DDA Chapter 18

[MinnieMouseMom]

We were practicing this morning ...

(Is "Infant" the smallest size hat? Do any of them run differently? My girls must have oddly shaped heads or something, because those suckers weren't staying on! )

How adorable!!

And, this is why Noah wore his ears for about 5 minutes and we had to constantly readjust them during our little photo session on Main Street!

Infant is the smallest size and that's the size that Alyssa still wears! I think it runs: infant, junior, adult. We had to replace Alyssa's ears since she threw up on her original pair during the "car sick an hour before we got to WDW" incident and I bought her another pair of the infant size, because the next size up is still way too big for her.

ETA: And, I hate the new embroidering machines (talk about taking the magic out of the Main Street vibe) and the fact it's an extra $3 to put names on now.

They charge now??

I figured as much. They are huge, and my first thought was that they would fit a toddler. I don't have that kind of ears (only the headband kind) because they never fir me right either.... I wonder if the Junior ones would?

The adult ones don't fit my head. Must be all the brains

 

[tinknme]

At least they'll be the cutest dressed kiddos in Crystal Palace when they wear the Pooh outfits from Deb! :

 

[tmfranlk]

Jennifer - I love the hats! They are just too cute.

 

[mommykds]

Jennifer,
The girls are adorable!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Diva is stalking me on Facebook. I helped her with something for school last night, and I thought that was the end of it. Wrong! Now she needs MORE help, and her teacher is busy. I told her I will look at it when I get home, which won't be until after 7 PM.

Now that I am finished stalking Uncle1 I guess I could unsubscribe from FB, but it is kind of fun.

 

[KMH1]

Does anyone know of any Webkinz deals out there right now (like at Limited 2, etc.)? My Hallmark was running a buy 3 get the 4th free special, but I guess that's over. Alyssa wants a Webkinz birthday party, and I was thinking it would probably be cheaper just to buy everyone a Lil' Webkinz as their favor instead of a bunch of little trinkets and candy. Thanks!

 

[Tammi67]

When I came home today there was a whole slew of robins in my back yard. I hope that is a sign!!!

 

[Pooh67_68]

Glynis glad to hear that Timothy and Mary are feeling better.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

Jennifer--adorable pictures! I cantw ait to see a TON of pictures after your trip!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Amy - I don't usually pay attention to Webkinz, but if I see any deals I will let you know!

Heidi - I like your new siggie graphics!

 

[tinker1bell]

I hope Stephanie and Terry can dig out of their freak snowstorm this morning. I understand the Lancaster area got about 10-inches of the white stuff last night!

Elin, you will not believe this, but out where I live we got nothing,,zipp,,nada. When I saw that Hal was still home, he said that some places got up to 7 inches so he had a two hour delay. As I drove into Lancaster, it was so weird cause some cars were bare like mine, some had a little and then some had it piled up so high I wondered how they could drive!!!
It was like getting a thunder storm but with snow and one side of the street gets it all and the other side gets nothing.

I just hope everyone who has a lot of snow will clean their cars off. Last week when we had the ice, I was going to work and a big chunk of ice flew off a car coming towards me and all I could think of was the movie Twister. Thank goodness it only hit the side of my car, but I think my life flashed before me and I was screaming like crazy. I had to pull over cause I was so flustered.

Right now I am sitting here drinking a Hot Toddy. I started feeling bad at work. I just hope it was a reaction to something being cleaned with a powerful cleaner, but my throat hurts, and I have a massive headache.

But this Hot Toddy is going down quite nicely!!!!

 

[tinker1bell]

I know that this is small stuff, but it did annoy me slightly.

We did not receive our paper today, so I called in. There was only an automated system with no chance to get a live operator. My only two choices were "redelivery tomorrow" or "credit." Why on earth would I want today's paper tomorrow? I chose credit, though I really want today's paper today. We've been having a bunch of delivery issues lately. Dh has wanted to drop the paper subscription for a while, but I still want it delivered. This has me wondering, though. We do go out most days, so we could pick one up. I may have to see how much more it would cost to buy it daily instead of having a subscription.

If we call in early enough, we can have a choice of it being delivered. We only get the Sunday paper, but I do hate to call if that happens.

 

[tinker1bell]

We were practicing this morning ...

(Is "Infant" the smallest size hat? Do any of them run differently? My girls must have oddly shaped heads or something, because those suckers weren't staying on! )

OMG just toooooo cute!!!

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Terry - I am glad you made it to and from work safely! Feel better!

 

[my3princes]

We were practicing this morning ...

(Is "Infant" the smallest size hat? Do any of them run differently? My girls must have oddly shaped heads or something, because those suckers weren't staying on! )

They are so adorable.
I'm sure you will pull together some fantastic outfits. Those girls are so cute it wouldn't matter what they wore anyway.


Hunter was absolutely fine today. He got up raring to go.

I had a bit of a tummy ache this morning, but decided that I would tough it out and go do the subbing. I made it the entrie day, but I felt like a volcano building pressure all day. Needless to say things headed south when I got home. Chris ran out of work at 10 am today which normally would be bad, but I appreciated the help. He took the boys to snowboarding and I took a 2 hour nap. I was straight back to the potty when I got up.

Tomorrow Nick get's his high honor award at 8 am so I will take the kids to school. It is unclear whether I will sub or not as the scheduler seems to have her days mixed up.

 

[lovesdumbo]

Hi!

We're home. We had a 4 hour delay last night and didn't get home til after midnight. Dorinda sure is a great friend to have still picked us up and drive us home. I had offered to take a taxi to my MIL's house and spend they night there (I think a taxi to our house would have been over $100) but she came and got us (with her DH). I'll have to do something nice for her!

We had a great time but it didn't feel like 7 nights. We had 2 nice days but then lots of rain and cold. Several nights in the 30's-I think we were only actually out in the 40's though.

Lizzy really loved the Poly. We got exactly the room I requested-perfect location. We could even see the castle from our garden view balcony. I love the Poly too and was glad to have stayed there again. The room (except for lighting), beds, pools, grounds and monorail were all really wonderful-we never took a bus back to the resort at closing and always had a seat on every transportation. We didn't do Fantasmic as it rained on both nights.

In hindsight a "winging it" trip doesn't work with Lizzy-she is just way too indecisive but also didn't just want me to take the lead. We saw lots of characters-were there at rope drop to see Tinkerbell-thanks to Amy we knew the rope would drop at 9:45 and we waited 45 minutes to see her and just 1 other fairy (they usually have 3). We saw Frontier Land Goofy & Donald for the first time and saw Bolt and Rhino (they were SO cute!!!!)-now we have to see the movie. We went back one night just before they closed the Tinkerbell line at 7pm and saw them again with a 30 minute wait. We rode Spaceship Earth and Mission Space at least 4 times each (Lizzy loved them both this trip) and we even did the Tomorrowland Speedway cars twice-Lizzy had never done them. Crowds ranged from non existent to very crowded at times-don't know if it was weather related or the way we ran into tour groups. I think we did Toy Story Mania 5 times. I got a blister on my finger from the ride.

I uploaded over 2000 photos but ran out of hard drive space. I need to move some photos over to my external hard drives so I can finish. We've got almost 300 photopass photos if anyone wants to see.

Thanks!!!
The sale pins won't be visible until the sale starts. That's where I got all of our pins last year. I will definitely have to mark my calendar so I don't miss it!

I'll have to remember too.

Now I am really unhappy.
The grout guy was supposed to come on Friday at 11 AM, but he called and said he had a tire blow out so he was running behind. He wanted to come at 2 PM. I told him NO, because Princess is sleeping at 2 PM and nobody is allowed in the back of the house when she is sleeping. So he came on Monday to do the estimate, and said he would be here today to do the work.

So the bonehead calls and says he had a flat tire so he is running late. Did he FORGET that he used that excuse with me on Friday? What an idiot.

I just got off the phone with IPO. They will NOT make my ADRs for me during the time we are not on the concierge level. I hear about them doing it all the time for other people, but whatever. I will make those myself. In MAY. I guess maybe I should get serious about trying to convert my whole trip to concierge, huh?

Sorry about the grout guy delay.

That stinks about IPO. I email them for my May trip before I left and they got lots of my ADRs wrong. I wanted a party of 4 for Jiko with Terry & Halley, a party of 3 for my birthday breakfast at CP (a coworker will be at WDW and wants to go to breakfast with us) and party of 2 for everything else. They made them all party of 3. I have to get them to fix it as a few are credit card guaranteed. I had asked for a Sunrise Safari for 4 if they could book Sunday and 2 on Thursday if we couldn't do Sunday. I thought I was pretty clear but they booked 4 for Thursday. The email was from Robert-have you ever dealt with him?

We were practicing this morning ...

(Is "Infant" the smallest size hat? Do any of them run differently? My girls must have oddly shaped heads or something, because those suckers weren't staying on! )

How cute!!! The kids & I all have huge heads-the youth size doesn't fit my kids and they adult doesn't fit me.










OH.....has anyone read anything about the rental strollers? All but AK has new ones that are so much smaller. The kids all looked so smushed in them. Glad I don't have to worry about that! I did see a lot fewer!!!!

 

[Tammi67]

I just hope everyone who has a lot of snow will clean their cars off. Last week when we had the ice, I was going to work and a big chunk of ice flew off a car coming towards me and all I could think of was the movie Twister. Thank goodness it only hit the side of my car, but I think my life flashed before me and I was screaming like crazy. I had to pull over cause I was so flustered.

Right now I am sitting here drinking a Hot Toddy. I started feeling bad at work. I just hope it was a reaction to something being cleaned with a powerful cleaner, but my throat hurts, and I have a massive headache.

But this Hot Toddy is going down quite nicely!!!!

I have visions of you driving and a cow flying into your windshield!

I hope you feel better soon.

 

[Tammi67]

Welcome home, Bernadette! Can't wait to see pictures.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Thank you, someone posted a mess of them on a thread on the CB and told everyone to take what they wanted.

Heidi - I like your new siggie graphics!

 

[MinnieMouseMom]

Welcome home, Bernadette! Can't wait to see pictures.

Ditto