go find Kingdom Keepers and read it before we go back to school next week. Let me know what you think of it!

Megablocks

01-18-2010, 10:51 AM

Whoops..........guess I owe you a text explaining....I could have sworn I told you what we are doing...hmmmmmm....guess not! And I am totally still stressing over our ADR's....I keep going back and forth on the DP....My main worry is that it isn't the best value for us....its going to be expensive ($1200, though I don't feel that is too expensive considering we are at Disney) for a week with four adults....but I can see us getting a great value out of it as well, and my mom did agree that that amount sounded about right for what she typically figures for a week long vacation with us...it's just that I have been booking everything for this trip so I know exactly how much it is costing :scared1::scared1::scared1: plus my mom has had some unexpected home repairs in the past month that is seriously crimping her cash flow...but at the same time I realize that Disney is somewhat $$$...I just can't seem to settle one way or the other...

Is it $1200 for all of you? If it is, I think that's a pretty good deal, because that's like $300 apiece, right? I think that's pretty good for four adults. Would it help to look at the menus and try to price out what everyone might want to eat? I'd totally help you with that.

Megan, I always have weird freaky dreams before trips, too, where something isn't going the way it is supposed to. I hope you love The Kingdom Keepers! The kids and I have read the first two, and the third one is supposed to come out in April. We just get the biggest kick out of it a book that is all about our favorite place!

It is SO irritating. I didn't have any last night, thankfully, but I'm pretty sure it's going to happen again in the next three weeks. The one about Caesar's vaccines (or lack thereof) made me :eek: because with the exception of the bordatella/kennel cough vaccine, which he only needs before he is being boarded, I am so careful about keeping those up-to-date.

I LOVE KK so far! I am pretty sure I'll never look at Its A Small World the same. I don't really like dolls to begin with, and those WERE on my "okay" list. :lmao:

Meg,
I now have to go find Kingdom Keepers and read it before we go back to school next week. Let me know what you think of it!

I'm a little more than halfway through and I LOVE it! Let me know when you read it so we can talk about it. I am already anxious to go get the second one. :rotfl: I really only remembered to get it because I was going to go to the "travel" section and find a Disney book, and then I remembered hearing about Kingdom Keepers, so I hunted that down, instead, and I'm SO glad I did!

DisKate

01-18-2010, 11:13 AM

Is it $1200 for all of you? If it is, I think that's a pretty good deal, because that's like $300 apiece, right? I think that's pretty good for four adults. Would it help to look at the menus and try to price out what everyone might want to eat? I'd totally help you with that.

It is SO irritating. I didn't have any last night, thankfully, but I'm pretty sure it's going to happen again in the next three weeks. The one about Caesar's vaccines (or lack thereof) made me :eek: because with the exception of the bordatella/kennel cough vaccine, which he only needs before he is being boarded, I am so careful about keeping those up-to-date.

I LOVE KK so far! I am pretty sure I'll never look at Its A Small World the same. I don't really like dolls to begin with, and those WERE on my "okay" list. :lmao:

I'm a little more than halfway through and I LOVE it! Let me know when you read it so we can talk about it. I am already anxious to go get the second one. :rotfl: I really only remembered to get it because I was going to go to the "travel" section and find a Disney book, and then I remembered hearing about Kingdom Keepers, so I hunted that down, instead, and I'm SO glad I did!

Ok, when you split it up into $300 each for a week that for some reason sounds a lot better to me....crazy! I tried pricing out just what I would get at table service meals last night....I came to a value of $244 for seven TS meals...which if we are saying $300 for the week..then $56 on seven QS and seven snacks isn't that much...wow....Good job Meg :thumbsup2 You just put it all into perspective for me! I'll even forgive you for having an EoS in your city :lmao:

Charleston Princess

01-18-2010, 01:02 PM

I LOVE KK so far! I am pretty sure I'll never look at Its A Small World the same. I don't really like dolls to begin with, and those WERE on my "okay" list. :lmao:

I promise you that you will definitely never look at it the same way again. Now, every time we ride it, the kids and I are joking about that scene. :rotfl:

Megablocks

01-18-2010, 06:59 PM

Ok, when you split it up into $300 each for a week that for some reason sounds a lot better to me....crazy! I tried pricing out just what I would get at table service meals last night....I came to a value of $244 for seven TS meals...which if we are saying $300 for the week..then $56 on seven QS and seven snacks isn't that much...wow....Good job Meg :thumbsup2 You just put it all into perspective for me! I'll even forgive you for having an EoS in your city :lmao:

I'm all about making things sound better than they really are, especially when it comes to money -- it's how I justified dropping $100 on a Blackberry I'm stuck with for two years. I finally just decided that it's only like $50 a year. :rotfl:

I still cannot believe there's an EoS in the airport. I really hope it's not past the gates because I want to go there so badly. I wonder how funny Charles would look at me if I said that I wanted to take the T to the airport so I could get a sandwich. :lmao:

I promise you that you will definitely never look at it the same way again. Now, every time we ride it, the kids and I are joking about that scene. :rotfl:

My friend from work just finished it and wrote on my Facebook that IASW will forever creep her out now. My mom wants to read it when I'm done and I can't wait to see what she has to say about it. I went up to Barnes and Noble after work tonight and got the second one -- I am obsessed now!

Charleston Princess

01-18-2010, 07:50 PM

My friend from work just finished it and wrote on my Facebook that IASW will forever creep her out now. My mom wants to read it when I'm done and I can't wait to see what she has to say about it. I went up to Barnes and Noble after work tonight and got the second one -- I am obsessed now!

Make sure you put April 6 on your calendar -- that's when the third one comes out -- I already have it in my Amazon cart. :rotfl:

DisKate

01-18-2010, 08:48 PM

I wouldn't look at you weirdly if you said you wanted to go the airport to get some EoS! I'm still looking for the book...its somewhere in our apartment...

UPDATE:

Today we registered for Give-A-Day...so I should have some pictures to post later this week!

Megablocks

01-18-2010, 09:04 PM

Make sure you put April 6 on your calendar -- that's when the third one comes out -- I already have it in my Amazon cart. :rotfl:

Oh, that's perfect -- that's a week before my birthday! That is the perfect birthday present to myself. :rotfl2:

I wouldn't look at you weirdly if you said you wanted to go the airport to get some EoS! I'm still looking for the book...its somewhere in our apartment...

UPDATE:

Today we registered for Give-A-Day...so I should have some pictures to post later this week!

And that's why I love you :rotfl: You and other DISers would understand this and encourage it. Charles, on the other hand, would probably just say, "why not Panera?", because he's never had EoS, and quite honestly, the T can be a huge pain, but it would be worth it. Maybe if I tell him that it's like Panera, but better, he'd be willing to go.

I'm so excited that you registered for that -- I would love to see any pictures! I need to take a picture of my Mickey head countdown; it's diminishing so quickly. :eek: :woohoo:

Tink9721

01-18-2010, 09:29 PM

I'm here! I love the joint TR idea! I also have a very close friend that I met on another forum :)

There's a Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science, and Charles and I are going next Thursday before we go to the Bruins game, so if there's any Harry Potter fans, I want to post pictures.

Oooh! I love Harry Potter! I might have to go check that out!

Right before I do something (anywhere from cutting off my hair to going to Disney), I have bizarre dreams about it.

Me too!!! I've had a Disney dream almost every night since we booked the trip! I had one a few nights ago that the trip was over and somehow we never got to ride anything in MK :scared1: And last night I had a dream that I was in line for the Tower of Terror and my grandma appeared out of nowhere. My grandma is 84 years old and walks with a cane so the Tower of Terror line is not a good place for her to be :rotfl:

DisKate

01-18-2010, 09:49 PM

Oh, that's perfect -- that's a week before my birthday! That is the perfect birthday present to myself. :rotfl2:

And that's why I love you :rotfl: You and other DISers would understand this and encourage it. Charles, on the other hand, would probably just say, "why not Panera?", because he's never had EoS, and quite honestly, the T can be a huge pain, but it would be worth it. Maybe if I tell him that it's like Panera, but better, he'd be willing to go.

I'm so excited that you registered for that -- I would love to see any pictures! I need to take a picture of my Mickey head countdown; it's diminishing so quickly. :eek: :woohoo:

:thumbsup2

I still need to create a countdown for our trip....So I'm excited that you are going to the HP exhibit and the Bruins game this week! (It is this week right?) I think that we need to get Charles to Disney sometime....Patrick's mom still hasn't heard back about the house....the bank is taking forever and isn't giving her any feedback....I want them to hurry up and accept the offer so that I can start planning trips, ones that involve you!

Megablocks

01-18-2010, 10:07 PM

I'm here! I love the joint TR idea! I also have a very close friend that I met on another forum :)

Oooh! I love Harry Potter! I might have to go check that out!

Me too!!! I've had a Disney dream almost every night since we booked the trip! I had one a few nights ago that the trip was over and somehow we never got to ride anything in MK :scared1: And last night I had a dream that I was in line for the Tower of Terror and my grandma appeared out of nowhere. My grandma is 84 years old and walks with a cane so the Tower of Terror line is not a good place for her to be :rotfl:

Hey! Thank you for coming over -- we are very excited to have readers :rotfl: Isn't it funny how you can become so close with someone you meet on a message board? When I registered, I had no idea that I would end up being so close with another DISer. :goodvibes

I'm definitely going to update about the HP exhibit -- I think it's there till February 21. I'm really really excited for it! I've been looking forward to this day for almost a month -- I got a pair of Bruins tickets for Christmas, so I'm going to the HP exhibit AND the game and have been looking forward to both since Christmas!

I had a dream like that, too! It wasn't too recently, it might have even been before our trip last year, but we were leaving and we had hardly done anything or gone anywhere. :scared1: I was the only who really seemed to care about it, too, which was even crazier!

:thumbsup2

I still need to create a countdown for our trip....So I'm excited that you are going to the HP exhibit and the Bruins game this week! (It is this week right?) I think that we need to get Charles to Disney sometime....Patrick's mom still hasn't heard back about the house....the bank is taking forever and isn't giving her any feedback....I want them to hurry up and accept the offer so that I can start planning trips, ones that involve you!

Yes, go liberate some Mickey heads. :laughing: And you're right, they are this week, on Thursday. I'm SO excited! I've seriously been looking forward to this since Christmas.

I would LOVE to be able to go to Disney with you! We do need to get Charles there but he wants the first time, whenever that it is, to be with his family, which I understand. Any time after that should be fair game, though. I hope she hears back soon. I remember when you messaged me about that on FB a little while back and said that Charles and I would have to come stay with you guys at some point -- I told Charles that and he thought it was so nice. In the meantime, I think I'm going to start working on him to go with me to meet up with you guys for my birthday. If it's for my birthday, the unhappiness at the drive would be minimally voiced. :rolleyes1

DisKate

01-18-2010, 10:18 PM

Hey! Thank you for coming over -- we are very excited to have readers :rotfl: Isn't it funny how you can become so close with someone you meet on a message board? When I registered, I had no idea that I would end up being so close with another DISer. :goodvibes

I'm definitely going to update about the HP exhibit -- I think it's there till February 21. I'm really really excited for it! I've been looking forward to this day for almost a month -- I got a pair of Bruins tickets for Christmas, so I'm going to the HP exhibit AND the game and have been looking forward to both since Christmas!

I had a dream like that, too! It wasn't too recently, it might have even been before our trip last year, but we were leaving and we had hardly done anything or gone anywhere. :scared1: I was the only who really seemed to care about it, too, which was even crazier!

Yes, go liberate some Mickey heads. :laughing: And you're right, they are this week, on Thursday. I'm SO excited! I've seriously been looking forward to this since Christmas.

I would LOVE to be able to go to Disney with you! We do need to get Charles there but he wants the first time, whenever that it is, to be with his family, which I understand. Any time after that should be fair game, though. I hope she hears back soon. I remember when you messaged me about that on FB a little while back and said that Charles and I would have to come stay with you guys at some point -- I told Charles that and he thought it was so nice. In the meantime, I think I'm going to start working on him to go with me to meet up with you guys for my birthday. If it's for my birthday, the unhappiness at the drive would be minimally voiced. :rolleyes1

I have the Mickey heads...I actually got them for our October trip, but never used them...So for some reason I really wasn't thinking you were talking about meeting in Syracuse...I was thinking you meant WDW and I was trying to figure out how we could actually swing that this year...lol...When is your Bday again? March? Or April? I know its around there, cause I got a card signed for you last year...even though I didn't give it to you til May...ooooooooo I got you a present today! hehehe...I'll probably ship you stuff next week? I think...if we go to the outlets this week...if not it will be later in the month.

Megablocks

01-18-2010, 11:01 PM

I have the Mickey heads...I actually got them for our October trip, but never used them...So for some reason I really wasn't thinking you were talking about meeting in Syracuse...I was thinking you meant WDW and I was trying to figure out how we could actually swing that this year...lol...When is your Bday again? March? Or April? I know its around there, cause I got a card signed for you last year...even though I didn't give it to you til May...ooooooooo I got you a present today! hehehe...I'll probably ship you stuff next week? I think...if we go to the outlets this week...if not it will be later in the month.

April :) I still have the card! I love it!

Awww, thank you so much. :hug: You need to tell me anything else that you'd like for me to pick up for you next month, aside from Kris's birthday button. I have some ideas of things that I want to get you and send to you, but my stupid work schedule is, well, stupid. :)

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I'm taking a quick break from Kingdom Keepers because I don't want it to end, but I DID get the second book after work today, after mentioning to my friend that I was already dying to get the second book. Also, CP told me that the next book in the series comes out on April 6, so I am definitely pre-ordering that on Amazon. I seriously would never have known about these books if not for the DIS.

I decided I'd share some of last years pictures with you all. Kailyn didn't willingly get into a lot of pictures, because up until recently, she was very camera shy. Now, instead of saying, "noooo" and blocking her face when I point a camera at her, or try to take a picture with her, she reacts by making a face (like me), or posing (also like me), so I'm hoping to get some good pictures with her on this trip.

I will admit right now that I am a wimp. I don't like the dark and I don't like loud noises. I love scary movies, but I will cover my ears because sometimes the music scares me even more. So why do I love scary movies? It's hard to say. It is also hard to say why I love Dinosaur, because no matter how many times I have been on it, it still scares me to death. Kailyn is also terrified of it, but loves it. The first nightmare that she remembers was something about a t-rex in our neighborhood, so she has a pretty good excuse to be afraid. I am just a wimp. My mom loves the ride. I wish we had purchased this picture. We're in the front. My mom's first, pretending to sleep. I was screaming, and Kailyn was holding on to my arm, had her face buried in my arm, and was covering her head with her free hand. Yet we still go on it... :rotfl:

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I took these when we were heading out (it was nighttime EMH at AK), and I regret not getting more pictures of AK at night. If you have never been at night, GO. It's so different at night, and so gorgeous. EE is also pretty awesome at night. ;)

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I am looking forward to riding this,

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without seeing this. (Kailyn has an obsession with two languages -- Japanese and German. I made the mistake of letting her pick the language.)

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I couldn't tell you much about our future, but it involved our little guys getting buried in snow and my little dude breaking an arm.

Is there anything better than an almost-empty Main Street in the morning? :cloud9:

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An empty Frontierland is also awesome.

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All of us (my mom, Kailyn, and I) had cases of morning brain this day -- we got to MK right after the 9 AM opening and didn't go straight to Toontown to meet the fairies, which we really wanted to do. It is definitely on the list for this trip.

One of my very very very favorites! I am dying to ride this on the KTTK tour.

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I am so ready to be back. I texted Katie last night to vent because I was having a super crappy night at work and needed to talk to her, and talk to someone who can understand that need to go to Disney World and forget about real life for a little while. This Wednesday is the three week mark, and I am so very, very ready to go back. Kailyn is also very excited and I'm really hoping for an uneventful redo for her and my dad.

Have a good night, everyone!

Tink9721

01-18-2010, 11:26 PM

Hey! Thank you for coming over -- we are very excited to have readers :rotfl: Isn't it funny how you can become so close with someone you meet on a message board? When I registered, I had no idea that I would end up being so close with another DISer. :goodvibes

I'm definitely going to update about the HP exhibit -- I think it's there till February 21. I'm really really excited for it! I've been looking forward to this day for almost a month -- I got a pair of Bruins tickets for Christmas, so I'm going to the HP exhibit AND the game and have been looking forward to both since Christmas!

I had a dream like that, too! It wasn't too recently, it might have even been before our trip last year, but we were leaving and we had hardly done anything or gone anywhere. :scared1: I was the only who really seemed to care about it, too, which was even crazier!

Having readers is very exciting :thumbsup2 When I checked on my PTR I ran into the other room and said "MOM!!!!! I have readers!!!!!!!!" I was so excited about it :lmao:

Have fun at the Bruins game! My grandma gave me some money for Christmas to spend on whatever I want, so I'm using it to buy Red Sox tickets for me and my dad :yay: We're either going on April 24th or 25th. We're playing the Orioles that weekend. We considered going the week before when we're playing the Rays, but there's a higher chance of going to a winning game if we're playing the Orioles :rolleyes1 :rotfl:

Dinosaur scares me too! And I have to go on it alone! My mom has back problems so it's a little too rough for her. I always get nervous on that ride, but I love it anyway!

I'm also very ready to be back. Real life is way too stressful! I need to escape for a week!

MeMom

01-19-2010, 10:59 AM

And that's why I love you :rotfl: You and other DISers would understand this and encourage it. Charles, on the other hand, would probably just say, "why not Panera?", because he's never had EoS,

Charles, Charles, Charles!!!
Because Panera is not Earl.
That's why! :laughing:

Earl is sorta Disney.
Panera is just out here in the real world.
I have one less than a mile from my house.

I wish Earl would just ship the bread. I would order a bunch of it, and whatever I ended up putting on it would be good, for sure.

I'm also very ready to be back. Real life is way too stressful! I need to escape for a week!

True, true words.
Only I need to escape for more than a week.
Or maybe a week each month. :idea:
Yeah, that's it - a week each month. :dance3:

Lovemy3babes

01-19-2010, 11:05 AM

Okay, what's the basic rundown of this Kingdom Keepers series? Is it a fiction book? Now you all have me very interested!! :)

Great pictures! I also just adore Dinosaur. I can't even scream, I just laugh my way through the whole thing. It's so fun! Ak at night looks gorgeous!

DisKate

01-19-2010, 11:38 AM

Tink9721

01-19-2010, 11:56 AM

Or maybe a week each month. :idea:
Yeah, that's it - a week each month. :dance3:

Good idea! :thumbsup2

Megablocks

01-19-2010, 07:51 PM

Charles, Charles, Charles!!!
Because Panera is not Earl.
That's why! :laughing:

Earl is sorta Disney.
Panera is just out here in the real world.
I have one less than a mile from my house.

I wish Earl would just ship the bread. I would order a bunch of it, and whatever I ended up putting on it would be good, for sure.

True, true words.
Only I need to escape for more than a week.
Or maybe a week each month. :idea:
Yeah, that's it - a week each month. :dance3:

I loooooove their bread! I'm hoping to do a little investigating when we are at Logan in a few weeks so I can locate EoS. I have been guilty of eating at Panera and pretending it's EoS, because to me, EoS is Disney. :rotfl2:

A week each month would be perfect!

Okay, what's the basic rundown of this Kingdom Keepers series? Is it a fiction book? Now you all have me very interested!! :)

Great pictures! I also just adore Dinosaur. I can't even scream, I just laugh my way through the whole thing. It's so fun! Ak at night looks gorgeous!

It's basically about 4 kids who were hired by Disney World, and keep finding themselves in MK when they go to sleep. It's a lot more than that but I don't want to say too much and give it away. It was awesome, though! I loved reading it and knowing everything they were talking about in the park. I finished the first one yesterday and have moved on to the second one -- I haven't gotten far but I promised my friend I'd have it done by Saturday so I can lend it to her. :rotfl: I found them in the kid's section of Barnes and Noble for juvenile readers, like 9-12 -- I know the boys would be too young for it but your girls might like it. :)

Thank you! My mom laughs her way through it, too, especially at Kailyn and I freaking out. :rotfl:

I told Meg that it is not fair that Boston has an EoS...even if it is just an airport location! And I am with you on going to Disney one week a month...I could easily do that!!!!!!!

Whenever you and Patrick make it to Boston, we will have to make a trip to Logan for EoS! I can tell Charles it's a tour of my home area. "And this is the airport I have to go to to get to Disney." :lmao: I can already picture the look I'd get from Charles...

Good idea! :thumbsup2

I agree. A week of Disney each month?? Someone needs to invent a teleporter!

Megablocks

01-22-2010, 11:50 AM

I unfortunately don't have any pictures or anything to say about the Harry Potter exhibit, because Charles and I didn't get to go yesterday due to his having a stomach bug, so we're making plans to go another day. He somehow dragged himself to the Bruins game, but we ended up leaving when there were 15 minutes left in the third period. It ended up being a good idea, because even though it started out well, the other team tied the game in the third period (after we left), so it went into overtime, and the Bruins ending up losing in a shootout. It was very, very different to be leaving a Bruins game and walking through the venue (TD Banknorth Garden, aka "the Garden," aka the "Gahden"), without there being wall-to-wall people. Being on the train and not having people pressing against me from all sides was also quite a treat. It almost made me want to leave all Bruins game early. :rotfl:

I was planning on updating my part of our PTR today, anyway, because today, my countdown is IN THE TEENS!

:banana: :dance3: :woohoo: :cool1: :yay: :dance3: :cheer2: :banana:

I really can't believe that we are in the teens already. I still remember hitting double digits and doing a little dance. So I decided that in honor of teens, to post things that I really, really want to do/try/see on this trip (in no particular order, except for the first one. :rolleyes:)

Toy Story Mania :3dglasses

This is definitely on the top of my list. I know that to have any hope of riding this without waiting for hours, we have to do a rope drop at DHS. I am totally willing to do this, and it's my dad's favorite park, so I know he'd be willing, too, especially if it meant going on RnRC and ToT with little to no wait, as well. That definitely appeals to me, too, because those are two of my favorite rides, and Kailyn loves them as well. My mom loves them but can't do ToT because the up and down makes her feel queasy, but RnRC is fine. I could spend a lot of time just looking around the ToT queue.

Starring Rolls Bakery

LL posted something on her and Jen's PTR from this, and I really want to try something from here. If we do a rope drop at DHS, I'm sure I could convince someone to split something with me.

Tonga toast

My mom also wants to try this, so we're going to share it. We'd end up going to Captain Cook's for it, rather than make an early morning ADR at Kona and have to pay more for tip and such.

Carousel of Progress

I have the 4 Parks, 1 World CD on my iPod, so I know "It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow," but I've never been on this. Definitely want to see this!

Space Mountain

I haven't been on this since well before the rehab, so I'm dying to ride it again.

Astro Orbiter

I can't even remember the last time I went on this, but I know it was a while ago. I remember going on with my brother and begging him to not move us up and down too much. For some reason, whenever I think of this ride, I think of the sensation I had of being able to fall out easily. :confused3 I want to try it again and see whether or not I was just being neurotic. I think I was also afraid of the height, which is strange, because heights don't bother me. Are you questioning my decision to try this again? Yeah, so am I. :lmao:

Rope drop at MK

Last year, my mom, Kailyn, and I got to MK just a few minutes after the 9 AM opening. It was fantastic, but I really, really want to see the opening show, because from all the pictures I've seen, it's super cute.

Stay at MK until 2 AM for EMH

On Sunday the 14th, MK is open until 2 AM for EMH. I LOVE nighttime EMH, especially at MK. This is also the day that we're doing the KTTK tour, but we could go back to the room for power naps and be nice and energized for the EMH. We've stayed late at MK, but never made it that late. I really, really, really want to do this just to say I did, and because even though we're going to be there at a crowded time (President's day weekend), I don't think a ton of people would be there that late. It would also give us the chance to ride BTMRR at nighttime, which is SO much fun!

I still have several things on my to-do list, but it's mostly last-minute stuff. I do want to buy a case for my camera, because I want it protected when it's in my bag. At home, when I'm not using it, it stays in the box that it came in. I'm also debating an extra battery, just so I can put one in my camera, leave the other charging, and switch them out when we go back to the room and head back out.

I've also finally settled on what I'm wearing on the flight down. This took me longer than it probably should have. Last year, for some reason, I wore a t-shirt down, and in my carryon, I packed an extra t-shirt to change into...with long sleeves. :confused3 I still don't know what I was thinking when I did that. I finally decided on wearing jeans, my long-sleeved Bruins t-shirt, a tank top underneath the t-shirt, and my Northface fleece. The fleece is very, very warm when worn over a hoodie or layers, which is what I normally do, but it's also lightweight and not bulky, which makes me think it would be perfect for cooler nights, or if we eat at Rose and Crown and sit outside on the patio, next to the water. It also has zipper pockets, which would work well for my cell phone and wallet, or just my cards, license and cash if I don't feel like carrying my wallet. My current wallet is a very cute Vera wristlet, but the clasp on it now has a tendency to not always stay shut, and because of that, has actually slid off my wrist a few times. :scared: I really, really want to buy another one, but this one means a lot to me because Charles got it for me for my birthday last year. I do have a regular Vera wallet that he also got me, so I might just switch over to that one. So many choices. :rotfl:

Have a good weekend, everyone!

Lovemy3babes

01-22-2010, 12:18 PM

It's basically about 4 kids who were hired by Disney World, and keep finding themselves in MK when they go to sleep. It's a lot more than that but I don't want to say too much and give it away. It was awesome, though! I loved reading it and knowing everything they were talking about in the park. I finished the first one yesterday and have moved on to the second one -- I haven't gotten far but I promised my friend I'd have it done by Saturday so I can lend it to her. :rotfl: I found them in the kid's section of Barnes and Noble for juvenile readers, like 9-12 -- I know the boys would be too young for it but your girls might like it. :)

Thank you!! I just called our library to place a hold on it. :goodvibes

Tink9721

01-22-2010, 01:49 PM

Being on the train and not having people pressing against me from all sides was also quite a treat. It almost made me want to leave all Bruins game early. :rotfl:

YES! :laughing: I took the T when we went to a Sox game last year and after the game it was sooo crowded! I love the T but not after a game :sad2: I went to a Green Day concert at the Garden in July and the T wasn't bad at all after. It was actually worse on the way there than on the way back. There was enough room on the T for my dad and my cousin to attempt to do chin-ups on the hand rails :rolleyes:

Lady Lallie

01-22-2010, 02:08 PM

I can't....believe....that you have NEVER been on Carousel of Progress. :faint:

Megablocks

01-22-2010, 03:57 PM

Thank you!! I just called our library to place a hold on it. :goodvibes

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy it!

YES! :laughing: I took the T when we went to a Sox game last year and after the game it was sooo crowded! I love the T but not after a game :sad2: I went to a Green Day concert at the Garden in July and the T wasn't bad at all after. It was actually worse on the way there than on the way back. There was enough room on the T for my dad and my cousin to attempt to do chin-ups on the hand rails :rolleyes:

The chin-ups is totally something my dad and my brother would do. Well, my dad would start it and my brother would follow his lead. :rotfl:

I don't mind taking the T to Bruins games, because that's a straight shot from the station we park at, but I hate taking it to Sox games, mostly because I despite the green line. :laughing: I especially hate how you need to keep an eye on the letter of each train and make sure it's going where you're going! It just confuses me to no end.

I can't....believe....that you have NEVER been on Carousel of Progress. :faint:

Neither can I. :blush: It will be remedied and I will have the pictures to prove it!

Megablocks

01-22-2010, 06:11 PM

So, thanks to something I read in a thread over on the trip planning forum, I checked the Disney World park calendars, because I read that there were some changes in February. On Sunday the 14th, the nighttime EMH at MK were changed from 11 PM-2 AM to 12 AM-3 AM! I am still totally up for trying to stay until 3 am, because I think it would be amazing to experience, and I'm sure that the later it gets, the less crowded it is. We're going to be in MK on this day for the KTTK tour, and since it should go until about 1 or 2 PM, we are thinking of heading back to Pop afterwards to relax for the afternoon, and head back out for the nighttime EMH.

The nighttime EMH at AK on the day we arrive, the 10th, were changed from 5-8 PM to 6-9 PM. I still really want to try for this, because I love AK at night and I especially love EE at night. We did this last year and then went over to Epcot just to ride SSE. :rotfl2:

We are all well aware that the extra hours and the changing of the hours mean that they're expecting crowds, but we're expecting it, too, and are okay with it. It happens when you can't get the time off at low crowd times. :)

I'm still having a hard time believing that we're already in the teens. I'm going to start counting down how many days of work I have left, because that's LESS than 19 days. It's just insane to me how quickly this is coming up. :woohoo:

DisKate

01-22-2010, 11:28 PM

Ok, so following Meghan's lead I'm going to post the things that I am looking forward to for my trip (and a few pics from our Give-A-Day project)

My family really really likes food, so I'm looking forward to our meals popcorn::
We are eating at several places that will be new to me this trip, Tutto, Le Cellier, WCC, and TONY'S (Lady & the Tramp is my favorite movie!)
On our October trip I also tried this amazing breakfast sandwich at Sunshine Seasons, so I'm on a mission to find that again....and Disney Popcorn!

Soarin'
I'm really excited to take my Mom on Soarin', I think she is going to love this ride!

Flower and Garden Festival
Last year we missed this by like 3 days...they were setting up as we were leaving, so I can't wait to see it fully up this trip...and Margarita's in Mexico :love:

MK til 2am!
On our first full day there MK is open until 2am, which (like Meg) has me super excited to try and make it that late!

Splash and Carousel of Progress
I haven't ridden Splash since the last time I went to Disney with my Mom (about 17 years ago) and as far as I know I have never been on Carousel of Progress, so they are both on my list for March (assuming that I don't chicken out on Splash...)

Toy Story Midway Mania!
So last March Patrick and I managed to ride this like 7 times....and in October only once, so we are hoping for at least 3 times this trip

Fantasmic! and Wishes
These are two of my favorite things about Disney...I love love love both of these...Wishes almost gets me to cry every time (especially if its our last night) and Fantasmic! just makes me super happy...

And now, pictures of the blankets that Patrick and I made for Give-A-Day

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Close-up of my favorite pattern:

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And the pretty box that they are getting sent in:

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I worked for most of yesterday and for about an hour today making a total of 9 newborn blankets, 6 double fleece and 3 single fleece. We only needed a total of 6. We registered my mom, Kris, Patrick's mom (Ann), his sister (Sloane), and ourselves. Ann, Sloane, Patrick, and I each have AP's, but we talked to Ann and we are most likely going to use the GAD passes to renew our AP's in October!!!! Which means another year of AP's and most likely either an August or October trip again!!!! I'm hoping for October so that we can do MNSSHP again...Halloween is my favorite holiday and I would love to be able to go to Disney again then!

Megablocks

01-23-2010, 08:31 AM

The blankets are SO cute! I love them! I also love the "that's how I roll" pattern. :rotfl2:

Splash Mountain...I don't think you will chicken out. It's so much fun and it's so cute, and the drop at the end is over in like a few seconds. We did Fantasmic! once or twice but we're not planning on it doing it again. I wouldn't be happy standing in a huge crowd to wait to see it, anyway. Wishes, on the other hand, I could happily see every night. And, I am SO excited for a really late night at MK! I'll sleep all afternoon if I have to. :rotfl:

manntra

01-23-2010, 09:36 AM

DisKate

01-23-2010, 10:07 AM

Great lists for both of you! :thumbsup2 I am looking forward to your reports on the KTTK tour and F&G....I am thinking of adding the tour, just trying to figure out what day ;)
Oh yes, you must have a treat from Starring Rolls...everything there is so good!
Those are some really cute blankets that you made Kate! :goodvibes The "that's how I roll" cracks me up! I keep looking for any opportunities around here for the program but the closest are a volunteer firefighter or EMS. I am all for clearing trails in the woods, volunteering at a center, etc...I just don't think I am too qualified to be an EMS for a day! :confused3 I will keep looking though :)

Tracy

Thanks Tracy! The KTTK tour is awesome! We did it last March and had a blast. We had the same problem with no GAD opportunities being located in my home town. You should search by the zip code 48103 (I think, or whatever Ann Arbor, MI's zip is) that's where I am mailing our blankets to since there was nothing close to us. If you can't find the opportunity I can PM you the director's email and you could contact her to find out if you can still sign up and mail in blankets....

Katie

manntra

01-23-2010, 10:26 AM

Thanks Tracy! The KTTK tour is awesome! We did it last March and had a blast. We had the same problem with no GAD opportunities being located in my home town. You should search by the zip code 48103 (I think, or whatever Ann Arbor, MI's zip is) that's where I am mailing our blankets to since there was nothing close to us. If you can't find the opportunity I can PM you the director's email and you could contact her to find out if you can still sign up and mail in blankets....

Katie

Thanks so much Katie...I will look into that or if not available, another one like that. Obviously where you and I are up here in the frozen tundra there isn't a lot you can do out side! ;)
And oh yes...the margaritias in Mexico! I have plans to visit "the ditch!!"

Tracy

DisKate

01-23-2010, 10:35 AM

Thanks so much Katie...I will look into that or if not available, another one like that. Obviously where you and I are up here in the frozen tundra there isn't a lot you can do out side! ;)
And oh yes...the margaritias in Mexico! I have plans to visit "the ditch!!"

Tracy

Nope :thumbsup2 Though we have been thawing out here in Buffalo....there are lots of opportunities in Buffalo (where I live now) but my mom and sis (and Patrick's fam.) live in Wellsville...very very very close to PA and the only opportunities were 60 miles away...so I registered us for these mail in blankets instead :)

Tink9721

01-23-2010, 05:16 PM

The chin-ups is totally something my dad and my brother would do. Well, my dad would start it and my brother would follow his lead. :rotfl:

I don't mind taking the T to Bruins games, because that's a straight shot from the station we park at, but I hate taking it to Sox games, mostly because I despite the green line. :laughing: I especially hate how you need to keep an eye on the letter of each train and make sure it's going where you're going! It just confuses me to no end.

I think my cousin started it and then my dad did it. It was hilarious :lmao:

The green line is horribly confusing! I always look on mbta.com to check the map before we leave so we don't waste time trying to figure out which letter we need. When we went to my first game last April we had a friend with us who knew which train to take, but when my mom and I went to a game by ourselves in September I told her I knew where we were going but she didn't believe me :laughing: She was convinced we were getting off at the wrong stop. Then when we were walking down the street, we turned around a corner and saw the Monster. I was like "So Mom, who doesn't know how to get to Fenway?" :rotfl:

Megablocks

01-24-2010, 09:40 PM

I think my cousin started it and then my dad did it. It was hilarious :lmao:

The green line is horribly confusing! I always look on mbta.com to check the map before we leave so we don't waste time trying to figure out which letter we need. When we went to my first game last April we had a friend with us who knew which train to take, but when my mom and I went to a game by ourselves in September I told her I knew where we were going but she didn't believe me :laughing: She was convinced we were getting off at the wrong stop. Then when we were walking down the street, we turned around a corner and saw the Monster. I was like "So Mom, who doesn't know how to get to Fenway?" :rotfl:

That's awesome! :laughing: I probably wouldn't know how to get to Fenway for a game if it wasn't for the floods of people going in that direction. I always want to stop and take a picture of the Monster from the street but I never have the chance. And I need to start checking the MBTA website before I take the green line anywhere, because I always just end up standing in the station and looking at the map. I always feel so clueless and want to say, "I'm from here, guys. I just don't do the green line." :rotfl2:

Lovemy3babes

01-25-2010, 10:19 AM

2am at Magic Kingdom would be a blast! I'm not sure my kiddos could keep up but their mom would still love it. ;) Those are adorable blankets!

Megablocks

01-25-2010, 02:40 PM

2am at Magic Kingdom would be a blast! I'm not sure my kiddos could keep up but their mom would still love it. ;) Those are adorable blankets!

I hope you get to try it at some point! I'm not sure how many of us will really make it that late, but I'm sure going to try to stick it out. :laughing:

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Our countdown is now at SIXTEEN DAYS.

:banana: :scared1: :banana:

I don't think I've quite registered that we are so close. A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking, "four weeks? I have so much to do!" Now, we're just over two weeks away and I'm not stressing. :rolleyes: What's up with that? I also started counting down how many days of work I have left. I don't work Mondays or Tuesdays now because of class, so I only have TEN more days of work to get through!

A couple of weeks ago, Charles was cleaning and getting rid of clothes, and he gave me this really cute tank top. His cousin got it for him several years ago, when she went down to Disney World. Charles is now 6'5", so the shirt was way, way too small for him, and he thought it might fit me. I tried it on, and it fits perfectly! The only problem is that since it's a guy's shirt, the armpits go just a little bit lower than they should, but I tried it on with a tank top underneath, and that fixed that problem.

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This is on the back.

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I really like it. Charles knows of my Disney obsession, and I'm really glad that he gave the shirt to me instead of donating it. Funny thing -- a couple of nights ago, I was out with him, my brother Mike, and a couple other friends. Charles had his sketchbook and was doodling, and then started trying to draw Mickey Mouse. He asked, "does Mickey Mouse have suspenders?" I had to think for a second, and he said, "COME ON, DISNEY GIRL!" :rotfl:

I still need to buy a camera case for my beloved camera, because there's no way I'm sticking it in my back without SOME kind of protection. I'm also debating buying an extra battery, because my one and only issue with my camera is that its battery seems to take forever to charge. I was planning on charging it overnight and when we come back to the room for downtime, but if it's not fully charged when we go back out again, it's going to drive me mental. If I had an extra battery, I could take the one that charged overnight, leave the other charging in the room, and then switch them out when we came back for downtime and then headed back out. I'm having a hard time deciding whether or not I should buy another. Any thoughts?

I decided last year to start buying pins, but cautiously. I know how addicting they can be. :laughing: Last year, I was pretty good. I decided that I wanted one from each park, one from Pop Century, and one from each of my favorite rides. I ended up with three -- one from Soarin', one from Haunted Mansion, and one that has Sorcerer Mickey in front of each big thing from the parks (the castle, the Tree of Life, SSE, and the hat.) That had all four parks in one pin, so instead of one pin from each park, I cheated and got that. ;) I don't have a picture of that or the Soarin' one, but this is the HM one. It is definitely my favorite out of all the HM pins I saw.

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I definitely want to buy a Pop Century pin next. I'd also like pins from ToT, SSE, Splash, BTMRR, PotC, and EE. I think I got them all. I'm definitely NOT going to buy all of those, but I'm going to keep an eye out and buy whichever ones I really love. If I don't find a pin I want, oh well, there's always next time.

I've also started to stress a little bit over the possibility of snow on the day we leave. The weather is SO unpredictable, and we haven't gotten anywhere near what we got last year, snow-wise, but I'm still going to worry about it until the time to leave gets nearer and I can check the forecast knowing it's going to be somewhat accurate. :upsidedow

Have a good day, everyone!

Charleston Princess

01-25-2010, 06:42 PM

Tink9721

01-25-2010, 07:36 PM

Our countdown is now at SIXTEEN DAYS.

Yay! :yay: My three week mark is tomorrow!

I've also started to stress a little bit over the possibility of snow on the day we leave. The weather is SO unpredictable, and we haven't gotten anywhere near what we got last year, snow-wise, but I'm still going to worry about it until the time to leave gets nearer and I can check the forecast knowing it's going to be somewhat accurate. :upsidedow

Me too!!! I'm always worried about that. I'll be worried about it until I wake up the day we leave, look outside, and see for myself that there's no snow :rotfl:

DisKate

01-25-2010, 09:43 PM

Hi everyone! Just checking in before life gets crazy! I return to my internship tomorrow and classes start Wednesday, so after this week I will probably only really be on the boards on the weekends :sad2: My schedule is super crazy this semester so by the time we go to Disney in 47 days I'm really going to need that break...then we come back and its time for midterms...yay me.

Yay for 16 days Meghan :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo: I have both of our countdowns running on my white board right now and when I was in the kitchen earlier I looked at it and thought that two weeks from Wednesday while I'm sitting in class you will be riding something fun! I think its almost time for us to post itineraries...I want to know where you are going to be!

Megablocks

01-26-2010, 09:43 AM

Katie, great blankets! That's the volunteer project we are signed up for and are planning on making them next weekend!!!

Megan, can't believe how close you are! Beware the power of the pins! :laughing:

I know! Tomorrow is the two week mark!

I try hard to resist the pins -- I try to make sure I really, really love it before I spend the money, but I see a LOT that I really love. :laughing:

Yay! :yay: My three week mark is tomorrow!

Me too!!! I'm always worried about that. I'll be worried about it until I wake up the day we leave, look outside, and see for myself that there's no snow :rotfl:

Yay for three weeks! :woohoo: It's going to go by so quickly.

It has thawed out a lot here, but it's going to start getting cold again over the weekend, and I'm so paranoid it's going to stay freezing and snow right before we leave. This time next week, I'll be obsessively checking the weather. :rotfl:

Hi everyone! Just checking in before life gets crazy! I return to my internship tomorrow and classes start Wednesday, so after this week I will probably only really be on the boards on the weekends :sad2: My schedule is super crazy this semester so by the time we go to Disney in 47 days I'm really going to need that break...then we come back and its time for midterms...yay me.

Yay for 16 days Meghan :woohoo::woohoo::woohoo: I have both of our countdowns running on my white board right now and when I was in the kitchen earlier I looked at it and thought that two weeks from Wednesday while I'm sitting in class you will be riding something fun! I think its almost time for us to post itineraries...I want to know where you are going to be!

Sorry you have such a crazy schedule this semester :( 47 days is going to go by pretty quickly. I love that you have both our countdowns on your whiteboard :hug: I need to do that.

Ummm...will you hate me if I say I don't have an itinerary? :blush: We decide day-by-day what we're going to do and usually discuss the night before what our destination will be -- we have hoppers so we take advantage and go everywhere. You know I'll be texting you daily and sending you pictures, though, so you will definitely know where I am!

I forgot to mention this in my other post -- we're not going to do Rose and Crown, because they changed the park closing from 8 to 9, and our ADR was for 6:45 so we could try to catch Illuminations. My mom tried to switch it to a later time or a different day but there was absolutely nothing. It's okay, though, we still have plenty of good eats. I am so excited for Disney food!

DisKate

01-26-2010, 04:12 PM

Sorry you have such a crazy schedule this semester :( 47 days is going to go by pretty quickly. I love that you have both our countdowns on your whiteboard :hug: I need to do that.

Ummm...will you hate me if I say I don't have an itinerary? :blush: We decide day-by-day what we're going to do and usually discuss the night before what our destination will be -- we have hoppers so we take advantage and go everywhere. You know I'll be texting you daily and sending you pictures, though, so you will definitely know where I am!

I forgot to mention this in my other post -- we're not going to do Rose and Crown, because they changed the park closing from 8 to 9, and our ADR was for 6:45 so we could try to catch Illuminations. My mom tried to switch it to a later time or a different day but there was absolutely nothing. It's okay, though, we still have plenty of good eats. I am so excited for Disney food!

It's perfectly ok that you don't have an itinerary! We don't tend to follow one when we go...but I do like to do predictions of which parks we might visit on which days...and since my Mom and Kris haven't been in a super long time I'm probably going to make a more solid itinerary so that I can at least pretend that we are going to fit everything in :rotfl: Mostly I just try to predict which mornings we should visit which parks, then our evenings are determined by ADR's or are left blank.

As far as hoppers go, Patrick told me upfront that I'm not even allowed to tell my Mom that you can get tickets without hoppers....He doesn't even want her to entertain the idea of staying in just one park for each day of the trip :lmao:

MeMom

01-26-2010, 04:44 PM

47 days is going to go by pretty quickly.

Ummm...will you hate me if I say I don't have an itinerary? :blush: We decide day-by-day what we're going to do and usually discuss the night before what our destination will be -- we have hoppers so we take advantage and go everywhere. You know I'll be texting you daily and sending you pictures, though, so you will definitely know where I am!

I am so excited for Disney food!

If you can just hold out a couple more weeks - it seems like when you hit the 30 day mark, it goes really fast.

We have a loose itinerary, but we are fine with changing as we go when members of the group throw out new ideas.

I am looking forward to the pictures. :thumbsup2

Disney food brings much happiness, especially because you don't have to cook it or clean up the mess! :cool1:

As far as hoppers go, Patrick told me upfront that I'm not even allowed to tell my Mom that you can get tickets without hoppers....He doesn't even want her to entertain the idea of staying in just one park for each day of the trip :lmao:

Good idea. Don't give her too much knowledge of how it works. :laughing:
Once a hopper, always a hopper. :thumbsup2

Megablocks

01-26-2010, 09:14 PM

It's perfectly ok that you don't have an itinerary! We don't tend to follow one when we go...but I do like to do predictions of which parks we might visit on which days...and since my Mom and Kris haven't been in a super long time I'm probably going to make a more solid itinerary so that I can at least pretend that we are going to fit everything in :rotfl: Mostly I just try to predict which mornings we should visit which parks, then our evenings are determined by ADR's or are left blank.

As far as hoppers go, Patrick told me upfront that I'm not even allowed to tell my Mom that you can get tickets without hoppers....He doesn't even want her to entertain the idea of staying in just one park for each day of the trip :lmao:

I know that last year my mom wrote down the crowd predictions and best/worst parks from some website (touringplans? I can't remember), and we went by that, but ignored the advice about avoiding EMH, especially the nighttime ones. ;)

That's hilarious that Patrick didn't want you to tell your mom about the tickets without hoppers! We are so spoiled by the hoppers! I mean, on our first night last year, we went to AK for the nighttime EMH, rode EE and Dinosaur, then decided that we needed a calmer ride and headed to Epcot just to ride SSE. :rotfl: Plus I like them because if it's crowded at one park, we can leave and go to another.

Oh...guess whose mother added another ADR? :rolleyes1 :rotfl2:

If you can just hold out a couple more weeks - it seems like when you hit the 30 day mark, it goes really fast.

We have a loose itinerary, but we are fine with changing as we go when members of the group throw out new ideas.

I am looking forward to the pictures. :thumbsup2

Disney food brings much happiness, especially because you don't have to cook it or clean up the mess! :cool1:

Good idea. Don't give her too much knowledge of how it works. :laughing:
Once a hopper, always a hopper. :thumbsup2

We also have a very loose idea of where we think we're going to be (based on EMH and ADRs), but we usually discuss the night before what we want to do the next day. However, there is video from our April '08 trip and we were walking TO the bus stop, when someone, maybe me, asked, "so where we are going?" Someone else responded with, "Uh...I dunno." :rotfl2: So really, the discussion the night before is where we're going in the morning and what time we're going to leave. Anything after that is up in the air. I am sure there are some commandos who would just die reading that, but it works for us!

I'm going to be sending pictures to Facebook, too! I'll be sure to get some pictures of palm trees for you. :goodvibes

DisKate

01-26-2010, 09:34 PM

Ok give!!!! Where is the ADR to?????????? You're killing me with the suspense!!!

Megablocks

01-26-2010, 09:50 PM

Ok give!!!! Where is the ADR to?????????? You're killing me with the suspense!!!

:rotfl: I was going to text you and tell you, but then I decided to just write it here and build some suspense. ;) Crystal Palace on Monday the 15th, at 9:50 PM. My mom said she didn't know why, but she did it.

Hmmmm. Just as I went to post this, I got a Facebook notification... :lmao:

DisKate

01-26-2010, 09:58 PM

:rotfl: I was going to text you and tell you, but then I decided to just write it here and build some suspense. ;) Crystal Palace on Monday the 15th, at 9:50 PM. My mom said she didn't know why, but she did it.

Hmmmm. Just as I went to post this, I got a Facebook notification... :lmao:

I was also in the process of debating if I should send you a text or not....:rotfl::rotfl: I'm not a very patient person!

Megablocks

01-26-2010, 10:15 PM

I was also in the process of debating if I should send you a text or not....:rotfl::rotfl: I'm not a very patient person!

It's okay...I'm not either! Also, I love our having two separate conversations on here and on Facebook. :laughing:

Let me know when you're planning on posting your itinerary, okay? It doesn't matter when to me, whenever is easiest for you works for me. I'll post my very loose and subject to change itinerary whenever you do. :goodvibes

DisKate

01-27-2010, 10:15 PM

:dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3::d ance3::dance3:

Two week dance for Meghan!!!!

:dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3::d ance3::dance3:

Megablocks

01-28-2010, 11:25 AM

It came up in conversation on Facebook last night with Katie that I didn't do a two week dance yesterday, so she did it for me :goodvibes I have some cold/sinus thing, and I was in kind of a fog at work yesterday, so it barely crossed my mind that we were two weeks out. I had plans to go home and just read or nap when I left at 5, but Mike (my 22 year old, 6 foot tall "little" brother,) texted me at about 4 asking if I'd go with him to the nearby gas station to have the mechanic fix his tire. It was when we were standing outside and I was looking across the street at the Dunkin Donuts, debating whether or not it was worth it to cross the busy street and get a coffee, that it suddenly hit me that just TWO WEEKS from that very time, instead of standing outside a gas station staring longingly at the Dunkin Donuts across the street, I would be in Disney World. :woohoo:

Since we don't really do itineraries, it's hard to say where we'll be at this time in two weeks. I am sure we'll be out and about, because on Wednesday, we're leaving for the airport at about 5 AM, which means I'll be getting up at 4 AM, which I'm sure will make for a very early bedtime that night.

Monday is going to be SINGLE DIGIT dancing. :dance3: That is also the day that Charles and I are finally going to the Harry Potter exhibit!! I'm really, really excited for it, and even if we can't take pictures, I'm pretty sure we're at least going to wander Boston a little bit afterwards, so I'm sure I'll have pictures to share. :goodvibes

Charleston Princess

01-28-2010, 02:12 PM

Happy Belated Two-Week Dance, Megan!!! :banana:

Hope you feel better soon!!! :goodvibes

So, did you cross the street for a coffee?

Lovemy3babes

01-28-2010, 02:51 PM

2 weeks! :dance3:

Megablocks

01-28-2010, 06:23 PM

Happy Belated Two-Week Dance, Megan!!! :banana:

Hope you feel better soon!!! :goodvibes

So, did you cross the street for a coffee?

Thanks Jackie! I'm trying really really hard to keep it from getting any worse by taking over the counter sinus medicine, and its been helping.

Sadly, no. I just stared at the Dunkin Donuts. :rotfl: I wouldn't have been able to taste the coffee, so I just decided against it.

2 weeks! :dance3:

I am so excited!! On Monday we hit the single digits! People at work have been asking me if I'm going on vacation next week, and I keep on telling them not next week, but the week after...I can't believe how close it is!

Tink9721

01-28-2010, 10:08 PM

Megablocks

01-29-2010, 09:09 PM

Yay for two weeks! :cool1: I'll be at the two mark on Tuesday! I hit the teens today :dance3:

Feel better!!! I had a cold right before I went to Disney last year(or the year before...?) and it went away the day after I got there. Must have been the Disney magic ::yes::

I can't believe how close it is getting!! You need to remind me to PM you my cell at some point before I leave...my memory is poor. :rotfl: Which reminds me, I had another bizarre trip-related dream! I dreamt that I read on the DIS that MK was going to be closed on February 15 & 16! :scared1: I mean, I've heard of the parks closing due to capacity, but this was a scheduled thing. :confused3 I was thinking, "but the 16th is Kailyn's birthday and that's when I'm supposed to try to meet up with Christine! Why is closing on our last two days there?!" I am so over these bizarre trip-related dreams. :lmao:

Thanks! I'm feeling okay today. :goodvibes My boss letting me come in to work 2 hours later than I was scheduled so I could sleep helped a lot!

DisKate

01-29-2010, 09:34 PM

Megablocks

01-29-2010, 09:44 PM

I got your text of this when I was coming out of class....it made me :lmao:

Sorry that your Bruins lost tonight...hope Charles gets over it :rotfl:

I had to share it with you! I knew you would understand the craziness of it. :rotfl: I knew you'd be in class but I had to tell you so I wouldn't forget.

I'm not even surprised that they lost, especially after what Charles told me about the Sabres being #1. I thought it was going to be a total slaughter, but they scored one goal, which is one more goal than I expected. :rotfl2:

DisKate

01-29-2010, 09:57 PM

I had to share it with you! I knew you would understand the craziness of it. :rotfl: I knew you'd be in class but I had to tell you so I wouldn't forget.

I'm not even surprised that they lost, especially after what Charles told me about the Sabres being #1. I thought it was going to be a total slaughter, but they scored one goal, which is one more goal than I expected. :rotfl2:

I totally understood! And it was nice to have a message from you in between leaving class and driving downtown. I love my internship, but driving downtown, finding parking, and paying for it always stress me out...I'm not a fan of driving in busy locations...then there are the 7 flights of stairs to get to the offices where I work when I get there :scared1: My knee hates stairs.

I've been to Sabres games before where I've seriously doubted if we would ever score....last game we went to they really surprised us though...they scored their first goal at 27 seconds, there second at 1:34 (or something like that) and their third goal at like 3 minutes. We later found out that this made them the 4th team to ever score goals that fast...

Tink9721

01-29-2010, 10:07 PM

I can't believe how close it is getting!! You need to remind me to PM you my cell at some point before I leave...my memory is poor. :rotfl: Which reminds me, I had another bizarre trip-related dream! I dreamt that I read on the DIS that MK was going to be closed on February 15 & 16! :scared1: I mean, I've heard of the parks closing due to capacity, but this was a scheduled thing. :confused3 I was thinking, "but the 16th is Kailyn's birthday and that's when I'm supposed to try to meet up with Christine! Why is closing on our last two days there?!" I am so over these bizarre trip-related dreams. :lmao:

Thanks! I'm feeling okay today. :goodvibes My boss letting me come in to work 2 hours later than I was scheduled so I could sleep helped a lot!

You can just PM it to me now if you want so you don't forget. My memory isn't too good either :laughing:

:eek: I'm glad that was just a dream! I had another one recently too! I dreamt that we overslept and didn't wake up until 6:00 AM the day we're leaving for Disney. That would be very bad since we have an 8:00 AM flight. And it got scarier...We hadn't packed anything yet :scared1: I was horrified when I woke up :rotfl: I was like "MOM! Promise me that's not gonna happen!!!!!" I was freaking out :lmao:

Glad you're feeling better :goodvibes Extra sleep always helps ::yes::

I'm very excited about that fact that on Monday we'll be able to say "We're going to Disney THIS MONTH!!!" :banana:

DisKate

01-29-2010, 10:09 PM

You can just PM it to me now if you want so you don't forget. My memory isn't too good either :laughing:

:eek: I'm glad that was just a dream! I had another one recently too! I dreamt that we overslept and didn't wake up until 6:00 AM the day we're leaving for Disney. That would be very bad since we have an 8:00 AM flight. And it got scarier...We hadn't packed anything yet :scared1: I was horrified when I woke up :rotfl: I was like "MOM! Promise me that's not gonna happen!!!!!" I was freaking out :lmao:

Glad you're feeling better :goodvibes Extra sleep always helps ::yes::

I'm very excited about that fact that on Monday we'll be able to say "We're going to Disney THIS MONTH!!!" :banana:

Yay for going to Disney soon!

Tink9721

01-29-2010, 10:16 PM

Yay for going to Disney soon!

:yay:

Megablocks

01-29-2010, 10:33 PM

I totally understood! And it was nice to have a message from you in between leaving class and driving downtown. I love my internship, but driving downtown, finding parking, and paying for it always stress me out...I'm not a fan of driving in busy locations...then there are the 7 flights of stairs to get to the offices where I work when I get there :scared1: My knee hates stairs.

I've been to Sabres games before where I've seriously doubted if we would ever score....last game we went to they really surprised us though...they scored their first goal at 27 seconds, there second at 1:34 (or something like that) and their third goal at like 3 minutes. We later found out that this made them the 4th team to ever score goals that fast...

I'm not either, hence why I will never, ever drive in Boston! You might have heard of a term that I can't post on here about Massachusetts people... :rolleyes1 It rings very, very true when you're talking about their driving, especially in Boston. Basically, you don't drive in Boston unless you know exactly where you are going. If I can time it right, I'll start texting you on Fridays between leaving class and going to your internship. :)

When Charles and I went to the game last Thursday, the Bruins scored really quickly, which was SO exciting. Then they lost. :headache: It seems like they always score really quickly, or later in the game.

You can just PM it to me now if you want so you don't forget. My memory isn't too good either :laughing:

:eek: I'm glad that was just a dream! I had another one recently too! I dreamt that we overslept and didn't wake up until 6:00 AM the day we're leaving for Disney. That would be very bad since we have an 8:00 AM flight. And it got scarier...We hadn't packed anything yet :scared1: I was horrified when I woke up :rotfl: I was like "MOM! Promise me that's not gonna happen!!!!!" I was freaking out :lmao:

Glad you're feeling better :goodvibes Extra sleep always helps ::yes::

I'm very excited about that fact that on Monday we'll be able to say "We're going to Disney THIS MONTH!!!" :banana:

Good idea. I'll PM you once I post this. :laughing: I think I've had a dream like that, too! I hate it when I do because I always feel so panicked when I wake up. The dream about our trip out to Ohio overlapping with a Disney trip was horrifying.

I am so excited about that!! Monday is also the day that I'm in the single digits. :faint: Where did January go?

Yay for going to Disney soon!

:yay:

KATIE! Since Christine and I can say on Monday that we're going to Disney this month, you'll be able to say you're going next month! :dance3: February is a short month too.

DisKate

01-29-2010, 10:35 PM

I'm not either, hence why I will never, ever drive in Boston! You might have heard of a term that I can't post on here about Massachusetts people... :rolleyes1 It rings very, very true when you're talking about their driving, especially in Boston. Basically, you don't drive in Boston unless you know exactly where you are going. If I can time it right, I'll start texting you on Fridays between leaving class and going to your internship. :)

When Charles and I went to the game last Thursday, the Bruins scored really quickly, which was SO exciting. Then they lost. :headache: It seems like they always score really quickly, or later in the game.

Good idea. I'll PM you once I post this. :laughing: I think I've had a dream like that, too! I hate it when I do because I always feel so panicked when I wake up. The dream about our trip out to Ohio overlapping with a Disney trip was horrifying.

I am so excited about that!! Monday is also the day that I'm in the single digits. :faint: Where did January go?

KATIE! Since Christine and I can say on Monday that we're going to Disney this month, you'll be able to say you're going next month! :dance3: February is a short month too.

Yay! And I go to NYC the last weekend, so hopefully time will fly...though not too quickly...I have midterms the week before we go :scared:

Tink9721

01-29-2010, 11:16 PM

Good idea. I'll PM you once I post this. :laughing: I think I've had a dream like that, too! I hate it when I do because I always feel so panicked when I wake up. The dream about our trip out to Ohio overlapping with a Disney trip was horrifying.

I am so excited about that!! Monday is also the day that I'm in the single digits. :faint: Where did January go?

I was freaking out the day after my dream. I'll probably be afraid to go to bed the night before because I'll be afraid I'll oversleep :rotfl: I'm a heavy sleeper, but thankfully my mom isn't. Our rooms are right next to each other and we both have the same alarm clock. It's very persistent. It's EXTREMELY loud and annoying and it won't stop until you turn it off. I've actually slept through it for a half hour before :rolleyes: But if we set both of ours for the same time that morning, at least one of us will wake up :laughing: But I've never had a problem waking up for a Disney trip. I always wake up as soon as the alarm goes off when I know I'm heading to my happy place! Waking up for school is a different story :rolleyes1

January flew by! I can't believe there are only two days left!

karenmmk

01-30-2010, 04:28 PM

I am so excited about that!! Monday is also the day that I'm in the single digits. :faint: Where did January go?

And tomorrow is the day we can do online check-in!!! :dance3:

Megablocks

01-30-2010, 11:05 PM

Yay! And I go to NYC the last weekend, so hopefully time will fly...though not too quickly...I have midterms the week before we go :scared:

I forgot about your NYC trip and then I remembered that you went last year, too. I am right now looking at my syllabus and trying to figure out whether or not I'll have the motivation to do the work that's due after we get back, before we leave. :rolleyes:

I was freaking out the day after my dream. I'll probably be afraid to go to bed the night before because I'll be afraid I'll oversleep :rotfl: I'm a heavy sleeper, but thankfully my mom isn't. Our rooms are right next to each other and we both have the same alarm clock. It's very persistent. It's EXTREMELY loud and annoying and it won't stop until you turn it off. I've actually slept through it for a half hour before :rolleyes: But if we set both of ours for the same time that morning, at least one of us will wake up :laughing: But I've never had a problem waking up for a Disney trip. I always wake up as soon as the alarm goes off when I know I'm heading to my happy place! Waking up for school is a different story :rolleyes1

January flew by! I can't believe there are only two days left!

I need a really loud, obnoxious alarm clock. :laughing: I currently have my alarm clock set to a radio station that I don't like because the buzzer doesn't quite work for me...it's not obnoxious enough. :rotfl:

I for some reason never have an issue waking up when I'm going somewhere. I swear I have travel anxiety and I just can't sleep the night before. When I went out to Ohio last May with my dad and my brother, we were taking my car and I was going to help with some of the driving. I knew I needed a good night's sleep so to combat my allergies and get some sleep, I took some Benadryll, which normally knocks me out. Nope, I kept on waking up feeling like a nervous wreck and just barely getting back to sleep. :headache: This was when I was meeting up with Katie for the first time, too, so during our first real meeting, I was strung out on caffeine and four hours of sleep. She tells me I wasn't that bad but I was like, "crap, I'm bad enough on a good night's sleep and not having been in a car for seven hours. What's that they say about first impressions?" :lmao:

And tomorrow is the day we can do online check-in!!! :dance3:

EEEEEEEEEEK!!! :banana: :woohoo: :yay: It's past midnight, can we do it now?!

Megablocks

01-30-2010, 11:42 PM

It's now Sunday the 31st, which means that we are leaving in TEN DAYS!

:banana: :scared1: :woohoo: :yay:

Seriously, I can't believe it's gone so fast. Since it's Sunday, this means that I'm now on my last full week of work, and that when people ask when we're leaving, I get to say, "next Wednesday." Just thinking of all the various ways I can say that we're leaving really, really soon is crazy.

I did this in my defunct :blush: pre-TR/TR, and I decided to do it again here on mine and Katie's -- some pictures from our very first trip to Disney as a family, in April 1994. We stayed for 8 days at Caribbean Beach Resort. I turned ten on the trip, Mike was almost seven, and Kailyn was just 14 months...and she's turning 17 on this trip. :sad: I am refraining from posting the pictures of her on here, because if she found out, she might kill me. :lmao: They're okay as untagged photos in a friends-only album on Facebook, and I'm pretty sure that's how she wants to keep it.

We came back to the room to find this, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I am so happy that my mom took it and saved it (and everything) from the trip.

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1961/28/12/505059094/n505059094_1188210_8557.jpg

Hoop dee Doo. It's hard to tell, but I was wearing a shorts/t-shirt set that had polka-dots AND stripes! It was one of my favorite outfits.

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1961/28/12/505059094/n505059094_1188211_8957.jpg

It's now a tradition for me to pose with the indians.

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Chef Mickey's!

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Goofy has always been my favorite.

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A fast forward to Chef Mickey's in April 2008...

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Just a random page in the album. This was back when DHS was MGM, character handlers didn't exist, and the only way to get pictures with characters without umpteen other children in your pictures was to pay for character meals. Oh, yes, I clearly remember these days.

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I'm pretty sure this was the second time on Splash Mountain, because my arms are up. Mike looks absolutely terrified, but he loved it and he wanted to go on again. Pretty sure his face looked exactly the same in the next ride photo.

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Somewhere in MGM. Apparently I have always had a fondness for posing. :rotfl:

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Just a heads up, too -- I'm going to be sending pictures to Facebook from my phone when we are down there and trying to do live updates. If anyone wants to be Facebook friends, I am friends with a few DISers, so you can find me that way, or just PM me. :thumbsup2

Tink9721

01-31-2010, 01:07 AM

I for some reason never have an issue waking up when I'm going somewhere. I swear I have travel anxiety and I just can't sleep the night before. When I went out to Ohio last May with my dad and my brother, we were taking my car and I was going to help with some of the driving. I knew I needed a good night's sleep so to combat my allergies and get some sleep, I took some Benadryll, which normally knocks me out. Nope, I kept on waking up feeling like a nervous wreck and just barely getting back to sleep. :headache: This was when I was meeting up with Katie for the first time, too, so during our first real meeting, I was strung out on caffeine and four hours of sleep. She tells me I wasn't that bad but I was like, "crap, I'm bad enough on a good night's sleep and not having been in a car for seven hours. What's that they say about first impressions?" :lmao:

My mom is like that too. She can never sleep the night before we go anywhere!

We're not morning people, and we have to be up around 4 AM the day we leave. You'll be meeting us after a 3 hour flight and only a few hours of sleep. Remember that when you see us :rotfl:

It's hard to tell, but I was wearing a shorts/t-shirt set that had polka-dots AND stripes! It was one of my favorite outfits.

Having polka-dots AND stripes is very exciting :thumbsup2 I have a Mickey tote bag that's blue with little white dots on the outside and it has pink and white stripes on the inside. I got in at Hot Topic on clearance for about 10 dollars :worship:

MeMom

01-31-2010, 05:27 AM

The pictures from the past are great. You will appreciate them more and more as the years go by.

You are really truly almost there. I am very excited for you!

You are going to be in Disney World having so much fun

NEXT WEEK! http://bestsmileys.com/excited/3.gif

It will be so nice to go and just think of all things fun - no work, no school no stress - just fun!

kschafer

01-31-2010, 08:52 AM

10 days!!!!

:dancer:

Love the old trip photos!

DisKate

01-31-2010, 12:43 PM

:dance3::dance3::dance3:
Ten Days!
:dance3::dance3::dance3:

I can't believe that you leave in 10 days! I'm so excited for you! Love the pictures of your first visit! I should dig around my house and see if I can come up with any from mine....

Side note: I read Kingdom Keepers this morning...now I just need to go find the second one!

karenmmk

01-31-2010, 01:33 PM

I swear I have travel anxiety and I just can't sleep the night before.

I think you get this from me. :sad2: I'm so afraid I'll oversleep that I end up hardly sleeping at all. BUT being sleep deprived at Disney is a lot more fun than being sleep deprived at work! :)

Just did online check-in so we're all set. :dance3:

Lovemy3babes

01-31-2010, 01:47 PM

Those are great blast from the past pictures!! I love the humor in taking pictures of people terrified on rides. They just make me giggle.

Megablocks

01-31-2010, 09:29 PM

My mom is like that too. She can never sleep the night before we go anywhere!

We're not morning people, and we have to be up around 4 AM the day we leave. You'll be meeting us after a 3 hour flight and only a few hours of sleep. Remember that when you see us :rotfl:

Having polka-dots AND stripes is very exciting :thumbsup2 I have a Mickey tote bag that's blue with little white dots on the outside and it has pink and white stripes on the inside. I got in at Hot Topic on clearance for about 10 dollars :worship:

I'll remember that. I'll also try to remember to ask my dad to please not wear the weird glasses. I'd feel bad if he scared you right away. :lmao:

That sounds really cute! Are you bringing it on your trip??

The pictures from the past are great. You will appreciate them more and more as the years go by.

You are really truly almost there. I am very excited for you!

You are going to be in Disney World having so much fun

NEXT WEEK! http://bestsmileys.com/excited/3.gif

It will be so nice to go and just think of all things fun - no work, no school no stress - just fun!

Thank you! I love having people who understand and share in the excitement. :goodvibes

I'm so ready to have a week of thinking about FUN stuff!

10 days!!!!

:dancer:

Love the old trip photos!

Thank you! And when I wake up tomorrow, it will be nine days! :hyper:

:dance3::dance3::dance3:
Ten Days!
:dance3::dance3::dance3:

I can't believe that you leave in 10 days! I'm so excited for you! Love the pictures of your first visit! I should dig around my house and see if I can come up with any from mine....

Side note: I read Kingdom Keepers this morning...now I just need to go find the second one!

You totally should, I would love to see any!

I'm so excited, too! Tomorrow you'll be able to start saying that you're going next month, AND you're almost in the 30s. :banana: Like I said to MeMom, I love having friends that share in the excitement. No one at work, besides one friend, seems to understand why we're going to Disney again. Sigh.

Do you have the second one? I'll send you my copy when I send you Kris's birthday button and stuff. Oh and let me know when you're posting your itinerary, too, so I can pretend like we have one. :rotfl2: I don't want it to seem like I'm taking over our report. :worried: Its been on my mind.

I think you get this from me. :sad2: I'm so afraid I'll oversleep that I end up hardly sleeping at all. BUT being sleep deprived at Disney is a lot more fun than being sleep deprived at work! :)

Just did online check-in so we're all set. :dance3:

Yup, definitely get it from you. :laughing: So true, too.

I can't believe that is already done!! That makes it even more real than the luggage tags!

Those are great blast from the past pictures!! I love the humor in taking pictures of people terrified on rides. They just make me giggle.

Thank you! I crack up every time I see my brother's face. :lmao:

DisKate

01-31-2010, 11:13 PM

You totally should, I would love to see any!

I'm so excited, too! Tomorrow you'll be able to start saying that you're going next month, AND you're almost in the 30s. :banana: Like I said to MeMom, I love having friends that share in the excitement. No one at work, besides one friend, seems to understand why we're going to Disney again. Sigh.

Do you have the second one? I'll send you my copy when I send you Kris's birthday button and stuff. Oh and let me know when you're posting your itinerary, too, so I can pretend like we have one. :rotfl2: I don't want it to seem like I'm taking over our report. :worried: Its been on my mind.

I'll have to see if I can find some....I know I have one pic from when I was about 3 here, but its not from Disney....

I bought the second Kingdom Keepers at Barnes & Noble tonight....I'm hoping to read it at work tomorrow, if I don't get distracted by the dis...I might try to post our itinerary tomorrow as well...I don't feel like you're taking over, you are just better at replying then I am :hug:

Oh, I GO TO DISNEY NEXT MONTH!!! :dance3::dance3:

Megablocks

02-01-2010, 07:27 PM

I'll have to see if I can find some....I know I have one pic from when I was about 3 here, but its not from Disney....

I bought the second Kingdom Keepers at Barnes & Noble tonight....I'm hoping to read it at work tomorrow, if I don't get distracted by the dis...I might try to post our itinerary tomorrow as well...I don't feel like you're taking over, you are just better at replying then I am :hug:

Oh, I GO TO DISNEY NEXT MONTH!!! :dance3::dance3:

Let me know what you think of it! I never actually got to talk to my friend about it at work last night. Glad you don't feel like I am taking over :hug: That does make me feel better, I was worried about it.

That reminds me!! Charles saw my whiteboard today with both our countdowns. He asked me, "So Katie's going in forty days?" I said yes, and he goes, "you guys are insane." :lmao:

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If you're not interested in Harry Potter, you can feel free to skip this!

Charles and I finally got to go to the Harry Potter exhibit at the Museum of Science today. He hasn't read all of the books, but he loves the movies, and I love both. I am sorry to say that I have no pictures. :( The website was very, very explicit in their "no cameras" policy, and I was concerned about it being confiscated. They didn't ask if we had one on us, and I didn't realize that we were going to get to check out the rest of the museum afterwards.

We took the T to the MoS with no confusion, even though we had to get on the green line train, which I find incredibly confusing and annoying, but we were just one stop over from the station we got off at to switch to the green line. We took the short ride there and walked the short distance to the MoS. Once we actually got inside, there was a little bit of confusion because we didn't know exactly where to purchase the tickets, and got two different responses from two different museum employees. :confused3 We finally got our tickets, and found out that the $26 price tag for the exhibit included tickets to the exhibition halls of the museum!! So, when we finished with the Harry Potter exhibit, we could wander the rest of the museum.

The exhibit started out with being sorted with the sorting hat. I can now say that I am in Hufflepuff, while Charles is in Slytherin. I suspect it was because he was wearing a green t-shirt and a green hoodie. :rolleyes1 After being sorted, we were lead into a room that showed several clips from the movies, and from there, we were led to the train platform, where we were both told that we looked a little old for first years. :rotfl: From there, we were led into the exhibit itself. There were all sorts of pictures in this area, including the moving pictures in the frames. My favorite was of the fat lady wearing opera robes, screaming and trying to get her glass to crack, when she finally screams and smashes it against the wall. Charles and I were looking at some stuff and I kept on hearing her and cracking up.

The exhibit...OH. MY. GOD. It was amazing. Really, truly amazing. Costumes and props and all sorts of information about all of it. There were the balls from the Quidditch games, the Nimbus 2000 and 2001 broomsticks, the head of a dragon...it was absolutely amazing.

In one of the movies (I can't remember which one, I'm sorry), they are practicing a "riddikulus" charm. One girl turns something into a giant jack-in-the-box, and it was freaky, to say the least. Now, I hate clowns. I am completely 100% afraid of them. I don't like dolls very much, and I hate jack-in-the-boxes. I turned and saw the actual prop -- the giant jack-in-the-box -- RIGHT there. It was huge, and 1000x creepier than in the movie. I almost flipped out. I said, "CHARLES" a little loudly, and he turned and saw it and went, "WOW. That's creepy even to me." I had my hand up blocking it from my peripheral vision. Charles was still looking at it and said, "it looks like the eyes could move." :scared1: Thanks, Charles.

The entire exhibit was just incredible. Anything that you saw in the movies, was in the exhibit. Anyone that is a fan of Harry Potter should go see it if they have the chance. I would seriously love to go back.

We got to wander the museum after, because we got the passes when we got the tickets to the exhibit, and it was a lot of fun. I (not on purpose) paid Charles back for almost giving me a heart attack with his comment about the eyes of the jack-in-the-box moving. Charles is absolutely terrified of heights, and when we went up to the second floor, he had to move way, way over to the other side, because through the clear glass on the sides, you could see all the way down to the first floor. He actually almost started hyperventilating...that's how afraid he is of heights. When we were still on the second floor, crossing from one wing to the other, we had to walk across the big, open walkway with more clear glass on either side showing down to the first floor. Charles walked very quickly across it, through the middle, and I walked more slowly across (I can't keep up with him even when he is walking at his normal pace, let alone when he's walking quickly.) I could see the partly frozen Charles River and the buildings of Boston through a big window, so not thinking, I moved over to the side to look. I suddenly heard, "MEGHAN! PLEASE DON'T!" Whoops. :rolleyes:

Once we were done, we hopped back on the T to the train station to pick up my car, picked up Mike, and got dinner at TGI Fridays, because I am in love with their brownie obsession. :cloud9:

In the Megablocks clan's trip news, WE ARE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS! :dance3: I have another, unexpected day off work this week, so now I only have four days of work to get through! I'm probably going to spend that day doing homework. I am doing everything I can to get the work that is due after I get back, done before we leave. I finished next week's homework, so all have to do is read two more chapters, do the two study guides, conduct two observations (about an hour), type those up, and do the related questions. I am determined to not have to worry about getting stuff done on the trip, or when we get back. I've also printed out my packing/to-do list -- very exciting stuff. I still can't believe how quickly it is coming up; it feels a little surreal.

Tink9721

02-01-2010, 08:32 PM

I'll remember that. I'll also try to remember to ask my dad to please not wear the weird glasses. I'd feel bad if he scared you right away. :lmao:

That sounds really cute! Are you bringing it on your trip??

:rotfl: I have a silly dad too, so I'm used to all of the silly dad stuff ;)

Probably not. If it had a zipper or it closed securely I would but I don't want to be worrying about stuff falling out of it. I prefer my messanger bag for Disney. I can just put it over my shoulder and have my hands free ::yes::

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"] [B]We took the T to the MoS with no confusion, even though we had to get on the green line train, which I find incredibly confusing and annoying

Every time I go to Boston I somehow end up having to take the green line. I get so mad about it :lmao:

I need to check out the Harry Potter exhibit!!!!

Yay for single digits :cool1: I'm at two weeks tomorrow!

Since it's February now...WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY THIS MONTH! :dance3:

CanadianWDWfan

02-01-2010, 08:54 PM

Hey! Came on here to join in the Single Digit Dance!

:cool1: ...... :cool1: ........ :cool1: .......... :cool1:

Glad you enjoyed the Harry Potter exhibit. It sounded like a really fun time except fot the scary parts.

Anything called 'Brownie Explosion' sounds wonderful to me! :laughing:

Hope your feeling better soon. :hug:

I bet you are sooo excitted for your upcoming trip, right about now.

Have fun packing, the day will be here very soon. :cool1:

MeMom

02-02-2010, 07:03 AM

Meg, was it you saying you had not seen Daisy on another report? If you get to Epcot at opening, she is very often right after you go through the turnstiles up on the right. No line, because everyone is racing to the rope to go to Soarin'. Anyway, just thought I'd mention that, in case you were interested in getting a Daisy picture.

I have no fear of heights, but I feel the same way Charles does about closed-in spaces. I have to really talk myself through things sometimes, knowing I will be perfectly okay, but still having those natural (for me) feelings of slight panic inside. I don't much like the room closing in before I get to ride through Haunted Mansion or the doors closing shut on Tower of Terror or Star Tours, but I like the rides enough to talk myself though those parts. I feel bad for him, because I know he wishes he didn't have to deal with those height feelings, yet they are very real.

This is going to be a busy and exciting few days for you! The days will probably fly by now! :banana:

Charleston Princess

02-02-2010, 07:07 AM

Oh my goodness! The Harry Potter exhibit sounds absolutely amazing!!! Connor would love to go to it, I am sure! I wonder if it will be traveling...I would love to get sorted and see all the props from the movies (Connor and I have read all the books and seen all the movies -- we are definitely HP fans!) Shame on Charles for telling you it looked like the eyes were moving. :lmao:

Megablocks

02-02-2010, 08:34 AM

:rotfl: I have a silly dad too, so I'm used to all of the silly dad stuff ;)

Probably not. If it had a zipper or it closed securely I would but I don't want to be worrying about stuff falling out of it. I prefer my messanger bag for Disney. I can just put it over my shoulder and have my hands free ::yes::

Every time I go to Boston I somehow end up having to take the green line. I get so mad about it :lmao:

I need to check out the Harry Potter exhibit!!!!

Yay for single digits :cool1: I'm at two weeks tomorrow!

Since it's February now...WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY THIS MONTH! :dance3:

Oh, good! :laughing: He lives to do crazy things...I'm glad you understand!

My hatred of the green line was a little bit lessened this time. We only had to go about one stop over, and we didn't have to look to make sure we were getting on the correctly lettered train. That will change the next time I have to take it to a Sox game. :rolleyes:

It was absolutely amazing! It's there until February 28, I think. I even got to pull up a mandrake. I was afraid to at first because I was afraid it was going to be really loud (I hate loud noises, even when they are expected), and Charles didn't want to do it, so he kept on asking me to please try it. :rotfl:

You are two weeks out TODAY! :dance3:

Hey! Came on here to join in the Single Digit Dance!

:cool1: ...... :cool1: ........ :cool1: .......... :cool1:

Glad you enjoyed the Harry Potter exhibit. It sounded like a really fun time except fot the scary parts.

Anything called 'Brownie Explosion' sounds wonderful to me! :laughing:

Hope your feeling better soon. :hug:

I bet you are sooo excitted for your upcoming trip, right about now.

Have fun packing, the day will be here very soon. :cool1:

Thank you! :banana:

The exhibit was amazing! Once we got past that one scary part, I was fine. :laughing: And thank you, I am feeling SO much better. I'm so glad I got it done and over with before we left.

I am ridiculously excited! I kept a couple of things on my to-do list, that I've already done, just so I could cross them off when I printed it out. :laughing: I'm one of those strange people who doesn't mind packing, until I start worrying about having missed something and need to double, triple, and quadruple check everything (and sometimes tear the suitcase apart looking for something.) I am going to be at work tomorrow reminding myself of where I'll be at that time next week. :woohoo:

Megablocks

02-02-2010, 09:13 AM

The DIS is doing crazy things and cut off these two replies from the page for some reason, and didn't let them reappear until I refreshed the page. :confused3

Meg, was it you saying you had not seen Daisy on another report? If you get to Epcot at opening, she is very often right after you go through the turnstiles up on the right. No line, because everyone is racing to the rope to go to Soarin'. Anyway, just thought I'd mention that, in case you were interested in getting a Daisy picture.

I have no fear of heights, but I feel the same way Charles does about closed-in spaces. I have to really talk myself through things sometimes, knowing I will be perfectly okay, but still having those natural (for me) feelings of slight panic inside. I don't much like the room closing in before I get to ride through Haunted Mansion or the doors closing shut on Tower of Terror or Star Tours, but I like the rides enough to talk myself though those parts. I feel bad for him, because I know he wishes he didn't have to deal with those height feelings, yet they are very real.

This is going to be a busy and exciting few days for you! The days will probably fly by now! :banana:

Yes, that was me. Thank you! I would love to try to find Daisy for a picture.

Charles would really appreciate your understanding of his feelings! He has a problem with escalators, because he doesn't like railings that are at or below his waist (it happens a lot because he's 6'5"), and clear glass elevators are a problem, too. He feels silly being so afraid of heights because he's such a big guy and he's so tall, but you can't help what you're afraid of. His fear of heights extends to family and loved ones, too -- he was terrified when he heard that Kailyn and I were supposed to go parasailing, and he was terrified when I mentioned the balloon ride at DTD.

I have a bunch of school stuff to get done, so that plus work is definitely going to make these next 8 days fly by!

Oh my goodness! The Harry Potter exhibit sounds absolutely amazing!!! Connor would love to go to it, I am sure! I wonder if it will be traveling...I would love to get sorted and see all the props from the movies (Connor and I have read all the books and seen all the movies -- we are definitely HP fans!) Shame on Charles for telling you it looked like the eyes were moving. :lmao:

It is a traveling exhibit -- I know it's going to Toronto next. I really hope it goes to Atlanta so you guys can see it! This is the official website -- http://www.harrypotterexhibition.com/ It says that more locations are coming soon, so I'd definitely keep checking back.

I wanted to kill him for that. :lmao: I'm so glad I didn't have nightmares about that thing!

DisKate

02-02-2010, 03:20 PM

It is a traveling exhibit -- I know it's going to Toronto next. I really hope it goes to Atlanta so you guys can see it! This is the official website -- http://www.harrypotterexhibition.com/ It says that more locations are coming soon, so I'd definitely keep checking back.

I wanted to kill him for that. :lmao: I'm so glad I didn't have nightmares about that thing!

So I may have to go see the show in Toronto since that is close to us! From everything you have said about it, it seems awesome! I too tend to double, triple, and quadruple check my bags....I have some slight OCD tendencies according to Patrick :confused3

8 Days!!!! :dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

Charleston Princess

02-02-2010, 05:03 PM

I saw it was headed to Toronto -- like you said, I hope they add more cities to the tour. I really want to see it!

Tink9721

02-02-2010, 05:56 PM

Oh, good! :laughing: He lives to do crazy things...I'm glad you understand!

My hatred of the green line was a little bit lessened this time. We only had to go about one stop over, and we didn't have to look to make sure we were getting on the correctly lettered train. That will change the next time I have to take it to a Sox game. :rolleyes:

It was absolutely amazing! It's there until February 28, I think. I even got to pull up a mandrake. I was afraid to at first because I was afraid it was going to be really loud (I hate loud noises, even when they are expected), and Charles didn't want to do it, so he kept on asking me to please try it. :rotfl:

You are two weeks out TODAY! :dance3:

My dad was a chaperone when we went on a field trip to New York in 6th grade and he started a conga line with some of my friends in the middle of New York City :rolleyes1 :lmao:

I'm going to a Sox game with my dad in April, so we'll have to take the green line :headache: I managed to get me and my mom to Fenway so hopefully I can do it again :laughing:

I'd be afraid to pull it up too! :rotfl:

I've been sick all week and I've had that delirious/dizzy/sleepy thing going on. I was so out of it earlier today :laughing: I realized that I was at the two week mark and I got really excited and started crying :rotfl: I was so sleepy when it happened and then I just started laughing hysterically. It was hilarious :rotfl2:

It's starting to sink in now that I'll really be there soon. Usually we book the trips 3 months in advance, and we booked this one about 3 weeks ago so it's throwing me off :rotfl: I keep thinking we still have a lot longer to wait.

TWO WEEKS!!!!!!! :jumping1: :banana: :cool1: :dance3: :woohoo:

Megablocks

02-02-2010, 09:01 PM

So I may have to go see the show in Toronto since that is close to us! From everything you have said about it, it seems awesome! I too tend to double, triple, and quadruple check my bags....I have some slight OCD tendencies according to Patrick :confused3

8 Days!!!! :dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

You definitely have to! It was amazing. Just don't look at that jack-in-the-box. I seriously wanted to take my phone out right then and there and text you, but there were museum employees EVERYWHERE watching people!

I love finding out more ways in which we are so much alike. :laughing: Some of my OCD tendencies are not so slight, especially when you ask my coworkers (one in particular) -- he was training to be a supervisor and when I was showing him how to set up the pickup logs and money bags and informed him that when I did a sweep, I carried a pen with the same color ink that I used on the log because I couldn't stand when people signed in a different color. I said once that something else made my OCD cry, and now he makes references to my OCD tendencies and "not making Meg's OCD cry." :lmao:

I saw it was headed to Toronto -- like you said, I hope they add more cities to the tour. I really want to see it!

I'm sure it will hit all the big cities. I really want you guys to see it!

My dad was a chaperone when we went on a field trip to New York in 6th grade and he started a conga line with some of my friends in the middle of New York City :rolleyes1 :lmao:

I'm going to a Sox game with my dad in April, so we'll have to take the green line :headache: I managed to get me and my mom to Fenway so hopefully I can do it again :laughing:

I'd be afraid to pull it up too! :rotfl:

I've been sick all week and I've had that delirious/dizzy/sleepy thing going on. I was so out of it earlier today :laughing: I realized that I was at the two week mark and I got really excited and started crying :rotfl: I was so sleepy when it happened and then I just started laughing hysterically. It was hilarious :rotfl2:

It's starting to sink in now that I'll really be there soon. Usually we book the trips 3 months in advance, and we booked this one about 3 weeks ago so it's throwing me off :rotfl: I keep thinking we still have a lot longer to wait.

TWO WEEKS!!!!!!! :jumping1: :banana: :cool1: :dance3: :woohoo:

That is amazing! :rotfl2: I wasn't there for this, but I heard it from my brother -- on a train ride home from a Sox game, my dad suddenly sang, "sweet Caroliiiiine..." and the rest of the train joined in with the, "BAH BAH BAHHH..." And in a crowded train station, he once shouted, "MARCO!" and about twenty-five people shouted back, "POLO!"

I was so afraid to pull that thing up! I kept on saying, "it'll be loud," and Charles was like, "well, yeah, it's a mandrake." :lmao: It was actually heavier than it was loud...I don't know how kids pulled them up!

Oh, I hope you feel better!! That is really funny though, I have been there before :rotfl:

So close!!! :yay:

DisKate

02-02-2010, 10:30 PM

You definitely have to! It was amazing. Just don't look at that jack-in-the-box. I seriously wanted to take my phone out right then and there and text you, but there were museum employees EVERYWHERE watching people!

I love finding out more ways in which we are so much alike. :laughing: Some of my OCD tendencies are not so slight, especially when you ask my coworkers (one in particular) -- he was training to be a supervisor and when I was showing him how to set up the pickup logs and money bags and informed him that when I did a sweep, I carried a pen with the same color ink that I used on the log because I couldn't stand when people signed in a different color. I said once that something else made my OCD cry, and now he makes references to my OCD tendencies and "not making Meg's OCD cry." :lmao:

My OCD tendencies tend to do a lot with the order things are done in...I have one that really drives Patrick crazy that involves how I put on shoes (sneakers and boots, not like flip flops)...I'm just super weird about some things....I also have issues with pen ink and notes...I keep the same color pen with each notebook for the entire semester...I can't stand it when I lose my blue pen and have to write in black...though if it's on different pages it's slightly better :rotfl::rotfl:

Ok, bad news Meggie.....So apparently they are redoing the Barnstormer as a Dumbo/Clown theme :scared1::scared1::scared1::scared1:

I am not happy about this...there had better not be clown meet and greets or I'll never be comfortable in the new area....Apparently the new issue of D23 has a full article about it, I'll get it next Thursday (payday)...but by then you will be in DISNEY!!!! Maybe you can browse an issue and tell me about it :)

Megablocks

02-02-2010, 10:59 PM

My OCD tendencies tend to do a lot with the order things are done in...I have one that really drives Patrick crazy that involves how I put on shoes (sneakers and boots, not like flip flops)...I'm just super weird about some things....I also have issues with pen ink and notes...I keep the same color pen with each notebook for the entire semester...I can't stand it when I lose my blue pen and have to write in black...though if it's on different pages it's slightly better :rotfl::rotfl:

Ok, bad news Meggie.....So apparently they are redoing the Barnstormer as a Dumbo/Clown theme :scared1::scared1::scared1::scared1:

I am not happy about this...there had better not be clown meet and greets or I'll never be comfortable in the new area....Apparently the new issue of D23 has a full article about it, I'll get it next Thursday (payday)...but by then you will be in DISNEY!!!! Maybe you can browse an issue and tell me about it :)

You should see my wallet -- all of the cards and the money have to be facing the same way, and when I switched over to another wallet where my license would be on the inside, not the outside, I was ready to have a mini meltdown because I couldn't figure out which way I should have it going. :lmao: And I'm a lefty, so everything I do first is with the left (my first ring to go on is the one I wear on my left hand, the left shoe goes on first)...I for some reason have more piercings in my left ear than my right, because that felt more "right," but I felt that the tattoo on my wrist had to go on my right wrist. :confused3 It would have felt weird to have it on my left wrist. Just thinking about it is bothering me :rotfl2:

That is NOT NICE. :scared1: Disney is not supposed to have clowns or anything even related to clowns! I will totally try to browse an issue and tell you about it, and I will even let you know if there are any creepy pictures in it to watch out for. :)

DisKate

02-03-2010, 07:01 AM

You should see my wallet -- all of the cards and the money have to be facing the same way, and when I switched over to another wallet where my license would be on the inside, not the outside, I was ready to have a mini meltdown because I couldn't figure out which way I should have it going. :lmao: And I'm a lefty, so everything I do first is with the left (my first ring to go on is the one I wear on my left hand, the left shoe goes on first)...I for some reason have more piercings in my left ear than my right, because that felt more "right," but I felt that the tattoo on my wrist had to go on my right wrist. :confused3 It would have felt weird to have it on my left wrist. Just thinking about it is bothering me :rotfl2:

That is NOT NICE. :scared1: Disney is not supposed to have clowns or anything even related to clowns! I will totally try to browse an issue and tell you about it, and I will even let you know if there are any creepy pictures in it to watch out for. :)

Thanks! That would be great! I may get Patrick to get me the issue this weekend though :thumbsup2 That way I can save it and read it next Wednesday while I'm in cold, dreary New York, and you are in warm, wonderful Florida....

7 Days til DISNEY :dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

DisKate

02-03-2010, 07:02 AM

Forgot to add...

It's now time to play the "This Time Next Week" Game!

I'm guessing at this exact time you will be on a plane...but where will you be for the rest of the day??????? :dance3::dance3:

Megablocks

02-03-2010, 11:13 AM

Thanks! That would be great! I may get Patrick to get me the issue this weekend though :thumbsup2 That way I can save it and read it next Wednesday while I'm in cold, dreary New York, and you are in warm, wonderful Florida....

7 Days til DISNEY :dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

You have more control than I do. If someone got it for me this weekend, I wouldn't be able to resist reading it right then. :rolleyes:

I need to send you a picture of my serious lack of Mickey heads! I have seven left, because the one that my dad made me for is still on there. :rotfl:

Forgot to add...

It's now time to play the "This Time Next Week" Game!

I'm guessing at this exact time you will be on a plane...but where will you be for the rest of the day??????? :dance3::dance3:

I forgot to tell you this when I texted you this morning -- I got woken up at 7:30 this morning because of construction next door. :headache: My room faces the house, so it kinda sounds like they're in my room. Fortunately I have earplugs because the same thing has happened before. Once I realized what time it was, before I fell asleep again, I was thinking, "this time next week, I'll be on a plane heading to Disney!" :rotfl2:

So...next Wednesday a little after noon, we will either be on the ME heading to Pop, or checking into Pop! :yay: Our flight leaves Boston at 7 AM, so we'll get to Orlando around 10 or a little after, ride the fake monorail, check in at the ME counter, and take the ME to Pop. I will be flipping out when I see the Disney arches, the road signs, and the Pop sign. We will check in at Pop, and hopefully get to cut through the gift shop and the food court. We may or not wait for our luggage, but we WILL hit a park, because we're going to be there nice and early and basically have almost a whole extra day. :cloud9: I love this game -- I am so going to be playing it at work today! It will be what gets me through my last 4 days there. :banana:

heatherlizz602

02-03-2010, 07:35 PM

CanadianWDWfan

02-03-2010, 08:11 PM

One week from today!!! :woohoo:

I think we all have a little OCD in us! :laughing:

DisKate I decided to reply to your question about the Syracuse Disney Store here instead of on MeMoms TR.

The store had an okay selection. I was just so happy to be in a Disney Store that I didn't care.

They had some specials. I was hoping to get a Valentine's plush beanie and I left with the whole set. They were 2 for $12.

They didn't have alot of Adult tees.

If you have anything in mind...ask me and I'll tell you if I saw it. :)

DisKate

02-03-2010, 08:15 PM

Megablocks

02-03-2010, 09:10 PM

:scared1:
WOW ...10 pages in and I just found you. This is an awesome report. I love how you and Katie are both doing one. We all get the best of TWO trips for our withdrawls. Its almost here for you. You leave on the same day I get to go back home for the weekend! :cool1:

Yay! :yay: Thank you for joining in, I'm so excited I get to do this with Katie. We can help each other and everyone else through our withdrawals. :rotfl: Thank you for reading!

One week from today!!! :woohoo:

I think we all have a little OCD in us! :laughing:

DisKate I decided to reply to your question about the Syracuse Disney Store here instead of on MeMoms TR.

The store had an okay selection. I was just so happy to be in a Disney Store that I didn't care.

They had some specials. I was hoping to get a Valentine's plush beanie and I left with the whole set. They were 2 for $12.

They didn't have alot of Adult tees.

If you have anything in mind...ask me and I'll tell you if I saw it. :)

I kept on walking by Kailyn at work today (yup, we work together now :laughing:) and reminding her of where we'd be at that time next week. Like, "this time next week, we'll be riding Everest till we puke," or, "this time next week, we'll be riding Dinosaur till we pass out from fright."

Very true! I have a lot of OCD tendencies. I get made fun of them for them at work a LOT. :rotfl:

Tink9721

02-03-2010, 10:22 PM

That is amazing! :rotfl2: I wasn't there for this, but I heard it from my brother -- on a train ride home from a Sox game, my dad suddenly sang, "sweet Caroliiiiine..." and the rest of the train joined in with the, "BAH BAH BAHHH..." And in a crowded train station, he once shouted, "MARCO!" and about twenty-five people shouted back, "POLO!"

I was so afraid to pull that thing up! I kept on saying, "it'll be loud," and Charles was like, "well, yeah, it's a mandrake." :lmao: It was actually heavier than it was loud...I don't know how kids pulled them up!

Oh, I hope you feel better!! That is really funny though, I have been there before :rotfl:

So close!!! :yay:

:lmao: That definitely sounds like something my dad would do!

Thanks! I went back to school today but came home after a few hours :sick: I'm feeling better than I was earlier. I think I'll be fine by tomorrow morning. I'm glad this happened now and not in Disney!

I'm under two weeks! :cool1:

And you're only a week away now! :banana:

DisKate

02-04-2010, 06:41 AM

In 6 days Meghan will be waking up in Disney and heading to.....

:dance3::dance3:

Charleston Princess

02-04-2010, 06:56 AM

Woo hoo for less than a week!!! :woohoo:

DisKate

02-04-2010, 07:00 AM

Woo hoo for less than a week!!! :woohoo:

Hey CP! Quick question...are you tired today? Cause apparently you were in Buffalo last night :rotfl: For some reason I had a dream that your family came to Buffalo to go to Toronto to see HP and we met up at the mall where I met Meg last year and you insisted on being called Princess Charleston the whole time....I think Meghan has passed her weird dreams on to me!

Charleston Princess

02-04-2010, 07:04 AM

Hey CP! Quick question...are you tired today? Cause apparently you were in Buffalo last night :rotfl: For some reason I had a dream that your family came to Buffalo to go to Toronto to see HP and we met up at the mall where I met Meg last year and you insisted on being called Princess Charleston the whole time....I think Meghan has passed her weird dreams on to me!

:lmao::rotfl::rotfl2: That's too funny! I wish I was in Buffalo headed to the HP exhibit -- that would be a lot of fun! Sadly, I was asleep on my couch by 8:00 last night. No late night jet-setting for me. ;)

Megablocks

02-04-2010, 10:37 AM

My internet is being absolutely insane, and even though I was obviously logged in to reply, when I tried to post the replies, it said that I was not allowed because I wasn't logged in. :headache: This time, I'm copying and pasting before I try to post anything!

:lmao: That definitely sounds like something my dad would do!

Thanks! I went back to school today but came home after a few hours :sick: I'm feeling better than I was earlier. I think I'll be fine by tomorrow morning. I'm glad this happened now and not in Disney!

I'm under two weeks! :cool1:

And you're only a week away now! :banana:

And YOU are almost in the single digits!!

I felt the same way when I was sick -- I was so glad that it was happening then and not when I was in Disney. It sometimes felt like my sinuses were full of cement. I cannot imagine trying to fly with that. :scared: I hope you are finally feeling better!

In 6 days Meghan will be waking up in Disney and heading to.....

:dance3::dance3:

The Pop Century food court :rotfl:

hmmmm...I'm hoping we can hit Epcot or MK. A morning soar would be amazing, but so would seeing the castle in the morning. DHS is my dad's favorite park, and I'm having ToT withdrawals, so I'm guessing we'll hit DHS at some point, too. I can't wait to be there and texting you about where we are!

Woo hoo for less than a week!!! :woohoo:

:yay: I'm so excited! It's really starting to hit me now that we're leaving really, really soon -- I'm trying to get a bunch of homework done before we leave, and I also realized that I never bought a camera case or an extra battery (still haven't even decided on that :rotfl: ) Hopefully that will all get done today after I finish my observations for class.

Hey CP! Quick question...are you tired today? Cause apparently you were in Buffalo last night :rotfl: For some reason I had a dream that your family came to Buffalo to go to Toronto to see HP and we met up at the mall where I met Meg last year and you insisted on being called Princess Charleston the whole time....I think Meghan has passed her weird dreams on to me!

:lmao: That's hilarious! We do seem to share a brain so I'm not TOO surprised you're having the weird dreams, too :rotfl:

DisKate

02-04-2010, 02:21 PM

My internet is being absolutely insane, and even though I was obviously logged in to reply, when I tried to post the replies, it said that I was not allowed because I wasn't logged in. :headache: This time, I'm copying and pasting before I try to post anything!

And YOU are almost in the single digits!!

I felt the same way when I was sick -- I was so glad that it was happening then and not when I was in Disney. It sometimes felt like my sinuses were full of cement. I cannot imagine trying to fly with that. :scared: I hope you are finally feeling better!

The Pop Century food court :rotfl:

hmmmm...I'm hoping we can hit Epcot or MK. A morning soar would be amazing, but so would seeing the castle in the morning. DHS is my dad's favorite park, and I'm having ToT withdrawals, so I'm guessing we'll hit DHS at some point, too. I can't wait to be there and texting you about where we are!

:yay: I'm so excited! It's really starting to hit me now that we're leaving really, really soon -- I'm trying to get a bunch of homework done before we leave, and I also realized that I never bought a camera case or an extra battery (still haven't even decided on that :rotfl: ) Hopefully that will all get done today after I finish my observations for class.

:lmao: That's hilarious! We do seem to share a brain so I'm not TOO surprised you're having the weird dreams, too :rotfl:

I'm sorry about your internet :hug: I know how frustrating that can be.

Good luck on getting all of your homework done. I'm having to take a class at another school because mine didn't offer it this semester and I need it to graduate...and of course we don't have the same spring breaks...that would be asking to much...so one of our nights I will be sitting at the Boardwalk doing homework...still balcony at the BWV beats my living room any night.

And I meant to tell you, I was in Target last week and I saw that they carry extra batteries for the Sony H series...since we have the same model camera...Patrick and I are debating getting a second battery as well...we each have an H10 so we usually just steal one of the batteries from the other camera, but we are thinking it might be nice to have 2 functioning cameras this trip...

It was a really strange dream....I even remember thinking that it was strange...Not that I wouldn't love to meet CP, but it was just weird...and Patrick was hanging out with them like he had known them forever...:confused3:confused3

Megablocks

02-04-2010, 04:01 PM

I'm sorry about your internet :hug: I know how frustrating that can be.

Good luck on getting all of your homework done. I'm having to take a class at another school because mine didn't offer it this semester and I need it to graduate...and of course we don't have the same spring breaks...that would be asking to much...so one of our nights I will be sitting at the Boardwalk doing homework...still balcony at the BWV beats my living room any night.

And I meant to tell you, I was in Target last week and I saw that they carry extra batteries for the Sony H series...since we have the same model camera...Patrick and I are debating getting a second battery as well...we each have an H10 so we usually just steal one of the batteries from the other camera, but we are thinking it might be nice to have 2 functioning cameras this trip...

It was a really strange dream....I even remember thinking that it was strange...Not that I wouldn't love to meet CP, but it was just weird...and Patrick was hanging out with them like he had known them forever...:confused3:confused3

It's behaving for now -- if it starts misbehaving again it's probably a sign to do my homework. :laughing: I had to go to the mall with Charles to observe the same group of people, so I need to type up that observation/analysis, answer the questions, and finish up the next set of questions in the study guide. I should be able to get all of that done tonight. Today was my unexpected day off so I should really have something to show for it. :rolleyes:

Charles and I were in Target today looking!! I didn't have my camera on me at the time, so we left, went back to my house to get the camera, and then went to Best Buy. I ended up with a case and a spare battery. :) I think it will be very useful. He asked if I was going to get another memory stick but I'm planning on just dumping all the pictures onto my laptop as soon as we get back to the room, because heaven forbid I try to upload pictures to my laptop that are already on iPhoto...it takes many, many tries to finally upload them, sometimes it doesn't work at all and I have to delete a bunch of pictures that are already uploaded, and it's incredibly irritating. I don't want that. :rotfl:

Tink9721

02-04-2010, 06:41 PM

And YOU are almost in the single digits!!

I felt the same way when I was sick -- I was so glad that it was happening then and not when I was in Disney. It sometimes felt like my sinuses were full of cement. I cannot imagine trying to fly with that. :scared: I hope you are finally feeling better!

Yes! I'll be in single digits on Sunday! :banana:

Unfortunately instead of feeling better today, I felt worse :eek: My mom took me to the doctor and they said I have a virus and I can't do anything but let it run its course. I hate it when they say that :headache: I'm really stressed about missing this much school, especially since I'm missing a day for Disney. We couldn't get a flight back until Monday night so there's really no way around that. But next week I'll be busy with make up work so maybe that will make the week go by faster ::yes::

I'm sooooo glad this didn't happen in Disney. At the moment I can't really eat anything besides soup and crackers and really bland foods. I've been eating more today but I don't have much energy since I haven't been eating much all week.

All I can do right is relax and remember that two weeks from right now I'll be in line for Fantasmic! :cloud9:

I forgot to comment on this last night:

Our flight leaves Boston at 7 AM, so we'll get to Orlando around 10 or a little after, ride the fake monorail, check in at the ME counter, and take the ME to Pop.

:rotfl: The fake monorail always gets me excited because I know when I get to the other side, the ME counter isn't far away :)

I can't wait to be there and texting you about where we are!

Feel free to text me too! It'll get me even more excited :)

Megablocks

02-04-2010, 07:23 PM

Yes! I'll be in single digits on Sunday! :banana:

Unfortunately instead of feeling better today, I felt worse :eek: My mom took me to the doctor and they said I have a virus and I can't do anything but let it run its course. I hate it when they say that :headache: I'm really stressed about missing this much school, especially since I'm missing a day for Disney. We couldn't get a flight back until Monday night so there's really no way around that. But next week I'll be busy with make up work so maybe that will make the week go by faster ::yes::

I'm sooooo glad this didn't happen in Disney. At the moment I can't really eat anything besides soup and crackers and really bland foods. I've been eating more today but I don't have much energy since I haven't been eating much all week.

All I can do right is relax and remember that two weeks from right now I'll be in line for Fantasmic! :cloud9:

I forgot to comment on this last night:

:rotfl: The fake monorail always gets me excited because I know when I get to the other side, the ME counter isn't far away :)

Feel free to text me too! It'll get me even more excited :)

I absolutely hate hearing that it is just a virus that needs to run its course!! That's part of the reason I never went to the doctor when I was sick -- I figured that was all they'd tell me, and I don't go to the doctor unless I am really, really sick and not showing any signs of getting better. Charles (my boyfriend) hates that I do it, but he is the same way. He once was sick for almost a month before he went to the doctor -- turned out he had walking pneumonia. :rolleyes: So I use that as my defense for not going to the doctor :rotfl: I also hate the feeling so exhausted and weak because you can't eat much, but eating too much, or food that isn't bland, can make you feel even worse. :confused3

I love the fake monorail! It always makes me so excited. I especially love going by and seeing all the palm trees. It makes me really realize that I am in Disney. :)

I'll definitely text you! Can you get pictures on your phone?

Tink9721

02-04-2010, 07:33 PM

I absolutely hate hearing that it is just a virus that needs to run its course!! That's part of the reason I never went to the doctor when I was sick -- I figured that was all they'd tell me, and I don't go to the doctor unless I am really, really sick and not showing any signs of getting better. Charles (my boyfriend) hates that I do it, but he is the same way. He once was sick for almost a month before he went to the doctor -- turned out he had walking pneumonia. :rolleyes: So I use that as my defense for not going to the doctor :rotfl: I also hate the feeling so exhausted and weak because you can't eat much, but eating too much, or food that isn't bland, can make you feel even worse. :confused3

I love the fake monorail! It always makes me so excited. I especially love going by and seeing all the palm trees. It makes me really realize that I am in Disney. :)

I'll definitely text you! Can you get pictures on your phone?

Same here. My mom made me go today because I was worse this morning than yesterday. I seem to be doing better now though :)

Yes!!! The palm trees make me stop and say "Wait a minute. I'm REALLY here!!!!!" :cool1:

Yes I can get pictures! Getting Disney pictures will be so awesome! Especially since I'll be able to say "I'll be there next week!"

CanadianWDWfan

02-04-2010, 08:54 PM

Awww....palm trees....fake monorail....driving under the WDW arches!

I really need a trip to WDW! I am so jealous! :laughing:

I'm glad you found a camera bag and battery today. :thumbsup2
One less thing to worry about.

Are you planning on putting updates on here while you are gone?

Megablocks

02-04-2010, 09:11 PM

Same here. My mom made me go today because I was worse this morning than yesterday. I seem to be doing better now though :)

Yes!!! The palm trees make me stop and say "Wait a minute. I'm REALLY here!!!!!" :cool1:

Yes I can get pictures! Getting Disney pictures will be so awesome! Especially since I'll be able to say "I'll be there next week!"

Glad you seem to be doing better now :) I LOVE palm trees. I only ever see them in Disney World so they really make me happy. :cloud9:

I'll definitely text you and send you pictures!

Awww....palm trees....fake monorail....driving under the WDW arches!

I really need a trip to WDW! I am so jealous! :laughing:

I'm glad you found a camera bag and battery today. :thumbsup2
One less thing to worry about.

Are you planning on putting updates on here while you are gone?

You are going at the end of summer, right? When you are there, I'll be crying because I'm having withdrawals. :rotfl:

Definitely one less thing to worry about! The camera case was especially a big deal to me because it's a bigger camera and a bigger bag, and I didn't want anything to happen to it. I was glad that Charles talked me into the extra battery, too.

I'm not sure how much I'll get online while we're down there, but I'm sure I'll get on at least once and update. :)

Megablocks

02-05-2010, 11:37 AM

We're leaving in five days!

I feel like there is still so much I have to get done. I had a nice little to-do list typed up, but of course once I printed it out, I was finding more things to add. Four of the nine things on my list are actually related to our two guinea pigs. :lmao: I want to type up a quick little care sheet for them for Mike, clean out their cage on Tuesday night, buy more hay and pellets, and buy and cut up some veggies for them so that all Mike has to do is take some out of the ziploc bag and put it in their bowl.

I've kind of started the packing process. Kind of. I went through my closet this morning and separated most of what I'm bringing from my other clothes. I seem to missing one hoodie. :confused3 I do have another one I can bring, but it's still annoying me.

I finished most of the homework that's due after I get back! I have observations due every week, but I didn't start the one that's due after we get back. I'm still not completely clear on what we have to do, and we'll be discussing it on Monday, so I'm just going to wait on that one. I do know it involves observing someone I see on a daily basis over the course of five days, so I think it will be much easier to just wait.

The one thing on my to-do list that I'm really excited about is going to Coinstar to cash in my coins. I don't often carry cash, but when I do, I save up all the change and dump it into an empty cup or water bottle. I currently have a vitamin water bottle filled almost to the top, and I've thrown a couple of singles and five dollar bills in there. That plus the Disney gift cards from my dad and DisKate is going to be my souvenir money. :thumbsup2 I'm probably going to cash in the change on Tuesday.

The rest of the stuff I need to get done is just laundry, making sure my room is clean (because I refuse to come back to a messy room), emptying my camera's memory card, and making sure my iPod is charged for the flight down.

I've been obsessively checking accuweather.com, because I thought that we were supposed to get snow Tuesday into Wednesday. :scared1: There's a ridiculous thread over on the theme parks boards, but when I mentioned it to my mom yesterday, she pointed out that it was still almost a week out, and that's pretty early to predict anything. Later on, she said that it looks like it's going to be much farther south of us, and if worst came to worst, we'd just try to leave on Tuesday night or something. When I checked a little earlier, it says that there is a chance of flurries on Wednesday, and probably a little snow on Wednesday night. That's the only mention of snow. I'll still be checking, but I refuse to stress over it.

Now I'm off to one of my last three days of work! :banana: I'm working today, tomorrow, and Sunday, and then I'm officially on vacation! :dance3:

Have a fantastic Friday!

Charleston Princess

02-05-2010, 01:43 PM

I am planning on doing the whole Coinstar thing for this next trip, too. I have a jar on our kitchen desk that I have been tossing change into.

DisKate

02-06-2010, 05:41 PM

Charleston Princess

02-07-2010, 06:06 AM

CanadianWDWfan

02-07-2010, 09:12 AM

I am going at the end of summer! :woohoo:

Can't pass up the chance for Free Dining! :woohoo::woohoo:

It feels so far away...I'm glad to have DIS friends going in between so I can live vicariously through them. :)

I can't wait for both of your pics!

Good luck with the packing. You can always buy a Disney hoodie when you get there. ;)

I hope you are able to get the Disney gift card at Coinstar!

I've always wanted guinea pigs, they look so fluffy and cute.

:goodvibes for good flying weather.

Happy last day of work before your vacation! :hug:

Tink9721

02-07-2010, 11:29 AM

Glad you seem to be doing better now :) I LOVE palm trees. I only ever see them in Disney World so they really make me happy. :cloud9:

I'll definitely text you and send you pictures!

I'm feeling MUCH better now! I'm actually leaving the house today! I've been stuck in the house for a week so I'm very excited :rotfl:

Yay for texts and pictures! :yay:

It's time for me to do the single digits dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance3:

DisKate

02-07-2010, 12:00 PM

We got Mickey Mail yesterday!!!!!!!! 34 Days til Disney!!!!

Megablocks

02-07-2010, 12:41 PM

Just an FYI for all that love Coinstar...some of the machines actually dispense Disney Gift Cards...and on some if you take your money in GC then they don't charge you the .09 or whatever it is on each dollar

Good to know, Katie! Thanks!!! :goodvibes

YES, thank you! I am so going to check that on when I go on Tuesday to cash in my change. :hyper:

I am going at the end of summer! :woohoo:

Can't pass up the chance for Free Dining! :woohoo::woohoo:

It feels so far away...I'm glad to have DIS friends going in between so I can live vicariously through them. :)

I can't wait for both of your pics!

Good luck with the packing. You can always buy a Disney hoodie when you get there. ;)

I hope you are able to get the Disney gift card at Coinstar!

I've always wanted guinea pigs, they look so fluffy and cute.

:goodvibes for good flying weather.

Happy last day of work before your vacation! :hug:

Oh, the packing. I still haven't started. :rotfl: I'm hoping to have my suitcase upstairs and in my room tomorrow. The bag I use as my carryon (since it has a separate part for my laptop) is also the bag I use for school, so I have to wait till after class tomorrow to start with packing my carryon stuff.

Guinea pigs are so much fun! Ours are a little spazzy and don't like to get picked up, but once they're being held they're so sweet. They can also be quite loud. :rolleyes:

I didn't actually have to work today!! I didn't get a chance to update that yesterday, but she gave me today off without my requesting it. :woohoo: I don't work Mondays and Tuesdays because of school, but I work EVERY Sunday. I was so excited when I saw my schedule!

I'm feeling MUCH better now! I'm actually leaving the house today! I've been stuck in the house for a week so I'm very excited :rotfl:

Yay for texts and pictures! :yay:

It's time for me to do the single digits dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance3:

YAY for single digits! :banana: And for being able to leave the house -- I have so been there. I was really sick a couple of years ago with some viral thing that gave me high fevers and later a sinus/middle ear infection, and there were days that my fever would go down, or go away, and I'd make the mistake of venturing out for a little while because I was going insane, and then coming home and feeling like I was dying. I'm so glad you're better!

We got Mickey Mail yesterday!!!!!!!! 34 Days til Disney!!!!

Mickey mail!!!!! :dance3: :woohoo: I am so excited for you -- you're almost in the 20's, too!

Megablocks

02-07-2010, 01:40 PM

THREE DAYS!

I'm really starting to get crazy over the fact that we are going. Yesterday (Saturday) ended up being my last day of work! I don't work Mondays and Tuesdays because of school, but I work every single Sunday, without fail. At first, I was torn between being peeved and excited. Peeved because it's time and a half, and excited because it meant an extra day of vacation. Then I realized, "hey, I have my tax refund and vacation and personal day pay. Not working isn't going to kill me." Once I took that mindset on Friday afternoon, I was a very happy camper. :rotfl:

You guys all know that I was sick not too long ago with some weird sinus thing. I got over that, thankfully, and this weekend has been my mom and Kailyn's turn to get sick and get it over with before Disney. :( Kailyn woke my mom up at 5 AM yesterday because she threw up, and I think she might have gotten sick once or twice more, but after that, she slept for most of the day and felt pretty okay. I texted her last night before I left work asking if she wanted me to pick her up anything, and she requested Vitamin Water and apple slices. I texted back and said that it pained me to pick her up apples because I can't eat them (I have an allergy to raw apples), but I got them for her, anyway. She ate them last night and drank the Vitamin Water, slept a good bit today, and even ate couple of scallion pancakes when my grandmother brought us chinese food! So, she's definitely feeling better, and I'm so relieved. Her getting sick on vacation has been a huge source of anxiety for me. There's definitely something going around her school -- my mom said that at least three of her teachers were out on Friday. I'm just so glad that whatever it was is now out of her system.

Then, last night, my mom ended up getting sick. :sad2: She's better today, but she's not going into work tomorrow. She works at a child care center in Kailyn's high school, and pretty much ALL of her babies have been sick. There are the parents who don't follow the rule that their child has to be without a fever or symptoms for 24 hours that still send them in, so needless to say, it spread. :rolleyes: She hasn't been sick since last night, which I'm taking as a good sign, and her not going into work tomorrow is definitely going to help.

I've also been obsessively checking the weather, because even though we've gone mostly in January and February, always flying out of Boston (and having the worst winter, snow-wise, last year), the possibility of snow still makes me anxious. At work yesterday, I heard a couple of people say something about a Nor'easter Tuesday or Wednesday. :scared1: My mom keeps updating me with what she hears on the news, and the last I heard is that the DC area, which just got slammed with a ton of snow, is probably going to get hit again, and that if it hits Massachusetts, it will most likely be southern MA, down around the Cape, which isn't us. Both my parents think that our 7 AM flight is going to be a very good thing, and neither of them are stressing about the possibility of snow, which makes it a little easier for me not to stress.

I also did a little trip-related shopping at Kohls today. :rolleyes1 I needed at least one more pair of jeans, so that was my main goal, but I ended up walking out with an extra pair of jeans (I checked the price and they were on sale for $20 instead of $35! I could NOT pass that up!), six more pairs of socks, two tank tops, and two t-shirts. I dropped $80 in there, which made me feel a little guilty at first, and then I realized that the jeans alone would have cost me $70 originally. The shirts were all buy one, get one free, and the socks were buy one, get one 50% off. I've been bragging to Charles about my bargains ever since I got home. :lmao:

I still need to pack, go to Coinstar, buy and cut up veggies for the guinea pigs, empty my camera's memory card, make sure my iPod is fully charged, and clean the guinea pigs' cage. THAT'S IT! Oh, and pack. I don't have my suitcase yet and my carryon bag is also my school bag, but once I'm out of class tomorrow, I can start packing the carryon stuff. :dance3: I can't believe we're leaving in three days!

CanadianWDWfan

02-07-2010, 04:06 PM

Congrats on the great bargains! :thumbsup2

pixiedust:....for your whole family to not get sick anymore....pixiedust:

DisKate

02-07-2010, 08:07 PM

:dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

3 days!

:dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

Tink9721

02-07-2010, 08:45 PM

YAY for single digits! :banana: And for being able to leave the house -- I have so been there. I was really sick a couple of years ago with some viral thing that gave me high fevers and later a sinus/middle ear infection, and there were days that my fever would go down, or go away, and I'd make the mistake of venturing out for a little while because I was going insane, and then coming home and feeling like I was dying. I'm so glad you're better!

I've missed a TON of school this year, so I tried to go into school on Wednesday but ended up coming home and being gone the rest of the week. I've been so sick this school year. I was out for a few days in September with migraines. I had the flu in October. Not the swine flu, it was the stomach flu. Then I had another stomach bug in November. :scared1: I was fine December and January, so I figured I filled my sickness quota :rolleyes: Strangely enough, my grades are better this year than last year but I've missed almost double the amount of school. It might be because I work better under pressure :confused3 But just a few more weeks until the warm weather starts so hopefully I'll be healthy the rest of the school year. At least I'm not as bad as the girl who had swine flu and was out for a month :eek:

This is going to be a VERY long week with 4 and a half days worth of make up work to do :scared1: But I'm hoping that will make it go by faster. When the final bell rings on Friday I'll be like this :banana: Then I'll officially be on vacation and I can get into full Disney mode!

I'm worried about the snow too! For you and for me! It's not soon enough for me to get an accurate prediction for the 16th, so I'll be worrying all week :laughing:

Megablocks

02-08-2010, 07:20 AM

I've missed a TON of school this year, so I tried to go into school on Wednesday but ended up coming home and being gone the rest of the week. I've been so sick this school year. I was out for a few days in September with migraines. I had the flu in October. Not the swine flu, it was the stomach flu. Then I had another stomach bug in November. :scared1: I was fine December and January, so I figured I filled my sickness quota :rolleyes: Strangely enough, my grades are better this year than last year but I've missed almost double the amount of school. It might be because I work better under pressure :confused3 But just a few more weeks until the warm weather starts so hopefully I'll be healthy the rest of the school year. At least I'm not as bad as the girl who had swine flu and was out for a month :eek:

This is going to be a VERY long week with 4 and a half days worth of make up work to do :scared1: But I'm hoping that will make it go by faster. When the final bell rings on Friday I'll be like this :banana: Then I'll officially be on vacation and I can get into full Disney mode!

I'm worried about the snow too! For you and for me! It's not soon enough for me to get an accurate prediction for the 16th, so I'll be worrying all week :laughing:

I work so well under pressure, it's awful! Last semester, I had a paper that had, I think, nine different sections, and each section was to have at least five paragraphs each. Add in the intro and conclusion and that's 47 paragraphs. :scared1: Of course, I didn't bother doing that math until after I was already writing it three days before it was due. It ended up being 19 pages and I got a perfect score on it, like 30/30, which was made even better because the professor is amazing, but a hard grader. :rotfl2: She's the chair of the early childhood education department at my school, so I've had her for a few classes and have her this semester, too. I know what to expect yet I'm still putting off her work. :rotfl:

I'm super paranoid about the snow. I basically won't quit worrying until we're already on the plane and in the air. :rolleyes: I checked accuweather for my city, and it says snow and 1-3", which is nothing, and I don't think it's starting till after we leave. I'm so grateful for that 7 AM flight. :worship:

DisKate

02-08-2010, 07:24 AM

2 Days Meggie!!!!!!

MeMom

02-08-2010, 07:40 AM

THREE DAYS!

Both my parents think that our 7 AM flight is going to be a very good thing, and neither of them are stressing about the possibility of snow, which makes it a little easier for me not to stress.

:dance3: I can't believe we're leaving in three days!

:dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

3 days!

:dance3::dance3::dance3::dance3:

I'm super paranoid about the snow. I basically won't quit worrying until we're already on the plane and in the air. :rolleyes: I checked accuweather for my city, and it says snow and 1-3", which is nothing, and I don't think it's starting till after we leave. I'm so grateful for that 7 AM flight. :worship:

2 Days Meggie!!!!!!

3 days!!! :dance3:

2 days!! :cheer2: :cheer2:

I think I might know the next number! :cool1:

You've gotta be beside yourself with excitement. It will feel surreal when you are walking through the airport. I predict all will be well with your flight.

Best wishes for everyone at your house to be healthy and wealthy and wise throughout this whole trip. :)

koolcatshelby

02-08-2010, 09:24 AM

Have a Great Trip:banana: Hope everyone stays healthy this year. Can't wait to hear all about it when you get back. Have fun!!!:cheer2:

Megablocks

02-08-2010, 12:50 PM

2 Days Meggie!!!!!!

I KNOW! I'm so freaking out in a good way -- like when you asked me whether I had considered taking any sleep aid TOMORROW night!

3 days!!! :dance3:

2 days!! :cheer2: :cheer2:

I think I might know the next number! :cool1:

You've gotta be beside yourself with excitement. It will feel surreal when you are walking through the airport. I predict all will be well with your flight.

Best wishes for everyone at your house to be healthy and wealthy and wise throughout this whole trip. :)

I really am beside myself. Katie wrote on my Facebook earlier and asked if I had considered taking any kind of sleep aid tomorrow night (I had a very sleepless night last night) and I was SO excited when she put it that way!

Thank you so much for the well wishes :hug: Kailyn went to school today, is going to work after, and my mom took a sick day and probably will tomorrow, so everyone will be healthy. :goodvibes

Have a Great Trip:banana: Hope everyone stays healthy this year. Can't wait to hear all about it when you get back. Have fun!!!:cheer2:

Thank you! Me, too; I'm pretty sure that we've all gotten our sickness out of the way, so it will be a good do-over. :)

Megablocks

02-08-2010, 01:38 PM

We leave in TWO DAYS!

I'm pretty sure my travel anxiety has already started. I went to bed at 11:30 last night because I had to be up at 7 this morning. I woke up at 3:15 and could not go back to sleep for anything. I tossed and turned, wide awake, till a little after 5:30. Then I finally managed to go to sleep, only to have my alarm go off at 7. Sometime around 4:30 AM I thought, "we'll be getting ready to leave exactly 48 hours from right now!" Probably one of the reasons why I couldn't get back to sleep. So, even though I hate taking something just to get some sleep, I think I'm going to have to tomorrow night. If I was awake for 2+ hours in the wee hours of the morning two days before we leave, it's safe to say I will get little to no sleep tomorrow night if I don't take something.

I started packing last night. I used to be one of those people who actually liked packing. Then, I started worrying about the weather and having enough hoodies and coordinating and all sorts of stuff. The entire time I was packing last night, I was having an argument in my head about whether or not to take my black fleece jacket, and if I did, whether or not to bring my black hoodie, as well. It was a very long and drawn-out argument in my head, and finally I decided to leave the fleece jacket at home, and wear the black hoodie when we fly down on Wednesday (to coordinate with my khakis and black t-shirt worn over a black tank top with my black sneakers.)

I apologize for the size of the pictures; they uploaded tiny and I can't figure out how to get them any bigger. :headache:

This was my suitcase.

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01163.jpg

This was all the stuff I wanted to fit in there.

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01164.jpg

I'm not going to lie, I actually stood there for a few minutes just looking at the pile, looking at my suitcase, looking at the pile, looking at the suitcase, thinking, "how am I going to do this?" I actually grabbed one of our bigger suitcases. :rolleyes: I was so proud of myself for actually getting it all in. About midway through my packing, I realized, "crap, I need to fit the stuff I can't bring in my carryon in here, too." THEN I remembered that I'm obviously going to have souvenirs to bring home. So I did a little reorganizing.

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01167.jpg

These are the bags I'm bringing. The bag on the left is going to be my park bag -- it's just one of those backpacks with the strings that tighten the top. My main reason for carrying this one is that the strap won't go across my chest or over my shoulder (I'm not crazy about either, which is why I never carry a purse), and it's not an actual backpack, which I think might bother me to carry around. I'm so picky it's ridiculous. It's also going to have plenty of room for my mug. The one on the right is my carryon bag, because it has a separate, waterproof compartment in the back for my laptop. The park bag is going into the carryon bag, and I'll just take it out and load it up when we get to the room.

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01182.jpg

And, just because, the little Disney things around my room. The little lion came from the gift shop at AKL, and the other little things were part of an incense pack that I got from the big shop in China.

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01174.jpg

The top part of my desk,

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01171.jpg

and just next to my desk. I'll probably end up taking the light-up Tink down and pack it to bring with me to pin on my bag.

http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr97/Meggoblocks/Disney%202010%20stuff/DSC01172.jpg

Tomorrow, I'm dropping off my furbaby at the vet for his boarding. :( He apparently made a lot of friends every time he's been there, and all the people who work there are amazingly nice, so I'm not worried. It's just hard dropping him off. I'll probably do that early in the afternoon and just get it over with.

The only packing I have to pack is my carryon stuff, and after that it will be just the last-minute stuff that I need to pack. I need to buy and cut up some veggies for the guinea pigs and clean their cage, make sure that my room is nice and clean (all I really have to do is vacuum), and make sure my iPod is charged. When I got out of class today, I made last-minute stops at Target and PetSmart for a couple of things, and then I went to cash in my coins. I checked for a Disney gift card, but the one I went to didn't offer it, so I just got the regular cash voucher. After I emptied out all the change, I was looking at it and thinking I'd be lucky to get $30. After I stood up from collecting the change that got rejected and throwing it back in, I realized I had hit $50! So the $50 from Coinstar, plus the $17 that I threw in the bottle, means $67 more for souvenirs. :banana: I was really excited about getting that much, considering I rarely carry cash.

We're leaving in less than 48 hours. How is that possible?!

manntra

02-08-2010, 03:14 PM

Tink9721

02-08-2010, 03:31 PM

I work so well under pressure, it's awful! Last semester, I had a paper that had, I think, nine different sections, and each section was to have at least five paragraphs each. Add in the intro and conclusion and that's 47 paragraphs. :scared1: Of course, I didn't bother doing that math until after I was already writing it three days before it was due. It ended up being 19 pages and I got a perfect score on it, like 30/30, which was made even better because the professor is amazing, but a hard grader. :rotfl2: She's the chair of the early childhood education department at my school, so I've had her for a few classes and have her this semester, too. I know what to expect yet I'm still putting off her work. :rotfl:

I'm super paranoid about the snow. I basically won't quit worrying until we're already on the plane and in the air. :rolleyes: I checked accuweather for my city, and it says snow and 1-3", which is nothing, and I don't think it's starting till after we leave. I'm so grateful for that 7 AM flight. :worship:

I always get better grades on projects and papers when I leave them until the last minute. :confused3

I think we're getting more snow in RI than you're getting in MA. My teachers are already talking about potential snow days Wednesday and/or Thursday. I would LOVE to have one or two snow days! But only if the snow doesn't interfere with you! Last night I checked the weather for the day I leave and it said sunny. Now it says snow showers :scared1: But we have a 7:55 AM flight so hopefully the showers will happen later. It's still too early for an accurate prediction so I won't start freaking out until the end of this week :rolleyes1

I woke up at 3:15 and could not go back to sleep for anything. I tossed and turned, wide awake, till a little after 5:30. Then I finally managed to go to sleep, only to have my alarm go off at 7. Sometime around 4:30 AM I thought, "we'll be getting ready to leave exactly 48 hours from right now!"

It looks like we had very similar nights! I went to bed at 11:30 and couldn't fall asleep until around 1. I started doing the "how many hours until I wake up for my vacation?" math :upsidedow At about 12:25 I came up with 197 hours and 35 minutes :rolleyes: That was actually accurate. I just checked :laughing: Then I woke up around 3 and didn't fall asleep again until about 4:00.

I'm not going to lie, I actually stood there for a few minutes just looking at the pile, looking at my suitcase, looking at the pile, looking at the suitcase, thinking, "how am I going to do this?"

That's what happened when I was re-organizing my dresser. I had a ton of clothes that were just sitting on top of it and in various places in my room :rolleyes: I put my clothes on my bed and I just sat there and said "How is all of this going to fit in there?!?!"

My cousin rolls her clothes like you do. I think I need to start doing that!

Tomorrow, I'm dropping off my furbaby at the vet for his boarding. :( He apparently made a lot of friends every time he's been there, and all the people who work there are amazingly nice, so I'm not worried. It's just hard dropping him off. I'll probably do that early in the afternoon and just get it over with.

We're leaving our doggy with my dad. She LOVES him and he loves taking her for the week. He always picks her up from our house and she gets all excited. But the one time we dropped her off at his house and left and started whining and went over and sat at the door with the sad puppy face and watched us leave. It was heartbreaking :sad1: But she doesn't mind it if he picks her up :laughing:

Megablocks

02-08-2010, 05:09 PM

:rotfl2: I can just see you standing there looking back and forth between your clothes and your suitcase! You did a great job though! :thumbsup2 I always roll my clothes too....makes for a lot more room ;)
Score for Coinstar! Way to go!!! Lots of shopping for you!! ::yes::
You will be fine flying out early in the am....I always try to fly out early in the day when I leave because I always feel there is a lesser chance for delays :confused3
I would suggest either some Tylenol PM or Advil PM ;)

Tracy

:lmao: I was trying to gauge whether or not I was going to get halfway through the packing and then realize I had no more room. I have to give my mom the credit for the rolling -- she taught me that trick and it makes for more room and less wrinkles!

My mom has been checking the weather and I'm feeling a lot better about Wednesday. Actually, just as I was finishing typing, my mom called to me because it said on the local channel that our area is supposed to get 10-15" on Wednesday, BUT it's not going to start until the late afternoon. I am SO grateful for that early flight! :worship:

I'm picking up my sister from work at 7 and I need to pick up a few things for my parents -- I think one of those are going to make it into the basket. :rolleyes1

I always get better grades on projects and papers when I leave them until the last minute. :confused3

I think we're getting more snow in RI than you're getting in MA. My teachers are already talking about potential snow days Wednesday and/or Thursday. I would LOVE to have one or two snow days! But only if the snow doesn't interfere with you! Last night I checked the weather for the day I leave and it said sunny. Now it says snow showers :scared1: But we have a 7:55 AM flight so hopefully the showers will happen later. It's still too early for an accurate prediction so I won't start freaking out until the end of this week :rolleyes1

It looks like we had very similar nights! I went to bed at 11:30 and couldn't fall asleep until around 1. I started doing the "how many hours until I wake up for my vacation?" math :upsidedow At about 12:25 I came up with 197 hours and 35 minutes :rolleyes: That was actually accurate. I just checked :laughing: Then I woke up around 3 and didn't fall asleep again until about 4:00.

That's what happened when I was re-organizing my dresser. I had a ton of clothes that were just sitting on top of it and in various places in my room :rolleyes: I put my clothes on my bed and I just sat there and said "How is all of this going to fit in there?!?!"

My cousin rolls her clothes like you do. I think I need to start doing that!

We're leaving our doggy with my dad. She LOVES him and he loves taking her for the week. He always picks her up from our house and she gets all excited. But the one time we dropped her off at his house and left and started whining and went over and sat at the door with the sad puppy face and watched us leave. It was heartbreaking :sad1: But she doesn't mind it if he picks her up :laughing:

When I was writing to Tracy, my mom called to me and my area is supposed to get 10-15" on Wednesday! :scared1: It's not supposed to start till after we leave, thankfully, like late in the afternoon/early evening. I'm pretty sure this is a brand-new development because they definitely weren't predicting that much a few hours ago. Is there anything on the news about snow for you guys?

I hate reorganizing and finding new spots for things. I did that last semester when I was putting off a paper for my children's lit class, and it was so discouraging. I was having such a hard time finding a spot for anything, but it was that or just leave all the clothes everywhere...I chose to find spots. And, definitely roll your clothes! More room and less wrinkles. ::yes::

Caesar isn't so bad to drop off -- he doesn't like being in the car, but he's not "vocal" and crazy. He does tend to freak out when he first enters the office, but after that, he's fine. Unlike one of our old dogs, he hasn't quite figured out what the suitcases mean, so he doesn't have the sad look.

Megablocks

02-08-2010, 05:31 PM

I've been freaking out about the possibility of snow, but it looks like I no longer have any reason to worry. The local news channels just recently started saying that there is going to be a Nor'easter on Wednesday, BUT it's not supposed to start until later in the morning, like 11 AM. :yay: One channel is calling for 6-10" and another is calling for 10-15". It's supposed to be the worst from 5 PM - 11 PM on Wednesday (when we'll be at AK riding Everest till we puke -- not like I'm keeping track :rolleyes1), with gusts up to 40 MPH, which is something that could close Logan, but I'm not really worried about that because we're leaving so early.

The snow gods have been good to us :worship: :banana:

Tink9721

02-08-2010, 05:48 PM

When I was writing to Tracy, my mom called to me and my area is supposed to get 10-15" on Wednesday! :scared1: It's not supposed to start till after we leave, thankfully, like late in the afternoon/early evening. I'm pretty sure this is a brand-new development because they definitely weren't predicting that much a few hours ago. Is there anything on the news about snow for you guys?

We're supposed to get a ton of snow! I think it's hitting us a few hours before it hits you, which is good for both of us. You'll be in the air on the way to Orlando, and I'll be looking forward to a snow day :upsidedow I think we'll get one if not two.

Charleston Princess

02-08-2010, 09:08 PM

I would have been the same way with the packing and the suitcases! :rotfl:

Love all of your little Vinylmation guys near the computer. In fact, I like all the Disney touches in your room!

Whew! Glad you will be in Orlando when the worst of the snow begins!

karenmmk

02-09-2010, 10:59 AM

It's supposed to be the worst from 5 PM - 11 PM on Wednesday (when we'll be at AK riding Everest till we puke -- not like I'm keeping track :rolleyes1)

There will be no "puking" on this trip!! :scared: :laughing:

We're all checked in and have our boarding passes. :dance3:

MeMom

02-09-2010, 11:02 AM

We're all checked in and have our boarding passes. :dance3:

Boarding passes!
That is thrilling!! :cheer2::dance3::cheer2:

DisKate

02-09-2010, 11:25 AM

:dance3::dance3::dance3:You leave tomorrow! I'm so excited for you! I've been telling everyone I know that my best friend is going to Disney tomorrow...:dance3::dance3::dance3:

Patrick asked what I wanted for Valentine's day and I told him that since we have Monday off and AP's he could fly me to Fl to see you...he didn't bite into that one :confused3

Tink9721

02-09-2010, 02:51 PM

You leave TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :banana:

One more week for me! And it sounds like we'll probably have our snow day tomorrow :)

It now says "partly cloudy" for next Tuesday! That makes me feel a lot better than the snow showers they were predicting the last time I checked!

Charleston Princess

02-09-2010, 05:18 PM

I can't believe tomorrow is almost here!!! :banana: Have a wonderful time, Megan!

DisKate

02-09-2010, 05:28 PM

Tink9721

02-09-2010, 06:15 PM

Hi Everyone...some news on the Megablocks front....their trip has been changed. Due to the weather their flight for tomorrow morning was canceled. After many many phone calls between Meg's mom and the Airline and several upset texts between Meg and myself the issue has been fixed...

Their new trip dates are Friday Feb. 12-Friday Feb. 19. They were able to adjust their dates. Meg is going to be on later to do a full update, she just wanted me to let you all know whats up.

That stinks that she's leaving two days later! But I'm glad she was able to keep the same amount of days!

Meg, in case you end up not going to MK on the 16th we can rearrange our DIS meet. We'll be at Epcot part of the day on the 17th and then we're going to AK for evening EMH! I know you like riding Everest at night so depending on your plans, maybe we can meet up and visit the Yeti together ;) We'll talk about it when you come on later!

I'm sorry the snow interfered with your fun!!!

Lovemy3babes

02-09-2010, 06:18 PM

That stinks about the cancellation! I'm so glad you were able to reschedule though. Safe travel thoughts going your way!!! :)

MeMom

02-09-2010, 06:35 PM

Oh
my
goodness!

This weather is sure making its mark on a heck of a lot of people!
I know you had to be frustrated out of your mind while you were working all this out. I'm glad you get to stay the same amount of time, though.

I think Trent is going to be in Magic Kingdom on Saturday and Animal Kingdom Sunday. Do you know your Saturday and Sunday plans? You guys should try to cross paths. He's a nice guy and easy to talk to. He'll be with nowellsl's daughter.

I will be glad when this winter is over. Hopefully, we will have a beautiful and peaceful spring! http://bestsmileys.com/sun/4.gif

Megablocks

02-09-2010, 06:37 PM

Tink9721

02-09-2010, 06:39 PM

I think Trent is going to be in Magic Kingdom on Saturday and Animal Kingdom Sunday.

MeMom, I can't believe Trent is going without you! Is he just there for the weekend?

karenmmk

02-09-2010, 08:23 PM

Well, that was a little stressful. :sad1:

It's all good, though. The only changes are the dates and the airport. We're SO glad that Meg thought of Hartford. We sure didn't. I was checking out Manchester, NH, and the only flights out of there had two stops, one in Detroit and one somewhere in Ohio. :eek:

We're just so relieved and so happy that we can still go. :woohoo:

Katie thank you for posting the update and for being there for Meg. :hug:

MeMom

02-09-2010, 08:48 PM

MeMom, I can't believe Trent is going without you! Is he just there for the weekend?

I know. I am about to disown him!
He will be in Gainesville and then in Orlando with his girlfriend. He told me tonight they are just going to WDW on Sunday only - Animal Kingdom in the morning and maybe Magic Kingdom later. If you guys end up in either of those places, text him and say hello. You could always get a group picture for him to send and torture me even more!!! :laughing:

I'll PM you his #.

DisKate

02-09-2010, 09:58 PM

Hey guys!

Katie updated for me earlier and I wanted to give you guys more details. The flight was canceled at 4:30 PM, and when I came home to talk to my mom, I was flipping out and crying (with Charles and our friend in my room. :blush: ) After several ideas being tossed back and forth, lots of going online to check flights and even Amtrak, and finding out that the flights from Boston and Manchester were really crappy, I mentioned flying out of Hartford, which is only about a two hour drive from here. My mom spent a long time on the phone with some nice Delta people, and as Katie already told you guys, we're now going February 12-February 19. Our Garden Grocer order is straightened out, we're still staying at Pop in a preferred room, and ME is all set. :banana: Only one ADR was affected, which was Le Cellier. KTTK tour and all other ADRs are not affected. :goodvibes

The new flight is leaving Hartford on Friday at 6:50 AM and arriving in Orlando around 10 AM, which is basically the exact time that our flight was tomorrow. It looks like we're going to leave for Hartford on Thursday morning or afternoon and stay at a nearby hotel and just hang out and have fun till our flight. The weather is supposed to be fine for Hartford on Friday, no snow in the forecast at all. Kailyn's first questions when I picked her up from work and explained the changes were, "so it's all set?" Yes. "Is mom making me go to school?" :lmao:

I'm so relieved that it is all working out, and now Kailyn's birthday won't be our last night, which is going to be very nice! I'm heading out now and I'll respond to everyone individually later on. THANK YOU for all your good thoughts, and Katie, thanks for updating and responding to my distraught texts! :grouphug:

Well, that was a little stressful. :sad1:

It's all good, though. The only changes are the dates and the airport. We're SO glad that Meg thought of Hartford. We sure didn't. I was checking out Manchester, NH, and the only flights out of there had two stops, one in Detroit and one somewhere in Ohio. :eek:

We're just so relieved and so happy that we can still go. :woohoo:

Katie thank you for posting the update and for being there for Meg. :hug:

You are both very welcome! I was freaking out for you :scared1: I need Meg to text me some pics of WDW to get me through until we go in March :hug: I told my mom about your travel issues, she is happy that you are getting to go, even if your dates are different...but now she is freaking out that the same might happen to us....crazy lady! We don't go until almost Mid-March...

And now you get more time to tell us about your plans Meg!!!! And a few days to just relax before you go!

Megablocks

02-09-2010, 10:05 PM

Small update -- my dad made a reservation at a Holiday Inn Express that is either at or near the Hartford airport for Thursday. He wants to leave between noon and 2 PM to beat the traffic, so we'll probably get there, find a nearby place to have dinner, and then crash nice and early for our 6:50 flight. This is where the Advil PM will come in handy. ;) I'm calling the vet that Caesar is boarding at tomorrow to explain the situation and extend his stay until next Friday. My mom also made another ADR earlier for the Wednesday that we WOULD be leaving -- 3 PM at 50's Prime Time Cafe!

That stinks that she's leaving two days later! But I'm glad she was able to keep the same amount of days!

Meg, in case you end up not going to MK on the 16th we can rearrange our DIS meet. We'll be at Epcot part of the day on the 17th and then we're going to AK for evening EMH! I know you like riding Everest at night so depending on your plans, maybe we can meet up and visit the Yeti together ;) We'll talk about it when you come on later!

I'm sorry the snow interfered with your fun!!!

I'm actually okay with leaving two days later -- we got to add another ADR to the Wednesday we were supposed to leave, and we're not leaving the day after Kailyn's birthday, so we can stay out and "party" without that feeling of dread about leaving hanging over us. :goodvibes

It is safe to say that we'll be at AK that night for the EMH! I would love to go visit the yeti with you! I'll definitely let you know where we'll be on the 16th, too, after Chef Mickey's.

That stinks about the cancellation! I'm so glad you were able to reschedule though. Safe travel thoughts going your way!!! :)

Thank you so much. :goodvibes It all ended up working out really well. I'm probably more excited about leaving Thursday afternoon and staying at the hotel in Hartford than I should be. :rotfl:

Oh
my
goodness!

This weather is sure making its mark on a heck of a lot of people!
I know you had to be frustrated out of your mind while you were working all this out. I'm glad you get to stay the same amount of time, though.

I think Trent is going to be in Magic Kingdom on Saturday and Animal Kingdom Sunday. Do you know your Saturday and Sunday plans? You guys should try to cross paths. He's a nice guy and easy to talk to. He'll be with nowellsl's daughter.

I will be glad when this winter is over. Hopefully, we will have a beautiful and peaceful spring! http://bestsmileys.com/sun/4.gif

Frustrated isn't the word for it...:scared: Charles was trying so hard to calm me down, but I could not stop crying and freaking out. I immediately texted Katie to tell her and vent my frustration. I'm just so glad that my mom spent all that time on the phone with Delta, and that the nice people got us on that flight. Some of the ones leaving Boston or Manchester left at 10 AM, but didn't arrive in Orlando until 7 PM because of layovers. :scared1: We definitely lucked out.

MeMom, I can't believe Trent is going without you! Is he just there for the weekend?

I thought I remembered seeing MeMom mention something about that on her report when I was skimming through the replies earlier, but I was afraid to mention it. :rotfl:

Well, that was a little stressful. :sad1:

It's all good, though. The only changes are the dates and the airport. We're SO glad that Meg thought of Hartford. We sure didn't. I was checking out Manchester, NH, and the only flights out of there had two stops, one in Detroit and one somewhere in Ohio. :eek:

We're just so relieved and so happy that we can still go. :woohoo:

Katie thank you for posting the update and for being there for Meg. :hug:

More than a little... :scared1:

I don't understand why a flight leaving from New Hampshire would go all the way over THERE to get to Orlando...well, I guess I can, because other people need to travel, but wow.

I know. I am about to disown him!
He will be in Gainesville and then in Orlando with his girlfriend. He told me tonight they are just going to WDW on Sunday only - Animal Kingdom in the morning and maybe Magic Kingdom later. If you guys end up in either of those places, text him and say hello. You could always get a group picture for him to send and torture me even more!!! :laughing:

I'll PM you his #.

I got your PM -- thank you! Will you let him know that a DIS friend is going to be down there, too, so if he gets a text from a strange number, not to worry? :rotfl: I'll PM you my number back. I am super shy in person (don't worry, Tink, I have talked to you through here enough to probably be quite vocal when we meet up :rotfl2: ) I'd like to meet up with him if we can!

Megablocks

02-09-2010, 10:28 PM

You are both very welcome! I was freaking out for you :scared1: I need Meg to text me some pics of WDW to get me through until we go in March :hug: I told my mom about your travel issues, she is happy that you are getting to go, even if your dates are different...but now she is freaking out that the same might happen to us....crazy lady! We don't go until almost Mid-March...

And now you get more time to tell us about your plans Meg!!!! And a few days to just relax before you go!

We were typing on top of each other :rotfl:

I'm totally okay with the different/later dates -- I would have liked it more if we could have gone when you guys are going, but I'm excited that we got another ADR and that Kailyn's birthday isn't going to be our last day any longer. And we do get kind of an early start because we have to drive to Hartford and stay at the hotel, so that makes me excited, too. :rotfl2: I'll probably be texting you all the way to Hartford. I'm glad to have a couple of more days to relax, too. I don't even have to worry about packing!

I'll definitely update more about our plans tomorrow, because chances are we'll be snowed in and I'll need something to distract me. :rolleyes: Aside from finally fixing Kailyn's roots. Maybe I can ask my dad to take me to an empty parking lot and teach me how to drive the red Cherokee (aka the Beast) in the snow...could be very very interesting!

Tink9721

02-09-2010, 10:50 PM

It is safe to say that we'll be at AK that night for the EMH! I would love to go visit the yeti with you! I'll definitely let you know where we'll be on the 16th, too, after Chef Mickey's.

Yay!!! My mom can't do most roller coasters, so it'll be fun to ride with someone besides a random person I get seated with when I'm in the single rider line ;) My mom loves roller coasters, but she's had back problems for the past few years so she can't do many of them anymore. She's fine on Splash Mountain and she's okay on Thunder Mountain, but I don't think EE would be a good idea for her.

I am super shy in person (don't worry, Tink, I have talked to you through here enough to probably be quite vocal when we meet up :rotfl2: )

Me too!!! But like you said, we've talked enough on here so I probably won't be shy ::yes::

I just realizaed that by the time I start getting texts and pics from you, I'll be on vacation :cool1: Even if you text me before 2 on Friday I won't see it until after school. Now your texts will be even more exciting because I won't have any more school to get through before I leave :thumbsup2

Even though the snow gods weren't very nice to you, they were nice to me! I'm having a snow day tomorrow! :banana: It's supposed to get really bad around here so almost every town in RI is having a snow day :goodvibes

Charleston Princess

02-10-2010, 04:41 AM

How frustrating and stressful, Megan! I am glad everything was worked out okay, but how hard to now have to wait two more days before you can leave. I know you are ready to be down there in our happy place!

CanadianWDWfan

02-10-2010, 08:53 AM

WOW! I came on here to apologize for not wishing you "Bon Voyage".....

My heart sank when I read that the flight was cancelled.

I'm so relieved you were able to find another flight.

It will be fun to have the extra night at the hotel.

I can just imagine the stress your DMom was under.

I can totally sympathize with the weather affecting your travel plans.
That was the main reason I cancelled the March Break trip. I couldn't garantee there wouldn't be snow.

I can say without a doubt there won't be any snow in August. :laughing:

Congrats on the new ADR! I asked Lexi (DD) if she wanted to eat at 50's and she said she would rather go back to Sci Fi. Let me know how you liked it when you get back...I hear the milkshakes are heavenly! ;)

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Memom I had no idea Trent was dating Nowellsl's daughter. (I wish them all the best!) Awww! To be in love and spend Valentine's day at WDW. What could be sweeter! :lovestruc
Maybe he will bring back his beloved Mom a surprize.

Megablocks

02-10-2010, 09:13 AM

Another very small update -- my mom said she got an email at 12:46 AM saying today's flight was canceled. :eek: The only reason my mom knew about today's flight being canceled, early last night, was because she logged into the Delta website to check the itinerary again and it stated that the flight had been canceled. I do not want to think of how many people didn't check their email and just looked out their windows early this morning, saw NO snow at all, went to Logan, and found out that the flight was canceled. :scared: The flights out of Boston and the other nearest airport, Manchester, were, as I said, pretty crappy (nine hours total to get to Orlando!)

My mom has reassured me that she will get up early tomorrow morning to do the online check-in for Friday's flight. She also told me that she got up around 7 to go to the bathroom, and when she got back upstairs, my dad was awake. She made some comment to him about how it was 7, and he said they should be coming around with the beverage cart any time now. :lmao: As for my dog, I called the vet that he is boarding at, explained the situation, and they said it was no problem to extend his stay until next Friday. I'm hoping to get out tomorrow before we leave to pick up an extra bag of dog food to drop off for him, just in case. They were very nice about extending the stay and the woman I talked to on the phone told me not to worry with all the "funky weather patterns" we've been having, that Caesar would be safe with them. :goodvibes I'll be doing a loose schedule a little later on, when I'm going crazy from not being able to get out. :rolleyes:

Yay!!! My mom can't do most roller coasters, so it'll be fun to ride with someone besides a random person I get seated with when I'm in the single rider line ;) My mom loves roller coasters, but she's had back problems for the past few years so she can't do many of them anymore. She's fine on Splash Mountain and she's okay on Thunder Mountain, but I don't think EE would be a good idea for her.

Me too!!! But like you said, we've talked enough on here so I probably won't be shy ::yes::

I just realizaed that by the time I start getting texts and pics from you, I'll be on vacation :cool1: Even if you text me before 2 on Friday I won't see it until after school. Now your texts will be even more exciting because I won't have any more school to get through before I leave :thumbsup2

Even though the snow gods weren't very nice to you, they were nice to me! I'm having a snow day tomorrow! :banana: It's supposed to get really bad around here so almost every town in RI is having a snow day :goodvibes

When I went to AK with just my dad last year, we kept on getting in the single rider line at EE. :rotfl: There were some people that we encountered in the regular (very long!) line that finally got to the loading area, and when the CM asked how many, they said "one." It was like a 45 minute wait and my dad and I made it through in the single rider in 5 or less. It wasn't even just one person, it was several. :confused3

All of the surrounding cities here called off school last night. A private school in my city was called, but Kailyn's and my mom's school never was. :rolleyes: It happens a lot, because the superintendent of our public schools is a jerk, but they were already getting out at 12 today, anyway. Kailyn said that the headmaster made an announcement yesterday during classes that school was NOT going to be canceled today. Kailyn didn't care, and she still didn't care after I told her what happened last night because our mom told me she wasn't going to make her go to school today. :rotfl: So Kailyn is still sleeping.

How frustrating and stressful, Megan! I am glad everything was worked out okay, but how hard to now have to wait two more days before you can leave. I know you are ready to be down there in our happy place!

Thank you! It started out so badly but ended really well. I'm actually pretty excited about the changes -- we have an ADR at the time on Wednesday that we'd normally be getting home, we're not going home the day after Kailyn's birthday, and we actually get to start preparing to leave tomorrow. :goodvibes It gives me even more time to get excited, and after what we went through, I am going to appreciate being there SO much more!

WOW! I came on here to apologize for not wishing you "Bon Voyage".....

My heart sank when I read that the flight was cancelled.

I'm so relieved you were able to find another flight.

It will be fun to have the extra night at the hotel.

I can just imagine the stress your DMom was under.

I can totally sympathize with the weather affecting your travel plans.
That was the main reason I cancelled the March Break trip. I couldn't garantee there wouldn't be snow.

I can say without a doubt there won't be any snow in August. :laughing:

Congrats on the new ADR! I asked Lexi (DD) if she wanted to eat at 50's and she said she would rather go back to Sci Fi. Let me know how you liked it when you get back...I hear the milkshakes are heavenly! ;)

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Memom I had no idea Trent was dating Nowellsl's daughter. (I wish them all the best!) Awww! To be in love and spend Valentine's day at WDW. What could be sweeter! :lovestruc
Maybe he will bring back his beloved Mom a surprize.

I just saw when I went to post the other replies that you had just replied too :laughing:

It was really stressful -- I felt so bad for my mom because she didn't want to tell us. I'm so glad that Kailyn ended up working yesterday, because she didn't have to deal with the uncertainty of the flights and plans. I got to pick her up from work and tell her that there was some bad news, BUT it ended up working out. When I left to go get her, my mom was off the phone with Delta and on the phone with Disney, and I got a text as we were walking to the car saying that it was all set.

I'm really looking forward to the extra night at the hotel. It's only about a two hour drive to Hartford, and we're planning on finding a place to eat and just hanging out in the hotel. I think the Holiday Inn Express is either in the airport or as near to the airport as you can get, which is going to be very nice!

I'm really excited about the new ADR, because it's at the time that we'd normally already be home. I am definitely looking forward to a milkshake, and of course, any antics that my dad might pull there. :rolleyes1

Tink9721

02-10-2010, 11:16 AM

She made some comment to him about how it was 7, and he said they should be coming around with the beverage cart any time now. :lmao:

:rotfl2:

I'm glad you got everything settled with your doggy! We know our dog will be fine because she loves staying with my dad. They're buddies ::yes:: But we're a little worried about our kitties. They have to go to the kennel :guilty: I'm sure they'll be fine but I know they hate it! It's the same kennel we leave them at when we go away in the summer but we've never left them there in the winter so I'm hoping they don't get cold!

I'll be doing a loose schedule soon too :)

When I went to AK with just my dad last year, we kept on getting in the single rider line at EE. :rotfl: There were some people that we encountered in the regular (very long!) line that finally got to the loading area, and when the CM asked how many, they said "one." It was like a 45 minute wait and my dad and I made it through in the single rider in 5 or less. It wasn't even just one person, it was several. :confused3

I love the single rider line because I can get on rides so fast! I had a fastpass for RNR last year and while I was walking in I noticed that the single rider line was really short. As soon as I got off I went right back on through that line :thumbsup2

Is the EE line usually shorter during evening EMH?

All of the surrounding cities here called off school last night. A private school in my city was called, but Kailyn's and my mom's school never was. :rolleyes: It happens a lot, because the superintendent of our public schools is a jerk, but they were already getting out at 12 today, anyway. Kailyn said that the headmaster made an announcement yesterday during classes that school was NOT going to be canceled today. Kailyn didn't care, and she still didn't care after I told her what happened last night because our mom told me she wasn't going to make her go to school today. :rotfl: So Kailyn is still sleeping.

I find it hilarious that there's almost no snow on the ground :rotfl: I guess it's supposed to get bad a little later.

I hate our superintendent!!! We're always the last town to get called off. And there was one day two years ago where it was REALLY hot and most schools got called off. It was like 110 with the humidity :scared1: Any school that didn't have air conditioning got cancelled...except us :confused3 The weird thing is the middle school in our town got out early but we were the only school in the area that had to stay all day. A few kids passed out from the heat. It was miserable!!!! :headache:

Megablocks

02-10-2010, 11:42 AM

:rotfl2:

I'm glad you got everything settled with your doggy! We know our dog will be fine because she loves staying with my dad. They're buddies ::yes:: But we're a little worried about our kitties. They have to go to the kennel :guilty: I'm sure they'll be fine but I know they hate it! It's the same kennel we leave them at when we go away in the summer but we've never left them there in the winter so I'm hoping they don't get cold!

I'll be doing a loose schedule soon too :)

I love the single rider line because I can get on rides so fast! I had a fastpass for RNR last year and while I was walking in I noticed that the single rider line was really short. As soon as I got off I went right back on through that line :thumbsup2

Is the EE line usually shorter during evening EMH?

I find it hilarious that there's almost no snow on the ground :rotfl: I guess it's supposed to get bad a little later.

I hate our superintendent!!! We're always the last town to get called off. And there was one day two years ago where it was REALLY hot and most schools got called off. It was like 110 with the humidity :scared1: Any school that didn't have air conditioning got cancelled...except us :confused3 The weird thing is the middle school in our town got out early but we were the only school in the area that had to stay all day. A few kids passed out from the heat. It was miserable!!!! :headache:

I was so glad to be able to extend his stay there till next Friday -- they don't close until 7 on Fridays, and our flight gets into Hartford at 3, so that is just one more thing that ended up working out perfectly. :thumbsup2 How many kitties do you have? Katie and I have had so many discussions about cats -- I love them, but I'm allergic, along with my dad, Mike, and Kailyn, so we can't have one. I tried to convince Charles that we need a cat when we move in together, but he absolutely detests cats. I can't write some of the words he has used to describe them, but one of the nicer ones he used was "pissy." :rolleyes1

It is 12:35 and there is NOTHING on the ground. :headache: They predicted it to start at 11. I saw a few flakes earlier, but it wasn't sticking, and then it just stopped altogether. I think the windshield of my car might have a very thin layer. I am so going to Barnes and Noble before it starts up.

When we did the EMH at AK last year, the line for EE seemed much shorter, but it was a few days before President's Day weekend, so I don't know if that will play a role? :confused3 Honestly, though, my mom and I were talking earlier about how so many people on the DIS say that President's week is one of the very worst times to visit, but when we went in April 2008, we thought it was much more crowded than when we went last February, and it wasn't even around Easter. I'm sure that as it gets later, the crowds will thin out a lot. I never cared about the crowds, and I care even less now -- I will just be so happy to finally be there! :rotfl:

My mom can't do EE more than once (she could do it once and maybe do it again an hour later), and she saw that your mom couldn't ride it, so she said that she could keep her company. :)

Tink9721

02-10-2010, 12:49 PM

I was so glad to be able to extend his stay there till next Friday -- they don't close until 7 on Fridays, and our flight gets into Hartford at 3, so that is just one more thing that ended up working out perfectly. :thumbsup2 How many kitties do you have? Katie and I have had so many discussions about cats -- I love them, but I'm allergic, along with my dad, Mike, and Kailyn, so we can't have one. I tried to convince Charles that we need a cat when we move in together, but he absolutely detests cats. I can't write some of the words he has used to describe them, but one of the nicer ones he used was "pissy." :rolleyes1

It is 12:35 and there is NOTHING on the ground. :headache: They predicted it to start at 11. I saw a few flakes earlier, but it wasn't sticking, and then it just stopped altogether. I think the windshield of my car might have a very thin layer. I am so going to Barnes and Noble before it starts up.

When we did the EMH at AK last year, the line for EE seemed much shorter, but it was a few days before President's Day weekend, so I don't know if that will play a role? :confused3 Honestly, though, my mom and I were talking earlier about how so many people on the DIS say that President's week is one of the very worst times to visit, but when we went in April 2008, we thought it was much more crowded than when we went last February, and it wasn't even around Easter. I'm sure that as it gets later, the crowds will thin out a lot. I never cared about the crowds, and I care even less now -- I will just be so happy to finally be there! :rotfl:

My mom can't do EE more than once (she could do it once and maybe do it again an hour later), and she saw that your mom couldn't ride it, so she said that she could keep her company. :)

We have 3 kitties :cat: I love cats too :)

It's snowing really hard but not a lot is sticking to the ground. It's gonna be a mess later when it gets colder!

We've been in April before and it's always been more crowded then than in Feb. We always going during the April and Feb vacation weeks but most states just have the break in March so it's not too crowded then.

Oh cool! I always feel bad when I'm on thrill rides and my mom has to wait for me, but I don't think she minds. Plus, I can think of it as payback for making me go to the Hall of Presidents :rolleyes: :rotfl:

manntra

02-10-2010, 01:13 PM

So glad everything worked out! :hug: The snow started here last night around 6pm and hasn't stopped yet! I have a friend that was supposed to fly out this am and her connecting flight was in Philadelphia :sad2: I am thinking it was canceled or at the very least the one in Philadelphia would be.....I feel really bad for her because she was supposed to be going to North Carolina to see her son graduate from the Army Rangers :guilty:
Primetime is a lot of fun....especially with a group of people :thumbsup2 I thik I was laughing so hard I cried through the whole meal!! Looks nice and sunny for the whole time you are there too! :cool1:

Tracy

Megablocks

02-10-2010, 03:15 PM

We have 3 kitties :cat: I love cats too :)

It's snowing really hard but not a lot is sticking to the ground. It's gonna be a mess later when it gets colder!

We've been in April before and it's always been more crowded then than in Feb. We always going during the April and Feb vacation weeks but most states just have the break in March so it's not too crowded then.

Oh cool! I always feel bad when I'm on thrill rides and my mom has to wait for me, but I don't think she minds. Plus, I can think of it as payback for making me go to the Hall of Presidents :rolleyes: :rotfl:

It's starting to come down a little more here, but just a little. It's still not sticking AT ALL. I was able to go get coffee with Charles, go to the Barnes & Noble about 25 minutes away, get an extra bag of dog food to drop off for Caesar tomorrow, pick up my prescription, and make it back home with no issues. :rolleyes:

I'm glad we are not the only ones who found it more crowded in April! Our schools also have the breaks in February and April. I get a break in March, but that's only because I'm in college. April was insane.

So glad everything worked out! :hug: The snow started here last night around 6pm and hasn't stopped yet! I have a friend that was supposed to fly out this am and her connecting flight was in Philadelphia :sad2: I am thinking it was canceled or at the very least the one in Philadelphia would be.....I feel really bad for her because she was supposed to be going to North Carolina to see her son graduate from the Army Rangers :guilty:
Primetime is a lot of fun....especially with a group of people :thumbsup2 I thik I was laughing so hard I cried through the whole meal!! Looks nice and sunny for the whole time you are there too! :cool1:

Tracy

Thank you! Its been snowing for a little bit but not sticking at all. They've changed the forecast from 8-10" or 10-15" to 2-4". :headache: It's so aggravating. I am really, really looking forward to just being on the plane on Friday and getting down there. I'm so sorry for your friend, that really stinks. :(

I'm excited for PTC. I'm especially excited to view the desserts on the View-Master :rotfl:

I'm so sorry for your friend -- that really stinks! I would be so upset. :(

Megablocks

02-10-2010, 04:12 PM

It is just now starting to snow a little harder and stick. The prediction for here is now 2-4" instead of 8-10" or 10-15" (depending on which station you watched.) :rolleyes: It's supposed to stop snowing in Hartford around midnight, which means that they'll have all day tomorrow to clean up for our flight on Friday. I know I won't relax until we are on the plane on Friday morning, but I am staying positive and envisioning us there on Friday having an amazing time. This is the first time anything like this has ever happened to us, so we have been very lucky -- it was just a wrench in the plans and everything is working out so well now. Clear forecast for Thursday/Friday, almost identical flight times on Friday to our flight today, still getting a week in, no problem with extending the furbaby's stay at "camp", and no problems at all with our ME reservation and Pop Century reservation. It's working out very well right now and I'm taking that as a good sign. :goodvibes

We don't ever have an itinerary, but I promised to post our loose plans. So, here they are!

Thursday 2/11: leave for Hartford between 12 and 2 PM in order to beat the traffic. We will probably stop somewhere along the way to eat, and/or stop somewhere in Hartford for dinner. We're staying at a Holiday Inn Express just a mile away from the airport. I'll have my bottle of Advil PM at the ready for me and whoever else may need it (like my mom and Kailyn.) It will be an early bedtime for all of us.

Friday 2/12: DEPARTURE DAY! I'm not 100% sure when we'll leave, but I'll probably be up at 4:30 AM or so to take a quick shower and get all my stuff in order. Flight is at 6:50 AM, and lands in Orlando around 10 AM. From there, we will take the fake monorail over to the ME check-in, and hop on the ME to Pop Century. :hippie: I'm guessing we'll get to Pop around 11:30 or 12. We're staying preferred, so I'm really excited to see where we'll be. We have two ADRs this day -- Le Cellier at 4:30 and Rose & Crown at 6:45. I'm not sure which one we'll keep, if we end up keeping one. We love the food court at Pop, so we'll probably end up grabbing something from there and then heading out. Chances are we'll end up at Epcot this night, because there are EMH from 9 PM until midnight.

Saturday 2/13: We'll probably sleep in this day -- no waking up early. This is the day we dine with the stepsisters at 1900 PF at 4:30! I am so excited for this ADR. DHS has morning EMH this day, so we'll probably avoid that park and head to AK or Epcot. MK is open until 1 AM this night, but we have the KTTK early the next morning.

Sunday 2/14: This is the day of the KTTK tour! I am so excited for this. That will take up most of the afternoon, and afterwards, we're most likely going back to Pop to nap, because this is the night that MK is open for EMH until 3 AM, and my mom and I are dying to stay really late. We actually have two ADRs scheduled for this day -- Kona at 5:05 PM and Tony's at 8:50 PM. If we keep one of these ADRs, it will be Tony's. We'll be trying to stay at MK late, and eating at Tony's will kill some time and keep us full and happy. I am really, really excited for this day because we're basically spending the whole day at MK. :cloud9: MeMom's son, Trent, is going to be in MK in the morning and AK at night, so if possible, we are going to meet up.

Monday 2/15: Sleeping in, obviously. I doubt we'll be going back to MK. If we go to a park, it would be Epcot, because we have a 2:30 ADR at Chefs de France. Not sure if we are keeping this. My mom also made a 9:50 PM ADR at Crystal Palace. Again, not sure if we are keeping this. DHS has EMH from 9 PM - 12 AM, so I'm really hoping that we can do this.

Tuesday 2/16: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAILYN! :bday: This is going to be her day -- we'll do whatever she wants, which could be anything. She is a very relaxed person and will probably just say, "I don't care" when we ask where she wants to go, and go with any ideas that are thrown out. We have a 5:05 PM ADR at Chef Mickey's, because this is her favorite place and we've gone there for all her Disney birthdays. If we end up at MK afterwards, I'm hoping to meet up with Christine, Tink9721, and her mom. This would normally be our last night, so I'm really excited that we get to have Kailyn's birthday without that sense of dread hanging over us.

Wednesday 2/17: Probably DHS in the afternoon, and AK at night for the nighttime EMH -- hopefully meeting up with Christine and her mom so Christine and I can go visit the yeti. (where is there a yeti smiley?) My mom made an ADR at 50's PTC at 3:00, which I am really excited for! I'm sure my dad will get into some kind of trouble while we're there.

Thursday 2/18: The last day. :( Not sure where we'll end up -- probably visiting anything we missed. Just hanging out and taking it all in.

I'm sorry I can't give you guys a more definite schedule -- like I said, we basically just take it day-by-day. I'm going to be texting Katie a lot and sending her pictures, so if she can get on, she will be able to tell you where I am. I'll also be sending Christine pictures to get her through until she leaves. I'll also be sending pictures to Facebook via my phone, so anyone who is my friend on there will be able to see those. Between Katie, Christine, and Facebook, chances are you guys will know exactly where I am at any given time. :rotfl:

Now I get to say again...TWO DAYS! :woohoo:

MeMom

02-10-2010, 04:21 PM

Sunday 2/14: This is the day of the KTTK tour! I am so excited for this. That will take up most of the afternoon, and afterwards, we're most likely going back to Pop to nap, because this is the night that MK is open for EMH until 3 AM, and my mom and I are dying to stay really late. We actually have two ADRs scheduled for this day -- Kona at 5:05 PM and Tony's at 8:50 PM. If we keep one of these ADRs, it will be Tony's. We'll be trying to stay at MK late, and eating at Tony's will kill some time and keep us full and happy. I am really, really excited for this day because we're basically spending the whole day at MK. :cloud9: MeMom's son, Trent, is going to be in MK in the morning and AK at night, so if possible, we are going to meet up.

Wednesday 2/17: Probably DHS in the afternoon, and AK at night for the nighttime EMH -- hopefully meeting up with Christine and her mom so Christine and I can go visit the yeti. (where is there a yeti smiley?) My mom made an ADR at 50's PTC at 3:00, which I am really excited for! I'm sure my dad will get into some kind of trouble while we're there.

Now I get to say again...TWO DAYS! :woohoo:

Just the opposite. I may have written it wrong. They are going to AK in the morning and MK at night. It might work for them to just meet you on the porch at Tony's just before your ADR time. I'll mention it to him. I would be both happy and incredibly green with envy to see you all in a picture maybe with the 'tipping his hat' Goofy or just sitting in the rockers or whatever!

I hope you guys get that meet with the Yeti! :cool1:

Megablocks

02-10-2010, 05:51 PM

Just the opposite. I may have written it wrong. They are going to AK in the morning and MK at night. It might work for them to just meet you on the porch at Tony's just before your ADR time. I'll mention it to him. I would be both happy and incredibly green with envy to see you all in a picture maybe with the 'tipping his hat' Goofy or just sitting in the rockers or whatever!

I hope you guys get that meet with the Yeti! :cool1:

That works out very well! His number is in my phone -- had to do it before we leave because I didn't want to forget.

I hope so, too! Christine said it looks like she and her mom will be at AK that night, so I'm really hoping. It would probably be Kailyn, my dad, Christine and I riding -- it would make for an awesome DIS meet n' ride!

Cat0727

02-10-2010, 06:06 PM

Tink9721

02-10-2010, 07:19 PM

I hope you guys get that meet with the Yeti! :cool1:

I hope so, too! Christine said it looks like she and her mom will be at AK that night, so I'm really hoping. It would probably be Kailyn, my dad, Christine and I riding -- it would make for an awesome DIS meet n' ride!

We'll definitely be at AK that night! We've never done evening EMH at AK so we won't miss it :thumbsup2 I'm so excited about the Yeti meet! One or both of us will have to buy the ride picture so we have proof of our awesome DIS meet n' ride! ::yes::

Meg, the snow is starting to stick here now. It started getting bad about a half hour ago. We definitely could've had school today but I'm not complaining :rolleyes1 It's gonna be really messy here in the morning because this is all gonna freeze over night :eek: Maybe another snow day? :rotfl:

The forecast for next Tuesday keeps changing. First it said snow showers, then partly cloudy, now it says flurries. I don't think flurries are enough to keep us from leaving, but I'd feel better if it went back to partly cloudy! If we have to we can fly out of Boston or Hartford and it won't be a big deal. Boston's only an hour away and Hartford is about 2 hours. But I won't start panicking about the forecast until this weekend :laughing:

MeMom

02-10-2010, 07:28 PM

I am interested in what you see going on with the refurbishments at Pop. Be on the lookout for any sign of updating you see going on. Someone said they saw new mattresses going in while they were there.

Megablocks

02-10-2010, 08:42 PM

Hi, I'm joining in! :) A month ago who would have thought snow would throw a wrench in your Disney plans? Schools are closed in the city today but we didn't even get the predicted foot here...6-8 inches at most. Anyway, I'm sure everything will work out , you're going to have a great time! :goodvibes

:welcome: Thanks for joining in! It's always nice to have new readers. :)

We didn't get anywhere near what they were predicting! I think there's maybe 2" out there now. :rolleyes: So much for a Nor'easter :rotfl:

Thanks for the reassurance -- I am sure everything will work out, too. Everything fell into place very nicely after our changes. :goodvibes

We'll definitely be at AK that night! We've never done evening EMH at AK so we won't miss it :thumbsup2 I'm so excited about the Yeti meet! One or both of us will have to buy the ride picture so we have proof of our awesome DIS meet n' ride! ::yes::

Meg, the snow is starting to stick here now. It started getting bad about a half hour ago. We definitely could've had school today but I'm not complaining :rolleyes1 It's gonna be really messy here in the morning because this is all gonna freeze over night :eek: Maybe another snow day? :rotfl:

The forecast for next Tuesday keeps changing. First it said snow showers, then partly cloudy, now it says flurries. I don't think flurries are enough to keep us from leaving, but I'd feel better if it went back to partly cloudy! If we have to we can fly out of Boston or Hartford and it won't be a big deal. Boston's only an hour away and Hartford is about 2 hours. But I won't start panicking about the forecast until this weekend :laughing:

We will definitely have to!

The snow here started sticking a few hours ago, but it hasn't accumulated much at all. I texted Katie earlier because I went outside around 9 to move my car from the street into the driveway, and there was maybe 1-2" of the lightest, fluffiest snow possible. I didn't even have to brush it off; I just turned on my wipers and it all came off. The places around here that were supposed to get hit the hardest are just getting 6" at the very most. Six inches is barely worth shoveling out my car for. :rotfl:

I hope you guys are not affected! Keep me updated on that. It's still a week out, so it will definitely change, and I hope it changes for the better. I am so anxious for it to be Friday and for us to be on that plane!

I am interested in what you see going on with the refurbishments at Pop. Be on the lookout for any sign of updating you see going on. Someone said they saw new mattresses going in while they were there.

I'm interested, too! I'd be really excited if we somehow ended up in one of the rooms that have already been refurbished. I'll be really excited to be there, period. :rotfl:

DisKate

02-11-2010, 06:51 AM

Ok, so I now have to repeat an earlier post in our thread:

:dance3::dance3::dance3:
1 Day! Meg goes to DISNEY in 1 DAY!!!!
:dance3::dance3::dance3:

Megablocks

02-11-2010, 09:27 AM

Ok, so I now have to repeat an earlier post in our thread:

:dance3::dance3::dance3:
1 Day! Meg goes to DISNEY in 1 DAY!!!!
:dance3::dance3::dance3:

I'm feeling a sense of deja-vu :rotfl2:

I'm so anxious to just be on the plane! As I was half-asleep in bed earlier this morning, I am pretty sure I heard a plane flying overhead, which I took as a good sign. ::yes:: This time tomorrow, we will be at the airport in Orlando!!

Lovemy3babes

02-11-2010, 10:06 AM

How cool that you get to meet Trent! I think your whole day in MK sounds perfect. How old will Kailyn be? :)

Megablocks

02-11-2010, 10:27 AM

How cool that you get to meet Trent! I think your whole day in MK sounds perfect. How old will Kailyn be? :)

I'm looking forward to meeting Trent AND our whole day in MK. I don't think we've ever been in one park for the whole day, and I'm happy it's going to be MK. :cloud9: Kailyn is turning 17 on the trip. It's so strange to think that she was only 14 months old on our first trip!

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ONE DAY!!! :cool1:

And...I just heard not one, but TWO planes fly overhead! :banana: I am taking that as a good sign. I never thought I'd be so alert to the sound of planes.

My mom got up early this morning to check us in to our flight 24 hours in advance, but the website wasn't letting her. We also still don't have seat assignments, but she called and talked to another very nice Delta agent who assured her that we are confirmed on the flight, and that our seats will be assigned when we get to the airport tomorrow morning.

The only thing left for me to pack is my laptop and charger. My iPod is charged and ready for the drive to Hartford, and I'll probably charge it when we're in the hotel room tonight, because thanks to Charles giving me the digital copy, I have Wall-E on my iPod. I can't do much of anything in a moving car besides talk to other people, look out the window, and listen to music, because I get carsick if I try to read or watch a movie or even text too much. :confused3 I'm hoping I'm able to watch the movie on my iPod on the plane tomorrow.

(sorry...another plane update. NUMBER THREE!)

We're leaving for Hartford between 12 and 12:30. The only thing making me a little mental right now is the fact that I do not want to bring my big suitcase into the hotel room that we're staying at for one night. So, I have the clothes for the flight tomorrow on a hanger and I'm hoping to just hang those in the back of the car, or drape them over the top of the suitcases. Part of the reason for this is because the pants I'm wearing tomorrow are cotton khakis that wrinkle very, very easily, and who knows if there will be an iron in the Holiday Inn room. I have some things that I'll need tomorrow in a big baggie in my carryon bag, and I'm going to have to throw those back into my suitcase before we check in and go through security tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure that the Holiday Inn Express has free Wi-Fi, so I'm hoping to check in later (and maybe even have some pictures to share from our adventures.) It is supposed to be rainy when we land in Orlando tomorrow morning, but I could care less -- we'll be in Disney World! :yay: My dad mentioned going to AK when we get there tomorrow. I suspect he is itching to ride EE, and I wouldn't mind starting out our trip with the yeti and getting terrified on dinosaur. ;)

I have to go get ready and double- and triple-check everything in my carryon and suitcase. I hope to check in again before we get on the plane tomorrow! :cool1:

DisKate

02-11-2010, 04:53 PM

For all those that are not Meg's Facebook friend (and incase she doesn't get on tonight, or if she does she can add to it), here is an update:

They made it to the hotel, it is across the street from the airport....They had dinner at Cracker Barrel and she and her dad are now headed to Kohl's for some last minute shopping :cool1:

CanadianWDWfan

02-11-2010, 06:20 PM

Thanks for the update DisKate!

I was thinking about Megablocks today and I'm happy to hear she made it to the hotel. :)

I hope they have a wonderful time. :goodvibes

Megablocks

02-11-2010, 06:28 PM

Thank you Katie :hug:

We're in Hartford, at a hotel basically right across the street from the airport. We got here around 3:00, checked in, dropped our stuff off in our room, and headed to Cracker Barrel for dinner because we were all starving. It was delicious as usual. :cloud9: We all took turns playing the peg game that they have at the tables, and my mom got a couple for us to keep us entertained because Kailyn and I were very interested in it once we figured it out :rotfl: We stopped at a Rite-Aid for a few things after, came back to the hotel for a little while, and then my dad decided that he needed a new pair of sneakers. We went to Kohls, where we both got a new pair of sneakers and he purchased sunglasses. On the way back to the hotel, he decided to check out the airport parking options. We found long-term parking right at the terminals for $69 a week. :faint: Much, much, much cheaper than Logan!

I'm going to bed very soon -- we're leaving for the airport at 5 so my alarm is set for 4. I'm very anxious to just be on the plane and in the air. I will be absolutely overjoyed when we touch down in Orlando and board the Magical Express. :woohoo: I'll be sending pictures to Facebook for anyone on my friends list, and texting Katie and Christine. If I don't get to check in when we are down there, I'll "talk" to you guys in a week!

Megablocks

02-11-2010, 06:29 PM

Thanks for the update DisKate!

I was thinking about Megablocks today and I'm happy to hear she made it to the hotel. :)

I hope they have a wonderful time. :goodvibes

We were typing at the same time again :rotfl: Thank you so much!

Tink9721

02-11-2010, 07:19 PM

DisKate

02-11-2010, 10:08 PM

Have a safe flight Meggie!!!!!

Megablocks

02-12-2010, 02:45 AM

Glad you made it to Hartford! I wanted to come on here right after school to see how your first travel day was going, but I didn't have an internet connection :scared1: I think it was messed up because of the "blizzard" :rolleyes:

I'm now doing a ton of homework. I didn't really get started until 6:30 because I got home late and then went out to dinner with my dad. We went to Bugaboo Creek and that place always makes me think of the Wilderness Lodge. I'll be there in 5 days :cloud9:

I'll be doing homework from now until I go to bed :faint: But in 18 hours I'll be on vacation!

I'm looking forward to your texts!! Here's some pixie dust for a safe flight! pixiedust: Have an awesome time!!!! I'll see you next week :yay:

That means you're really really close to vacation now because it's 3:30 AM :rotfl2:

I'm sending Katie a picture to give her a Disney fix, so I'll definitely text you something Disney-ish as well. See you soon!! :yay:

Have a safe flight Meggie!!!!!

Thank you my dear! You'll be getting a text before we take off and a Disney picture for your fix when we arrive. :banana:

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It's here it's here it's here!!!

:banana: :dance3: :cool1: :yay:

My dad checked the the Delta website and our flight is still scheduled, which makes me feel so much better. We all went to bed very, very early last night -- like 7:30-8 PM. I kept on waking up and then going back to sleep, and drifting in and out. I had my alarm set for 4 AM, and every time I woke up, I kept on checking the time. I finally just got up at 3:30 AM, because my dad was already up, and my mom and Kailyn were waking up, too. We're leaving for the airport at about 5 AM. :woohoo: So...in about eight hours, we should be pulling up to Pop Century in the wonderful ME bus!!!! :banana:

I know I said this last night, but if I don't get on while we're down there, I'll see you all in a week! I can't believe we are finally leaving. :woohoo:

MeMom

02-12-2010, 04:30 AM

It's here it's here it's here!!!

:banana: :dance3: :cool1: :yay:

I kept on waking up and then going back to sleep, and drifting in and out. I had my alarm set for 4 AM, and every time I woke up, I kept on checking the time. I finally just got up at 3:30 AM, because my dad was already up, and my mom and Kailyn were waking up, too. We're leaving for the airport at about 5 AM. :woohoo: So...in about eight hours, we should be pulling up to Pop Century in the wonderful ME bus!!!! :banana:

I do that in and out of sleep thing often, and it is annoying! Mine usually is for something far less exciting than a Disney trip, though. :)

It is finally time for you to go and have your do-over trip. :cool1: Trent drove all night and texted me about an hour ago that he was there. I'm glad, because Georgia weather is supposed to be crazy today.

I'll be praying for a great flight. It may be raining when you check into Pop, but it won't last forever and you will be in Disney World, so there will probably be something fun to do somewhere. :goodvibes

I look forward to pictures. Have a fabulous time! :woohoo:

Charleston Princess

02-12-2010, 06:25 AM

Have a great time, Megan!!! You must be on the plane by now!!! :banana:

DisKate

02-12-2010, 07:05 AM

DisKate

02-12-2010, 07:17 AM

MeMom

02-12-2010, 07:33 AM

Morning everyone! Meg texted me at 6:27 to say that they were on the plane and getting ready to take off soon! :cool1::cool1: They are on their way! When I get home this evening I will try to figure out how to post the pic she is going to send me...might take a while but I'm sure Patrick can at least figure that out.

Have a Fabulous Friday everyone!

Yay!!! :cool1:

Today is 29 days for us! We hit the 20's :cool1::cool1::cool1::cool1::cool1:
(though my ticker says 1 month :confused3 I'm guessing they consider our departure day an actual day in the countdown...and day one for me is the day before, the 12th)

More yay!!! :woohoo:

So happy for both of you girls! It's fun to hang out with you 'youngsters' who appreciate the DIsney magic. It doesn't matter if you are a three year old excited to see Tiana, a 20-something loving the thrill rides, a 30-something surprising your kids with a birthday trip, or an old lady schoolteacher snapping pictures of store windows...the common bond is the love of the magic that it brings to all of our families in so many different ways. :)

DisKate

02-12-2010, 07:36 AM

Yay!!! :cool1:

More yay!!! :woohoo:

So happy for both of you girls! It's fun to hang out with you 'youngsters' who appreciate the DIsney magic. It doesn't matter if you are a three year old excited to see Tiana, a 20-something loving the thrill rides, a 30-something surprising your kids with a birthday trip, or an old lady schoolteacher snapping pictures of store windows...the common bond is the love of the magic that it brings to all of our families in so many different ways. :)

:thumbsup2 Perfectly said MeMom! Have a great Friday!

DisKate

02-12-2010, 10:23 AM

I've been getting several texts from Meg already! They made it! Arrived at POP! at 11:11am and were getting checked in...their room was ready! 70s Prefered! Just what they requested! :cool1::cool1::cool1:

Tink9721

02-12-2010, 02:26 PM

Today is 29 days for us! We hit the 20's :cool1::cool1::cool1::cool1::cool1:
(though my ticker says 1 month :confused3 I'm guessing they consider our departure day an actual day in the countdown...and day one for me is the day before, the 12th)

:woohoo:

My ticker is a day off too. It says 3 days. I really have 4 :confused3

I got a text from Meg around noon saying they just had lunch at Pop and she also sent me a picture of Everest :goodvibes

It doesn't matter if you are a three year old excited to see Tiana, a 20-something loving the thrill rides, a 30-something surprising your kids with a birthday trip, or an old lady schoolteacher snapping pictures of store windows...the common bond is the love of the magic that it brings to all of our families in so many different ways. :)

Or a 16 year old who loves the rides, the shows, the food, and EVERYTHING! :cloud9:

CanadianWDWfan

02-12-2010, 06:43 PM

Awww....happy to hear she made it!

She must be so thrilled to be at our favorite place!

I can't wait for pics! :cool1:

MeMom

02-12-2010, 09:20 PM

Awww....happy to hear she made it!

She must be so thrilled to be at our favorite place!

I can't wait for pics! :cool1:

She was Soarin' a little while ago!
Best I could do to match that was eat an orange. :)

DisKate

02-13-2010, 08:15 AM

She was Soarin' a little while ago!
Best I could do to match that was eat an orange. :)

There are a couple of guys in my marketing class that use either cologne or really weird hair gel.....and they smell like Soarin'....usually the ocean scene and the pine forest scene....it's really weird sitting behind them mornings, I tend to get distracted :rotfl:

Meg Update!

They had dinner at Rose & Crown last night and thought it was awesome! They were hitting up a few rides then heading to POP! before Illuminations got over. Today is supposed to be DHS and MK...I haven't gotten any texts yet, so I'm not sure if they are taking it easy today or if she thinks I'm still sleeping ;) I'll try to update later if I hear from her.

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Megablocks

02-13-2010, 08:36 AM

We're here!!!!

We went to Animal Kingdom and Epcot yesterday. It was raining pretty hard while we were at AK, so it was basically empty. We got to ride Dinosaur with only a 20 minute wait, and when we trekked back to Asia, Everest was a walk-on! :banana: My dad, Kailyn, and I rode it twice in a row. It was raining so hard that by the time we left, my sneakers were soaked through and my khakis were completely drenched up just past my knees. The only dry parts of me were the parts covered by the poncho. I couldn't have cared less about it, because I was just so happy to be there!

We came back to the room and then went to Epcot. It had stopped raining so hard by then, so we didn't need the ponchos. We rode SSE and Test Track, then walked to England for our ADR at Rose and Crown. It was really, really, really good! Soarin' only had a posted 35 minute wait, so we rode that. It was amazing to ride it after having YouTubed it for so long. We couldn't make it until midnight, so we came back to the room and crashed early.

Today we're off to DHS (after breakfast), then we have an ADR at 4 PM at 1900 Park Fare! I am so excited for this. After 1900 PF, we're finally going to see the castle. :lovestruc

Christine, I am so glad I was able to get a decent picture of EE to send you -- I can't wait for us to ride it together!! Katie, thank you for doing all those updates for me :hug:

Have a great Saturday!! Thanks for all the well-wishes!

DisKate

02-13-2010, 08:41 AM