I bought a GE 14MP 8x zoom touch screen, I have played around with it a little bit but not nearly as much as I need to since it has so many settings to experiment with plus it is touch screen something which I have found hard to get use to. The zoom is nice for a P&S but I like the zoom on my Fuji more as it is 18x if only it wasn't so combersum to lug around the parks
I make my ADR's in 10 days and I have decided to book 3 Character Meals, all breakfasts, DH knows about two of them but one is going to be a surprise 
Crystal Palace hopeing to get an 8:05am , Cape May since we are staying at the Beach Club and Akershus mainly hopeing to get an 8:10 am so we can enter WS before the park opens and get some nice pics.
Planning on Boma's for breakfast on our AK day, yes I decided to go back there after all , if it was not for Bomas I would be booking Tusker House too 
I am also considering adding MNSSHP back into my schedule since I ended up with a free Friday evening, I will probally decide for sure much closer to October.
No worries when you get to it you get to it, I hate seeing trip reports end so the longer you draw it out the better 
I know what you're saying by cumbersome. It's one of the concerns I have for this coming trip. My equipment already almost fills the Lowepro 200 backpack that I bought, with at least 1 more lens to buy before the trip, plus carrying a tripod for half of it, I'm getting a little concerned if it's going to be more trouble than it's worth. I am getting used to carrying it though, since I do bring it to work every day.
We both really enjoyed Tusker House last year, and I knew it would be another must do. I hemmed and hawed a bit about CP, whether or not I should do that, or The Wave or something non-charactery. I decided to just say "Pfft, most of these people will never see me again. Those that will, would likely be the type of people to get it anyway" so I went for it. I was kinda shocked that I got the 8:10 time slot. Of course, that means I'll have to get out the door by 7:30 at the latest ><. I also figured that CP would be less creepy than me at Akershus hehe.
Speaking of Akershus, I'd love to do that again, if just for the potatoes! Cape May sounds good too, been wanting to try that one, but I don't think I'm going to be able to until either I drive myself down there, or drop the money to stay in that general area (though, I'm thinking of renting DVC for next year, likely over at Boardwalk... so it's a possibility).
I'll be getting around to actually updating soon(tm). Work's been all work-like lately, even when I'm not "on-task", I'm doing work on other responsibilities I have. And then at home, I'm doing work on another project that I've been working on for about 2 years off and on.
I almost forgot I came across this site which is devoted to people who love Disney Photography, in fact they are having an event when I am there in October but I thought of you when I signed up to the site.
In case you might be interested here is the link
http://www.themagicinpixels.com/
Thanks for the link, checked it out quickly before I took my evening nap (which turned into bedtime it seems.... from about 6:30pm to 11:30 pm ><). Have to dig deeper, but it certainly looks like it has a bunch of good stuff on it.
Hey I'm joining in. We will be there at the same time so I really want to read your TR to see what Sept is like (I have never been in Sept)
Looks like we have a few of the same plans!
Welcome aboard! I have a confession to make. I had started following your PTR when I saw it was around my came dates
. I don't post much outside of my "comfort zone" (my thread, and the restaurant boards... I even barely post on those TRs/PTRs of people who drove me to post a bit more over here
), but I have been reading bits and pieces.
As far as late September, it will vary. 2009 I went and it was sweltering. Every day was mid 90s and 150% humidity. Last year (2010), it wasn't that bad. I think it was mid 80s to low 90s every day and wasn't nearly as bad as the previous year. Then again, I could have been adjusting, since I had only lived in Mobile for about 5 months before 2009's trip, and add a year to that for 2010's.
Outside of weather (of which it only rained on my twice, and neither time was really for that long), crowds (low to non-existent), decorations, and the MNSSHPs make it a great time to go.
Don't feel bad about not updating. I am the same way. I haven't finished up my trip report from last May.
Yes, yes, I know
, but to go from posting an update (or two!) every day, to skipping almost a whole week, to then nearly two weeks! I had to get to my TR via my own signature to find it
.
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So yeah, work has been throwing me curve balls left and right lately. I'm currently working on the new State Enrollment piece for the entire state of Alabama (for those parents from Alabama... um, sorry about the start of school last year, I wasn't on that project though
), heading up the environment setup (servers and all that fun stuff) for testing the new release of our AL distance learning piece (which isn't bad, since I've headed up testing of that application since we started developing it two years ago), being swamped with assisting others in getting installs of our Health application running (it's tricky to do it on our QA servers, and no one follows directions...), playing IT for the QA department in maintaining our servers and such (it's amazing how much disk space we take up...), supporting the testing of our Assessment platform (the main application that I've been testing for the past 6 years), handling and maintaining the Production Support web-application that I developed last year (fixing bugs, adding some small enhancements), and lastly trying to continue on my QA Tools application that I started in December (currently is mostly just a Database tracking and meta-info piece). Suffice to say, with that huge long paragraph, I've been busy. I can't complain much though, the more that I'm responsible for, the more integral to the company I become, and then less likely I am to be one cut if that time should ever come (we're still hiring though, so it's not likely to happen any time soon... unless we completely flub up this summer's releases).
So yeah, now that you have that super exciting look into my work life... (and I didn't realize how many things I was really juggling until I wrote it all out, it tires me out just reading it all!)
On the other side of things, I've just been working on my own home project that I've been developing for almost 2 years off and on. It's making progress, albeit slowly (but, it keeps my development skills sharp) and just playing a lot of PC games and reading quite a bit (Kindle on the new phone is a dangerous thing ><).
Also have a few new pics to share. (Clicking on each will open up the full size image (which is rather large... sorry for those still stuck in the stone age))
(is it ever?)
