wendiloveswalt
WendiLovesWalt
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2011
I'm joining in. It looks like quite the adventure!
Not if it were one of my TRs
But then its historical digressions of that caliber which keep all but a hand full of loons from reading them
And were glad to have you on board
enjoyed the first TR as well.
Hey James! Somehow I missed your shameless plug. But now I found you, so there's no avoiding me.
Quite the large cast of characters you have there! And your daughter's first day of school picture is too cute.
Hmmm... A trip for your parents' anniversary and you stepped up to organize a lot of the plans. Somehow that sounds vaguely familiar to me.
Oh I SO feel your pain! We are trying to plan something similar, though no cruise component. But it involves one villa on points and another villa probably in cash. Possibly 2 treehouses over new years...not an easy feat. We've been chatting about it for oh, I dunno, 2 years? I sent info out a couple of weeks ago to my family with the not so quiet comment that I figured if we start talking about it now we might have a decision by Thanksgiving. Like you, 2 siblings not included on the initial info. We figure once things are nailed down, if ever, then we will inform them and if they want to come cool...if not...cool too.
The last time I did this, with Jeff's mom and her DH we used a travel agent so I wasn't the middle man and...I was still the middle man. Very similar deposit issues and that was with only 1 other room! It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
But you are BOOKED! Always a very good start and deposits made...always a stressor.
Misery loves company
I'm joining in. It looks like quite the adventure!
Once we settled on the cruise and got everyone booked, it was just a matter of paying it off and taking care of the little details.
Sounds like the parts that your family planned on would be great! I can't wait to find out if Bella got to do BBB!
I not a big fan of that little detail either.
Not tedious at all actually! We go through a lot of the same with just our little family and the initial stages of our next large trip is eerily similar to a lot of what you've just outlined. I can't wait to see where you ended up at for resorts and how the car thing worked out. We definitely had some car sagas on our trip...and a very similar rental plan.
Paying it off. No fun whatsoever. Until it is!
Sounds like y'all had a good starting point for the plans! Can't wait to see if all worked out that way.
Next up in age order would have been my brother Michael, but he did not come. So we move past him to the last of my three sisters: Patty.
Of all my siblings, Patty is the one I have the least in common with. We just seem to have completely different tastes in just about everything. As a result, I struggle with having a connection with her. As a family, we're definitely not as close as other families are, as evidenced by the fact that we can go days, weeks, or even months without talking to one another. So this gap between the two of us is in addition to that. Strangely, it wasn't like that when we were kids. In fact, a lot of my memories of WDW are of her and I going on rides and doing things because the older siblings were doing their own thing. Now, she's a big country music fan and loves the Pittsburgh Steelers. She'd be down with thrill rides normally, but she's a few months pregnant and that means she'll be taking it easy on this trip.
You must make a surprise phone call to Patty and tell her one of your crazy WITW friends has a slight connection with her. While it pains me tremendously, this die hard-bleeds blue-Dallas Cowboys fan does find herself pulling for the Pittsburgh Steelers on NFL game days. #88, Emmanuel (Manny to us) Sanders hails from our small town of Bellville, TX. During his high school years, Manny shared the spotlight with my quarterback Godson on the Pasture of Pain, home of the Bellville Brahmas. My son-in-law taught Manny how to play pool at the young age of 9. He was back in our area in August as a sponsor of the local Boys & Girls Club fundraiser and visited with son-in-law, reminiscing those days he'd make the walk to the pool lessons! AND...I'm also a country music fan but it has to be "classic country"; none of that new stuff!
i'm here i'm here!!!!!
You should write a book... seriously!!! your last TR was awesome!!! dare i say riveting!
Your daughter look just like your wife, and now you have a mini James!!!
CONGRATS!!!!
can't WAIT to read the report!!!!
Love the beach photo!!!
Joining in... looks like it will be a fun trip!
How about some more pictures James?
BTW I love the blue eyes that run in your family!
Can you post from Picasa to the board??? looking for something rather then photobucket...
Wow! That is a lot of people going on your trip! I'm in and am looking forward to hearing about the trip .