nope...i'm still here for another half hour or so! waiting on DH to get home so we can leave...course gotta wake Caleb back up and hopefully he goes right to sleep in the van until we stop for the night. We are driving 3 hrs tonight and staying the night in MI and then going the rest of the 11 hours or so in the morning. I just hope caleb does well in the car seat that long...he normally is good but this is going to be really hard on him!
I do not envy you with all that driving. Driving does me in these days. I'm all about flying now. So much easier on my legs. Caleb will be a saint if he makes it through that many hours without a meltdown or two. I hope you guys have a grand time, though, when you get there!
how sweet of you to get a sister necklace for hollie! she looks very pretty in it.
That was all Jill. She's a thoughtful girl.
You can add me to the bad feet support group.
I have wide, flat, fat feet-I am currently in the process of trying to find good shoes to wear on my trip next month. I usually wear sneakers to the parks everyday, but I'd like to try to find something else since it will be so hot.
I used to have a lot of pain in my heel, and my doctor said it was plantar fasciitis. One of the things that made a big difference for me on my last couple of trips to WDW is a tennis ball. I take a new tennis ball (it's small and doesn't have to be frozen), and roll my feet around on the ball whenever we go back to the room. I only do it for a few minutes on each foot at a time, but it really helped me. I have found that the brand name tennis balls (like Penn) work better than the store brand or cheaper ones. The cheaper ones are not firm enough for me.
I just thought I'd share that tip.
I am going to try all of the tips. I need some relief. It's ridiculous to so much want to go, go, go and not be able to.
I wanted to add that I wanted to try the Teva Mush flip flops that everyone raves about, but when I tried them on in the store my feet were too wide. I didn't like the way they looked because my feet seemed to be hanging off the sides.
Anyway, I am wondering if anyone here wears Merrills? I tried a pair on at Dillard's today. They were just a little too small for me, and they didn't have the next size up. However, they seemed very comfortable, and they had a lot of arch support which is wonderful in a sandal. I am thinking about ordering the bigger size online, but I am hesitant because they are so darn expensive. ($75!!)
I have read so many good things about Tevas. I will have to check if they have sliders, because I don't like anything between the toes. I wear some very comfortable Adidas slide-ins a lot. They are very comfortable. Jill borrowed mine to walk to the food court once and decided she needed to have some.
Oh, this time around, I plan to take pictures anytime I'm at Disney. (As long as I'm not working "behind the scenes") Well, still no call or email yet 
and still waiting, wishing and praying. Hmm, maybe Mickey knows I don't want to work on my birthday.
The cloud does look like a dog.
While you were waiting on the dock, we were waiting out the rain in our car.
Poolrat, I wouldn't mind a Tumble Monkey Show...lol
Hollie's necklace is so pretty!
I hope you get a call soon.
Those were some huge raindrops, weren't they???
Why do I get the feeling that the audience numbers for Festival of the Lion King are about to go up?
I'm not going to be the one to tell those sweet girls they have to get out of the pool....
No Way!
You would have those two spoiled rotten if we saw you any more than just short spurts!
Miss Anita Wigd and her magic suitcase of fun were a big hit with Brooklynn!
Confession time...I just talked DH into us all sharing a kitchen sink for lunch one day!! I am a scrapbooker so it will make an awesome page AND there are pins to be bought!!!!
Lucky you! We will look forward to seeing the pictures.
I coulda had a Kitchen Sink, too, but.... 
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Back at the boat dock, we waited,
and waited,
and waited
for a boat.
Finally a boat came in, and we all boarded.
That was a futile effort, because the boat had no captain.
No captain, no moving boat.
After several apologies from a very nice captain of another boat who was running another route, another green flag boat came up. Everyone piled off of the non-moving boat and got onto one that was going to go somewhere.
Preferably Old Key West.
But wait...
we first have to stop
at Saratoga Springs
to change captains.
And drop off a family who had gotten on the wrong boat.
We knew Stacey and family were waiting for us, and we knew that they had an Olivia's ADR soon. We were hoping this was not going to inconvenience them. We also knew that there was no chance now of getting to see the inside of an Old Key West room.
Hot baby on a boat.
You can see the sky starting to get dark.
Isn't this a pretty place?
Stacey met us outside and we all went into the lobby, where Brooklynn found cartoons.
She gets totally absorbed in her TV watching.
I think Stacey was calling her family and telling them to come on to the lobby.
Welcome Home had been formed with balloons at the check-in desk.
Time check.
Stacey's wet family. Great bunch!
I know why she keeps them around.
Brooklynn got to do a craft with a nice CM.
Bella played on of her favorite games. It's called
Get in the Smallest Space You Can Find and Watch the Grown-ups Try to Come and Get You.
David has put OKW on the list of places he never wants to stay at because of that experience. I don't know though, I heard they were getting a refurb!
I think we'll probably have a cookout at some point for just our branch of the family
