Don't stop believing... "Major change 6/23 The Circle of Life"

[KathyRN137]

Hooray! The December PTR has officially begun!!

I had a sneaking suspicion that the "surprise" was an upgrade to Wilderness Lodge... but decided to keep my on-line mouth shut so I wouldn't spoil it!!

You're going to love WL... we stayed at the villas there in '08 and it is simply gorgeous! I cannot imagine how stunning that Lobby will be all done up for Christmas! And meeting DIS-friends Toni, Terry, and The Queen (!) will be such fun...

Who needs more stress when it comes to money matters? You'll have an even more fantastic time now that financial worry is no longer an issue.

I'm so happy for you both!!


Kathy

 

[Blueyed Girl]

I'm in!!! Can't wait to read more. I'm excited for you and Bill. This trip just sounds like it is going to be a better-than-great-one! I agree with whoever else said that you should do something special for YOURSELF on your birthday! Treat yourself to something nice that you normally wouldn't do. You deserve it!!!

Ok I am here. We will miss you but we will send you pics on text.

A lot of people on Enchanted are friends of yours and let me say it is closing down within 3 weeks. All tickers will be gone. The board might come back but not sure yet.

Looking forward to hearing more.

Scott, I'm so sorry to read that. I wish that I had the time that I had when you started the very first board. Back then I was able to help a lot more. Now I can barely keep up with one place.

 

[luvfigment]

Hey Tracy!!!! Jumping on board and am looking forward to read you and Bills plans for the trip in Dec. You are going to love WL! It is so pretty and fun being so close to MK. Can't wait read about your ADR's and that is awesome you will be there for your birthday!

 

[Blueyed Girl]

I sent you a facebook message about the tickers a little bit ago.

Are you going to set up the tickers in another place?

 

[mrsksomeday]

I'm in!!!

Hello, thanks for joining in on the madness!

Awww... I"m sorry to hear that! I've visited a few times, and am always sad to see when someone's hard and long efforts don't work out. Hope it will be back up someday

It is sad, Scott is starting a new board and I hope it is better for him.

Wow! Three pages already!

Now back to read...

It shocked me too . Thanks for reading Amy!

All caught up! Your plans sound great!! And I love the 80's lyrics theme!

Sorry to hear about Enchanted... I'm glad I got to use one of your tickers for this trip. Tink is almost all the way to the end!!

For some reason I always like to have a theme, thanks. Thanks for using the tickers I really enjoyed making them.

Tracy just promise me that you will do something special for yourself on your birthday (in WDW)! Other than that you can change all the resorts and ADR's that you want

For the 7th - 10th portion of the trip the complete planning is up to me, what parks, where we eat, etc Bill said he wants me to do everything I want to every day . I promise.

Gee, I feel the love! I'm pretty sure that you forgot to name the Queen of Fantastic up there.....It must have been a simple oversight since I know that you would NEVER intentionally forget about me! lol. Great report so far! We all have to meet up one night while we are there. Great times with great (soon-to-be-real) imaginary friends!

It was a simple oversight! I can't believe how many of us are going to be in WDW at the same time, it is exciting. All of us do need to meet up.

I'm sorry to hear that.

OMG! OMG! OMG! In theory I will be in Orlando on December 10 (my cruise leaves on the 12th).

Would you consider getting a Tables in Wonderland Card?

Woo hoo!! A cruise, Bill and I talk about it a lot but chicken out. We have talked about the card, I don't know Bill and I just like having everything paid for before we get there, I know it is weird.

You didn't get away from me! I'm here!!

I wouldn't want to get away from you, I adore you!! Thanks for joining.

I'm joining in! I'm glad you decided to start a new trip report.

Thanks, it has helped me feel better about our decision, I was really upset for a while about canceling the October trip.

Hooray! The December PTR has officially begun!!

I had a sneaking suspicion that the "surprise" was an upgrade to Wilderness Lodge... but decided to keep my on-line mouth shut so I wouldn't spoil it!!

You're going to love WL... we stayed at the villas there in '08 and it is simply gorgeous! I cannot imagine how stunning that Lobby will be all done up for Christmas! And meeting DIS-friends Toni, Terry, and The Queen (!) will be such fun...

Who needs more stress when it comes to money matters? You'll have an even more fantastic time now that financial worry is no longer an issue.

I'm so happy for you both!!


Kathy

I think Bill fell in love with WL when we met you there in 2008. He talked about it a lot. Great memories there . I can't wait to see Terry's pictures from the resort. The stress is gone now so that helps me know our decision was the right one.

I'm in!!! Can't wait to read more. I'm excited for you and Bill. This trip just sounds like it is going to be a better-than-great-one! I agree with whoever else said that you should do something special for YOURSELF on your birthday! Treat yourself to something nice that you normally wouldn't do. You deserve it!!!

Hi Cherie! Thanks for reading. I think this trip will be way more laid back than the others and we are going to try to see the resort decorations, I can't wait! I have a couple things planned around my birthday .

Hey Tracy!!!! Jumping on board and am looking forward to read you and Bills plans for the trip in Dec. You are going to love WL! It is so pretty and fun being so close to MK. Can't wait read about your ADR's and that is awesome you will be there for your birthday!

Hi!! I am so excited about WL and the decorations, so is Bill. It is nice to be excited about my birthday for a change too.

 

[carrieannie]

I`m here Tracy!!
you are going to have a terrific trip!!!! its going to be very special!!

 

[mrsksomeday]

I`m here Tracy!!
you are going to have a terrific trip!!!! its going to be very special!!

Carrie!!! It is so great to see you here!! I think we will have a good time I love WDW's Christmas decorations! Thank you so much for posting!

 

[disneyeeyorefan]

Glad you are doing a report
I would love to see Disney at Christmas

 

[mickeyfan71]

I wouldn't want to get away from you, I adore you!! Thanks for joining.

I adore you too! I was just letting you know I am here and ready for the planning for your BDAY trip!!!

 

[mrsksomeday]

Glad you are doing a report
I would love to see Disney at Christmas

Welcome and thank you for joining us! We are going to make sure to check out the deluxe resort decorations and take pictures!

I adore you too! I was just letting you know I am here and ready for the planning for your BDAY trip!!!

Yay I am happy you are here .

 

[MaryAz]

Jumping in from the begining this time-I shall lurk no more! We go right after you in Dec. We also go in 33 days

 

[mrsksomeday]

Jumping in from the begining this time-I shall lurk no more! We go right after you in Dec. We also go in 33 days

Yay for coming out of lurkdom!! Have fun on both your trips. Thanks for joining us.

 

[mrsksomeday]

(actually text me)

As many of you know Disney message boards can help you find great friends. I have been fortunate to meet some of the Ip Dippers (still upset we won’t be there this year), some DISers, and KathyRN and family. They have been highlights of our trips. Great, fantastic, caring people, so you know that makes us want to meet even more people right?

I think Jordan was the one that mentioned oregondaddyof2 on one of his threads. I am not sure when I first started reading their reports. I loved their sense of humor and thought it was so cute that oregondaddyof2 Terry and oregonmommyof2 Toni both posted on their reports. I would show Bill Terry’s pictures and he would oooh and ahhh over them and say we needed a camera like that. I informed him it wasn’t only the camera but the photographer

that captures those gorgeous pictures and I would be sticking to my trusty point and shoot.

The talk of meeting each other began in Feb. 22nd on their “The could we?? should we?? PTR”, if you are not reading this WHAT are you waiting for? At that point Bill and I had talked about going to Disney around the 7th of December and I had joked that I needed to add a day or two so I could stalk them

.

Toni said: “I was actually telling Terry last night that if we had not already gone during Halloween time the last 2 years, we would be going during Ip Dip just so we could meet you and Bill... I would LOVE to be able to meet you guys!!!“

Toni encouraged me to start a ptr of my own (every day

). I did, some of you might have read it, we bounced around with the plans. A volunteer position came up for Bill with a disability organization, he is on the board of directors. The annual meeting was going to interfere with our May trip, money worries plagued me about October and December. I knew Bill really wanted December at Wilderness Lodge. My heart was pulled in two directions, October with Ip Dippers or December at Wilderness. I had to make a decision.

Poor Toni was there for me through the mess, listening, offering advice, and helping me though it. I am so grateful to have her in my life. She really did help me, so thank you very much Toni

. I can't express how much I adore this woman, she and I clicked and I admire her so much, she has a beautiful heart!!

We texted A LOT, so much so that I went from my plan of 250 texts a month to the 5000 plan

. She listened to me talk about how I felt I was letting the Ip Dippers down and how bad I felt. This is the second time I cancelled Ip Dip. Now last year the temperature was something like 111 degrees, so happy I didn’t go that year, I would have passed out

but I really missed the people. I have decided to not say anything about going to Ip Dip again and just pop down there and surprise them. That way I don’t feel like an idiot if something comes up.

Bill and I discussed it, decided to cancel October and moved the Disney trip up to Nov. 28th – December 7th. I have a subscription to Touring Plans, I know the crowd calendars will be updated a couple of times before our trip but it seems to be a great time to go after Thanksgiving. This would give us more time to spend with Josh and family when we got back before we needed to go to Indiana for Christmas too so that is a plus.

Toni and I started talking about each others plans or my lack of. I had focused solely on October, so really didn’t have much planned at all for December. Toni and I are a lot of like when it comes to Disney planning. We joke that we have to be related some how. Bill laughs at how much alike we are. We threw out many ideas. So what did we decide? Well for hers you will have to read her and Terry’s PTR, and for mine stay tuned for a future installment.

Next installment… Wheelchair # 1 or # 2

 

[mrsksomeday]

Double post, it told me there was a FATAL error so I tried again but it had already posted, LOL.

 

[KathyRN137]

Doh!!

Ya left me hangin', Tracy! I thought I was going to get more details!

Toni sounds like good people to me....



Kathy

 

[mrsksomeday]

Doh!!

Ya left me hangin', Tracy! I thought I was going to get more details!

Toni sounds like good people to me....



Kathy

Hi Kathy, she is great people, she reminds me of another fantastic DISer we had the pleasure to meet twice and hope to see again one day .

 

[jordanyosh]

I'm jealous!

 

[oregonmommyof2]

Tracy!!

Stop!!! Your going to make me blush... And cry... You know what a sap I am...

Oh, and as for #1 or #2, I vote that he do neither in the wheelchair...

I kid! I kid!!

 

[mrsksomeday]

I'm jealous!

I wish you could be there too, I can't wait for your birthday trip!!

 

[mrsksomeday]

Tracy!!

Stop!!! Your going to make me blush... And cry... You know what a sap I am...

Oh, and as for #1 or #2, I vote that he do neither in the wheelchair...

I kid! I kid!!

I tell the truth, you can't silence me woman .

You crack me up .