A Sister & Brother Return! AKL Bound! 8/1 Update pg. 46! AND WE'RE OFF!!

[Nicole786]

How cute?! When was that?!

Carnival cruise, I believe it was 1997 or 1998

 

[declansdad]

cute picture!

 

[MeMom]

Very sweet brother-sister picture. You look like two pretty decent kiddos!

I love to look back at pictures of my kids and just remember the whole event that was taking place - sights, sounds, and silly things that were being done and said. We've had our share of trauma, but through it all, there have been those smiling faces to make all the pain go away.

Some day you'll be looking at a picture like that of your own kids, and then you'll really realize how special you and David are to your parents. I love seeing Jill with Brooklynn, as they grow into that special parent-child bond, knowing she now can understand the love I have always had for her.

I get to see them this weekend. John's going to try to patch a hole in my awning that a squirrel is using to get into my attic. (I need the squirrel to go find another resort other than my attic!) When I talked to Jill on the phone yesterday, she and Brooklynn were driving home from work. Brooklynn was in the back seat looking out the window and saying 'winnow' over and over. Just hearing her little voice brings me happiness. Even if I don't see them for just two weeks, she changes so much - getting more cognizant and verbal every day.

Thanks for sharing that picture of you and David. You were fortunate to have been brought up enjoying Disney with each other, and you're blessed to be able to continue that together as adults.

 

[KatGarcia]

Hello! I just found the link in your siggie while reading another thread! I'm in for this one! I'm loving the trip within a trip too! Charlie sounds like the awesomest friend to go with to WDW! And you rock for doing such nice things for your bro! He is gonna die when you get to BC! I so love the NYC WoD store! I need to go over there again one of these days, the character stuff upstairs is the best part!

 

[Nicole786]

cute picture!

thanks

Very sweet brother-sister picture. You look like two pretty decent kiddos!

I love to look back at pictures of my kids and just remember the whole event that was taking place - sights, sounds, and silly things that were being done and said. We've had our share of trauma, but through it all, there have been those smiling faces to make all the pain go away.

Some day you'll be looking at a picture like that of your own kids, and then you'll really realize how special you and David are to your parents. I love seeing Jill with Brooklynn, as they grow into that special parent-child bond, knowing she now can understand the love I have always had for her.

I get to see them this weekend. John's going to try to patch a hole in my awning that a squirrel is using to get into my attic. (I need the squirrel to go find another resort other than my attic!) When I talked to Jill on the phone yesterday, she and Brooklynn were driving home from work. Brooklynn was in the back seat looking out the window and saying 'winnow' over and over. Just hearing her little voice brings me happiness. Even if I don't see them for just two weeks, she changes so much - getting more cognizant and verbal every day.

Thanks for sharing that picture of you and David. You were fortunate to have been brought up enjoying Disney with each other, and you're blessed to be able to continue that together as adults.

Aw brooklynn's talking!! I hope to bring my kids up to love disney like you and my parents have

Hello! I just found the link in your siggie while reading another thread! I'm in for this one! I'm loving the trip within a trip too! Charlie sounds like the awesomest friend to go with to WDW! And you rock for doing such nice things for your bro! He is gonna die when you get to BC! I so love the NYC WoD store! I need to go over there again one of these days, the character stuff upstairs is the best part!

welcome to the party!!! I have to go to WoD one more time before i leave for florida! I can't wait to surprise david with the beach club!!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

I thought you guys might enjoy this!

So cute!!!

 

[Nicole786]

So cute!!!

thanks!

 

[Nicole786]

Sorry its been a few days! Whats going on everyone? I got my date to go home and I cant wait! It's may 12th!! And guess what else I got!!

I'm so excited!! Ive wanted one for a while and I was planning on selling my Wii because I have one at home, and this guy was trying to sell his PS3 for a wii...well long story short, I paid him a litle bit extra and got myself a sealed Playstation 3!!! This is where the sneakiness came in...I knew I had to ship it home and being the starving college student I am...I took the sealed PS3 over to best buy...told them I had recieved it as a gift and wanted store credit...I then took my store credit over to bestbuy.com and ordered it online and shipped it home! I know, I know its sneaky, but a broke girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!!

So hows everyone making out with free dining?? I was kind of hoping that someone out there with a preferred pop century room would be switching there dates but so far no luck I know when we're at pop century its going to be busy as all hell, but I hope that by the time we hit the beach club we're a little closer to free dining and therefore maybe it will be less crowded because people decided to wait?? what do you think??

 

[pooksma]

Ooooo

Smart thinking!

 

[natale1980]

Way cool surprise!! Now I wanna do one!!! hummmmmm....

-nat

 

[Nicole786]

Ooooo

Smart thinking!

I can be sneaky... I can't wait to get home and play that thing already!! It should be home in FL on Thursday..I won't be home in FL until May 12th!

Way cool surprise!! Now I wanna do one!!! hummmmmm....

-nat

THanks for joining us, I just love your TR! Surprises are so great, I'm hoping david has a great reaction!

 

[Nicole786]

Here are the pictures of the what the itinerary cards look like at this point. For those inerested, what I do is I make them as individual slides in a PowerPoint-Like program called Keynote:

that way if i decide to print them, I can print them in a notecard size and take them to the park! So here is the first one, the main one. Its a quick overview of everything, so that way If i need to make some changes I can visually see the impact (i'm a visual learner) it makes it easier than changing it on the cards because than I can see the rest of the week too!

Next up, we have the card design for the Hard Rock stay when we will be at Universal!

Next we have our stay at Pop:

As you can see by now, the cards theme is just based on the hotel, but then info is what we're doing that day

And lastly, we have the Beach Club:

Of course this Keynote file is FMEO (for my eyes only) but I have a seperate one that omits all the Beach Club info because David likes to have a copy of this on his computer too, so I sent him a decoy!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

You're so sneaky, with the decoy cards!

I love those itinerary cards. You are so creative. I wish I knew how to use a computer for more than email, word-processing, and DISing!

 

[Nicole786]

You're so sneaky, with the decoy cards!

I love those itinerary cards. You are so creative. I wish I knew how to use a computer for more than email, word-processing, and DISing!

Thanks!! Its really very simple with the cards because its all "Oh look that button makes a square!" I didn't know computers were able to do anything but connect straight to the DIS!

 

[stagemomx3]

I've been lurking here, I thought I'd let you know I was here.

 

[Nicole786]

I've been lurking here, I thought I'd let you know I was here.

aw, thanks!

 

[Nicole786]

Check out this awesome tee I just bought!

Perfect for animal kingdom right??

 

[MeMom]

Check out this awesome tee I just bought!

Perfect for animal kingdom right??

Very cute. Perfect for Animal Kingdom day.

Have David take a picture of you on the safari as you go by the giraffe section. Or by the tall giraffe that's holding the AFRICA sign in its mouth.

Isn't it fun to buy things that you know you'll be wearing on your trip?!?!?

 

[Nicole786]

More mini trip report! Lets finish where we started: MK EMH! until 3AM!

After wishes we decided to split up because I really wanted to see Spectro Magic and charlie didn't...i walked in the main street shop and bought a few things for my moms car and a surprise pin set so I could trade with a CM..when I walked Main street was still deserted so I plopped down next to a family and waited for spectro to start! Can i just say that i love charlie to death, i mean he's one of my best friends, but i really enjoyed the alone time it made me wonder about the possibilities if i could have broken away from my cousins in sept 07...and contemplate a solo trip! the only person (and i'm being honest) that i dont think id need a break from is david! but anyway, i got some pretty good shots of spectro! here we are tonight, a symphony of spectro magic...

G]

After the show I caught up with charlie who told me he went to swiss family tree house and got some cool pictures from the top...now that we were back together we talked game plan. we walked over to fantasyland and went on phillharmagic before scoring the only fast passes left which were for pooh, so now we had fast passes for space mountain, splash mountain, and pooh! so whats left to do but ride them?

We went on splash for the second time and had the ride to ourselves! charlies funny photopass picture he says is of him looking angry because it was cold...i thought he was looking at his watch to fake that he was bored and the drop meant nothing! either way its funny!

we went to fantasyland standing on the 30 minute peter pan ride and than not waiting on any other ride there (doesn't that just amaze you!)

walked over to toontown and went through all the different houses. we were there so late we actually saw them shut down toontown.

we found this hidden path near the train to walk back to tomorrowland and went on a ride i had never been on which was the astro orbiter!!

okay never again!! not only did they try and squish us into one rocket (not fun at all) but it went waay too fast! i thought it would be a nice slow calm ride like dumbo! its not

Since space mountain was still shut down for some reason, we walked through the castle and back into fantasyland where we used our pooh FP and got to ride some other no-line attractions like small world

Back over to tomorrowland, space mountain was finally open!! Yay! We had to wait on a line that was about 20 minutes but boy was charlie excited to be on his favorite ride!

We than took some castle picures, and about 2:45 we headed to the buses! what a long day!

 

[SwansLoveDisney]

You guys are champs, staying at MK till 3 a.m. Sounds like a fun night!

I've never been on the Astro Orbiter either.

I can't believe you had the whole ride to yourselves on Splash! That's awesome!