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

[lacrosse_lady72]

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.

Thanks my hair is ridiculous! I love it but it sucks. Like me, it's of mutt origin. On my dads side, there is Hawaiian influenced by something Polynesian and my mom is French Canadian, Scotish, Greek, French and German... that we know of so I have thick hair that is curly that is a nightmare to straighten. It has to be completely dry and takes a very long time to dry.

I didn't know that about vibrate mode. I'll have to tweak things around a little bit, especially with 2 ring tones being "Please stand clear of the doors. Por favor blah blah blah..." and the music entering MK, they might get drowned out by the ACTUAL music

Good to know about Google maps too, I was planning on using it for our rental car day but I'm good with directions so a simple look at a paper map should do.

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

Thanks Tracy... haha snowboarding hair, that's funny!
I went bonkers when I saw $99. I was so happy, I really needed to start replacing the old ones I had... they're going on 4+ years and looking like it.

I wish Verizon had the iPhone already... I would toss the stupid BB out the window for greener pastures in a heartbeat. Lucky...

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

Thanks Kathy! OMG, so soooooon.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

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

Thanks!!! YAY I'm definitely going and I can't wait!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

OH YEAH!

I forgot, I got the Toy Story Mania for Wii and it's fun! Nothing like the ride but still kept me going for a couple of hours after work...

 

[Porturican]

Thanks my hair is ridiculous! I love it but it sucks. Like me, it's of mutt origin. On my dads side, there is Hawaiian influenced by something Polynesian and my mom is French Canadian, Scotish, Greek, French and German... that we know of so I have thick hair that is curly that is a nightmare to straighten. It has to be completely dry and takes a very long time to dry.

Ahhh I can totally see the Hawaiian/Polynesian in ya. You kinda remind me of a cousin I have in Honolulu that is Hawaiian/Polynesian, Japanese, Portugese.

Have fun on your trip maybe we will run into each other. I will be wearing a pin I made out of the lime green mickey head on my purse with my screen name. I leave Friday afternoon, but I wont be in the WDW area until Sat. (I get in by 11pm Friday & am staying at the Airport Marriot for the night since the rest of my family doesnt arrive till around 10am)

 

[disneygirlinnj]

Have a safe trip!! Maybe we'll run into each other at some point I'm hoping it cools down a little bit when we're all down there. It's supposed to cool down a lot up here so I'm crossing my fingers!

As for kanye? YES...enough already. we all already knew he was an idiot.

And Team Serena!!!

Oh...Empire State of Mind is by far my favorite song at the moment. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Ahhh I can totally see the Hawaiian/Polynesian in ya. You kinda remind me of a cousin I have in Honolulu that is Hawaiian/Polynesian, Japanese, Portugese.

Have fun on your trip maybe we will run into each other. I will be wearing a pin I made out of the lime green mickey head on my purse with my screen name. I leave Friday afternoon, but I wont be in the WDW area until Sat. (I get in by 11pm Friday & am staying at the Airport Marriot for the night since the rest of my family doesnt arrive till around 10am)

omg, I hope we run into each other! That sounds like a great plan, rest it up for sure... we west coasters definitely know how hard it is to adjust to east coast time, taking different traveling measures. I had honestly never thought about that that plan of yours... something to think about for Janauray

Have a safe trip!! Maybe we'll run into each other at some point I'm hoping it cools down a little bit when we're all down there. It's supposed to cool down a lot up here so I'm crossing my fingers!

As for kanye? YES...enough already. we all already knew he was an idiot.

And Team Serena!!!

Oh...Empire State of Mind is by far my favorite song at the moment. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Thanks I hope we will Jenn! And I'll ride with you on one of those rides your mom won't go on too... the only ones I have to worry about are RnR, Dinosaur, Space Mountain and Expedition Everest (front row)... but the only thing is that she's been on every one of those rides before but has sworn them off after... grr...

Lol, we knew Kanye was an idiot when he went off after Katrina when we was speaking with Mike Meyers, that expression on Shrek's (what I call him now) face was priceless! I still love his music though!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Theory on why the weekend of 9/26-9/27 is sold out at a lot of resorts...

I was talking to these customers I see often about Disney World since they mentioned they were leaving next week... I asked them if they had anything special planned or any ADRs they were looking forward to (before I realized not everyone DISes)... they told me the adult softball World Series was going on at the WWoS that weekend with 500 TEAMS!!!!!

OMG, I hope they all just play softball and don't go to any parks but I bet families will be coming along

Packet pick-up for the Expedition Everest Challenge will be fun... NOT!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

ohhhhh i totallllllyyyy forgot about expedition everest! Yikes! I'm crossing my fingers for low crowds. everyone thats there now or just getting back is amazed by no one there. PLEASE don't let anyone be there next week either!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Yay, so I'm at the airport right now, we're at the gate and waiting. Hooray for free wifi at PDX!

Not so much the flight to LAX, but the flight to MCO is one I am hoping has some kind of internet connection... crossing my fingers!

 

[Porturican]

omg, I hope we run into each other! That sounds like a great plan, rest it up for sure... we west coasters definitely know how hard it is to adjust to east coast time, taking different traveling measures. I had honestly never thought about that that plan of yours... something to think about for Janauray

Girllllllll I used priceline for my hotel that night and got a 3.5 star hotel (Marriot, just remodled) for only $40! so with tax I spent like $53.
You should look into it for future flights either late night flights or early morning flights. They offer a complimentry 24 hour shuttle to and from the hotel to the airport. So I am just going to head back to the airport when my family gets in and jump on ME to WDW! I wish we would of thought about it sooner for our flight home because my sister's flight is at 6am & mine is at 7:10am on the 26th but we already booked at ASMu for our last night. Oh well!

Have a safe flight & fun in the parks, I'll try n look for ya!
Oh BTW I hope that softball thing isnt true

 

[manntra]

Are you there yet? Are you there yet?

 

[disneygirlinnj]

hoping to run into you soon!

 

[Lynn5700]

Hey! Hope you are having a great time in Disney!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Hey all!!!

WOOOOO HOOOOO! We're at WDW right now. I'm sitting in our WL room as we speak. Everything has been absolutely wonderful, I don't know if I could ask for anything to turn out better.

I'm off to start a Trip Report... today has been a leisurely day and I have a little time to kill. A side note: I left my wireless mouse at home and I'm really not used to not having it so it may take me a little longer.

While I'm doing that enjoy a picture from a view of our room taken a few minutes ago:

ETA: DISers I've met so far:
crocko at DHS AM EMH on 9/19. Oddly enough I walked into line right behind him and his family.
KatMark at CSR on 9/19. Definitely worth the trek via bus over to CSR, Kathy and Mark are very nice people.
rosiep at CSR on 9/19. Only for a brief moment though.

 

[Lynn5700]

OOOOOH HI!!!!!!!!!

Awesome picture!!!! So pretty!

So cool you got to meet so many disers!! So cool you walked right into Crocko!!!

 

[jordanyosh]

WOW!!!!! What a great pic!

I'm glad you are having a great time!

 

[disneygirlinnj]

nice photo!! so glad you guys are having a great time and the weather is perfect! hoping it stays that way!!!!

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Hey all, thank you so much!

And yes, it really was a surprise running into him! I left my LGMHs at home like a dummy and he said he lost his. If I hadn't had the chance to see his son's LGMH we wouldn't have even known...

So the link to my Trip Report is in my signature but I thought I'd post the link here if anyone has signatures turned off:
http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2291292

 

[jordanyosh]

I'm glad you are running into some Disers! isn't it nice...

 

[KatMark]

Hey all!!!

WOOOOO HOOOOO! We're at WDW right now. I'm sitting in our WL room as we speak. Everything has been absolutely wonderful, I don't know if I could ask for anything to turn out better.

I'm off to start a Trip Report... today has been a leisurely day and I have a little time to kill. A side note: I left my wireless mouse at home and I'm really not used to not having it so it may take me a little longer.

While I'm doing that enjoy a picture from a view of our room taken a few minutes ago:

ETA: DISers I've met so far:
crocko at DHS AM EMH on 9/19. Oddly enough I walked into line right behind him and his family.
KatMark at CSR on 9/19. Definitely worth the trek via bus over to CSR, Kathy and Mark are very nice people.
rosiep at CSR on 9/19. Only for a brief moment though.

You are very kind. And you are a sweetheart and we truly enjoyed our visit with you! And we appreciate you making the trek over to us!
Enjoy the rest of your trip (I'll be doing my report when we get home from Marco on Tuesday).