Bringing Mom to WDW for MY bday, Sept '09! Day 4 Part 1..AK and Tusker House 12/30!

[DisneyFaeriePrincess]

Yay!!! Have so much fun!! Can't wait to hear all about it!!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Sooooooo exciiiiiiiting!!!

I don't even know where Fire & Oak is! Really, I gotta go to places other than diners.

Have a wonderful wonderful time!

and I'm excited for you too, Dawn!!! Can't wait to heat/tweet all about all of your adventures!

It's the old South City Prime...owned by the same people that own the whole South City Grill restaurants. A little pricey but fun for a special occasion. And you can NEVER go wrong with diners! mmmmm!

Yay for leaving tomorrow! I'm ready to start reading some tweets!

WOOHOO!!

Happy Days for Jenn!!!!

Less than 24hrs and you will be on your way to Disney!!!!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME DISNEY!!!!

Got the UberTwitter fired up... start posting those tweets!

Have a great time Jenn!!

Gene

Thank you Gene!

OMG You leave tomorrow! I'm so jealous! Have a great time! I can't wait to read all about it. Tell Mickey we'll see him soon!

I'll definitely pass along the message to the Mouse!

Yay!!! Have so much fun!! Can't wait to hear all about it!!

Thank you!!!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

OK so packing has STARTED! All my clothes are laid out, pretty much all my toiletries are all in order in the bathroom, all the electronics are either ready or charging.

Mom is pretty much all packed and organized too. We just looked through the photos from our 2007 trip to try to help her jog her memory. Don't think I ever mentioned it but when I was in high school, she had a stroke and has since had a problem remembering a lot of things. Pictures are her friend and she loves going through them to remember things. It's fun to see her getting all excited today

Right now taking a break to watch the Yankee/Red Sox game Go yanks! (Mom is SO not enjoying the game...she hates baseball but sucks it up for yanks/sox games for me lol)

 

[scoot241]

I was about to doubt your committment to this trip if you hadn't started packing by now.

We are watching the Braves/Nationals game at my wife's parents house (father-in-law is a Braves fan). Not surprising that the Braves are winning.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

I was about to doubt your committment to this trip if you hadn't started packing by now.

We are watching the Braves/Nationals game at my wife's parents house (father-in-law is a Braves fan). Not surprising that the Braves are winning.

Haha...sadly though the Yanks game is still in the bottom of the 6th... I REALLLY wanna stay and watch the game (don't have a tv in my room) but I REALLY need to finish up all this packing and shower. Decisions decisions!

 

[scoot241]

Haha...sadly though the Yanks game is still in the bottom of the 6th... I REALLLY wanna stay and watch the game (don't have a tv in my room) but I REALLY need to finish up all this packing and shower. Decisions decisions!

lol... finish packing!!

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

Jen, I'm glad that you mom was excited when she was looking at the pictures! I didn't know that happened to her.

Have a WONDERFUL trip!!!!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

lol... finish packing!!

I'm done! I swear!

Jen, I'm glad that you mom was excited when she was looking at the pictures! I didn't know that happened to her.

Have a WONDERFUL trip!!!!

Thank you Amy!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Ok so I'm finally DONE packing! Now I just have to try to go to sleep for 5 hours. I highly doubt that's going to happen. I'm wide awake

I also rigged my LGMH and taped two of them back to back and punched a hole in the corner. I found an old bottle opener key chain and took the ring off that and will be attaching them to my camera or bag or something.

Camera bag is all packed... batteries are charged... ipod is charging now, as is the blackberry. The tripod actually does fit in the camping chair bag, and I was able to remove the ball head so now I'm hoping it'll fit in a locker when we're there. Plus it fits in the suitcase. Since my mom is using the bigger suitcase I brought it into her room so she can throw it in there and she looked at me like I'm crazy... 'You're bringing THAT?!' hahaha

All documents are accounted for and are already in my laptop pouch, which fits in my huge purse.

Clothes are laid out...

and I'm READY!

Thanks everyone for sticking around and listening to me babble! Again, I'll be twittering, just follow the link in my sig. I'll also try getting internet a day or two in the room. Hopefully I can pop in and say hi. Updating posts on my blackberry is just a PAIN so that's highly unlikely.

And if a mod finds this thread.... don't close it! I'm going to be using the same thread for the trip report too. Thank ya!

I'm going to Disney World!

 

[MyMuse]

Jenn sent a tweet that she went through security and boarded the plane! She should be landing shortly. Whoo-hooooo!

 

[annnewjerz]

If you aren't there already---you should be soon! I'm going to sign-up to follow you on Twitter right now. Have a great trip and can't wait to hear all about it when you get home!!

 

[MyMuse]

Th eagle has landed and she is now at MK being sung to by the mayor.

 

[stacikristine]

I'm sure you're having an incredible trip!!! Can't wait to hear about it when you get back!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Jenn sent a tweet that she went through security and boarded the plane! She should be landing shortly. Whoo-hooooo!

Haha, thanks for keeping everyone up to date!

If you aren't there already---you should be soon! I'm going to sign-up to follow you on Twitter right now. Have a great trip and can't wait to hear all about it when you get home!!

Thank you! I'm still trying to recover!

Th eagle has landed and she is now at MK being sung to by the mayor.

Definitely the highlight of my day!

I'm sure you're having an incredible trip!!! Can't wait to hear about it when you get back!

Thank you! Trying to go through all the photos but should start the TR soon!

 

[scoot241]

It's about time you got around to posting.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

We're back!!!

Hey everyone!

We survived and made it home in one piece! Had a great time and now just have to go through a bunch of photos and start the TR. Didn't take as many photos as I wanted but oh well. I do have pics of almost every item of food we ate though. So get ready for some serious food porn! Holy amounts of food on the deluxe plan!!

Was it the best trip ever? For mom, definitely. For me? Ehhhhhh... Don't get me wrong, I loved it and had a good time.... After all, how can you have a bad time at Disney?! But I was stressing for a bit about mom and stuff. She got tired really quickly every day so I was worried about that, plus trying to do what she'd enjoy. She got stubborn a few times and I just bit my tongue and dealt with it. I'm looking forward to my trip in January so I can run around the parks with my friends and then have a few solo days after they leave. I did love seeing her enjoying everything though. That can't be beat.

OK... I'll try gathering all my thoughts for this TR and hopefully start in a day or two. I have SO much catching up to do on the DIS! (and at work....which is what I should be doing!)

 

[stacikristine]

Yay! Welcome home! I'm excited to read about everything!! Sorry it was kinda stressful... I'm sure we'll hear more about that. And I can't even imagine how stuffed you are on the Deluxe plan--we were stuffed on the regular!

 

[MyMuse]

Welcome Home!
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[annnewjerz]

Welcome back to good ol' NJ! I have been looking at your pics on Flickr---loving the emptry Main Street for an early am Crystal Palace breakfast. Definitely make sure to post a link to your TR here when you start one so we can all come over and join you.

Let the food porn begin!!

 

[jenny105]

Welcome back! Can't wait to read all about it!