Chicago area Diser's - check in here Part 3

[Debbie6221]

Hi,
I don't mind you following me at all. I feel like a big nerd posting all over the place trying to find thet best threads. I also feel terrible when I actually type out the spelling of the whole word but I'm afraid if I start abbreveating I will start making stuff up!

Did you say where you were from exactly???

Driving??? You are a saint!

 

[HERSEY]

bigben Debbie6221 Welcome we like to think we are the BEST thread! Feel free to stop by anytime.

 

[bigben]

Elwood it's a small town just south of joliet.If you know where the nascar track is then your real close to home, and I don't know if I'm a saint or just plain crazy? My wife and myself have been going to WDW for the last 12 years sometimes twice a year. When we went in 94 it was the first time I had been back since I was 10 (which is about 20 years) and the wierdest thing was when we walked into the magic kingdom everything came flooding back in my memory. It was one of the strangest feelings I had ever had in my life. This is when you had the books and you only had 2 E tickets. You said you daughter was 3 have you looked into taking a disney cruise?


dvc member,
94 off prop, 95-96-97 OKW, 98 WL,
99 disneyland, 00 OKW, 01 OKW,
02 ASMo + 4D Cruz, 03 OKW,
04 POP + 4D Cruz,
05 POP weekend + POP ,
and in 7 days Toga Springs + 7D Cruz to Costa Maya :

 

[Debbie6221]

My wife and myself have been going to WDW for the last 12 years sometimes twice a year. When we went in 94 it was the first time I had been back since I was 10 (which is about 20 years) and the wierdest thing was when we walked into the magic kingdom everything came flooding back in my memory. It was one of the strangest feelings I had ever had in my life. This is when you had the books and you only had 2 E tickets. You said you daughter was 3 have you looked into taking a disney cruise?
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I agree completely! I wish my husband was like you! I am still converting him! I feel like I make a little more progress with each trip.
We have thought about the cruise but we always wind up back at GF! I don't know how we can keep paying for GF but it is our favorite!

 

[Sk8Leigh]

Hi everyone!

And welcome to all the Newbies! Keep coming back!

slo - How is everything going with Katie's eating??? How did she do at WDW?

I am so tired, but I'm finally waking up. Good, since it's after noon, huh?

OMG, there's an e-mail thing going around my office about spandex! Not a forward, people are just talking about it. I think people are getting slap-happy. Too funny.

 

[bigben]

this will be our 3rd cruise and they are the best. The kids have a great time in the labs and it us a chance to have a great time too. the food is fantastic the shows are great and the cast members are as nice as nice can be.

dvc member,
94 off prop, 95-96-97 OKW, 98 WL,
99 disneyland, 00 OKW, 01 OKW,
02 ASMo + 4D Cruz, 03 OKW,
04 POP + 4D Cruz,
05 POP weekend + POP ,
and in 7 days Toga Springs + 7D Cruz to Costa Maya :

 

[DonnaW]

Welcome back to the "otherland" all our recent "returnees"! Carrie, I LOVE that picture!!!!! How is Amy? Miss seeing her here. Sandy, I think those love-bugs would have made me crazy-nuts! But, it sounds like you had a good trip! Leigh...got pictures?? Share!!!

WELCOME TO THE CHICAGO THREAD, DEBBIE AND BIG BEN...always good to see new posters on this thread...

Hello to all the "regular" posters...and also to any "lurkers"!!!

Hope *everyone* has a great day!!!

 

[roseprincess]

Welcome to the newbies here!

Welcome back, Leigh! any Year of a Million Dreams happen to you or did you witness anything at Disneyland?

Carrie- the pics of Amy's girls are really cute!! Say hi to Amy for me
How are Tim and Eric recuperating? I take it they are doing well now?

Tiggerrn- best wishes on your your upcoming trip!!

Sandy- prayers and PD for the owner's dson
Hope they can find out what's going on with him.

Heard we are supposed to get more bad weather tonight
I hope not.

Have a good day, everyone.

 

[roseprincess]

I didn't forget Donna, hi Donna

 

[roseprincess]

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We got a lot done at the book fair set-up today. Of course, we had 5 no-shows for volunteers. I had to call my mom and a friend going to another school to come give me a hand. Wish people wouldn't do that to people. It's hard enough to try to get volunteers let alone have them not show up when they say they will. We'll see how the rest of this week goes for set-up and previews. They are on their own next week. I'll be in the MotherLand!! I'll probably be so worried about this stinking book fair that I won't be able to relax and enjoy myself!! LOL

Sorry to hear about the book fair no-show volunteer situation
Hope it's better today. Don't worry during your vacation, not worth it to worry while you're at the Happiest Place on Earth!!
I've been there, done that with volunteering with the PTA committee at my dkids' school. I was not in a situation like you, tho. More of a snobby mom that I co-chaired on a committee with last school yr. She thought she was "better" than me, as of her qualifications, experience on a certain school PTA committee, that is all volunteer to begin with! Her and I co-chaired on the Exceptional Child Committee, about talking about children with diasabilites, etc. Writing for hte weekly school newsletter- even tho we wrote monthly. We both had good ideas, but she wanted to take control of hte WHOLE comittee without letting me know about it . I had to fight tooth and nail to write about my own children's disabilities(without using their names). In the past years, the mom that was the chair for this committee wrote about Down's Syndrome(daughter has Down's) and other childhood disabilites. The former Chair stepped down and I wanted to fill in. Then the mom wanted to co-chair with me-which was fine with me, I had no problem with that. She kept telling me she was going to contact me and we would have meetings, etc of what to write aobut, etc. I had to literally call her almost every night b/c I would never hear from her. She would make excuses she was going to call me from her son's football practice, etc. This had gone on for 2 months! This happened about a yr ago. We finally met up and she's telling me she has a Master's degree in this and that and how she is SO qualified for htis position, etc. I'm thinking, this is not a paid job, just volunteering to help others!!
Anyways, She mostly wrote her stuff on other issues and not childhood disabilities. I was assigned for 3 months out of the school yr- which was fine by me. About hte beginning of 2 of the months I was going ot write my articles, she wanted to put her stuff in the newsletter instead . I fought with her on that, mostly via email. We actually had to use the principal of our school to be our mediator, seriously!! the one month I was going to do the bulletin board for the month(we had a bulletin board near the front of hte school for this certain committee), she puts her stuff up that was unrelated to my article, without me knowing about it!! I was so livid ! I talked to my dh aobut this to see what he thinks I should do,.He agreed with me to take down her stuff and put up my stuff for hte month. So that's what I did for hte one month. She was angry but she got over it She never apologized to being unfair with me,not jsust this incident, but other incidents happened with her, me, with hte committee. I had quit the committee in May for this coming school yr. She could have it all if she wants now!!
I just had a passion to write about the disabilities, to help other people that may be going thru it or knows someone that is going thru all of that.

I have been and still this school yr, volunteer as a room helper, for my kid's classrooms, for parties, etc. I think I'll stick to that

 

[Debbie6221]

Is it OK to post my random questions here or do you guys prefer I go to the specific threads that deal with each question.
Thanks!
Looking forward to getting to know all of you.

 

[HERSEY]

Debbie6221 Post away We might know something. If it's something specfic to the parks you might do better asking on that board. But ask away maybe you'll hit on something we are experts at. We have kids of various ages and some of us have had recent trips. Not sure what your questions might be. Hopefully not the answer to world peace.

 

[bigben]

On the 13th the family is doing the Wishes cruise for the fireworks has anyone done this one

 

[HERSEY]

We did the wishes cruise in May. We enjoyed it very much. Our boat pilot took us around the lake we saw the "bear face'" at the wilderness lodge

 

[Debbie6221]

Well, here are a few of the questions I have for our upcoming extravaganza at GF:

First off....
We have the trip all set and just realized that maybe we should upgrade to the hopper PLUS dining. We sat down and looked at all our reservations and thought "WOW, that's a lot of cash being spent on meals!" Then my Mom called to see if we could even add it and they said no because the promotion ended Sept. 30th. We got the Disney Visa discount package.
Here's where we are eating. What do you guys think? We have an eight night package with hoppers! There are 5 adults, 1 child, 1 baby. Here's where our reservations are at:

Cindy's Castle breakfast
Cindy's Castle dinner
Crystal Palace dinner
Donald's breakfast
Cape May dinner
Concourse Steak house
Citricos
Garden Grill Lunch
Mitsukoshi dinner
I think that's it...YIKES!

The pro I have already thought of was that we would have 6 months to pay off the DDP (no interest for 6 months using their visa) and the con I thought of was that when we did the DDP in 2005 we felt like we were always eating and looking for places to use up our plan. Plus we still wouldn't even have enough credits for all those dinners.

ALSO......We have some crazy reservations going on and our DME yellow tags came.

(crazy because we were playing around with dates and packages so we each had two reservations during the same week, one for one half of the week and then another one for the second. We did this because we were waiting for a day in between to open up. And we did that for my parents and my family so it's two seperate reservations....I hope that makes sense)

The weird thing is my Mom got 2 sets and I only got one set? What should we have if we are using the DME roundtrip?
OMG that must sound so confusing....

And another question (for now)....
We have not been to WDW since May 2005. PLEASE tell me we can still get that wonderful coffee service in the hotel lobby first thing in the morning!!!
I look so... forward to starting my day that way!

OK Do you guys think I'm a pain yet????

 

[KimRaye]

Hi Everyone!
I'm new here and am looking for fellow disneyaholics! I live in Chicago at the border of Niles and Park Ridge.
Right by SUPERDAWG!

HOW close? I am right on that border, too. I'm near Milwaukee and Howard. Where will your kids go to school (local/area question )? My parents live near Milwaukee and Austin, even closer to SUPERDAWG than me. Love those DOGS! Oh, btw, Hello and Welcome!

& bigben also.

Can't help with the Wishes cruise. We did the Magical Gatherings Cruise back in June. WONDERFUL!! We had 16 in our group. MAGICAL, FABULOUS time!

slo, prayers for your young friend.

Carrie, Amy, ADORABLE PIC/ADORABLE GIRLS!

everyone!!

 

[Nite0wl71]

Just got home from work and still waiting for tonights storms. It is very humid out right now.

GSDRescuer---

, the girls are Katelyn and Hayley and they are my granddaughters

bigbenandDebbie6221---

I see you are both leaving soon, alot of us are just coming back home

DonnaW---Amy is doing fine, they got home about 6 this evening. The love bugs were bad, you didn't even feel them on you, they were attracted to white and yellow so my shoes always had some on them They were worse if you were close to water.

roseprincess---Tim and Eric are just fine. Tim is crazy and rode everything in WDW, Eric stayed with my DH for a few days.

KimRaye---The girls were really good on the trip, Katelyn is not a smiler (especially in pictures)but she was smiling all the time on this trip.

HERSEY---how you doing? I haven't been on as much as I would like to be.

Tiggerrn2---You are right it was a different trip this time with the babies. My youngest is 13 and I am not used to pushing a stroller around

Sk8Leigh---I hope you post some pictures of DL, I keep saying I am going to go one year.

In case I missed anyone

 

[Nite0wl71]

Since I posted a picture of Amy's 2 babies, I figured I would post one of my 2 babies.

Stacey-13 and Sarah-22

 

[Nite0wl71]

A few pictures of POP, especially for Donna

YESwe got towel animals

 

[Nite0wl71]

Ok these are for all of us "older" ladies

Amy's room is right under the radio, it is the decorated one.