An almost-girly trip ~ February 2009 TR!

What a busy year you have had!!! The whale watching looks like so much fun! I would love to do that sometime! Salem looks like a lot of fun, too! I love historical places, and I just know that Chelsea and Connor would love Salem with all of the witchcraft history! I remember reading The Crucible in high school so that's where most of my knowledge of the trials comes from. I got all teary-eyed reading about your doggie reunion -- but you know what a soft spot I have for puppies! I am sure 2009 will be just as busy for you!
 
The whale watching was so much fun, I'm definitely doing it again over the summer!

Salem is soooo nice. We like to go there and do touristy stuff sometimes, and then other times just walk around and eat lunch somewhere. I think that Chelsea and Connor would love it, too, because there's museums, plays, and LOTS of shops. One time we actually encountered a group of actors, but we were on the trolley just passing by, so I can't remember what they were reenacting.

The doggie reunion was so much fun. We went the year before, too, but didn't stay for long, because it was really hot and humid, and the place that it was held at had NO shade. I felt gross just standing there. :scared: It was much cooler at this one, since it was right on the water. When we got home, we stepped out of the van and just went, "WOW, is it hot here!" :rotfl:
 
Happy New Year to you, too!!! I hope that you had a great night and that the coming year treats you well.

I KNOW! I'm soooo excited to be saying that. :dance3: And, I realized that when I go back to school on the 22nd, I'll have just under three weeks until we leave!




Thanks--Happy New Year to you, too!!

It was an awesome Christmas. How was yours? And your New Years?

I forgot that you are going! I'm hopefully going to come back with tons of pictures that I can post for everyone going later on. Will you do a TR?

Christmas was hard, we had a death in the family, so that has cut back on my DIS time. Patrick and I both started new jobs, which also has decreased my DIS time...everything seems to decrease my DIS time! New Years was better...we went out to dinner then we went to my aunt's house to watch a movie. I've been thinking about doing a TR but I haven't made a final decision. I may start one towards the end of this week since classes start next week and I will want to start it before I get too busy. When do classes start back up for you?
 
I'm sorry to hear that you had a death in the family. :hug:

Your New Years sounds just like mine--we had chinese food and watched a couple of movies. It snowed quite a bit, so I couldn't have gone OUT, out, even if I wanted to.

I start classes next week as well, but I only have one next week--the school opens back up next Tuesday, but my classes are on Mondays and Thursdays. I'm looking forward to the classes but I always hate the first week or two, because I like being in the routine and knowing my classmates better.

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Today was an important day, because it is exactly ONE MONTH until we leave!! :dance3: I am looking forward to a reprieve from the crazy weather that we've been having. We got about five inches of snow last night, in addition to the ice that never had a chance to melt. I believe that this week is supposed to be the coldest week we've had so far; something like highs in the teens or low 20's, and lows in the single digits. I just looked at the weather in Lake Buena Vista, and it's highs in the 60's and low 70's. Oh boy, I'm hoping that we have that kind of weather. :lovestruc

I'm still not sure where my camera cord is, but in honor of being one month out from our trip, I'm going to post some from our April trip. Between my mom's camera and mine, there's a lot.

I didn't really get any pictures of Kailyn's and my futures--these were the only ones that came out.

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I really thought that this was a person. I thought that there was someone standing behind me, but no, it was this. I hate mannequins, they freak me out.

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I'm not really tall, but Donald is teeny!

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I was trying to take a picture of my "creepy smile" and freak out Kailyn. I'll guess that Kailyn wasn't impressed. :cutie:

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I posted a picture at the stare of the report of my mom and I demonstrating the "right" way to sit on the monorail. This is why.

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That's my dad going over the seat, FYI.

When we ate at 50's PTC, my dad asked for another drink. I said, "I'll have another Coke too, please." Since I said "too" he brought me two.

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When we ate here a few years ago, my dad, getting into the spirit of the place, asked for another drink, but to make it quick because he was "really, really thirsty." Our server brought him out a whole pitcher, with a straw. My mom told him that he had to drink the whole thing, and he did. At the end of the meal, our server was shocked that he drank it all, and my dad, who had apparently gotten who said what mixed up in his head, told her that she had told him to drink it all. She was like, "I didn't tell you that, your wife told you that!" I think that she also apologized to us in advance because he'd probably be checking out all the bathrooms. :lmao: He likes to check out the bathrooms, anyway, but that's a different story.

My mom, Kailyn, and I got back to the room one time to find Dad sleeping like this. It looks like he just fell on to the bed and passed out. :laughing:

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This is not trip-related, but I had to post it. I got my hair cut yesterday--I think I had like five inches cut off.

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It's a crappy camera phone self-portrait, but I had to take it because I wanted to send it to Facebook to document how perfect my hair looked. It won't look like that again until I get it cut again. It's a little bit shorter when it's not straightened, but I love it and I almost want to get more cut off. :rolleyes: Maybe before we leave next month... :idea:
 

Hurray for one month!!! :banana:

That picture of your dad going over the seat of the monorail is cracking me up!!! :lmao:

Your hair looks fantastic! :thumbsup2
 
Love the hair cut! You actually look alot like my sister in that shot. :cool1: for one month!! Been on the treadmill to get in walking shape for the trip, and to slim down(yeah right:lmao: ) for the weight gained on DDP. Last time I gained 4lbs and my husband 7. But that was when they also included appitizers. Kind of wish that they included appitizers and not desserts. Thats where we have trouble:rotfl: . You made me laugh with the maniquin- my sons say the exact same thing. Picture a 5 year old saying the Santa maniquin "freaks me out". He's too funny. Keep up the updates!
 
Hurray for one month!!! :banana:

That picture of your dad going over the seat of the monorail is cracking me up!!! :lmao:

Your hair looks fantastic! :thumbsup2

:rotfl: Glad you like the picture of my dad. He and my brother were going nuts with no one else in our car. We are convinced that Disney has secret "wanted" signs and that our faces are plastered all over them.

Thanks--I really like it! It's soooo much easier to deal with.

Love the hair cut! You actually look alot like my sister in that shot. :cool1: for one month!! Been on the treadmill to get in walking shape for the trip, and to slim down(yeah right:lmao: ) for the weight gained on DDP. Last time I gained 4lbs and my husband 7. But that was when they also included appitizers. Kind of wish that they included appitizers and not desserts. Thats where we have trouble:rotfl: . You made me laugh with the maniquin- my sons say the exact same thing. Picture a 5 year old saying the Santa maniquin "freaks me out". He's too funny. Keep up the updates!

Thanks so much!

Can you believe it's coming up so soon?! I need to take a picture of my door with all the Mickey heads missing. I also need to go liberate a couple of more to make a tag for me and a tag for my mommy.

:lmao: That's so funny about your son! They really do freak me out. Not as much as clowns, though. I'm 24 and still afraid of clowns.
 
New to this thread and I'm seeing great pics here. Hopefully I can also share my pics soon. :)

Have a nice day everyone. :)
 
I start classes next week as well, but I only have one next week--the school opens back up next Tuesday, but my classes are on Mondays and Thursdays. I'm looking forward to the classes but I always hate the first week or two, because I like being in the routine and knowing my classmates better.


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Good luck on all of your classes. Take good notes and don't let your mind wander! ;)

On our 2005 trip, we made Trent stand by a mood ring to have his picture made. He doesn't do well when he's tired, so he had been in a bad mood a time or two. We thought a picture by a mood ring was appropriate. He didn't even realize what we were doing. We just told him to 'stand over there', and he did. It's a private joke between Jill and me....and several hundred Disers.
 
Hey Meghan,

I just noticed your PTR link, I have some catching up to do! Subbing now so I can find it again :laughing:

Can't wait to hear all your plans!

ETA: hey, I just saw reference to me on page 1! I feel so honored! :) Country Bear Jamboree :thumbsup2
 
New to this thread and I'm seeing great pics here. Hopefully I can also share my pics soon. :)

Have a nice day everyone. :)

Welcome!! Thanks for reading :goodvibes


Good luck on all of your classes. Take good notes and don't let your mind wander! ;)

On our 2005 trip, we made Trent stand by a mood ring to have his picture made. He doesn't do well when he's tired, so he had been in a bad mood a time or two. We thought a picture by a mood ring was appropriate. He didn't even realize what we were doing. We just told him to 'stand over there', and he did. It's a private joke between Jill and me....and several hundred Disers.

Thanks--I'm going to try so hard to be good! No making lists, pretending to take notes. :rolleyes1

That's hilarious about Trent! My dad sometimes refers to me as "Morning Meg." It came up a few years ago--my cousin (who lives downstairs from me) was playing basketball in the driveway at 7 AM, and our driveway is right outside and below my room. It was my day to sleep in and I was really annoyed, so I went outside and asked him to stop. When I got back upstairs, my dad said, "Eric met Morning Meg?" So now that's what I'm referred to when I'm mad or it's too early for me.

Nice hair!

Thanks so much!

Hey Meghan,

I just noticed your PTR link, I have some catching up to do! Subbing now so I can find it again :laughing:

Can't wait to hear all your plans!

ETA: hey, I just saw reference to me on page 1! I feel so honored! :) Country Bear Jamboree :thumbsup2

Hi Katie!!! Thanks for reading!

Yup, I added it after reading your report! According to my mother, we saw it, but I can't remember, so I need to refresh my memory. ;)

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I found my camera cord! I finally remembered to ask my dad, and he said, "the kind you plug in to your computer?" Yes. "Oh, just check in the kitchen cabinet. I found a bunch of cords and rolled them up and put them in there." I opened the door, and my cord was the first one that I saw. The kitchen cabinet is not a place that I would have looked on my own, and I wish that I had asked my dad sooner, but now I can finally share pictures!

These first two are from Christmas.

Kailyn got a teeny-tiny stapler,

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and a giant calculator.

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The giant calculator is one of the two things that she asked for for Christmas. The other thing was a claddagh ring. She kills me.

Now, on to the 1994 Disney pictures!

We went to Universal Studios once or twice as well, since this was back when we rented a car. I had to take a picture of the parking ticket. Five bucks?? Does anyone know much it costs now?

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We were down there for my tenth birthday--I got this!

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My dad and I at the Hoop Dee Doo revue.

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Kailyn at 14 months old. She's turning 16 next month.

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This is where my wooden indian obsession began, apparently. Here I am at 10 years old in 1994,

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and at 24 years old in 2008.

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Mikey and I at Chef Mickey's. This was pretty much the only way that you were guaranteed a picture with characters without 18 other kids in your picture.

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I wish I knew where in Epcot this store was.

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I took this picture of an entire page in the album, just to show what it was like before character attendants--it was pretty much a free for all. This was at MGM.

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Me, my dad, and Mike on Splash Mountain. Michael had the exact same expression on his face each time that we rode this. He was almost seven at the time of our first trip. We know that he liked it, despite the look of sheer terror on his face, because he was always willing to go on it.

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This was at MGM. Note my stripes and polka-dot attire. That was an outfit that came as a set, and I LOVED it.

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Not sure where this was taken. That's me sitting to the left in the pink sundress, pink water shoes, holding a bright pink camera. I think I was in a mood. :blush:

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I went to Target today for the sake of purchasing a corkboard. I have one in my room, but I want another one, because I plan on buying some pins when we go down. I'm not going to go crazy (at least, I'm gonna try not to.) I think I'll do something like MeMom and purchase a pin from Pop Century, a pin from each park, and one pin of each of my favorite rides. If I find any Nightmare Before Christmas or Wall-E pins, I might have to make an exception for those. My mom got me really cool Jack Skellington pin for Christmas--his head even turns from happy to mad! So far, my pin corkboard only has that pin, and my birthday button from last year. I can't wait to buy some. My dad got my mom, Kailyn, and I each two $25 Disney gift cards, so I know where most of mine will probably go.

Have a great night!
 
Awwww! Cute pics of you and your siblings! I'm thinking of buying a few pins when we go in March, but a few pins usually turns into a bunch when we hit the store at Downtown...
 
Awwww! Cute pics of you and your siblings! I'm thinking of buying a few pins when we go in March, but a few pins usually turns into a bunch when we hit the store at Downtown...

You could easily get carried away on the pin thing. That's why I had to make some rules for myself.



Meghan - You got an awesome card, since it's from a whole gang of characters!

Your outfit looks just like some of Jill's. I remember well the stripes and huge dots and lots of black and pink and lime green.

I also remember the days of gathering around the characters and hoping for the best!
 
Great vintage pics!!! I plan on sharing some of mine on my PTR at some point!

Thank you! I can't wait to see some of yours!


Awwww! Cute pics of you and your siblings! I'm thinking of buying a few pins when we go in March, but a few pins usually turns into a bunch when we hit the store at Downtown...

Thank you!

I made a list of the pins that I plan to buy, in the hopes that I will stick to it. I wrote a reminder to myself on there just in case I'm tempted to go too crazy--basically reminding myself that I DO have a car that I'm still paying the loan on. Hoping it works. :rolleyes:


You could easily get carried away on the pin thing. That's why I had to make some rules for myself.



Meghan - You got an awesome card, since it's from a whole gang of characters!

Your outfit looks just like some of Jill's. I remember well the stripes and huge dots and lots of black and pink and lime green.

I also remember the days of gathering around the characters and hoping for the best!

Thanks--I love that card! It was so exciting to come back to.

I loved that black and white polka dots and stripes outfit. I love looking at some of the outfits. I didn't take any pictures of my dad and Michael wearing shorts with the socks that went up to their knees, but I remember that look fondly. :rotfl: I need to check and see if that was when Michael also had his Hammer (as in MC Hammer) pants--the crazy, patterned pants that were tight at the ankles and really baggy up top. I know that Charles and his brother did, but they called them crazy pants.

I don't know exactly what trip the character attendants came into action, but I remember going in 1996, during the Toy Story craziness, and Buzz and Woody were the only ones with an organized line. I remember being really surprised by it because no one else had that.

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We have 26 days left until we leave!!!!!

I took a picture of my updated countdown. I also took a picture of my sad Disney pin corkboard, but I need to charge the battery before I can upload.

Speaking of pins, I made a list of the pins that I intend to buy. One from each park, one from Pop Century, and one of each of my favorite rides:

Expedition: Everest
Spaceship Earth
Tower of Terror
Splash Mountain
Soarin'
Haunted Mansion
Journey into the Imagination (I can't help it, I love it. :blush: )
It's A Small World

I wrote a reminder to myself at the bottom of the paper--"too many pins = sad car!!! Stick to the list!!!" I got my car almost three years ago, and I'm still paying off the loan. I need my car for work and school, so I'm sure that this will work for me. If that doesn't, I don't know what will.

I also decided that I will make two exceptions when it comes to my pin purchasing. If I see two pins that are not from Pop, a ride, or each of the parks, I'll buy them, but I'm only allowing myself two of these. I'm not going to let one of those be a Nightmare Before Christmas one, because I already have the awesome Jack Skellington one that my mommy put in my stocking. So, two non-park, non-ride, non-Pop Century, non-NBC pins.

In order to have souvenir money besides the gift cards from my dad, I've been hoarding my change. I have a vitamin water bottle filled with change, and a little more in a cup. I'm going to go to Coinstar the day before we leave and cash it in. Some people hate change; I love it. Into the bottle or the cup it goes. :teeth:

Have a great weekend!
 
Wow, can you believe we have only 25 days left:cool1: I can't wait. It is zero degrees out and about 20 degrees below windchill. :sad1: Can't wait for some warm Florida weather. Although I think it is not that great there now, but way better than here. I have so much to do before we go. Both boys went thru a growth spurt after Christmas (glad I bought them all those clothes as presents:lmao: ) and need to make sure they have jeans that reach below their ankles. Cool about the pins. We have a few people have given the boys. I loved the old pics. I have some from when my husband and I went when we first met. I was still in high school and the hairdos are quite :rotfl: .Good luck getting back to classes.
 
:cool1: You have less than a month now!!!:cool1:

Glad you found the cord, I hate searching for something only to find out someone knew where it was all along, if I only asked. My DMom says if it goes into my room it disappers forever. (My room is small and not always organized and tidy) :blush:

Very fun to look back on trips and clothes way back when. You looked very cute. In the summer of 1994 I became pregnant with DS. I laughed when I saw pics of your sisters stroller. At the time you could only buy pastel colors and I wasn't going to push my son in a girly stroller. My parents spent a fortune on a navy one I saw in a specialty store. How silly of me, but I loved it. They would never make a baby blue/pink sroller now. So it was a sign of the times. The fashion was very funky and bright back then. Wow, I remember Hammer pants, I had a few pair. Yes, even girls wore them. I thought I was soo cute back in high school. :rotfl: I would buy all these 'cool' clothes when we went to Florida for spring break each year, that no one here had. I thought I was so stylish and I guess back then I was. ;)

Cute hair cut, very pretty. :thumbsup2

You must have very few Mickey heads on your door now. :cheer2:
 
Wow, can you believe we have only 25 days left:cool1: I can't wait. It is zero degrees out and about 20 degrees below windchill. :sad1: Can't wait for some warm Florida weather. Although I think it is not that great there now, but way better than here. I have so much to do before we go. Both boys went thru a growth spurt after Christmas (glad I bought them all those clothes as presents:lmao: ) and need to make sure they have jeans that reach below their ankles. Cool about the pins. We have a few people have given the boys. I loved the old pics. I have some from when my husband and I went when we first met. I was still in high school and the hairdos are quite :rotfl: .Good luck getting back to classes.

I can't believe some of the crazy weather that you guys have out there! It hasn't been super cold here for a few days, luckily. It snowed on Sunday, about 6", I think, and then it snowed overnight and dumped another 6". I was cleaning off my car today before work and just reminding myself of where I'll be in a few short weeks!!!! We'll both be three weeks away as of Wednesday! :banana:

I love seeing old pics, especially because I like to look at the clothes and hairstyles. I really love the pictures of my dad and Mike, especially, because Mike tended to dress just like him--shorts, t-shirts, and socks pulled up to the knees. :rotfl2:

:cool1: You have less than a month now!!!:cool1:

Glad you found the cord, I hate searching for something only to find out someone knew where it was all along, if I only asked. My DMom says if it goes into my room it disappers forever. (My room is small and not always organized and tidy) :blush:

Very fun to look back on trips and clothes way back when. You looked very cute. In the summer of 1994 I became pregnant with DS. I laughed when I saw pics of your sisters stroller. At the time you could only buy pastel colors and I wasn't going to push my son in a girly stroller. My parents spent a fortune on a navy one I saw in a specialty store. How silly of me, but I loved it. They would never make a baby blue/pink sroller now. So it was a sign of the times. The fashion was very funky and bright back then. Wow, I remember Hammer pants, I had a few pair. Yes, even girls wore them. I thought I was soo cute back in high school. :rotfl: I would buy all these 'cool' clothes when we went to Florida for spring break each year, that no one here had. I thought I was so stylish and I guess back then I was. ;)

Cute hair cut, very pretty. :thumbsup2

You must have very few Mickey heads on your door now. :cheer2:

Yup, we have almost 3 weeks left now!

I'm glad that you liked the pictures. I'm going to try to post a few more, like the posed ones that we have--we went to Universal, too, and have pictures from a Godzilla thing and (I think) a Jurassic Park thing. I have to ask before posting those, though, because my mom's in them. :wave2: Michael didn't get into them because he was pretty shy and stubborn, but my sister was in them, in her stroller. We all looked fake-scared and she was just hanging out in her stroller and smiling. :rotfl:

Thanks for the compliment about my haircut--I still love it. I don't think I can ever grow it out as long as it was before.

Very few Mickey heads!!! I need to take another picture because the last one I took was a few days ago so there are fewer heads now.

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I just have to post about a very strange Disney dream that I had last night. It was one of those dreams that I woke up from thinking, "what was THAT?"

It was pretty similar to a dream that I had not long ago, in which I was talking to MeMom while on a Disney bus, but in Boston. In that dream, I was trying to describe her to where I lived, and saying, "you know when you're on the bus to MGM [I still refer to it as MGM in real life] and you pass by the Union Oyster House?" We were also passing through some rural, but strange, parts of the greater Boston area, where is around where I live. Then, I was in Disney, but it wasn't like the real Disney. The details on that one are foggy now, but the dream from last night was pretty similar to that one.

In last night's dream, I was at the Pop bus stop with my parents and Kailyn. We had originally planned on going to DHS, but saw that the bus stop was incredibly crowded. (I think that that part came from a conversation with my mom last night--we were discussing how David Cook might be at DHS for the American Idol experience opening, and how we don't want to be anywhere NEAR DHS that day.) We saw a bus for Epcot coming, and my mom asked, "you want to just go there instead?" We agreed, and hopped on the bus. Kailyn and I were really giddy and squealing, which is what we normally feel like when we step on to that first (and second and third and fourth) Disney bus. So, we were on the bus, when suddenly my mother asks, "do you remember these busses taking us through neighborhoods?" I looked out the window, and sure enough, we were in some strange neighborhoods, just driving around. I forget what exactly happened next, but we hit a pothole, or something, and the entire bus lurched. Then, the bus driver was saying, "easy, easy...lets ease out slowly."

I guess that we made it to the park, because I remember getting off the bus and telling my parents and Kailyn, "I can't WAIT to write about this in my report!" :lmao:

I'm used to having weird dreams, but some of them, like last night's, just makes me wonder what's going on in my mind. :rotfl:
 
As for the first dream, I have never been to Boston, so it had to be a different MeMom. :rotfl:

The second one - I've dreamed the same kind of thing. I wanted to get somewhere good or important or by a certain time, and there were all kinds of weird obstacles to doing that! I can totally picture the dream of looking out and discovering you were in the wrong place and having the strange/terrible feeling that something was just not right! I think I could keep a dream interpreter in business for quite a while.

In reality, in just a few weeks you are going to have a surreal feeling when you are standing in the sunshine and warmth waiting for a bus to take you on your first ride into a park. It's going to be a dream of a different kind, and it'll be a very nice one!

P.S. I predict that there will be no snow in this dream that is about to come real.

I know... I'm a pretty amazing future-teller, huh? :)
 












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