Good for you! Just stinks that you have been trained to have low expectations..... I guess the good thing about it is that if you get assigned someplace great you'll be really excited!
Well, Carissa, it took me eleven months but I'm finally here!!
I'm going back to the beginning so I will see you later, much...
Kathy! Glad you're here. 
Avisitor
RATS I was hoping it was me being invited!
Kathy, you even leave cliffhangers in other people's PTR's.
Carissa, good luck on the orders. Your trip is so close now, you must be so excited!!
Not the kind I'm referring to. 
I MADE IT!!!!
YAHOOTY!!!!
but I'm not caught up yet
You still luv me though? eh? right? heh heh
Just pick up from here. The PTR won't be too much longer anyway! Glad you're here Heidi. And I love the picture in your signature. 
We will not be at WDW with you guys Carissa! We are leaving NEXT Wednesday, we had to change it all on very short notice! I just got through making all those dining ressies AGAIN!!! 
But, I didn't get Chef Mickey's, Cali Grill, or Crystal Palace. 
I knew I probably wouldn't when we moved the trip up two weeks! DH wants to go snow skiing again this year, and he was running out of ski season..so we bumped the WDW trip up and he's going skiing first week of April.
What a Surprise!!!
The days of our lives!@!! Now, I have ONE week to get ready!!!!!!!
Hey Carissa,
Finally got caught up, just in time for the trip report to start
Did you get as leash for the guest your taking?
heehee, I love all the mystery about the visitor...
Happy March 3rd C, only 3.5 weeks to go, right?!?!
I think I know who the surprise visitor is.
Even if you don't get caught up at all I have lots of luv for ya.
Hey Carissa,
Finally got caught up, just in time for the trip report to start
Did you get as leash for the guest your taking?
I think I know who the surprise visitor is.
You're gonna tell us who the visitor is soon, right??????
We did get snow. Around 2 inches I think. We had our 3rd snow day of the year and then 2 hour delay today (pretty much like you guys). I hope we're done with snow now! I'm ready for spring! Looks like it's going to be in the 70's this weekend.
Aww...shucks...you're the bestest
I see you're taking a trip to Europe this year! I'm very jealous.
At the end I will add some new comments.
(when you're all together, that is)? I would imagine the majority of households have the husband/father doing most of the driving. I know men usually like to be in charge of their machines. In our family, things are done a tad differently. 
). My husband has been in a few accidents . Therefore, I tend to complain about his driving when I'm in the passenger seat. This tends to make my husband a smidge angry 
. In order to keep peace during our long drive to DW, I will do most of the driving.
. When I know we are going to be traveling, I will forego my cup o' joe. Do you know what coffee does? It's a diuretic (in layman's terms, it makes you pee). My bladder is about the size of a thimble to begin with . If I drink coffee or water (who am I kidding? if I even think about liquid!), we will be stopping every five minutes to find a restroom 
. My boys all have great holding abilities. The pee breaks are for moi. However, we have been known to use an empty water bottle for my DS5 if we couldn't make it to a bathroom in time. . We've recently begun having issues with our stereo/cd player. It keeps seizing up on us. Thankfully, dh has figured out how to reboot it and we've also figured out the main issue is the cd player. But, if this machine stops working on our trip, we're screwed 
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with Cap'n Jack Sparrow 
. You can pretend the noise escalating in your van is actually the sound of tropical birds playing a concert for just the two of you. Put the window down a bit and let the breeze blow through your hair as you imagine the wind off the waves lightly blowing sand over your entwined bodies.... I prefer driving new routes so that everything I see is new and exciting. But, knowing our travels will be taking us closer to Disney World makes it all worth it. It really isn't that bad. We'll have a few moments here and there of difficulties, but overall, really not bad. 
and a book for when we're not driving. I will probably bring a notebook and pen as well to jot down ideas and takes notes along the way (so that I can remember to write about them once I return!). We'll have snacks, of course . 
). I was amazed at how well that trip went. While we were living in Australia, we drove from Alice Springs to Kangaroo Island (that means nothing to most of you). That was well over 20 hours (and actually, you can't drive to Kangaroo Island...you take a ferry for part of the way). 
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I'll be sure to take some pictures of the boys putting stickers on our calendar and post them. 
) it's a tough one to put into practice! 
