A Halloween Adventure in Autism (11/12) New Thread Begun on TR Board!

[MRYPPNS]

Kathy

Hey! Where did you get the pictures of me and my friends?????

Sad thing is, I had one of those chairs that is in the first pic.

 

[DisMomAmy]

Hey! Where did you get the pictures of me and my friends?????

Sad thing is, I had one of those chairs that is in the first pic.

Hey - you stole my line!

 

[KathyRN137]

The joy of having a teenager -- you know they are going to change their minds daily from now until they have to make a decision!

You are right. Sigh.

Tricia came into the bathroom while I was helping Billy get washed up this morning, and proceded to read from her "list" of possible costume ideas.

I noticed the Ugly Stepsisters were at the bottom of the list, though. I don't think Tricia is crazy about looking ugly. Scary is acceptable, ugly is not.

I told her she and Catie had plenty of time to decide!!

Kathy

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Texting Tid-Bits...

So, as of bedtime.....

Catie likes the Evil Stepsisters idea, but Tricia doesn't want to wear a long dress on the rides....

Tricia wanted to stick with the 80's idea, but Catie said she thought it wasn't Disney enough....

Tricia doesn't want to look like everyone else. "Mom, I want us to be unique!"

I told her that so long as their costumes were age-appropriate, I did not mind what they decided and whether we all "matched" or not.

Then she thought it might be cool, er, "random" if all the girls dressed as flappers and the two boys were gangsters.... I had to point out that Billy was firmly decided upon being a pirate and not likely to change his mind.

Tricia is now thinking the girls should go as Wilma and Betty from the Flintstones!

They're going to change their minds a thousand times before the final decision is made!

The boys are so easy..... I'll probably stick with them and be their Pirate Queen!!

I can't believe I've got another seven months of this!!!!!


Kathy

You have got me wanting to try the MNSSHP!! It would be so much fun for the whole family to dress up & go. I remember a few years back, we were having dinner at 1900 Park Fare on the night of a MNSSHP & there was a family there, all dressed up. The father was the Hulk. Everyone else that we saw was a Disney character, except him. It was so funny to us because he was like trying to be all bad or whatever.

I don't think I could get my Dh to do it. I may talk to him about it and see how he feels. Since we changed our vacation to Sept, there are only two the week that we go.


Oh my goodness.... I had big hair in the 80's too!!!! I have to flat iron it now or it would still look like that!

 

[lorispeck]

Hi!

I sure have enjoyed your trip reports! Your kids are great and for all her quirks I think AR is about the cutest thing on the planet.

You and I are in the same Costuming For Teenage Girls boat, Kathy! My DD and her friend are tossing around ideas all the time. Right now they're leaning toward Creepy-But-Cute. How that works, I dunno, but I'm "old"! I told them that Creepy was OK. Gruesome is not allowed. Fortunately I don't have to worry about immodesty. Neither one of them wants to show more than they ought. Yours Truly isn't even going to *try* to coordinate with the girls! Keep us posted on the Great Costume Debate! it'll be fun to see what they finally come up with.

This is the first time we've vacationed at WDW with anyone else. Usually it's DH , DD and myself, The Planner And Knower Of All Things Disney <snerk!> . This time it will be the three of us plus Grandma , Grandpa , Kassy (DD's friend) and Susan who is Kassy's mom as well as my friend . We're one person short of a Grand Gathering. Hmmm. Why does that sound so much like One Brick Shy of a Full Load? Cuz we probably are, that's why! Let's just say that the mix of personalities will be interresting!

In any case I can hardly wait and I'm guessin' you can't either! Thanks for sharing your Adventures with us!

Lori, who cant for the life of her figure out how to replace "lorispeck" with something less boring in that little square of info that appears next to all her messages

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

I'm jumping on board. A little late, huh?!

I am so excited for you to go for Halloween! I loved MNSSHP!

It's going to take me a while to catch up...

 

[KathyRN137]

Hey! Where did you get the pictures of me and my friends?????

Ahh, memories!!

(I just went to photobucket and searched "big hair!"


Kathy

 

[KathyRN137]

Hi!

I sure have enjoyed your trip reports! Your kids are great and for all her quirks I think AR is about the cutest thing on the planet.


She is a sweetheart, really!


Yours Truly isn't even going to *try* to coordinate with the girls! Keep us posted on the Great Costume Debate! it'll be fun to see what they finally come up with.


I think I'm with you there!



This is the first time we've vacationed at WDW with anyone else. Usually it's DH , DD and myself, The Planner And Knower Of All Things Disney <snerk!> . This time it will be the three of us plus Grandma , Grandpa , Kassy (DD's friend) and Susan who is Kassy's mom as well as my friend .


My best tip is to break up the group when needed so that you can have some "together time" with your friends and some "alone time" with your family. It can be very stressful if you try to stay Velcro-ed together for the entire time!!

I'm glad you decided to come along for the ride!! (*Except, I thought that I was the Planner and Knower of All Things Disney!")


Kathy

 

[KathyRN137]

I am so excited for you to go for Halloween! I loved MNSSHP!

Your report was one of the reasons I got so excited about the party... I remember how much fun you guys had dressing up as the Clue game characters!!



Kathy

 

[KathyRN137]

Oh thanks for getting that song stuck in my head .

Tracy, if it makes you feel any better, I couldn't get it out of my head all night, either!!


Bill loves 80's Big Hair, right??

Kathy

 

[KathyRN137]

You have got me wanting to try the MNSSHP!!
I don't think I could get my Dh to do it. I may talk to him about it and see how he feels. Since we changed our vacation to Sept, there are only two the week that we go.

You know, if it's a question of the extra $$$, here's how I look at it....

Fuzzy Disney Math Alert!!

You can purchase the ticket and get into the MK as early as 4pm, even though the "official" start of the party is 7pm. The party goes until midnight, so that's eight hours of MK party time!

I'm not even going to buy park tickets for that day, just sleep a little later, swim and do resort-stuff, then we'll head over to the party at four.

The party ticket cost then acts as a "substitute" for your park ticket cost...

Makes perfectly good sense, right???

Kathy

 

[lorispeck]

Gotta love that Fuzzy Disney Math!

 

[lorispeck]

I'm glad you decided to come along for the ride!! (*Except, I thought that I was the Planner and Knower of All Things Disney!")


Kathy

How 'bout we share the title? Really though, I just meant for my family. However, I'm also a CM at our local Disney Store and when people come in with questions about the parks the rest of the CM-s send them to me! It's really fun not to mention a boost to the old ego.

Oh! I almost forgot! Thanks for the welcome!

~Lori, Co-Planner And Knower Of All Things Disney

 

[KathyRN137]

Animal Kingdom Villas ~ Kidani Village!!!

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Here's what happened...

You may recall that today, Monday, 3/30 was to be my original date to make our ressie... back before I knew there was a MNSSHP scheduled for Sunday, 11/1. I decided then to switch our vacation from Fri-Fri to Sat-Sat (for ease of transportation.)

We still plan to vacation 10/31-11/7... However...

Over the weekend I was reading a lot about the difficulty DVC members have been experiencing getting ressies at the 7 month window for non-home resorts that are HOT because they are so new:

Bay Lake Towers and Animal Kingdom Villas!

As fate would have it, these were my Top Two of Desired Resorts, mostly because of the second bathroom in the one-bedroom vacation home. (Two 13-yr old girls, remember!)

Anyway, I began to get nervous.

There are a lot of DVC owners from New Jersey and this is Jersey Week we're talking about! Not that I was afraid we wouldn't have a place to stay.... OKW and SSR were sure to have openings. But,

Been there, done that!!

And I wanted that 2nd bathroom!!

So, this morning I called precisely at 9am and made a ressie for Fri-Fri, thinking, "At least I'll get the bulk of my stay. Tomorrow I'll call back and switch to Sat-Sat." (Need that 7-month window before check-in.)

I asked for our first choice, Bay Lake Tower, standard view, and it was not available for all the dates.

Oh well. I was not going to get into that whole day-by-day waitlist situation that caused me so much agita back in '07, so I went on to our next choice....

Animal Kingdom Villas (Kidani Village) ~ Savanna View

(Had to be Kidani Village, not Jambo House.... these are the villas with the second bathroom and that can sleep five!)


It was available!!


Needless to say, I scooped it up!

Tomorrow, I will call early and change from Fri-Fri to Sat-Sat; I shouldn't have too much difficulty.

I'm sorry we didn't get BLT... poor Ed has been wanting to stay at the Contemporary for years... but it's okay. I really didn't think we would get it on our first try since it just opened, will be insanely popular, and it is not our home resort.

Someday, Honey!!

(Ed told me he'd be happy with AKV, so I'm not even going to bother with wait-listing... I'll just try for it again next time.)

Whew! I feel so relieved to finally know where we will be staying.... and I'm absolutely psyched about AKV!! We've never stayed at AKL before, so this will be our very first experience at the resort!

I just love, trying new Disney resorts!!!

However, please send for my call to Member Services tomorrow... we aren't completely settled until I can get that Friday night stay!!!


Thanks!!


Kathy

 

[moparop]

Woo hoo!! I've been wondering where you'd end up and that second bathroom with awesome with two tweens. And, AKL looks amazing too. Keeping my fingers crossed for tomorrow's phone call!

 

[kaysmommie]

On getting AKLV. I would love to stay there in the Kidani villas. they look amazing. I really wanted the person we rented points from to try and get us into that resort for May, but no luck with that. i also agree with your fuzzy Disney math. I did the same thing in October. That way we didn't have to get another days tickets and the kids could have a late character breakfast, swim and rest before the party. At your big 80's hair picture. I used to love those guys when I was 13.

 

[Hedy]

Woohoo! Enjoy the extra bathroom.

 

[winnapooh]

Congrats!! We love AKV (we own there and SSR), the ambience is just our thing, so nice and relaxed! We'll actually be staying in Jambo House that same week.

 

[irish dancer]

Congrats on scoring AKV!!

We stayed at Jambo House for our Oct trip, concierge no less. We didn't even book at 11mos, I was SHOCKED when they said it was available. We loved AKV and are looking forward to a few days in Kidani during our upcoming June trip. I know having that extra bathroom will be a Godsend. We're splitting betweek AKV and THV which we're also looking forward to because of the 3 bedrooms. All 3 kids will have their own bed so no griping about having to share especially DD12. Plus with the seclusion I won't have to worry about telling DS to turn down the volume, lol.

 

[DisMomAmy]

Congratulations!!

And Good Luck tomorrow!!

I would love to stay at a DVC resort!! I think I'll look into renting points for our next trip... next year??

My friend's parents are DVC owners - she and I may get to take a girls only DVC trip sometime... we'll see?? Right now they have more plans than they have points - so I may have to wait a while.