Gearing Up For a Birthmasiversary With the Mouse! - A Dec 09 PTR

[LOVEMY3KIDDOS]

I really like your bags. We always use a backpack...need to carry quite a bit with the kids!! Bring on that packing list! It is almost time to actually start doing the actual packing! THAT is what I am excited for!

 

[Elevationist]

I've been busy this weekend so I'm just catching up now!! Sorry for your ruined plans I know last year I had some friends that went and they said Main Street is crazy but the rest of the park was fine but they also were not letting people in for free! I would bet that if they leave the park and can't get back in your night should not be ruined. I can see people coming for the parade, staying for the afternoon but leaving early evening especially if they are not permitted back in. I can't see how people would stand there for hours and then still be there into the night.

I would just get there early to find a spot for Spectro since that is important to you. I would doubt it would reach capacity. Even last year on Xmas day and New Years, it was into the late afternoon until they were full and those were on holidays!!

nice bags

Thanks! The idea of His & Hers bags just tickles me.

I think the parade business is going to turn out fine. And yeah, I plan on being at MK by 5:30 to start camping our Spectro/Wishes spot.

What time is your dinner at Le cellier? On our last trip in Jan, we had a 5:30 ADR and still somehow made it to MK for Spectro. I don't think i've ever walked that fast....when we got in..we still had like 2 mins left....

Our Le Cellier ADR is at 7:10pm. Sooooo... that's not gonna work.

Those bags look great and super-convenient! I think the cell phone holders would probably be too narrow for my iPhone, but I think having the phone pocket on the strap is a great place for it--really easy access!

Yeah, Ron has a Blackberry, so I doubt the phone pocket will work for him. It will work perfect for my little Samsung, though.

Nice bags Hope they suit your needs for the trip!!!! Can't wait to put mine to the test

Me too! I think they're going to be perfect, though. Thank you again for your help with them!

No problem! I hardly use the program (ends in March 2010) and would like to spread holiday joy around! Just let me know when, though it is probably best closer to your departing date just in case sometihng changed/updatd with th program.

I need park on wha day, starting time (ie: whn you expect to get on your first ride), ending time, if there is a Fastpass runner/utilizing late Fastpass and I can even program in your ADRs. And pow! A RideMax plan is made.

Neat! I'll probably get back to you on this, thank you!

Love those bags, I wish I would have looked into bags more before buying my buston bag, yours is so much cuter, oh well.

I'm sure that you'll be really happy with your Buxton! I think it looks awesome.

I love your bags!!! I must say that we do travel the parks only with what's in our back packs, but I do carry a back pack because I have this insane need to be prepared with and for everything. LOL if anyone needs anything while in the parks, just find me. I have managed to get most of it in travel size which helps, but you never know when you may need some mole skin for a blister (ps- a GOD SENT if you ever have a blister; you can find it in target in the foot care section)

Yeah, I've always carries a backpack in the past, but I'm determined to downsize this year. And I think with Ron and I each having a bag, we'll have plenty of space between the two of us. (And yes, I am a moleskin user too! I put it on BEFORE blisters in the spots where I know I'm likely to get them, and it makes a work of difference!)

I see that these new taping days at the MK have been throwing a lot of people off. It's so crummy, I'm sorry that it's messing up your plans. It's sticky to spend all the time planning only for this to happen at the home stretch!!

I know it. But even though I was hella-stressed at first, I've looked it all over and think that I really think I was overreacting. I have decided that everything is goign to be fine, and not to worry about it a moment longer.

I really like your bags. We always use a backpack...need to carry quite a bit with the kids!! Bring on that packing list! It is almost time to actually start doing the actual packing! THAT is what I am excited for!

Hehe, I know! I don't know why I've been stalling on getting that part going. (Laziness, I suppose!) Soon, I will begin the packing process! I swear it!

 

[Elevationist]

Well, so much for my ADRs being done.

I showed Ron some food porn from Whispering Canyon Cafe. Guess where I've been asked to get us a ADR for an early dinner on 12/7, so we can fill our bellies before we drive back to South Carolina?

So the search continues. I just grabbed an ADR for WCC on 12/5, at 9:20pm, in order to keep my options open. (We are currently scheduled to have dinner at Ohana that night at 9:45pm.)

This means that I now am on the hunt for either WCC or Ohana, on 12/7, around 5pm!

Will it never end?

 

[MyMuse]

Well, so much for my ADRs being done.

Will it never end?

Nope!

I'll send you good luck magic vibes!

 

[nic100308]

LOL you are crazy!!! I can just picture you at your computer, t-minus 3 hours till Disney departure, still messing with your ADR's!! Why don't you keep your current WWC ressie and switch Ohana to the meal before you leave for your drive?!?!

How many hours is that drive, by the way?

 

[Elevationist]

Nope!

I'll send you good luck magic vibes!

Thanks! I need it!

LOL you are crazy!!! I can just picture you at your computer, t-minus 3 hours till Disney departure, still messing with your ADR's!! Why don't you keep your current WWC ressie and switch Ohana to the meal before you leave for your drive?!?!

I can do either. Right now I have late ressies at both Ohana and WCC on 12/5. That means that I can pick up either one of those on 12/7, and be fine. So I'm looking for either one.

How many hours is that drive, by the way?

About 5 hours, depending on traffic. Not bad at all.

 

[LOVEMY3KIDDOS]

LOL...I have been playing with a few myself...it never ends until you do the actual eating!

 

[JoJo1980]

Well, so much for my ADRs being done.

I showed Ron some food porn from Whispering Canyon Cafe. Guess where I've been asked to get us a ADR for an early dinner on 12/7, so we can fill our bellies before we drive back to South Carolina?

So the search continues. I just grabbed an ADR for WCC on 12/5, at 9:20pm, in order to keep my options open. (We are currently scheduled to have dinner at Ohana that night at 9:45pm.)

This means that I now am on the hunt for either WCC or Ohana, on 12/7, around 5pm!

Will it never end?

Sista, i've done exactly the same thing

I've now got us an adr for GF cafe on our first night and cancelled brekkie at 1900 park fare also changed the days we were doing the plaza at MK and have added a brekkie at WCC

I hope you manage to get what you want honey Although I hope you stick with ohana so we can bump into each other again

 

[Elevationist]

LOL...I have been playing with a few myself...it never ends until you do the actual eating!

And in true fat-girl fashion, I have been endlessly dreaming about the actual eating...

Sista, i've done exactly the same thing

I've now got us an adr for GF cafe on our first night and cancelled brekkie at 1900 park fare also changed the days we were doing the plaza at MK and have added a brekkie at WCC

I hope you manage to get what you want honey Although I hope you stick with ohana so we can bump into each other again

It's really going to all depend on if I can get anything on the 7th. If I can't, we're probably going to keep WCC on the 5th, and attempt a walk-up at Ohana on the 7th as soon as they open. I've been told that if you get there a little before 5pm and are first at the podium before the restaurant fills up, you're likely to get seated. (This method won't work at WCC because they are open for lunch... Ohana is not.)

 

[Elevationist]

A very merry unbirthday to me (to who)
A very merry unbirthday to me (to you)
Let's all congratulate me
With a present I agree
A very merry unbirthday to me

Little background... My parents started me in preschool as soon as they could, after a year of it they tried to register me for kindergarten. They were told that I was still a year too young. So they put in a second year of preschool, which of course I breezed through. At they end of that second year, they were once again denied kindergarten registration based on my birth date. They were told that I would have to wait yet another year, because I missed the birth date cut-off by one month. Apparently, my birthday had to be before Nov. 1st... mine was Dec. 3rd.

Well, my parents were none too pleased, and thought putting me through a 3rd year of preschool was totally stupid and unnecessary. But of course, they knew that just taking me out of school all together for a year would be even worse.

So. My dad did something crazy. I don't know the details of exactly how he pulled it off, but he falsified my birth certificate. He changed my birth date on it, and it worked. I started kindergarten that year.

But they were afraid of me blowing their cover, so until I was in 2nd grade I believed my birthday was October 28th.

So every year on 10/28, I wish myself a very merry unbirthday.




Also, I forgot to post this, but yesterday was...
5 MORE WEEKS!

 

[beyondblessed]

A very merry unbirthday to me (to who)
A very merry unbirthday to me (to you)
Let's all congratulate me
With a present I agree
A very merry unbirthday to me

Little background... My parents started me in preschool as soon as they could, after a year of it they tried to register me for kindergarten. They were told that I was still a year too young. So they put in a second year of preschool, which of course I breezed through. At they end of that second year, they were once again denied kindergarten registration based on my birth date. They were told that I would have to wait yet another year, because I missed the birth date cut-off by one month. Apparently, my birthday had to be before Nov. 1st... mine was Dec. 3rd.

Well, my parents were none too pleased, and thought putting me through a 3rd year of preschool was totally stupid and unnecessary. But of course, they knew that just taking me out of school all together for a year would be even worse.

So. My dad did something crazy. I don't know the details of exactly how he pulled it off, but he falsified my birth certificate. He changed my birth date on it, and it worked. I started kindergarten that year.

But they were afraid of me blowing their cover, so until I was in 2nd grade I believed my birthday was October 28th.

So every year on 10/28, I wish myself a very merry unbirthday.




Also, I forgot to post this, but yesterday was...
5 MORE WEEKS!

This is the funniest story! Go Dad! We kind of did the same thing for Caya this year. She turns 5 in November but to play rec sports you are supposed to be 5 by 8/1. So when we call to sign her up and they ask for her birthday we say 7/18 (since 7 rhymes w/11)...that way if we're ever questioned we can just say "we said 11/18, someone must have mis-understood"!

 

[TinkerbellLuvr7]

tomorrow is 6 weeks for me!!! It can't come soon enough!!

 

[Wrexie]

Great unbirthday story! Those cut-off dates for school are so lame. I mean, it would be awkward to have kids together that are in very different stages developmentally, but if people are within a few months of the cut-off date, they should have a test or something to determine whether they're ready for kindergarten. But that might make too much sense.

 

[jenbear123]

You poor child. Good thing your parents actually told you they did that. Pretty amazing how he fudged the numbers on your birth certificate! Go Dad

I, too, was held back (only one year mind you versus your three) from kindergarten. I was already reading at age 2 and well beyond the levels of what preschool was offering me. My parents tried registering me early but I was turned away. I had to wait until I was 5, like the rest. Seeing how my birthday is in January, I was nearly 6 by the time I started. Stupid school system

 

[nic100308]

OMG that is pure craziness!!! I love it because it sounds like a crazy stunt I would try to pull of myself!! Well Happy Unbirthday, but really sort of real Happy Birthday!!!

So have you gotten any closer on a ressie decision. I say look at both menus and pick the one that is better. After all it all comes down to the food. YUMMY....mhhmmmmmm doughnuts (Homer droll.....)

I give you a lot of credit trying to see if you can make everything work. LOL I didn't even let DH know that changing anything was a option. Although I guess I could have told him that if he wanted to change it he could do it on his own, but seriously I'm such a control freak there is no way I would let him touch anything.

 

[DONTMINDME]

Did ya miss me????? I've been down the last 4 days with the flu I've had to catch up. Billie a ressie change again. I know the food porn can really get you so I don't show Dh any of it. I'm pretty lucky mine will eat just about anything and be quite happy with it. I really haven't felt much like eating or anything else the last couple of days but i think I am on the mend. I'm Hungry!!! I've been in my room looking at all the stuff I have put together to take and it's growing. I have to stop DH says I like to take the house ok so I do.

 

[LOVEMY3KIDDOS]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! That is toooo freakin funny! I'd like to give your dad high ones!!!! I think we have all at one time or another "faked" our childs' age (if we are parents), but not too man go so far as to falsify a birth certificate!! LOL That's dedication!

 

[disneyaddicted]

That is the best unbirthday story I have ever heard. I laughed my @ss off. Brilliant of your Dad though, totally brilliant.
Hopefully I will get to see you at Disney on the 3rd so I can personally wish you a happy Birthday.
Who is your favorite character again?

 

[Elevationist]

So glad that everybody enjoyed my unbirthday story.

I'm just popping in to drop a quick note. Sorry that I haven't been around much, I know that I've been neglecting your PTRs almost as much as my own! Some drama went down at work (not with me), and my boss at the hotel is cracking down on bringing laptops for now. Since I work 2 jobs, my downtime at the hotel front desk late at night was when I did the majority of my DISing... or anything at all online, really. When I'm at home, I'm usually catching up on sleep. So that's why I've been a bit MIA. Praying that the laptop ban is only temporary! I'm already sick to death of spending all night watching infomercials on TV!

I hope you're all doing well and that the planning is coming along fabulously. I'll be around to share in it as much as I can manage!

 

[jenbear123]

So glad that everybody enjoyed my unbirthday story.

I'm just popping in to drop a quick note. Sorry that I haven't been around much, I know that I've been neglecting your PTRs almost as much as my own! Some drama went down at work (not with me), and my boss at the hotel is cracking down on bringing laptops for now. Since I work 2 jobs, my downtime at the hotel front desk late at night was when I did the majority of my DISing... or anything at all online, really. When I'm at home, I'm usually catching up on sleep. So that's why I've been a bit MIA. Praying that the laptop ban is only temporary! I'm already sick to death of spending all night watching infomercials on TV!

I hope you're all doing well and that the planning is coming along fabulously. I'll be around to share in it as much as I can manage!

Don't worry if you can't get on here everyday. Thanks for the update, I was beginning to wonder where you had disappeared to! Glad to hear it was nothing serious It's important to make sure you stay well rested, especially with this flu going around. Stay healthy and eat properly! Catch up when you can