Jackiemarie21
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2012
Before I begin with an actual PTR update I would like to share a little real life stuff!
When I left off I was feeling pretty yucky and we were preparing for a trip to CO for my brother's wedding. So here is a mini TR of our wedding trip to CO. We left on Wednesday June 25 after Bob was finished with summer school. While Bob was finished up his day, Charlotte and I went with my dad and picked up the mini-van we were renting to drive to Denver and then we dropped our dogs off with our good friend Nancy. By the time we were finished with our errands and lunch Bob was done with school and we were on the road. I was not very excited for this journey, traveling with my parents take FOREVER! They literally stop at every rest stop, McDonalds and gas station they see along the way. A constant circle of drinks then having to use the restroom. I mean it should be a 12-13 hour drive from St. Louis to Denver, it took us 21 hours!
Its no wonder I hated vacations as a kid. We finally made it to our hotel in Denver Thursday night around 8 pm, and I was feeling awful!
Bob did some research and found an urgent care that would be covered by our insurance. A little info about me, I never go to the doctor, never! However, I always get sick on non-disney vacations. I have now been to urgent cares in four states and two countries. I am kind of an expert on being sick out of town. It turns out it was just a bad sinus infection, but it was made more intense since I was not used to the altitude in Denver. I told the doctor I had four hours until the rehearsal dinner and I needed to be well. He drugged me up pretty good and I set out for the rest of the wedding weekend. The rehearsal was fantastic and causal, we left early, 8ish so that I could get a good nights sleep for the wedding day. I woke the morning of the wedding feeling almost back to normal which was great! We did all the normal get ready for the wedding things and before we knew it my baby brother was a married man! 
Its still hard for me to believe. I took no pictures until the wedding day, but I thought I might share a few with you, as it was a beautiful wedding location.
Charlotte was a beautiful flower girl!
Bob, my mom and Charlotte
My mom and I
Mom and Charlotte dancing
My pretty little flower girl, who was full of cupcake by this point! She kept talking various people into giving her a cupcake, I seriously have no idea how many she finally had.
This is what a night full of cupcakes and dancing looks like!
It was a great time! We left the next afternoon to come home, and by the time we were on our way home I was feeling much better. And, on the upside the ride home only took 18 hours I seriously can not explain how it take so long to get everywhere with them.
After returning home from CO we had a great 4th weekend. We kicked it off by going to the Muny (a local outdoor theater) to see Disney's Tarzan with AprilRnee and STLMickeyMom and her girls. The show was just okay, although Charlotte's review was too many monkey's not enough piggys. The next day we got together with STLMickeyMom and her girls again for a little cake hunting. It is St. Louis' 250 birthday and all around the city there are 250 birthday cake sculptures. Charlotte and I have made it our summer goal to hit all 250(we are on 75!), STLMickeyMom and her girls are working towards seeing all of them too. So we thought it would be fun to look for some together. We had a great outing with them! Cake hunting has seriously been so much fun! I have been to so many places I would have never thought to visit and seen so much of this city I have lived in my entire life. On the actual 4th we went to 2 BBQs, went swimming and saw fireworks, it was a fun but busy day. On Saturday we saw 17 more cakes. Then we rounded out an extra long holiday with going to Six Flags (they had a cake too) on Tuesday. Charlotte loved it! Her favorite ride was the log flume and we had a great day, with almost no lines!
So, now that my little life update is over, I will get into some more cruise planning.
After choosing an itinerary and a ship it was time to choose a stateroom. I love and hate that DCL lets you pick your exact stateroom. I spent lots of time reading reviews for each room and trying to decide which room category. On our previous cruise we had an inside stateroom and it was fine, I had no problem with no natural light. My DH booked that trip all on his own long before I had any idea there was a Disboards out there. I was uneducated about Disney travel. He just went with the default room in the cheapest category. Now I know better, you have to do your research, and this time we will have a kiddo with us, one that presumably will still nap. My first thought was to go with the inside deluxe stateroom, but then we decided to take a look at that rooms with balconies. The rooms with the navigators veranda was not out of the price range. I thought it would be nice to have the veranda so we can sit out there, read and relax while Charlotte sleeps. So I read every review I could find for the rooms with navigators veranda's and I finally settled on one! It took me forever! Like I said I both love and hate having the ability to pick my exact room. Its really a lot of pressure! I am however thrilled that we will have a balcony, I think it will give us just a little extra space and a place to go if we don't need to rest as much as Charlotte.
Anyway, thats all for now. I will be back soon with more!
When I left off I was feeling pretty yucky and we were preparing for a trip to CO for my brother's wedding. So here is a mini TR of our wedding trip to CO. We left on Wednesday June 25 after Bob was finished with summer school. While Bob was finished up his day, Charlotte and I went with my dad and picked up the mini-van we were renting to drive to Denver and then we dropped our dogs off with our good friend Nancy. By the time we were finished with our errands and lunch Bob was done with school and we were on the road. I was not very excited for this journey, traveling with my parents take FOREVER! They literally stop at every rest stop, McDonalds and gas station they see along the way. A constant circle of drinks then having to use the restroom. I mean it should be a 12-13 hour drive from St. Louis to Denver, it took us 21 hours!
Its no wonder I hated vacations as a kid. We finally made it to our hotel in Denver Thursday night around 8 pm, and I was feeling awful! Bob did some research and found an urgent care that would be covered by our insurance. A little info about me, I never go to the doctor, never! However, I always get sick on non-disney vacations. I have now been to urgent cares in four states and two countries. I am kind of an expert on being sick out of town. It turns out it was just a bad sinus infection, but it was made more intense since I was not used to the altitude in Denver. I told the doctor I had four hours until the rehearsal dinner and I needed to be well. He drugged me up pretty good and I set out for the rest of the wedding weekend. The rehearsal was fantastic and causal, we left early, 8ish so that I could get a good nights sleep for the wedding day. I woke the morning of the wedding feeling almost back to normal which was great! We did all the normal get ready for the wedding things and before we knew it my baby brother was a married man! Its still hard for me to believe. I took no pictures until the wedding day, but I thought I might share a few with you, as it was a beautiful wedding location.
Charlotte was a beautiful flower girl!
Bob, my mom and Charlotte
My mom and I
Mom and Charlotte dancing
My pretty little flower girl, who was full of cupcake by this point! She kept talking various people into giving her a cupcake, I seriously have no idea how many she finally had.
This is what a night full of cupcakes and dancing looks like!
It was a great time! We left the next afternoon to come home, and by the time we were on our way home I was feeling much better. And, on the upside the ride home only took 18 hours
I seriously can not explain how it take so long to get everywhere with them.After returning home from CO we had a great 4th weekend. We kicked it off by going to the Muny (a local outdoor theater) to see Disney's Tarzan with AprilRnee and STLMickeyMom and her girls. The show was just okay, although Charlotte's review was too many monkey's not enough piggys. The next day we got together with STLMickeyMom and her girls again for a little cake hunting. It is St. Louis' 250 birthday and all around the city there are 250 birthday cake sculptures. Charlotte and I have made it our summer goal to hit all 250(we are on 75!), STLMickeyMom and her girls are working towards seeing all of them too. So we thought it would be fun to look for some together. We had a great outing with them! Cake hunting has seriously been so much fun! I have been to so many places I would have never thought to visit and seen so much of this city I have lived in my entire life. On the actual 4th we went to 2 BBQs, went swimming and saw fireworks, it was a fun but busy day. On Saturday we saw 17 more cakes. Then we rounded out an extra long holiday with going to Six Flags (they had a cake too) on Tuesday. Charlotte loved it! Her favorite ride was the log flume and we had a great day, with almost no lines!
So, now that my little life update is over, I will get into some more cruise planning.
After choosing an itinerary and a ship it was time to choose a stateroom. I love and hate that DCL lets you pick your exact stateroom. I spent lots of time reading reviews for each room and trying to decide which room category. On our previous cruise we had an inside stateroom and it was fine, I had no problem with no natural light. My DH booked that trip all on his own long before I had any idea there was a Disboards out there. I was uneducated about Disney travel. He just went with the default room in the cheapest category. Now I know better, you have to do your research, and this time we will have a kiddo with us, one that presumably will still nap. My first thought was to go with the inside deluxe stateroom, but then we decided to take a look at that rooms with balconies. The rooms with the navigators veranda was not out of the price range. I thought it would be nice to have the veranda so we can sit out there, read and relax while Charlotte sleeps. So I read every review I could find for the rooms with navigators veranda's and I finally settled on one! It took me forever! Like I said I both love and hate having the ability to pick my exact room. Its really a lot of pressure! I am however thrilled that we will have a balcony, I think it will give us just a little extra space and a place to go if we don't need to rest as much as Charlotte.
Anyway, thats all for now. I will be back soon with more!
so cute! The other night I saw suessical, it was amazing! Maybe, my favorite Muny show ever!
Now, I am not one to judge another's parenting style, but this is just wrong!
Oh, and wouldn't you know it, exactly one week after we got home a shark came to shore EXACTLY where we were. You know that pic of Bob holding Charlotte with the pier in the background? That is where the shark was!!!!
(last time we were there I went to the Urgent care for shingles) Bob still had one week left before going back to school! This is the first year ever Bob took off more than just the week we go on vacation in the summer. He is usually at work doing workshops or meeting with his college class all summer long. He was a little burnt out this year, so he took three full weeks off! And it was awesome! We decided to continue our quest for cakes. I mentioned in my last update Charlotte and I were on a quest to locate all 250 St. Louis birthday cakes located all over the St. Louis area for the 250th birthday of St. Louis. When we left for FL we were on cake 102 and we are now on 152, so in one week we saw 50 cakes! We have been all over the place! I have lived in St. Louis my entire life, and I had no idea some of these neat places existed. Seriously, I love St. Louis, but I had no idea it was this fun! So, I thought I would share with you a couple of my favorite "caking" pics:
. You have until Dec 31!
