Booked a month off to go to WDW, think that's enough?

[Shir Kahn]

Oh wow, that's awesome info! You just saved me a bundle! Thanks!

It's my birthday today, so I'll consider that your birthday present to me!

 

[Mindy5767]

Oh wow, that's awesome info! You just saved me a bundle! Thanks!

It's my birthday today, so I'll consider that your birthday present to me!

Happy Birthday to you!!

 

[flipflopmom]

Just poppin over to say hi... I can't imagine your drive down. Makes my 11-12 seem like a breeze. YET - I have two aliens disguised as princessess in the backseat that will make it feel like 32 hours at times!

DH and I just got Itouches as well. That is one of my projects for next week is trying to figure out how to use a file sharing app to get my ADR lists, itinerarys, etc. on to it. Have you planned with any of that?

We both got FM transmitters for our cars that do a great job. They were around $35... it's the Go Groove flex pod? We like them so far, just got them last week from Amazon.

We're trying to figure out how to get all the stuff plugged in, also. We'll have Garmin, the Itouch, 2 DVD players to get going on the way down? DH has some sort of box that one plugs in to the lighter, and we can plug 3 more in to it, I think. Our car will be a mess of wires!

We are packing 1 or 2 power strips to charge it all - 2 cell phones, 2 itouches, 2 camera batteries, camcorder, DD's Nintendo DS and Gameboy, Garmin, AAGGGHH!! DH is worried about leaving them out in the room charging. No faith in humanity!

 

[Shir Kahn]

Happy Birthday to you!!

Thanks!

Just poppin over to say hi... I can't imagine your drive down. Makes my 11-12 seem like a breeze. YET - I have two aliens disguised as princessess in the backseat that will make it feel like 32 hours at times!

DH and I just got Itouches as well. That is one of my projects for next week is trying to figure out how to use a file sharing app to get my ADR lists, itinerarys, etc. on to it. Have you planned with any of that?

We both got FM transmitters for our cars that do a great job. They were around $35... it's the Go Groove flex pod? We like them so far, just got them last week from Amazon.

We're trying to figure out how to get all the stuff plugged in, also. We'll have Garmin, the Itouch, 2 DVD players to get going on the way down? DH has some sort of box that one plugs in to the lighter, and we can plug 3 more in to it, I think. Our car will be a mess of wires!

We are packing 1 or 2 power strips to charge it all - 2 cell phones, 2 itouches, 2 camera batteries, camcorder, DD's Nintendo DS and Gameboy, Garmin, AAGGGHH!! DH is worried about leaving them out in the room charging. No faith in humanity!

Hiya! 32 hours does sound like a lot, but we love driving and there's a ton to look at, so it's not so bad. For the Ipods, I've just been putting everything straight into mine anyway, so I haven't looked into transferring from my computer. We have one of the 3 jack converters too and it still might not be enough! I left batteries in the room all last trip with no worries and all the other stuff came with us to the park anyway last time. Except the laptop of course. I don't even remember what we did with the laptop. If it gets stolen, I guess I'll have my excuse to buy a better one!

 

[flipflopmom]

Thanks!



Hiya! 32 hours does sound like a lot, but we love driving and there's a ton to look at, so it's not so bad. For the Ipods, I've just been putting everything straight into mine anyway, so I haven't looked into transferring from my computer. We have one of the 3 jack converters too and it still might not be enough! I left batteries in the room all last trip with no worries and all the other stuff came with us to the park anyway last time. Except the laptop of course. I don't even remember what we did with the laptop. If it gets stolen, I guess I'll have my excuse to buy a better one!

What did you put it in? I thought about calendar and/or notes???

 

[Shir Kahn]

What did you put it in? I thought about calendar and/or notes???

I use notes. It takes a while to type it in, but I have long stretches at work where I don't have much to do some days.

 

[Queenofallthings]

OMG, I just realized you guys leave tomorrow Have a safe journey! ENJOY YOURSELVES.

 

[Shir Kahn]

Actually, we're leaving on Friday, but that's soon enough too! Thanks for the well-wishes!

Oh, and happy Canada Day!

 

[Disney Brat]

Happy Belated Birthday! I hope you had a great day! The last few days before youu leave are so hard, last Oct, we tried justifying leaving a day early (we were driving to MSP for a flight) lol. If I don`t `talk`to you before you leave, have a safe and magical trip!!

 

[Shir Kahn]

Thanks! I'm officially on vacation now, as I've just finished work. We're cleaning out the car (yes, I am helping, not just posting on the disboards! ). So much to get ready, so little time. We're leaving at 10am tomorrow morning, or rather, shortly thereafter, as we want to get to the bank one last time before we leave. I had a bit of a scare on our test-run of our electronics set-up in the car. My $750 GPS for some reason did a firmware update when I turned it on in the car, which is actually not possible. The GPS has to be hooked up to the computer to do a firmware update. But there it was, started at 1% and when it was done, I got a message saying GPS update complete and a small box to tap that said OK. I tapped it and the GPS tried to find some satellites but for some reason couldn't find any, even though I wasn't near any trees or buildings. 10 seconds later, the GPS update complete message popped up again. I kept clearing it away but it kept coming back every 10 seconds. I thought my GPS was broken 2 days before the trip! But once I unplugged the power supply and rebooted it twice, it went back to being fine again. Whew!

 

[Disney Brat]

I hope you have a safe and wonderful trip!!! Glad the GPS is all sorted out for you!! I can't wait to hear all about your trip!!!

 

[Shir Kahn]

Well, we just arrived at our first hotel of the trip! We got up at a leisurely 8am, got the rest of the packing done and headed to the bank at 10pm to get the last of the travelers checks. Went and paid one last bill, got a new car jack multiplier from Future Shop, as the one I originally bought was horrible. The car lighter adapters simply fell out! Then, it was off to McDonalds for our traditional breakfast on the way out of town. Of course, by this time, it was noon, so we had a quarter pounder meal for breakfast! So 12pm, we hit the road! The driving went well, I love being able to do at least 75mph. The GPS works fine as well. At about 4:30pm we hit a really bad rainstorm. It was almost to the point that we couldn't see the road. Got through that ok though. Stopped at Arbys for supper, food was decent although I don't tend to like Arbys that much. Tammy got her Cherry Pepsi finally! They don't sell them in Canada for some reason, except as a summer promo sometimes.

Gas prices are fantastic here, I filled the car from almost empty to full for $29! Didn't get any pictures on day one, as I left the camera in the trunk and kept forgetting to bring it out. We finally stopped for the night about 12:10am at an Econo-Lodge in Madison, WI. $44.99 for the night, king sized bed, free internet, fridge, microwave, breakfast. The room is actually very nice, especially for the price! I've got a 7am wake-up call planned and I hope to be past Atlanta before we stop tomorrow, so I'm going to say good night. Have some great Disney dreams everyone!

 

[Shir Kahn]

Ok, so at home, I drag myself out of bed after the snooze has gone off about a dozen times. Today, I woke up 40 minutes before my 7am wakeup call and have already had a shower, had breakfast and we're about 5 minutes from hitting the road! Amazing what being on vacation can do to you!

Happy 4th of July to all you Americans out there!

 

[flipflopmom]

Ok, so at home, I drag myself out of bed after the snooze has gone off about a dozen times. Today, I woke up 40 minutes before my 7am wakeup call and have already had a shower, had breakfast and we're about 5 minutes from hitting the road! Amazing what being on vacation can do to you!

Happy 4th of July to all you Americans out there!

I want to see if you keep it up the whole month!

Save driving!

 

[Queenofallthings]

Ok, so at home, I drag myself out of bed after the snooze has gone off about a dozen times. Today, I woke up 40 minutes before my 7am wakeup call and have already had a shower, had breakfast and we're about 5 minutes from hitting the road! Amazing what being on vacation can do to you!

Happy 4th of July to all you Americans out there!

so happy to know it's not just me that does that. I swear it's something to do with the Disney magic....not once last trip did I actually need the wake up call...of course I had it ...but every single day both Jas and I were up and almost ready to go by the time it rang

Safe travels my friends....hope you get as far today as planned. We woke to cloudy skies this morning and I have yet to check the net to see what the weather is actually supposed to be like today

 

[purplepeg]

Happy belated Canada Day! Enjoying your updates. You sure drove a long way that first day! Hope you got as far as you wanted today. Keep us updated!

 

[Disney Brat]

Glad to hear that everything is going so well for you so far! I love the on the road updates!!! I too get up before the alarm on vacation!! LOL typical! I hope that todays drive went well!

 

[Shir Kahn]

Hello all! So, we're finished driving for today. We ended up stopping about 50 miles away from Atlanta, so not quite as far as I was hoping but we really only have about a 6 hour drive left. Todays drive was pretty rough! It rained all day long, and this was heavy, heavy rain. We also accidentally missed a turn-off and ended up going through Chicago instead of by it! That was a bit nerve-wracking! The GPS was acting up all day as well, same issue as before so I'm going to google to see if there's a fix. We ate lunch at Cracker Barrel. We both had the open faced roast beef sandwich. Fantastic as always, we both loved it. If you haven't eaten at Cracker Barrel, you have to do it as soon as you can! I did take a picture, but I won't be uploading anything until we get home, sorry! For supper, we tried Krystal for the first time. It was ok, we got the combo for 2, which was 12 of their mini-burgers, fries and milkquakes. Tammy got a Banana Pudding milkquake and I got a Chocolate-Covered Strawberry. I finished my 6 burgers and fries but Tammy barely got through the 4th and barely touched her fries. They were ok, the milkquakes were pretty good as well, but we both agreed that we probably wouldn't be going back.

The rain did slack off a bit towards the end of the night and we did start seeing fireworks all around us. They're still going off right outside our room as a matter of fact! We're staying at the HoJo tonight, room was $45.95 after tax. Not bad considering I budgeted $100 a night for hotel!

So, I'm off to sleep now, have a good night all.

 

[Shir Kahn]

Well, we're off to a slower start than yesterday, we decided to wake up a little later, seeing as we don't want to get to our hotel too early. If we get there before 3pm, we might not be able to check in yet and would be stuck with our luggage in the car. We're about to take off now, hoping to be eating a Dole Whip by 4 or 5pm! The GPS should be fixed now, apparently Garmin released a bad update and has since released a patch for it that I have downloaded. Hopefully it works! Have a great day all.

 

[Queenofallthings]

Well as I type this it is 310pmWinnipeg time and I am picturing you at MK with a Dole Whip in your hands

Sounds like u had some "moments" on the drive, glad everything went well though, ENJOY