bellebookworm9
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Just a quick update: Finals went very, very well. I ended up making the Dean's List for the first time with a semester GPA of 3.74. 
I'm taking summer classes and so I will be getting a nice financial aid refund for summer classes alone, and that will pay for the rest of our trip. The rest of our room payment is due in early June, and then I need to buy our park tickets and MNSSHP tickets. Dates for the party have been released and October 10th is indeed a party date. 
There's really not too much more to plan for the October trip, at least until the F&WF menus are released! But starting on Tuesday, I plan to do a brief recap of last May's trip, since it will be exactly a year ago! Crazy-it feels like it was yesterday!
For our January grad school scouting trip, I plan to fly Southwest, but I'll check other airlines too. Delta, American and US are the only ones that fly into Gainesville, so we will probably just end up flying into Jacksonville and driving the 70 miles to Gainesville. We plan to do University of Florida, University of South Florida, and then visit WWoHP.
OK, I was just pricing Orlando area hotels for the January trip. The onsite Universal hotels are just too expensive, and even the offsite ones are a little pricey! So here are some options (prices are total for two nights, including tax, if necessary):
Pop Century: $184.50 (we could get a AAA discount on this)
AKV-Value Studio at Jambo House: $180
AKV-Standard View Studio at Kidani: $220
OKW or BWV-Standard View Studio: $200
(Renting DVC points for these, of course)
Which would you choose?
I'm taking summer classes and so I will be getting a nice financial aid refund for summer classes alone, and that will pay for the rest of our trip. The rest of our room payment is due in early June, and then I need to buy our park tickets and MNSSHP tickets. Dates for the party have been released and October 10th is indeed a party date. There's really not too much more to plan for the October trip, at least until the F&WF menus are released! But starting on Tuesday, I plan to do a brief recap of last May's trip, since it will be exactly a year ago! Crazy-it feels like it was yesterday!For our January grad school scouting trip, I plan to fly Southwest, but I'll check other airlines too. Delta, American and US are the only ones that fly into Gainesville, so we will probably just end up flying into Jacksonville and driving the 70 miles to Gainesville. We plan to do University of Florida, University of South Florida, and then visit WWoHP.
OK, I was just pricing Orlando area hotels for the January trip. The onsite Universal hotels are just too expensive, and even the offsite ones are a little pricey! So here are some options (prices are total for two nights, including tax, if necessary):
Pop Century: $184.50 (we could get a AAA discount on this)
AKV-Value Studio at Jambo House: $180
AKV-Standard View Studio at Kidani: $220
OKW or BWV-Standard View Studio: $200
(Renting DVC points for these, of course)
Which would you choose?
Now all that's left to buy ahead of time are the park tickets, and I'm going to do that before the prices go up, usually around August 1st. 
Then we looked up the price...$37/person. 
She instantly declined. I posted about it on the Y&BC thread and Teena, a CM at the BC who posts over there pointed out that it is a buffet and a pretty good deal. I talked to Mom who agreed, because seafood is expensive. So we now have a ressie for 5:30pm on October 7th, our arrival day. 
That's $300 each, and then we're each bringing our own spending money. 
Until they do, I don't actually get the aid dispensed that they have projected I'm getting. I need the aid dispensed so I can have my refund, buy the park tickets and pay off my credit card. 
So here it is, my treasured initial ring that I wear all the time. It's held up quite well! (There was also some other nice jewelry that I might buy, but I'll save that for another day.)
Gretchen then goes back to sleep for another hour or so before class at 8:30. 
) but check out more the Norway pavilion has to offer. It's my favorite area in all of EPCOT. Maelstrom is old, cheesy and silly but I love it and the shops have some really great stuff. Helly Hanson brand of outdoor wear is really good quality and keeps me warm during NY Winters for sure! There is a perfume they sell there called Laila that smells amazing, too. They have a cool selection of children's books that tell different Norse legends and fairy tails that I like to look through, it's interesting how many of them we tell our kids in America and don't realize they originated in Norway. But, if all you have time for is some school bread then you've already experienced the best part of Norway! 
