Good grief - you guys have been CHATTY!!!! I have been trying to get caught up all day - you know, between "working" and all. I hate the first day back from vacation! I still have like 250 unread emails.
I have been cracking up reading all your posts, though.
You guys are too much! Glad everyone has been having a good time here.
I miss the GF!
I am glad to be back with DH and my doggie, but man, I don't get quite the service here that I do there!
Of course, I can't complain too much as DH is making us chocolate milkshakes right now! I swear it wasn't my idea, but it does keep up the ice cream diet I've been on the past few days!
I took some more pics, and will hopefully be able to post those tomorrow or Thursday - it's a long convoluted story, but it's going to take some time to get them off the new camera DH bought me, after he insisted that I keep the settings a certain way so the pics would be of the best quality. It made those puppies huge!!
The GF was the best as always! I already mentioned my upgrade - such a nice surprise. My mom didn't know we were even staying there until our check-in morning (stayed at ASMu the night we arrived since we got in late), and she was thrilled to say the least. Not sure if my upgrade was due to friends in high places
, or if I just got lucky. I didn't put any requests on my ressie just to see where we would end up, and on check-in the sweet CM asked if I had any preferences for room location. I just told her I didn't want the back side of Sago, but anything else would be great. She tapped away on her computer for a while, and then had a quiet phone call with someone. After she got off the phone, she said I think you'll be pleased with your room, since you'll be able to see the Castle.
We thanked her profusely.
The weather was beautiful - it was starting to get a little warm by Sunday/Monday, but Wednesday evening was almost downright chilly, and Thursday and Friday were really nice. We lucked out for May for sure. I only saw a couple of love bugs yesterday afternoon as we were saying our "goodbyes" to the MK. Hopefully they won't be too bad for those of you going in a few days!
Let's see - I did get pics of the marina pricing, and will post those soon.
We ate breakfast for the 1st time at the GFC (made ressies the morning of), and it was quite tasty.
Our room was great, although the new dresser and desk did have some wear and tear to them. My 26-yo DB met us for 2 days, and slept with no problem on the daybed, and he's 6'1". I didn't take pics of the room itself (7330), but did take pics of our view - I figured all the rooms look pretty much the same at this point. I would probably be a
tad upset if I had booked the MK view and had the room we did (or those above/below us), as there was a large pine tree directly in front of the room. Of couse, the balcony was so large you could still see the Castle if you stood to the left side of the balcony, and views of Space Mtn. and the CR were great.
I looked around for Mr. Mike's family, but didn't spot them. What a great upgrade they had - good for them!
Oh, I think we may have met the infamous lady from the lobby. Yesterday, we were getting freshened up in the bathroom there near the GFC before heading to the airport, and an older woman walked in. The housekeeper CM that was in there knew her by name, and when she was washing her hands she began talking to us. When we mentioned we were leaving to go home, she said she lived nearby, and goes to the GF at least 5 times a week to listen to the music. She said she used to do this with her husband, but he passed away not long ago - he would do paperwork, say his rosary, go for walks, etc., and she would just listen to the orchestra. I really began to wonder if she is "that" lady - she was very sweet, but did have a bit of eccentric makeup and a very interesting, obvious wig. Those that have seen her - does this sound familiar?
. I grew up Methodist, and the church DH pastored for a while was in a little small town in west TX, and needless to say they didn't have progressive ideas on women's roles in the church. I never became a member due to that and other things, and I was quite the talk for all the church ladies. 
That church about did us in, so we decided it was best to get out of that situation for our marriage. Circumstances dictated that DH ended up doing something else (at least for now) as a vocation, and we love the Bible church we go to now. Our church has great outreach, but I'd love to hear about the ministry you started - sounds very interesting, and something I could see being so meaningful! 
, even though I had talked to 2 different PD CM's that day to confirm the delivery time. I called the guy I dealt with the most the next morning, and he was appropriately horrified. He promised to deliver it himself that night, and it was there, on a pretty silver tray - it was a nice presentation in the room. However, I'm thinking that cake had to at least be 2 days old at that point, and that kind of torqued me.
They did some decorative roses on the cake, did do the edible scroll with the Mother's Day message, and did do the white chocolate Minnie topper (and accented her in gold). The filling was really good - the cake was so-so, and the frosting was definitely more shortening than anything. The cake itself didn't live up to those I can get at bakeries around here, which was a shame. Like I said, my mom was surprised and thought it was great, but it wasn't worth all I went through for the quality. And thank goodness it wasn't a b-day, since they didn't get the delivery date right! If I'm looking for anything like this in the future, I'll probably be looking outside WDW.
so our trip will still be magical 
