Orlando is just saving up all the sunshine and warmth for the first week of May.
And the Orlando Eye looks like a lot of fun!! I think you could do it twice, especially since the other experiences will be new to you in December. Might be a nice memory for you and Steve to have on your own.
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Ahem, 2nd/3rd week of March please....
-40 windchill this morning. That's basically the same either side of the border. I think the tires on the truck had frozen square. My -40 windshield washer fluid just kind of bubbled out like a gel... Oh, please get me out of here!
Well, it's forty below
and I don't give a (hoot)
got a heater in my truck
and I'm off to Or-lan-do
. Hope you are all enjoying a special Valentine's Day with your sweeties as well!
Its ridiculous!! Yet, I am almost ashamed to be complaining after seeing our friends to the east get hammered by a "blurricane" yesterday. So much snow, they pulled the plows off the road in some parts of New Brunswick 
. Something like 43 cm of accumulation from 8 am to 3 pm alone. Absolutely crazy!!!
Just caught up........hope the cough is improving by now......sucks when you can't get rid of that!
Did you enjoy Prisoner of Azkhaban? I loved that book, but the movie wasn't as I imagined, much darker than the previous 2........but still a good movie.......although anything that has Alan Rickman in.....I'll watch. I could listen to him read a phone directory
. And its so nice to know the significance, now, of things like the Knight Bus. I have a feeling that our visit is going to be so much more.....enriched?....by the fact that I have started to actually learn the Harry Potter storylines. Steve gets really into it (much more than I do), and he's been known to (ahem!) go around the house speaking in a very bad British accent in the hours following our movie dates 
. Methinks we'll have to have a little chat about that before we watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 
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(just Eye tickets for our spring trip....still saving the SEA LIFE Aquarium and Madame Tussaud's to share for the first time with the kiddos at Christmas). ). . I hope it will be kind of cool in, say, 25 years to tell our grandkids (when they travel to Orlando with their super-cool Nanna and Poppa) that we were among the first people to ride the enormous Orlando Eye. I hope Mother Nature shines on us that day, giving us a sparkling clear view all the way to the Atlantic Coast.
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(Southwest Missouri-about an hour north of Branson). We finally got our winter-seems it is all coming this week alone-6-8 inches past 2 days of snow (with layer of ice under that). Thankfully I am off these 2 days so no having to drive with others who have no clue what to do with winter weather. Kids are on their second snow day out of school. From looks of weather forecast they may be out the whole week...But we did have a few upper 70's days in January-just enough to tease us for spring! It is actually a joke in Missouri-"don't like the weather? wait a few hours-it will change". We can literally go from 80's (F) one day to snow in 24 hours in the spring.
So glad I could give you a nudge!! I hope you love it. We saw it still in the construction phase on our trip in December. It looks massive!!!
Aren't the Harry Potter stories fantastic? Some of the details in the Universal Parks just blew my mind. They did such an incredible job. I know you are a details gal and I suspect you are just going to be so impressed with all of the little details
We are under four weeks until our trip to Universal and I'm already thinking of our 2016 trip lol. Dh and I sat down this weekend and plotted his remaining vacation days. We are using 6 for this trip in March, we've already used 1, so that left 8. We decided to use the remainder for a week at the cottage in the summer and to extend Thanksgiving and another long weekend for the cottage. So that means no more trips in 2016. We had been hoping for October, but I think it's best to let the vacation budget (and hopefully the Canadian dollar) recover a little bit
So it's looking like a trip next winter. And so far I have no idea when or where exactly. I just know it needs to be somewhere warm and if next winter is anything like this one, I will need it to get me out of the snow and cold!
. We're hoping to go the last week of April 2016, to squeeze in one last trip with the Universal AP's before they expire. Wanna join us? 
Hi Gina! Enjoying your PTR very much. Also the descriptions of how cold you guys are help put our winter into perspective
We haven't been back to Universal in 11!! years. Very much looking forward to our trip this year to see all the Harry Potter stuff. Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite book of the series.
I've done so much planning for the WDW part that I feel like I am missing something on the Universal side! Mythos is on our must do list too!
Will be living vicariously through all those whose trips come before ours-hoping that makes the time go faster (haven't quite hit the <100 day mark yet).
Welcome aboard Monykalyn, and thanks for joining in!
So sorry to hear about your miserable weather. A few of us on this thread can certainly relate!! lol Spring is set to arrive one month from Friday, but man....have we got a long way to go. I cannot even fathom upper 70's in January. I think I may consider a move to Missouri!!
So....if you are not quite at the 100 day mark, does that put you at travelling in June? Once the weather breaks and the poor weather is officially behind us, I'm betting it will feel like your dates roar up quite quickly. Its these long, dark, snowy days of winter that D-R-A-G on so pitfully slowly.
11 years since your last trip! Wow! We were there in 2012 and its changed so much even since then. It will be like you are first-timers again!!!
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We are timeshare owners too (here in MO at Lake of the Ozarks) and trade for Marriott when we go to Florida. Sheraton Vistana Resort was briefly available when we first started looking but I didn't pull trigger quick enough. At Sabal Palms this time-which is OK as the Marriott World center amenities are available for small fee (way less expensive than a water park-although now DH is talking about aquatica and see world too...had to talk him into this trip and now I have to hold him back on trying to plan everyday
We did the High Roller wheel in Las Vegas last fall and it was amazing. I think our kids would love to do the Orlando eye so may have to look into that...
I enjoyed Prisoner of Azkhaban quite alot, actually. Surprises even me.....this Harry Potter stuff is growing on me
one guy was so alarming I backed away from him......don`t know why he was shouting....lol......all good fun though.....I do a mean New York accent according to my cousins who live there........maybe they were being nice though 
