Isn't it funny how each family eventually gets into their own rhythm of doing things at the World? Eating at Planet Hollywood (generally on the day before we hit the parks) has become somewhat of a tradition for us. The kids love looking at all the stuff while they eat, and I seem to order the bruschetta for my meal every time. Now we have a collection of the free keychain souvenirs that we've accumulated from each visit!
QOTD Calling Everybody! -lurkers too- Check in with your days left and excitement levelor
58 days today. My excitement level is pretty much less than nothing right now
I have a wisdom tooth that needs to come out that started hurting last night. I am in agony this morning and waiting until I can go pick up my antibiotics and for this round of painkillers to kick in. Pretty sure I have a fever. It's a nasty infection
Before I started hurting last night, my parents closed on a family cottage they made an offer on! It's for all of us to use (6 kids), is on it's own island, and is 6 hours north in a BEAUTIFUL part of the province. This all happened very suddenly. My Uncle owns a cottage on the island behind it and when he saw the listing they moved fast so we wouldn't lose the chance. It's within swimming distance of the little island my Uncles place is on, and he has 4 kids. So it's will be a big family place for us all to go to for years and years. We all get along wonderfully and I am almost wishing we knew earlier so we could have planned to spend the week in August at the cottage instead. Don't get me wrong..we love Disney but we're going in December too.
In fact, I probably would cancel, but the trip in December is a surprise so my kids will just think we aren't going at all and they'd be so sad.
But at the same time you will have the cottage for years to come - any chance for a long weekend sometime soon?
57 days for me
And we leave Friday for our mini-getaway to Toronto and Niagara Falls.
52 days here! I thought it was more than that. Getting pretty excited because most everything is lined up. We need to pick up backpacks for the girls to have autographed, new swimsuits for at least DD2 and make the decision on if we want to have food and/or water delivered to the room.
I've done some playing around with the new camera and it's pretty nice. It takes great pictures and the fact that it's waterproof, shock proof and takes pictures and HD video makes it a great choice to take to the parks. Easier to carry around than the DSLR and camcorders for sure.
The kids are distracted with family being out of town, so the anticipation isn't even building for them yet. I'm hoping that we can hit a bunch of things we didn't see before. We've hardly put a dent in Epcot. The water parks are going to be a new experience. Looking forward to RNRC as I've never been on it and Star Tours as my kids are now familiar with Star Wars and I haven't been on it since it's been redone. Pirates League should be fun and we'll get the first taste of traveling with a friend instead of just family.
Lastly, I'm just hoping that we have a fun and drama free trip.
lol, there is a thread over on the Theme Parks board that a mom is having that exact problem with her DS and DH.
Me.....I can't understand it either. I always feel so blessed to go on vacation.....ANY vacation!
Well 60 days till Disney and 51 till Universal!
Can't make up my mind about doing online check in as we want conecting rooms and I'm not sure which will give me a better chance. As we are staying at CBR and the last week of August I hope we have a great chance of getthing this since its such a big resort and it's the beginning of Value Season. I would like to be near the main pool but we don't mind walking and really is the longest we have to go is 10 minutes that really not a long walk. Oh well will keeping mulling it over. What do others think is it better to do online check in or just wait till we get there and do it?
Can I join in? We're 8/23 - 9/2 and I can't wait. I want to talk about it every day but no one else wants to hear it, so I kinda need to join you folks.
We're arriving at MCO at 2pm, so likely not at the hotel until after 3pm. Last year I tried to do a dinner and we barely made it, so this year I don't plan on doing anything except hanging out at the pool and perhaps if the kids are up for it, do the Chip and Dale sing along at Ft. Wilderness. Our first ADR is the following day.
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I hope you are feeling much better by now. I think tooth pain is the absolute worst!
How exciting about the cottage! Could you tell the kids about the December trip...maybe a Christmas in July kind of thing?
37 days to go!!! It cannot come soon enough. Funny story...only my son (17) can go to theater camp and I get a phone call today that he twisted his ankle, fell, and was bleeding pretty badly- might need stitches...LONG story short, he is ok. He has a sprained ankle and had a puncture wound from falling on something, thus the blood (but didn't need stitches) and all I could think of is that he had better not broken his ankle, as I was not going to push him around in a wheelchair at Disney!!
He got a lead in the summer musical production, (of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying)too, but his part is not dance heavy, thank god. So, I'm going to officially wrap my clumsy kid in a bubble....I would LOVE to blame it on DH, but he totally takes after me
about the wheel chair! But seriously, I am glad it is only a sprain! Congrats to him on getting the lead!! My DS15 is also a theater buff...they are doing High School Musical this summer - parts are being announced today. He also just finished a three week run of Aladdin where he played Jafar...as if we weren't submerged in Disney stuff enough already!
Ok, I was able to find another area of the website that has an Online Check-In link, since it was no longer displaying on the main Reservations page. After more error messages, I was finally able to check into my second (package) reservation. Interestingly, it allowed me to not enter a credit card, but it forced me to enter a PIN number for charging privileges. However, after I finished the check-in process, it showed that it was using my credit card on file for charging, even though I did not enter it. Weirdness!
When we went in 2010 it was dead that week/weekend. It was great although the temps were higher than expected in the mid to upper 90's all week long. I'm looking forward to crowds lower than what we had at Thanksgiving.
Just ordered our PP+ card. By the looks of things I think we'll have all of our tip money on our Disney Rewards Dollars. Need to get some of those cooling towel things too...
It was the first time we used the chilly pads and they did help. I sobbed, maybe 
Oh! I also added an ADR for 8/17 at 5:55 at Narcossee's. It's for our 2 year anniversary
Here's the story behind Narcossee's (there's always a story right?! Lol). So June 2009, we were down in WDW for a big family trip. Whenever we do these trips, we take one night to ourselves for dinner and such. We had dinner at Narcossee's and had planned early on that we were going to go to the beach at the GF to watch Wishes after dinner.
So we packed our backpack with a sheet that we brought from home to sit on and a bottle of champagne that a friend had given us. We realized we didn't have any cups so after our amazing dinner, we set out to find those like plastic looking wine glasses that they have in Italy in Epcot when you get a glass of wine to go. No luck so we settled on the Disney Parks coffee cups lol classy, I know lol.
We got to our spot and set up. Being that we are us, we started having a sand drawing competition lol. I wrote "Meg and Mike," he drew "M+M," I drew a flower. Then, they started playing Wall-E about 50 feet away from where we were. So I got distracted and started watching the movie. 15 minutes later, DH says "Ok! I think I won!" So while still watching the movie (I get easily distracted when a TV is on lol), I walked over to where he was and looked down. He wrote "Will you marry me?" in the sand. I turned around and there he was down on one knee. I'm pretty sure I yelled some obscenities lol and he asked again and I said yes! As soon as I said yes, Wishes started
We haven't been back to Narcossee's since that night so I'm really excited to go back!
57 days to go!!!
I am officially excited again today
But the antibiotic is working, and I get this stupid wisdom tooth out once and for all next Wednesday
