DDA Chapter 3

[Tammi67]

Still no DVC planner for the Meyer family. However, I got my official DVC membership cards. I feel so special!

No planner at my house either.

 

[my3princes]

Do any of you have GPS systems for your cars? We are thinking of buying one for my Dad for his birthday. I know very little about them so I am hoping for some DDA consumer reports. The Good and the Bad. Chris is also thinking of getting one. Chris can certainly figure them out, but my Dad needs one that is very user friendly.

 

[UP Disney]

Do any of you have GPS systems for your cars? We are thinking of buying one for my Dad for his birthday. I know very little about them so I am hoping for some DDA consumer reports. The Good and the Bad. Chris is also thinking of getting one. Chris can certainly figure them out, but my Dad needs one that is very user friendly.

We do not have a car GPS yet. We have one for geocaching, hiking & kayaking but it is just a hand held.

 

[babytrees]

So we ended up with about 6 inches of snow that somebody decided to shovel off my sidewalk right outside my bedroom window at 3:30 this morning

It turns out that about 5 miles west of here was the boundary for this storm. So us and east got blizzard conditions and clear to the west .

When getting teeth pulled I need 3x the regular numbing agent and it still takes a while to take hold. The after affects aren't pretty either. I have been told I get to keep the 2 wisdom teeth I have as the roots have wrapped around my jaw bone.

We finally get to use the passes I won for 27 dresses tonight....they are only valid at 2 theaters...closest one 9 miles away...which of course will take at least a half hour to get to

Hope everybody stays safe and warm in this next round of loverly weather.

 

[tinker1bell]

Oh me too, drive safely!

How are you feeling today?

I cannot believe that my stomach is still feeling queasy. I hate this feeling. I have been living on crackers. At least Hal is understanding about the whole thing and has been eating leftovers.

 

[tinknme]

Theresa have fun tonight!

Terry sorry to hear your still not feeling well

Elizabeth when do you get to make your ADR's for Aug.? Mine is coming up soon, Feb. 6th

 

[yellowfish78]

Deb -

www.aaa.com/GPS

I don't have one but we started promoting this one this year.

ETA: The default zip is mine, but I'm almost certain that this is nationwide given it has a AAA National phone number attached...

 

[Glynis]

My basement needs a good cleaning Vicki.

Mine too! I've got a ton of craft supplies I need to go through and purge! Projects I started years ago, and I'm just sure I'll never finish them!

 

[Glynis]

Do any of you have GPS systems for your cars? We are thinking of buying one for my Dad for his birthday. I know very little about them so I am hoping for some DDA consumer reports. The Good and the Bad. Chris is also thinking of getting one. Chris can certainly figure them out, but my Dad needs one that is very user friendly.

Alan has a Garmin that his work bought him. We love it! It comes in really handy. It's very user friendly, and very complete. We very rarely lose satellite reception.

 

[Tinkaroo]

Still no DVC planner for the Meyer family. However, I got my official DVC membership cards. I feel so special!

We just got ours last week, Vicki. Needless to say, when DVC sends something out, it generally takes FOREVER to make its way to all members. I'm embarassed to say I haven't even looked at it yet, but since I have no points for another year, I figured I didn't need to exasperate myself!

The people next door are apparently on some sort of mission to tear their entire house down one square foot at a time and rebuild it as they go. They moved in right after I started working here and that house has been under construction EVERY DAY since then! With the people in it! Right now they have a table saw in the driveway, which happens to be about 5 feet away from Princess's bedroom window. Every time she starts to settle down I hear that saw whining and she revs up again. They don't have a Pack-N-Play so I can't really move her to another room. She isn't the type to stay in the big bed in the guest room if I tried to put her in there, and she would still be able to hear the saw.

Yikes! I don't know how people can live amidst renovations. That would drife me nuts!

Theresa have fun tonight!

Terry sorry to hear your still not feeling well

Ditto! (Janet always has the best "catch up" posts to copy! )

Hope those of you with bad weather are staying warm and toasty! I can hear the wind blowing away out there again. When you go into the bathroom in my building, it sounds like you're in the bowels of a ship, with all the creaking and moaning the building is doing in the wind!

 

[KristineN]

I'm with Glynis....we have 2 Garmins and love them!! Easy to use and works very well This is the one I have.....I bought it from buydig.com...which usually has great prices.

Do any of you have GPS systems for your cars? We are thinking of buying one for my Dad for his birthday. I know very little about them so I am hoping for some DDA consumer reports. The Good and the Bad. Chris is also thinking of getting one. Chris can certainly figure them out, but my Dad needs one that is very user friendly.

 

[KristineN]

Have any of you cruisers stayed in a category 6? Thoughts?

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Theresa have fun tonight!

Terry sorry to hear your still not feeling well

Elizabeth when do you get to make your ADR's for Aug.? Mine is coming up soon, Feb. 6th

Ditto!
Theresa, enjoy the movie!

Terry, have you been to the Dr. so they can make sure it is just a virus?

Janet - SUNDAY! I'll set my alarm for 5:45 AM so I can be in place and coherent as soon as the Dining line opens! I'm not even calling for anything that hard to get. The night we want to go to Le Cellier is more than 10 days into our trip, so I'll have to call back for that.
What TS are you booking?

I got a 30% off coupon for Borders yesterday so I will probably go buy the Birnbaum book. It would only be $12 and we would save $50 on the fishing excursion. I am a UG girl myself, but DS likes Birmbaum.

DH and I were just talking about airfare. I told him I put the ticket on hold so we can think about it until tomorrow. I think he is leaning towards booking it now. We know how much we usually pay for round trip, but what we do not know is how the cost is usually split between each leg. If we normally pay $80 for the leg to MCO and $150 for the leg back then we should wait, but I have always booked round trip without paying attention to how each leg prices out. That would be a useful fact to pay attention to from now on! I guess even if we end up paying $315 for the round trip that is better than the $427 that same ticket was going for the other day! But hopefully the leg from Orlando back to Dallas will come down from $178. OR I can make DH come home on SW. (Not really an option. He would be very upset if I did that, even if it was cheaper.)

Well, Princess got a whopping hour of sleep and now she is shouting for me to come get her. The neighbor's construction guys were sawing the whole tim she was sleeping so I am sure she will be crabby.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Lindsay - The construction is driving ME nuts and I am not even in the same house with them! It appears that they are re-bricking the exterior. The side of the house to the south of the porch is completely different brick! This is bad news for me because they are working this way. That means it will get worse as they progress past the front porch.
It is VERY windy out there. It wasn't bad earlier this morning when I took Princess to gymnastics, but it has really picked up!

 

[tinker1bell]

Have any of you cruisers stayed in a category 6? Thoughts?

Kristine,

We will be staying in a category 6 in December.

On travelocity if I remember, you can see pictures and layout of the stateroom and even comments as well as on allears

 

[KristineN]

pictures look good...and it sounds good. I'd love to hear some reviews I bet you guys are excited, huh?

Kristine,

We will be staying in a category 6 in December.

On travelocity if I remember, you can see pictures and layout of the stateroom and even comments as well as on allears

 

[UP Disney]

I want to sew. I thought I had brown thread so I didn't buy any. Guess what? Yep, I have lots of black, white, blue, red, pink ... but no brown.

 

[tinker1bell]

pictures look good...and it sounds good. I'd love to hear some reviews I bet you guys are excited, huh?

I am so excited I cannot stand it.

 

[Tinkaroo]

Have any of you cruisers stayed in a category 6? Thoughts?

Kristine (and Terry), we stayed in a Cat. 6 on the Wonder in December, and have the exact same stateroom booked for the 4-night over Labor Day.

Now, this was my 1st cruise so I don't have much of a point of reference, but we thought it was great! The thing that impressed me the most was that there was lots of storage (and we had a ton of stuff since we were packed for 2 weeks! ). The closet is a really nice size, and there is the storage locker, tons of drawers, cabinets, etc. We fully unpacked all our cruise stuff (the box we shipped, too!), and lifted up the bed and slid our suitcases underneath.

The split bathroom was also great - a little small, sure, but it was nice to have separate areas to get ready, since it seems we were always racing to the next thing. I heard a ton before going about needing an over-the-door shoe organizer to hold your bathroom stuff, but I found I didn't need it. There is ample storage space under both sinks (although not enclosed), and the bathroom with the toilet had an additional shelving unit. I unpacked all my toiletries with room to spare!

We loved our location too - we were midship, just slightly aft of the mid-ship elevators and stairs on deck 6. IMO, a perfect location, as we primarily used the stairs to get anywhere, since we only had a few floors to go in either direction. We were right over the stabilizers, too - we could see them in the water below us when we were moving at night. The verandah was great to have, as well.

Overall, the cabin really impressed me. We took a lot of pics of it, and I will post some soon, so you can see them (particularly of the storage so you get an idea). There are a lot of great pics here on the DIS, too, and they're pretty darn accurate! Suffice it to say, I had much more storage space in my little DCL cabin than I did in the master bedroom of our SSR GV!

The one thing we didn't have which I would caution you to bring - an extension cord, as well as a power strip. There are only 2 plugs in the entire cabin (not even in the bathroom!), and they are located by the vanity/desk. I wanted to bring a power strip (knowing there were so few plugs), but Jonathan insisted on bringing this wall thing we have with multiple plugs on a face. His thought was it took up less space - but because of its bulkiness and the way the plugs are situated on the wall, we were not able to use it. Needless to say, we'll be bringing the power strip and an extension cord next time!

 

[mommykds]

Hi,
I haven't had a chance to catch up. I was in bed til 10am!
Still feeling not so hot. The girls had off today so at least i didn't have to do the mom's taxi thing today.

I have work tom'w so I am going to try & get an early night again so I can go in.