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Just saying hi!
I am horribly behind on many reports right now. I hope that all is well for you and your family!

Well, I've considered buying DVC, but yeah, that's a lot of money to lay down at once. I've got other expenses to deal with.Nah, I'm not saying that. I am saying to just buy resale at SSR and stay wherever you want for 1/2 the price.![]()
He's basically saying buy cheap DVC resale and use it to book a DVC room there.Um.... What?
Your vote does matter. Kind of. Maybe?Not that my vote matters, but i'd go with GCH![]()
Yeah, the kids would love that. Thanks for the heads up.Also, wanted to mention this in case you may have overlooked it in your planning. Over at DCA in the Animation Building, there is a ramp to go downstairs to the Sorcerer's Workshop. It's a very fun interactive area for kids going through the Beast's Library where you can get on computer screens to see what Disney personality you have and from there it leads you to Ursula's Grotto where you can choose a Disney song, sing it while it records and you can hear the playback. It's really fun and your kids would enjoy it! It's something a lot of people forget about. Definitely a hidden gem![]()
Um... yeah... I'm right there with you.Just saying hi!I am horribly behind on many reports right now. I hope that all is well for you and your family!
Yes, it is getting more and more high tech all the time. So much so that sometimes I just want to get rid of the technology and take a step back. My 60+ year old dad and uncle don't exactly handle it all that well.Wow. Farming has really gotten high tech over the last few years. I love all the John Deere green!
Good luck getting your FP+!
Jill in CO
ThanksLove seeing the info on how farming is going these days! That combine is nice!
Yay for picking the GCH! I would have done the same if I were you, the extra $$ would be worth it to be closer and in such a nice place during your stay.
Good luck with the FP+ selections. My window opens 2 weeks from today!![]()
Yeah, everybody goes through it from time to time. The Dis is a fun time waster, but sometimes there just isn't much time to waste.Life can get in the way sometimes. But no worries, our trip reports aren't going anywhere. Everyone understands that sometimes you have no free time. Don't feel obligated to stay current on everything.
Sorry. I was trying to throw some descriptions out to help explain some things... but I probably could have worded them better.Sounds like one busy time of the year for you. I'll admit, my knowledge of farming extends as far as gardens so some of the info you were giving went over my head. (Except about drying the beans out, I actually knew that!)
The photos from the driver's seat and the ones your DW took were very cool. It looks like an impressive place. I only know beaches and swampland, so I can't imagine seeing all those crops in one place. There was one picture when I thought, "There's so much green!"![]()
I think GCH will work well for us. But the short walk to the parks was the biggest thing!I'm glad you were able to come to decision on resorts for DL. I don't think you'll look back and regret picking GCH.
Good luck on snagging FPs. It can be confusing at first, but it tends to get easier the more days you do. And hey, at least that means you'll be at 60 days on your trip countdown.
I've heard some not so great reviews of Tusker House lately, so maybe it wasn't a horrible idea to drop the ADR.
Eh... sorry. I was trying to be descriptive so that I could kind of educate, but I was trying to do it without getting overly wordy. I guess it didn't work so well.Thanks for updating us on what's going on. While I probably only understood about half of what you said (took me a few reads to realize that combine was equipment and not a verb!), its interesting to get insight into a job that is so unfamiliar to me. I hope the weather turns for you and you can get those soybeans harvested and have a substantial crop.
I hope you enjoy the GCH. Its a beautiful hotel. Good luck on FP+. Monday is my ADR day for the April trip so I feel for your anxiety!
I will! Hoping to score a couple of TSMM FP+, 7DMT and maybe an A&E. Hopefully my goals aren't too terribly lofty?Let us know what kind of great fastpasses you getm=.
Nah, I'm not saying that. I am saying to just buy resale at SSR and stay wherever you want for 1/2 the price.![]()
Not sure how familiar you are with DVC, but resale prices are at around 50% cheaper than buying directly from Disney. We just purchased SSR in January for $60pp. Direct prices are $135-$165. With buying resale your contract is more restricted(can't use points for DCL, can't book the 'Disney Collection', etc) but all non-DVC booking are considered a poor value because of the amount of points that are needed -vs- 'renting' out points.Um.... What?
Almost FP+ Time!!!
I want to start off by apologizing if my comments on TR's are slow to happen or shorter than normal. I've been swamped. It is fall and that means I'm busy here at work during the day, and then putting in long hours on the farm after work. We've had some rain the past couple of days so I've got a little bit of time right now to step back and catch my breath.
You want Anna & Elsa? Book it 1st for one of our last days in WDW.First of all, in Disney World related news, our FP+ reservations will have been made by this time next week.
If all goes as planned. We shall see. I'm still not 100% confident in the DME system, but Tuesday is our FP+ day, so hopefully we can get what we want!
Take a lot of pictures! Melody was saying she wants to goto DL in 2 years. Hopefully, we can book a few nights at the GCH or in our case GCV.We were leaning towards DLH, but you all nudged me to just go for it and stay at GCH. I guess in the end, it will be nice to be so much closer to the parks at the end of the day, and really, for a once in a lifetime trip, I'd say it is worth $300 more over the course of 4 nights to upgrade and do it right.
Great pictures.Lots of technology in those tractors. It's like they almost can drive themselves! (I checked out your video LOLOL)And I thought I'd share some pictures I have from working on the farm the past couple of weeks so you know why I've been scarce around the Disboards lately.
Yeah... too many free dining packages. We couldn't even move our Whispering Canyon ADR back an hour or 2.
First of all, it is just more characters that we're going to be eating with elsewhere.
We have decided on a hotel and booked our package.
We were leaning towards DLH, but you all nudged me to just go for it and stay at GCH.
The combine has auto steer that makes it drive a straight line controlled by GPS from one end of the field to the other. All you have to do is turn it around at the end and push a button to make it follow your pre-set line.
We've noticed.No worries... I'm in and out of the DIS all the time. Most of the time work or life gets in the way but sometimes I just cut myself off for a while.
That's the plan. I'm more nervous about having issues with MDE and booking FP+ than anything. I almost always have issues with it when I log on. I figure by the time I get logged in and get to where I can book FP+ they'll be gone.You want Anna & Elsa? Book it 1st for one of our last days in WDW.
Take a lot of pictures! Melody was saying she wants to goto DL in 2 years. Hopefully, we can book a few nights at the GCH or in our case GCV.![]()
Almost...Great pictures.Lots of technology in those tractors. It's like they almost can drive themselves! (I checked out your video LOLOL)
Yes. We've used it before and I think it is a good thing to have. I just hate that it makes it so hard to schedule or re-arrange ADR's if you need to do it closer to trip time.A necessary evil, I suppose.
But we loved free dining.
Wouldn't have done our last trip without it.
Well, TH was more for the strategic park entry than the characters in this case. But when it became a strategically bad idea to be there... well, you know.Now that the DDs are older, I have no intention of ever doing a character meal again.
Unless it's for the food, or strategic park entry.
Wow. That looks great!
Well, I'm glad that I had something useful and informative to say! Thanks!Thank you! As soon as I started reading this post, I wanted to ask if the combine turned itself or just did the lines.
Now I know.
Believe it or not, this was in the back of mind for years.
I know Kathy. I know.I would have cancelled WCC but that's just me.![]()
Well, I'll definitely be giving a perspective on it from a WDW homer point of view. This upcoming trip will be my 9th to WDW followed by my first to DL.YAY for having your package booked for DL. I'm going to count on you for lots of info after your trip (even though we've postponed ours for the time being...since we did WDW for Mark's 60th, we're going to do DL for mine).
I like the green equipment too. But if our dealer doesn't start acting like they want to deal with us, there's going to be some red or blue starting to show up.Love seeing all that John Deere equipment...especially since my daughter-in-law works for a subsidiary of the company.![]()
Okay - I was really trying to make it through the whole PTR and then post, because that would be super-impressive, but well, it isn't happening.
I believe you. And don't worry about it. I kind of abandon the PTR at times. I enjoy putting a PTR together so that I can think things through and get feedback on various details, but there are just so many points in trip planning where there's just nothing happening. And the PTR goes stale. Anyway, I'm glad you're here. Hopefully the TR will be better.So please know that I am reading through and joining in. I seriously hope to have made it through enough to make an actual substantive comment before you leave on your trip!
Really, I am trying very hard!!!!![]()
I'm nervously excited about it.Yay for FP+ window opening up!![]()
I don't feel too bad about cutting it. I'd still like to try it sometime though.I ate at TH for breakfast last winter. It was just OK, so I won't feel bad about the cut. It was just sort of crowded and claustrophobic in there. I didn't care for the setup, but that might have been because we were at a table for two. You know how those tables can be cramped.
Thanks. It is definitely a huge upgrade over what we were using just 5 or 6 years ago. The technology has really come a long way. Half of those monitors weren't even in it last year. We added them before we started this year. The fun part is trying to teach my dad and uncle how to use all of that stuff.Seriously cool combine. The corn in the field next to my house was harvested this past week. I assure you that the equipment they used was not nearly as cool as yours. Thanks for the inside look into the cab. Very cool tech stuff. Loved all the pictures! More please!
Well, mostly smooth. At least I wasn't locked out of my Disney account or something stupid like that. I just got frustrated with the layout more than anything.Hopefully you get everything you want for FP+. That's not something i'm looking forward to, but hoping it's easy and smooth for you.
Yeah, I think it was for the best.I think you made the right move in canceling TH, especially as it's now an EMH! Good call.![]()
I look forward to spending a few days there. I still want to try to get over to DLH and Trader Sams at some point though.Awesome choice on the GCH! It may seem like a lot right now, but when you get there and see how amazing it is and how close it is, it will be totally worth it.
Thanks.Very cool to see the view from inside the tractor. We always drive by folks working in their tractors and it's neat to see their point of view.
But the ordeal of using the MDE website and booking them 60 days out...
Hey, at least you got them. Keep checking, maybe something will open up. Don't forget to check just before your 45 day mark when people start canceling.We got mostly everything we wanted. As it stands right now, the kids DW and her Mom will be able to meet Anna and Elsa. I will not. I really don't care to meet them, but it is ridiculous that you have to have FP+ just to stand there and see your kids meet a character. Eh... whatever.
That would make everything go faster. Not sure why it doesn't let you do that.But more than that, I don't like the layout for picking them and adjusting times. Why can't you just select your time from the very start???
Go have a drink. You deserve it.Sorry. Lack of sleep from the past few weeks followed by staying up late to deal with FP+ has me a little edgy this morning. Rant over.![]()