YAY!!!
I'm always a walking pharmacy. I have certain prescription meds...but I also know what a pain it is getting just SIMPLE things like codeine

is in the USA...so I take anything and everything.
Hope things go ok at work this week so you can settle into a good crossing off checklist mode...
AS for paying accommodation in advance. I actually HATE having to do that. Although if we had with Tokyo
Disneyland we wouldn't have dealt with a massive price rise in AUD when the yen soared
But it leaves you at THEIR whim. You can't just leave.
Obviously Disney is different. But any other kind of accommodation I like to know they DON'T have my money so I have more negotiating power...