A Belated PTR: Mom & Daughter Take On WDW, again UPDATE 9.22: LIVE FROM WDW!!!!!!!!!!

[lacrosse_lady72]

Okay...I'm all caught up. I've been basically missing in action the last couple of days due to a personal issue (but got good news form the doctor today) so I've been able to catch up on everyone's pretrip reports.

Oh no... it sounds like you're ok at least but still a little more is always in order.

DH wants to go to the wishes party. I missed the announcement- I have been sick today! Off to catch up!

Let us know if you do!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Hood to Coast Pre-Trip fun!


OH GOODY (a sarcastic oh goody)... tonight is the night of the Hood to Coast, we actually the first teams were in their start corrals set to leave Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood at 6:30AM this morning but the last teams just started. I cannot tell you how glad I am to be a volunteer in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon Coastal range for 8 hours tonight... again this is sarcastic. No, it's really not that bad but I just wish I was running in the Hood to Coast instead... next year for sure!

But I am getting ready right now and I was stuck by a lazy moment and when I am in lazy mode, I typically DIS.

No trip updates today just that I'll be in WDW in 4 weeks from today!!!!!


Maybe I'll manage to grab some pictures of the relay but I don't know if I will... the place I am at doesn't have any light except for a generated single light around the runners and I'm also volunteering for a time that spot is supposed to be it's busiest

But here's some pre-stuff.

I had to go to the Nike World Heaquarters campus in Beaverton (next town over) to do some volunteer training and pick up my tee. Naturally, it's bright orange

So it's rained ONCE since like June and this weekend is also the airshow that the Hillsboro Airport OF COURSE it's raining this weekend. I'm bringing an umbrella... it's 65 degrees and cold today, yesterday was 95 tomorrow is even supposed to be warm. Stupid weather.

I tried to take a picture of it raining, it didn't really work.

Here's a lot of the junk I'm bringing.

I'm going to miss my DIS family tonight

 

[KatMark]

Hood to Coast Pre-Trip fun!


No trip updates today just that I'll be in WDW in 4 weeks from today!!!!!

Don't you mean 3 weeks from today? And not 4??????

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Don't you mean 3 weeks from today? And not 4??????

I'm losing it. Yes, I mean 3 weeks...

 

[KatMark]

I'm losing it. Yes, I mean 3 weeks...

If not, you'll be drinking by yourself without any fellow Diser's!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

If not, you'll be drinking by yourself without any fellow Diser's!

That would suck I definitely wouldn't want that happening. I could picture myself going up to the Alaska Air counter saying... why isn't the check-in thing accepting my confirmation number???

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

I'm so pissed... I just wrote a fairly lengthy update and it got lost/deleted somehow............................ I don't feel like writing it again right now

 

[oregonmommyof2]

Oh Dayna that sucks!!!

 

[Porturican]

Ughhhhh I've had that happen to me to when writing up a response. If i walk away for a little bit and come back to it and try to send it, its GONE cuz the system logs me off alll the time after so much time.

 

[KatMark]

I'm so pissed... I just wrote a fairly lengthy update and it got lost/deleted somehow............................ I don't feel like writing it again right now

I hate when that happens!

 

[jordanyosh]

I hate when you lose a post. I've had trouble getting my posts to post the last few days.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

To Do List 1:45AM Sunday 9/6

Stupid posts getting lost... I can update Sunday night though

I'm going on a shopping trip tomorrow, for those of you who know the area the plan is...
1. Woodburn outlets
2. Walmart in Woodburn
3. Lunch at Fuddruckers in Lake Oswego if we haven't caved and already ate somewhere else.
4. Bridgeport Village
5. Washington Square
6. Grocery stop... New Seasons if I didn't spend a lot shopping, Winco if I did

Things on the list to do:
1. Final touches on the Disney binder (pictures to come on the next update)
2. Find all my memory cards for both cameras
3. Look for something to carry my tripod in
4. Go over the packing list and check to see when I need to get
5. Do I need more LGMH?
6. More tanning, I think just one more tan should do it
7. Find little umbrella or get new one
8. Map out rental car route
9. Get new watch for running
10. Need to find travel sized nail poilsh remover
11. Make better to do list.

 

[disneygirlinnj]

mini umbrella! That's what I need to do! Thanks for reminding me

 

[jordanyosh]

Lake O!

Washington Square!

Man, I miss Portland.....

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Big Update!... well it might be bigger if it wasn't 3AM.

Fair warning: this includes Disney, semi-Disney and non-Disney related stuff... in no particular order.

1. I have been trying a couple of times this evening to do online check-in but no such luck... in fact, I can't even pull up either Pop or WL reservations Stupid Disney website being down AGAIN!

2. I got my hair done!!! YAY! I'm so excited and happy I went with what I did. Essentially, we went with "Warm Chocolate" for a base then bleached out just a little blonde and added some purple and anything that wasn't blonde or warm chocolate. Oh yes... and the blonde got toned to a beautiful caramel color.

As for the cut, it's a lot shorter than I am used to but so far so good. I just have to straighten my hair more or it's kind of funny looking.

Some pictures:
Here's a good overview.

And here's a sort of good shot on the color contrasts.

Overall, I'm excited about it and it only took 4.5 hours this time!!! Usually it's 6-7 hours but that also includes a meal

3. OK, it's decided that I am going to be writing a trip report. Perhaps I should begin that soon since... it's going to be LIVE!!! Well, some of it at the least. I have been thinking about the days I want to go online or can do it for free. That is: Sept 17 at PDX, Sept 21 at given restaurant with free wifi and Sept 26 which I will just have to pay for. I suppose I can try to post from my BlackBerry...

4. Speaking of, first of all I hate my phone BUT I need to get an additional battery for it. It loses power so quickly and takes too long to charge up so I just need to buy another battery for it. I don;t want to lose power in the parks.

5. And again, speaking of said phone... I downloaded the only WDW related app I could find for a BlackBerry Storm. It titled "WDW Maps" and it's kind of fun to play with. I don't know if I'll actually use it but we'll see...

Some photos of the app:
Home screen.

MK Map

When you click on a ride or restaurant... for restaurant, you can look at the menus.

6. On Sunday I went to our local outlets in Woodburn, OR and was that a stupid idea! Hm... should I go to a big shopping center the weekend before school starts, during a holiday weekend and while they're having a big sale... NO!!! It was insane, there was a 6 mile (no joke) line on the freeway to get onto the off-ramp from I-5. Until we got up to the front-ish we thought it was an accident or something... just crazy shoppers like us.

Took this from my phone, the outlets are on the right and the off ramp is kind of up a ways.

Oh yes! There's The North Face outlet I LOVE that store. I got a new Denali for only $99!!!! Sorry, you can't see it that well but it's there... Oregonmommy can account for that I reckon...

7. Mini-vent #1: One thing I do not understand is how St. Helens, OR (pop. 16,000) and Woodburn, OR (pop. 23,000) both have a WalMart... Woodburn has a Super WalMart... and neither Hillsboro, OR or Beaverton, OR (both pop. 95,000) DO NOT have a WalMart

8. Mini-celebration: You know, I love eBay. I found photo paper... my kind of photo paper at Office Depot for 100 4x6" sheets for $30. On eBay, $15 for 400 sheets!!!

9. Look at this dogs eyes!!! How cool is that?

10. DIS MEET!!! Yay! I'm about 25% nervous 75% really excited! CSR here I come... are you excited Kathy?

11. Another DIS meet? Maybe I'll find you all around WDW

12. Hood to Coast:
It was cold, runners are disgusting with their habits, but there were a few HOT college teams, when they say bring a flashlight-they mean it!
Here's the exchange I was at...

These runners were about to run a 7 mile leg of the relay, good for them!

13. I found my lime green nail polish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Big Update!... well it might be bigger if it wasn't 3AM.
2. I got my hair done!!! YAY! I'm so excited and happy I went with what I did. Essentially, we went with "Warm Chocolate" for a base then bleached out just a little blonde and added some purple and anything that wasn't blonde or warm chocolate. Oh yes... and the blonde got toned to a beautiful caramel color.

As for the cut, it's a lot shorter than I am used to but so far so good. I just have to straighten my hair more or it's kind of funny looking.

3. OK, it's decided that I am going to be writing a trip report. Perhaps I should begin that soon since... it's going to be LIVE!!! Well, some of it at the least. I have been thinking about the days I want to go online or can do it for free. That is: Sept 17 at PDX, Sept 21 at given restaurant with free wifi and Sept 26 which I will just have to pay for. I suppose I can try to post from my BlackBerry...

4. Speaking of, first of all I hate my phone BUT I need to get an additional battery for it. It loses power so quickly and takes too long to charge up so I just need to buy another battery for it. I don;t want to lose power in the parks.

5. And again, speaking of said phone... I downloaded the only WDW related app I could find for a BlackBerry Storm. It titled "WDW Maps" and it's kind of fun to play with. I don't know if I'll actually use it but we'll see...

I LOVE your hair!! the color is fabulous, I think that's always the color I wanted but we could never pull it off. So I just stuck to my natural almost black. If I don't fully straighten my hair too it looks kinda strange. I dunno what I would do without my hair iron!

Um were you ever NOT gonna write a trip report? I would have found you and made you write one! I've been loving the PTR.

Ha, I have the same damn BB Storm with the pink case. And YES, the battery sucks on all of them. I just bought a new battery for mine too. I think buy.com has them for $9.99, plus shipping for a total of $15 or $16. That's the best price I've found so far.

I hate that the battery dies so quickly. Here's some info I found. If you already know this, sorry One thing to help save the battery? take it OFF vibrate and just keep it on silent or ring. Vibrate KILLS it BIG time. Also make sure to close out on all the apps that you have open by actually going to menu and then click close or exit. Google Maps is a ridiculous battery killer. Also, VZ Navigator is a battery killer too, everyone suggests just uninstalling it if you don't use it. Turn off Bluetooth too if you use it. I use it in my car though so I hate having to keep turning it on and off and on and off.... Try lowering the brightness of your screen. For some reason at 100% it sucks the battery out too. I actually have mine at 10% and backlight out at 10 seconds and it's been a LOT better and not dark at all.

 

[manntra]

Love, love, love your hair! It looks great!!! I always go for some darker shades of red underneath for the fall/winter...she calls it my snowboarding hair
Ugh on the shopping but I hope you made out alright....that was a killer deal on the NF denali! I have a few and they are not cheap!
That is a cool app...I have an iphone and have the dining app and they have one available like that with the maps too.

Tracy

 

[KatMark]

The hair looks great. The trip is right around the corner.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

IT'S TIME! Well we leave tomorrow but I am going to spending the night with my boyfriend who I won't be seeing until October 3 then we'll be frantically getting ready to bounce out so this might be last quality time with the DIS until I get to PDX.

So, small things to do over the next 22 hours:
-Get yoga mat bag. DUH why didn't I think of this earier as a thing to carry my tripod around in...
-Make sure we have all of our documents in our binder.
-I need travel sized nail polish remover.
-Get 3 USPS flat rate boxes to send souvenir junk home. I really know how to shop
-Eat the rest of the cheese and yogurt in my house that will expire before we get back.
-Buy more Emergen-C. I have enough to last me throughout the entire trip but not my mom and everytime someone gets sick on the trip, still trying to prevent this from happening.
-Charge everything overnight!

I have been slightly freaking out/annoyed this week has gone by so slowly/wishing I was working all day long the past days to make them go faster but alas, this hasn't happened... instead I finally caved in reading the Twilight saga as I had enjoyed the movie. Monday I read Twilight, Tuesday I worked and today I spend reading the first half of New Moon, I'm a little bored of reading now.

Secretly, I kind of hate this part of the vacationing process because I now know it's going to be over soon.

And, ***? The last few days have been 90 degrees or so and next week it's supposed to be like that as well. I hate the heat and much prefer gloomy cold weather (I know, I'm weird) if it's still hot when I get back I'll be MAD btw, it's raining now... what is going on here with weather this year?

Now I'm thinking, OMG in just 2 days from now I'll be dining at Raglan Road. In one week from now, it'll be my mom's birthday. We'll have eaten at Kona Cafe in the morning, toured MK and we'll be on our way to dinner at Citricos at 7PM. I guessing we'll have eaten at Pecos Bills for lunch as it's our favorite in MK.

Mini-vent:

I'm really sick of hearing about the thing with Kanye West, Beyonce and Taylor Swift at the VMAs. Although the action was totally messed up I feel like it''s being made into a much bigger deal than it should be.

AND what about Serena Williams at the US Open? Holy moly... you mean females can get upset at linesmen too? I didn't know that (sarcastically). If The Federer had done the same thing, no one would have batted an eye outside of the tennis world. And I'm not even a Serena fan... but seriously, I'm on her side about this one.

Mini-heck-yes!

I'm in LOVE with that Jay-Z, Alicia Keys song they performed at the VMAs... which btw I didn't watch the whole thing, I was waiting for True Blood to come on



Um ok that's it kind of, I'm just in the numb, can't wait to leave, why is it taking so long phase of everything. I'm still hoping to start the trip report live from WDW, starting tomorrow at PDX and maybe LAX. I'll post a link here and in my signature.

 

[KatMark]

IT'S TIME! Well we leave tomorrow but I am going to spending the night with my boyfriend who I won't be seeing until October 3 then we'll be frantically getting ready to bounce out so this might be last quality time with the DIS until I get to PDX.

So, small things to do over the next 22 hours:
-Get yoga mat bag. DUH why didn't I think of this earier as a thing to carry my tripod around in...
-Make sure we have all of our documents in our binder.
-I need travel sized nail polish remover.
-Get 3 USPS flat rate boxes to send souvenir junk home. I really know how to shop
-Eat the rest of the cheese and yogurt in my house that will expire before we get back.
-Buy more Emergen-C. I have enough to last me throughout the entire trip but not my mom and everytime someone gets sick on the trip, still trying to prevent this from happening.
-Charge everything overnight!

I have been slightly freaking out/annoyed this week has gone by so slowly/wishing I was working all day long the past days to make them go faster but alas, this hasn't happened... instead I finally caved in reading the Twilight saga as I had enjoyed the movie. Monday I read Twilight, Tuesday I worked and today I spend reading the first half of New Moon, I'm a little bored of reading now.

Secretly, I kind of hate this part of the vacationing process because I now know it's going to be over soon.

And, ***? The last few days have been 90 degrees or so and next week it's supposed to be like that as well. I hate the heat and much prefer gloomy cold weather (I know, I'm weird) if it's still hot when I get back I'll be MAD btw, it's raining now... what is going on here with weather this year?

Now I'm thinking, OMG in just 2 days from now I'll be dining at Raglan Road. In one week from now, it'll be my mom's birthday. We'll have eaten at Kona Cafe in the morning, toured MK and we'll be on our way to dinner at Citricos at 7PM. I guessing we'll have eaten at Pecos Bills for lunch as it's our favorite in MK.

Mini-vent:

I'm really sick of hearing about the thing with Kanye West, Beyonce and Taylor Swift at the VMAs. Although the action was totally messed up I feel like it''s being made into a much bigger deal than it should be.

AND what about Serena Williams at the US Open? Holy moly... you mean females can get upset at linesmen too? I didn't know that (sarcastically). If The Federer had done the same thing, no one would have batted an eye outside of the tennis world. And I'm not even a Serena fan... but seriously, I'm on her side about this one.

Mini-heck-yes!

I'm in LOVE with that Jay-Z, Alicia Keys song they performed at the VMAs... which btw I didn't watch the whole thing, I was waiting for True Blood to come on



Um ok that's it kind of, I'm just in the numb, can't wait to leave, why is it taking so long phase of everything. I'm still hoping to start the trip report live from WDW, starting tomorrow at PDX and maybe LAX. I'll post a link here and in my signature.

Have a good visit with the boyfriend; have a safe trip and we'll see you Saturday night at the Dis meet (?).