Goodmoring everyone! I just wanted to thank all of those who prayed for my Grandpa. He made it through the surgery and is doing great.I wish you guys could meet him. He is exactly how you would imagine an ole' southern farmer. Tough as a boot! He is in his mid-seventies and has terminal colon cancer. In the past three years, he's many through more surgeries than I can count (including a triple bi-pass.) He parks his tractor outside of his bedroom for inspiration when he gets home from the hospital and has continued farming despite his circumstances. (Seriously! He will probably be riding again next week!) I just think he's amazing and wanted to brag on him for a moment.
My girls are so excited to have their own bathroom!!
WELCOME to the DIS and to the Snowbirds!! 
Well, today I've been up to my eyeballs in laundry and e-mails. I also need to make a few phone calls, but I've been avoiding that.
Just settling back into the routine and trying to figure out when I need to go buy school books for my kids! I kept the information paper for 3 months and then one day it was no longer on the fridge. I suspect my youngest. one of her favorite hobbies is throwing things away.
~~Carrie
My name is Laura and I'm an Olympic-aholic.
(Okay... going to hide now!) Hehe!!!
Hi!
I am going in January 10-16 in an ASMu suite with DH & our three kids! This is our first time as a family, my step-daughters first time and also my son's first time. I am so excited
This board has been soooo helpful in planning- with 3 kids in tow I really don't want to just "wing it". I made my ADR's already, got everything we wanted!
Jan 10- Kona Cafe dinner
Jan 11- Chef Mickeys dinner
Jan 12- Sci Fi Dine In lunch
Jan 13- Ohana breakfast
Jan 13- Whispering Canyon dinner
Jan 14- Ohana dinner
Jan 15- Le Cellier dinner
Michelle
Carrie,
Your trip sounds amazing! I would love to visit Jordan one day. One of the girls in our youth group at church was telling me about the delicious ketchup flavored potato chips.
Hi Snowbirds,
I'm so excited, my ticker is under 5 months, my monorail is all the way past the first Mickey balloon!!!
I'm running out of planning things to do for a while. I've read most of the pertinent threads on the boards, read almost every page on the Dis and AllEars. I've got two binders full of information to take with me on the trip so now what?
I'm thinking my next step is doing daily calendar days and filling in EMH and parade and show times, then maybe I can start thinking about ADRs. I know a lot of you have all your ADRs, but since my kids have never been there, I don't know what type of experience they'll want - character or not, activities or quiet meals?
I'm thinking about these restaurants:
1. Chef Mickey's
2. Whispering Canyon Cafe OR Trail's End (mostly for the ribs)
3. Tusker House for Breakfast
4. Boma for dinner and animal savannah viewing
5. Polynesian - not sure if we want the character breakfast, or regular meal, but DH absolutely wants to try Tonga Toast!
I feel kind of frozen with fear or something - where do I go from here? I can't imagine planning each day in advance. I expected to decide what to do in our room the night before we actually do it, but I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
What do you all do - what is the method to your madness in planning a trip?
We will never do that again!! We missed so much that way. Our family really does better on a schedule. But when I say schedule, I mean that I plan out where we are going in advance and what all we would like to accomplish that day and so on, BUT I am not absolutely tied to that schedule, you always have to leave a little extra room in there in case you get off track or if something unexpected happens. I have 15% off with AAA but its only off the room and I'm hoping this is off the entire package. I want to move to CR in an MK view room and it may be doable on atrium level with this discount IF its off the entire package...we'll see. My AAA TA is checking now
WOOOOOHOOOOO today I opened my email and got a PIN code for 20% my stay. I'm so very excited
Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!!!
You got a code for January already???
Probably just trying to get me excited for no reason Would have made my day had I been able to use it for Jan already We'll see what she comes back with.
Hi Snowbirds,
I'm so excited, my ticker is under 5 months, my monorail is all the way past the first Mickey balloon!!!
I feel kind of frozen with fear or something - where do I go from here? I can't imagine planning each day in advance. I expected to decide what to do in our room the night before we actually do it, but I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
What do you all do - what is the method to your madness in planning a trip?
This is a treat to myself for my 55th B-day on the 20th. I booked a room only using AAA and saved $67 a night over rack rate. I really wanted the CR as I've never stayed there but they had nothing avail with AAA and the only on line was the atrium level and I really did not want to spend that much.
