It is my last day of work ...10am and I am wrapping up the last of the things I need to take care of here. Finishing up projects or handing them over to my networking team. Outlook out of office is ready to turn on so this afternoon I click it and record my voicemail out of office and I'm done.
Meanwhile my mind drifts to the smell of Main Street, to being blinded by the Osbourne Festival of Lights for the first time, to smiling through watching Finding Nemo live at AK again, and to discovering all of the wonders of the holiday season from around the world as we stroll around World Showcase at EPCOT.
That and a million other things flit through my brain. At home yesterday afternoon DD2 and I sat in the living room watching
YouTube Disney clips on the big screen. My phone is linked to the PS3 console's YouTube app so I can search and cue up videos from it - it is very addictive when you're about to leave for a trip
On the planning side it is, well, it is all pretty much done. I had my main check list of reservations and purchases and they have all been done for a couple of days now. One big score with that end of things is that i hadn't yet purchsed our 3 day park to park tickets for Universal and low and behold, they popped up with a "buy 2 days, get the 3rd free" deal!
We also purchased the meal deal for Universal. It allows for basically all you can eat at 3 quick-service style dining areas at each park. We'll buy the commemorative cups when we get there and we're golden for food and drinks. Between that and the
DDP for WDW the only thing we have to pay for while we're there is tips, memorobelia, and MEARS transportation to Universal from POP
The bags are tagged and packed with our clothes and such, just have to add the toiletries after everyone uses them in the morning. I have never felt this calm and together for a trip before. It is a weird feeling. I'm used to frantic last minute running around and curve balls. The closest we've had is DW and DD1 both have a sinus thing going on but we think that is allergies and not a cold. They are on meds so we'll see how that goes.
Tomorrow I am off from work and will be loading up the rig and might go get a haircut or something. I'm just that out of things to do. In the afternoon I will pick up the girls and we will go visit MiL for a couple of hours. DW will get off of work and meet us there. Once the visit is finished we'll go grab the dogs and hit the road for Medford and drop them to the sitters. Then check-in at the Super-8 and pizza delivery for dinner and swimming.
Here's a couple of pics from our stay there before our last trip:
Weird to think that those were taken nearly 5 years ago!
Well back to work for me as I try to stay focused and get things done here. This may be my last post on this as a PTR. I'll probably have it transferred over to the TR section tomorrow. Thank you all for being a part of the planning, nostalgia of past trips, and assorted hiccups that this PTR has been.
A Very Merry Disney Holiday Season to you all!!!!!!!
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It does stink that we'll not get to have a DISmeet. But we'll be back in a couple of years 
Yes, it is a real bummer that your trip fell through. But you're right - we'll figure out an Oregon meet-up, maybe OMSI or something 
hopefully we can meet up on your next trip to wdw. 
