Hi Everybody! I'm back from Savannah!

[Dream]

.....I'm back, but not recovered yet!!! Whoo, what an adventure! We had a BLAST, the girls were amazing and man am I tired!! For those of you who have never been, Savannah is a beautiful city rich with history and "old Southern charm". The girls did very well in a city full of "don't touch" and we seemed to find the right mix between "culture" and "FUN"!The train ride was a nightmare!!! I will NEVER ride Amtrak again and have already started a nice juicy letter of complaint! Think we deserve a refund for being seated in the lounge car due to overbooking?? Ever tried to SLEEP in a fully lit lounge car complete with grumpy conductor and his VERY noisy walkee-talkee? With 3 little girls?!? You would not believe.....!
I have had two "all nighters" in the last 4 days...I am too old for this!! It helps a little to see that dd is also tired...maybe I'm NOT that old? Hee hee! Years of planning and now it's all over...time to plan the next trip!!! On the train home the girls were re-living all of our adventures and they decided that...are you ready...they want their next trip to be to DISNEY WORLD!!! WOO HOO....I have a trip to plan!!! YIKES!! Anybody want to chaperone?

 

[JAP]

Welcome Back! Sorry to hear the train ride was so horrible. Too bad Amtrak cannot get themselves together!

Yea your girls want to go to WDW!

 

[snoopy]

Welcome back, Dream! I've missed you, and wondered where you were!

You know you can find some takers here to help plan your next trip to WDW! Hey, didn't you say that you guys were going over Christmas? I seem to remember that, maybe I dreamed that?

In any case, welcome back. Glad your trip went well, minus the Amtrak part.

 

[helenabear]

Welcome back Jodie... you sure were missed around here! Sorry your train ride was such a pain though.

 

[CarolA]

Dream glad to hear it went well! (And no, I have not taken a group of Girl Scouts to Disney!)

 

[Saffron]

Welcome back!

 

[Poohbear123]

I was wondering how you made out! Glad to hear you had a good time, my DH and I go every year in June! We usually have a good time. Did you go on the ghost tour? How was it? What hotel did you stay at? Sorry to hear about Amtrak, I used to ride them to Kissimmee for my WDW trips. Might take them in Nov. if they are still operational!

 

[supercarrie]

Welcome back!!

 

[#1 Disney Fan]

Welcome back Jodie! We missed you.

So a Disney trip huh, and you need chaperones? Hmmm... I'm sure something could be worked out.

Have fun catching up on everything you missed while you were gone! After I get back from a trip it seems so overwhelming, but fun at the same time with pages and pages of un-read CB!

 

[dizneenut]

Welcome back!

 

[Patrick IL.]

Welcome back!

 

[Tigger]

So glad to hear the trip went well. Did your troop do any of the activities at the Juliette Low house? I took my GS troop on a WDW trip one year. On that same trip, we did Savannah and the Kennedy Space Center. At WDW, we participated in the GS programs they offer. It was a wonderful trip, but we had to fund raise for about 4 years!

 

[Goofyposter]

HiYa Dream!!...it's good ter see yer back!!!

 

[jldriscoll]

Welcome back!!! so glad the trip was a success!!!

As I am also a G.S. leader and CPR certified, I think I should be your choice for a chap. to WDW.

Afterall, you gotta go by safteywise!!

 

[debster812]

Welcome Back!!!!!

Debster walks over to Dream, and relinquishes control of the Blender I really enjoyed having it!

Glad you and the girls had fun, bummer about the train.

I would LOVE to help chaperone the trip to WDW

 

[Dream]

Thanks Everybody!
Snoopy...no, you weren't dreaming! I am going to Disney for Christmas...family trip this time! Why? Are you going then too? We arrive Christmas evening and leave Jan. 1st

CarolA Thanks for all of your WONDERFUL advice about Savannah! You were the first one I thought of when the girls begged for Disney World...I laughed when I read your post here!! Darn! No "CarolA tips" for this trip!!

Poohbear123 NO!!! DON"T TAKE AMTRAK!!! If you do decide to do it, get a sleeper car...avoid coach like the plague! Take your own food and water as they seem to run out of both quite frequently and be prepared for hostile, burnt out employees!

Tigger Yes, we spent a whole day at the Juliette Low house and it was the highlight of the girls trip. We had researched Juliette for Thinking Day in Feb. so much of what they saw was familiar and they found that really cool! They did the "rainy day " session in the afternoon where they did activities that young ladies would have done on rainy days when Juliette was a girl. They embroidered, painted, cut out sillhouettes and made paper dolls and clothes...all the while dressed in "period clothing" that they chose themselves. I was afraid these "millenium girls" would have found these things to be a tad too tame but they really enjoyed it!

jldriscoll Yes, you are right!! We must adhere to "safety wise"!!! LOL! I will add you to the ever growing list of chaperone volunteers!!

Debster Thanks for being the "keeper of the blender"!! You can borrow it anytime!!

 

[DaisyDebbie]

Glad you're back safe and sound. Too bad the train was a horror story, could have been a nice experience for the girls

 

[Dan Murphy]

Nice to see you back, Jodie. You were missed. Any pictures???

 

[kejoda]

Oh I forgot that Debster had the blender. At least she didn't break like some other nameless Diser did. Anyway welsomce back you were missed and I will voluteer myself to take a bunch of girl scouts to Disney.

 

[CarolA]

Actually, while I have not yet taken a group to Disney I do have hints. One of my GS jobs was approving all troop travel out of the area. The troops also had to submit evaluations. As a result, I have really bad news for all the wannabe chaparones. Disney has a great program for kids. However, they are fairly strict on the numbers of adults they will accomdate in these programs. (We had one troop leader who was afraid to tell one of her parents that they would not get to participate in the neat program. The parent shows up and Disney just would not take her along. The Disney person told the troop leader that either the leader or this extra adult could go, but not both!) I actually don't remember all the details on how many and who could do these programs, but I probably have it here somewhere!!!